horrible pictures.

Especially for @number10cat.bsky.social

Sandford Street, Salford the wooden Memorial Shrine on the wall was placed there by residents after WW1 in honour if their dead. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

Marie is our Regional Support Officer & is fantastic. Trade union victimisation is indefensible & abhorrent. To see it done by a union employer undermines the work of all trade unionists. We have written to the GS to call for a stop to the victimisation and to settle the dispute. #HandsOffMarie

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Rahaf Haj Ali (Palestinian, b. 2002). Choking No. 2 (2024, clay and mixed media on wood).

Sheep in Ebbw Vale satirising Damien Hirst

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Artwork by the Japanese artist Takagi Shunzan (高木春山), who lived from 1803 to 1868. The artwork is from a 195-volume encyclopedia of flora and fauna titled Honzō zusetsu (本草図説), which can be translated as the "Illustrated Book of Herbal Medicine" or a natural history

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The Uncivilised Cat, 1930, painting by Agnes Miller Parker, Scottish artist.

BBC Radio 3 In Tune Now Playing Traditional Spiritual, Ernest Irving, Paul Robeson & Ernest Irving Orchestra with Chorus Deep River

The reality of ruffs - you don't often see the side view - here are two from Wenceslaus Hollar in 1645 (BM)

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Important perspective from Greenland.

#Woodensday St James's Piccadilly's heavenly limewood reredos by Grinling Gibbons. 2005 restoration used special wax + white gouache for light, delicate appearance of 1684, much as Gibbons intended. Pelican in piety, doves of peace, garlands w St James' scallop shells + floral/fruity cascades.

Anger, envy, gluttony and covetousness so far, and the only reason lechery doesn't figure is because I'm too slothful.

Ben Jennings @BJennings90 on #RobertJenrick and his defection to #ReformUK @Guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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John Atkinson Grimshaw, Figure in the Moonlight, 1861

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Miniature yet also substantial portrait of the artist's father, goldsmith Richard Hilliard, in 1577. By Nicholas Hilliard, whose day is today.

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Sunrise at My Lai, March 2025. I took the picture at the exact spot where the photo of the bodies in the rice paddy was taken by Ron Haeberle on March 16, 1968.

It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.

Spooky Advent day 24: Quis est ist qui venit? Plucky Prof Parkins comes a creepy cropper with bolshy bespooked bedding in M R James' Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad. And thus ends my creepy countdown, thank you all for following along. Merry Christmas!!

“But where Pynchon takes down the liberal culture industry, laying waste to its dreams of revolutionary activity … [OBAA is] an epic re-mythologisation of culture industry ‘activism’, one that places the liberal fantasies of its own heroism at the core of the spectacle.” ocula.com/magazine/opi...

Paul Evans (British, b.1950) "Winter Solstice Shadows in the Artist's Garden," 2025 Ink and acrylic 47 x 47 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Happy Winter Solstice! Beer can, pinhole camera photos of the Summer to Winter Solstice (2024) and the Winter to Summer Solstice (2025). You never know quite what you're going to get with these photos, set the beer can pointing towards the sun at hopefully the correct angle and wait 6 months!

Farm on the way to Kilmacolm

I must go there. www.ft.com/content/3c4b...

Pet owners' increasing tendency to see their animals as children rather than dogs or cats can have dire consequences. Owners, and veterinarians, should be wary, warns Eddie Clutton

This FT article has attracted a perfect storm of ICE-enthusiast commentators condemning it -- implying that it is particularly unwelcome to them. ig.ft.com/us-ice-surve...

"Snow. Crow", 2008, Etching and aquatint, 36 x 36 cm - Ryoheyi Tanaka, Japanese, born 1933 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for

Also from my collection, the great Haitian artist, Frantz Zéphirin's painting entitled *The Spirit of the Indian Facing Colonization*, depicting the Spanish ship, *Conquistador*; the mask of red death killing an indigenous woman; and the face of the African who will replace her.

Star-shaped tile with a stylized flowering plant, anonymous, c. 1250 - c. 1299 Persia (Rijksmuseum)

As the days shorten. This evokes so well the quality of artificial light in the period with its ever-present shadow and darkness. Banquet at Night by Wolfgang Heimbach, 1640. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien) The gathering was in the Knights’ Hall of Vienna’s Hofburg Palace.

Say hello to literally the only protesters outside Tory conference this year

Nittoh Guifu: Gensen Kanda, on Japanese fish. Japan, circa 1760

Some of my favourite plein airs from this summer

A delightful R.F. Kuang interview. Sad to see she’s no longer on here.

One of Gerda Taro's early photos from the Spanish Civil War. Women in Catalan communist party (PSUC) training for militia on Barcelona beach (probably Camp de la Bota, today's Forum), August 1936.

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Happy 1st of August! Welsh folklore tells us to beware the humble cabbage this month: "The old people used to say that if you desired to die you should eat cabbages in August." The perfect excuse not to eat your greens... 🥬💀 #Wales #Folklore

spotted on Facebook: “Revolution chess,” from Erik Olin Wright’s unpublished 1974 “Chess Perversions and Other Diversions.”