Georgia O'Keeffe Pink Moon over Water | 1924

Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Moon over Water | 1924

There’s ppl on the NDIS for psychosocial conditions where if the supports are withdrawn they will be a threat themselves & others, costing millions in damages. Framing supports as only open to ppl with “profound disability” exposes the stereotypes and prejudices in public understanding of disability

Only a princess could be so finely sensitive that she would be troubled by a single pea placed under all these mattresses and featherbeds. Here’s two wonderful illustrations of her in Hans Christian Andersen’s tale ~ at L, by Gennady Spirin and at R by Edmund Dulac

“We’re helping too many people with disabilities” is a hell of a line from a Labor government

“Wreath”, 11x14 inch acrylic on cradled panel. Trying to express the joys and sorrows of this spring and others. . #womensart, #figurativeart, #contemporaryart, #blueskyart

The Cascade Beanie pattern is now available and 20% off!! This knitting pattern is written for super bulky and light super bulky weight yarns and comes in 4 sizes from Adult Large to Toddler.

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Still there watching over us all, even when we can't see it. ✨

Photograph b & w A short expanse of wall and radiator: looking through a doorframe we see a section of paper with feet and lower legs below, faint shadow of a body holding up the paper. At an angle in the background, the image of a small door with a single hand obscuring the space where a doorknob would be.

Francesca Woodman
Angel Series, Rome 1977

swirling clusters of colours in a dark sky

Warlpiri artist Alma Nungarrayi Granites lived near the Tanami Desert in Australia’s Northern Territory. Her ‘Seven Sisters Dreaming’ paintings depict the stories of the ancestral sisters who can be found in the night sky in the Pleiades star cluster artsandculture.google.com/story/zoom-i...

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Linguists can reconstruct long-dead languages that no one ever wrote down.

These reconstructions can be surprisingly precise: individual words, grammar, sound changes, even something of the world the speakers inhabited.

But how?

Every Known Work by Georgia O’Keeffe Has Been Digitized and Made Available Online Upon hearing the names of Arthur Dove or Marsden Hartley, the saturated colors and organically askew lines of those painters' landscapes may appear before your mind's eye. But unless you have a specia...

Every Known Work by Georgia O’Keeffe Has Been Digitized and Made Available Online

This Ben Quilty bloke is bloody awesome.

Trans people have always existed.

Trans people will always exist.

Trans people just want to exist in peace.

The existence of trans people has ZERO impact on your life.

Trans people are not responsible for any of your problems.

Transphobia is a cancer of the mind.

...and the DLD Project Summit has gone live - such an amazing programme - run don't walk. FREE for the DLD community and only $39 for professionals; all the programme virtual and accessible for 3 months viewing #DevLangDis
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Fairy tale moon

(This is close to how it looked from our place.)
Thanks to all the fabulous Bluesky #Eclipse photographers! 🦋

Happy Mardi Gras from Australia’s Eucalypts! They come in every colour of the rainbow and are the original supporters of diversity with over 800 species.

Have fun tonight if you’re celebrating! 🌈 x

Hooray!!! Wonderful news ❤️

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

NDIS Evidence Advisory Committee: share your thoughts on supports under review www.health.gov.au/news/ndis-ev...

Single frame. Chris Minns stands beside a massive tonne weight marked NSW POLICE being lowered by a crane. Visible sticking out from under the weight are hands, legs, a woman’s face, a keffiyeh and placards saying “NO TO GENOCIDE”, “FREE PALESTINE”, “HERZOG OUT”, “NO TO VIOLENCE” Minns says, “Thst should socially cohere them nicely.”

Cohesion.
My @smh cartoon.

A scoping review of augmentative and alternative communication use in children with childhood apraxia of speech Prior research has highlighted the positive impact of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) on speech and language development for children who cannot use speech alone. However, little i...

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‘Overwhelming sense of doom’: NDIS support cuts leave families in fear – and there are more to come Many small changes since 2024 have ‘added up to one big cut’, advocates say, and the two biggest changes are due to roll out this year

“[ #NDIS ]families are some of the most resilient, proactive & committed people in our community, but they are already carrying an enormous load. Expecting them to deliver therapy on top of parenting risks burnout & places children’s outcomes in jeopardy.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol

Flyer with 10 strategies to support children with Developmental Language Disorder.

The article mentions strategies thatcpsrents can use to support their children with language difficulties. Check out our handy flyer with top 10 strategies, available here: www.moorhouseinstitute.com/dld-resource...

"Tired," by Langston Hughes

I am so tired of waiting.
Aren't you,
for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife and cut the world in two and see what worms are eating at the rind.

#BlackHistoryMonth #poetry

'Word Aware Concepts Assessment' is available for pre-order from today. It's an informal assessment for 150 early developing concepts e.g.: different, whole, both. Covers Nursery (3 to 4 yo) and Reception (4 to 5 yo).
Useful for schools, EY settings and SaLT.
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Of course these would be rhetorical questions, after all our leaders are welcoming the president of our genocidal ally Israel with open arms, but all the same I’d like to look Albo and Wong in their empty eyes and ask them. I’d like to see if they look like they sleep at night.

Like anyone else of conscience I’m watching in horror as government street gangs in the US murder, kidnap & terrorise civilians with not just impunity but full federal backing & as an Australian I’d like to ask my government: is this our ally? Is this our good friend? Is this the standard we accept?