#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks This is nothing but pure evil misogynistic rhetoric! Women give birth and nurture ALL Human Beings! We will not be slaves to this kind of bull crap and we will pursue whatever career we want. We won’t “bond” to men who think they’re superior. #Women’sEquality

Congrats to Sharon Lokedi on her second (back-to-back) win at the #BostonMarathon. 🥳 Lokedi is today's women's champion with a time of 2:18:51. #Kenya sports.yahoo.com/articles/sha...

Nedia Were, Kenyan (1989- ), Figure with Blue Flowers, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 170.2 x 139.7 cm, private collection

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French (1825-1905), Portrait de Madame Hoskier, 1865, oil on canvas, 88.3 x 66 cm, private collection

Congrats to Eden Rainbow-Cooper for her second Boston Marathon wheelchair title! 🥳 Rainbow-Cooper is an English Paralympic athlete--finishing today in an unofficial 1:30:51. #Boston #BostonMarathon

#420Day This morning, @robsandia.bsky.social has announced his plans to legalize adult use cannabis in Iowa if elected governor this year. Give @robsandia.bsky.social a follow and repost so that our Iowa friends & family see this! 💙🗳💙 robsand.com/news/rob-san...

Apr 20, 1840 - July 6, 1916 Odilon Redon, French (1840-1916), Mystical Conversation, c. 1896, oil on canvas, 65 x 46 cm, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan

Apr 20, 1893 - Dec 25, 1983 Joan Miró, Catalan (1893-1983), El jardinero fumando en la luna, 1939

HUGE NEWS: After finally admitting that he misled parliament over the appointment of Peter Mandelson, Sir Keir Starmer has decided not to resign as prime minister

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland (b. #OTD 1939) was #Norway's 1st female Prime Minister, 1981. + Director-General of WHO, 1998-2003, officially declared health a fundamental human right + Global leader in public health & environmentalism, often called the "mother of sustainable development" #WomenInSTEM

What could possibly go wrong? www.normalisland.co.uk/p/palantir-p...

Midsummer Landscape, 1914 by Julian Alden Weir (American, 1852 - 1919). Oil, canvas | 60 × 50 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

April’s birth flower, the DAISY, symbolizes innocence, purity and new beginnings. 🤍💛🤍💚🤍 #nature #photography #flowers #daisies #blooms #bloomscrolling #spring

Dudes. As a society we taught young women to walk with keys between their fingers in dark parking lots and to carry pepper spray in their purse. So yes. I’m asking you to be responsible for the actions of other men. After all, that’s what you’ve asked of women for centuries. It’s your turn.

Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch (1606-1669), An Old Woman Called 'The Artist's Mother', 1629, oil on oak panel, 61.3 x 47.4 cm, Royal Collection of the United Kingdom, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England

We love the library! #nationallibraryweek

Georg Scholz, German (1890-1945), Nocturnal Street Scene, 1923, watercolor on paper, 46.2 x 32.2 cm, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany

Pope Leo:

Tsuchiya Koitsu, Japanese (1870-1949), Sunset at Tomonotsu, Inland Sea, 1940, color woodblock print on paper, oban, paper: 39 x 25.9 cm, block: 36.3 x 24.1 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Jacques Raymond Brascassat, French (1804-1867), A Bull Fight, 1855, oil on canvas, 144.8 x 192.4 cm, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA

With a few choice words and a handshake, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum laid to rest a diplomatic spat between her government and Spain over the Spanish colonial past during her visit to Barcelona on Saturday. apnews.com/article/spai...

Botanist/plant ecologist E. Lucy Braun is one of the most influential ecologists in North American history. + First woman President, Ecological Society of America, 1950 + Helped establish plant ecology as a rigorous academic discipline She was born #OTD in 1889. #WomenInSTEM #conservation #ecosky

In a stunning admission, Sir Keir Starmer has revealed he had absolutely no clue he was prime minister when his old friend Peter Mandelson was appointed as ambassador to the US, last year. www.normalisland.co.uk/p/keir-starm...

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring Look towards heaven and you will see A graceful bird flying free Above the clouds and sky so blue Shirley Rebstock 🎨 Reg Cartwright

Rukiye Garip. Born (1964) Turkish Watercolor, 76 x 56cm (30in x 22in) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Wojciech Krupa (German Artist, born 1966) Oil pastel, 42 x 30 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

So true , why I don’t understand any war 💕

Even Iran is calling it the “Epstein regime.” 🤣

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.

titled Melusine and was painted by German artist Heinrich Vogeler around 1912.

oil painting "Caryatid Mother" by contemporary artist Brian Kershisnik. Normalize breastfeeding in public!

Today, President Obama and Mayor Mamdani read for kids at a pre-K learning center in South Bronx

Francine van Hove, French (1942-2025), What She Reads, 2001, oil on canvas

Yvonne Canu, French (1921-2007), Honfleur, 1988, oil on canvas, 60.4 x 81 cm, private collection

Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian (1857-1914), Kjerringa ved bækken (Pesta) (The Old Woman by the Stream (The Plague)), 1899, oil on canvas, 45 x 68 cm, private collection

Archaeologist Gertrude Caton Thompson led the first all-female archaeological expedition in history in 1929. She was one of the first in the field to use aerial surveys to identify sites, using them successfully for her famed work in Zimbabwe & Egypt. She died #OTD in 1985. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

ㅤ When we talk about artificial intelligence, everyone wants to know if it will surpass the human being. But I wonder something else: can a machine know what it feels like to lose something you love? Can it understand how sadness turns into art, or how a mistake can teach you to love better? ㅤ

ㅤ Creativity is not born from code, but from the heart. And there is no algorithm that can replicate the tremor of a voice when it tells the truth. — Keanu Reeves img: Lucellino lamp — Ingo Maurer ㅤ

John Lines - Spring Showing Itself. Oil on board.

#OTD in 1964, “Jerrie” Mock landed her 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘴 plane in Ohio and became the first woman to fly solo around the world. Departing on March 19, she completed her 23,103-mile (37,180-km) journey in 29 days, 11 hours, 59 minutes. #aviation #AviationHistory #AvGeek

Laura Boswell, Scottish, Wet Spring Woods, reduction linocut, 23 layers across two blocks, edition of 18, 34 x 51 cm

Who Could Become the Next UN Secretary-General — and Why This Choice Matters Now www.onestnetwork.com/who-could-be...

From the Hesgeth Illustrated Bible ~ Bansky, British (1973- ), Pulp Fiction, 2004, screenprint in colors, on wove paper, 22/600, image: 41.9 x 62.8 cm, sheet: 48.5 x 69.5 cm, private collection

The #BostonMarathon was run #OTD in 1972 and, for the first time, women were officially allowed to enter. Nina Kuscsik emerged from an 8-member field to win the race in 3:10:26. She would go to win the NYC Marathon and was the first woman to win both the marathons in the same year. #WomensHistory

Tawny Chatmon, American (1979- ), Braiding Hour, from The Awakening, 2017, photograph, photo-manipulation, 24 x 20 in

Kawase Hasui, Japanese (1883-1957), Moran Pavilion, Pyongyang, Korea, from The Sequel to Views of Korea, 1940, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, sheet: 38.89 x 26.04 cm, image: 36.2 x 24.29 cm, mat: 50.8 x 40.64 cm, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA