Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor, artist who combines tiny pieces of ankara fabric to create portraits of Nigerian women #WomensArt
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Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor, artist who combines tiny pieces of ankara fabric to create portraits of Nigerian women #WomensArt
I was amused by this headline in The Economist this morning. Makes a change from tariff wars: "Becoming a father shrinks your cerebelum". 🧠
The party of 'no government overreach' is now stationing armed men on the streets to prevent residents from remembering victims of a massacre. Fascists hate rainbows because they're symbols of hope. RAINBOW EVERYTHING 🌈 🏳️🌈 🌈 🏳️🌈 🌈 🏳️🌈
The Florida Department of Transportation removed the painted crosswalk earlier this month and has since stationed officers and crews at the site to stop the community from re-creating it with chalk.
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Targeting firefighters while they work. Dragging children from their beds in the dead of night. MAGA will go to any length. We’ve said it before, eventually the monster comes for us all!
The 10 Annual Ganesh Festival took place in the north of the city today, and I was very honoured to have been invited to represent the Lord Provost and people of Edinburgh. A wonderful community gathering, with so much colour and sparkle!
New scroll discovery reveals potential evidence of plagiarism by beloved children's author. Also, now I'm hungry for Greek food.
Clean energy isn’t “woke.” It’s an essential part of our energy future and saves us all on power bills. This administration’s war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americans’ utilities.
Trump is again threatening Chicago with a takeover on social media. We will again say those who trade liberty for the illusion of temporary safety deserve neither. We are not, and will not become, a military state. Remember freedom is something they can never take away, no matter what they tell you!
imagine the canapes at a 🐋 and 🦌 family reunion! 😁
Ouch…
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
Blessing your timeline: Obama getting a huge ovation at Clippers game. This how you welcome a president:
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
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Yep
Not many people know I'm a rock god on air guitar
"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best" - Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940. The cat and monkey are thought to represent two of her lovers at the time #UnlockingWomensArt
A wee taste of gypsy jazz, from Django Swing, one of the free Concerts on the Mezzanine series at Edinburgh Central Library. They play music inspired by the great Django Reinhardt. If the room were smokier, it would have felt like Paris in the 1930s!
A wee taste of gypsy jazz, from Django Swing, one of the free Concerts on the Mezzanine at Edinburgh Central Library. You can definitely hear the Mediterranean gypsy origins of this tune!
The Universe gave me lovely gifts today: a bottle of wine, a Superpower scarf, and some pretty LED lights to brighten up the onset of long autumn nights!
'Twilight Landscape' by Victoria Crowe, contemporary Scottish painter #WomensArt
US photographer Ruth Orkin (1921-1985), who rode 2000 miles across the US age 17 and later captured Hollywood stars in her photography among other subjects #WomensArt
Did you know there's a series of free concerts at Edinburgh Central Library? Here's a schedule of what's in store between now and December, or just check out the library's website!
Quality protest art in Sweet Home Chicago!
Baking Scientists diagram (non-cannibal post, that's scientists who bake)
This sounds like the daily forecast in Edinburgh!
Never forget the power of art to speak truth to power. ❤️ Chicago!
Just a man watering a chestnut tree in Kyiv today. You might think: And what? I might answer: Life.
Joe Biden’s no longer president so the media has moved on from caring about such things Much like inflation and budget deficits
The Afghan women's football/soccer team, who relocated to the UK to escape the Taliban's removal of female rights, including exclusion from all public life #WomensArt #AfghanWomen
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Send them to Mars, leave earth for the humans - art speaking truth to power: www.facebook.com/share/r/19eq...
This huge mural is political protest art at its finest: www.facebook.com/share/r/19eq...
Refugees make Scotland more vibrant, more diverse, and enrich our lives in so many ways. Some of them even become fantastic elected representatives! www.thenational.scot/news/2541233...
A booze map of the UK (and am I the only one who thinks that Britain looks like a moose riding full gallop on the back of a pig?) 🤔
Personally I think it's mostly A Handmaid's Tale, Nineteen Eighty Four, and Fahrenheit 451.
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
* ITALY PM MELONI SAYS RUSSIA'S LATEST STRIKE ON KYIV SHOWS IT HAS NO INTENTION OF NEGOTIATING END TO WAR @reuters.com
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
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Bread baked in Kyiv today. After a sleepless night, someone still did it. So did I: sent a letter about bread, rituals, childhood memories. My small act of resistance. Exclusive for supporters www.patreon.com/posts/bread-...
Nothing to see here, folks: Trump mimics Stalin and other dictators with huge poster of himself on the side of a government building www.newsweek.com/department-l...
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Many are echoing Ireland's Michael Higgins in calling for a UN peacekeeping mission to be sent to Palestine to enforce the rule of international law, and allow humanitarian aid to reach its intended recipients in Gaza. Starving people should never be used to provide target practice for IDF soldiers.
'The government could have done something differently - they've chosen not to.' '£815 million switching off wind turbines in 2025 alone.' @natashaclark.bsky.social explains to @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social why energy bills are rising again, despite Ed Miliband's pledge that they'd fall by 2030.
Exactly what many of us have feared. They're complicit.
The US is facing serious warning signs that it's on the path toward fascism. Institutional checks are eroding, the executive branch overreaching, the state propaganda mirrors authoritarian regimes. But the surge in protest shows the "event horizon" of irreversible fascism hasn't yet been crossed.
I try to roll with the punches I got knocked to the ground By all this bullshit goin' down
Absolute classic
I saw it today. Kyiv’s Central Department Store windows are styled after works by Ukrainian artists, Alla Horska and Viktor Zaretskyi. Love the idea.
Push back against the tide of racism - celebrate the alternative! A future of hope, not hatred. In communities that are inclusive and resilient, not fearful. Share this logo on your social media, or print it to stick on your window. Show people the only thing not welcome here is hatred and division.
Call me a cynic, but I always suspected that AI was used to make Godzilla tail-surf 🤔
😂 SO many possibilities!
Kangaroo tail? Genius!
Well, of course!
Or gorgeous Imariware 伊万里焼 plate
Pure evil. There's no other description for Israel’s policies of assassinating journalists and first responders. www.facebook.com/share/1Cg47L...
Do you find yourself repeatedly checking the calendar to see if April 1st has come early? www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Imagine thinking scientists, historians, scholars, economists, and journalists devoted their lives to deceiving you — but a reality-TV star, proven in court to be a lying felon, is your beacon of truth and honesty.”
This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Link: apnews.com/article/wash... dc.eater.com/restaurant-n...
report losing $7,000 in a single night or seeing sales fall by 75% on normally busy evenings. In neighborhoods like Columbia Heights, street vendors say foot traffic has “disappeared,” with business now worse than during the pandemic. Chinatown, some shop owners estimate a 30–40% drop in sales.
Who would’ve thought Americans wouldn’t want to live in a military state? Oh that’s right, all Americans. Another negative impact of the military crackdown in DC small businesses are struggling to make sales. Restaurant reservations have dropped by nearly 30% compared with last year, and some owners
A Japanese artist who totally embraced her love of tails. And spots.
You'd probably need a detachable one for long haul flights. Or bicycle rides.
How about interchangeable tails to match your mood? I'm thinking peacock for swanky events. 🦚
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Trump probably knelt at Putin's feet, taking notes.
🇲🇽 Mexican flag decoy fools ICE thugs
He's playing us all, and sadly, Starmer, desperate to be seen as a player himself, will always be second fiddle.
The great Michael D., Ireland's humanist President, hit the nail on the head: A UN Peace Keeping and Peace Enforcing Task Force is the only way Israel's genocide of Palestinians can end. www.jpost.com/internationa...
My friend just posted this and now I TOTALLY WANT A PROSTHETIC ROBO DINOSAUR TAIL.
Spoiler Alert: In the end, the Redcoats turned and fled, and the good folk o' Edinburgh had a right old knees-up (as much as you could in those dresses!).
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
The great Prestonpans Tapestry has 104 scenes showing the lead-up to the famous battle. Here, Edinburgh's Lord Provost tries to rouse the people of Edinburgh to defend the city against Bonnie Prince Charlie, but the citizens were like basically 'no, but let us know how that works out for you'. 😆
Not content to station US troops in US cities, Trump's made a deal with Starmer to station US troops in Scotland, a deal with Putin to syphon off Ukrainian minerals & a deal with Netanyahu to allow a property deal creating a sun-and-sea resort in Gaza. The American flag's stripes are truly running.😪
Here’s the photo of the convoy that @flore14.bsky.social and other brave volunteers brought to Kyiv this week. Ukraine stands because of its defenders and the support of a sane world. Thank you!
Scenes from the Battle of Prestonpans tapestry, depicting the Redcoats under General Cope fleeing from the Scots. Best line from the Corries ballad: "some wet their cheeks, some filled their breeks" 😆😂
The law means nothing if it does not apply to all. There is no 'yes but' with genocide.
The TACO 🌮 🎁 that keeps on giving. Trump regime has not only made it potentially dangerous to visit friends or relatives in the States from the rest of the world, but his tariffs look like halting any Christmas parcels from abroad as well. 😓🫤 apnews.com/article/us-t...
Christine Kammerer teaching the audience an old Danish tune at Mother Superior, Leith
Danish singer Christine Kammerer performing at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival
Elizabeth Blackadder, Amaryllis and Cats, 1987 Scottish artist #WomensArt
Quaking Aspen, an iconic tree species, are returning to Yellowstone National Park for the first time since the 1940s. The key to their revival? Wolves. www.earth.com/news/the-ret...
Damn, a band from Germany just messaged on bandcamp and said they aren’t shipping merch to the US anymore bc carriers are stopping services and it’s too expensive now. Just wild watching this unfold and ruin so many things.
The lifelong criminal in the Oval Office bragging about receiving a photo from the war criminal in Russia who bombs hospitals and schools, and kidnaps kids.
Though overdue, the DOJ has shared a partial production of the Epstein files in response to our subpoena. We’re reviewing this batch of files with a careful, close eye. We will not cease in our pursuit of the truth & transparency, accountability, and healing for survivors.
They don't even understand the definition of the word, much less are they able to differentiate between a people, a religion, and a political stance.
Three Ukrainian beauties at the Festival of Unity in Leith today.
Totally an 8
We treat soil like dirt. 😓
