Zelenskyy: “I thank all the leaders who are in Ukraine and with Ukraine today, and who have supported Ukrainians throughout all these years of struggle. It is extremely important that we are all together today, speaking with one voice.”

Jovibarba which, pleasingly, means 'jupiters beard'. 🌱 #GardensHour #PlantSky #MacroMonday

Trump illegally jacked up costs on the American people. The Payback Act says: run us our money back.

Police have assured our rulers that although they have arrested Mandelson for a second time, they don’t want to charge him with anything to do with Epstein’s paedophile ring. Instead they are determined to get him on a technicality to stop you lot from moaning. www.normalisland.co.uk/p/police-wil...

🇪🇺🇮🇷 EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas is calling for a “diplomatic solution” as US-Iran tensions rise, saying “we don’t need another war in this region” after strike threats from Trump. She said Iran is at its “weakest point in years” & that the moment should be used for a “diplomatic way out."...

Ready for spring🍃 🎨Chris Dunn

No beer swilling dickheads here! Sometimes it pays to be overlooked by men 💪🏻👏🏻👸

Winslow Homer, American (1836-1910), Old Friends, 1894, watercolor and gouache over graphite pencil on white wove paper, 54.8 x 38.4 cm, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch (1606-1669), Sleeping Puppy, c. 1640, etching and drypoint on laid paper, 38 x 83 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA

Osman Hamdi Bey, Turkish (1842-1910), Two Musician Girls, second half 19th Century, oil on canvas, 39 x 58 cm, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Türkiye

Rise and Shine!! Tove Marika Jansson 1914-2001 Swedish-speakingFinnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She drew illustrations and postcards.

Eduard Dollerschell, German (1887-1946), Youth and Old Age, 1920s, oil on canvas, 98 x 86 cm, private collection

Summed up quite nicely.

Holding On, Letting Go by Daniel Gerhartz (American, b.1967). Oil on linen | 48 × 30 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Welcome to Bluesky, Prime Minister! @minister-president.bsky.social

#ResistanceRoots Zitkála-Šá (meaning Red Bird) was born on this day in 1876 in Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She was a Yankton Dakota writer, musician and activist who was dedicated to preserving Native American culture and fighting for civil rights. /1

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” W. E. B. Du Bois, born on this day in 1868

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Rise and Shine!! Tove Marika Jansson 1914-2001 Swedish-speakingFinnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She drew illustrations and postcards.

Norman Rockwell, American (1894-1978), Picasso vs. Sargent, LOOK Magazine, January 1966, oil on canvas, 23 x 17 in, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA

I think too many people believe the propaganda behind Capitalism, that it is seeking to achieve something, or that it rewards hard work or that it encourages competition or innovation. It is just a system of control. Shackles in the form of currency.

August Macke, German (1887-1914), St. George, 1912, oil on canvas, 80.5 x 60 cm, Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Germany

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office. #ShakespeareSunday

Georges Lemmen, Belgian (1865-1916), Jeune femme faisant du crochet (Julie Lemmen), 1890, oil on canvas, 45.7 x 38.1 cm, private collection

Maxfield Parrish. (1870-1966) American “Aquamarine” 1917 Oil on panel 15 1/2 x 19 1/4” #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Maxfield Parrish. (1870-1966) American “Autumn Brook “ 1948 Oil on board, 23½ x 18 in. (59.7 x 45.7 cm.) Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Kawase Hasui, Japanese (1883–1957), Senzoku Pond, from the series Twenty Views of Tokyo, 1928, color woodblock print, oban, 35.9 x 23.8 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Johannes Müller-Franken (German, born 1960) "Woman with a Bicycle", 1997. Acrylic on Canvas, 13.7 × 9 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Congratulations, Sweden Women's Curling team on the Gold Medal! And, to the Swiss and Canada teams for Silver and Bronze!

Despite having seen countless photos of Delicate Arch, we weren't prepared for its enormity in person. We stood at its base while a kind stranger snapped our photo. It provides some scale for its towering stature. #StunDay #Landscape #Scenery #Nature #OrangeSun #NationalParks #Hiking #Utah

Carragh an Tairbeirt / The Stone of Tarbert aka The Giants Tooth, Isle of Gigha, Hebrides, Scotland 📷 27.04.22 #StandingStoneSunday #scape #Stunday #Landscapephotography #PhotographersofBlueSky

#StunDay from a while ago.

Sunday is #Stunday! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited This female Hooded Merganser looks like she just came out of a salon with her #stunning highlights!

Have a wonderful #Sunday 🫶 📷 Lilies from the Balkans #ColorADay #OrangeSun #FlowersOnSunday #Stunday #photography #flowers #ArtYear #FineArt #photohour #bloomscrolling #nature #thelittlethings #EastCoastKin

Something To Crow About #BlueSkyArtShow #Two #StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

California Dreamin’ #Stunday #photography

Bruno Bobak was a prominent Canadian artist, best known for his expressionist landscapes. Born in Poland, he emigrated to Canada with his family. Bobak was a versatile artist who worked in oil, watercolor, woodcuts, and sculpture. His style evolved from stark realism to a powerful expressionism.

The Park Bench, 1946 Horace Pippin (American, 1888 - 1946) (33 × 45.7 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Clever duck #BirdOfTheDay #OneLeg #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Memories, a hazy reality 🖤 #shotoniphone #mobilephotography #natureinspired

Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living… Pay attention Be astonished Tell about it …..pretty much sums up how I like to live and why I post here on Bluesky

Our old concrete path is full of cracks and holes. Even at this time of year plants are able to make the most of them. Plants are the masters of opportunity and adaptability. They rarely seem to need “perfect” conditions to thrive. #nature #plants #gardens

🌧️ een mooie zondag! 🍄♥️ Rode Kelkzwam / Scarlet Elfcups #nature yesterday #Natuur #photography #FungiFriends 🎁 ook eens een beetje #KleurInDeNatuur

Frits Thaulow - Midnight in Amiens - 1897 Frits Thaulow (20 October 1847 – 5 November 1906) was a Norwegian Impressionist painter renowned for his naturalistic depictions of landscap #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

The handsome face of the male purple finch. 😍 #birds

To the Moon and back.

Angie Craig: "They removed everyone from the ICE facility 30 minutes before we arrived — this is not the intent of the law. DHS is violating the law" Ilhan Omar: "What happened today is a blatant attempt to obstruct members of Congress from doing their oversight duties"