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  • Editorial artwork about digital identity, personal data and online tracking infrastructure
    Observations

    You Can’t Reject This Cookie

    20 August 202631 August 2026

    🍪 You Can’t Reject This Cookie.

    Everyone’s staring at the cookie banner. Nobody’s looking at the pipe. While millions worry about digital ID and data, the infrastructure beneath us — water, energy, data — is becoming measurable, tracked, and dynamically priced. And you can’t opt out of that.

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  • Vintage newspaper-style artwork reading The Bubble Has a Price Tag
    Observations

    Bubble Price Tag

    19 August 202631 August 2026

    🤖 “Upgrade to continue.” Claude offline. DeepSeek free. The AI hype machine is starting to crack — because underneath the promises of limitless intelligence sits a very ordinary question: who pays for it? 💸

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  • Gaucho £10 menu compared with McDonald’s fast-food prices
    Observations

    Gaucho Is Officially Cheaper Than McDonald’s

    7 August 202631 August 2026

    🍔 Two courses at Gaucho for £10. Fast food was supposed to be the cheap option. Somewhere along the way, that stopped being true. 🥩

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  • Recruitment and wage information displayed at a motorway services restaurant
    Observations

    The Workers Changed. The Dependency Didn’t

    9 June 202630 August 2026

    👷 The faces have changed, but the dependency remains. A motorway services stop reveals a bigger story about migration, low wages, labour shortages and the work Britain still needs someone to do. 🇬🇧

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  • Police officers on a British street representing the debate over two-tier policing
    Observations

    Two Tier Policing or Two Tier Britain

    7 June 202630 August 2026

    🚔 The debate isn’t really about policing. It’s about trust. Maybe the real divide isn’t two-tier policing. Maybe it’s two-tier Britain. 🇬🇧

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  • Product label showing a European design origin and Made in PRC manufacturing information
    Observations

    Designed in Amsterdam. Made in PRC.

    26 April 202626 August 2026

    A system where ideas are created in one place and reality is built somewhere else. 🌍🏭 The truth isn’t hidden — sometimes it’s printed right underneath. 🔍

    The truth isn’t hidden — it’s just not where people are looking. 🔍

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  • A heavily loaded burger illustrating the boom and rising cost of premium burgers.
    Observations

    The Burger Boom Didn’t End. It Was Priced Out.

    29 March 202622 August 2026

    🍔 The Burger Boom — From Hype to Margins 📉

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