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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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Vera Brittain, who lost her fiancé, beloved brother, and others in WWI, composed this shortly afterward:

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The top diplomat reiterated the importance of standing up to Moscow, calling the war in Ukraine a “major challenge to the rule of law.'

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James Nachtwey. Bosnia, 1993. Mourning a soldier killed by Serbs and buried in what was once a football field. Afghanistan, 1996. Mourning a brother killed by a Taliban rocket. What we see cant be unseen….we are now part of the story.

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There are countries that can afford smooth, over-time social transition without much dramatism and then there's Georgia where freedom and colonial mentality wage an existential zero-sum battle here and now. Sure, it will be a grand story to tell, but we’d appreciate surviving it.

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Land for peace. Works every time ... 🙄

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Epic @sama response to Musk effort to fuck with him, which will obviously cause a ruckus

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The Band of Hope water fountain in Alexandra Park, Manchester donated by the Temperance Movement. #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters

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10 Feb 1346: d. Bl Clare of Rimini, held to have been a Poor Clare abbess, though this has been disputed. (Vision of the Blessed Clare of Rimini, National Gallery #London)

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it's early, the news is already set to a rough and raggedy boil, so let's take a moment's pause to enjoy this bird eating a gravitationally irrational berry snack photo by me

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The Dr Williams Library is relocating to the John Rylands Library in Manchester! This is absolutely fabulous news! The Rylands already has incredible archival riches, but this is going to consolidate it as a major centre of nonconformist writing 🌟 dwl.ac.uk

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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold Since the 16th century, #Kanazawa in #Ishikawa Prefecture has thrived as a center of #gold leaf production. Here is a detail of a leaf-guilded building in the historic Higashi Chayagai district. #photography #japanesearchitecture #japan @bskyphotos.bsky.social

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北上 132 #art #photo #photography #temple #Monochrome ©️skinskin

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Friendly reminder. (h/t @georgeegal75.bsky.social)

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Les Girls (1952-54) by James Fitton (1899 -1982) a graduate of Manchester School of Art this picture is part of Manchester Art Gallery's collection. @manmetuni.bsky.social #Manchester #art #artgallery

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half this app needs to read this tweet before every post

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Painting on the Isle of Bute

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The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply. Please share :) www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...

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Part of a series of drawings I did on my lunch break while working as a receptionist back in 2018 for exhibition "View into the Fertile Country".

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Thank you!🍯

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Goodnight. 🖼️ Cornelis Bloemaert, 1625.

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On American aid cuts/disruptions: www.africanistperspective.com/p/american-a...

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Snow Across The Valley, Rossendale, by Caroline Johnson. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

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I've completed restoring the Royal Copenhagen angel doll. I used urushi lacquer for adhesion and color repair. Though I could have added gold patterns, I thought it better for this one to appear without visible scars.

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Just supported @dabaden.bsky.social with the Kickstarter for her new #Thrutopian novel. Well worth it if you have the means and care about getting new ideas out into the world... www.kickstarter.com/projects/dab... #ClimateEmergency

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An Oak Tree in Winter. William Henry Fox Talbot (English, 1800 - 1877). Getty Museum. 🌿 #ThickTrunkTuesday #Photography

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Kadinsky - Sketch for Several Circles - 1926

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The Karl Marx Walking Tour will inevitably destroy itself. The oppressed Walking Tour guides will become alienated and ultimately overthrow the owners of The Karl Marx Walking Tour to take control of the means of production themselves, ushering in a Walking Tourless society.

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#Uppity #vase from #Spanish exhibition @RoyalAcademy

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Victorian spider buttons

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Not Rossetti but a young Edward Burne-Jones. Jane Morris in the garden, entitled "Summer Snow" perhaps a melancholy beyond the falling petals. www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/how-...

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Brilliant letter in The Guardian (UK), 27 Jan. 2025 #Resist #BrepairBrejoinBreturn

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Fuck Jeff Bezos. Admittedly, Amazon is easy and often less expensive. I really want to pull back as much as possible. Here is a list of alternatives for your books when the library can't meet your needs or you want a copy of something to hold onto. bookriot.com/places-to-bu...

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“...art is not timeless and eternal. Great works survive their period, but that is not to say that they do not die. After that period they live again by virtue of a sort of resurrection”. John Berger. thoughtsonartandteaching.blogspot.com/2009/12/who-...

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UN analysis of verified deaths during a five-month period confirmed that of those who died, 44% were children. Most often, those children were five- to nine-year-olds; 80% of them killed in their own homes.

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Elegant outing on an ice-sled. Drawn by Hendrick Avercamp of Amsterdam, born on this day in 1585.

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