Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦

Lady Deidre skye from Alpha Centauri

happy intergalactic women’s day!!

long live gaia’s stepdaughters.

There really hasn't been a good week, to be honest.

Generational destruction

It’s been years since I watched this, but I thought it got to much the same thing about live theater: A Midwinter’s Tale.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert "There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW

And of course, this piece about what makes traditional theater great:

To end our orange week, #ootd is this 1923-4 silk chiffon velvet evening gown. In contrast to yesterday's gown, it has a unfitted, low-waisted silhouette, accented with a high, straight neckline and small straps. Yet, it also has the same elegance and demure, both in a lovely

This is a good piece, worth your time if you’re at all interested in theater.

New collection on Layers of London created using fieldwork, photography, stamp-based prints, and digital mapping to records overlooked historical artefacts in contemporary London. #digitalhumanities

“So be it” makes any and every statement sounds hard.

The peak of civilization

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

A screenshot from the New York Stock Exchange website saying that America 250 is ringing the opening bell tomorrow at 6:26 a.m.

I shit you not America 250 is ringing the opening bell at the NYSE tomorrow www.nyse.com/_events/NDE1...

If this isn’t the most apt metaphor for what we’ve seen in the last year. Guy could have just skated, not changed a single thing, and would have been seen as a success.

Hard to believe the guy bankrupted a casino.

Braille edition of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876 A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.

Before universities opened their doors to women, one woman spent 7 years making a quilt of the Solar System to teach other women astronomy: www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

holy shit

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

Attacks leave dead vs killed

"Gloria" shared this pic of herself picking strawberries in CAs Central Coast in a very watery row

"Gloria" shared this pic of herself picking strawberries in CAs Central Coast. "The water was up to my knees making it very hard to push my cart. My feet were so wet and cold, I couldn’t feel them. Growers have us harvest despite the flooding to avoid losing product." #WeFeedYou

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Country Joe McDonald, Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84

One, two, three, four, what are we fighting for?

Don't ask me, I don't give a damn.

The next stop is V̶i̶e̶t̶n̶a̶m̶ Tehran.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

Good Afternoon✨

Avre Potabilis Chimice Preparat i- Arbol de la Vida
(Alchemical Tree of Life - 17th century)

“The Women’s Issue” of Bakersfield Life magazine with two cover models who are old white dudes in suites.

Happy International Women’s Day!

Never miss a chance to tell my favourite science joke:

Q: What did Crick & Watson discover?

A: Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.

I cried. How beautiful.

Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

here's another thing i hate: when companies change their AI computer voice to be more "human". under no circumstances do I want that. i want every computer in my life to sound stilted and weird because it's a computer, not a person, and it is a violation of natural law for it to speak in our voice

The America That Could Be The main point of Adam Bonica’s post The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls is about the optimism of this moment: that the US could be ripe for a Berlin Wall-falling moment that opens the door for a better future. I’m n

Great data analysis of what would US would be like if it were just an average country in its cohort of wealthy democracies, e.g. “the nation that would exist if our democracy functioned to serve the public rather than protect the already powerful”. [kottke.org]