Padmaparna Ghosh

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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California researcher finds Earth's vital signs flashing red Despite the ominous numbers, the report is not all doom and gloom.

"We know how to slow the rate of #climate change. We know how to make our society more resilient to the impacts we can no longer avoid. But the message here is that we need to be moving much more aggressively on implementing them, said Gleick”
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Some of the great illustrations from The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884), including tales of the mythical Glooskap, whose name literally means Liar, because it is said that when he left earth he promised to return but has never done so: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

Top marks to whoever chose the image.

Best thing ever from the V&A stores today: on the front of Margret Mason’s 1660 sampler are clothed “boxer” figures (little men holding gifts, acorns here). Turn the sampler over and the men look much the same but are completely naked!

Amazing, love it. Thanks for sharing.

The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.

A good thread on how Trump uses visual images as propaganda tools, and why it's important to learn to decipher them, but worth noting is also the mainstreaming process this use is doing for much more extreme images that circulate in the margins. Not all are aware of the origins of these images.

India

This is so cool.

There is a simple recipe for lively cities where the people come out in the streets and meet each other, where children play and where the elderly aren’t lonely, like this one in Spain: ban cars.

Literally anything is better with beans.

Poster advertising the London Underground seen on a London Street with pedestrians and people coming out of cars and people flying off the top of double-decker buses levitating and floating along and then down the stairs into the train system

The Lure of the Underground — Alfred Leete, 1927

It’s the background giggles that are killing me.

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A nightmare black cat with wide eyes and a gaping mouth full of needle teeth

Cat — Magdalena Patyk (@madziowa_p)
Charcoal on Paper

Photograph of Margaret Fountaine in Victorian dress alongside butterfly display

"I want to see all I can of this beautiful world"
Margaret Fountaine
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#Norfolk lepidopterist visited 60 countries on 6 continents; 24,000 #butterfly collection @norwichcastle.bsky.social
#womeninscience #envhist
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'Night Lights of Piccadilly'
(from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek

Trump stares at the sun during an eclipse

Morning Bluesky.

Partial solar eclipse in the UK today, starting at 10.07 and finishing at noon.

Don’t be like this guy.

This story makes a really powerful (and tragically depressing) point: that there is no evidence strong enough to counter a world view anchored in conspiracy theory and reinforced by a multitide of motivated "influencers" — even the death of one's own child.

Just found out about #BloomScrolling (love it!).
A ragingly magnificent Magnolia specimen here from southeast London.

Only if you grab them by the chassis.

Yea close second for me.

Have you ever learnt a new technique and then been like “lol, never again”. I met mine with latch hooking. It’s an extremely tedious process that proceeds at a pace so excruciatingly slow that you’d be rather walk on hot coals for the rest of your life than ever risk meeting another carpet.

Freedom of speech indeed.

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Is there a discount for those in the UK? Thanks!