Andrea Hacker

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Slept until 9:30 (unheard of), had lebkuchen, cookies, and a mince pie for breakfast and am now on a serious sugar high. Oh and it is noon, apparently Friday (wot?), I am still in my jamies and What's Up Doc just started on TV. Am I doing this right? #joinin #christmas2025 #boxingday

Indy?

The Road to Giverny - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10096

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🍻 oh and Die Hard?

#joinin #christmaseve - listening to #carolsfromkings ("it's wot old people watch," says himself, so yeah) - the Brits are so good at at the old fashioned (traditions).

A wee dram of Red Breast Irish whiskey against a christmas tree

Right. You know what, Ima join you bc it is Xmas and I am happy to share a moment! Here is to light and friendship. Cheers!

Lol cheers Martin (she typed looking at her glass of water bc age) oh and seriously, what on earth are you drinking? It looks a bit like a dishwashing tab in jelly 🤣

Merry Christmas 🤶🎄👼❄️

Some folks dont open Christmas mails I send them...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Born this day in 1884, on Neskuchnoye estate in Ukraine, the marvelous painter Zinaida Serebriakova. After my time, but worth making an exception! Here by herself at the mirror in 1909.

Haystacks at Giverny, the Evening Sun - 1888/1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10313

Riding with Death

Riding with Death, 1988
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5311

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Red and Brown, 1957 #colorfieldpainting #americanart

Tür in der Stabi Hamburg

Hinter jeder Tür der Stabi verbirgt sich im #StabiHHAdvent​skalender ein digitalisierter Schatz. Tür 1 kann heute im Blog geöffnet werden: blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de?p=41352

There were masses of people there for days, weeks even - not behind this demonstration but in the queue to get in...

Das erste Feuerzeug

Guten Morgen,
Ihr Lieben! 👋😘🍀
Ein gemütliches,
stressarmes Wochenende
wünsche ich Euch.

Photo featuring two sculptures of horses created with driftwood, side view facing each other on a beach in shallow water with reflections in blue sand under a pale blue sky

Heather Jansch, British sculptor who was known for creating life-sized sculptures of horses from driftwood #womensart

Abundance of fruit, plus monkeys, squirrel, & guinea pigs. All the animals are alive because it's Jan van Kessel II's pantry, and today is his day.

The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Jette - 1887
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14189

mcintosh apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1929

mcintosh apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1929

"KI ist aus unserem Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken" wird irgendein Uni-Funktionär in der Zeitung zitiert & ich denke: Also aus meinem schon. Ohne LLMs würde ich vielleicht 1-3 schlechte Hausarbeiten pro Semester weniger durchfallen lassen müssen, aber ansonsten...?

Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14256

Struggling to understand what all this means? Maybe you relied too often on (inaccurate &/or biased) #AI summaries, rather than using your little grey cells.
I could draw a picture of it for you, if you'd like, but, to make up for all the graphic work I've lost to AI, my fee went up.

I love that painting