Friends don’t let friends watch press conferences.

Always good to ask who wants you to consider what inevitable. AI, robots, endless war, patriarchy with the mask off? Always good also to ask who wants you to believe what impossible? Caring about the other? Making choices for the long term common good? Living together simply and at peace?

Sister and Friend, 2024 by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian painter #WomensArt

Pensions are affordable. Benefits are affordable. Paying decent wages is affordable. Universal Healthcare is affordable. Billionaires aren't affordable.

Tickets are also available virtually (which is good, because it was sold out in person!). Very interested to learn more about this piece of American history.

This entire culture of refusing to hold men accountable for their actions is literally destroying the world.

I return to Szymborska’s Nobel Prize speech a lot for precisely this sentiment. While it was written some time ago, it is very good summary of what’s wrong with turning over our thinking (& writing, because writing is thought) to LLMs. We don’t know everything. It’s in the seeking that we advance.

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

Octavia E. Butler said, “These novels are not prophetic. These novels are cautionary tales… The problems that I write about are problems that we can do something about. That's why I write about them.” And “I hope they're not prophecy because I don't want to live in that world.”

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

#TartanDay - the "Witches of Scotland" tartan. The design was created by Clare Campbell to memorialise those who suffered as a result of The Witchcraft Act 1563 to 1736 in Scotland.

We are so, so small. #Artemis

once again randomly thinking about this sculpture series by Helena Hauss because it lives rent free in my brain

Flor Garduno, Self Portrait, 1987.

Graciela Iturbide. Absolutely brilliant photography, mostly portraiture.

A few things I appreciate/have learned from women who are younger than me (I’m Gen X for reference): • Your job is not your identity • How to say no & mean it/boundaries • How does this tech work because whut

Today's art/garden project: plant tags that *should* last longer than 2 weeks in the sun & weather

The irony that some of my best cooking happens when I'm just trying to clean out the refrigerator.

Tis the season. I miss the sheer volume of cherry blossoms we had every spring in the Pacific NW. What the photos are for, I suppose. 🌸 #sakura

spring mist cleansing away the grit #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #SenryuSunday

brought some tree indoors

I have used AI ONCE on purpose. It was an early version of the image generators. I had a go thought, huh, never felt the need to do it again. Not out of virtue just...doesn't interest me. Making things is the point, not having them made for you.

Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d #ShareGoodNewsToo

Revellers parade giant penises to dash stigma in Japan's fertility festival

Reminds me: "Gutierrez adorns herself with jewelry, beaded masks, and braided crowns, transcending the human realm, referencing Aztec heroines Xochiquetzal and Tlazolteotl, the Mayan goddess Chin, and the Yoruba orisha Yemaya as entities “who sit in a temple built to protect me and dolls like me.”

OK this is cool. The first time humans have seen the whole Mare Orientale on the far side of the Moon with their own eyes. See flic.kr/p/2s5HA2X 🧪🔭

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

I’m not doing enough atm, my sister talked me into another project. I think it’s revenge for talking her into running with me.

Inès de la Fressange: “Cuando era niña, una mujer de 60 años era una abuela con moño. Hoy hace deporte, sale a cenar, es activa”. El nuevo ensayo 'La edad experimental’ analiza la vejez no como declive sino como laboratorio de posibilidades

Welp, just one Leavitt away from a "no gurlz allowed" sign on the front door.

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou. Remembering the great author, poet, and civil rights activist on her birthday. 💐💐💐

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