Chairman Meow

What is your cat's favorite toy?

#cats

Alex Kydd
nature, ocean & travel photography
"Beautiful moments below the surface. Captured over the years exploring the ocean.

A reminder of what’s worth protecting 💙"

#ocean #underwater #nature

Cats are smarter than humans…

As it should be! 😼

3 raku vases, each with varied and striking raku glazing. On the left, a metallic blue with red, in center a turquoise vase with crackles. on the right a blue vase with flourishes of reds, yellows and purples

I always struggle to find a balance between valuing my work and keeping it accessible to people. That is why from time to time I offer some of my successful smaller test vases for purchase. I really believe art is for everyone.

#art #pottery

Happy Pride!
LGBTQ rights are human rights.
We have a lot of work to do to protect those rights, particularly for the trans community who are being attacked by our government.

Pepsi has withdrawn from sponsorship of ‘gay pride’ events, no explanation…

You know what to do. 😎🌈✨

#BoycottPepsi

Once or twice I've met what I would call an evangelical buddhist and they are just as controlling and hypocritical as evangelical christians. Fortunately there seems to be far fewer of them. Either your religion is about love and that includes LGBTQ people, or it's a cult of ego built on hate.

I have never felt so seen. ;-) Thanks for sharing!

@chairmanmeow2.bsky.social Chairman Meow! :)

Purrrrrs gently

There is such a lack of integrity within the media. Where are those brave journalists, speaking out, daily, about the utter corruption? So many cowards. Everywhere. Conforming. Bending the knee. All for a dollar.

What does the Milky Way look like from the side? Thanks to data from ESA’s Gaia mission, we now have a detailed map showing its thin, warped disk — home to our Sun and billions of stars. A stunning view of our galaxy’s true shape. Credit: ESA, Gaia, DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar

What does the Milky Way look like from the side? Thanks to data from ESA’s Gaia mission, we now have a detailed map showing its thin, warped disk — home to our Sun and billions of stars. A stunning view of our galaxy’s true shape.

Credit: ESA, Gaia, DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar

Once a slum lord, always a slum lord. No one should be surprised he evicted the beloved residents of Sesame Street from their home and your lives. Everyone knows his self declared fondness for stupid voters.

Thank you!

I wish Melania and Elon would take advantage of this. And since they are now deporting citizens, I can think of several (ok all members of cabinet who can leave too).

It’s not enough to be upset.
Organize, build with others, and stay disciplined….

That’s still how real change happens.

Thank you ;-) He's a little sweetie

#HillfortsWednesday
Moel Arthur is a small circular hillfort crowning a very prominent hill overlooking the Vale of Clwyd to the south of Penycloddiau

(📷 © Crown Copyright: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales © Hawlfraint )

#Archaeology #History

A picture of me stood next to the early medieval stone high cross known as Muiredach’s Cross at Monasterboice on a bright sunny day

What a beautiful bright sunny day! It was perfect to see the detail on the magnificent Muiredach’s Cross at Monasterboice.

The cross is the finest example in the country (in my subjective opinion!). A masterpiece of 10th century Irish art.

#Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm

My photo shows an insect usually referred to as a grasshopper, engraved on a fragment of bone during the Magdalenian period of the Upper Paleolithic. It is drawn in a naturalistic style, shown in profile facing right, with two pairs of front legs and antennae. It was discovered c. 1928 in the cave habitat of the Grotte d'Enlène, in the foothills of the French Pyrenees.

Jiminy Cricket!

It’s an #IceAge grasshopper!

The so-called ‘Grasshopper of Enlène’, engraved on bone some 17,000 - 14,000 years ago, is the most detailed representation of an insect in Paleolithic art known to date. From the Enlène Cave, Ariège, France. Magdalenian period.

📷 me

#Archaeology 🏺

Photo of the Trundholm Sun Chariot, featuring a horse figure pulling a large, gilded bronze disk on a wheeled frame. The disk is partially covered in gold leaf with intricate circular patterns, symbolizing the sun. The sculpture is mounted on six spoked wheels and displayed against a dark background.

The Trondheim Sun Chariot is dated to the Early Bronze Age, approximately 1400 BC. The spiral decorations on its golden sun disc indicates its Nordic origin. The Sun Chariot represents the sun's eternal journey, drawn by a divine horse. The sun and horse....🧵1/2

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology

A glass bowl about the size of a modern pasta bowl, with ridges around the base. It is deep blue with an irregular white pattern throughout.

A beautiful #Roman glass bowl, made of cobalt-blue glass with white marbled decoration. It was made about 2000 years ago, probably in Italy, & was subsequently exported to Britannia, ending up in a C1st AD burial #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology AncientBlueSky

Stocking up on some essentials today while I can still afford them at Costco, because I am boycotting Amazon and Walmart. Need to be ready for the shortages Trump is creating with his nonsensical policies.

Thank you! I hope you have a beautiful weekend!

Thank you 💙

My photo collage shows four cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and each decorated with a different polychrome motif, including white spirals, white whorls, white petals, red spots, orange spots, orange bands, and white bands, all painted on a black background. This type of ornamental Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on Crete where this kind of pottery was first found. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These four cups were excavated at Phaistos and dated 1800-1700 BC.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

So modern-looking it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters 3,800 years ago!

Known as Kamares Ware, these luxury ceramics were made in palace workshops. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology 🏺