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Listening to all of J.S. Bach. Learning French. At home on campus. Itinerant baker. Subversive librarian. Living in Alderaan. "In an age of performative cruelty, kindness is punk as f*ck. Be punk as f*ck". She/her
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'Still life' (in more ways than one). I painted it for entry in a local #art exhibition, but it wasn't accepted. At least I can share it here! #painting #adhd #artist #artwork

👇 Sehr gut

This! Pivotal reading on how serious the situation for #science is in the US and how much #openaccess is needed to help safeguard #research results. And yes, it is a lot worse (already) than I thought it was. www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2025/04/pete...

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism

white pearmain apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1911

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) Snow at Funabori 1923 #japanese #woodblock

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

but at least we denied the presidency to that woman who had that laugh, so there's that

totafarice mangoes, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1926

Just about the only thing I can do with an #insomnia 'hangover' after being awake all night is doodle, scribble, sketch (dribble & retch?), so here's a 1st draft of today's benumbed effort: a grotesque (though some might say an improvement) self-portrait which tries to capture how mangled I feel.

Water Lilies, 1908 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11080

Landscape under a Stormy Sky, 1888 #artbots #vangogh https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14315

Villas at Bordighera, 1884 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10060

ralls apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1912

Antibes Seen from the Salis Gardens 01, 1888

G.M. Gilbert wusste wovon er sprach und hat es auf den Punkt gebracht:

Other countries are fully targeting US academics with social media ads now, basically of the form "we still have inclusive liberal democracy and academic freedom here"

Palazzo Dario 4, 1908

This is huge, amazing news. Suspect the UK's NICE will reject it as a therapy when it gets there.

May I present Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia: smart, athletic, successful ruler, had good taste (my patron!) & generally cool. For #InternationalWomensDay

Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows (right half), 1919

Your new Anthem USA. 🫡🇷🇺

"Washington has become the court of Nero" A French Senator describes what's happening in the United States and explains why Europe needs to distance itself urgently.

New Canadian tourism ad just dropped.

scores of pissed off Mormon CIA agents who just got canned are ideologically cross-pollinating with platoons of fired trans FBI agents. we are on the verge of new types of politics our ancestors could only dream about

Ogata Gekko (1859-1920) Nine Tailed Fox 1887 #japanese #woodblock

Young Girls in a Row Boat, 1887

Worst. Episode. EVER.

I’m no fan of kings, but I do enjoy reading talented writers from Maine. I don’t know how popular their nonfiction works are with expatriate South Africans today.

„Die verkehrte Welt der Populisten und Autokraten ist eine Erzählung von der Welt, in der alles um 180 Grad gedreht wird. Es handelt sich hier aber nicht einfach um eine beliebige Lüge. Bei einer Verkehrung ins Gegenteil projiziert man auf den anderen das, was man selbst tut.“ — Sylvia Sasse

Job @unibern.bsky.social mit @malte.the100.ci und mir und vielen anderen netten Menschen - Innovation in der Hochschullehre https://ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs/9e92eb6c-325e-4d4d-b1ae-437a59d1e9d0

golden globe peaches, painted by james marion shull, 1939

Lisa Jacoby Downey - “Contemplation” Charcoal, graphite, red chalk

We’re gonna look back on black box social media like we look back now on lead pipes.

Who would have guessed that open access and open science non-profits such as @archive.org and @cos.io are useful just in case your government want to delete scientific data? And yet, here we are.