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Coiled Rattlesnake carved stone c. 1200-1519 CE Aztec (Mexica) culture Mexico #handmade #carved #stone #Aztec #Mexica #Mexico #rattlesnake #sculpture #carving #precolumbian #prehispanic #ancientart #art #mesoamerica #coiledsnake #design #symbolism #rebirth #time #transformation #fertility #eternity

Figure of a Child Seated atop a Pig, 2nd–1st B.C, 📸 by @tomnweston

More flowers Henri Matisse - Flowers, 1907

Oluwafemi Afolabi, Nigerian (1992- ), Lifted, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 76.2 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm, private collection

A recent report by county commissioners summarized four years of deplorable water quality and sanitary conditions in LA County's only jail for women. Brown drinking water. Blocked sink drains w/ tampons to stop bugs from crawling out. Mold everywhere. lapublicpress.org/2026/08/la-j...

Lucia Moholy (1894-1989), photographer and publications editor. Her photos documented the architecture and products of the Bauhaus #womensart #BauhausWomen

Anna's Hummingbird flying in his natural environment Too close for any perspective A few of the head feathers are reflecting magenta which is how the light hits that spot

Warlocks of Tokyo postcards. Albrecht durer watercolor pencils. #art

Still Life after de Heem's 'La Desserte', 1915 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16032

English Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan, Night and Sleep (1878) #womensart

Because “Archaeologists digging at Sanam Temple in Napata, the old capital of the Kushite Empire in Sudan, have uncovered a faience workshop” dating to the 7th century BCE. I give you my favorite faience object archaeologymag.com/2026/10/anci... It is a New Kingdom rolled up hedgehog (at the Met) 🦔.

US artist Hillary Waters Fayle, known for creating leaf embroidery #WomensArt

I've been reading a lot of the sayings of the Desert Fathers recently, collections of quotes and parables from monks who lived in the Egyptian Desert from around 270ad. And there's a lot to be learned from them, but if I may, I'd like to paraphrase one which I think bluesky really needs to hear...

now’s the time (pacha mama) by William Cordova, 2009 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137541

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Morning. Pheasant, Sophie Grandval.

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

“Large chrysanthemums” by Hayashi Waishi , Japanese artist (born in 1951)

today's cards: there are things that we have already that we often take for granted, and there are things that we deeply desire. What are the things we already have that we would choose all over again? how can desiring what we have already help satisfy the desire for things we do not have? #tarotsky

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Small Bowl with Mice, 100-500 CE, Ceramic with white and black Slip Glaze

Buddhist read: Fudo uses his sword to cut through ignorance, his lasso to reign in those who would block the path to enlightenment wp.me/pFy3u-2Pa.

Must hear now! youtube.com/watch?v=5vQD...

松の内きれいにビール飲んで寝る new year's first days drinking beer cleanly before going to sleep - kawakami santaro #senryu

if people would like to hear more from him, he does a lot of advocacy work and there are many of his speeches and stories on youtube

According to data from the ESA/NASA Planck mission, ordinary matter (everything that makes up stars, planets, and life itself) accounts for just 4.9% of the universe's total mass and energy. Dark matter makes up 26.8%, while dark energy, the mysterious force believed to drive the accelerating

Manuscript Illumination with the Visitation in an Initial D, from a Choir Book https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467415

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I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

My colleague Ellen Van Goethem posted this fascinating news that a late 8th c wooden tablet 木簡 has been uncovered that's inscribed with "the price of a slave (nuhi) and the method of payment." Reposting here a thread on slavery that didn't migrate from the Bad Place. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Face Hacha carved stone, pigments c. 550-950 CE Veracruz culture Veracruz, Mexico From the estate of William Spratling, Taxco. #handmade #carved #stone #pigment #cinnabar #face #hacha #Veracruz #culture #Mexico #Mesoamerica #precolumbian #prehispanic #ancientart #art #sculpture #precolumbianart

Theo Brauner #brauner #victorbrauner

Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum.

You do not have to be a parent to feel anger at the details in the latest investigation by @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and @samanthamichaels.bsky.social. But the white-hot rage I felt as a dad reading this is going to stick with me for some time.

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites

Painted in 1887, 'A Flower Meadow at Veierland,' is one of Edvard Munch's final paintings before his style was influenced by Hans Jæger, an anarchist and bohemian in Kristiania who convinced him artists should take a new approach in their work and have relevance in peoples' lives

Maryam Lamei Harvani, Iranian (1985- ), The Lover Makes Love, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 85 cm, private collection

Good Afternoon✨ Vincent Van Gogh ~ Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, 1885

Researching LOUD AND CLEAR, I encountered Ken “Goldfinger” Connell—and filed him away. What I found on returning is a story about the death of an old America and how descendants of an infamous drug smuggler are reconciling with the past. Read now on @playboy.com: www.playboy.com/read/celebri...

Setting Sun, (mid 20thC) by English painter Laura Knight #WomensArt

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social