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Edith Meusnier, French textile and environmental artist who creates temporary installations in natural environmentals #WomensArt

“We are breaking the bodies and minds of the children of Gaza. We are starving the children of Gaza. “If we do nothing about it, we will be complicit in what is happening before our eyes.” — Michael Ryan, WHO

Passage, 2007 by installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart #Beltane #May1st

The Hertella Coffee Machine Mounted on a Volkswagen Dashboard (1959): The Most European Car Accessory Ever Made

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is running a massive data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The facility neighbors historically Black neighborhoods and is powered by 35 pollution-spewing methane gas turbines the company is using without legal permits.

'Visible Girls' photographer Anita Corbin's series capturing young women involved in UK music subcultures of the 1980s #WomensArt

Stealth. An old painting of mine. Acrylic on canvas.

At my library, our digital collections budget is astronomical precisely because of this- we pay multiple times more per ebook than what the average reader pays by design. What should be a godsend to making books easier to read and more accessible instead threatens to swallow our budget whole 🧵

April 18, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

250th Anniversary of Paul Revere's Ride Live Stream 7pm @hcrichardson.bsky.social gives the keynote address www.oldnorth.com/lanternservi...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted and is being held in a notorious prison in El Salvador — barred from contacting his family or lawyers. I’m speaking to the press now after we were denied access to the prison to check on his condition. Tune in:

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

Local planners: 7 years and $1.2 million. #Beavers: just vibes and sticks. Nature's engineers get it done. No permits required

This beautifully delicate limestone mould of an Egyptian ibis, just 6 inches wide (15cm), is attributed to the Ptolemaic Period c 300 BC. It may presumably have been used as a mould for making reproductions

"Excuse me. My eyes are up here"

How do we increase nature literacy among society? Some thoughts from @waspwoman.bsky.social theconversation.com/heres-how-to...

The Science and Splendor of Australian Butterflies: How Two 19th-Century Teenage Sisters' Forgotten Paintings Sparked a Triumph of Modern Conservation www.themarginalian.org/2020/07/30/h...

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I stand with the penguins of Heard and McDonald Islands!

MASSIVE SHIFT Pro-democracy channels on YouTube are now growing faster than right-wing channels for the first time. MeidasTouch is proud to lead the way as the fastest-growing YouTube channel in Q1 2025. Keep this momentum going: YouTube.com/@meidastouch

Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?

American women friends. Are you aware one of the policies listed in the SAVE Act, the GOP are pushing through, is that women’s birth certificate names must match your current name. All of it. Changed your name when you got married? You won’t be able to vote. Call your Congress members!

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

Ukrainian Artist Diana Yevtukh displays her textile art within nature, such as placing her pieces on trees #womensart

1975 Obscure-released classic from Gavin Bryars & co, featuring contributions from Derek Bailey, Cornelius Cardew and Brian Eno, a who's who of the era's experimental minimalists bit.ly/41KDelV

"I wish I was a journalist to carry on your work." The grieving father of Palestinian journalist Mohammad Mansour bids farewell to his son, who was killed by Israeli forces.

Wounaan Baskets from the Rainforest of Panama, created by master weavers such as Miriam Negria #WomensArt

For #FlamingoFriday we have a youngster, lumbering in towards us, to meet up with its pals for the day. It has been shown they make friends and prefer to be with them. #birds

Internet Archive Responds to Record Labels in 78s Lawsuit: Stop Playing “Hide-The-Ball” ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/03/21/i...

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A Supercut of Buster Keaton’s Most Amazing Stunts

There’s no Musk Library There’s no Musk Hospital There’s no Musk University There’s no Musk Art Museum There’s no Musk Concert Hall There’s no Musk Cancer Center There’s a Musk Foundation — and it’s in trouble with the IRS because it almost never donates any funds

The sun will rise in #Brisbane #Queensland tomorrow at 5:45, 33 seconds later than the day before. It will set at 18:10, 65 seconds earlier than the day before.

🕳️ #VanishingCulture arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

“Globally, women’s human rights are under attack,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement. “Instead of mainstreaming equal rights, we’re seeing the mainstreaming of misogyny." via @apnews.com #WomensRights #Equality

While Crisafulli pathetically looks for good news stories as TC Alfred bears down, people in the Redlands, a Liberal party stronghold, are without power, sheltering in safe rooms.

🔥🔥🔥 I’m 80 years old. I decided to call #SocialSecurity “If you are calling about a disability application due to staffing reductions, our average processing time for disability applications is 200 to 230 days. The estimated hold time is greater than 120 minutes”

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

President Zelensky goes back to the battle field, The US with its cohort of cowards, forward to historical obscurity. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

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60 Free Film Noir Movies. Watch 'em online

The Far Reach (95 x 150cm - oil and acrylic on canvas) *prints available

The war on women never goes away.