Be excellent to each other

Bill & Ted 19:89

1 ‘There follows a public safety message from the Ministry of Taps.’ 2 [Show a moustachioed man in a white coat, standing next to a sink with two taps.] Hello. 3 Here are two beautiful, British taps. 4 Don’t they make you proud? Cold and hot, divided in modesty, as God intends! 5 But in recent years, more and more Britons are using ‘mixer taps’ - a highly addictive form of foreign tap. 6 The great British tradition of washing one’s hands via a weird sort of hot-to-cold dance is under threat. [Show someone doing this dance] 7 The 'mixer' is a gateway tap. One minute you're dabbling with a dual faucet. Next thing you know, you're 'dancing with the fisherman's hose'. [Show one of those big bendy fishmonger’s hoses that people have these days] 8 See here the brain of a healthy, two-tap using Briton: [Show diagram of a brain with two thirds of it devoted to ‘WASHING HANDS’] 9. And this... is the brain of a ‘mixhead’: [Show same brain diagram, but the Washing Hands section is replaced with ‘FOREIGN THOUGHTS’] Remember: Mixing can lead to foreignness and fishmongery. BRITONS: DON’T MIX YOUR TAPS [Ends]

TAPS

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Painting focused on a tulip plant with yellow and red blossom and butterfly and insect on its leaves, all against a black background

'Parrot tulip with butterfly and beetle' by Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706-1783) Bavarian painter and engraver who sold her work throughout Europe #womensart

"I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Four images, three of symmetrical geometric designs and one of a sepia photograph of the head and shoulders of a white woman in a soft hat

Emma Kunz (1892-1963), Swiss healer, visionary and outsider artist who published three books and produced many drawings #womensart

NASA’s Artemis II Reveals the Basin in Full
For the very first time, the mysterious Orientale Basin has been fully photographed. Thanks to Artemis II, humanity now sees the Moon in unprecedented detail, reminding us of the endless wonders beyond Earth. 🛰️

The Green Party has no confidence in this government

Over the course of last week, the actions of the Government continually made a difficult situation worse.

They caused confusion, raised tensions, and failed to protect Irish people’s ability to go about their lives for 5 days.

It has no plan to move Ireland away from its addiction to fossil fuels

First blog post in a while: johnglover.net/blog/underst...

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”

Photo from the Artemis lunar trip. Zoomed in shot of Earth. A very thin layer of atmosphere is visible.

Photo from the Artemis lunar trip. Shows Earth night side. A sliver of sunlight is visible through the atmosphere on one corner.

An AI generated image of Earth as a translucent empty sphere - like a very thin bubble sitting in space.

Earth's biosphere (100km of atmosphere, 4km of seas, a few metres of topsoil) is a very thin skin sandwiched between lots of dead rock and dead space - as clearly shown by #Artemis photos.

Environmental teaching should show our biosphere as a thin and fragile bubble rather than a robust solid.

It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people.

We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government.

This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.

got to share this @bencollins.bsky.social banger with some colleagues today and am now sharing it here because he really did nail it

Stylised painting featuring a pink moon over green waves

"Pink Moon Over Water". Georgia O'Keeffe. 1923 #WomensArt #fullmoon #Pinkmoon

Donald Trump showing up to witness perhaps the worst performance in the history of the US government defending its own case before the Supreme Court is going to be our generation’s version of Hitler hosting the Olympics in Berlin only to watch Jesse Owens smoke the entire German team

Embroidery hoop with an realistic image of a leaping lamb against a blue background created with embroidery

Self-taught US embroidery artist Laura McGarrity #WomensArt
#Spring!

Motherhood

Motherhood
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/18815

Stylised illustration of a tall thin white woman in white with long dark hair next to green rocks

Jessie Marion King (1875-1949), Scottish illustrator, jewellery/fabric designer, one of the artists known as the 'Glasgow Girls' #womensart

Māori weaving, or raranga, is a traditional art of identity, heritage and expression of spirituality. The patterns woven into items such as cloaks and baskets all have meaning #womensart

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

Photograph of a land art installation featuring a group of blue sheres placed at irregular intervals on ice with a snow covered mountain in the background

Lita Albuquerque, Southern Cross from Stellar Axis: Antarctica, Ross Ice Shelf, 2006 #Womensart

1 [Nurse talking to camera] This is usually our busiest time of year at the centre 2 [Show a sign outside a medical institution reading:] Centre for Adults Who Still Can’t Get Their Heads Round Daylight Savings 3 NURSE: We have a spike in admissions when BST starts 4 CONFUSED PATIENT BEING LAID DOWN BY NURSES: Is it forward or back? NURSE: Lie down love 5 We often see the same patients ever year PATIENT: So it’s like… time travel? DOCTOR: No 6 Every year we try to explain BST to them in a fun and memorable way [The patients are sat around a fun show, with people dressed in bunny suits jumping around a giant clock] BUNNY: And now I *spring forward*... 7 [Bunny springs forward one hour on clock] 8 PATIENT WATCHING SHOW: I don’t get it 9 The hardest patients are the Summer Time refusers 10 PATIENT [sat strapped to a chair as a doctor talks to him through a screen, through a tannoy] PATIENT: But why is it better? DOCTOR [talking through microphone]: Because it complicates things. 11 PATIENT: How is that good? DOCTOR: It makes you more tired. 12 DOCTOR [to assistant]: Fetch the cattle prod [Ends]

I think the clocks in UK go back tonight. Or forward. Not sure. Is it forward

Vilabertrin

Vilabertrin
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/18573

Sepia photograph featuring an art studio with white women students in long dresses in a sculpture class with live cow model

Pennsylvania Academy,1882, female students were not allowed a nude human model to improve anatomical knowledge in a modelling, sculpture class, so were given a cow #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

Benjamin Zephaniah "If you didn't have troublemakers, most women wouldn't have the right to vote, a black person wouldn't be talking to a white person and I'd be back in slavery. We need troublemakers to challenge the establishment. I want to be one of those people."

37 Years Ago Today: Bush Decries Exxon Valdez Spillage of 'Precious, Precious Oil'

37 Years Ago Today: Bush Decries Exxon Valdez Spillage of 'Precious, Precious Oil'

Cabaret Scene

Cabaret Scene
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/18922

As far as I can tell, the "special relationship" between the US and UK boils down to the UK being willing to do genocide and war crimes alongside the US, no questions asked. It is a pact among brutes, for naked imperialist violence, and it should be destroyed forever.

Tristan and Isolde

Tristan and Isolde
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20843

The Allotments at Montmartre - 1887
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14176