Violet Purple

Still studying for my degree examination. Have deleted both bluesky and twitter apps to avoid timewasting, but I’m still on tumblr and discord if you feel like saying hi. Please pray for me and/or give me the name of that etsy witch 🙏

google’s ai overview lies once again. “No credible reports of anyone spitting on Pinochet’s coffin” it claims, followed by three news articles reporting General Prat’s grandson spitting on his coffin

Feel free to metaphorically or literally spit on the coffins of warmongers. It’s a noble tradition

I’ll be spending less time around here than usual for the foreseeable future. Got a date for my degree examination and it’s unpleasantly close

A little white dog made from clay.

This cute (and anatomically correct) little pipe clay Roman dog was discovered in Bath close to the temple of Sulis Minerva. In Roman religion, dogs were associated with the deities Diana and Aesculapius. #FindsFriday

Esto:

Netherlands ready to join Eurovision boycott over Israel The Netherlands follows Ireland in saying it can "no longer justify Israel's inclusion" in the event.

Netherlands ready to join Eurovision boycott over Israel

Off to shit on transphobes pigeon

Keeping busy

painting of two capybaras enjoying a sunny day at the lake

two happy capybaras

prints to north america: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil...

t-shirts, prints and much more to north america, europe and oceania: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1632...

One of the plus sides of being Chilean is that there’s little drama involved when awful people die. We’ve been there, done that, and in the case of the grandson of one of Pinochet’s victims —an army general who he had murdered by car bomb in Buenos Aires— queued for hours just to spit oh his coffin

Venezuela says 11 killed in US boat strike were not gang members amid reports vessel was returning to shore Interior minister says ‘murder has been committed’ while US Congress demands justification for attack

Whose life matters?

a black cat stands in the middle of a path that winds through a brightly lit field.

A dream of the fields
study

ancient friends

Auroch painting at Lascaux

Oh, it’s the 85th anniversary of the discovery of the cave paintings at Lascaux! We visited over the summer.

Shameful to see a creator fired off a book and the whole series immediately cancelled on the same day because she was glib about the murder of someone who famously said that people like her should be stoned to death.

Dear friends from other countries:

please join the Brazilians as we celebrate this groundbreaking decision.

I feel it is my responsibility as your mainstream comic book friend to further explain that what dc is doing to Gretchen is unprecedented

They haven’t only cancelled the series, they are refunding the comics that are already created and recalling the issue that is already sold.

Looking down the hedged garden towards the fresco showing Venus reclining in a shell.

Soft light within the hose illuminates a blue frescoed room and a column in a portico around a garden. The garden is shrouded in darkness

Lights illuminate the yellow and red painted colonnaded portico of a Roman house leaving the garden shrouded in darkness

#Pompei by night

A wonderful initiative by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii inviting visitors to visit a few houses by night. It’s an incredibly evocative experience as from the depths of darkness, light glows from rooms as if someone is at home.
Info here: pompeiisites.org/comunicati/i...

Pressure mounts on Bolsonaro as first of five judges finds him guilty The Brazilian ex-president is accused of plotting a coup to cling to power, which he denies.

Pressure mounts on Bolsonaro as first of five judges finds him guilty

I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is

- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals

it needs to be stopped, post haste

Medical schools shouldn’t allow anti vaccine students to graduate. They are a danger to public health

I'll be tabling at this event tomorrow! Gonna have a bunch of photo prints that I've never shared in physical form before! And some comics and books! Everything's at my table'll be FREE - just a suggested donation! Come see, come see!

photo of two black and white prints of a tiger crouching in the plants. next to it is the carving of the lino

black and white print of the tiger on thinner paper which was possibly for chinese painting

trying out linocut hehe

We have very different definitions of what a crawl space is

Annyone in Maryland areas whomst can help?

That’s not a crawl space. That looks more like a whole uninsulated attic. Terrible design.

Spicy cold

Composite photographs of child laborers — Lewis Hine, 1913.

Made while Hine travelled the U.S. for the National Child Labor Committee documenting child labor — in factories, textile mills, canneries, and coal mines.

More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l... #laborday

The top half of a black cashmere kimono style gown with bright purple sash and round Tudor style collar. It fastens asymmetrically and has silk covered toggles running the length of the dress

A detail of the black cashmere kimono style dress focusing on the purple sash and silk covered toggles

Front and back view of the black cashmere kimono style dress revealing a purple bow at the back

John Redfern along with his tailors and seamstresses is one of the makers to feature in my book Dressing the Queen. Working on copy edits this week and thinking of all those who contributed to gowns like this cashmere kimono style, belonging to Heather Firbank c1913 #V&A FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

let the old man alone; never speak to him, whatever he says