"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Cuddling Ambush Bugs on a Purple Coneflower. (2025) Watercolor and gouache. 8x10" This might be my cutest commission yet. 🏳️‍🌈 ****** Where no crawly is creepy LindZeamays Illustration LindZeamays.com ****** #inverts 🪲🪳🎨🐡

My zinnia is happy! Do you see the smile in the disk florets? #zinnia #gardening #bloomscrolling #flowers

Rural landscape-inspired textile art with view to fields until the horizon, using hand-dyed fabric, stitching and mixed media by UK textile artist Magz Roberts #WomensArt

✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ Girl Scouts of the USA: "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Racial Justice: Girl Scouts of the USA is an anti-racist organization." "All of these are hallmarks of Girl Scouts’ broader commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and racial justice."

Pleased to report the long-lived Mexican tradition of political caricature, stretching back at least as far as the great José Guadalupe Posada, is still going strong (as seen in Oaxaca). The poster lists free classes in: -Drawing -Painting/Color -Composition -Marxist Theory

I recently lost my beloved maple tree in a storm so I took some time to paint her stump today. Just now I thought to myself “I wonder if there is an #artchallenge on BlueSky that this could fit into” and realized the #JuliArty theme today is #maple!? Perfect. RIP Ms Maple. I miss your shade.

Here’s a coneflower I painted in class last night. My grandfather used to paint flowers so I was remembering him while working on it. #smArtist #ArtYear #watercolor

That’s me in the lower right corner of the first S! #Indivisible #RESIST #ArtOfResistance

Urgent Matters - Gator Days

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

🎶 Imagine 🎼 🎶🎶

Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”

🚨 Day 60: 238 men remain forcibly disappeared in El Salvador’s CECOT prison. U.S. Reps toured the prison, heard their desperate cries,“Freedom! Help! Kidnapped!” & walked past w/o helping. Visit freeandry.org to learn how you can still help. #FreeAndry #BringThemBack youtube.com/shorts/20o79...

Singapore-based textile artist Teresa Lim combines embroidery, illustration and pattern design #womensart

A Northern Silver Mine | Franklin Carmichael #Modern #GroupOfSeven

RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated. “Only very sick kids should die from measles.” No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die. Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!

•••••HAPPENING NOW••••• The first group of White South Africans granted refugee status is departing for the U.S. today, flying on a State Department-chartered plane — at the expense of American taxpayers. The Trump regime has made great efforts to facilitate the swift resettlement of white…

'Joy' collagraph print by UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #WomensArt

Linocut by contemporary printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #WomensArt

And maybe some flowers!💐

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own. Woolf's writing table by photographer Gisèle Freund #WomensArt

Clever!

This guy used to run the streets but now he lives like a little floofy prince. We call him Muffin. #Caturday

An ope Pope!

No words… 😢

In the folklore of many countries black cats were thought of as the familiars of witches (aka non-conforming, wise women, healers, midwives, elder women, younger women, outspoken women, quiet women, mothers, grandmothers... etc). Art by Eva Fialka #FolkloreThursday

For Wings Wednesday-- I had quite a great sighting yesterday after work. A red-winged blackbird mobbing a burrowing owl. This really gives an idea how small the owls are! 🪶

'Treasure Found', a mini art quilt by Nancy Messier, known for pictorial textile art #WomensArt

Nothing says teacher appreciation like gutting the Department of Education and firing half of the people that make the agency run.

'The long gloves' pastel artwork by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) #WomensArt

Agnes Kasparkova, 90-Year-Old Czech former agricultural worker hand-painted traditional Moravian motifs on her local village houses in a solo art project that took over 12 years #womensart

It’s not fall, and it’s not snowing, but it’s #Caturday and I’m curious to see if I can post a photo on loop. Findings in comments.

“We now live in a melted pot.” @slferguson.bsky.social

The cruelty is palpable.

Good night, Blueskyans. Glad you’re here!

French violinist and social media influencer Esther Abrami releases her new album, Women, featuring music by female composers in a bid to redress historic biases.

My senator @slotkin.senate.gov really gets my goat! I’m with Bernie on this one.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

Seems appropriate for today. Thank you, Wendy Cope.

Good Evening Everyone. Giacomo Ceruti ~ 1698 - 1767 A Woman with a Dog - c. 1740 Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Earth Day….

Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’

Shocking that an aspiring autocrat given near total immunity by the Supreme Court is now exercising that immunity to undermine the Supreme Court and democracy altogether. Honestly who could have see this coming??🤔