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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 10

Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #womensart

Painting with busy multicoloured floral motifs on a black background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 10

Karen Ongley-Snook, UK multi media artist who specialises in glass #WomensArt

Photo featuring a meadow with white flowers amongst which are five horizontal rectangles of coloured stained glass

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 10

Amrita Sher-Gil,
Little Girl in Blue, 1934
Indian modernist painter
#WomensArt

Painting featuring a girl in blue in the foreground right and a woman in pink in the background left

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WIRED @wired.com · Jul 22

Travelling soon? Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border

Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

www.wired.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 22

total mentions on Fox News so far today

Obama: 30
Epstein: 2

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karmanomad.bsky.social @karmanomad.bsky.social · Jul 22

nirmalghosh.substack.com/p/the-optimist

The Optimist

Asian Koel calling

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 22

Hillary Clinton's emails: 6

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 22

total mentions on Fox News so far today

Obama: 30
Epstein: 2

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 22

Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Trump Live Updates: Johnson Blocks Epstein Vote as Justice Dept. Seeks Interview with Maxwell

trib.al

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jul 22

The White House said it would ban Wall Street Journal reporters from the press pool covering President Trump’s upcoming trip to Scotland, its latest attack on the media outlet for its recent report tying the president to Jeffrey Epstein.

Wall Street Journal banned from Trump’s Scotland trip over Epstein story

The decision is the White House’s latest attack on the media outlet for its recent report tying the president to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · May 16

🧵 I’ve talked a lot about disordered discourse, conspiracies, polarisation, denialism. But maybe the better question is: why does this keep happening? Why does our shared reality keep fracturing? What are the drivers I talk about as a dimension of disordered discourse?

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Apr 25

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

Belllingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

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Ranjona Banerji @ranjona.bsky.social · May 26

War or peace or both?
I ✍️ about the varying and contradictory ideas we live with.
www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/colu...

Ranjona Banerji | Can’t Peace Be Both The End And Means?

How advantageous is it to keep fighting with your neighbour, when a small amount of compromise can perhaps lead to a better long-term relationship

www.deccanchronicle.com

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Ranjona Banerji @ranjona.bsky.social · May 25

War or peace or both?
I ✍️ about the varying and contradictory ideas we live with.
www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/colu...

Ranjona Banerji | Can’t Peace Be Both The End And Means?

How advantageous is it to keep fighting with your neighbour, when a small amount of compromise can perhaps lead to a better long-term relationship

www.deccanchronicle.com

Ranjona Banerji @ranjona.bsky.social · May 9

How our mainstream "news" channels spread misinformation and rumour, with total disregard for consequences.
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www.mxmindia.com/news/when-ru...

When rumours masquerade as news.... - MxMIndia

What we are seeing as a result of the fake news is a misinformed and worried Indian citizenry, writes Ranjona Banerji

www.mxmindia.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 30

i am tired of being told i must coddle these people. no! they are willfully ignorant! and their standard bearer, RFK, is a monstrous narcissist who is indifferent to death and suffering.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 30

this antivax stuff is genuinely bewildering. like what do you mean you don’t know if vaccines are safe? why exactly do you think child mortality rates have plummeted since the beginning of the 20th century? why is it that you are not worried about getting polio or smallpox anymore?

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Ranjona Banerji @ranjona.bsky.social · Apr 29

Who are the most dangerous people in India today?
Not terrorists, silly, it's satirists!
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Ranjona Banerji: Democracy begets sedition - MxMIndia

“Our media is a collection of “building whatsapp aunties and uncles” carefully policing others, banging their kitchen equipment for the greater glory of the Great Government,” writes Ranjona Banerji

www.mxmindia.com

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · Apr 29

Just look at our galaxy. We live in a magnificent place at a magnificent time.

Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · Apr 29

Milky Way over the GTC and the TNG - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/JWSpFb

(Debajo en español)

Milky Way over the 10.4m Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) and the 3.6m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.

Single frame, 15 seconds exposure at 1600 ISO over CANON EOS 5D Mark III, F=33mm and f/2.8. Taken on Wed 3 Aug 2016, 20:35 UTC.

Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez.

La Vía Láctea sobre el Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), de 10.4m, y el Telescopio Nacional Galileo (TNG), de 3.6m, en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Islas Canarias, España.

Único fotograma, exposición de 15 segundos a 1600 ISO sobre CANON EOS 5D Mark III, Objetivo con F=33mm y f/2.8. Conseguida el miércoles 3 de agosto de 2016 a las 20:35 UTC.

Crédito: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (AAO/MQ).

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Ranjona Banerji @ranjona.bsky.social · Apr 28

Nothing new about "toxic masculinity". Just generational naivete and wilful refusal to face reality. I ✍️
Yeah, I'm angry.
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WIRED @wired.com · Apr 19

You little anarchist. They told you to switch to airplane mode, and you just … didn’t.

But does it even matter? Well, your flight probably won’t crash, but ignoring airplane mode uses up your battery and annoys the pilot.

Am I the Asshole if I Don’t Put My Phone on Airplane Mode?

If you don’t, your flight won’t crash, but ignoring airplane mode uses up your battery and annoys the pilot.

wrd.cm

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Ranjona Banerji @ranjona.bsky.social · Apr 19

Read up on it. As yet unsubstantiated, and no evidence that that substance necessarily means life elsewhere. Regardless of my pride that the study is by Madhusudhan & Co!

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Ranjona Banerji @ranjona.bsky.social · Apr 15

There is good journalism happening out there. A shout out to important, courageous work! I ✍️
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Good journalism still happens in India.... - MxMIndia

Ranjona Banerji on articles, reports, investigations and opinions that are not propagandist, or sectarian, or just plain publicity boosts for the regime in power

www.mxmindia.com

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Ranjona Banerji @ranjona.bsky.social · Apr 13

By far one of the most mind-blowing, fascinating, intense, erudite and readable books in recent times. Venki Ramakrishnan's Why We Die.
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www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/bo...

Book Review | Solving the final puzzle of death

Ramakrishnan takes us through several streams of thought, some interconnected, some independent, which appear to be leading us closer to the answer

www.deccanchronicle.com

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Ranjona Banerji @ranjona.bsky.social · Apr 11

We're getting kicked in the teeth! I ✍️
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Ranjona Banerji: Kicked in the teeth - MxMIndia

"The purpose of political journalism has been abandoned, surrendered, lost, forgotten, suspended... You can chose the word depending on how charitable you want to be," writes Ranjona Banerji

www.mxmindia.com

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Ranjona Banerji @ranjona.bsky.social · Apr 8

Our brave media takes its cue from Government. So we can neither take on Trump and his #tariffs, nor can we take on Modi, even now.
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Trump's 'liberation' war and after - MxMIndia

When the media in India cannot look for the truth, and counter bombast with facts, we live in a state of delusion which everything around us collapses, writes Ranjona Banerji

www.mxmindia.com

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Ranjona Banerji @ranjona.bsky.social · Apr 8

For women, it's all been the same. Then and now.

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