Ano Bashode⁷ 🏳️‍🌈

A hand-hooked running-loop-stitch artwork of the view of the North Saskatchewan River from a lookoff. The scene is of a clear summer day, with the sun dipping behind a cloud, a lens flare, and the sky and sunlight reflected in the river. Each stitch is a loop of hand-dyed wool fabric. Blues, greens, and violets dominate the colour palette. "Looking West From Riverbend". 8 inches square, designed and hooked by Deb Merriam in Sept. 2017, wool on linen backing.

#ArtAdventCalendar day 7: "Looking West From Riverbend", Sept 2017, hand-hooked wool flannel on linen, hooked in Laura Pierce’s Light Effects class. Local friends, this is the view from the park where houses were wrecked by erosion of sandy soil; the pedestrian bridge sits at that bend now.

the stunning makeup look by Danessa Myricks on Olandria

Church= cult.

America is full of cults with one on every corner to ensure the brainwashing cements gen to gen.

Quicker to give to a building than a person in need

Othered bodies are just a stage for their masculinity.

The primary reason men perpetrate sexual violence is to bond with each other.

That’s why there are so many text messages and emails. For most rapists, the satisfaction doesn’t come from the violence. It comes from the power they get after bragging about it.

There is not a woman alive (or a woman that has ever lived) that has not had an experience as a child of inappropriate sexual contact with an adult male. Flashing, ‘handsiness’, being shown graphic material, inappropriate sexual comments, all the way to assault. By strangers and family/friends.

The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won

Photographers who actually know how to capture black folks >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

This is really illustrative of the paradigms currently locked in battle.

Being asked to justify your existence by someone that's never even taken a second to question theirs.

Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Stay warm, stay outta trouble, do one thing for yourself and have a great day, on purpose. 🤗😘💕

Day 258

Petal-like fleshy pink stars with purple & blue berries in the centres

White five petalled flowers with pink buds

I pass a Clerodendrum on the way into town. Beautiful berries and fragrant flowers #GardenersWorld 🌱

I love when baddies have nontraditional hobbies 😌

The sun rises behind midtown Manhattan in New York City, Thursday morning #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #sunrise

The Beaver Moon rises in New York City, Tuesday evening #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc @empirestatebldg.bsky.social #moon

I hate seeing folks lose their whimsy😔

Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street

Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”

All of this is made up, so you could never convince me that better isn’t possible. You don’t have to settle.

a ceramic dish shaped like a sleeping fawn with sunlit orange leaves in the background

catching the sunset 🧡🍂✨️

When toxic people can't control you, they try to control how others view you. #Manipulation 🐍

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Remember this.

Bright pink roses

Knockouts doing what they do 🌱

Rejection is protection

Crime sells. It sells alarm systems, and ring cameras, and military gear for police officers, and of course it sells news.

whenever you theorize that the spouses of these monsters are somehow more innocent, realize they wouldn't be there if they hadn't bought in heart and soul

11:36pm EDT: Mars in Scorpio contraparallels Uranus in Gemini. No, really, you are free to walk away, rather than staying to argue. You don't need any other person to "agree" with your LIFE.