Jann Visconti 🔶 💚 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

A Happy Snow Owl.

‘She stood up to men with machetes’: Sandra Domínguez fought against femicide in Mexico – then became a victim herself Her disappearance shocked a country where such cases are all too common. Now Domínguez’s family are fighting to stop yet another woman’s death being written off as ‘collateral damage’

‘She stood up to men with machetes’: Sandra Domínguez fought against femicide in Mexico – then became a victim herself

Workshop of Hayashi Kodenji, Japanese (1831-1915), Meji Period, c. 1890, cloisonné enameled bronze and silver-mounted vase, 24 cm

Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

Plastic crisis fuels pollution, illness, and climate chaos A major expert review warns that plastic pollution causes disease, premature death, and costs trillions, urging urgent action as treaty talks face industry pushback. City workers remove garbage floating on the Negro River, which has a rising water level due...

Plastic crisis fuels pollution, illness, and climate chaos
->Al Mayadeen | #Climate #Pollution #Plastic | More info from EcoSearch

Plastics production 'a global threat' Scientists issue urgent call ahead of final plastics treaty talks: this is the world’s last chance to act.

Plastics production 'a global threat'

theecologist.org/2025/jul/31/...

#PlasticPollution
#PlasticsTreaty
#INC5.2

"Current patterns of plastic production, use, and disposal cause disease, disability, and death at every stage of the plastic lifecycle." @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

'Catastrophic' consequences loom as Arctic black carbon emissions slip through regulatory cracks ...

'Catastrophic' consequences loom as Arctic black carbon emissions slip through regulatory cracks
->Offshore Energy | #Arctic #CarbonEmission #ClimateChange | More info from EcoSearch

Jaime Corum, American, The Red Tapestry, 2011

An adolescent lowland gorilla, chilling on a branch, has a splash fight with researchers

Did you vote for this?

Cut in real wage/benefits
Queues for NHS appointments
Lousy social care
Crumbling schools
Poor housing
Corporate profiteering/abuses
Tax abuses by corporations/rich
Sewage in rivers
Political corruption

It happens because Govts indulge corporations and the rich.

Regulator examines £1.3m paid to Yorkshire Water boss via offshore parent company Sums given to Nicola Shaw will need to comply with rules that ban bonuses for chief executives

England water regulator examines £1.3m paid to Yorkshire Water CEO via offshore parent company.

Did OFWAT not know/ask? What was govt doing whilst YW circumvented exec bonus rules?

These cat-and-mouse games will continue until water is nationalised. Empower customers to vote on exec pay.

UK government has ‘got the balance right’ on tax, says Rachel Reeves Chancellor responds to calls for wealth tax on millionaire households

UK govt has ‘got the balance right’ on tax, says Rachel Reeves.

Not addressed Tory legacy.

Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.

Capital gains & dividends taxed at lower rates than wages, recipients don't pay NIC

Mansions and modest homes pay same council tax

The vast majority of US adults are stressed about grocery costs, an AP-NORC poll finds A new poll finds the vast majority of U.S. adults are feeling some stress about the cost of groceries, as prices continue to rise and concerns about the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs rema...

apnews.com/article/poll... 
The vast majority of US adults are stressed about grocery costs, an AP-NORC poll finds
💙 #MondayMotivation 🏳️‍🌈 #FBR #FBPE #Resistance #StrongerTogether #KindnessMatters #Motivation #Bluecrew

Landschaft am Lago Maggiore

Guten Morgen!
Eugenio Gignous, * 4.8.1850 in Mailand; † 30.8.1906 in Stresa, war ein italienischer Maler des Impressionismus 🎨 🇮🇹
Landschaft am Lago Maggiore 🖼️
#OTD #ArtHistory #LandscapePainting #History #BskyArt #Impressionism

Summer. Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951). 1909. Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art. Providence, Rhode Island. Benson was an American impressionist trained in Boston. This painting depicts his four daughters, off the coast of Maine. They all wear white dresses, three are seated. One stands looking out towards the sea. The brushstrokes for the clouds and vegetation along with the use of lighting are a great example of plein-air Impressionism.

Summer.
Frank Weston Benson.
1909. Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art. Providence, Rhode Island.

#art #arthistory #summer #painting #FrankBenson #Americanimpressionism

Overheat photo of the edge of an archaeological trench. At the bottom of the trench is part of a mosaic depicing a stylized flower. It is being carefully cleaned by two people. You can only see the backs of their heads and their hands.

Thought we'd post one of ours for a change. Our Floral Mosaic was the first to be discovered on the site, and here it is, being excavated in 1960.

#MosaicMonday

What about the environment ? Allotments are green oases in the desert !

A Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus) drinking coconut water.

‘The Queen’

Metal Sculpture by:
Georgie Poulariani

Three kittens look up, caught in the act of playing on a desk chair.

If you’ve ever considered fostering, we always need loving homes where kittens can hang out for a bit & become social, friendly good citizens while they get big enough to adopt. One of our Final Fantasy groups is suddenly losing their foster home this week & need a place! Elkton MD/Newark DE, DM us!

Well said @sianberry.bsky.social

Increasing use of live facial rec raises so many questions about safeguards for human rights and it’s very worrying that there has been no legislation passed to protect peoples’ rights, despite the extensive roll out and use.

If the BBC was doing its job, it would note in its coverage of Reform that 92% of the party's donations come from the fossil fuel industry.

Today's Energy Headlines:

Britain is about to start fighting over fracking again🛢️

National Grid unveils £8bn transmission partnership🤝

UK Hits Historic Clean Energy Milestone as Renewables Power Over Half the Grid in 2024🎉

Read them all here: mailchi.mp/f57441a12a17...

Council recognises right of River Test to flow unimpeded and unpolluted Test is one of only about 200 chalk streams in the world and councillors says biodiversity in and around it has declined

👏 Great news! Test Valley Borough Council councillors have recognised the right of the River Test to flow freely and unpolluted—a major win for environmental protection.

🌊 But we must go further. The Climate and Nature Bill is urgently needed to restore nature across the UK.

#CANBill

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

Plastic is often seen as a cheap material but scientists in The Lancet argue it is expensive when including damage to health

One estimate of the health damage from just three plastic chemicals – PBDE, BPA and DEHP – in 38 countries was $1.5tn a year.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

"The source of current trajectory towards societal collapse are large, psychopathic corporations & groups which produce global catastrophic risk

"Nuclear weapons, climate change, AI, are only produced by v small number of secretive, v wealthy, powerful groups"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

YouTube video by OscarOsR The Mamas & The Papas - Monday Monday

🎧 MONDAY MONDAY…

~The Manas & The Papas~

🎸🎶🎵 Monday, Monday, can't trust that day

Monday, Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way

Oh, Monday mornin' (Ooh), you gave me no warnin' of what was to be

Oh, Monday, Monday, how could you leave and not take me? 🎵🎸🎶

youtu.be/h81Ojd3d2rY

My photo shows a small Proto-Corinthian clay aryballos (perfumed-oil container) in the shape of an owl with a pouring hole in the tail. Height 5 cm, Width 6.4 cm. The owl is perched with its tail to the left and head to the right. It leans slightly forwards with head turned so that its large eyes face the viewer. The owl’s chest is painted black. The eyes and plummage are intricately detailed in black on a yellowy-cream slip. Three rows of feathers in the wing plumage are painted alternately in red and black. Dated c. 640 BC

It’s #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay
🦉❤️

To celebrate here’s an Ancient Greek clay aryballos (perfume flask) in the shape of a little owl!
Dated c. 640 BC.

The Louvre, Paris 📷 by me

#OwlishMonday
#Archaeology

Close-up of a sunflower in bloom. The petals shift from deep amber-orange at their base to light yellow at the tips, arching outward around a dark brown centre where a faint heart shape can be seen.

I captured this striking sunflower at The Newt in Somerset yesterday. Am I imagining it, or is there a tiny heart nestled at its centre?