Time to vote in @projectforawesome.com! So many great projects this year! #p4a2026

Fair enough!

Water issues are a concern. I love the desert but the future of H2O is pretty scary out there.

"I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in and remain so."

- George Washington Carver (via @1440daily.bsky.social )

Core ability to replace an original image.

Painting on a teabag featuring a white woman sitting at a desk, back view, with her bare feet resting on the desk next to an open laptop computer

Ruby Silvious, artist known for using the tea bag as a canvas for her artworks #WomensArt

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."

- Booker T. Washington

From @1440daily.bsky.social

Print featuring the upper half of a sleeping black and white dog with collie markings, resting on an orange blanket

Lisa Benson,
contemporary printmaker based in Somerset, UK #WomensArt

Urge Congress: Save Our Stations Act now to prevent more station closures in communities nationwide.

Public media stations have already announced closures. More will follow unless Congress restores local station funding. Speak up now to #SaveOurStations. bit.ly/3JrahVC

Large crowd of protesters in LA Grange, IL on October 18, 2025 at the corner of Cossitt and LA Grange Rd.

LA Grange, IL #nokings

WordPress Accessibility Day 2025 - WordPress Accessibility Day 2025 WordPress Accessibility Day is a free 24-hour global event dedicated to addressing website accessibility in WordPress. October 15-16, 2025.

I just registered for #WPA11yDay, a free, virtual 24-hour conference on WordPress accessibility taking place October 15-16, and you should too! Get your free ticket at 2025.wpaccessibility.day. #WPAD2025 #WordPress #a11y

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

This is fun!

Graphic outlining the virtues of tea over coffee.

An oldie but a goodie.

Lush tomato plant in front of crate style compost bin.

Sigh. All my very, very careful organic tomato gardening with aspirin spray for disease resistance and diligent pruning and mulching, then this monster grows up spontaneously out of the compost bin, healthy as a horse, and putting on tomatoes by the dozen. 🙄 #veggiegardens

Painting looking up at the head and shoulders of a white woman under the surface of cool turquoise water with eyes closed and bubles coming from her nose as she resurfaces

US painter Samantha French, Breathing at the surface, 2010 #WomensArt
Stay cool people! 💦 #Heatwave

Print featuring red, pink and yellow flowers across the picture plane on green stems with spikey green leaves, all against a white background

'Banksia & Dryandra' hand coloured linocut by Australian printmaker Rachel Newling #womensart

Textile artist with image of a section of a bicycle wheel and the shadow it makes on the ground

'Late Day Shadows' - an art quilt by textile artist Nancy Messier #UnravellingWomensArt

Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Drawing of a very stylised Bigfoot with these words written on it: “I am your dear friend Bigfoot and I bring you a pokey-stick to brighten your day”

'Rising Tides' by contemporary US painter Samantha French #UnlockingWomensArt

Survivor, 1983 lino print by African American artist Elizabeth Catlett #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Oval shaped ceramic wall hanging with a stylised image of a black bird on top of a tree in a row of four trees over black ground with round patterns

Karen Risby, UK artist creates contemporary ceramic sculpture, wall hangings and porcelain accessories #WomensArt

Print featuring a front view of a large brown walrus and two large tusks or pointed teeth

Imposing Walrus (2009) screenprint by Inuk artist Ningeokuluk Teevee #womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring two older white women sitting at a table facing forwards both smoking both wearing hats and jackets in different checks

US photographer Diane Arbus,Two Ladies at the Automat, NYC,1966 #WomensArt

Print featuring the head and shoulders of an older Black woman with angular features looking sliight right wearing a hat with wide brim and a green jacket closed with a pin

Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952, two colour lino cut. The US artist utilised printmaking with extreme skill to explore themes of her fellow African Americans in a 20th century era of Civil Rights activism #womensart

Vegetable seeds!

Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales In Unearthed 2005 Interview YouTube video by Democracy Now!

Clip of Octavia E. Butler on @democracynow.org discussing Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents from "The Landline", ed. Tiffany Rose & @ashleysimpo.bsky.social

"In hindsight, her warnings about climate change, authoritarianism, and survival feel less like fiction and more like prophecy."

I miss Carl.

Now is the time when I fully and wholeheartedly believe the pleasant fictions of seed catalogs.