Greetings from Kyiv, where the air raid alert has been ongoing for three hours. Drones. I’m furious that children have to spend their second day of school in shelters.
Birthright citizen as of October 1945. NonChristian Golden Rule practitioner. 🇺🇦Living in the 💙 bubble of Richmond VA. Knitter. If you only repost, I will not follow back. I never reply to DMs 🧶 #blue #knitter #KnitSky 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #BLM #Reparations
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Greetings from Kyiv, where the air raid alert has been ongoing for three hours. Drones. I’m furious that children have to spend their second day of school in shelters.
When I briefly studied Japanese it struck me that our language structures our perceptions. If there is no word for something, can it exist?
Cville peeps, it's time to make your voice heard! Charlottesville city council is considering an action that will, in effect, criminalize homelessness in city limits. We keep each other safe. Act now—there are simple steps in the thread below—and tell council to reject the police chief's request!
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I am sold. Jimmy❤️❤️ Best model. Putting the pattern and yarn on my wish list.
In fourth grade (1954) at assembly, there was a presentation about Israel & Palestine. She told us of the people who had been displaced, lived in camps, no place to go. I never forgot. Why is Netanyahu allowed to continue? #BillyBragg #Palestine #Israel #Compassion #WarCrime (No DMs, please.)
Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate, and a miserable Labor Day to those who don't, because people who hate labor don't deserve nice things.
The National Guardners
cloth of gold apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1929
I do enjoy having the option of leaving dirty dishes in the sink overnight.
Justice Cleo E. Powell is a remarkable trailblazer, who has devoted her career to justice and public service in Virginia. Now, she is the first Black woman to ever serve as Chief Justice in the history of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Congratulations, Chief Justice Powell!
Just enjoying the dynamism of English modernist Cyril Power’s linocut ‘The Tube Station’ (1932)
She is truly multi-talented.
Arm Reliquary French 13thC with 15thC additions A parchment tag behind the rock crystal and an engraved cuff at the wrist indicate that the relics contained were of Saint Fiacre whose feast is #otd 30 Aug. (Met Museum)
"The Cat Read the Emails First" (2025) acrylic painting By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG] #art #painting #illustration #caturday
Are these from plants you grow yourself?
Czech poster for Akira Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW (1963)
A postcard video from Kyiv. Sent to the world.
Bill Harrison has spent his life making the Richmond area a kinder place to live. #RVA #FurbishThrift #Thrifting #Animals
Tragic.
28 Aug 1665: d. Elisabetta Sirani #artist in #Bologna #otd She established a school for female artists before dying young in 1665. Self-Portrait as Allegory of Painting (1658)
I was an idealistic 17 year old that day. It just seemed like the right thing to attend.
Monsters
My youngest brother has done that for his husband who will die if he drinks again.
Michigan residents give Speaker Johnson the welcome he deserves.
I struggled my entire life with disordered eating. I always refused surgery but finally asked my medical weight loss doctor about trying one of the drugs. Zepbound was recently approved for severe sleep apnea and Medicare means I can afford it. I hope your recent test comes back in your favor.
My life became much better after diagnosis and wearing a CPAP. It was easier than all the test wires and I was in my own bed. Nightmares stopped, having to pee during the night stopped. It got even easier when I switched to the nose pillow version.
I will be 80 in October. Any references to popular culture here on BlueSky completely pass me by. I never had children so did not have the benefit of a mutual intergenerational education.
I love how the "everybody had slaves back then" argument is so instantly revealing, because without knowing any history, anyone can easily think of a group of people who without a doubt owned zero slaves
Wish I could be with you, enjoying a coffee and visiting bookstores. Wishing peace for all of Ukraine.
Let’s wave goodbye to Susan Collins. #Maine #GrahamPlatner
I confess I rarely remember to follow celebrities. However, I think this is excellent advice.
Saw one while I was driving my yellow KIA Soul. Had to resist the impulse to drive straight into the driver’s side. Among other things, it is a crime against my visual well being.
For years I used Moleskine planners with the weekdays on the left page and a lined page on the right but my fountain pen ink bled through the paper. For 2025 I used a fill in the date formatted like the Moleskine. I am still looking for 2026.
Every reframing, from "they won't admit to being wrong" to "they don't want to occupy the city but it's their job," is a white person telling you how much empathy they have for people who'd at minimum kidnap and disappear you in the middle of the night for money. Take note.
Never smoked and never had children.
Restoration stories are often more interesting than the regular tours. Buffalo has some wonderful Wright buildings, well worth visiting. I would not want to live in one though.
🪈 This flute is the oldest musical instrument ever discovered. It was found in a cave in Germany and has been determined to be between 42,000 and 43,000 years old. More about the oldest musical instrument👇 earthlymission.com/oldest-music... 📷 Marco Ciaramella
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Priced at pennies per hour! Beautiful quilt.
stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...
'I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned' -Yayoi Kusama #WomensArt #MondayMotivation
And a pedophile.
Thank you for your letters and daily posts.
Ohh that's RICH @ohhthatsrich.bsky.social
I also have no children ir grandchildren.
Parker was shot in the head with a flashbang in LA. Her skull was fractured and she had bleeding on her brain. She’s now back out there protesting and documenting. Because she says we have to. That’s bravery.
Seven hands and two people?
Are you familiar with The Halfway House for Writers by Valley Haggard? I have been writing with Valley weekly for many years and have found her book quite helpful. valleyhaggard.com
I’m so impressed and surprised! Gosh I’m having such a fun day
Hummingbirds are visiting the native honeysuckle outside the front door.
Sure he is a disgusting, perverted crook but ending the destruction of the federal government, the millions without healthcare or enough to eat, the millions imprisoned, the destruction of the natural world, and many more crimes is far more urgent than further proof he is an amoral pig.
I know that Stephen Miller gets a lot of hate on here, but hear me out. I think we could hate him more. We have the capacity, we all just need to put in a little more effort.
D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.
To all my people in other time zones, this is your official permission to wake me up in the middle of the night if he passes while I'm asleep. Making me wait until I wake to celebrate is cruel. Y'all woke me up at 3 am for 9/11, and I didn't complain, but if you deny me this ecstatic glee, no bueno.
Turning 80 in October, 40 was half my life ago. I had many different and contradictory careers before and after.
Please do not call it a grandma hobby. Women of all ages have knit and crafted throughout history. Embrace your heritage hobby.
Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel. Now she's a member of HTC. Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.
Congratulations to you and all your supporters.
Trump is making it near-unaffordable to have a family. Back-to-school essentials cost an average of 7.3% more than last year and school lunch staples cost 5% more this year—and Trump’s increased tariffs are about to make the problem worse. www.youtube.com/shorts/_BNF0...
The Ballad of Hattie Carrol did not get the same play because it told too clearly a story of racism.
Here, fixed it.
Lithuanian artist Severija Incirauskaite-Kriauneviciene, known for her cross stitch embroidery on various metal objects #WomensArt
Greetings from Kyiv. At night, the country that claims to seek peace attacked Ukraine with 574 drones and 40 missiles. Western Ukraine was the main target. In Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, an American electronics factory was struck (perhaps their way of saying hi among dictators).
I was ignorant of this. I don’t remember ever seeing rocks along Virginia and North Carolina beaches.
The Grandma/Old Lady cliche is lazy writing. Knitters have always been all ages. They were only invisible because so called women’s work was overlooked.
Why I bought a laser printer and sacrificed color printing.
I had to have major surgery. Is embolization done by a tiny robot sent through an artery to break up the clot? A much safer and faster recovery than mine.
Due to Covid restrictions, I had no in-person home health visits and had to take care of myself during my recovery. I was quite weak at the beginning but the online VCU Health system PT helped me recover completely. Of course the decision is between you & your doc but mine was life or death.
How about the innocents imprisoned for lifetimes?
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A favorite non-native. I confine it to pots.
These early modern depictions of the five senses are often very allegorical and moralistic. But then there's Jan Miense Molenaer, The Five Senses: Smell, 1637 (Mauritshuis). Yes indeed.
Same. Every time I think I might, I don’t.
In the past in the West, girls were encouraged to create samplers to reflect their needlwork skills. Today surviving work, which is often signed, is viewed as a record of the otherwise obscured lives of many young women. Antique US sampler by Mary Blaylock, 1821 #WomensArt
'Otters' in ink by Jackie Morris, artist, author who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt
My warcoffee in Kyiv today is for peace, but never for surrender.
Blushing to confess I still subscribe to NYT Games. Canceled the paper & WaPo months ago. WaPo just sent a survey to former subscribers. Opportunity to criticize. Said would never resubscribe as long as Bezos owned & they did not return to the values under Katharine Graham. Read the Guardian daily.
I still miss Millie even though it took me two years to pay off my maxxed out credit card.
A friend made this drawing of her. It was triple her actual size. When I got her, she had been recovering for 2 months and was still a mess. Completely shut down. We expected her to live a few months. Died at 17 after becoming a happy dog.
The Enchanted Owl, 1960, Stonecut on paper by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak. Printmaking has been a valuable form of expression for many artists within Indigenous communities #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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Hungarian poster for Jacques Tati's MONSIEUR HULOT'S HOLIDAY (1953)
Adopted Millie at 13 after she was rescued. Took 2 years before she barked.
Because it’s time for warcoffee and a treat. Life goes on in Kyiv. We don’t need red carpets to feel strong.
Eyeopening walkthrough of DC by this creator. If you aren’t in DC, worth a watch all the way to the end—
Always amazed that such fragile items survive.
Last night's sunset in Richmond, VA #scape #eastcoastkin #photography #clouds #rva
Well done, Alaska.
Wishful thinking on the part of his similarly built supporters.
So true. I order from small businesses in Japan, UK, EU. The US$ is terrible already making postage and purchases expensive. With the tariffs now, I have to stop supporting them.
Demonstrating exactly why this guy needed more humanities education.
DC is less than 2 hours north of Richmond. I still think of it as my previous hometown.
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