Born on this day in 1936: Lee 'Scratch' Perry (Rainford Hugh Perry) #Upsetters Pics; Echoes Stephen Wright youtu.be/9_4Q2KyCr54?si…

Rising Star https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/rising-star-1923

'Blooming Boughs" Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson #WomensArt

Lee 'Scratch' Perry was born on March 20, 1936

Nicholas Haysom has died at 73. The white South African anti-apartheid activist was tapped by prisoner-turned-president Nelson Mandela to help draft the country’s new constitution that enshrined equal rights for Black people, minorities and white people.

Blue Woman with a Guitar (1929) by Polish born Art deco painter Tamara de Lempicka #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Kitty Shepherd, contemporary British ceramic slipware artist #WomensArt

Paul Gauguin, L’univers est créé (The Universe Is Being Created), from the Noa Noa Suite, 1893 #museumarchive #paulgauguin

Public servants getting the message: citizens do not want to filmed 24/7 to make lives easier for bureaucrats. - Local gov'ts in WA pulling Flock contracts - Seattle's socialist mayor making moves - GOP chair Jim Walsh noting concern re: public surveillance www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Credit where it's due - 'Lake County Republican Party Chairman Randy Niemeyer attended the Indiana Election Commission meeting Feb. 25, papers in hand, to present his challenge to Mayers’ candidacy.'

Made a few vintage jewelry sales today and sold a used book. My vintage jewelry place: www.mercari.com/u/shadowsfin... #onlinesales #vintage #jewelry

The U.S. Education Department is handing off a portion of its student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department, a first step toward shedding management of all student loans as Trump administration officials dismantle the federal education agency.

Mayor Katie Wilson pauses expansion of police surveillance cameras

THREAD. Just for today I will be sending out a free original linocut by my my mum, Jo, to anyone in the UK who takes out an annual subscription to my website (minimum cost £20). I have a few of her popular meadow hare in various colours plus a few other prints... www.tom-cox.com

Another painting of the Barbican conservatory. Plants, pipes and brutalism. An irresistible combo to draw. Acrylic ink on watercolour paper

States seek to unmask federal immigration agents — and their own police

They still do not do basic background checks on people for reality shows. Almost 40 years into making this genre of show? That is what this tells me.

We are his piggy bank.

In California, police didn't investigate after two men were shot by federal immigration agents in separate incidents. Police in Phoenix said they are leaving it to the FBI and ICE to probe the shooting of a man who allegedly fled immigration agents.

When I disabled all the notifications on my smart phone, I felt such an enormous sense of relief. It took me a while to figure out why. It was because I wasn't being constantly interrupted New psychology research reveals the cognitive cost of smartphone notifications www.psypost.org/new-psycholo...

*taps article* This us what you do people. This is how you react to pedophiles and rapists. Distance yourself, break connections. apnews.com/article/cesa...

Completely agree with this- The EU/UK should be creating their own integrated ecosystem of core aps/software, email, video conferencing, storage so that US based companies cannot literally "kill switch" the EU/UK at the request of a malevolent US government. youtube.com/shorts/FBqL5...

In a world starved for good news, we just got a collective cultural victory: www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-...

The COVID-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official U.S. count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths. apnews.com/article/covi...

ICE detained Wilfredo Castillo at what he thought was a routine appointment for his asylum case, saying he missed check-ins on an app. He spent 11 months at a detention center, where he was stabbed. Don't miss the latest from @rachelspacek.bsky.social www.investigatewest.org/i-was-trying...

If in Europe: www.kerrang.com/placebo-30th...

"My silence ends here." Read Dolores Huerta's statement about her decision to reveal that she was sexually assaulted by Cesar Chavez. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Flowers, 1970 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1146436

I have never giggled so much when reading a RANGE story. @danieltwalters.bsky.social’s newest takes a long hard look at the fake basketball news flooding Facebook

Powell: "The thing a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is very very low level of job creation. If you adjust the trend job creation over the past 6 months for what we think is overstatement due to overcounting, effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector"

Young woman lying in a grass https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/11767

"Meta, after laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs division, closing three VR studios, stopping new content for VR fitness app Supernatural, and discontinuing its metaverse for work, is announcing a major change for its Horizon Worlds metaverse platform." www.theverge.com/tech/881647/...

Anything by Kate Bush. Though it would make me extremely angry and violent to be subjected to her music at length...not a good thing for torturers.

Alameda Rock & Roll Flea Market, happening this weekend on Saturday, March 21st at Faction Brewing in Alameda, CA! Saturday March 21, 2026 at Faction Brewing 2501 Monarch Street Alameda, CA 94501 (SF Bay Area/East Bay) 10am - 6pm | $5 (12 and under free) | ALL AGES

COMMENTARY by @paulhydenews.bsky.social... Jesse Jackson: A voice that rose from Greenville and echoed across America scdailygazette.com/2026/02/19/j...

Passion Pit have mapped out a summer 2026 US tour. They’ve also revealed that their new EP, Pretty Penny, is on the way.

"Rich people won’t give their money unless you reward them": Brian Eno on redistributing wealth and using his art to make connections spearswms.com/impact-phila...

staring cat is so close to getting funded! we only need 80 more units www.makeship.com/products/sta...

"Democrats are no longer framing their tax increases on the wealthy solely as measures to fund programs. They are arguing that America’s super-wealthy simply have too much money and taking some of that away is a public good on its own." newrepublic.com/article/2078...

Nationwide book banning bill HR 7661 is BAD. Find out more here, including what we can do to help stop it: bookriot.com/hr7661-advan...

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy only made it halfway through this adorable video before succumbing to a panic attack. Aides report he has been sedated and is resting comfortably in the bed of a Ford F-450 Super Duty stuck in traffic.

Stonehenge tunnel plan finally scrapped after years of protests. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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¡Ay, no! Labor icon Dolores Huerta speaks out after reports Cesar Chavez abused her, groomed girls - San Antonio Express-News apple.news/AJjDTWHqLTsq...

The credible allegations against Cesar Chavez for rape and sexual abuse are horrific. My heart is with the survivors who, for decades, have seen their abuser lauded as a hero. As one of them says: “The movement — that’s the hero.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

movements aren't separate from society. they are part of society. every social problem in society will be found in movements.

NEW: The fed govt is moving to adopt new AI tools. But when @propublica.org examined the program responsible for assessing the cybersecurity of this cloud-based tech, it found serious breakdowns. "This is not security," an expert said. "This is security theater." www.propublica.org/article/micr...

Advocates and elected officials rallied around Dylan Contreras, who had no criminal record, and held him up as an example of the misguided cruelty of ICE’s strategy: gothamist.visitlink.me/JO86JX

I am gobsmacked by the prices people are paying for graded VHS tapes now, and as soon as I click send on this message I am packing up my oversized VHS copy of Gymkata to get graded so I can pay for my kids’ college, because I cannot imagine any VHS tape being more valuable than that one.

Please send love to sea otter Mishka and her care team. ❤️ Tomorrow, Mishka will have a sedated procedure to assess and likely remove a plaque (a thickened, fur-less patch) on her hind flipper. Since prior exams and samples of the plaque haven't identified it, this procedure is the next step. (1/4)