Susan S.

Painting of a glass transparent tea cup filled with dark red tea and with a label hanging over the side from the teabag insidecthe cup. A long shadows from the cup stretches leftwards across the white surface on which the cup stands

Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt

A crow stood in a flower bed of pink and pale green winter shrubs. Crow is watching me carefully

A simple photo of a crow in the new lake flowerbeds taken with my mobile phone because my camera was playing up
🪶 #crow #corvid #cawmunity

A white willow ptarmigan with reddish-brown mottling on the back and head walks with purpose over the rocky ground, it's long, fluffy legs eating up the distance with each stride.

Coming through! Important ptarmigan stuff to do!
#birds 🌿

Winter Headlights Isleworth: ink watercolour and bodycolour on tinted paper

Print of a group.of large white flowers on dark green stems and leaves against a lighter green background

Australian printmaking artist Rachel Newling, 'Oriental lillies' hand coloured linocut #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

A timeline cleanse. Two hummingbirds taking shelter from the rain inside a rose.

Good night Bluesky.🥰

I really like how you captured the lamp light.

Remembered Sky
Whitley Bay 2018

Soft Pink #AmberCarpet #Rose
These roses were hanging over the edge of a retaining wall and backlit by the sun.
I love the amber yellow and splashes of hot pink. #PinkMon #BloomScrolling #Photography

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.

Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.

The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.

Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M

See the problem?

I've put in like three reams of paper but it keeps saying "I just can't get enough, I just can't get enough." Here's the problem. It was stuck in Depeche Mode.

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

[Thread] There's been a flurry of defections across society this week showing the breadth of actors and institutions that have defied and defected from the Trump regime this week.

1) Military commander leading Southern Command steps down rather than oversee attacks on boats in Caribbean:

Victo Ngai, award winning illustrator and artist from Hong Kong #womensart #Autumn #Fall

I got to use a 100-500mm lens for a couple of shots yesterday. So a moon pic for today’s post

My periodic shout into the void:

The only reason why anyone cares about anyone's gender is cuz the whole of society is based around assigning human rights based on gender (&societal privileges to the "better" genders)*

*terms and conditions apply,worse in some societies than others,but all do this

The light from an early morning sun peeks through and backlights oak leaves turninbright red in fall. The light emphasizes the green still remaining near the veins.

The #glow of the early morning sun through autumn red oak leaves
#BlueskyArtShow #Photography #EastCoastKin #Autumn

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Tired of Peter Thiel trying to destroy democracy by forcing his dystopian vision of the world on us?

You can join @purgepalantir.bsky.social, a movement that is protesting the billionaire and his companies.

And @solidaritydept.bsky.social has a full report exposing Thiel that you can share widely:

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

My wife took this great picture of the moon Sunday evening. I appreciate the patience it took to capture these migrating Canada geese. Rodman, NY
#birds

A defining feature of an emerging authoritarian regime is that it makes the opposition feel like shit on a daily basis. Every day, there is some new atrocity committed; some new institution attacked; some new democratic norm demolished. Some of it -- much of it -- we have little ability to stop in the moment. But that’s not how to measure the health of an anti-authoritarian movement. Instead, we should measure it this way: Are we more unified than we were before? Are we bigger than we were before? Are our tactics proliferating? Is the regime’s popularity falling?

I find this encouraging, from @indivisible.org:

Mitch Dobrowner

Mammatus
Bolton, Kansas
2016

Oval shaped stone with a painting of a landscape with a lake and a hill over which many birds fly under a full moon

'Moonlight Murmuration' by artist Kerrie Ann Gardner, painting on stone #WomensArt #FullMoon #October

Photo of the outdoor of a cinema on a street with sign with text stating "RAISE BOYS AND GIRLS THE SAME WAY"

Jenny Holzer, Times Square Marquee sign installations, 1993 #womensart

A Steller’s Jay perched on a stone wall with pine trees in Yosemite National Park.

A Steller's Jay more or less in #profile for the #BirdOfTheDay
💙🌲🪶 at Yosemite NP.

#RockinTuesday #Yosemite #birds

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test | Royal Society An event celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test, held at the Royal Society on 2 October 2025.

You might imagine that an event celebrating 75 years of the Turing Test would be all "Wasn't he prescient, and look, now we really do have machines that think!" Mercifully, this event yesterday was close to the opposite. /1
royalsociety.org/science-even...

The famous photo of the soldiers raising the flag at IWO JIMA with the words ANTIFA.

Being against fascism really shouldn't be controversial.

I'm sure somebody here needs a video of a pack of lambs playing with the best toy ever: pile of dirt

Does this count for 🐱🇳🇿 ... 🐑🇳🇿