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Chris Phillips
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Operational Researcher, Artist, Gardener. DnB, Techno, SciFi. DM'S will get a block in most cases.
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drartanalytics.bsky.social
Great replies. Gotta wonder what a rich CEO knows about welfare though!
jonnymorris.bsky.social Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 1d
Suggs and the boys, great bunch of lads, always said so.
the-independent.com The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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oliver48.bsky.social
Never has the British legal system
been more blatantly biased
than since it was set up
by the property owning class
to protect their interests

meme via Matt Kennard
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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helenm40.bsky.social
Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.

One wonders what *would*.
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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drkatemarvel.bsky.social
Do the research
howdovaccinescauseautism.com
How do vaccines cause autism?
How do vaccines cause autism? See exactly what the science says!
howdovaccinescauseautism.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
drartanalytics.bsky.social
Project fear eh?!
davidrvetter.bsky.social Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3d
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Trump is conspiring with Putin to sell out Ukraine – and the security of the whole of Europe along with it.

The Prime Minister must convene the Coalition of the Willing to stop this betrayal in its tracks.
christopherjm.ft.com Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 8d
New: I can confirm hasty US-Russia proposal being pushed to Ukrainians via Dmitriev-Witkoff to Umerov. It would amount to Ukraine’s capitulation, with people familiar saying it’s Kremlin’s maximalist demands.
-Ukraine army cut 1/2
-Give up certain weapons
-Give up Donbas
-Zelensky displeased
More tk
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
drartanalytics.bsky.social
Some of these are painful. It is why I stopped using AI so much. I was spending so much time correcting. Only specific tasks now and academic writing is not one of them!
sophieehill.bsky.social Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 8d
In fact, there are several tortured phrases in this paper.

My favourite:

"Stochastic Effects of Relapse on Popular and Technology (STIRPAT)"

which should be:

"Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT)"
1. Tortured phrases This paper contains several tortured phrases. Observed phrase Expected phrase population development population growth natural debasement environmental degredation Stochastic Effects of Relapse on Popular and Technology (STIRPAT) Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT) productive indication useful predictor F-score F-stat t-score t-stat promotion investment best-guess estimates point estimates (?) conversation valuation reports reported summary statistics (?)
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
drartanalytics.bsky.social
THIS 👇👇👇
gigerpunk.bsky.social GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · Feb 26
I've never understood how people just don't seem to get it, it's *never* been about protecting women in bathrooms (or sports, or wherever) it's about 'othering' people and stripping their (and then your) rights.
A series of giant dominos, labelled Trans rights, then gay rights, freedom of expression, women's rights, free love, free speech, democracy, freedom of religion, modernity, literacy. Groups of people are stood at the bases of each 'domino', propping them up. The trans one is leaning precariously and people at the other dominos further down the line are pointing it out and calling for support. Underneath it all are the words UNITED WE STAND. DIVIDED WE FALL. You may not be trans, you may not be gay, you might not be a woman. You may be *lucky* enough to be a straight white healthy man but eventually they'll get to your domino, whatever that may be.
November 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
elon musk: people in the uk live like hobbits. um let’s look at you for a second bro
4 panel comic Panel 1: Elon Musk speaks directly to the reader using the lying mouth on his dishonest face Musk: People in the uk live like hobbits, y’know? Panel 2: Musk continues to talk complete garbage and says: Like, they literally live like characters in a fantasy book Panel 3: Musk stretches and yawns like a weird cat. Panel 4: Musk curls up fast asleep on a giant hoard of gold and riches, mirroring Smaug at the end on the hobbit.
November 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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gigerpunk.bsky.social
No doubt some marketing execs somewhere would LOVE to remake the Werther's Originals ads with your actual grandfather in them.
smoothdunk2.bsky.social Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 12d
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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bgs.ac.uk
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.

Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
drartanalytics.bsky.social
Wow!
shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 16d
#Fungi, #Feathers, and #Insects Spring from Carol Long’s #Art Nouveau Vessels

Link for more: www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/09/caro...
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara documented the bond between her grandmother, Misao and her beloved cat Fukumaru #WomensArt #Autumn
Photograph featuring an elderly Japanese woman sitting on a crate in a garden setting facing forwards holding an orange, next to her to the left is a white cat facing forwards sitting in a basket filled with oranges on a small trolly, behind is an orange tree
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
drartanalytics.bsky.social
Needs sharing widely. Pressure Amazon! #Amazon #chickenization #WorkersRights
pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/t...
Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon’s chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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mikeachim.bsky.social
I'm sorry, but these images of the left of Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers are absolutely identical.

No, really.

What's happening to your brain is called the Leaning Tower Illusion (discovered in 2007), and it's never *not* going to work on you, however many times you look.

As I said: sorry.
Two identical photos of one of the famous Petronas Towers, with the second photo seeming to lean even further over than the tower in the first, which is an illusion.
April 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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scurry.bsky.social
More useful material for the @royalsociety.org’s bio of their esteemed fellow. Though I’m still struggling to understand how a society that claims to value scientific rigour continues to honour someone who spreads so much disinformation.
iandunt.bsky.social Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21d
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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anitamargarita.bsky.social
Always read the alt text
greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 22d
Did medieval peasants have more free time than you? No way! Think of all the eels they had to catch & prepare!

In 1290, villagers in Ramsey were responsible for taxes on 365,000 eels per year. 365k!

That takes a lot of time. Time *you* use in messing about on Twitter! 1/3
🗃️🧪
Meme. Medieval peasants from Monty Python's Holy Grail, digging in the dirt. They are wearing grimy, patched clothes and they look *exactly* like you think medieval peasants should look. One of them is looking down at his work, but the other, the one on the right, is looking up at you. His face seems contemplative and relatively calm. However, If you've seen the movie, you know what's coming: you're about to learn that they don't have a lord, and that they're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. But what they're not telling you is that their entire internal economy is built on eels. Because...well...why wouldn't it be? Neither man is named in the movie, and that's a shame. We should call them Lycromae and Aelfrovark. You can decide who is who, though the fellow on the right feels like an Alefrovark to me. Meme text reads: "We've only got time for Facebook"
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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sarahquaint.bsky.social
I'm seeing so many excellent memes and screencaps today missing their alt text!

Please include *everyone* in your joy! Go to Settings > Accessibility, and turning on "Require alt text before posting." This way a reminder will pop up if you try to post an inaccessible image
A screenshot of the accessibility options in the Bluesky iOS client in dark mode. There's an option titled "alt text" with a slider for the option to "require alt text before posting". This should be turned ON.
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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carladenyer.bsky.social
The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies

Those companies pay billions to their shareholders

And then lay off their workers

Think that's unfair?

Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
drartanalytics.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Is that a goose on your head? Earth’s most spectacular inhabitants – in pictures
From sharks to rays, from island cliffs to the tribes of Africa’s Omo Valley, Cristina Mittermeier’s show A Greater Wisdom celebrates the beauty of our planet – and highlights the biggest threats it f...
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
drartanalytics.bsky.social
How not to cyber security!! #FFS! 🤦‍♀️ #CyberSecurity
perryodontal.bsky.social Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 24d
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
November 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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mdstamper.bsky.social
"Initiation, Liberia" by Loïs Mailou Jones (American) - Acrylic on canvas / 1983 - Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #art #artText #WomanArtist #LoïsMailouJones ##LoisMailouJones #SAAM #SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum #WomensArt #AfricanDiasporaArt #BlackArt #WomenArtists
A young woman’s head fills the frame as a crisp swath of opaque white paint crosses her eyes like a ritual mask, softening her gaze and signaling transition. Her features are stylized yet tender with full lips, a calm brow, and tightly rendered contours that read as both portrait and emblem. At the left edge, faint, receding profiles echo her silhouette, suggesting elders, ancestors, or fellow initiates. The palette leans into warm earths with saturated black and red accents; patterned passages hint at textile and beadwork without naming a specific motif. A flat, luminous background heightens her stillness, while the white band and layered heads create a quiet rhythm of concealment and emergence. A near-architectural clarity of edge, learned in Paris by the artist and refined over decades, lends the face a sign-like dignity even as the sitter’s poise feels ceremonial, her individuality veiled yet affirmed. American artist Loïs Mailou Jones engages the Sande (women’s) initiation practiced in Liberia and neighboring regions, where white kaolin markings can signify a liminal status and protected learning before public reentry. The band of white, placed over the eyes, speaks to knowledge withheld and about to be revealed. It is a screen the community recognizes and a mirror the initiate carries until she returns transformed. The echoed profiles propose continuity like knowledge moving from elder to novice, generation to generation while the frontal scale insists on the centrality of Black womanhood as bearer of memory. Jones’s color orchestration with earth, ember, and night summons the forest space of seclusion and the warm public of return; her crisp contouring keeps the image modern, resisting ethnographic fixation. Painted in 1983, the work distills two decades of research and travel across eleven African countries into a graphic, humane language that refuses stereotype: not an illustration of ritual but an homage to women’s agency, secrecy, and solidarity.
October 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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mdstamper.bsky.social
"Young Woman and a Cat" by Adele Younghusband (New Zealand) – Oil on board / 1941 – Whangārei Art Museum Collection (New Zealand) #WomenInArt #AdeleYounghusband #Younghusband #NewZealandArt #AotearoaArt #WhangāreiArtMuseum #Modernism #WomenArtists #1940sArt #art #artText #artwork #cats #WomanArtist
Painted in 1941, this work belongs to the years just after New Zealand artist Adele Younghusband’s intensive period in Australia (1937–40), where she studied with modernist teacher George Bell in Melbourne and experimented increasingly with abstraction and surreal inflection. Back in Aotearoa during World War II, she continued to make portraits and allegorical pictures alongside landscapes and scenes of daily life. Here, modernist economy and clarity meet a tender, observational realism: simplified shapes, clean contours, and a calm, planar background frame the human-animal bond as subject, not accessory. A young woman in a fitted black dress sits on a bench inside a window bay, her head gently tilted and her gaze angled to meet ours with a knowing half-smile. A structured black hat crowns her hair while gold earrings and a round brooch at her chest catch the light. Her tan skin is softly modeled as curves of her shoulder, hip, and knee appear through the dark fabric without being sexualized. At her side, a small black cat with a white bib perches by an open book, amber eyes alert as if it is reading. A red sphere rests by her other hip as her hands steady herself. Beyond the window, an invented streetscape recedes with rows of clipped trees to one side and gabled houses to the other so its creamy taupes and simplified forms create a calm, stage-like world for sitter and cat. The absence of social markers opens room for identification while the cat’s presence suggests care, autonomy, and companionship which are qualities often coded as feminine yet universally resonant. The painting also reflects Younghusband’s lifelong attention to community arts: a founder and organizer of regional art societies in Whangārei and Waikato, she helped knit together networks that sustained artists through the 1930s and 1940s. In this portrait of stillness and touch, she offers wartime intimacy without sentimentality, balancing modern form with humane presence.
November 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
drartanalytics.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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wokestudies.bsky.social
Actual causes of death in the USA compared to populist media coverage ...
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM