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He/him benaustwick.co.uk Hold kindness in your heart like a knife at the throat of the world
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In light of the press talking about what a lovely family business guy the Liverpool motorist is, discussion on Reddit where they've done a bit of digging www.reddit.com/r/Liverpool/...

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A #painting for you. "Stacks" came from a lifetime of seeing those chimney stacks from all over the city, cherishing the places miles away where you got a tiny glimpse of them between houses like an extravagant Dublin game of Where's Wally/Waldo. But yes, they could be anywhere. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Fucking hate people like this. I've had my fun but I've decided anyone who wants to do the same should risk prison

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Total bargain of a subscription get on it!

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Tfw the IMF tells you you're being too neoliberal

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29 May 1944 | A Jewish girl Éva Weber was murdered in a gas chamber of Auschwitz. Éva was born in Budapest in Hungary on 31 May 1936 to Sándor and Ilona. During the war, she lived in Szigetvár from where she was deported to Auschwitz. She was almost 8 years old.

submitted 10 hours ago • 13 comments

🚨 New on Substack, this fine guest post by @benaustwick.bsky.social on the Amsterdam School: Expressionism and Experimentation ... municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-amster...

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

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There are a limited number of inside spots - like senator, for example - that give you power and authority to "fight trump" and if you occupy one and don't use it, or even use it the other way, this is actually a nontrivial bad act.

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EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION FOR PALESTINE We are creating a red line for Palestine around Parliament during Prime Minister's Questions to demand a full arms embargo and sanctions on Israel NOW! Wed 4 June, 11:30 Outside Parliament Wear red JVL and the rest of the Jewish Bloc will be there, will you?

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Upper Spanish Lake: A cist comprising side and end stones, measuring 0.7m. by 0.6m wide internally, aligned on a bearing of 130 degrees. The cover-stone is missing. Built into the south-east side of one of a group of cairns which are very close together. 📷 Bladup More: http://www.megalithi...

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Barely any mention of Palestine in John McDonnell's Guardian piece - let the Labour Party die

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Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about getting a half dozen likes on an esoteric post about the carbon opportunity cost of agricultural land use, and one mercy like on a cringe climate-themed lyrical rewrite of a song popular among 35-49 year olds

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Always thought he must be paying for these but apparently it's the American taxpayer 😭 absolutely mugged off

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2 degrees by 2030 Polar ice cap collapse at 2.5 degrees 👍

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Metropolis... Someone said one of my previous multiple exposures had a Metropolis feel. How about this one? Holga 120 PAN Ilford HP5 #filmphotography #ilfordphoto

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

Eva and her friend showed me the new thing sweeping gen alpha which is a dance to Pop Muzik by M?!?!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hackney Workhouse. "H" Block. Interior of Women's ward, or day room. c.1900 Photograph from a glass slide.

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That artwork 😍

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A dolmen converted into a chapel! (Dolmen de San Brissos, Portugal) the Dolmen part is ~6000 years old the Chapel part is ~350 years old

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

It's something that comes with creative work. Work generates side-ideas that you don't have time to realise. Don't do the work and you won't get any

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Been thinking of AI as a wedge that will result in the end of individual copyright but the continuation and maybe strengthening of corporate copyright, with the latter benefiting from the former

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Nice time playing Fungi card game this afternoon

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