Andrew Ballantyne
@asquins.bsky.social
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Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
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Now, with thanks to @joshspero.ft.com’s reporting, we have a real life example of this happening. More specifically, where is Fortnum and Mason’s tea from? (According to US customs.)
on.ft.com/4nsssZm Fortnum & Mason tea sales suffer as Trump’s trade war hits ‘King’s grocer’
on.ft.com/4nsssZm Fortnum & Mason tea sales suffer as Trump’s trade war hits ‘King’s grocer’
Fortnum & Mason tea sales suffer as Trump’s trade war hits ‘King’s grocer’
Tougher stance on country of origin rules and scrapping of de minimis exemption drives up price in the US
on.ft.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Now, with thanks to @joshspero.ft.com’s reporting, we have a real life example of this happening. More specifically, where is Fortnum and Mason’s tea from? (According to US customs.)
on.ft.com/4nsssZm Fortnum & Mason tea sales suffer as Trump’s trade war hits ‘King’s grocer’
on.ft.com/4nsssZm Fortnum & Mason tea sales suffer as Trump’s trade war hits ‘King’s grocer’
Scooting in Milan.
September 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Scooting in Milan.
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Preston Bus Station is a gorgeous building with real clarity, beauty & function of architecture. The Lingotto of Lancashire.
August 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Preston Bus Station is a gorgeous building with real clarity, beauty & function of architecture. The Lingotto of Lancashire.
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Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th
No Country for Travellers?
No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to...
uclpress.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th
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‘London was in his veins’: Gillian Darley pays tribute to the erudition, wit and open-mindedness of the architectural historian Andrew Saint, who has died at the age of 78.
‘London was in his veins’: Andrew Saint (1946–2025)
Gillian Darley remembers an architectural historian of great wit and erudition who was always keen to share his enthusiasms, which included a deep love of the capital
buff.ly
July 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
‘London was in his veins’: Gillian Darley pays tribute to the erudition, wit and open-mindedness of the architectural historian Andrew Saint, who has died at the age of 78.
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'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'
AI thrives where education has been devalued | The Observer
A culture that views knowledge as a means to an end invites the misuse of new technology
observer.co.uk
August 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'
Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp.
July 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp.
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Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.
July 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.
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Republicans re-designate gas as ‘green’ to allow fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding. All forms of reality and shame replaced by the ‘right-wing thrill and sense of exhilaration’ (Butler) attained by the ability to be openly dishonest and irrational.
Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel
[from our @climatedesk.org partners, @grist.org]
[from our @climatedesk.org partners, @grist.org]
Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel
The designation, pushed by right-wing think tank ALEC, allows fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding.
www.motherjones.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Republicans re-designate gas as ‘green’ to allow fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding. All forms of reality and shame replaced by the ‘right-wing thrill and sense of exhilaration’ (Butler) attained by the ability to be openly dishonest and irrational.
Tiepolo at Würzburg.
July 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Tiepolo at Würzburg.
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It’s annoying to hear people say that old Damp courses have failed. Because they haven’t.
It’s complete nonsense.
What happens is people interfere, with them, eg filling these breather holes with cement mortar, bridging the DPC.
It’s complete nonsense.
What happens is people interfere, with them, eg filling these breather holes with cement mortar, bridging the DPC.
June 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
It’s annoying to hear people say that old Damp courses have failed. Because they haven’t.
It’s complete nonsense.
What happens is people interfere, with them, eg filling these breather holes with cement mortar, bridging the DPC.
It’s complete nonsense.
What happens is people interfere, with them, eg filling these breather holes with cement mortar, bridging the DPC.
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The Strawberry Moon is coming. How to see this record-breaking Moon meet Mars's rival. Useful Moony observing guide from Sky at Night magazine. 🔭 🧪 www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/straw...
The Strawberry Moon is coming. How to see this record-breaking Moon meet Mars's rival | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
The Strawberry Moon is the name given to the full Moon in June, the sixth full Moon of the year, rising on 11 June 2025 at 22:46 BST.
www.skyatnightmagazine.com
June 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The Strawberry Moon is coming. How to see this record-breaking Moon meet Mars's rival. Useful Moony observing guide from Sky at Night magazine. 🔭 🧪 www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/straw...
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Interesting essays in this book!📚☀️: "Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions is a transdiciplinary essay collection that explores the physical, conceptual, and political possibilities materialized by “solarity”— a form of relation to the sun and its elemental force upon planetary life."
April 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Interesting essays in this book!📚☀️: "Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions is a transdiciplinary essay collection that explores the physical, conceptual, and political possibilities materialized by “solarity”— a form of relation to the sun and its elemental force upon planetary life."
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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We need a vision of the universe that sees humans, animals and spirits woven together in the tree of life.
12th c floor mosaic of the Cathedral of Ótranto, Lecce.
12th c floor mosaic of the Cathedral of Ótranto, Lecce.
March 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
We need a vision of the universe that sees humans, animals and spirits woven together in the tree of life.
12th c floor mosaic of the Cathedral of Ótranto, Lecce.
12th c floor mosaic of the Cathedral of Ótranto, Lecce.
Lunch under a Tiepolo sky.
March 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Lunch under a Tiepolo sky.
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Luis Barragán House and Studio (Mexico)
March 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Luis Barragán House and Studio (Mexico)
A new Lurid edition of a Brigid Brophy novel that is even more topical now than when it was written in 1969. It’s funny too. And it has a preface by @brophylevey.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A new Lurid edition of a Brigid Brophy novel that is even more topical now than when it was written in 1969. It’s funny too. And it has a preface by @brophylevey.bsky.social
Happy Christmas
December 20, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Happy Christmas
The Yves Saint-Laurent Christmas tree.
December 18, 2024 at 9:32 PM
The Yves Saint-Laurent Christmas tree.