it's wild seeing the wheels coming off a guy like trump this badly. after over a decade of this shit, too. one way or the other the billionaire class is icarusing right in front of you, on wings of being way too ravenous, way too off-putting, way too creepy, way too stupid, and way too visible
'Universities across the UK have reported more than 1,000 job losses in the first four months of this year, with the actual number likely to be far higher as institutions continue to roll out cost-saving initiatives.' 1/4
I'm currently in pre-publishing stage for my novel with UQP. Lobbyists are pressuring UQP & UQ to cancel my contract. Historical-based fiction re Stolen Generations & other forms of genocide that occurred on this continent. And Blak joy, survival. These lobbyists can't bury truth, can't silence us
A blue-crested, white-faced brown wading bird, with two fluffy hatchlings walking up to it - one almost disappearing under its wing, the other headed for a similar location.
Reminder that Male Jacanas are not eldritch horrors, but minivans - they load all their young up under their wings to carry them around.
A little grey tabb cat strides purposefully across a garden lawn. She carries a large pink flower in her mouth.
i'm sure your cat is alright too, but mine plucks blooms from the camellia and lays them at my feet
Got a conditional acceptance today. But I guess all acceptance really is, when it comes down to it?
Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia) shot in Center City on the 3rd of this month.
#Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #Flowers #Violets
*vacancies. but yes: anyone who has even half an eye on jobs.ac.uk has been feeling a creeping sense of dread for so long.
If London South Bank is doing this from financial distress then it should have notified OfS that there’s a serious danger of bankruptcy so students can be protected.
If it’s not, then this is simple asset-sweating cartoon capitalist evil and their leaders need to be sacked. Like mine.
So far this year, I have gotten more calls from people who want to sue for the right to marry an AI they're in love with than I have from people arrested for protesting, and I feel like that says a lot about the moment we're in right now. I don't know what it says exactly, but it says a lot.
Reminder that, over the space of three years, 2022-24, there were a grand total of FOUR actual complaints to English public bodies about trans people in "single-sex spaces".
FOUR.
translucent.org.uk/what-foi-dat...
Only the bigots care, and it isn't a real problem.
I think this is my favourite so far. Alice Knox in Blackrock, Co. Dublin who is very glad to be single. #1926census
nationalarchives.ie/collections/...
"It cannot be made safe. There's a whole slew of other products that look nice & function well but don't kill the workers who make them." Read @kaylayup.bsky.social's devastating investigation @inthesetimes.com on how the $30B engineered stone industry has created an epidemic of deadly lung disease.
I'd rather be 'Lady Justice' than anything else (although duchess also sounds cool).
View of Chicago skyscrapers through the support beams of a bridge over the Chicago River, looking east.
I always love this view.
A Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby ready to jump. Flinders Ranges SA.
A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!
Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....
Wait, if she's a baroness is she still 'Lady Justice Hale'. Lady Justice sounds like a kickass superhero.
Thinking of Barnacle geese on Monday morning #birds
Flying fish #oiloainting #sketchbook
Under a Winter Sky (2022) by British artist, Paul Evans (born in 1950).
Ink and acrylic
28 x 28 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Turned out, we really did need media studies and we need it even more now.
Patchwork of silks and cottons of a variety of colours. Girl's frock of mulicoloured patchwork in silks (including patachute silk) and cottons, the dress has a squared neckline with an organdie frill, and padded puffed sleeves are lined, and the gathered skirt had a built-in organdie petticoat with a hem frill. The dress fastens at the back with five pearlised buttons and stitched buttonholes.
Child's party dress, 1944.
Due to wartime fabric rationing, the dress is made of scrap cotton and parachute silk.
Ref MISC.265-1983, V & A Museum.
Morning all.
Photographer Tony Ray-Jones.
Weymouth 1968.
A small cosmetic jar in a long bulb shape. The body is a shade of turquoise blue with black detailing and neck.
This small blue perfume flask from Jericho, in ancient Canaan, dates back to 1650–1550 BCE.
Cosmetics and toiletries were highly valued in many ancient societies, with both men and women wearing eye make-up and using perfume, and even using various forms of hair dye.
Some of the beautiful Green-winged Orchid, Anacamptis morio, in the dunes at Sinah Common, Hayling Island. There was a glorious display. 😍
tegan holding a copy of the guidelines
Are you conducting research with people?
Remember, anyone can experience trauma, so check out these trauma-informed researcher guidelines to ensure you consider all risks to participants and yourself.
wrexham.ac.uk/research/our...
reminder to self that falling behind isn’t a moral failure. Burn out isn’t poor planning. Executive dysfunction isn’t laziness.
We are all animals asked to do too much. We are all running from invisible predators in the forms of potential homelessness or criminalization.
