Mike Pinnington 🍉
@doublenegativem.bsky.social
Writer | Editor | Art Criticism | Exhibition Interpretation | Class | Science Fiction | Popular Culture | PhD student | Lecturer | Lapsed runner
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Having a PhD wobble. There, I've said it. Now to move beyond it...
January 15, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Having a PhD wobble. There, I've said it. Now to move beyond it...
BBC Radio 4 Extra - Oblique Strategies share.google/Ls7jwmZqj70v...
BBC Radio 4 Extra - Oblique Strategies
Simon Armitage explores the creative possibilities opened up by Oblique Strategies cards
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January 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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Oh hello, THE ICE TOWER is now available to stream on the BFI Player along with Hadžihalilović's 2015 film EVOLUTION, if you fancy a double-bill both eerie and strange...
Of course I loved THE ICE TOWER, it's nice how Lucile Hadžihalilović keeps making weird slow unsettling dreamy tactile films just for me, very good of her! And a bonus festive setting here, I'm sure this will become annual viewing...
January 14, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Oh hello, THE ICE TOWER is now available to stream on the BFI Player along with Hadžihalilović's 2015 film EVOLUTION, if you fancy a double-bill both eerie and strange...
'Best abstract painter alive'? It possibly says as much about where commentary currently is on abstraction as it does any one artist. (Fwiw, Scully's work generally tends to leave me cold.)
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‘I’m the product of a smashed-up family’: how Sean Scully became the greatest abstract painter alive
He has survived loss, breakdown and schooling by ‘scary nuns’, but the anguish is still there in his art. As his new show thrills Paris, the US-based, Irish-born artist talks about the pain that drive...
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January 13, 2026 at 7:03 PM
'Best abstract painter alive'? It possibly says as much about where commentary currently is on abstraction as it does any one artist. (Fwiw, Scully's work generally tends to leave me cold.)
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
I'm never quite sure about Lee Miller, but this should be worth a watch
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BBC Two - Lee Miller: A Life on the Front Line share.google/kyO4JAqMxEBj...
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BBC Two - Lee Miller: A Life on the Front Line share.google/kyO4JAqMxEBj...
BBC Two - Lee Miller: A Life on the Front Line
Celebrating Lee Miller, a model turned photographer turned war reporter.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I'm never quite sure about Lee Miller, but this should be worth a watch
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BBC Two - Lee Miller: A Life on the Front Line share.google/kyO4JAqMxEBj...
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I know there are more obvious indicators that we're approaching the end times, but getting press releases about matcha seems somehow depressingly adjacent.
January 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM
I know there are more obvious indicators that we're approaching the end times, but getting press releases about matcha seems somehow depressingly adjacent.
First commissioned pieces of 2026 filed. And within deadline! Now I can stress about other stuff on the 'to do' list... ✍️
January 12, 2026 at 1:05 PM
First commissioned pieces of 2026 filed. And within deadline! Now I can stress about other stuff on the 'to do' list... ✍️
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Loved Sentimental Value. There were wet eyes 🎬
a close up of a man 's face in the dark with his eyes closed
Alt: Stellan Skarsgård, as director Gustav Borg, in Joachim Trier's film Sentimental Value
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January 10, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Loved Sentimental Value. There were wet eyes 🎬
Writing about Japanese woodblock print and musing on something I read on here - that creativity, art, is iterative. We make mistakes, we experiment, sometimes something quite unexpected emerges. In a time of, whether we like it or not, AI, such centuries old arts and crafts seem incredibly relevant.
January 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Writing about Japanese woodblock print and musing on something I read on here - that creativity, art, is iterative. We make mistakes, we experiment, sometimes something quite unexpected emerges. In a time of, whether we like it or not, AI, such centuries old arts and crafts seem incredibly relevant.
Loved Sentimental Value. There were wet eyes 🎬
a close up of a man 's face in the dark with his eyes closed
Alt: Stellan Skarsgård, as director Gustav Borg, in Joachim Trier's film Sentimental Value
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January 10, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Loved Sentimental Value. There were wet eyes 🎬
January 2026 #3
January 10, 2026 at 8:39 AM
January 2026 #3
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Given daily revelations about promotion of vile uses of AI & constant evidence of algorithmic privileging of far-right causes, anyone staying on X & claiming that they do so to sustain a pocket of progressivism on there is simply deluding themselves & creating the traffic that helps X survive
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January 5, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Given daily revelations about promotion of vile uses of AI & constant evidence of algorithmic privileging of far-right causes, anyone staying on X & claiming that they do so to sustain a pocket of progressivism on there is simply deluding themselves & creating the traffic that helps X survive
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January 9, 2026 at 8:03 AM
10 years ago I woke to a sad face emoji text from my best friend. David Bowie had died - just a few days after the release of his new, final record, Blackstar. I woke my wife, told her, voice breaking, the news. Work was hard that day.
a man in a suit and tie is making a sad face .
Alt: David Bowie, looking like he's amused himself somehow.
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January 10, 2026 at 7:49 AM
10 years ago I woke to a sad face emoji text from my best friend. David Bowie had died - just a few days after the release of his new, final record, Blackstar. I woke my wife, told her, voice breaking, the news. Work was hard that day.
Can anyone of a certain age watch Cameroon and *not* see the great Roger Milla's goal celebration!? ⚽
a blurry picture of a soccer player wearing a green jersey with the number 9 on it
Alt: Legendary Cameroon striker, Roger Milla, celebrating a goal!
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January 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Can anyone of a certain age watch Cameroon and *not* see the great Roger Milla's goal celebration!? ⚽
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Hands up if you’re still on Twitter
January 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Hands up if you’re still on Twitter
Past exhibition (2007), Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde | Tate Liverpool + RIBA North share.google/cD7UDi08Kpi6...
Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde | Tate Liverpool + RIBA North
Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde Past exhibition at Tate Liverpool
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January 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Past exhibition (2007), Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde | Tate Liverpool + RIBA North share.google/cD7UDi08Kpi6...
Rewatched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy over the break. Now onto House of Cards. I love Ian Richardson as mole and would-be defector Bill Haydon in the former and scheming chief whip Francis Urquhart in the latter.
a man in a suit and tie says " you might think that i couldn 't possibly comment "
Alt: A man in a suit and tie - Ian Richardson playing Tory chief whip Francis Urquhart - says "you might think that i couldn't possibly comment."
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January 9, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Rewatched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy over the break. Now onto House of Cards. I love Ian Richardson as mole and would-be defector Bill Haydon in the former and scheming chief whip Francis Urquhart in the latter.
Just finished watching Shining Girls on 🍏. Could have lived with more of it. I now should probably read the Lauren Beukes source material.
January 8, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Just finished watching Shining Girls on 🍏. Could have lived with more of it. I now should probably read the Lauren Beukes source material.
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Was it just in Kenyan textbooks where we learnt that attempting to appease hitler rather than confront him especially after he invaded Poland was one of the things that led to the Second World War? Do they not teach the whole appeasement doesn’t work thing in US text books?
January 6, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Was it just in Kenyan textbooks where we learnt that attempting to appease hitler rather than confront him especially after he invaded Poland was one of the things that led to the Second World War? Do they not teach the whole appeasement doesn’t work thing in US text books?
Feeling quite fragile. I just watched Bowie: The Final Act. It is, of course, the week of the 10th anniversary of the release of what he knew would be his final album, Blackstar, followed by his death a few days later. I've been thinking about him quite a lot, what he and his music meant to me.
January 7, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Feeling quite fragile. I just watched Bowie: The Final Act. It is, of course, the week of the 10th anniversary of the release of what he knew would be his final album, Blackstar, followed by his death a few days later. I've been thinking about him quite a lot, what he and his music meant to me.
The Great Good Place: Cafés, coffee shops, bookstores, bars, hair salons, and other hangouts at the heart of a community on JSTOR share.google/p5NYEKfE6GG1...
The Great Good Place: Cafés, coffee shops, bookstores, bars, hair salons, and other hangouts at the heart of a community on JSTOR
Third places," or “great good places," are all the wonderful places where people gather, put aside the concerns of home and work (our first and second...
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January 7, 2026 at 2:32 PM
The Great Good Place: Cafés, coffee shops, bookstores, bars, hair salons, and other hangouts at the heart of a community on JSTOR share.google/p5NYEKfE6GG1...