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'Thistle Grove, South Kensington', from 'My Recollections and Reflections' (1913) by Yoshio Markino

This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this gorgeous Chanel little black dress. Designed in 1924, it is made from black crêpe chiffon and silk satin and embellished with a metal and crystal buckle. LACMA collection. #fashionhistory

93,530 people have already signed to demand Andy Burnham scraps these rip-off fees - we’ve got less than 24h to get to 100,000. Add your name: 38d.gs/Standing_SMC...

Short video teasing an new collab between Daft Punk and Lego, including a forthcoming Lego set based on this fan-submitted entry. [youtube.com]

My mother, true to form, did not find my book blurb or my publisher's quite good enough (naturally) so wrote this paragraph by herself for her social media. Yeah. Okay. Quite good actually. I'll have that!

Never forget!

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Lorna Sharkey, contemporary artist, known for her hand painted stained glass artworks #Womensart #Sunday

Saturday night - and for once I’m going out. Keeping it low-key though. (Artist: Eric Winter)

Have a healthy happy Halloween

He gave this shop his whole life Through Bossman's Eyes is a short film about the man behind the counter + the strangers on the other side of it who became family Written/directed by Rikaz Niyas, winner of LADbible, Race Equality Foundation, Merman + Young Arrows Pitch Your Story #YouDoBelongHere

Bauhaus students Martha Earps-Breuer, Katt Both and Ruth Hollos-Konsemüller. 1927 #WomensArt #BauhausWomem

Remember to post it back at their cost ⬇️

"Perhaps no contemporary series better captures the current moment’s despair over the decay from within" This is a brilliant piece of TV writing that nails why Slow Horses is the best thing on television www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

Please share before the TERFs force them to delete. "We are deeply concerned that this high-level guidance will result in local policies that are exclusionary to trans and non-binary staff and patients." www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

Happy birthday to Rose McDowall. Here are Strawberry Switchblade with Since Yesterday

So, Farage has reported ITV to the police following the work their undercover journalists did which confirmed that Reform is indeed a seething mass of racism, misogyny and bigotry. Meanwhile, here’s some commentary from Private Eye and their handy guide to undercover journalists.

Remembering Steve Cropper on his birthday - one of the greatest guitarists ever. This clip is taken from a short French documentary, filmed in 1969 at the Stax and Fame studios. Watch it in full at youtu.be/ste1KIwjbLE

PSA for my cis (and transphobic) followers.

AI will keep changing. Your right to control your own face and voice should not. Today I introduced my Artificial Intelligence Consent and Misuse Bill to protect your digital likeness and put consent at the heart of the law. Protecting you now and in the future.

Direct link to opt out of eBay genAI training model accountsettings.ebay.co.uk/ai-preferences

Happy birthday to Norman Blake. Here are Teenage Fanclub performing Everything Flows at Islington's T&C2 (now The Garage) in December 1990. It was filmed for Snub TV and broadcast the following month

I spat out my peppermint tea 🤭

Ann Macbeth (1875 – 1948) , Glasgow Girl, embroiderer (see below), designer, teacher and author. She was also an active suffragette #WomensArt #GlasgowGirls

"An embroidered globe made in 19thc US when girls were allowed at last to learn geography. The school couldn’t afford globes so the girls stitched their own, sewing down the boundaries of their New World. The globes were only 5” high" via @ sewingmatters & @ Sirensongs #womensart

The NHS knows that its new policy is going to harm patients, and it's doing it anyway. It is an active choice being made by this Labour government – don't let them pretend their hands are bound.

I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Go to your camera tool and search boat then post a picture.

Can you help save Edinburgh's cherished arts and culture hub? Summerhall is under threat - can you sign the petition to demand the Council stop its redevelopment destroying the vibrant arts community?✍️🙏 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Stephen Kinnock MP: "Nigel Farage said he was going to get some of the rotten apples out from the bottom of the barrel. "But just look at what's at the top of the barrel."

Wishing Alan Garner a very, very happy 92nd birthday.

Two mates, probably about eight years old, showing their respective parents on the train platform, shitty AI images and mocking them. “Look. You can tell. It’s so lazy. Oh! This one’s really bad.” Good luck making a zillion dollars from your shit-stained garbage, AI guys. The kids already hate it.

Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

This woman  does some amazing things with a series of white rings — lots of precision optical illusions. It's mesmerizing watching people moving like machines... [kottke.org]

"When lamps are lighted in the town" (1968) Artist: A Buchanan

You have to admire the chutzpah of the BBC’s response to the Trump lawsuit www.ft.com/content/d2a0...

if i take a walk in my little walkable neighborhood to buy fresh flowers and crunchy nectarines and my serenity is punctured by the sound of your tesla flipping in the air, i will blow up your car with a rocket launcher

Thinking along similar lines to Jack and Molly Pritchard when they built the Isokon in 1934, the architects opted for flats rather than suburban houses.

Since September, Nigel Farage has been presenting a show on GB News while sitting as an MP. Sign our petition to demand that Ofcom takes action: https://bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-on-gb-news-demand-that-ofcom-takes-immediate-action/

Old Ladybird Books updated. The shopping list, 1964 and 1972 Artists: John Berry Martin Aitchison

A hug for Zelenskyy from Burnham as well as the honour guard.

Well, this sucks!

A world map that didn’t forget New Zealand!

Did you guys hear about this? We're buying fuck all on 28 October because even the cost of yoghurt is taking the piss now

For the first time, the British government has acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum. So who did BBC Newsnight invite on to discuss what happened? Sergei Markov, Putin’s former spokesman. Par for the course, says Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 1/