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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 1h

Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) offers monthly $15 tours led by archaeologists [historians, other academic experts] uncovering hidden ancient sites amid modern CDMX

INAH offers @ 130 tours yearly paseosculturales.inah.gob.mx/index.php

www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Uncovering Mexico’s hidden ancient sites on expert-led tours

The National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico organizes monthly tours to share the country's rich cultural heritage.

www.latimes.com

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 21h

Friday #FlowerReport 🌱 purples

Plectranthus zuluensis (Zulu spurflower) —many purple tubular flowers with some green leaves

Purple fuzzy stalks of Salvia leucantha (Mexican bush sage)

Lycianthes rantonnetii purple roundish flowers with small yellow center, surrounded by many green leaves

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 23h

“This is a time that calls for thoughtful, mass action,” Wong told The Times in an interview in July. “How could this blatant racial profiling, the terrorizing of the communities of Los Angeles, take place without a direct challenge to this injustice? That’s why we came together.”

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 23h

Kent Wong, a champion of nonviolent resistance in the L.A. labor movement, dies at 69

Kent Wong, who spent decades teaching a doctrine of nonviolent resistance, died Wednesday at a hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 69.

www.latimes.com

Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 2d

Alfredo Castañeda ‘The Absence’ 1977

Exploring absence not as loss, but as revelation-an unfolding of meaning in what remains

Alfredo Castañeda: Beyond Surrealism on view at San Diego Museum of Art through March 1, 2026

www.sdmart.org/exhibition/a...

Painting with person on left and multiple white square paper(?) with faint circle in each. Multiple sheets receding into background, smaller and smaller until almost blend with sky

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 7d

The Power of Remembering & Affirming Resistance: 10 Años de Corazón, 3 Años de Hogar

Celebrate the Chicano Park Museum & Cultural Center’s 3rd anniversary on Sat, Oct 11, 3-7pm, 1960 National Ave, San Diego 92113

RSVP (free) www.evite.com/event/0054AP...

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 10d

Sailing spider

Ballooning spider midair with only one gossamer thread visible

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 10d

If there were a Cruelty Olympics, Trump’s sycophants would all be elbowing each other for the gold

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Commentary: There's no nice way to deport someone. But Trump's ICE is hosting a cruelty Olympics

When my father was crossing the U.S.

www.latimes.com

Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 12d

Out-of-print, rare, and first-edition titles make up the bulk of the collection. So works by Wanda Coleman, Pope L., and Ruby Dee sit next to titles by Octavia Butler and Audre Lorde.

lithub.com/solange-know...

Solange Knowles is launching a free radical library.

Once again, Solange Knowles is using her popularity for a good cause. Last night on Instagram, the polymath poet, culture worker, and song stylist announced a new literary project. An archive spons…

lithub.com

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 14d

Friday #FlowerReport 🌱 Pacific Northwest edition

Fuchsia leaves and flowers in light purple and magenta petals

Symphyotrichum / aster white petals with yellow center and water droplets in petals

Geranium sylvaticum, the wood cranesbill or woodland geranium in purple with white center and stripes

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 18d

#FlowerReport 🌱 midcity San Diego

Polka dot begonia (Begonia maculata)
Cluster of white flowers with yellow centers surrounded by green leaves with white dots

Passion flower (Passiflora)
Showy purple flower with light green center and two buds at different stages

Mandevilla or rock trumpet red flowers spilling over fence

Ixora coccinea (jungle geranium, flame of the woods) with clustered scarlet/orange flowers
On the right, a grasshopper inspecting blooms

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 19d

“The quality was as low as you could get,” Dimock said. “But when you were a kid, it didn’t matter. You got this record on a box that you could cut out and play. What more fun can you have than that?”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/a...

Cereal Box Records Sound Horrible. They Still Look Incredible.

www.nytimes.com

Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 20d

There were detainees who had been there for a year fighting to get asylum, others for eight months. Some had been arrested despite having work permits. Others scammed out of thousands of dollars by immigration lawyers who never showed up for their court hearings
www.latimes.com/california/s...

His cell-mates self-deported. He fought to get back to his family

Angel Minguela Palacios was arrested in Little Tokyo last month. He spent weeks in immigration detention, hoping to get home to the love of his life and their three children.

www.latimes.com

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 21d

9th Annual Chicano Skate Park Celebration, tomorrow Sept 20, 12-4pm, free, open to all
Giveaways, raffles, art, food,

9.ª Celebración Anual del Chicano
Skate Park, mañana, el 20 de septiembre de 12-4pm en el Chicano Skate Park, gratis para toda la comunidad
Regalos, rifas, arte, comida

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 21d

I often give basic description thinking no one wants more than that—but teacher/librarian me can’t resist from doing a bit of research lol

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks!

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 21d

#FlowerReport 🌱 Orchids

Venus slipper (Paphiopedilum) with deep red colored ‘bucket’ and white, green, magenta strips

Hay-scented orchid (Dendrochilum glumaceum)
Two long strings of small white flowers

Queen Victoria's dendrobium (Dendrobium victoriae-reginae) cluster of violet leaves with white center

Venus slipper in light yellow and pink with long spidery appendages

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 25d

The reward of working in a collective or in collaboration is an internal reward that you will never experience in any other manner…connecting w/ other human beings that care deeply or are passionate about the same things that you do is not only uplifting, it's sublime

www.aaa.si.edu/blog/2025/09...

Blog | New Collections: Richard Lou and Norman Akers Oral Histories | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Head of curatorial affairs Ben Gillespie shares interviews that are now part of the Archives' Oral History Program

www.aaa.si.edu

Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · 28d

“Laughter blends with tears, and the sorrow is softened by creativity. For those left behind, each coffin is more than a final resting place. It is a story carved in wood, a proverb to be read.”

Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 28d

Gonna ask my family to bury me in a molcajete apnews.com/article/ghan...

Ghana's fantasy coffins are a colorful celebration of life and legacy

Ghana's fantasy coffins are unique creations that embody the essence of a person's life. Known by locals as Abebuo, these colorful coffins, shaped like animals, tools, or symbols, serve as a final mes...

apnews.com

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · Sep 11

Have cat, will travel

Person with cat around neck and holding pet carrier crossing the street

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · Sep 6

Town mayor of years past & mayor of today.
Both reflect the mood of the village #caturday

Two cats sprawled on sidewalk in Montsoreau

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · Sep 4

Egress options

View from inside cavern facing the car. Car can only exit through caves

White front door, top half windows, surrounded by grape vines

Tuffeau (tufa) steep steps with rope railing leading out of troglo

Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks! It was so stunningly vibrant (and fleeting)

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · Sep 3

More rain, more rainbows
#paysdeloire

Vibrant rainbow ending in trees along the bank of the Loire river

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Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · Sep 2

It was not until the 1970s, with the rise of the second-wave feminist movement, that she received renewed attention, though by then her work was already in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection thanks to a donation by Weston, who had preserved her work
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

Overlooked No More: Tina Modotti, Whose Life Was as Striking as Her Photographs

www.nytimes.com

Annie Ross @chizpa.bsky.social · Sep 1

Full arc rainbow #montsoreau

Rainbow over village extending length of the frame 🌈

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