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Cat, lover and collector of art. Nature is my domain. Looking to connect with creative types and art lovers and feline friends. Antiquities, archaeology, classics. LGBTQ rights are human rights. Black lives matter
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Cracked and bold, they bear the flame, Raku’s touch—no two the same. Glaze drips, a fleeting test, Fire’s kiss reveals the best. As part of my raku practice I often test glazes on smaller sized vases. These new pieces from our latest raku firing are now available. #art #raku #pottery

A major Norwegian fuel company is refusing to provide fuel to U.S. warships after the “shitshow” in the White House yesterday over Ukraine. This is the way. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fu...

When the supposed “leader” of your country treats allies like adversaries and adversaries like allies- you know you’re in trouble.

To bring a smile to your face this Monday morning, here’s an ancient Egyptian sketch of a cat serving a mouse! 😄 The artist used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. 📷 Brooklyn Museum www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti... #Archaeology #Art

Foro Romano - Rome, Italy 2/25/2025

This is how the Terran empire began in fact.

UPDATE: The charges against her have been dropped “in the interest of justice” (she bit one of the brownshirts that assaulted her) and the private security firm has lost their license to operate. I hope she sues them into oblivion.

Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto, Japan. #DailyInari #Shinto #torii #Japan

#RomanSiteSaturday: The Porta Nigra in Trier is the best preserved #Roman city gate North of the Alps. It was built around 170 AD and converted into a church in the Middle Ages. The Porta Nigra was restored to its original state in 1804 at Napoleon's behest. 📷 me 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

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Neolithic doorway and passageway at Skara Brae on Orkney. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney

Showing my students some medieval pottery from Yemen at the ROM today, including this one with a cat's paw impression in it! #MedievalSky #Archaeology #ArchaeologyOfStuff 🏺

A gold #Roman aureus, with a portrait bust of the emperor Trajan on one side, & a phoenix on the other, standing on a laurel wreath with a radiate around its head. The coin was minted early in the reign of Trajan's successor Hadrian (📷 British Museum) #Numismatics #Archaeology AncientBlueSky

#ReliefWednesday; from the Musée du Louvre in #Paris, a fragment of a marble architectural relief depicting the preparations for the sacrifice of a bull. Dated to between 75 and 130 CE. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky

The Viking Mask Stone. A runestone set up in memory of a warrior who died in battle, c. AD 970-1020. Runic inscription: ‘Gunnulfr and Eygautr/Auðgautr and Áslakr and Hrólfr raised this stone in memory of Fúl, their partner, who died when kings fought’. From Aarhus, Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

A few sunny days has me excited for the arrival of spring. This year I'm planning to take some new pictures of my work and I need some flower inspiration. What flowers do you think would pair well with this vase? #BloomScrolling #Flowers #gardening #handmade

Great Blue Heron, Central Park, NYC markscheflen.com #birdphotography #twitternaturephotography #wildlifeplanet #earthofficial #nycbirdalliance #sierraclub #BirdsSeenIn2025 #climatechange #wildlifephotography #herons

Raise your hand if you recognize ecosystems are millions if not trillions of interactions, connections, cause-and-effect, etc, across just innumerable species and vagaries of landscape and microclimates such that we still haven't identified every species that lives on this marvelously complex Earth.

If we make it through the next four years I’m refusing to vote for any Dem candidate who doesn’t, at best, promise to haul this fucker in front of Congress for nonstop hearings and investigations. If they promise to arrest him I’ll sign up to knock doors for their campaign.

Black History is 365 Days! Black Inventor’s

Celebrating Elizabeth Jennings. #blackhistorymonth

Sculptor Augusta Savage in her studio in 1937. She was the first African-American woman to open her own art gallery in the U.S.

Are there any educated people who live outside the USA looking for a spouse and a new cat? We are a package deal!

Owl of Athena! 🦉❤️ From the southern slope of the Acropolis, Athens. Marble, c. 4th century BC. Acropolis Museum 📷 by me www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/part-seat... #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

The gate to the ruins of Hittite Alacahöyük, Türkiye, 2009. #Archaeology

Berkeley Marina #Oilpainting #berkeley #contemporarypainting jameshartmanpaintings.com

A polka-dotted zebra. One of the rarest type of zebras on the planet. More about the polka-dotted zebra foal: earthlymission.com/extremely-ra...

Archive in Green: an introduction to my art practice, it’s always been inspired by the ocean 🦞 #embroidery #artist #ocean

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🐿️ What? It's #squirrel appreciation day? Why wasn't I told? Here's one having a tail appreciation day. 📷 #photography #wildlife

Elon Musk is the biggest leech on society. #bluecrew

The felon wants to tear down any person or institution

If god really exists there will be -25 temperatures or whatever temperature is required for penis frostbite, a flood of overflowing sewage, a severe dysentery outbreak, and a syphilis outbreak that only impacts clients that all occur just in the immediate vicinity of the innaugration. #bluecrew

I think Hephaestus and other disabled Gods are so important because their existence discredits ableist conceptions of "perfection." Hephaestus reminds us that wholeness, perfection, divinity, and disability are *not* mutually exclusive. #witchsky #pagansky #occultsky

I wish there could be a woman owned web hosting company and an alternative to FB for nonprofits to continue their [email protected] are you looking for a new challenge?

Low tide

That’s not a dog.. 😅

The sad truth

Closing out 2024 with loved ones 💞🐺

The subject was great but the photo is all messed up. If you zoom in it looks like an oil painting. Not sure what setting or two I fat thumbed to get this effect but....