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Nicholas Nicola
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etching,writing,politics,culture,ec/archeology, stars,anti-palm oil/humanitarian issues[...also have a strong tendency to repost many missives...life is 'Catch-22'...]. Apologies if no follow back.All the best. http://nicholasnicolaetchings.synthasite.com
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Nicholas Nicola @nicolasnicola.bsky.social · Nov 14
#MilanKundera #quote via goodreads.com/quotes/14652... … #democracy #humanrights #politics #literature #culture #philosophy #humanity
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 2d
For the women of Tigray, milling ancient spices is a way to reconnect with their heritage in the aftermath of war, reports Paddy Dowling, with photography, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Solace and Community in a Tigray Spice Mill
The ancient work is an act of resilience for this women’s collective, preserving identity in the aftermath of war
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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 2d
Isamu Noguchi, “radio nurse” and “guardian ear,” an early baby monitor system, for the zenith radio corporation (1938)

#ThrowbackThursday
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 2d
⚡️Russia launched a large-scale drone attack on Kyiv overnight on Oct. 10, potentially disrupting the city's water and power supplies.

"All emergency teams are monitoring the situation and ready to respond," Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
Potential water, power shortages reported in Kyiv amid massive drone strikes
"Due to a massive enemy UAV attack on the capital, there may be outages in electricity and water services," Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported.
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Nicholas Nicola @nicolasnicola.bsky.social · 2d
Along with all his other genocidal criminalities this mediocre man also hated cats.
english.elpais.com/culture/2025... #history
What they don’t usually tell you about Hitler: He was chronically idle and hated cats
A short but illuminating book by veteran French historian Claude Quétel examines the truths and myths surrounding the Nazi leader
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 3d
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has dismissed allegations that Indonesian conglomerate First Resources Ltd. Controls a network of shadow companies, despite evidence presented by NGOs linking these firms to deforestation, peatland destruction, river pollution and labor abuses.
RSPO sparks NGO outrage for dismissing complaint over alleged ‘shadow companies’
JAKARTA — A major palm oil producer linked through supplier-reported mill lists to global brands like General Mills and PepsiCo has escaped sanction for allegedly concealing a web of “shadow…
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Nicholas Nicola @nicolasnicola.bsky.social · 3d
www.thecollector.com/why-did-cata... #archaeology
Why Did Çatalhöyük Have No Streets? | TheCollector
Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic settlement in the Konya Plain of modern-day Turkey, is one of the world's most unique archaeological sites.
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Nicholas Nicola @nicolasnicola.bsky.social · 3d
greekreporter.com/2025/10/07/c... #mythology
Was Clytemnestra a Hero or a Villain in Greek Mythology? - GreekReporter.com
Admirers of ancient Greek mythology cannot help but be fascinated by the life of Clytemnestra, a most intriguing figure.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 3d
Reminder: Australia's only emissions reduction legislation - the safeguard mechanism - allows for unlimited use of offsets instead of requiring genuine cuts from polluters
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d
News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 4d
yeah okay
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 4d
Filippo Lippi's wonderfully strange double portrait, 1440. He's not looking at her but into the empty space behind her. Her sleeve spells Faithful - but to whom? Great enigmas on Lippi's day.
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Nicholas Nicola @nicolasnicola.bsky.social · 4d
Jewish Australians mark two years since 7 October, as pro-Hamas graffiti is condemned www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #October7
Jewish Australians mark two years since 7 October, as pro-Hamas graffiti is condemned
Richard Marles says Melbourne pro-Hamas graffiti being looked into as possible terror offence amid national vigils commemorating hostages and lives lost in ongoing conflict
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 5d
Three and a half years into its all-out war against Ukraine, the Kremlin is waging a parallel battle at home — this time against Internet freedom.

The Russian authorities are tightening their digital grip and rolling out sweeping new measures to keep people online in check.
Russia's digital iron curtain descends further as Kremlin chokes Internet freedoms
Three and a half years into its all-out war against Ukraine, the Kremlin is waging a parallel battle at home — this time against Internet freedom. The Russian authorities are tightening their digital...
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Nicholas Nicola @nicolasnicola.bsky.social · 5d
bigthink.com/starts-with-... #science #atom #philosophy
The "atom" lost its original meaning, and that's good for science
Invented over 2000 years ago by Democritus, the word atom literally means uncuttable. Revived in 1803, today's "atoms" can indeed be split.
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TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.social · 6d
Thousands of cultural workers protested across Lithuania on Sunday after the culture minister’s portfolio in the newly formed government was handed to a populist party whose leader has been accused of anti-Semitism.
Lithuania’s culture sector rallies against populist party
Culture organizations say Lithuania’s democratic values are at risk.
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Rimgaile Kasparaite @rimgaile.bsky.social · 15d
My first post here has to be dedicated to what is happening in LT. Lithuania faces protests as a populist party figure is set to become Culture Minister—dismissed by a presidential advisor as “angry shouts.” A clear sign of Trumpist-style politics taking root in Europe.

www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-e...
Protests erupt across Lithuania over appointment of ‘unqualified’ culture minister nominee
Hundreds of artists and cultural figures gathered outside the Presidential Palace in Vilnius on Thursday morning to prot...
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5d
Spectacular googly-eyed octopus does battle with a lobster in this 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic from Pompeii! 🐙 🦞

Fantastic fishy onlookers too! 👀

From the House of the Geometric Mosaics. Now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
My photo shows a polychrome mosaic depicting Mediterranean marine life using earthy-coloured tesserae (mosaic tiles) against a black tessarae background. At the centre of the mosaic is a pale-coloured octopus composed of off-white and light brown tesserae with some of its writhing tentacles wrapped around the body of a lobster composed of light red, and pinky-brown tesserae. The octopus has an egg shaped body/head and it stares at the viewer with large eyes made of brown and pink circles with black centres. The octopus and lobster are surrounded by various species of large and small Mediterranean fish and a mollusc, including an eel and a flat fish. On the left hand side of the scene there is a small kingfisher bird on top of a rock. Some of the fish appear to be watching the fight between the octopus and the lobster This mosaic comes from the House of the Geometric Mosaics in Pompeii. Now on display at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 6d
I don’t believe he’d say “Thanks”
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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 5d
ghost songs
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 5d
Lake Kawaguchi and Mt. Fuji
Koitsu Tsuchiya
water colour of a landscape, with a large snow capped mountain, a clump of trees on an island in a lake, and on that lake a boat
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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 6d
Suddenly wondering whether the reason demons torment the souls of the damned in Hell is nothing to do with God's justice but mostly because they object to immigrants coming in and lowering the tone of the place.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 5d
Les métamorphoses du jour
Grandville - 1854
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various animals, dressed in fine clothes are sat at a dining table
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Nicholas Nicola @nicolasnicola.bsky.social · 5d
theconversation.com/caravaggios-... #painting #Caravaggio #art #Medusa
Caravaggio’s Medusa: why we need to look the Gorgon in the eye
The work is about the artist’s power of immortality, his features frozen in time forever.
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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 6d
95 years ago #OTD 5 October 1930, Michael Rope was killed in the R101 airship disaster. His sister Margaret made the glass for the church built in his memory at Kesgrave, Ipswich. His widow Lucy cared for the church until her death 71 years later in 2001.

#StainedGlassSunday
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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 6d
The dove of the Holy Spirit descends on the memorial to Catherine Harper, 1822 in the south choir aisle of Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire. It's set within 14th Century tracery with mythical beasts in the spandrels and heads above.

#31DaysOfGraves 5: bird
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 6d
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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