Painting of a woodland scene in dappled sunlight and with the forest flower covered in blue flowers

'Bluebells at Wisley' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #womensart

Dragon like figure yeongno

The Yeongno, is a Korean mythical creature known as a "celestial eater of the rich," this dragon-like monster seeks to consume 100 corrupt politicians, the wealthy, the powerful, etc in order to return to heaven. A cathartic symbol of social justice.

Print in grey shades featuring an interior with a black cat sitting on a patterned sofa and light streaming in through a large window by large pot plants

"Morning Light" by Grace Gillespie, UK-based artist specialising in reduction linocuts, hand-crafted in her home-studio in Bristol #WomensArt

What a gorgeous coloured flower. What is it?

Bush clad mountains of Doubtful Sounds mirrored in the very calm sea

The stunning Doubtful Sound in Aotearoa NZ.

'In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Painting of red, white, yellow and blue flowers in brown pottery vase on table, grey background, painting.

Bouquet of Spring Flowers, Pierre Auguste Renoir.

Wowzers, spectacular!

By The Day She Made Herself Into A Cat.

#Illustration

1920

© Arthur Rackham

ACT Party deputy and minister Brooke van Velden retires from politics The party's deputy and government minister will not be seeking re-election in November.

BVV's legacy:
-screwing over workers
-cancelling Fair Pay Agreements
-brought back 90-day trials
-stopped Uber drivers from being decently paid
-hurt working women by canning pay equity
-rolled back worker protections
-creating low-wage, low-protection labour market

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Institutional medicine's widespread culture of dishonesty has been one of the most shocking takeaways from the pandemic.

I knew there was a problem with bullying and authoritarianism, but the sheer scale and normalization of manipulation of science is breathtaking.

#medsky #scisky #polisky

Trump cannot exist without a culture that breeds narcissism, racism, individualism and greed.

He is a reflection of the USA, not an outlier.

The fact he hasn’t been overthrown and people are genuinely waiting for the revolutionary guard that is the (Corporate) Democrats to save them… 🤦🏾‍♀️

King Willonius - Move Bitch (1973) Listen to Move Bitch (1973) on TIDAL

Mood

Listen to Move Bitch (1973) on your streaming service

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Leaves look like a camellia, could it be a seed pod from that? That’s all I’ve got.

Medlar? Although if that’s the bottom of the fruit it doesn’t look quite right.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Petunias, 1925 #WomensArt

His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

Trying not to be obsessed with this 😬

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Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

This was fun. Struggled with the blues but otherwise solid.

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Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence As the sixth anniversary of the WHO pandemic declaration passes with total media silence, wastewater data, excess death estimates and new research on Long COVID reveal an ongoing public health catastr...

"The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence"

"The pandemic has killed over 30 million people worldwide, left more than 400 million suffering from Long COVID... It is one of the most catastrophic events in modern history—and it is not over."

Hypothetically, if the President of the #usa was secretly replaced with a treasonous pedophile working for Russia, with the mission of destroying the country's economy, military, democracy, alliances, health, scientific capacity and government...

...what exactly would he do differently?

Legit childhood tears thanks to Riley’s believe it or not.

Park Service Warns of Quicksand at a Recreation Area in Arizona and Utah

I'm Gen X. We've been prepared for this our whole lives.

Free article. Enjoy.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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If we don't tax the hyper-rich out of existence, pedophile psychopaths will keep using our species' collective wealth to bomb, police, surveil, propagandise and cook us into submission, maybe even extinction

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

Quick reminder that The Dawn Raids only targeted brown people at a time when our largest group of overstayers came from England.