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@womensartbluesky.bsky.social Margaret Macdonald freize, 'The 7 Princesses' in Vienna's MAK Museum #GlasgowGirls

so Reform plans to deport 90,000 This was the most worrying part of a worrying idea: 'People targeted for deportation would be identified from data on water or electricity usage, “aerial imaging” and complaints from neighbours.' Shades of Nazi Germany... #Reform

Does this qualify for #SteepleSaturday ? It's the bell tower of Ledbury church, built separately due to unstable ground. It has a carillion which plays a hymn at intervals: the resident ravens seemed annoyed by that.

New barbarity from the failed state of America: livestreaming an execution. #USA

Window celebrating the life and work of Dante, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan #StainedGlassSunday

This is a very poor photo, but shows an unusual take on a Roman mosaic - it is an embroidery created in 1735 from a drawing of a mosaic found near Woodstock in 1712. If it were clearer, you'd see Bacchus on a panther. It's in the museum in Woodstock #MosaicMonday

Tomorrow night, Channel 4 Dispatches airs the findings of a year-long investigation into Tommy Robinson’s finances. Watch it. Then come back here. We’ve got more to show you.

I am bloody proud to be an #RNLI supporter and member! These brilliant men and women have quite enough to cope with without being harassed by the scum of the earth. Their only concern is to help people in danger at sea - not check passports first! Which is how it should be. Please RT if you agree🙏

Evidence uncovered RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings... #RFK www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Update: It isn't just raining, it's raining like it was raining on Noah, the hailstones are pinging off the window the size of bluberries...

IT RAINED! 9 weeks and just 15 minutes of 2 light showers - and now IT RAINED!

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

AI companies may be buying up huge numbers of secondhand books... #Books www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This piece is worth a close read: the connection between language and war and the connection to war. I have an unexpected connection to this war through my Ukrainian daughter in law, my son is also learning Ukrainian. #Ukraine www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Photo: February 2022, playing checkers with molotov cocktails in Kyiv, waiting for the Russians... Sainsbury Centre, Playpower exhibition. Didn't get the details of photographer because it hit me like a train seeing it.... #Ukraine

I stumbled across my copy of 'The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner: a dystopian SF novel about environmental collapse in America. The smoke from burinng cities everywhere and after famine and unrest become rampant, the government scapegoats Honduran rebels and puts the US under martial law

Priory door dating to around 1272 Norwich Castle Museum #AdoorableThursday #IronworkThursday

I can't find a photo identified as Farage's daughter's house. Tagging Alex Massie who I believe denied the Times did show it on an X post. @alexmassie.bsky.social #Farage

#climate Today in comments on online article about wildfires sweeping Europe one person claimed the government was planting inflammable brush to create fires to con people climate change was real and another that the WEF was setting magnifying glasses up in fields for a similar scam.

M13.00 Friday 26th, Germany produce 71GW of electricity from solar! #Renewables www.sma.de/en/company/p...

consequences of cancelling #USAID www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

today is a good day: Reform utterly lost the Makerfield by election.

#Art #Hockney A lovely article on Hockney, which reveals something of how he created his art. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#Art #Hockney My daughter was reading BBC website coverage of the sad death of the artist, when she spotted a photo of people looking at his paintings, where you can quite clearly see me bending forward to read the label next to one... A weid connection.

#ttrpg #dnd #rpg #gaming I was thinking earlier about all the things I've learned, researching as GM or player in various rpg sessions... What panther pee smells like*, the dietary habits of the Cassowary, the history of the rowing machine and laxatives available in 1925 London... * like popcorn

#Art #Hockney This is a terrible photo, but it may give you an idea of his Normandy year frieze, among his last works... winter into spring

#Art #Hockney Sad news today, that David Hockney has died... We've been to many of his exhibitions and even to the lane near Bridlington where he painted his spring pictures... Just 2 weeks ago we were at the Serpentine Gallery exhibition - this is among his last paintings, from there

Miss the evening news and you can miss a whole cycle of 'a beautiful deal is coming', 'their military is dust', 'we will strike them hard' and back to 'a beautiful deal is coming tomorrow'. #Trump

A section of David Hockney's 'Year in Normandy' painting at the Serpentine Gallery... The whole thing is 80m long. #Art #Painting

Late Roman sarcophagus recut with Christian symbols... I love the headstanding doves! #SarcophagusSaturday

On flags... I was in part of West London yesterday and noticed Union Jack flags all along the high street... But wait: these were labelled 'Battle of Britain 85' and obviously put up by the council. They replace England flags put up by local 'Crusaders' I take my hat off to Hillingdon Council!

I noticed the Pride flags are up again in my small corner of England: the Council puts them up across the county every year. They also put up England flags on sporting occasions, so when the World Cup starts they'll alternate Pride flags with England flags. Pride flag, England flag... I like that.

Here's a good news story, full of love and care for others. A 'light for all the overdarkened ways made for our travelling' www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

"Australia has surpassed 400,000 home battery storage installations under the federal government’s Cheaper Home Batteries Program, reaching 11.2GWh of cumulative storage capacity in less than a year since the scheme launched." www.energy-storage.news/australia-hi... via George Heynes 🔌💡

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Incredible community note.

We're doing #CeilingsOnSunday ? This is the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan...

A whole section of the Naples Museum is floored with mosaics from Pompeii... you can walk on them, but you have to put on overshoes! #MosaicMonday

1,200 year long climate record! #climatedisaster www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Street art, Vienna Donaukanal #Graffiti

For #TombTuesday here is the tomb of Stilicho, the 4th century Roman general... or perhaps it is the tomb of the Emperor Gratian, hiding under what looked to me like a pulpit...

It’s a bit too polite for my liking.

Earliest depiction of St Ambrose in his Milan Basilica, 5th Century... #MosaicMonday

The Russian army made only 319 sq km of gains in January and 123 sq km in February, which was then the smallest advance since April 2024. Its advance in March of 23 sq km was the smallest since September 2023. #Russia