Hil121
@hil121.bsky.social
Artist living in Canberra, Australia.
I think access to her children is their bargaining chip. #TheArchers
I think she's only agreeing to do it to keep in with Saskia. I wonder why. #TheArchers
April 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I think access to her children is their bargaining chip. #TheArchers
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Best I’ve read on this, by Ella Barclay @aunz.theconversation.com
Would Sidney Nolan be cancelled for painting Ned Kelly today? That’s what Creative Australia has done to Khaled Sabsabi
Contentious figures have always featured in Australian art – and this fact is what makes Khaled Sabsabi’s removal from the Venice Biennale so confronting.
theconversation.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Best I’ve read on this, by Ella Barclay @aunz.theconversation.com
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Building a Medieval Castle From Scratch. Since 1997, using only Middle Ages tools & technology, a group has been building a medieval castle in a French forest. (It’s open for visitors in the spring, summer, and fall.) [kottke.org]
Building a Medieval Castle From Scratch
Since 1997, using only Middle Ages tools & technology, a group has been building a medieval castle in a French forest.
In the heart of Guédelon forest, in an abandoned quarry, a team of master-builders is building a 13t
kottke.org
January 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Building a Medieval Castle From Scratch. Since 1997, using only Middle Ages tools & technology, a group has been building a medieval castle in a French forest. (It’s open for visitors in the spring, summer, and fall.) [kottke.org]
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AI-generated books and images are threatening the nearly 500-year-old art of lace making
🔗 www.404media.co/bobbin-tatti...
🔗 www.404media.co/bobbin-tatti...
December 26, 2024 at 3:46 PM
AI-generated books and images are threatening the nearly 500-year-old art of lace making
🔗 www.404media.co/bobbin-tatti...
🔗 www.404media.co/bobbin-tatti...
My name in Landsat imagery (via @anna-madeleine.bsky.social )
November 26, 2024 at 2:35 AM
My name in Landsat imagery (via @anna-madeleine.bsky.social )
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Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.
November 25, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.
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Wacław Szpakowski was a Polish architect and engineer who, over the course of his life and in secret, made a series of drawings of mazes from single continuous lines. [kottke.org]
Single Line Mazes
Wacław Szpakowski was a Polish architect and engineer who, over the course of his life and in secret, made a series of drawings of mazes from single continuous lines. From The Paris Review:
The drawings, he
kottke.org
November 12, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Wacław Szpakowski was a Polish architect and engineer who, over the course of his life and in secret, made a series of drawings of mazes from single continuous lines. [kottke.org]
French company La Machine have debuted their spectacular new giant puppet Lillith in Toulouse
www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...
www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...
Giant Mythological Puppets Stage a Show in Toulouse
Images of several remarkable huge puppets performing in the streets of Toulouse
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2024 at 7:09 PM
French company La Machine have debuted their spectacular new giant puppet Lillith in Toulouse
www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...
www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...
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Watch David Byrne Lead a Massive Choir in Singing David Bowie’s “Heroes” www.openculture.com/2018/01/watc...
February 17, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Watch David Byrne Lead a Massive Choir in Singing David Bowie’s “Heroes” www.openculture.com/2018/01/watc...
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The World’s Largest Cruise Ship Is a Climate Liability. “Taking a cruise generates ‘about double the amount of total greenhouse gas emissions’ as flying.” [bloomberg.com]
January 22, 2024 at 9:56 PM
The World’s Largest Cruise Ship Is a Climate Liability. “Taking a cruise generates ‘about double the amount of total greenhouse gas emissions’ as flying.” [bloomberg.com]
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October 22, 2023 at 5:49 PM
September 30, 2023 at 9:05 AM
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You know how like steampunk is a version of the future according to the technical and imaginative limitations of the past? This is like that, but specifically for like the six months in 2012 when Facebook controlled how pop culture worked.
NEW: Today at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new AI virtual assistant, along with more than two dozen different AI chat bot "personalities" played by celebrities including Snoop Dogg and Kendall Jenner. Meta is hoping they appeal to younger users:
Meta Is Using Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, and Tom Brady to Get You to Like AI
Social media giant Meta unveils new AI chat bot characters played by celebrities and influencers like MrBeast and Kendall Jenner.
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September 27, 2023 at 8:26 PM
You know how like steampunk is a version of the future according to the technical and imaginative limitations of the past? This is like that, but specifically for like the six months in 2012 when Facebook controlled how pop culture worked.
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Did you know saffron crocuses - which grow in your ordinary twenty-first-century garden - are basically clones of plants that grew in Minoan Crete, hundreds of years before Homer? Blows my mind. vertigrow.substack.com/p/saffron-cr...
September 25, 2023 at 8:23 PM
Did you know saffron crocuses - which grow in your ordinary twenty-first-century garden - are basically clones of plants that grew in Minoan Crete, hundreds of years before Homer? Blows my mind. vertigrow.substack.com/p/saffron-cr...
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Polar bears have taken over an ancient abandoned village in eastern Russia.
Incredible photographs by Dmitry Kokh who won the Urban Wildlife category award in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
Incredible photographs by Dmitry Kokh who won the Urban Wildlife category award in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
September 21, 2023 at 10:37 PM
Polar bears have taken over an ancient abandoned village in eastern Russia.
Incredible photographs by Dmitry Kokh who won the Urban Wildlife category award in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
Incredible photographs by Dmitry Kokh who won the Urban Wildlife category award in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
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This is really helpful if you’re new here and/or a scientist but also for everyone else - especially showing what improvements are underway (eg, dm’s). @saocousins.bsky.social
Welcome to BlueSky!
Here's a little intro for scientists that @steveharoz.com and I put together: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aPddaH-d7N53jZm1S3vUrfjVVy5nykPQz6qd7QpPCQE
🧪 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM
Here's a little intro for scientists that @steveharoz.com and I put together: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aPddaH-d7N53jZm1S3vUrfjVVy5nykPQz6qd7QpPCQE
🧪 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM
BlueSky for Scientists
BlueSky for Scientists Authors: Steve Haroz and Mark Rubin URL: http://blueskyscience.steveharoz.com Features you may miss from Twitter or Mastodon As BlueSky is in beta, some features are not impleme...
docs.google.com
September 24, 2023 at 4:22 PM
This is really helpful if you’re new here and/or a scientist but also for everyone else - especially showing what improvements are underway (eg, dm’s). @saocousins.bsky.social
This describes one of the great aspects of Twitter, repeated over and over in different ways, and why people had such a hard time defining it as a platform.
September 24, 2023 at 5:17 AM
This describes one of the great aspects of Twitter, repeated over and over in different ways, and why people had such a hard time defining it as a platform.