Emma
@visualdilemma.bsky.social
Whippets, gardens, books, Moomins and more whippets….
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📱iPhones, Caterpillar tracks and tariffs.
💥Why the "end of globalisation" is a far, far bigger deal than the politicians using that phrase probably realise.
✍️Some thoughts about the bigger story behind today's market mayhem: news.sky.com/story/why-th...
💥Why the "end of globalisation" is a far, far bigger deal than the politicians using that phrase probably realise.
✍️Some thoughts about the bigger story behind today's market mayhem: news.sky.com/story/why-th...
Why the device you're reading this on shows how Trump's tariffs could herald one of the most painful episodes in modern times
Unpicking globalisation will be phenomenally difficult and phenomenally expensive. Trying to relocate factories and labour markets with expertise that has built up over decades would be incredibly har...
news.sky.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
📱iPhones, Caterpillar tracks and tariffs.
💥Why the "end of globalisation" is a far, far bigger deal than the politicians using that phrase probably realise.
✍️Some thoughts about the bigger story behind today's market mayhem: news.sky.com/story/why-th...
💥Why the "end of globalisation" is a far, far bigger deal than the politicians using that phrase probably realise.
✍️Some thoughts about the bigger story behind today's market mayhem: news.sky.com/story/why-th...
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Around this time yesterday I stopped at St. Katharine’s Chapel in Limehouse to check out their 14th century misericords. Thankfully it was otherwise empty of visitors, I had to lie flat on my back and shimmy underneath a big chair to photograph the hidden demon and its brides in the fourth image...
April 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Around this time yesterday I stopped at St. Katharine’s Chapel in Limehouse to check out their 14th century misericords. Thankfully it was otherwise empty of visitors, I had to lie flat on my back and shimmy underneath a big chair to photograph the hidden demon and its brides in the fourth image...
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NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
March 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
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Whole thread is a goldmine
Ok, my next @mojomagazine.bsky.social How To Buy is on Drone. It needs to be historical, definitive... educational? 😶 W. Basinski, E. Radigue, Earth, K. Drumm, P. Oliveros, T. Hecker, SunnO)))??? Any help appreciated. What r your fave drone long players? Best submissions will be quoted in the mag.
February 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Whole thread is a goldmine
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The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Holocaust survivors fear Europe is forgetting the lessons of Auschwitz
By Katya Adler
www.bbc.com/news/article...
By Katya Adler
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Holocaust survivors fear Europe is forgetting the lessons of Auschwitz
Eighty years after the liberation of the concentration camp, some politicians have been quick to target outsiders.
www.bbc.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Holocaust survivors fear Europe is forgetting the lessons of Auschwitz
By Katya Adler
www.bbc.com/news/article...
By Katya Adler
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Love the Mel Brooks/David Lynch friendship so much
January 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Love the Mel Brooks/David Lynch friendship so much
Snowy allotment from a few years ago. #allotment #snow
January 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Snowy allotment from a few years ago. #allotment #snow
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I'm very late to the party here but it's good to see that even after all this time Neil Young can still wind up the knee-jerkers and dullards simply by being Neil Young.
January 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I'm very late to the party here but it's good to see that even after all this time Neil Young can still wind up the knee-jerkers and dullards simply by being Neil Young.
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A visit to the wonderful 'Chagall Windows' at All Saints Church in Tudeley, Kent. The only church in the world to have all its twelve windows decorated by the the great artist Marc Chagall.
#churchcrawling
#churchcrawling
January 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A visit to the wonderful 'Chagall Windows' at All Saints Church in Tudeley, Kent. The only church in the world to have all its twelve windows decorated by the the great artist Marc Chagall.
#churchcrawling
#churchcrawling
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This rolling thread is one of my favourite bits of the DiS community
People recommend things they find throughout the year. We have them for various genres
This starts with the results of the 2024 ambient music poll if you’re looking for brain soothers community.drownedinsound.com/t/rolling-am...
People recommend things they find throughout the year. We have them for various genres
This starts with the results of the 2024 ambient music poll if you’re looking for brain soothers community.drownedinsound.com/t/rolling-am...
Rolling Ambient/Modern Composition/Drone Thread 2025 Edition
Hi all With a new year just a couple of hours away in the UK, it’s time to create a new thread for all things A/MC/D. I have no doubt it will be the source of the best musical recommendations on the ...
community.drownedinsound.com
January 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This rolling thread is one of my favourite bits of the DiS community
People recommend things they find throughout the year. We have them for various genres
This starts with the results of the 2024 ambient music poll if you’re looking for brain soothers community.drownedinsound.com/t/rolling-am...
People recommend things they find throughout the year. We have them for various genres
This starts with the results of the 2024 ambient music poll if you’re looking for brain soothers community.drownedinsound.com/t/rolling-am...
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Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
December 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
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1/3 Florence Farr b1860 #Bickley was at the very centre of late 19C bohemian London – actress, producer, writer, novelist, ardent feminist, spiritual seeker. She inspired roles in plays by Shaw and Yeats, friend with Pound, Beardsley & Wilde,
Image; The Sketch 28 March 1894 (BNA)
Image; The Sketch 28 March 1894 (BNA)
December 30, 2024 at 8:04 AM
1/3 Florence Farr b1860 #Bickley was at the very centre of late 19C bohemian London – actress, producer, writer, novelist, ardent feminist, spiritual seeker. She inspired roles in plays by Shaw and Yeats, friend with Pound, Beardsley & Wilde,
Image; The Sketch 28 March 1894 (BNA)
Image; The Sketch 28 March 1894 (BNA)
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When I say I remember nothing I mean
what being nothing is:
within density, without form.
My mind has de-scripted what happened.
I was forced off the road.
It is unwritten down.
A poem by Lavinia Greenlaw:
what being nothing is:
within density, without form.
My mind has de-scripted what happened.
I was forced off the road.
It is unwritten down.
A poem by Lavinia Greenlaw:
Lavinia Greenlaw · Poem: ‘Outside the Work’
London Review of Books
www.lrb.co.uk
December 29, 2024 at 8:38 AM
When I say I remember nothing I mean
what being nothing is:
within density, without form.
My mind has de-scripted what happened.
I was forced off the road.
It is unwritten down.
A poem by Lavinia Greenlaw:
what being nothing is:
within density, without form.
My mind has de-scripted what happened.
I was forced off the road.
It is unwritten down.
A poem by Lavinia Greenlaw:
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A Norse myth tells that when Balder was killed by a mistletoe arrow, his mother Frigg, the goddess of love, held him and wept. Her tears fell upon the mistletoe and transformed into white berries that appear each year as a reminder to cherish our loved ones. #Christmas #folklore
December 20, 2024 at 8:00 AM
A Norse myth tells that when Balder was killed by a mistletoe arrow, his mother Frigg, the goddess of love, held him and wept. Her tears fell upon the mistletoe and transformed into white berries that appear each year as a reminder to cherish our loved ones. #Christmas #folklore
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So inspiring and joyful to see American composer Morton Subotnick, aged 91, share his stories and celebrate the background to the legendary Buchla 100 synthesiser.
youtu.be/FWQtTRPUrVM?...
youtu.be/FWQtTRPUrVM?...
Morton Subotnick and the Buchla 100
YouTube video by Library of Congress
youtu.be
December 20, 2024 at 8:03 AM
So inspiring and joyful to see American composer Morton Subotnick, aged 91, share his stories and celebrate the background to the legendary Buchla 100 synthesiser.
youtu.be/FWQtTRPUrVM?...
youtu.be/FWQtTRPUrVM?...
Songs, snow, mad pyrotechnics. #macca #paulmacartney
December 19, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Songs, snow, mad pyrotechnics. #macca #paulmacartney
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'View from Albert Bridge Road,' by Terry Frost was painted from the window of his lodgings in Battersea in 1948. Then studying at Camberwell, he had met Victor Pasmore who would have a huge influence on his work. His first abstract painting, followed a year later.
December 17, 2024 at 8:48 AM
'View from Albert Bridge Road,' by Terry Frost was painted from the window of his lodgings in Battersea in 1948. Then studying at Camberwell, he had met Victor Pasmore who would have a huge influence on his work. His first abstract painting, followed a year later.
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this was us, this time last year. show your support!
Sorry to say we're closed today (Tuesday) 😔
Someone has bricked our window, robbed the cash drawer and, bizarrely, the Bluetooth speaker 🎶
All the books are safe! Turns out robbers dont read. If you wanna help out this struggling queer bookshop our website is still open
Merry bloody Christmas 😥
Someone has bricked our window, robbed the cash drawer and, bizarrely, the Bluetooth speaker 🎶
All the books are safe! Turns out robbers dont read. If you wanna help out this struggling queer bookshop our website is still open
Merry bloody Christmas 😥
December 17, 2024 at 10:36 AM
this was us, this time last year. show your support!
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As we approach Midwinter, here's The Black Stag from the cave of Lascaux. Considered to be either a creature of Ice Age myth, or a rendering of an extinct Megaloceros.
Deep in the ground it was drawn above geometric symbols, including 13 circles, the meaning of which is now lost.
#AncientSky
🌙🦌🦣🏺
Deep in the ground it was drawn above geometric symbols, including 13 circles, the meaning of which is now lost.
#AncientSky
🌙🦌🦣🏺
December 16, 2024 at 7:28 AM
As we approach Midwinter, here's The Black Stag from the cave of Lascaux. Considered to be either a creature of Ice Age myth, or a rendering of an extinct Megaloceros.
Deep in the ground it was drawn above geometric symbols, including 13 circles, the meaning of which is now lost.
#AncientSky
🌙🦌🦣🏺
Deep in the ground it was drawn above geometric symbols, including 13 circles, the meaning of which is now lost.
#AncientSky
🌙🦌🦣🏺
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Registered vehicles on UK roads:
1991: 20 million
2023: 41.2 million
Congestion is caused — and air pollution and climate change is made worse — not by cycleways or LTNs, but by too many motor vehicles.
1991: 20 million
2023: 41.2 million
Congestion is caused — and air pollution and climate change is made worse — not by cycleways or LTNs, but by too many motor vehicles.
December 16, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Registered vehicles on UK roads:
1991: 20 million
2023: 41.2 million
Congestion is caused — and air pollution and climate change is made worse — not by cycleways or LTNs, but by too many motor vehicles.
1991: 20 million
2023: 41.2 million
Congestion is caused — and air pollution and climate change is made worse — not by cycleways or LTNs, but by too many motor vehicles.
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Word of the day is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a dislike of company and the desire to be left alone.
December 16, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Word of the day is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a dislike of company and the desire to be left alone.
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Thank you everyone for sharing your finds for #WildflowerHour, you’ve really brightened a dark Sunday evening! It maybe getting harder to spot those blooms but some surprising early flowerers too! I wonder what the next week will bring, let’s meet again next Sunday to find out!
For #wildflowerhour, flowering in verges and heath grassland, NW Leics., this week: Groundsel, Daisy, Yarrow, White Dead-nettle, Common Chickweed, Dandelion, Gorse.
December 15, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Thank you everyone for sharing your finds for #WildflowerHour, you’ve really brightened a dark Sunday evening! It maybe getting harder to spot those blooms but some surprising early flowerers too! I wonder what the next week will bring, let’s meet again next Sunday to find out!
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Tonight, the Cold Moon rises. ❄️
Known too as the Long Night Moon or The Moon Before Yule, it rises during the darkest nights of the year, heralding the onset of winter’s chill.
Its glow has guided ancient Yule traditions and marked the turning of the seasons.
Moonrise: 15:09*
Known too as the Long Night Moon or The Moon Before Yule, it rises during the darkest nights of the year, heralding the onset of winter’s chill.
Its glow has guided ancient Yule traditions and marked the turning of the seasons.
Moonrise: 15:09*
December 15, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Tonight, the Cold Moon rises. ❄️
Known too as the Long Night Moon or The Moon Before Yule, it rises during the darkest nights of the year, heralding the onset of winter’s chill.
Its glow has guided ancient Yule traditions and marked the turning of the seasons.
Moonrise: 15:09*
Known too as the Long Night Moon or The Moon Before Yule, it rises during the darkest nights of the year, heralding the onset of winter’s chill.
Its glow has guided ancient Yule traditions and marked the turning of the seasons.
Moonrise: 15:09*
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Anna Airy, prominent artist, b1882 The Circus, Greenwich, where she grew up. Studied at The Slade and appointed a war artist in WWI, specialising in representations of industrial work carried out by women, returning to lighter, more conventional subjects after the war had ended.
#womenartists
#womenartists
December 12, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Anna Airy, prominent artist, b1882 The Circus, Greenwich, where she grew up. Studied at The Slade and appointed a war artist in WWI, specialising in representations of industrial work carried out by women, returning to lighter, more conventional subjects after the war had ended.
#womenartists
#womenartists