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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

'Footpath through a park.' (1920) Santiago Rusiñol almost completely concentrated on painting Spain's gardens and landscapes. Wherever he went, he recorded the domestic, at other times enigmatic, forms and rich vegetation of the shrubbery, orchards, and arboretums he discovered.

dinosaur golf, jekyll island mini golf, jekyll island, georgia, 1985

dinosaur golf, jekyll island mini golf, jekyll island, georgia, 1985

An illustration of a yellow ship in a blue bottle with a brown stand.

Joy of small things.

#art #illustration

Photo of a red maple leaf on the ground.

Photo of red rowan leaves preparing to fall from the tree.

Autumn shades

#leaves #autumn #fall #trees

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes: - inflatable frog suit - cape - pepper spray filter - a thirst for the blood of the innocent - air pump batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

Cartoon by Tom Gault, showing two people in medieval times on opposite sides of a river. The text reads: "Our blessed Homeland - Their barbarous wates. Our glorious leader - Their wicked despot. Our great religion - Their primitive superstition. Our noble populace - their backward savages. Our heroic adventurers - their brutish invaders."

Their hostages. Our detainees.

A photo from yesterday’s Trunp Cabinet meeting. Taken from a low position the decorations on the wall behind the orange felon make him look like he has devil’s horns.

Nice work Jim Watson, nice work.

The singer Meatloaf singing Let me sleep on it while looking intensely at Ellen Foley

Your pets when you fold the laundry.

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

How microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds.

“The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do.”

Microplastics like those from car tires. The bigger and heavier the vehicle, the more microplastics shed.

"Trees will only grow in fertile soil, not up in mountains."

This self-seeded pine, lodged in a crevice high up in a sheer rock escarpment in the Caha Mountains, begs to differ. It says that trees will grow just about *anywhere* sheep can't get at them.

"Now Comes The Night” (2025)
Mark Grantham

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Echoes Of The Path
Yeah Wang

Apes smart enough to figure out the various disciplines of complex science explaining how deeply they are screwing up the thin eggshell of biosphere that is their only plausible home, yet too dumb to do anything about it

Painting by Maurice Denis of figures on a lane at night going through tall trees. Title 'Path in the Trees'

'In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood -'

Theodore Roethke

Painting: Path through the woods, Maurice Denis

They got you fighting a culture war to stop you from fighting a class war.

The grotesque inequality of wealth in the United States is at the root of countless problems. If you are an oligarch, you know this. They win the class war by fighting the culture war. Don’t take the bait.

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Finding a Kindred Spirit" 30"x30" oil on cradled Ampersand Gessobord (2025). A seascape painting with a gray-blue sky with textured, atmospheric cloud formations over a dark blue sea. Waves are meeting a rocky shore, and there are hints of green moss and algae on the rocks.

Hello #BlueSkyArtShow 💙 I'll share a few pieces for today's theme #Relax

The first is a new seascape painting with a big dreamy sky.

Tisha Mark ©2025, Finding a Kindred Spirit, oil on cradled Gessobord, 30"x30"

Original is available:
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#art #painting #TraditionalArt

Debbie Criswell - Autumn Glory.
Acrylic on canvas.

'Through the Windscreen.' (1929) Gertrude Hermes was a printmaker and sculptor, who was one of the leading figures in the revival of wood engraving in the early 20thC. This work shows the night-time view of a tree-lined road lit up by the headlights of a car.

A poem with staggered, right-aligned text. The layout creates a visual flow, with individual words and phrases emphasizing reflection and contemplation.

From Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier’s poem ‘Diction,’ a fragmented account of the massacre at Wounded Knee that communicates the immeasurable loss.

Cape Cod Evening - 1939
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'Foggy City' (1937) by Maurice Freed

Far star that tickles for me my sensitive plate and fries a couple of ebon atoms white, I don’t believe I believe a thing you state. I put no faith in the seeming facts of light. I don’t believe I believe you’re the last in space, I don’t believe you’re anywhere near the last, I don’t believe what makes you red in the face is after explosion going away so fast. The universe may or may not be very immense. As a matter of fact there are times when I am apt to feel it close in tight against my sense like a caul in which I was born and still am wrapped.

At least a third of my book (in progress) is just me having fun explaining the humor in Frost’s astronomical poems, but this one is different.

The tone goes from contentious to sad.

Note, the “far star” is a galaxy. 🧪🔭

'The Barbican' by Louise Hayward
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Big Sur, California
Eyvind Earle

Photo of a big green caterpillar on a piece of wooden trellis beside some ivy leaves.

Photo of an angle shades moth perched on a grey window sill.

Big green caterpillar hanging out on the ivy trellis. Think it's an angle shades larva - have seen this moth in the garden before (2nd photo is from 2 years ago).

#bugs #moths #gardening #GardensOfBlueSky #GardenSky

'Concert Hall', Queen's Hall, Langham Place (1929) by Sybil Andrews

(Glenbow Museum)

a terrible maps post showing high speed rails across America that would happen if tylenol actually did cause autism. beneath this is a post from vibe cat that says remember, calling someone an autist is a slur. please use the term tylenol-american

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