Ceri Shields
@cerishields.bsky.social
Painting, drawing, printmaking. Also music, food, and long walks on wild moors.
Move slowly and make things.
Move slowly and make things.
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Ceri Shields
@cerishields.bsky.social
· Nov 1
QRT with your black & white art.
Oh OK, here are some animal skull sketches
Oh OK, here are some animal skull sketches
An actor hearing that a show they are up for has already cast Jason Isaacs can feel confident that it is a kosher production that has wheels but also that they will find themselves acted off the screen, even if Jason himself is only on screen for about three minutes.
Casting Announcement 📢
Jack Bannon has been announced as part of the cast for TOMB RAIDER ✨
Editor (Eps 1&8): Gary Dollner
Editor (Eps 4&6): Hazel Baillie
Jack Bannon has been announced as part of the cast for TOMB RAIDER ✨
Editor (Eps 1&8): Gary Dollner
Editor (Eps 4&6): Hazel Baillie
January 7, 2026 at 11:43 AM
An actor hearing that a show they are up for has already cast Jason Isaacs can feel confident that it is a kosher production that has wheels but also that they will find themselves acted off the screen, even if Jason himself is only on screen for about three minutes.
Amazingly, this appears not to be satire.
Well worth clicking through and reading the linked article. It’s quite something.
Well worth clicking through and reading the linked article. It’s quite something.
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Amazingly, this appears not to be satire.
Well worth clicking through and reading the linked article. It’s quite something.
Well worth clicking through and reading the linked article. It’s quite something.
Some people like to pepper their social media posts with emojis and hashtags and if you think that makes text exhausting to read just look at this printed page from 1621!
This is from a fascinating thread about the spread of news and fake news centuries ago.
This is from a fascinating thread about the spread of news and fake news centuries ago.
Our messenger is a tiny detail of a broadside published in 1621 Germany, during the later so-called #ThirtyYearsWar. More precisely, our walking detail is part of a printed #rebus with the title "Des pfaltzgrafen Haußgsind".
January 7, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Some people like to pepper their social media posts with emojis and hashtags and if you think that makes text exhausting to read just look at this printed page from 1621!
This is from a fascinating thread about the spread of news and fake news centuries ago.
This is from a fascinating thread about the spread of news and fake news centuries ago.
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The new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx…
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January 7, 2026 at 9:34 AM
The new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx…
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When an out of control dog does harm the dog is destroyed and its owner who failed to train it properly is prosecuted.
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is under fire for generating sexualized images of women and children without consent.
Musk's AI chatbot faces global backlash over sexualized images of women and children
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is under fire for generating sexualized images of women and children without consent.
bit.ly
January 7, 2026 at 1:05 AM
When an out of control dog does harm the dog is destroyed and its owner who failed to train it properly is prosecuted.
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San Gimignano, Italy 🇮🇹
January 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
San Gimignano, Italy 🇮🇹
Behold, the intellect underpinning the ‘philosophy’ of the hard right.
Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.”
A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words:
“The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words:
“The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
January 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Behold, the intellect underpinning the ‘philosophy’ of the hard right.
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My annual contribution to the UK grumble-fest. A 🧵:
The weather is bad in the UK again, so it's time for my annual response to 'Why can't we clear snow and keep the roads moving when the Canadians do it all the time?'
So gather round, children, and I will begin...
So gather round, children, and I will begin...
January 6, 2026 at 3:09 PM
My annual contribution to the UK grumble-fest. A 🧵:
My OH’s nephew is a major in the Danish army and did a tour of duty in Iraq and two tours in Afghanistan and lost soldiers under his command. Because after 9/11 America invoked Nato Article 5 and many of its allies came to its support, including Denmark.
To Denmark and Greenland: 100 Danish forces deployed to Desert Storm. They stood with us defending sovereignty and international law. Now I watch Stephen Miller mock you on TV while my government threatens to invade Greenland. I'm a veteran and I'm ashamed beyond words. I'm so sorry.
January 6, 2026 at 2:13 AM
My OH’s nephew is a major in the Danish army and did a tour of duty in Iraq and two tours in Afghanistan and lost soldiers under his command. Because after 9/11 America invoked Nato Article 5 and many of its allies came to its support, including Denmark.
Over on YouTube Waldemar Januszczak has a little video casting doubt on the idea Hieronymus Bosch was inspired by hallucinations caused by eating poisoned bread. And he does not even think of doing a gag about Hieronymus Brioche. So disappointing 🤷♂️
youtu.be/g2hltl-1pVI?...
youtu.be/g2hltl-1pVI?...
January 6, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Over on YouTube Waldemar Januszczak has a little video casting doubt on the idea Hieronymus Bosch was inspired by hallucinations caused by eating poisoned bread. And he does not even think of doing a gag about Hieronymus Brioche. So disappointing 🤷♂️
youtu.be/g2hltl-1pVI?...
youtu.be/g2hltl-1pVI?...
Across the world conservatives believe that broadcasting should solely be in the hands of very rich people and exist to purvey the views of very rich people.
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
www.npr.org
January 6, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Across the world conservatives believe that broadcasting should solely be in the hands of very rich people and exist to purvey the views of very rich people.
Interesting ‘it’s all about oil’ thread
With Trump very transparently saying that the invasion of Venezuela was to take their oil, let's dive into oil markets. TL;DR - it's not at all clear to me that Trump or the people around him have any coherent long term strategy.
January 5, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Interesting ‘it’s all about oil’ thread
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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Went to check if this screenshot (posted by @aric.bsky.social) was real (it is) and then made the mistake of also scrolling through Grok's replies on X. Still constantly cranking out sexualised images of young girls. Beyond bleak.
January 5, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Went to check if this screenshot (posted by @aric.bsky.social) was real (it is) and then made the mistake of also scrolling through Grok's replies on X. Still constantly cranking out sexualised images of young girls. Beyond bleak.
Most of us, very much including most artists, don’t pay nearly enough attention to the miniature painting of past centuries. There is often fabulous stuff to be found of which we are likely quite unaware.
2/2 Older & wiser: miniature self-portrait of the great Giulio Clovio, with his genius whispering behind him, in 1573.
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Most of us, very much including most artists, don’t pay nearly enough attention to the miniature painting of past centuries. There is often fabulous stuff to be found of which we are likely quite unaware.
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😂😂
January 5, 2026 at 9:23 AM
😂😂
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So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.
January 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.
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To paraphrase Catch-22, it’s a helluva doctrine, that Monroe Doctrine.
January 3, 2026 at 7:25 PM
To paraphrase Catch-22, it’s a helluva doctrine, that Monroe Doctrine.
Was just replying to a DM and notice how surprisingly many of the messages I’ve had there are from accounts that were soon after deleted.
I don’t think of myself as someone particularly pestered by undesirables ‘sliding’ into my DMs but I guess it happens to us all?
I don’t think of myself as someone particularly pestered by undesirables ‘sliding’ into my DMs but I guess it happens to us all?
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Was just replying to a DM and notice how surprisingly many of the messages I’ve had there are from accounts that were soon after deleted.
I don’t think of myself as someone particularly pestered by undesirables ‘sliding’ into my DMs but I guess it happens to us all?
I don’t think of myself as someone particularly pestered by undesirables ‘sliding’ into my DMs but I guess it happens to us all?
I just listened to this episode of This Guy Sucked about George IV and not once was the name of Boris Johnson mentioned and yet my mind kept returning to him all the way through.
NEW EPISODE: Maddy Pelling @maddypelling.bsky.social and I explain why you don’t want George IV anywhere near your holiday party, even if he would most likely bring good wine.
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I just listened to this episode of This Guy Sucked about George IV and not once was the name of Boris Johnson mentioned and yet my mind kept returning to him all the way through.
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This is obviously a different scenario, but interesting comparison nonetheless: when Israel kidnapped Eichmann from Argentina in the middle of the night and flew him back to Jerusalem for trial, Americans were PISSSSSSED about it.
January 3, 2026 at 2:32 PM
This is obviously a different scenario, but interesting comparison nonetheless: when Israel kidnapped Eichmann from Argentina in the middle of the night and flew him back to Jerusalem for trial, Americans were PISSSSSSED about it.
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Seeing a fair bit of this kind of commentary. Greenland in particular: wake up and… do what?
January 3, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Seeing a fair bit of this kind of commentary. Greenland in particular: wake up and… do what?
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When nobody’s watching 🐼💙😎
January 2, 2026 at 4:19 AM
When nobody’s watching 🐼💙😎