Michele V P

Michele V P

@monkeyviperpenguin.bsky.social

Trundling along, probably drinking tea. Not to everyone's tastes, & that's fine by me. Art (by Humans), Life, & Shenanigans. Mostly Harmless. Humanist.

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Michele V P
@monkeyviperpenguin.bsky.social

Artist! Quote with the drawing you are still obsessed with!🫵 A sketch that just happened. Hubby named it Happy Little Trees. May just a proto image, but it still keeps itching my brain - so I guess that counts as obsessed.

HolBat(Commission open on January)@kholbatar.bsky.social

Artist! Quote with the drawing you are still obsessed with!🫵 I still really love how intense and dark it turned out!

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Dejan Pantic
@serbianism.com

And today's Stupidity In The Media Award goes to The Guardian. Those were PARLIAMENTARY elections, you bozos, not to mention the fact that the Student Movement of Serbia is every bit as vatnik right-wing as Vučić's party. You're praising a bunch of nationalist demagogues.

theguardian.comHow students rocked Serbia’s presidential election – video explainerThe long-serving leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has conceded defeat, ushering in a seismic political shift after a historic election that pitted ​the increasingly authoritarian leader against a s...

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Ian McQue
@ianmcque.bsky.social

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

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Emily Hare
@emilyhare.com

Mugs are BACK baby!! This is Winston. Each mug (there are 9 different monsters available currently) is 15oz/426ml and dishwasher and microwave safe. Here you are: emilyhare.com/mugs #mugs #monstermug #hotchocolate #coffee #latte

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Private Eye Magazine
@privateeyenews.bsky.social

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

Michele V P
@monkeyviperpenguin.bsky.social

Am I missing something?.. Isn't it basically a Moss Garden?

The Guardian@theguardian.com

‘Zero-energy companionship’: bizarre hobby takes seed among China’s stressed young adults

theguardian.com‘Zero-energy companionship’: bizarre hobby takes seed among China’s stressed young adultsFaced with a stagnant jobs market, many are spurning children or pets in favour of ‘raising bricks’ Chinese young adults looking for a cheaper, low-maintenance alternative to having pets or children have found an answer: raising bricks. Bricks may not be as cuddly as cats or as life-affirming as human offspring, but they also cost next to nothing. “No cats, no dating, I started raising a brick,” wrote one brick parent on social media. Continue reading...

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Dragons of Wales
@dragonsofwales.bsky.social

Reimagining the classics. Two new interpretations of the original Crystal Palace dinosaurs - Iguanodon and Megalosaurus. Pencil and digital illustrations. #SciArt

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Dejan Pantic
@serbianism.com

🧵The "brighter future" with the Student movement in Serbia is the same as the "brighter future" with Vučić's party - Student Ticket responded to Vučić: We will not impose sanctions on Russia. And here's another thread on why it doesn't matter. ⬇️

izlaz.comStudent list responded to Vučić: We will not impose sanctions on RussiaSerbia will maintain its principled stance of not introducing restrictive measures against the Russian Federation, students in blockade announced today who for

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David📎
@thestrovinator.bsky.social

Wow, I have just sold a copy of my novella, Four Weeks, through Amazon (I know, I know) to someone in the USA, so thank you whoever that was, unless it was so you can slag me off online...I am £0.67p better off 😀 #book #author-yesreally #FourWeeks

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Mongabay
@mongabay.com

Heavy rain at the wrong time is disrupting West African cacao production. Research in Ghana reveals that extreme rainfall during the flowering period directly damages crops, adding new climate pressures on farmers & fueling rising global chocolate prices. Victoria Schneider reports for #Mongabay.

mongabay.ccHeavy rains during critical period of cacao cultivation hit Ghana’s yieldsHeavy rainfall during the cacao flowering season is a major driver of Ghana’s recent harvest fluctuations, new research finds. A study published in September by researchers at the Harvard University…

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Sygnin
@sygnin.com

I'm going to be uploading a 1 shot comic called Nowhere - The Delivery to the comic website! It's a kinda prequel to the main story. Hit Subscribe on the site so you can catch the updates (on the Leaflet feed) if you wanna follow along! www.nowherecomic.com/ #comics #ocs #webcomics

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LK
@lkcreations.art

Daily sketch 🌳🌿🥷🐈‍⬛️ Can you spot the Cat ? Have a peaceful weekend 💚 #art #ink #sketch

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Reece Dinsdale
@reecedinsdale.bsky.social

🎶 ‘I get by with a little help from my friends’ 🎶 But a huge THANK YOU to each and every one of you good people out there who has shown support in my quest to help #SaveSquareChapelArts 🙌 #Halifax Let’s make some noise! 🥁

Sofia Cann@sofia-cann.bsky.social

Look at the amazing support for Reece Dinsdale's campaign to save Square Chapel Arts Centre 👇 www.canncomms.co.uk/post/open-le... #SaveSquareChapel #ForTheLoveofArts #Yorkshire #OpenLetter @reecedinsdale.bsky.social

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Jas 🪶🐻🦉🇺🇸🇨🇦
@itistherealjas.bsky.social

Look at you, already it’s Friday’s eve! Take stock of your surroundings, & move on towards your goal. The goal you want to achieve, at the end of your journey, this week. Keep your eyes on that. Set your sails. Let’s go! Be careful. Be safe. Be shiny. Be glimmer. Be you to the full. Take no shit.

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Jennifer Ouellette
@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social

Turning to BlueSky to find a home for 9-month-old kitty, "Shoes", Baltimore/DC area. His rescuers would love to keep him but they and their toddler are all violently allergic; not even meds and air purifiers are helping. But they love Shoes and want him to find a good home. Deets: (1/5)

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Susie Dent
@susiedentwords.bsky.social

I’m so delighted to be part of this.

Women's Prize@womensprize.bsky.social

Introducing the judges for the 2027 Women's Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction. From historians, broadcasters and journalists, to novelists, poets and scholars, these two extraordinary panels will be setting your reading list for 2027 and beyond. Learn more here: womensprize.com/introducing-...

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

theguardian.com‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentreCompany ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone. After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds of earth, roots and branches. Residents say that brown water flowing off the site is going into a stream that feeds the Oulujoki River. Continue reading...