Dr Stylite
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Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
Great quote from Disney animators re the shortcomings of their version of Alice in Wonderland.
“Peculiar actions and visual gimmicks can hold an audience only for a limited time,” the animators go on to say, “and there is always a problem with the continuity once that crucial point has been passed”
“Peculiar actions and visual gimmicks can hold an audience only for a limited time,” the animators go on to say, “and there is always a problem with the continuity once that crucial point has been passed”
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Great quote from Disney animators re the shortcomings of their version of Alice in Wonderland.
“Peculiar actions and visual gimmicks can hold an audience only for a limited time,” the animators go on to say, “and there is always a problem with the continuity once that crucial point has been passed”
“Peculiar actions and visual gimmicks can hold an audience only for a limited time,” the animators go on to say, “and there is always a problem with the continuity once that crucial point has been passed”
Post a non religious photo you think of as holy
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Post a non religious photo you think of as holy
Breton hotel cat update for those who observe
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Breton hotel cat update for those who observe
This is rather on the nose and gets to my view that if you wanted a group of people who were very often completely wrong about everything while at the same time being absolutely convinced of their perfect rightness look no further than British politicians / pundits 2020-2015.*
* Exceptions apply
* Exceptions apply
The Anglo consensus of the first half of 2010s was that where continental Europeans were endemically subject to crises and demagoguery, "we" were distinctly were more enlightened. Cameron's Britain. Obama's America. Ponderous essays about Magna Carta and the "golden thread".
How wrong it all was.
How wrong it all was.
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is rather on the nose and gets to my view that if you wanted a group of people who were very often completely wrong about everything while at the same time being absolutely convinced of their perfect rightness look no further than British politicians / pundits 2020-2015.*
* Exceptions apply
* Exceptions apply
No one thought the successor to modernism and post modernism would be solipsism but here we are.
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
No one thought the successor to modernism and post modernism would be solipsism but here we are.
Wouldn’t surprise me if we start to get some no more license fee vibes from the government.
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Wouldn’t surprise me if we start to get some no more license fee vibes from the government.
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Well, it's happened. Burning Men is a physical artefact, out in the world.
On Saturday I went to John Sandoe Books in Chelsea to see it and get my author copies. Was not prepared for all the FEELINGS
If you're in London, pop in and get a free copy with your Christmas haul. It's ... smoking..!
On Saturday I went to John Sandoe Books in Chelsea to see it and get my author copies. Was not prepared for all the FEELINGS
If you're in London, pop in and get a free copy with your Christmas haul. It's ... smoking..!
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Well, it's happened. Burning Men is a physical artefact, out in the world.
On Saturday I went to John Sandoe Books in Chelsea to see it and get my author copies. Was not prepared for all the FEELINGS
If you're in London, pop in and get a free copy with your Christmas haul. It's ... smoking..!
On Saturday I went to John Sandoe Books in Chelsea to see it and get my author copies. Was not prepared for all the FEELINGS
If you're in London, pop in and get a free copy with your Christmas haul. It's ... smoking..!
I am reminded here of the @dsquareddigest.bsky.social piece about the stupidity of attempting to reduce one’s attackable surface - on this case, that strategy has made the BBC more vulnerable to attack (because its product is weaker).
Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I am reminded here of the @dsquareddigest.bsky.social piece about the stupidity of attempting to reduce one’s attackable surface - on this case, that strategy has made the BBC more vulnerable to attack (because its product is weaker).
YIKES
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
YIKES
Appropriately scything newsletter today re the BBC debacle from @stephenkb.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Appropriately scything newsletter today re the BBC debacle from @stephenkb.bsky.social
In other news I am currently reading this which is proving most stimulating.
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
In other news I am currently reading this which is proving most stimulating.
Not for the first time, I am reminded that that the ‘my platform is more representative than your platform’ discourse is often rather fatuous.
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Not for the first time, I am reminded that that the ‘my platform is more representative than your platform’ discourse is often rather fatuous.
if only
pyramidical silence
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
if only
If I were AI, I would simply be intelligent
If I were housing, I would simply be affordable
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If I were AI, I would simply be intelligent
On a more serious note this is very unstable territory - certainly for Nandy, possibly for the Starmer government.
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
On a more serious note this is very unstable territory - certainly for Nandy, possibly for the Starmer government.
After an exhaustive pre search process, I am delighted to announce that one BBC DG candidate has emerged head and paws above any other…legendary for his commonsense, intellectual acumen and sheer doggone get up and go….it is of course the one and only journo hound…
FELIX!!!!!!!!
FELIX!!!!!!!!
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
After an exhaustive pre search process, I am delighted to announce that one BBC DG candidate has emerged head and paws above any other…legendary for his commonsense, intellectual acumen and sheer doggone get up and go….it is of course the one and only journo hound…
FELIX!!!!!!!!
FELIX!!!!!!!!
In case anyone was wondering about Breton Hotel Cat…
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
In case anyone was wondering about Breton Hotel Cat…
We’re at an all you can eat Breton oyster buffet which *apparently* brings out the worst in me.
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We’re at an all you can eat Breton oyster buffet which *apparently* brings out the worst in me.
It’s a motley crew…
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It’s a motley crew…
Last call for this one…
Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Last call for this one…
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Hopefully I've done this correctly in terms of the leaflet setup this time. Here's a first post in a series on T&S on Bluesky.
Moderating With Humans, For Humans
aaron.leaflet.pub
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Hopefully I've done this correctly in terms of the leaflet setup this time. Here's a first post in a series on T&S on Bluesky.
Reposted by Dr Stylite
Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
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For more than three decades, Marion Nestle has been telling people what to eat. She has always done her own thing and at age 89, Nestle is still going strong.
Find out what she eats — and avoids — in a typical day here: https://wapo.st/4ooStty
Find out what she eats — and avoids — in a typical day here: https://wapo.st/4ooStty
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.