Lets put a spotlight on Maria Sibylla Merian, a German naturalist and artist. She was famous for her detailed illustrations of insects and plants, and her pioneering work in entomology.
👁️ www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/10-things/sto...
Is there a bigger downgrade than the daily doorstep milk delivery in recycled glass bottles from a local dairy on an electric vehicle to having to buy milk in plastic bottles from multi million pound supermarkets.
It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
Bob Vylan @BobbyVylan X.com What needs highlighting is that we were investigated for a Section 5 Public Order Offence with NO aggravated element. The lowest level of public order offence there is. Not hate speech, not incitement, but the lowest Public order offence you can commit. This seems to be omitted. 00G NEWS BBC News (UK) * @BBCNews • 2d Bob Vylan: No charges over Glastonbury comments
Quite a lot can be explained by the plain fact that our leaders and their hangers on are *enraged* that they can’t send people to prison for doing things that aren’t illegal, and they see this as a very serious problem that needs to be resolved, urgently.
pop star
Omg amazing!
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Once upon a time the Labour Party believed it should develop new progressive ideas and policies that would enthuse and inspire the public into the belief that a better world is possible even if if needs some effort now to achieve it.
Buildings around Sophienkirche, off Sophienstraße in Berlin, still pockmarked with bullet holes
Buildings around Sophienkirche off Sophienstraße, still pockmarked with bullet holes (I’m guessing?)
This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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A screen shot of an iOS 26 folder that looks more Boiled Sweets than Liquid Glass
A bag of fox’s glacier mints but instead of fox’s it says iOS 26
Or, don’t decide what should matter to other people and let them decide for themselves.
Afaict it’s just investment in search of a return. Not even a solution in search of a problem (let alone a solution to an actual problem). Not to say it can’t ever be useful, but that would be a side effect - *being* useful is not the point, persuading the world that it is inevitable is
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
don't be evil
It's SO easy to say: these people are crooks, psychopaths and traitors to this country. Fucking say it.
The thing about placating or appeasing Nazis and Nazi-congruent people is: you can’t
Yet debate being driven by the radicalised and the racists, like Elon Musk and Rupert Lowe who say Farage is weak & should deport millions more
There is an excessive media tendency to accept this caricature of frustrated public opinion & to assume there are no limits on how tough/cruel it would go
Idk probably because the only people that can write about music for a living are in their fifties
Police report one arrest, for breaking a cordon line.
The police did not intervene in the use of a "Kill 'Em All" banner, either by arresting the protestor, nor even in telling him not to display it.
The only people who have spoiled the nature of this area were the mindless thugs who came to our homes last evening and created chaos.
I’ve never been scared by the asylum seekers. I’m terrified that the angry mob will return.
So, how do I get *my* country back from them? I’ve genuinely no idea
A cartoon in the style of old US Army propaganda posters but featuring cutesy cartoon bao buns as the people. A huge bun flies overhead carrying an American flag while beneath it 3 terrified looking soldiers flee with rifles. A caption reads "download Bun today"
Breaking one of my rules about being critical of a competitor in public... but I hate this imagery they feature on twitter so much. Especially in the current climate. I don't care how cute the character is.
It's another scorcher.. 🥵☀️
Be sure to put out plenty of water for birds & wildlife in your garden so they can keep cool and have enough to drink.
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This is lovely, just twigged they included mihaly vig from bela tarr soundtracks, had no idea he had a band, thanks!
George Bernard Shaw wrote an article this week in 1914 urging both sides to shoot their officers and go home.
But in art, the aim is to transmit thought and emotion from one human to another. If one of those humans can’t be bothered to do the job, and the other human can’t be arsed to care, you’re only transmitting one emotion:
Contempt.
