Munitions fly after a missile strike in Vyshneve, Kyiv Oblast, just west of the city of Kyiv. Numerous secondary explosions occurred, and 500 people have been evacuated from the area.

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Russia is stalled in the battlefield and so it targets Ukrainian civilians while they sleep.

For America’s 250th Independence Day, I chose a Ukrainian painting. Serhii Vasylkivskyi, Guarding the Zaporizhzhian Free Lands (1890). Freedom must not only be declared, but also guarded. Happy Independence Day, America, from Ukraine.

Thanks to Riley Stuart for quoting me, along with @markgaleotti.bsky.social and Nikolai Petrov in this @news.abc.net.au article about the state of emergency in Crimea and Putin under pressure www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

🎙️This morning I spoke to @lbc.co.uk about the devastating attacks on #Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities and taking stock of this stage of #Russia's war against #Ukraine. The interview starts at 2 hours & 50 minutes. You need a free Global Player account to listen. www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...

A cat has got to be the least herdable animal in the world 😂 TT: @sonjaboostrom

Last night, two of my family’s homes were hit in Russia's 11-hour bombardment of #Kyiv. These are the rooms I grew up in, the places where our lives happened. My family worked so hard for them. Now I am looking at them in shards.

Snack...what snack? Boss denies having any snacks and there's definitely no evidence on his nose 😹

As we mark the anniversary of equal suffrage, I'm proud to be the 593rd woman MP ever elected. With only two years until the centenary of equal franchise in 2028, there is so much more to do to ensure women from all backgrounds can lead and succeed in public life.

My latest for @uk.theconversation.com is out - examining the significance of the state of emergency in #Crimea and how #Russia is increasingly under pressure from #Ukraine theconversation.com/state-of-eme...

🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Bonne Fête du Canada! 🇨🇦

Frances Seward, abstract landscape photographer based in New Mexico #WomensArt

I've given 8am academic conference presentations in windowless rooms to a larger audience than the political party who controls all three branches of the US government at an event that also sells hot dogs and beer.

I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.

Will "Number 10 North" have a cat? How has this question not been raised yet.

Cameron Katz is the Head of Content + Partnerships at Made By Us. Katz honors Frances Perkins, the labor secretary whose response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire led to Social Security, the minimum wage, and the forty-hour work week. #WeAreAmerica250

A quiet Sunday afternoon walk down the lane.

A visitor from next door. @irmorus.bsky.social do you know where your cat is? 😹

This. johnheathershaw.substack.com/p/the-crisis...

Oh go on, Bruce, have a stretch and a yawn.

This is quite literally the best thing you will see today.

The lane in high summer, with the promise of blackberries to come.

The cat’s summertime quest for cool tummy fur.

Bliss. The heatwave has broken (for us in west Wales anyway) and there is a cool breeze. Perfect for sitting outside to do some reading on a PhD student’s chapter and admire the lavender.

Thanks to @asamiterajima.bsky.social for quoting me in this @kyivindependent.com independent article about the impact of #Ukraine's targeted drone strikes on occupied #Crimea kyivindependent.com/russian-inst...

People who create and share AI videos of animals in the name of views are negating and devaluing the real authentic animal moments that we should cherish. Why create artificial when reality is by far better? Imagined falsehoods mimicking genuine dogs destroy some of the purest moments that exist.

Seascape by Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt

Bruce’s Friday evening.

The mobile air-conditioning unit cometh

❗️“Today, 160 servicemen were released from captivity. All of them have been in captivity since 2022,” — Zelenskyy.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Timeline cleanse

“Going out and holding your single picket sign saying ‘No to war’ is definitely not what the state wants women to do,” @jgmaber.bsky.social told me. “It doesn’t want anybody to do it, but it especially doesn’t want women to do it.”

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

My university is cutting almost a 1/4 of academics in humanities and the social sciences. Despite what managers say, it's not about the money. They are using a national crisis born of 15 yrs of govt neglect as a pretext to make ideological moves against HASS fields. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was wondering when they would add a modesty screen a la Kennedy Center. How many landmarks in Washington will get the Trump cover up?

Guess what? I’m at risk of redundancy. My job - and those of my colleagues in my department and across our wider faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences - is one of those currently targeted for cuts. I received a personal letter today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂

when does the cat become prime minister

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

But is @number10cat.bsky.social going to make a statement?

#OTD Agustina de Aragón acted as a front line battery commander at the Battle of Vitoria on 21 June 1813, defending Spain from French invaders in the Peninsular War. Read more about her at infinite-women.com/women/agustina-de-aragon/

Ozzy giving a master class in how to pose for the camera 📷

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Ozzy's playing the piano to entertain students while they wait for their President's Collections (end of term reports). Carefully pressing the notes with both paws, and really concentrating.

pete hegseth is engaged in open racial discrimination against black officers. the clear message is that there is no place for black or women leadership in his military

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

BBC announces 550 job cuts, part of £500m savings plan www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If you are here for the news related and ❤️ 📻 this is 🚫: World Tonight, Midnight News, Money Box Live, AntiSocial, Law Show, Crossing Continents. On #BBCWorldService The Inquiry, The Conversation and Fifth Floor