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vintage poster celebrating International Women's Day on March 8th

vintage poster celebrating International Women's Day on March 8th

vintage poster celebrating International Women's Day on March 8th

vintage poster celebrating International Women's Day on March 8th

Happy #InternationalWomensDay

March 8, 2026

❝I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.❞—Audre Lorde

Good Afternoon✨

Avre Potabilis Chimice Preparat i- Arbol de la Vida
(Alchemical Tree of Life - 17th century)

Read @MullenderRob's essay on the remarkable experiments — turning sound into image — undertaken by Welsh singer Margaret Watts-Hughes in the late 19th century. publicdomainreview.org/essay/p... #internationalwomensday #iwd2023 #happywomensday2023

48 years ago
Gaye Advert of The Adverts, Brussels, Belgium, March 1978.

Photo by Philip Carly

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #gayeadvert #theadverts #history #punkrockhistory

These women were Golden Age masters — why have they been ignored by art historians? An ambitious exhibition highlights the glory of Low Countries artists still ripe for rediscovery, centuries after their first fame

These women were Golden Age masters — why have they been ignored by art historians?
An ambitious exhibition highlights the glory of Low Countries artists still ripe for rediscovery, centuries after their first fame
by Kristina Foster for @financialtimes.com

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#ShadowsOnSaturday Museo Leonardo da Vinci

Cartoon with four images in black and white comparing a cat's and a dog's behaviour

Sarah C. Andersen (born June 15, 1992) US cartoonist and illustrator #Womensart

‘At first, she couldn’t come off the oxygen long enough’: the film that gives Marianne Faithfull one final thrilling performance In new docu-drama Broken English, the much misunderstood singer looks back at all her past selves – and gives a performance that moves her audience to tears. Its makers relive an extraordinary shoot

‘At first, she couldn’t come off the oxygen long enough’: the film that gives Marianne Faithfull one final thrilling performance

A full moon illuminated in a golden glow between branches, budding for spring

The last Winter full moon/onward into Spring.

“verba quasi stellae quaedam interpositae orationem illuminant.”
(Words, as if stars interspersed, illuminate elegance.)

Leonardo Bruni(c. 1370–1444).

Monochrome photograph featuring a standing Iranian woman in a hijab holding a portable radio and tape deck on her shoulder in an interior

Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian, Untitled (from the Qajar series), 2002 #womensart

Did you know that as you slept early this morning, for a few moments your body was nearly parallel with the galactic plane? Did you know that, just then, owls were calling from somewhere deep in the woods? Wolf Creek Pass, Utah

Galaxy-rise - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qPuZzV

Paul Weller & Pete Townshend, London, England 1980.
Janette Beckman.

Totally!

Order of Play for Day 1 from Tennis Paradise:

Badosa opens Stadium 1, Opelka/Quinn and Berrettini/Mannarino to follow. Andreescu opens the night session and is followed by Tsitsipas/Shapovalov.

Kessler, McNally, Stephens, Cirstea, Monfils, Fonseca, Kecmanovic and more:

Naum Gabo, influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's post-Revolution avant-garde.

Construction in Space with Crystalline Centre (1938–1940)
#Constructivism #ModernArt

Embroidered textile banner featuring the name Boadicea in gold letters and a golden chariot wheel motif

Suffrage banner commemorating Boadicea (or Boudica) the Britjsh warrior queen, designed in 1908 by Mary Lowndes #womensart

I just gave to Voters of Tomorrow PAC I just gave to Voters of Tomorrow PAC

BREAKING: James Talarico is officially our Senate nominee in Texas.

It's time to put our differences aside, come together, and flip Texas blue.

Let's get it done.

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Autonomous Zones and the Weird Rise of Authoritarian Anarchism From Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zones to today’s crypto-libertarian strongmen, decentralisation has morphed into a volatile mix of deregulation, police power and anti-democratic ambition.

The splitting off of counterculture into identity tribes generated a different set of intentions. If you were trying to stop a war or overthrow Richard Nixon’ Amerika, your cry was “join us!” But if you were only trying to maintain a semi-original identity,

“Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”

Umberto Eco.

Marble Athena with her spear & the (very cute) owl of wisdom

Romanized Isis 2nd c

Marble and ebony Artemis Ephesia resting on a marble base- a combination deity of Artemis merging with Anatolian fertility cults

Calling on the goddesses of yore: Athena, Roman Isis & Artemis Ephesia.

From the installation of “Myth and Marble, Ancient Roman Sculpture” at the Kimbell Art Museum in January.
📸me

Javanese artist Raden Soelardi’s elegant 1919 illustrations of the shadow puppetry form known as wayang kulit: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...

I am honored and delighted to announce that my image of two Springboks in a sandstorm that was raging in Namibia's coastal dunes has won the Grand prize of the2026 international Memorial Maria Luisa competition! 🥳🥂🍾

#photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #bluesky #nature #mammals

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Congratulations, such a great photo.

‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became

From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became

Gil Scott-Heron and His Midnight Band :: Live, January 16, 1978 KALX‑FM

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Working in vital tandem with Brian Jackson, as broadcasts go, it remains a vivid testament to his singular command of stage, band, and political pulse.

This administration is a masterclass in Incompetent buffoonery in every sector.

If we passed Bernie Sanders' 5% wealth tax on billionaires, Musk would still have $792 billion.

Zuckerberg would still have $209 billion.

Bezos would still have $207 billion.

And we would have trillions in revenue, more money in our pockets, and a better healthcare system.

Just spoke with President Zelenskyy.

We are focused on our shared priorities: conclude the adoption of the Ukraine Support Loan and of the 20th package of sanctions.