452...Pope Leo has shown the world how to handle bullies - stop appeasing them. King Charles should do the same. No ifs. No buts.

#OtD 10 Apr 1920 UK left-wing Daily Herald ran a racist front page about "Black savages" in French army raping large numbers of German women. Widely believed in the labour movement, the story was exaggerated and ignored white soldiers' similar crimes stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8167...

Pink sweet peas, 1927 by Georgia O'Keeffe #womensart

#StreetArt The Wire" by Seth GlobePainter. in #Fontaine, #France.

Pope to Olympic Athletes: “It is possible to win without humiliating. One can lose without losing oneself. And this also applies beyond sport. It applies in social life, in politics, in relationships between peoples, because sport, if lived well, becomes a workshop for a reconciled humanity.”

451...The Gaza war was a warning. So why did you arm Israel and support Zionism "without qualification?"

One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

This helps to define - genocide.

On this day in 1939 contralto Marian Anderson sang before 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington an event organized by President Franklin Roosevelt after being denied permission to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall in Philadelphia by the DAR...

Mid-13th century door from the undercroft at Wells Cathedral in Somerset. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #WellsCathedral

450...Just as Ombudsmen should stand up for consumers. Not those those who consume them.

It's - The Sect of the Godless Christians.

Morning! xx

449..."We know too well - especially Zack Polanski - that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Nelson Mandela 1997.

448...And Regulators and Ombudsmen are as always: Good For Business. They never once gave us a chance to: Take Back Control.

447..."We know too well - especially The Red Cross - that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Nelson Mandela 1997. As the Israeli genocidal colonial expansion extends into Lebanon.

#OtD 9 Apr 1933 Italian anti-fascist actor, Gian Maria Volonté, was born. Famous for his role in the film 'A Fistful of Dollars', he held radical left-wing views, once getting arrested supporting striking Coca-Cola workers in the 1970s (see image) stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1087...

The #fox appears in the folklore of many cultures and is associated with cunning and tricks or as a familiar animal, possessed of magic powers #FolkloreThursday Artwork by Jackie Morris, artist, author, illustrator #WomensArt

Rusalka - Song to the Moon. Dvorak.

Spring is here 🦋

446...Rigged Market Capitalism explained: pardoned felon buys political influence. Those bought politicians then work to neutralise regulation. The people pay then get ripped-off with little or no chance of recompense.

445...Rigged Market Capitalism: Illogical ombudsmen + illogical pay rises for senior executives is apparently: Good For Business. But: Lousy For Democracy. And fully supported by Starmer-Freebie Labour.

this is my nephew's homework and i'm gonna cry

Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris): This is a species in the Cardinal family. The bright coloured plumage of the male of this 14cm (5.5in) bird only develops in its second year. These North American birds feed on seed. Gorgeous photo taken by Stacey Rich Bergman in the United States. #paintedbunting

So there’s no regime change, we lift all sanctions against them going back decades, they retain missile and drone capabilities, they control the strait and can charge tolls, and keep their enriched uranium. So much for “unconditional surrender.”

Iranians trump Trump.

#OtD 8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...

Mina Mina - Hairstring, 2006 by Indigenous Australian artist Judy Watson Napangardi #womensart

Guernica by Picasso, 1937, a symbol of peace and resistance against fascism. #war #art #picasso

Godless Christianity and the Gospel of Trump. 1: verse 1 - "Bomb a civilisation back to the stone age." verse 2 - "Don't go in peace and don't pray for me."

If music be the food of life - and it really is - I hope Ali Ghamsari is playing long after Trump has shuffled off this mortal coil.

A Piddock riddled Hagstone. Hagstones are stones with naturally formed holes in them. In this case made by a type of stone burrowing marine bivalve called a Common Piddock (Pholas dactylus).

444...A senior OFT civil servant told us it would not be a responsible use of taxpayers' money to investigate our complaint. Will Antonia Romeo's mandate extend to cover that? And "change" it so that covering-up taxpayers' complaints becomes illegal.

443...Reform UK will become the first political party to make it policy to officially victimise victims. The history of British colonisation and genocide will get a new coat of whitewash. What chance the victims of ombudsinjustice?

The joy of getting your first toy after being rescued: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Awwww/s/ft...

I envy the crew of Artemis II. Mainly for being able to lose contact with this planet.

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

Minoan amphora with floral design. 3,800 years old and still blooming gorgeous! 🌸 From Phaistos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

One of my first embroidery kits that’s not a sampler. I learned I *really* do not care for satin stitch. BUT I realized: this is my piece of cloth - I can do whatever I want! The body of the bottom moth has some new-to-me stitches. Keep the joy out there #stitchsky #embroidery

442...How the State and Labour Party politicians keep workers locked firmly in their place. Meantime Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer accept lavish freebies from those buying favours. Change?

441...How the State, civil servants and politicians bully and abuse the general public. Meantime the ultra wealthy hide their money in offshore tax havens. Change?

#OtD 7 Apr 1870, Gustav Landauer, Jewish #anarchist, theorist, editor & #Munich council republic leader, was born. This is a short biography: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1067...

Helen Paxton Brown (1876 - 1956), artist associated with the 'Glasgow Girls' who worked in a range of mediums, including hand painting on china #womensart

Iran hits back on social media.

butterfly is finished! this is completely out of my imagination, it's not based on a particular species. #embroidery

Louise Thuliez (1881 – 1966) was a French schoolteacher, author and resistance fighter during World War I and World War II. Despite having been caught, condemned to death, and narrowly escaping a German firing squad during World War I, Thuliez volunteered again in World War II. #CelebratingWomen

#MosaicMonday 1963, a blacksmith discovered a massive, nearly complete #Roman #mosaic at Hinton St Mary in #Dorset. It was considered one of a kind, with a pristine portrait of #Jesus Christ at its center (Constantine has also been suggested). #Archaeology #art #History