Zandra

“why is this person trying to use power this way?” is one of the most illuminating questions you can ask about someone’s innate value as a human being

Craven Dunnill Jackfield produced 70 different tiles: 11,835 hand-made encaustic in varying patterns and sizes, and 36,862 hand-cut geometric tiles plus lettering tiles in Pugin's typeface. Kevin Doonan Architects created the designs using traditional encaustic patterns from our archive catalogue; we then generated over 50 scaled CAD technical drawings, translating the design into a workable floor plan. Craven Dunnill Jackfield website

Cathedral of St Mary, Newcastle

The entire floor surface of the cathedral was reordered & retiled in 2009-10.

The work was based on designs in archive catalogues & Pugin’s typeface.

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📷 Part of floor near the font,

#TilesOnTuesday

a poorly drawn cat with a drop pin shape

a grey cat inside a cat carrier, with only its head sticking out, making it look like a maps drop pin

📍

Burrowing owl scowling from behind an embankment.

Good morning! 🪶

Ka'ra the tuxedo cat lays in side her carpeted cat cave, sniffing the ceiling. You can see her chin, chest, and feet, all white, as well as her long fluffy whiskers, but most of the rest is in shadow.

iF im can't see you, you can't see me, right?

A large grey lynx walks down a snowy road looking incredibly badass.

I'm celebrating half a century on this planet today and it's also #WorldWildlifeDay. I know there's a lot of darkness, but the world is still full of so much beauty. Let's celebrate it by sharing our favourite wildlife photos.

Eleanor Collins is shown in a black-and-white studio portrait. She is turned slightly to her left while looking toward the camera with a soft expression. Her hair is styled short and neatly shaped, and she wears small, round earrings. She is dressed in a light-colored blouse with a wide, open collar. A smooth studio backdrop appears behind her, with a distinct shadow cast to one side.

On this day in 2024, Eleanor Collins died.
Born in 1919 in Edmonton, she was known as Canada's First Lady of Jazz. She was the first Canadian woman and the first Black entertainer in Canada, to have her own national television show (The Eleanor Show in 1955).

Art is our only salvation from the horror of existence.

"Defund the humanities to ensure that no one learns my brilliant insights are not novel" seems to be a working theory explaining a lot of techbro animus.

In the hollow of the circle I teeter on uneven ground that is home to tall moss covered trees reaching so high into the blue, blue sky. Partial shadow leads to bright beautiful sunshine lending a little hope

downcast eyes, look up

#ThickTrunkTuesday #photography #nature #verticalgaze #hope #sunlight #daybyday

A storm drain with curved channels. The sides of the channels have moss growing in them

Please enjoy this mossy storm drain.

A young grizzly bear stands on a rock face and looks toward the viewer. He is friend-shaped, but I do not recommend hugs!

A grey Wolf sits in front of a fallen log on the BC Coast.

Two African Wild Dog pups playing with a branch.

A female leopard staring out into the distance. Photo taken in South Africa.

Today is #WorldWildlifeDay and I have been fortunate to experience so many magic moments with wildlife. We need to continue to work towards protecting wildlife and the places that they call home.

A macro photo, front three-quarter view, of a small dark bee, sprinkled liberally with tiny white pollen grains, perched on the smooth yellow petals of a flower, against a bright blue sky background.

Is this desert flower (sun cup, Camissonia sp.) small? Yes, under 2cm. Is this bee (maybe Lasioglossum sp.?) even smaller? Yes, 5-6mm (zoom in!). To get a blue sky background behind a plant under 15cm. tall, did I have to lie sideways on the ground and get sand in my ear? Also yes.
🌿🐙📷🌼 #BugSky

Yep, you’re definitely going to heaven now.

Oh, beautiful!

Ooh, enjoy!

Beautiful!

Love it!

Ohh, that’ll be gorgeous!

Oh, I’m so glad! Hugs from another weird queer quilter.

Black and white photo of four short haired kittens. Two of them are tuxedo tabbies’s and two of them are white with tabby patches. They’re in a little tableau on a table with books and a jewelry box or humor. Text at the bottom, says brothers and sisters.

Brothers and Sisters. Postcard from my collection, 1905.

If the Iranians are evil for hitting civilian infrastructure in their retaliatory strikes, what does that make the Israelis who have been bombing hospitals, schools, and slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians?

I promise you, this shit doesn't make your photos look better. Why even bother to photograph birds at all-- just waste a bunch of water and electricity making bird images with AI if you want unrealistic slop.

Don't like the quality of your photo? Then go out, take more

bsky.app/profile/skwi...

This. Preach!

The internet is good for ONE thing.

~25 have the middle star done, 10 or so have the next round done, and 4 or 5 are on to round 3. I’m aiming for 77 in the end (probably have a few discards), and each of them will also need 6 arc segments.

Privatization yet again proves its foundational principle — adding a profit motive cannot provide better service for less money because the profit will eat up more than any potential efficiencies. Privatization ALWAYS results in less & worse service for massively higher costs.

Alongside tax breaks to corporate landlords and private jet owners, Carney’s Liberals have repeatedly violated the constitutionally-protected right to strike when workers stood up for liveable wages and safe working conditions.

hot take: if you're an American, this is not a nuanced issue. you do not need to "listen to Iranian voices" here. you need to tell your leaders to stop bombing a country and killing people. that's literally it.

And to be fair, I think Bluesky always comes across as DOOM because it's full of people who go 'Okay let's game out some of the worst case scenarios; oh wow holy shit those are bad so let's work to prevent those.' It can just come across as full doom because hey it's skeets and what is nuance.