More Abdur Rahman Chughtai paintings…

1/3: “To mark what would have been Edward Said’s 90th birthday, the London Palestine Film Festival and SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies will screen ‘𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘥: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 in partnership with the 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴’

How Elon Musk’s Grok spread sexual deepfakes and child exploitation images ft.trib.al/aX8bZdy

Here’s a good idea

This breakdown confirms what anyone who looked at the video could see: that the DHS account was an obvious lie. *The agent put was not in her path, was not in danger. *He also fires *after* the car is moving away from him. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

👉NEW -- Did Trump and Starmer break international law with tanker seizure? by Dania Akkad The UK justified its support for North Atlantic operation, saying sanction-dodging ship was stateless. Legal experts say that’s debatable. www.declassifieduk.org/did-trump-an...

BBC News yesterday: "Despite the ceasefire Israel's bombardment of Gaza continues, with almost daily strikes" At what point do mainstream journalists start reporting that actually there isn't a ceasefire, instead of uttering absurdities like this.

Mamdani: Today is an incredible win for working people. We’re talking about a $1.2 billion commitment to make universal childcare a reality. What today’s commitment shows is that working families will no longer have to choose between the city they love and the family they want to raise.

The grief the grief the grief. And the rage and love. We have it in us to be so much better than this.

Middle-aged women, such as myself, are not immune to spontaneous and impulsive, cute capybara keychain purchases! #self-soothing #grateful #whatevermakesyouhappy

Shamanistic cultures view illness and trauma as a problem for the entire community, not just for the individual or individuals who manifest the symptoms.~Peter A. Levine, Waking the Tiger

Specs should come with glass wipers 👓!!!

Israel has destroyed the hospitals in Gaza that treated people with cancer, they block the cancer drugs from entering the strip, and they refuse to allow people with cancer to leave in order to get treatment. Israel doesn't just murder Palestinians with bombs & bullets

Physicist Marguerite Perey discovered Francium #OTD in 1939. It was the last element to be found in a naturally occurring state, rather than synthesized by humans. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Musée Curie/ACJC Collection

This is utterly delightful

Have we changed much or is X just the latest version of the Catholic Church, another institution openly engaging in the abuse of children and women that the government are afraid to challenge?

#NollaignamBan The first woman admitted to the all-male Royal Astronomical Society, Agnes Mary Clerke's analyses were so reliable, thoughtful & wide reaching that she became a revered authority. The Clerke lunar crater was named to commemorate her. www.dib.ie/biography/cl... #DIBLives

'Close to death': What 60 days on hunger strike is doing to Palestine Action prisoners - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-action-linked-activists-60-days-hunger-strike-damage

Remember the 1980 boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games led by the USA because of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ... I'm sure lots of countries could provide alternative venues for the World Cup ...

'People who wrongly believe that others care more about selfish values ... are less likely to volunteer... experiments have found that showing people that others share similar values and beliefs to them can make them more trusting & hopeful for the future.' theconversation.com/think-societ...

For no reason, just gonna note again that the anti-democratic movement Elon Musk's grandfather was a leader in, Technocracy Inc, thought the US should annex Venezuela and Greenland. bsky.app/profile/did:...

If a website appeared overnight that gave hundreds of millions of users the opportunity to create CSAM you'd expect governments to shut it down quickly, so the question is why X gets a pass when it's done just that? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Minister Mary Butler has today announced a €3 million investment in mental health research to advance understanding in areas such as youth mental health, ADHD in adults, women’s mental health, and loneliness in older people. www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

#NollaignamBan Arrested & tortured for her part in the French Resistance during WWII, Sr Kate McCarthy endured 3 years of interrogation, solitary confinement & imprisonment before being sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was liberated on 25 April 1945. www.dib.ie/biography/mc... #DIBLives

Grand theft and piracy!

1/2: Sadequain (1930-1987), a Pakistani artist and poet renowned for his skills as a calligrapher and painter. He is one of the finest painters and calligraphers Pakistan has ever produced, having painted approximately 15,000 paintings.

Gardaí are being urged to open an urgent investigation into the creation and sharing of sexualised deepfake images on X. The Taoiseach has described the activity as “shocking”, as pressure grows on Government and regulators to act. #VMNews

Another one of my favourite Pakistani artists is Jamil Naqsh (1939-2019). Naqsh has explored various genres of painting, including portraiture and landscape. He is best known for his figurative oil paintings of women with pigeons.

1/2: Contrary to popular belief, Psychotherapists are not mind readers 😊! We interpret behaviour, we don't guess thoughts in silence. Context is everything - we need to hear what's truly going on. Unspoken expectations lead to misunderstandings.

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: the roots of the rites and traditions associated with January 6th, the last day of Christmas and the day known as #NollaignamBan. By @marionmcgarry.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Greenland: new statement from France, Germany, Spain, UK, Poland, Denmark.

Keir Starmer says the UK was “not involved” in the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro. But Britain has been supporting regime change in Venezuela for years. Read the analysis by @jmcevoy_2 www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...

"When force is used to control resources.. we are faced with a logic that harks back to the worst practices of colonialism.. [if the US's actions] are tolerated.. the message sent.. is a devastating one.. that the law is optional & force is the true arbiter of intl relations" Venezuela at the UN

BBC's Jeremy Bowen, "The Trump world view is now clearer than ever" "It is that big countries can impose their will as they deem necessary on smaller countries" "Seize troublesome leaders" "Seize natural resources, like Venezuelan oil" "This is for Trump a new imperial era"

I have always loved the story behind this book.

@graceliv.bsky.social : "The first thing to really make clear is this is a clear violation of intl law, the bombing of a sovereign country & effectively kidnapping its president.. the pretext is drug trafficking.. Venezuela doesn't produce cocaine, it doesn't produce Fentanyl..."

Which is more dangerous: fascist thugs like Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin behaving as if they're above international law, or democratic governments blatantly appeasing them and their gross violations? Without change, there's good reason to be very scared of what all this portends for the future.

Emily Thornberry criticises Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper for refusing to criticise the US's attack on Venezuela as a breach of international law

A blessing from John O'Donohue ✨️

According to Wilfred Frost oil production in Venezuela collapsed because the country is ruled by a dictatorship with communist leanings. He forgot to mention crippling US sanctions.

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

Shahzia Sikander (1969) is a Pakistani-American visual artist. Sikander utilises several mediums: drawing, painting, printmaking, animation, installation, performance and video. I adore her work!

Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1894 – 1975) is my absolute favourite Pakistani painter, artist, and intellectual. He is regarded as the national artist of Pakistan and credited with establishing a distinctive painting style, the 'Chughtai Style', influenced by Mughal and Persian art, miniature painting.

Ismail Gulgee, (1926-2007) - Pakistani portrait and abstract artist. He was commissioned to paint Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, the Shah of Iran, King Hussein of Jordan, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Agha Khan, Zulifqar Ali Bhutto and General Ayub Khan. Here is a sample of his paintings:

“Oppose America’s will and you will be bombed into submission.”

Call a spade a spade - no explanations, equivocations or rationalisations condone or legitimise unfettered, illegal, US interference and instigation against other nations’ sovereignty. Look to history alone. It is and has always been about economic, political and territorial hegemony.