Every Xmas, @patrickleary.bsky.social shares w his Victorian buddies how Kate Wiggins (of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm fame) met Charles Dickens. It's a joy, & should be better known, especially when she kindly tells him not to worry about the 'very dull parts' in his books. Happy holidays, all!

If I have to go and drop a letter in the postbox I'm probably going to make it a horse's problem. This week the horse in question was little baby Lindi.

ON THIS DAY... in 1995, Doctor Who Magazine #234 was first released by Marvel Comics. #DoctorWho

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” ― James Baldwin

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Su Blackwell, UK artist who works with disgarded books to create paper sculptures often based on fairy tales and nature #WomensArt 🎄❄️

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Wassily Kandinsky Dull Rise

I can’t help but be struck by how much evidence, over DECADES, must be amassed against a rich white pedophile before it makes the Times, while murdered Black men and boys immediately get “no angel’d” for selling loosies, or allegedly passing a bad $20.

25% reduction in all cause mortality over 4 years for those vaccinated against covid, huge study. Wow, this almost suggests covid is implicated in an unbelievable number of deaths. And that vaccinated people should wear respirators if they want to remain abled. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...

Sarah Evans (British Artist, born 1974) "Ty Newydd", 2023. Acrylic on Wood. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

I had measles when I was 4. Damaged left optic nerve ( “lazy eye “ ) and measles associated encephalitis. Lucky to be alive. Get vaccinated.

Award-winning Native American Hopi pottery artist Rainy Naha, Jar with Interlocking Birds #womensart

Zircon crystals are nearly indestructible, and are some of the only things to survive the hellish pressure and heat of the Haldean Eon, when the earth was formed. The oldest zircons are found in Jack Hills, Australia, where our specimen was found. It may be small, but it's 4.4 billion years old!

Day 2102 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Blue Painting” (1924) Wassily Kandinsky. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Kandinsky was born on this day in 1866. This bold abstract composition uses sweeping lines, floating shapes and vivid blues to create a sense of energetic movement,

This is Rose. She's paralyzed in both her back legs from being hit by a car as a stray. But when she sees her wheelchair harness come out, she knows it's time to walk and roll. 14/10 (IG: twopawrose)

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Children playing in front of the corner shop, Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963, photo by Colin Jones.

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Just finished The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. What an astonishing piece of writing. It skewers the entirety of Western civilisation, takes it to its logical conclusion, destroys it and then offers a tiny atom of hope for the future. Perhaps even more relevant now than when it was written.

Sure I live in the past. All my stuff is there.

The quality of a nation is determined by the way it’s most vulnerable citizens are treated.

I came across this newspaper item purely by accident. But it seems like a monstrous injustice is being done. All as a consequence of the insanity of Brexit, coupled with this government's unforeseen efforts to look tough on... something! 🤔 Pls repost gofund.me/bd056e14c share.google/1eEWFQoUPWFw...

Labour strikes aren’t new! The first recorded strike in history took place in Egypt some 3,200 years ago! The ‘Strike Papyrus’ records that tomb workers of King Ramesses III downed tools over pay and conditions circa 1157 BC! Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 by me #Archaeology

Lantern Parade (late 19thc) by Danish painter Anne Sophie Petersen (1845-1910) #WomensArt

Kids have it so easy nowadays. When I was young, I had to walk through 9ft of shag carpet to change the TV channel.

Old photo: Cill Chriosd (Christ's Church), former parish church of Strath, Isle of Skye, was abandoned around 1840, during the unforgivable highland clearances. Its history, and the remaining gravestones, almost illegible with the growth of moss, create an air of deep melancholy...

In #winter 2018, Icelandic photographer Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir wanted to show her partner, who was away in the capital, how much it had snowed overnight at their home and posted a photo of herself on FB #womensart

Morning all. Cookie in the Snow, Seacoal Camp, Lynemouth, Northumberland, 1984. Photographer Chris Killip.

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

People call science "dogmatic, like a religion." But the opposite is true. Science is built to do something religion never claims to: prove itself wrong. What looks like dogma is actually hard-won consensus. Ideas that survived decades of people trying to tear them down.

Morning all. Photographer Robert Frank. Wales, 1953.

Grete Marks (1899-1990), German-Jewish ceramic artist and a Bauhaus student #womensart

Russia Wins the Cold War. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Watercolor practice #watercolor #watercolour #watercolorstilllife

. Confirming what we knew already - Boris Johnson was a disastrous Prime Minister who should never hold public office again! #trevorphillips #BBClaurak #bbcbh #toriesGone520 .

Gads, these are special and so many to choose from. Much needed. RIP. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Morning all. Photographer Martin Parr. Elland, West Yorkshire From ‘Bad Weather’. December, 1978.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 • 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality • No increase in 4-year mortality • Vaccinated people had lower risk of death from any cause. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #mRNA #covid19 #science

'40 Below 0' painting by painter, singer and musician Joni Mitchell #WomensArt

Rain on flagstones, reflections on granite sets, streetlights stood out like silhouettes. Rainy day in Halifax, 2018.

Wassily Kandinsky - Hover #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

I’m from the generation that remembers when these diseases ran rampant. Perhaps we need to be reminded with a dose of repeated history

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Sad to hear guitar legend Steve Cropper has died at 84. A member of Booker T & the M.G.’s , he also wrote “In the Midnight Hour” & produced “Sittin’on the Dock of the Bay”. When asked what he thought of Cropper, Keith Richards replied “Perfect, man”. #RIPSteveCropper m.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQE...