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modern art painting in landscape orientation depicting a school of stylized multicolored fish swimming amongst plants and rocks underwater - geometric, mosaic like style

#FishFriday 🐟:
Wilfrid Daleus (Haiti, 1949 - 2017)
Poisson, n.d.
Acrylic on Canvas
20 x 24 in.
Marcus Rediker Collection / Haitian Art Society: haitianartsociety.org/daleus-poiss...

I would hugely appreciate your prayers. Life itself is an almost overwhelming burden at the moment.

Guerilla praying is my favourite 😻

I could easily spend every pound I possess in there. And the liquorice fudge is amazing 🤩

May God have mercy upon him and bless him. It is a burden I would not wish on anyone.

Heartfelt prayers for you and your intentions 🙏

In today's what the actual audacity:

I've been asked to speak for free on the barriers faced by blind people... by the Labour party.

I explained that giving up working hours without payment while I have to cover the cost of childcare would create a financial disadvantage. The response? It's online

A rectangular graphic with a picture of a palm cross in a bowl of ash in the background. In the foreground is the Church in Wales celtic cross logo in the top left corner, text which says “Lenten Readings | Darlleniadau Grawys” on the left in white text, and a picture of a smartphone open to a page of the digital lectionary on the right.

Discover all the readings for today and the whole season at our Digital Lectionary. Gallwch ddarganfod yr holl ddarlleniadau ar gyfer heddiw a’r tymor cyfan yn ein Llithiadur Digidol lectionary.churchinwales.org...

#ChurchInWales #DigitalLectionary #Lent #Lent2025 #EglwysYngNghymru

Pilgrim Cello - Kenneth Wilson Cello The Pilgrim Cello journey is a pilgrimage around the 42 English cathedrals, by bicycle, performing the Seven Last Words Meditation in nearly all of them. The pilgrimage will begin in Newcastle on 19 M...

All 42 English cathedrals.
With a cello.
On a bike...
kennethwilsoncello.com/pilgrim-cello/

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds

Holy water brought from Ethiopia linked to UK cholera cases Bottles filled from a sacred well have been found to contain a drug-resistant strain of the disease that hospitalised several people in Europe

As both Science Reporter + Religious Affairs Correspondent at
@thetimes.com, it really had to be me who wrote this story:

Bottles of holy water contaminated with a cholera superbug were brought to UK from a sacred well in Ethiopia and led to hospitalisations: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles

Overseas pressure groups targeting civil society in the UK is something that urgently needs more scrutiny. The National Trust has frequently been campaigned against via a group whose directors and funders are thousands of miles away.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Word of the day is ‘foxy’ (19th century), used of weather that misleads you into thinking it’s extremely warm when in reality it’s pretty chilly.

Holy Week, Tuesday: Cleansing the Temple When Solomon dedicated the Temple he rightly declared that not even the Heaven of Heavens could contain almighty God, much less this temple made with hands, yet God himself still came into the temp…

Come as you came this day, a man in anger
Unleash the lash that drives a pathway through
Face down for me the fear the shame the danger
Teach me again to whom my love is due.

malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/h...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

There are no words adequate to the insanity of these decisions
#madness

Oh No, No NaNoWriMo Alternative places that might work for you

Oh No, No NaNoWriMo open.substack.com/pub/lilylaws...
Some alternative options for those of you who will miss NaNoWriMo
#newblogpost #substack #nanowrimo

Illustration of a cottage garden with a large thatched cottage in the background. The magnolia tree is small and sparse but abundantly underplanted with colourful flowering plants.

‘Magnolia’
Garden Flowers, 1960
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton

overhead
captivating old friends
red kites call

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #senryu #tanka

This is what peak performance looks like

Labour's historic attack on disabled people is already wrecking lives. Just ask Kevin | John Harris The anxiety and horror of these sweeping cuts are a matter of deliberate policy. How did the party of Bevan come to this, asks Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Impressive work from Keith
(posted with permission)

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Solo Daffodil shot. Love the streaks of shadow cast from the other daffodils.💛

#Photography99 📷 #FlowersOnFriday 🌱

John Snow memorial, Norh Street, York

Born on this day, 15 March in 1813, The story of John Snow is a fascinating one. Born in North Street, York he was the son of a labourer in a coal yard. He went on to become a physician who is considered one of the founders of epidemiology for his work identifying the source of a cholera outbreak

And me!

A compilation of photos of various crime scene dioramas that Frances Glessner Lee created.

It's #InternationalWomensDay! The forensic scientist Frances Glessner Lee created real crime scene dioramas to train homicide investigators in the 1940s/50s. She was troubled that patrolmen and detectives rarely knew how to secure a scene, or identify key evidence in a forensic investigation.