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lizrablondon.bsky.social
🖼 art-botherer 🏛 architecture-intelligencer 🇳🇱 learning to speak Dutch with the help of een uil and a very patient Dutchman 🙀 I once ate a sea cucumber
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An ad put up at a bus stop in London today.

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

#BOTD

Love chewing on pencils. Love chocolate. I’m in.

Just went to see Cabaret, and it wasn't really the escape from reality I expected theatre to be.

Apparently a new runway at Heathrow could create 100,000 jobs. A home retrofit industry: hold my beer. www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/p...

Really nice thread, giving an idea of the direction a clean European electricity grid is heading towards. Also makes a good point on nuclear: it can be a good complement to renewables, even if not a good replacement for them.

What a great start. Would love to see this London-wide!

Depressing.

Apparently the rule is: If you see this, quote post with a #bridge from your photo gallery. 🌉 details in alt text

The possibility that the British Council could sell-off up to half of its art collection is fairly disastrous from so many different angles That virtually nobody is reacting to this news speaks to ingrained distrust/hatred for the art & culture that belongs to everybody artlyst.com/news/british...

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Why can’t •we• have bamboo scaffolding with silk shrouds? Dreamy.

Nice one, Duolingo.

Okay, so it translates from the German as “competent in bathroom planning” but it still amuses me. (Tempted to tag the Local Authorities responsible for Nine Elms.)

#NominativeDeterminism from the 2025 New Year’s Honours list. (This one’s a CBE.)

Leaving Leighton House just before 1700 hrs we were greeted by the crispest waxing crescent moon and halogen-bright Venus against an indigo sky. Everyone stopped, said ooooh and got their phones out. My photo doesn’t really capture it but it was lovely.

Iranian bricklayers are magicians Khayyam project, by Esfandiar Abdeshah in Shiraz

Happy Holidays from the land of Mondria(a)n!

Happy Christmas 🎄 and Happy Hannukah 🕎 from @bartcornelis.bsky.social and me

Let's think about history: John Heartfield: "The Meaning of the Hitler Salute" (Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung, 16 October 1932) "Millions are standing behind me" "Small man asking for big gifts". For Hitler it was Fritz Thyssen For Trump it was Elon Musk For Farage it may also be Elon Musk

Oooh, this is very exciting 👀 [h/t @3esse.bsky.social]

Fantastic resource from a museum that is truly one of Antwerp’s treasures. [h/t @3esse.bsky.social]

1/ Support today for journalists fighting for the future of The Observer, threatened by The Scott Trust’s plan to sell to Tortoise Media. Tortoise, though respected, is a small, loss-making venture and the sale risks The Observer becoming a stripped-down website behind a paywall. Worse..

I really enjoy learning Dutch on #Duolingo because it’s such an encouraging space.

The late Johan Cruyff getting some love in today’s Duolingo lesson 😂