Too many people didn't appreciate just how wonderful, how glorious, it was that the daily news cycle during Biden's presidency was boring as fuck.

Stylised art nouveau painted artwork featuring a white woman in golden robes and crown

Queen of Spades, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Glasgow School #womensart

How the world’s richest man laid waste to the US government Elon Musk has achieved astonishing power in Trump’s administration – and spent the weekend wielding it

Good account here of Elon Musk's seizure of control over the US government. It's terrifying and unprecedented and I think not getting as much coverage as it warrants, here in the UK at least www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sepia photograph of a group ofxaround twelve white women students, dresseď in long dresses, in a sculpting studio, some sitting, some standing, creating small models of their model, a live cow, which is standing in the centre of the group to the left

Pennsylvania Academy,1855, female students were not allowed a nude human model, as in many art establishments, to improve anatomical drawing......so were given a cow... #womensart

Print featuring a canal with two narrow boats to the left foreground and high industrial buildings and cranes to each side under a bluish cloudy sky

Regents Canal, Bethnal Green linocut by UK printmaker Gail Brodholt #womensart

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so I'm here instead.

I'm leaving my twitter account existing. but I'm not supporting the products of an owner whose actions on the global stage are slightly concerning to me. He's bought his way into power in the USA. That's worrying, what will he do with it?

the lovely thing here is you can turn off the labels. You can't affect what others see, but you can change what you see.

well that's interesting! thanks

HE TELLS HER by Wendy Cope He tells her that the earth is flat - He knows the facts, and that is that. In altercations fierce and long She tries her best to prove him wrong. But he has learned to argue well. He calls her arguments unsound And often asks her not to yell. She cannot win. He stands his ground. The planet goes on being round.

A poem for all time

so pleased to find you on here!

In 2020 the LGBTQ+ lobby in Scotland took out an ad they thought was a huge gotcha. It contrasted all the LGBTQ+ groups who supported predatory men being in women’s spaces with the sole organisation that opposed it. This ad has been a badge of honour for @AllianceLGB ever since.

Artwork featuring the head and shoulders of a Black Young Woman to the bottom right on a red background. The figure is wearing a top with white circle motifs , has hooped gold earings, has no expression. Flowers in black and white appear to fall down from the top of the artwork passing in front the figure and highlighting her left eye in white

Delita Martin,
The Soul in Red, 2017

Puffin with fish gazing up. Isle of May, June 2024

Looking up.
Puffin on the Isle of May. #SuperSeabirdSunday

The cynic in me says McDonald's paid them for that shot, as well as providing the food...

I'm here today because I saw in Guardian online they're abandoning Twitter, and apparently not replacing it with anything else, they want people on their website.

I've never heard of Alt Text. Will I be horrified if I google it and find out it has several meanings? Or is it literally a website coding thing?

oh good grief! Why can't they just go look in their own files and deal with it properly!

I find the inconsistency as to what is or isn't a hate crime and what generates police responses and what doesn't very worrying.

None of which translates to anyone wanting trans people to go away and die, it translates into wanting trans people to build their own spaces rather than pushing women out of theirs, including offers of help with the construction. The ideology is it's own worst enemy.

what a ridiculous piece of hyperbole by Brianna there! The vast majority of gender critical people I know are really worried that these individuals are being encouraged to take irreversible steps based on promises known to be falsehoods and societal terms the ideology is misogynistically regressive

A lot of the individuals who want tolerance for them, but can't cope with anyone thinking differently do seem to be part of the Venn Diagram of autistic spectrum. I fear a public health scandal in a few years, where autistic kids have been failed with the promise of trans solving their problems.

These block lists or (for the less lunatic users) lists created to help you work out who is on here to follow are quite useful. I'm using both sorts for the latter....

Ignore the lunatics, and enjoy James and Ricky

I can guarantee that both have a high risk of suffering from 'power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely' - like any other leader with power.

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