...la grandezza dell’esistenza si rivela nei dettagli impercettibili,
nei momenti trascurati.
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Beneath the tide of sky and the river of breath.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Sunflower
1991
©️Robert Stivers
peony.
The Taurus ingress has arrived with extra spice via a triple conjunction of Mercury, Mars, and Saturn in Aries. Taurus likes things to be cozy and comfortable, but that pile-up in Aries might be anything but, waking us up to who we really are when the chips are down.
#Astrology
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Watching Alien for the first time and you mean to tell me they knew the tech bros weren’t shit in 1979?!?!
Happy 80th Birthday to the legendary Tim Curry! 🖤
Today’s New Moon conjoins Chiron & Eris in Aries, who have been loudly calling our attention to old wounds, deep fears, and all the ways we overcompensate for them. It’s time to see our pain in a new light, and dare to stop defining ourselves by it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp8n...
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
The typography here had no reason to go this hard but I’m glad it did
Screenshot of the top of Bluesky's main page (when you're logged in), but instead of showing posts, there's a red bar carrying the message "! Not Enough Resources"
Not sure I've ever found a social media site so relatable TBH
one rabbit slipping under fence, one waiting
Bunnies line up to enter the bunny portal
Mayor Zohran Mamdani behind the counter of a bodega in The Bronx, flanked by various people. A journalist with a microphone labeled “Shop Cats” is standing in front of the sales counter, and holding the mic up to a black and white cat sitting on the counter next to bananas. The cat has an expression like in the famous “Sir, are you aware that you are a cat” meme
“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”
This is honestly the biggest motivator for voting for me. Imma fight for a better world no matter who's in office, but some fights are easier than others.
Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.
Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.
He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.
The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
Day 11 #plainairpril
@warriorpainters.bsky.social
#digital #art #landscape #illustration
A close up photograph of a poet’s narcissus flower. It is a bright, dainty flower on a slender stem. It has six very white, large petals, slightly separated. The centre is a bright yellow, moving to orange, then outlined in a deep orange-red. The colours of the flowers contrast vividly against the blurred green of the background. One of the earliest daffodils to be cultivated, it is native to southern and Central Europe, and naturalised here in the UK. This may be the narcissus mentioned in ancient texts and associated with Narcissus. I spotted this one as I was walking through a woodland, standing out from the sea of purples and yellows of the common bluebells and lesser celandine. Likely a naturalised specimen rather than planted.
Poet’s narcissus (Narcissus poeticus)
Found in a woodlands yesterday, London
#StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #WildFlowerHour
If you see this QRP your art with a moon.
#drawing #coloredpencil #Prismacolor #traditionalart
Screenshot of a headline from politico that reads: fears over who can win in 2028 are already surfacing among democrats
Here's the thing: Democrats already know who can win. They know which policies are popular with voters and which candidates are vocally in support of those policies. They're going to throw a billion dollars into trying to prevent those candidates from becoming the nominee.
#birdoftheday #birds #birdphotography #photography #manmadeperch #buzzard
A buzzard sitting on top of a telegraph pole.
illustration depicting a gothic re-imagining of the "Beauty and the Beast" fairytale. A 19th century woman and a goat-man monster embrace in a shadowy doorway. The library behind them is bathed in pale yellow sunlight. Goblins climb the tree-shaped columns flanking the door.
Between the shadows
Painting of a human figure in black shadow, positioned as if dancing or swimming in air, suspended among brushstrokes in yellow and pink & lilac & grey, suggesting the interior of the human body
The Foetus, created by Helen Greig, c.1966 in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital in Surrey, where she was compelled to live.
This is one of a small number of her surviving works, which explore themes of rebirth.
No biographical information about her is currently known to us
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「雨あがり」— ごまらーめん
[After the rain — goma-ramen]
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Grift all the way down
One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire.
One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
A cartoon picture of a smoking cat Text: PLEASE DON'T EVER TRADE YOUR AUTHENTICITY FOR APPROVAL. LET PEOPLE DISLIKE YOU
Gentle reminder…