#OtD 9 May 2012 Vidal Sassoon, "anti-fascist warrior hairdresser" died aged 84. As a teenager in London he fought Oswald Mosley's fascists in the streets with his hairdressing scissors, as part of the militant 43 Group. Learn about the group in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

I need to buy a pile of cheap bullshit boho type rings and I was halfway out the door before I remembered that Telegraph ave has been completely purged of the hippie street vendors by evil soulless jerks who hate everyone and everything that once made Berkeley a good city

imagining the Lady Of The Lake of Arthurian legend hanging out in Lake Merritt and giving the once and future king of Oakland the Big Cig

Yosemite National Park officials say a 10-year effort to reintroduce the California red-legged frog has succeeded. “We now have a large enough population that we can do similar actions in other areas of the Sierra,” an aquatic ecologist said.

every day i find an incredible guy (from a painting scroll attributed to qiu ying called "raising the alms bowl: the conversion of hariti, mother of demons) asia.si.edu/explore-art-...

Margaret Bourke-White, Workers At The American Woolen Co, 1935

Walker Evans - Garage, Atlanta, Georgia, 1936

Wayne Miller, Chicago, Black Labor Union Workers on Strike, 1950

Lois Mailou Jones, The Musician, c. 1940

Bankelal is a kid's humour comic that features an inordinate amount of grisly decapitation

Moebius

Tom Killion, Piute Pass from Carolina's Valley, first printed 1999

Question for strippers: in the aughts there were a number of glitter hair gels out there specifically for just hair but now I can only find body/face/hair glitter goops which are NOT what I want where have the good glitter hair gels gone I can't find anything that wont be a crunchy stinky mess

Tonight you Belong to Me Digital collage by me

Edgar Degas, On Attend les Clients, c.1879-80 or 1876-77

OK Global Southern Bluesky, let's go: share your most beloved non-Anglophone pop culture franchises. We want to know about the Nepali romance novels, the Khmer superhero comics, the Guatemalan detective movies, the Malawian ghost hunter cartoons. Or whatever's out there. Please boost!

Fabergé miniature bidet , 1908-17. Gold, jade, enamel, pearls

Putting this out there for those who need it

Check out this drawing of a Yiddish dog I found in a book of Jewish humor at my job

Walt Kuhn, Plumes, 1931

just learned that the standard yiddish word for a button (knepl, קנעפּל) is actually in the diminutive and thus implies the existence of some other, oft-unmentioned…mega-button

Happy to share a new zine we just finished that's an updated version to "Recognizing Hate". This zine is a reference guide to identify various nazi dog whistles, and includes a list with brief descriptions of the most active far-right groups currently in the US. www.wewillfreeus.org/farrightthre...

Paolo Morando (also known as Il Cavazzola), Portrait of Giulia Trivulzio, 1519

Workshop of Giulio Romano, A Mermaid Feeding her Young, c.1520-40

Hans Baldung, Woman and Death, c.1517

Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, Witch Carrying Skull of the Artist, c.1513

Zal Being Rescued by the Simurgh, from the Shahnameh, Safavid Dynasty, late 16th century

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 02,1949

Yep. It isn’t 2023. Telemedicine abortion remains broadly available everywhere: •Domestic providers can switch to a miso-only regime; slightly less effective but still extremely safe •International providers will still mail mifepristone uninterrupted The field has been planning for this moment.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 01,1945

Illuminated miniature illustration of the demon Belial from Jacobus de Teramo's "Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Luciferi contra Jesum Christum" (1461). In this work Lucifer sues Jesus Crist for the latter's harrowing of hell, and Belial acts as the devil's attorney

Manticore from a Greek manuscript of Liber de Proprietatibus Animalium, 16th century

The battle between the serpent and the Son of the Woman, Silos Beatus Apocalypse, 1109

Max Linder in Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)

The Scourge of the Locusts, from the Apocalypse of Saint-Sever, 11th century

Two Witnesses preaching, attacked by Beast from the Abyss, and standing. Bamberg Apocalypse, 11th century

Now reading An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi

ranch for poorly drawn horses

Jenny Saville, Exodus, 2020-21

Working women, suffering women. Women who languish at home and in the factory. Why are you standing on the sidelines? Why aren’t you helping build the temple of freedom, of human happiness? Help us carry the red banner forward, through the storm, through dark nights! youtu.be/uQiiRVuutNk?...

What have they done to spellcheck why does it think "frontispiece" isn't a word

Maurice Sendak, frontispiece from The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm, 1973

A month ago PG&E was threatening to shut off my power for missed payments I couldn't account for but I paid because I like electricity and this month PG&E says I not only don't have a balance but have a credit of almost $100 which isn't sus at all of course

It is live! 🎧 #MusicSky #MusicianSky If you missed it earlier, everything thrown at this will be donated to CCIJ. You can also show me proof you've donated $3 or more directly to CCIJ, and if you do I'll give you a free download code for Rain Suite! screamedthesniper.bandcamp.com/track/come-o...

Virgil Finlay, 1952

It's kinda wild how Hail Caesar! gets better every time I watch it

"Hey it's notable character actor Fred Melamed!" — me when I see notable character actor Fred Melamed

ALIKE IN DIGNITY

I don’t begrudge any finalists in a Best Bay Area Bookstore contest / poll. But it’s really meaningless if none of the finalists are outside SF.

Thank you kofta kebab. I love you kofta kebab.