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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 11h

Duchamp Flies, by Carmen Cicero, 2009, 📸 by Frank Franklin II

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MaryJane 🌱 @peaceseeker.bsky.social · 10h

#Australia Cassowary (dinosaur bird)

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 15h

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

its a picture of a ballerina teaching future young ballerinas!!!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

Artemesia Gentileschi,
Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1620 #womensart

Painting featuring two white women in the act of beheading a white man with a sword as he lies in his bed

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Mrs M @mrsmhere.bsky.social · 23h

A short amble by the river Wear in lunch hour. Saw what I think might’ve been a cormorant fishing in the river, and a couple of waxwings foraging for berries. 😊

The river with willows on the banks starting to turn yellow.

White yarrow and pink Himalayan balsam flowers.

Tall plant with yellow flowers, possibly goldenrod but not sure.

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Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 10h

It’s going to be the ‘90s aalllllll day tomorrow.

Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 12h

If the world is feeling to complicated, try listening to music from when you thought is was simpler.

It’s not going to fix anything but it feels good for a while.

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Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 11h

Plushiosaurs!

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Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 19h

Just gorgeous.

Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 1d

Watercolor
by Conny Jager
Canadian artist
connyjager.com/home.html

Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 20h

My main concern is that the shift will be so subtle (less shove, more nudge) that the normies won’t KNOW they’re getting propagandized. And it‘ll be easy for them to swallow coming from a (formerly) more neutral source like CBS. And I can also foresee her doing what is necessary to keep power & $.

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Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 21h

Not in THIS country.

Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 23h

“Trumps agenda” is doing some heavy lifting in that headline.

It’s the Heritage Foundation’s agenda.
It’s the Federalist Society’s agenda.
It’s Peter Thiel’s agenda
it’s even Miller’s agenda.

Trumps agenda is hearing the cheers of a crowd and amassing more wealth for himself & his “friends.”

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.

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Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 1d

200 clinical trials already?!? So many good things will come of this.

Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 1d

I know the news is tough right now.

So take a moment and soak in the gorgeousness & promise of the science that led to this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology.

WOW.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

www.nytimes.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon, 1893 by Glasgow School artist Frances MacDonald #WomensArt

Painting of a stylised white woman in a pale green dress standing facing left in front of a full moon as five or more ravens fly past to the left against a dark sky

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Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 1d

Now, if they had committted to the bit and made the garage doors drawbridges across a moat...

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Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 1d

She was so good! Just MAGNIFICENTLY, hilariously amoral.

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Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 1d

(Also, Jesse Singal can sit on a cactus)

Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 1d

The end of democracy began not with a roar, but with a squeak.

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Eric Replatformed @21stcenturyeric.bsky.social · 2d

Who called it a "ghost ship" instead of a "grave-y boat"?

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Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 1d

I’m just trying to get to the point where “Bari Weiss” doesn’t conjure an image of a husky-voiced soul crooner on tour in Germany.

Singer Barry White (get it? get it?) against a white background. He’s middle-aged, bearded, and smiling. He’s wearing a black pullover.

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Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 2d

Blue clearly is an American marble because it had NO idea what to do at a roundabout.

Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 2d

Place your (fake) bets!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline creatures #WomensArt #Monday

Three images, a fox, a bird and a T-Rex all created with itens of clothes on a clothesline

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Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 3d

Brought to you by the same school of visual design that leaves street names THE SAME SIZE when you zoom google maps.

You’ll be old one day too, ya punks.

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Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 3d

Oooh, a Donner hoagie!

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Splenetic Badger 🇺🇦 @kvetcherntherye.bsky.social · 4d

Many thanks!

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