Jane Tynan

‘Our blood, our sweat, our tears’: how textile artist Tabitha Arnold weaves the US labor movement The Tennessee socialist and labor organizer creates art that reflects and inspires organizers and workers

‘Our blood, our sweat, our tears’: how textile artist Tabitha Arnold weaves the US labor movement

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Come to our Open Day on Saturday 7 March VU Amsterdam! On the MA Design Cultures, in the faculty of humanities, we explore #design as a material, aesthetic and economic practice that shapes our #environment, #politics and future

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Brilliant! 😄

Yay!

The pancake bakery, 1560, Northern Mannerist work by Dutch artist Pieter Aertsen. Known as ‘the Dutch Peiraikos’, he created monumental genre, with sturdy figures in domestic scenes of intense realism, often of religious significance. #shrovetuesday
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YouTube video by Trondhjems Studentersangforening (TSS) The Rocky Road to Dublin - Trondhjems Studentersangforening

Norwegian men's choir does stirring version of 'Rocky Road to Dublin'

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Totally. Chirpy and in yer face. De *Leukste* Ochtendshow!

Animal Fashions This book examines material artifacts that inhabit the intersection between fashion, colonialism and biological specimen collection

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A long but worthwhile read from Adam Shatz in @lrb.co.uk

Have been rather like Moses in the desert since January.

Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway | Marina Hyde I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

“Wow. Never mind Manufacturing Consent – have a read of Not Giving A Shit About Consent. I thought Chomsky cared about power…” Marina Hyde in the Guardian.

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This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂

Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social

Call for Contributions: Histories of Weather & Weathering Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering (working title) Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo We invite contributions to this planned open a…

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It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜

Front cover image of book Animal Fashions depicting a Victorian woman with a dog

So glad we got to commission this new book for the Palgrave series. Explores how #colonial exploitation of natural resources came to #fashion female bodies. Thanks to editors Audrey Murfin, Victoria Pettersen Lantz & Sibyl Buchell for a fascinating book on #materials #ecologies #specimens

Don’t forget bookshops: Scheltema, Athenaeum, American Book Center, and the Spui book market in Fridays. All central. Lots of other specialist bookshops too.

The big museums are good but Het Schip is just charming and, as others have said, really informative. For drinks try Café de Pels or if you want quirky Café Welling behind Het Concertgebouw. Might be too cold for t’Blauwe Theehuis in Vondelpark. Also take the ferry across to Noord.

A reminder that we are recruiting for a new Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History. For more details and to apply: buff.ly/p8JvO2P

Irish regulators ‘censored’ social media coverage of elections, US Congress panel claims Coimisiún na Meán regulators worked with ‘biased fact-checkers’ before Ireland’s 2024 general election and presidential election, report alleges

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Astonishing! US Congress group claims Irish regulators ‘censored’ social media coverage of IRISH elections…

They allege “harassment” (by regulators?) against tech groups (!)
to undermine conservative and populist perspectives.

Regulation = interference

Saw the Iris van Herpen exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam yesterday. Really busy but loved it. Inspiring, captivating creative work.

What on earth is "toxic empathy?" Twisted, sexist headline from The Telegraph (UK) calculated to harden attitudes. Lately we've been witnessing the re-branding of empathy by tech bros and others. Sinister.

YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows (Official Audio)

Everybody Knows

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recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Surrealing in the Years: We're entering a new era of lawlessness. Don't expect much help from our leaders Am I going completely insane?

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Are you feeling crazy yet?

Palestine Action hunger strikers near death ‘intent' on continuing protests Prisoners remaining on rolling hunger strike are suffering with dangerous symptoms, loved ones and a doctor say.

Prisoners remaining on rolling hunger strike are suffering with dangerous symptoms, loved ones and a doctor say.

Taken by a frozen canal in Amsterdam zuid. Snow covered trees and and a bridge in the background

Still snowing #snow#amsterdam

Snowing in the Vondelpark Amsterdam

Let it snow….in Vondelpark Amsterdam today ❄️☃️

Photograph shot from above, aka a bird's eye view, of an urban street with tram tracks, and three figures: a delivery man (perhaps for bread?0 on a bicycle, and a male and female couple walking arm in arm. The long shadows suggest it is early in the morning

One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Grote brand Vondelkerk, toren ingestort en veel woningen ontruimd Grote brand Vondelkerk, toren ingestort en veel woningen ontruimd

Steeple of the Vondelkerk in Amsterdam has collapsed. Surrounding houses being evacuated. What a fittingly awful end to the Dutch tradition of New Year’s fireworks www.at5.nl/artikelen/23...

Candle labelled ‘wee turf fire’

A new year is on the way. Thinking back on a tough year when i said a final goodbye to my father. Still an enigma.

“And you, my father, there on the sad height…
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

Dylan Thomas