Mike Gibb ↔️ look at what they make you give
@Operadata
Random, eccentric, eclectic data, maps, tables, facts, factoids. Could be brexit, climate, opera, France, tech, word play... serendipity rules
To a gentleman, any country is a homeland. #Mazarin #CitizenOfTheWorld not #CitizenOfNowhere
There's a fly-through animation of the Piranesi Carceri d'invezione (Imaginary Prisons) put together for Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria for the 300th anniversary of Piranesi's birth. Animation by by Grégoire Dupond and music by Teho Teardo youtube.com/watch?v=guLBWu…
Plan de Turgot (1736) avec l'hospice des Enfants-Trouvés (2), et l'ancien Hôtel-Dieu (3)
📷 Anonyme. Parvis de Notre-Dame. Construction du nouvel Hôtel-Dieu devant l'ancien qui va être démoli ainsi que l'hospice des Enfants-Trouvés à droite 1868. Paris
A question for our younger viewers: is this driver able to indicate that he wants to turn left?
René Maltête
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. Spot the 12 (or 13) deliberate mistakes. From Treasure magazine, 1963 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
📉 Neil sums up the lunacy of the self-inflicted hit to the UK's GDP after Brexit...
Thank you for the detailed exposition of this case and the relevant factors. We all, the public, deserve and need an informed and properly nuanced explanation of the facts. Thank you.
BREAKING: A man who burnt a Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in London has been found guilty of religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm, or distress. The facts of the case are complex. For a comprehensive overview, read the full article 🧵 humanists.uk/2025/06/02/pub…
#LookWhatTheyAreDoing #UBI #Ireland | With the rise of AI & automation, 'full employment' will cease to be a possibility and UBI will become a necessity at some point. x.com/Operadata/stat…
This will be of no surprise to virtually any real artist here but a new qualitative report has been published about the Basic Income for Artists pilot in Ireland and it turns out that the impact has been far-ranging and has affected all aspects of artists' lives.
Farage was out of the country so much he was included in the emigration figures. A big shout out to the patriotic Charlie Mullins, Andrew Neil, Isabel Oakeshott, Richard Tice, Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson for the part they played by living elsewhere as well.
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783) meets Donald Trump (1946-)
People probably don't realize the stakes at play here and how thankful they should be for China's unyielding position since "liberation day". The future of the global order literally rests on it. Basically they keep repeating almost word-for-word the same thing for 3 weeks:…
fao @_alice_evans
📌 Face à ce constat, 20 recommandations structurées autour de 5 axes prioritaires : 1⃣ Priorité politique 2⃣ École 3⃣ Coparentalité 4⃣ Plateformes 5⃣ Orientation & métiers
Sir Keir Starmer (not) discovers one advantage of a closer relationship with Paris.
📌 Face à ce constat, 20 recommandations structurées autour de 5 axes prioritaires : 1⃣ Priorité politique 2⃣ École 3⃣ Coparentalité 4⃣ Plateformes 5⃣ Orientation & métiers
Harry Beck's cat @McKayEli
Draw a cat using only straight lines Design in theory and practice 1910
Italian palazzi sometimes had an open colonnaded arrangement on the top floor, which allowed the women of the household to take the air far from the madding crowd. Here is Ginger Rogers seated in something similar, reading Nijinsky's biography.
All of the replies BTL saying "we have always hated Canada...." <wry smile in George Orwell>