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Indian artist Bharti Kher Squaring the circle, 2007 Bindis on painted panel #WomensArt

"I'm crying because out there he's gone. But he's not gone inside me." ~ Calvin And Hobbes, March 1987 #Grief

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

They hounded him to death, and now they pursue him beyond the grave Jason Arday Again Cleared of Plagiarism as His Attackers Launch an ‘Independent Inquiry’ bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/j...

Today it’s #StormBoelo suggesting Sunday’s plan should be nothing more than #books, coffee, #BasqueCheesecake and the music choices of @cerysmatthews.bsky.social in the background Well, if you insist #SelfCareSunday

#StormAusten makes it the perfect weekend to settle in with a good #book #SaturdayVibes

Morning all. Photograph by Tom Wood. Mersey Family, Vauxhall, 1993. From the book and series Landscapes.

Happy #book publication day to me! #FridayFeeling #Proud www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

I believe that 👇

This is what “legitimate concerns” and “stop the boats” rhetoric gets you. Pandering to racists only encourages them, it doesn't make them go away.

Today, people across the world remember one of the greatest tragedies in Welsh history - the 1966 Aberfan disaster - which left a small mining village robbed of an entire generation

What mask?

Morning all. Photographer Richard Kalvar. Melville Road, Woodhouse, Leeds, 1973.

Teenager standing on the pavement: Sunshine! His friend: For a change. Teen: It's nice. His friend: Will it stay though? Teen: Just be with the moment bruv.

#MondayMotivation

Autumn in #Cambridge #SelfCareSunday

Cerys Matthews back on BBC Radio 6 Music with lots of talk about Amy Winehouse. What more can I say? @cerysmatthews.bsky.social

Christina Broom, Young suffragettes promoting the Women’s Exhibition in Knightsbridge, 1909. Broom was credited as "the UK's first female press photographer" #WomensArt

"I have no dream job. I do not dream of labour”. ~ Eartha Kitt #FridayFeeling

Morning all. ‘Flower Lady’ Brighton 1959. Photograph by Colin O’Brien.

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

I'm much more interested in what she thinks about the kids that go to sleep hungry in the UK, the genocides that are happening in the world, how to rebuild the public services that the Tories decimated and a range of other subjects. But, then again, I'm the son of an asylum seeker...

Watercolour painting from the 'Leafscape' series, by Jessica Rosemary Shepherd, contemporary ethnobotanical artist #womensart #October

#StreetArt #Graffiti #Hackney

Every Right Wing Goverment ever.

Morning all. Photographer Nick Hedges for Shelter. Terrace of back-to-back houses, Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1970.

Morning all. Photographer Shirley Baker, Salford 1960s.

“That’s the sound of your shoulders dropping” #SelfCareSunday

Morning all. Photograph from Lee Shulman’s Anonymous Project. www.anonymous-project.com/en/collection

“I cannot think of your smile without smiling too, and, of course, feeling tears fill my eyes.” ~ @edwardleepoetry.bsky.social #Grief

Devastating to have learned about the death of FDNY fire marshal Andy DiFusco He died from an illness contracted as a 9/11 responder Pictured below, I shall never forget the humbling privilege of sitting quietly together as he described all he saw that day I became a better person for knowing him

Road safety and the Tufty Club. (I don’t recall there being an expiry date. I think that means I’m still a member of the Tufty club)

#WednesdayWisdom

"The prosecution case is that Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate used and threatened physical and sexual violence in order to maintain control and compliance." Where are the voices from the self appointed defenders of women and young girls who would usually be on this? www.reuters.com/world/uk/tat...

Eileen Blair, from South Shields, UK, was believed to have had a large influence on her husband George Orwell's writing. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four's title and idea is thought to be inspired by one of her poems - 'End of the Century, 1984' #womensart

Morning all. Housewife in backyard of Manchester terraced house, 1969. Photographer Nick Hedges.

“The best of humanity” #MondayMotivation from the deeds and words of an old friend of mine, as described and pictured by @misanharriman.bsky.social

Breathing in the majesty of this evening’s sunset #SelfCareSunday

#OtD 4 Oct 1936 the Battle of Cable St took place when Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through East London. They were met by over 100k local workers who fought the blackshirts and the police protecting them, stopping the march workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

Both inspiring and sobering to see Karl Jenkins conduct ‘The Armed Man: A mass for peace’ at the Royal Festival Hall. Originally conceived in the wake of the war in Kosovo, there is more conflict in the world today than when it was first written. The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est. Pro patria mori.

"Art is Human" Anti-AI mural seen in Denman Island, British Columbia

Can’t argue with that #poetry #creativity #FridayFeeling

#FourPhotosOneMonth September 2026 Marilyn Monroe exhibition, National Portrait Gallery Tribute to Prof Jason Arday, Cambridge Stowaways on a train, London Magdalen College, Oxford

Benjamin Zephaniah reading his #poem ‘The Death of Joy Gardner’ As powerful and as relevant as ever #NationalPoetryDay youtu.be/V_V7MvSVWvw?...

A long drive home after working away never feels lonely with the #music of my teens for company When my Erasure album finished the tracks that automatically played next were the Pet Shop Boys, Jimmy Somerville and George Michael That’s my kind of algorithm and nostalgia #Pride

First US female photojournalist, Jessie Tarbox Beals, preparing to take a photograph, Austrian Pavilion, 1904 St. Louis World's Fair #WomensArt

While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt

"Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, then plan later." ~ Walter Reisch #SelfCareSunday Artwork by Babs Pease