A piece of art inspired by the distinct, cross-hatched style of artist Edward Gorey, specifically featuring Halloween themes.

Sharing it because I am feeling extra spooky tonight. 🎃

#nefarious

Encouragement for the rest of us!

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Old Pillar Box, Ninian Road (2025) by Welsh artist Tom Gowan (date of birth unlisted).

Oil on canvas

30 x 25 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Stunning - thank you for sharing!

Love these older ciggie ads; show them to my students, too.

I mean, it'd be more realistic - ?

Q: What do Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Alex Jones, and Marjorie Taylor Greene all have in common?

A: They have all turned against Donald Trump for reasons other than him raping children.

“AI as a Fascist Artifact”

tante.cc/2026/04/21/a...

> And here again “AI” shares a core idea of fascism: Both are based on the destruction of solidarity and labor power in order to cement the totalitarian control about the centers and sources of power.

Regressive of them.

illustration for a postcard, a painterly stylized image split into many smaller boxes with one item each. Main image is a cat, others are summer plants, a watermelon, a mouse, a sun, a bottle of Rainer beer

spot illustration of a bottle of beer with a big Rainier R, framed with eyes

Spot illustration of a dandelion, framed by stars

illustration for a postcard, a painterly stylized image split into many smaller boxes with one item each. Main image is a rabbit with a cut leg. Other boxes feature a bat, a candelabra, moon, skull, gourd, key, dandelion

Tricking the postcard and spot illustrations I did for my calendars last year.

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ICE Is Planning New Fast-Track Construction Contracts An RFI released this morning details plans for a nationwide network of flexible construction contracts

ICE has been using a Navy logistics contract to outfit detention warehouses with minimal oversight. New documents show it may want its own construction contracting vehicle — one that's faster and less transparent.

@em-knepp.bsky.social, @ripest-plum.bsky.social, and @mwriston.bsky.social report.

WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?

KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

Not by coincidence, "white supremacists are the Republicans Party's constituents and they don't want it pointed out" is the real reason why those of us who study and teach it are losing our jobs.

Annual flu vaccine no longer required for U.S. military, Hegseth says The move alarmed some public health experts, who warned that it would weaken troop readiness.

NOT SO FUN FACT—half of all U.S. war casualties during WWI were due to influenza. Today—Trump’s War Secretary remove the flu vaccine requirement for all U.S. military. Plus, bragging about this to all enemies is just absolute idiocy. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

How do we make it stop?????

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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So disheartening.

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Cool clock face!

Art Deco figural mantel clock known as "Powder Puff Girl," sculpted by Ferdinand Preiss around 1925.

Ferdinand Preiss (1882–1943) was a prominent German sculptor recognized for his work during the Art Deco period.

#art #sculpture #clock #antique

Up north, a goddess dons her wolfskin and leaves her orchard to make the seasons change each year.

Our 52nd #darkspringtide tale is a strange little story of things always changing and still remaining the same.

But read it for yourself below

🎨 Rachel Gillig

So many good choices here!

A Tomb with a View by Peter Ross (Omnibus) - BBC Sounds Peter Ross uncovers the stories behind the headstones in graveyards across the UK.

So glad to see this playing on BBC Sounds. Yet another wonderful book from @peteralanross.bsky.social 🙂
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits Some peasants were entitled to up to a year and a day of leave if they were sick.

Just sharing this again - a piece in @uk.theconversation.com that Alex Brown and I wrote about peasants and the surprising amount of 'sick leave' they were given in the middle ages #medievalsky #history #medieval

theconversation.com/medieval-pea...

Pink azaleas with spring green leaves

Pink blossoming tree by street lamp ~

Profusions of pink ~

Lily of the Valley (2020)
Available as art print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...