The shroud of apparent sincerity over the banal evils of technology is rapidly unravelling. What’s art got to do with it?

The Ascension, by Ford Madox Brown, 1844, 📸 by Kirsten Schmitt

“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏

Plant writing

ThatsInsane

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

5 October 1843 Charles Dickens said of Manchester 'this enterprising town, this little world of labour... her name famous through the world' in a speech at the Athenaeum (now part of Manchester Art Gallery).

‘Life goals’ in essence right there. I’ll be taking advice from Tom Hollander over the Live Forever Guy any day of the week.

He Told Her To Calm Down. Oil on canvas. 🎨: Henri-Léopold Lévy

This is extraordinarily brave and hope-filled. The attitudes of these lads represent the best type of future where we celebrate ourselves, while respecting each other’s differences.

If the UAE is really threatening billions over Manchester City, that’s exactly the kind of political influence that demands scrutiny. When wealth and power get special access, ordinary people deserve accountability.

Love this 👇