Michèle Plott

📷️Nikon Zf
📸MINOLTA AUTO ROKKOR-PF 58mm F1.4
#photography #fotografía #Nikon #Zf

writing these down! also... happy women's history month? 😎

yes

yes

YouTube video by RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast Episode 161: No One is Sleepwalking in Ukraine with Dr. Marci Shore

The full interview is here:
with @marcishore.bsky.social

youtu.be/CuSHF-vELJg?

Iran-News im Liveblog: Nato fängt offenbar erneut iranische Rakete vor türkischem Luftraum ab Schon wieder hat die Nato offenbar eine iranische Rakete in Richtung Türkei zerstört. Mehrere Länder sollen die Ukraine um Unterstützung gebeten haben. Und: Öl wird immer teurer, der Dax rutscht ab. D...

Selenskyj: Eleven countries have asked Ukraine for support in the Iran war
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a total of eleven countries affected by the war in Iran have asked Ukraine for support. Among them are neighboring countries of Iran as well as European states and the USA

Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

"Historians will struggle [to stop screaming long enough] to explain..."

Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

Heartbreak on the Colonial Front: Women’s Writing, the Seven Years War, and Humanity in the Archive By Thomas Lecaque This article is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Patrick Lecaque, 1/15/1949-10/11/2025, who taught his son the joy of history, of research, of discovery, and to find the individuals…

A powerful look at how women’s writing during the Seven Years’ War reveals the raw emotion, loss, and humanity often hidden in colonial archives. A moving reminder that behind every global conflict are intimate stories worth remembering. @tlecaque.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/2026/03/02/h...

Today!!

In person & on Zoom, 5:30pm in London, 1:30pm EDT

CBS’ Mamdani Mania Under Bari Weiss’ leadership, CBS News staffers are increasingly worried the network’s editorial priorities are mirroring The Free Press, particularly in coverage of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Some CBS News staffers worry Bari Weiss is steering coverage toward The Free Press’ priorities, particularly on Mamdani

“It feels pretty clear that Bari Weiss views her role…as being a political adversary to the mayor,” a source close to Mamdani told Status

www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

Telegraph takeover by Axel Springer to be resolved ‘without delay’ Takeover’s regulatory process begins just days after deal with German publisher was agreed

Looks like the Telegraph is going to be a respectable newspaper again and pro-european.

Expect some aneurisms among the columnists.

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/60af5b7...

Den hauchdünnen Sieg der Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg hat der Grüne Cem Özdemir auch seinem Freund, dem Ex-Grünen Boris Palmer zu verdanken. Doch auf der Party in der Stuttgarter Staatsgalerie war Palmer offenbar bei einigen unerwünscht. Kaum habe er das Foyer betreten, sei er von zwei jungen Männern, »ganz klar Grüne Jugend«, angeraunzt worden, berichtet Palmer dem SPIEGEL. »Mir wurde gesagt, dass ich Cem schade und wieder gehen soll.« Niemand habe ihn eingeladen, er solle verschwinden.

lmao

Today!!

In person & on Zoom, 5:30pm in London, 1:30pm EDT

Please read

福寿草、春を告げる縁起花
太陽光に敏感で陽が当たると開き曇りや夜は閉じます
早春の陽だまりを好む植物
#花写真
#フクジュソウ

as long term followers will know, I really enjoy using my film camera to essentially fake double exposure shots by taking pictures of the inside of cars through their windows, ideally on sunny days, and isn't this most recent one just wonderfully funky:

"You find it difficult to be happy, don't you?"

Oh my God.

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

🍂🍂

yeah, I miss exactly this kind of poll a lot

🍂🍂

feeling vaguely insulted by micro-niche, 🤎 this one!

Horsemen of the Roman army wore a parade helmet like this during demonstrations, which were part of their training. The helmet protected the head against the blows of spears. This image was originally posted to Flickr by TimeTravelRome

#Roman cavalry helmet. Possibly this face of woman represents an #Amazon. The band on the forehead (torques) was supposed to symbolize Amazons' "barbaric" character. Bronze. 100-200 AD. From Nola. Now in the British Museum.

#Ancient #Art #History #Archaeology

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

A cluster of Osoberry blossoms, white petals with yellow centers and a bit of the branch that they are growing on ☮️

Osoberry

Good morning. ☕️

want to follow the news but can't bear thinking about ordinary Iranians, who've been stuck under such an oppressive regime for so long, who maybe got a flicker of hope, briefly, a few months ago, then watched in horror as their friends and relatives got killed by the state, and now this, unspeakable