Artist’s painting of a hippo on a flake of limestone 🦛❤️ Perhaps a practice sketch, or just for the joy of painting 3,500 years ago! From Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1479–1425 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology
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Artist’s painting of a hippo on a flake of limestone 🦛❤️ Perhaps a practice sketch, or just for the joy of painting 3,500 years ago! From Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1479–1425 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology
Some good news. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
At Union Station, veterans play a speech from General Mark Milley warning soldiers of the threat that President Trump poses.
I'm preaching to the choir here but I'm dismayed people are still using a site owned and manipulated by an obvious fascist. I think if you'd asked them 5 years ago if they'd use a fascist's social media site they would have said god no, of course not
"Democracy dies in darkness."
Cartoonist @mortenmorland.bsky.social
I discuss the elusive art of caricature in most recent post on Kal Draws The Line. kaltoons.substack.com/p/that-carto... #StephenMiller #Trump #Fascism #cartoon #satire
This is wonderful. Recently discovered, a 3,800 year old clay sculpture of two toads...."an Andean symbol associated with the arrival of the rains, the availability of river water, and the regeneration of life." h/t @drnwillburger.bsky.social newsweekespanol-elsalvador.com/2025/08/29/h...
From the observer today, great cartoon from Rob Murray.
My record is longer!
Yes - Reminds me of a UK saying: "What does a tory (RW conservative politician) fear most? Answer: "A working class child with a library book."
Hello Francesca - my emails are not getting through even though I can see your messsages. Will keep trying.
Even in dark times, we know people have successfully challenged power & won 4 new books explain that movements are about organizing, growing communities, and building power among people to effect change @benphillips76.bsky.social, @dhnnjyn.bsky.social, @sarahschulman.bsky.social & Marshall Ganz
Mass shootings, an American tradition www.unsitesurinternet.fr/Week35-2025....
Plus: ECHR Rights Relevant to Employment Law Article 8: Right to Private & Family Life: Protects against unlawful surveillance & interference with employees' privacy in workplace 10: Freedom of Expression 11: Freedom of Assembly & Association: Protects right to form & join trade unions & to strike
Ha! Yes. I used to post photos taken during evening bike rides but have been so busy at the allotment this year I have not been on many. Hopefully will get a few more in before the cold weather and dark evenings move in.
View from an evening bike ride...
Why oh why are people still using X. I just cannot understand how they cannot see that they are enabling this. If there was a mass exodus of X, the media, governments, societal organisations etc. would follow. They would have to if their audience is halved, or more than halved. Leave now!
Seen this a lot today. I'm guessing it's drawn by @npbeanocartoonist.bsky.social so probably written by @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social. Lovely stuff 👏
And another view....these days putting your head in the clouds is the pefect antidote to all things human. I store them there too hoping some day soon to place them in an oil painting...
View from an evening bike ride...
Yes - Story here on UK radio news last night mentioned how cases in US are fairly high at the moment, and importance of vulnerable in the UK to ensure they get the vaccine when made available via their GPs.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
Thinking of you & your family & all else involved yesterday. Only way is gun control/banning ownership. We had the horror of the Dunblane Primary School shooting over here a couple of decades ago, gun laws strenghtened afterwards & it worked.Important now to remind children of goodness in world too.
And moreso..
Why oh why are people still using X. I just cannot understand how they cannot see that they are enabling this. If there was a mass exodus of X, the media, governments, societal organisations etc. would follow. They would have to if their audience is halved, or more than halved. Leave now!
Do sign and share. #Afghanistan #Taliban
Yes please!
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the media actually reported the facts, which is that migrants are actually needed in this country and the true problem is that legal and safe ways for migrants to apply to live and work here, for the good of all, are non-existant for most. Report that, why don't you!
If you are still on X, you are facilitating this guy
Yes please!
Listen to our National Co-director Alon-Lee Green speak on Sky News about how the genocidal war in Gaza isn’t being fought for anyone’s safety and why Israeli politicians constantly ignore diplomacy.
Another school shooting...
After media hype & Farage bluster The Times at the end of a long article (27th August)compared August 'small boat' arrivals over the last 5 years. A useful corrective to racists wp.me/p15p2Q-eVv
Decodex 2025-08-27 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 Time: 1:16 From one of the greatest, shortest, most perfect orations ever spoken. Inspiring in our troubled times. @tonylarch.bsky.social @lightacandle.bsky.social Play here: playdecodex.co
He must be turning in his grave!
The only reason to want to remove human rights from asylum seekers is that you don’t consider them human. That’s the bottom line here.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Hello! Good to see you!
He keeps saying this as if this is his intention, which no doubt it is. Time for someone to plaster every poster board across America with the quote and his face alongside Hitler and Mussolini etc, all who came to sticky ends, ruining their countries in the process.
Wednesday's @theguardian.com cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #nigelfarage #StGeorgesFlag #stgeorgecross
Latest @theguardian.com cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Monday's @theguardian.com cartoon #Gaza #GazaStarving #Netanyahu www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
True...and..
Farage doesn't have plans. He has the back of a cigarette packet. And after ten years of this nonsense, chaos and hate you'd think someone would have the bollocks to point that out.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the media actually reported the facts, which is that migrants are actually needed in this country and the true problem is that legal and safe ways for migrants to apply to live and work here, for the good of all, are non-existant for most. Report that, why don't you!
More vital than ever to remind those Americans condemning migrants of the reasons why those migrants need to seek help in the first place, and the role the US itself played in that. There are always reasons why people have to flee, and why often countries owe those people too.
'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.
Netanyahu knew fine well journalists operated from the roof of the hospital. He not only deliberately killed them, a second attack targeted the remaining journalists/health workers who came to aid the injured. He is a war criminal many times over,shame on all in Israel/world who support him #Gaza
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“In the event of my passing, I would like to ensure that NOBODY’S GIRL is still released....I believe it has the potential to impact many lives and foster necessary discussions about these grave injustices.”
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment And finally the allotment robin, wondering why I am taking photographs of wildflowers when I should be digging up its worms...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment This vipers-bugloss has been in blossom for most of the summer, and still going...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment A small copper butterfly on the remaining chamomile...
Netanyahu knew fine well journalists operated from the roof of the hospital. He not only deliberately killed them, a second attack targeted the remaining journalists/health workers who came to aid the injured. He is a war criminal many times over,shame on all in Israel/world who support him #Gaza
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Wild carrot alongside some beetroot...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment A new mallow plant on the edge of a now empty potato bed...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment A few corn marigolds enjoying the late summer sun...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Beautiful purple toadflax...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Two fading field poppies hanging on in there...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Native seven spotted ladybird searching through some yarrow...
Late for #WildflowerHour, but here you go anyway... Cranesbill still going strong, valuable flower this time of year for bumblebees, possibly a carder bee. #WildflowerAllotment
Today I join other cartoonists in action, solidarity and hope that these atrocities will end v soon. #CartoonistsForG4za
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment And finally the allotment robin, wondering why I am taking photographs of wildflowers when I should be digging up its worms...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment More wild carrot, or in this case a carrot I never got round to harvesting.
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Wild carrot alongside some beetroot...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Spearmint providing valuable late flowers for pollinaters...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Not really a wildflower but now growing wild, popping up here and there, amaranth plus ladybird...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment A new mallow plant on the edge of a now empty potato bed...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Field poppies growing alongside the courgettes and beans...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment A small copper butterfly on the remaining chamomile...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment A few corn marigolds enjoying the late summer sun...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Beautiful purple toadflax...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment This vipers-bugloss has been in blossom for most of the summer, and still going...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Two fading field poppies hanging on in there...
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Native seven spotted ladybird searching through some yarrow...
Late for #WildflowerHour, but here you go anyway... Cranesbill still going strong, valuable flower this time of year for bumblebees, possibly a carder bee. #WildflowerAllotment
Glad you are here, I can play again!
Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
Often think of it in this way - The biggest con of our times being that those who were part of the problem have convinced people they are the answer to the problem. Trump/Farage/Tice/many RW populists were those who abused system to enrich themselves, they have not changed, thus not the answer.
Latest @chartist48.bsky.social cover
I can't help thinking we are watching a modern day fable here - maybe the weight of it all will cause the walls to collapse and that will be the end of all that!
World Health Organization: “It is time for the governments and politicians of the world to wake up and address the catastrophe in Gaza.”
Reposting this @bylinetimes.bsky.social cartoon as part of #cartoonistsforg4za. Please click the hashtag to see my colleagues' and comrades' work
Think we can safely say that The Washing Post is now contributing to the fulfilment of its official slogan: 'Democracy Dies In Darkness'. A phrase which had its roots in the Watergate Era. Shame on Bezos.
That's the way to do it. #Resistance
Yes, have been watching it, same production company that did Montalbano, RAI, I think, two more well worth watching 'Inspector Ricciardi' and 'Sara - Woman in the Shadows.' And definitely 'The Law According to Lidia Poët.' @phyllida.bsky.social will have to watch too, recovering from fall.
Newsom’s Twitter troll is genius because pleading and crying in front of an authoritarian does nothing, but pointing and laughing enrages the authoritarian.
We need well organized, well coordinated mass demonstrations across the land - 20 mil. at a pop Universal work stoppages Resistance flags and attire EVERYWHERE Everyone trolling trump and the GOP like Newsom All-in from entertainers, artists, athletes, public figures Unrelenting good trouble
The only newsworthy aspect of the far-right anti-migrant protests currently is how pathetically small they are. Last summer 60,000 people came to the Restore Nature Now protest in London, and the BBC didn’t even report on it. bsky.app/profile/sund...
Exactly so - Martin Rowson on Russian and Israeli preparations for peace talks – Guardian cartoon #Gaza #Ukraine #Netanyahu #Putin www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
That's the way to do it. Spread far and wide!
Inside One of the Biggest Online Record Shops in the UK - www.soul-source.co.uk/videosdirect...
Exactly so - Martin Rowson on Russian and Israeli preparations for peace talks – Guardian cartoon #Gaza #Ukraine #Netanyahu #Putin www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...