☘️🧉🎨 Maria O'Connor 💙

The Origin of Mysterious, Dark-Skinned Blonds Discovered A single gene mutation that arose in the Pacific explains why some dark-skinned islanders have fair hair.

Yes
Light skin is an adaptation to the environment. Some time occurs in different people, independently of each other.
Here dark skin & blonde hair in Melanesia: Neither recent South Saharan genes for dark skin, nor European genes for blonde hair.

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My art

On the left: An oval-framed black-and-white portrait photograph of Josephine Cochrane wearing a high-necked blouse or dress with lace detailing and a dark jacket or shawl. Her hair is styled in an elaborate braided updo typical of the Edwardian era, with soft curls framing her face. She gazes just to the right of the camera with a calm, composed expression, conveying quiet confidence and elegance. On the right: A printed advertisement for the "New Improved Garis-Cochrane Dish Washing Machine," featuring bold uppercase headline text: "YOU CAN HAVE Absolutely Clean Dishes" followed by promotional copy promising dishes cleaned "without being nicked and have them clean, without being cracked quick, or broken by using the" machine. The ad highlights the product's advantages over manual washing and includes a detailed line drawing illustration of the open dishwashing machine, showing internal racks holding plates and utensils, a hinged lid, and mechanical components like a pump or agitator. Small text notes it is "Used Exclusively in the Baltimore and Connor Hotels," with contact information: "Send for Catalogue," "Telephone Harrison 2981," and the manufacturer "Garis-Cochrane Mfg. Co., 1403 Auditorium Tower, CHICAGO, ILL." The overall design is classic early advertising style, emphasizing innovation in household labor-saving devices and featuring the woman as a symbol of modern domesticity.

Josephine Cochrane invented the first commercially successful automatic dishwasher.

Posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006. She was born #OTD in 1839.

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM

My painting WISCONSIN FARM

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A colorful oil painting on canvas showing tall, stylized white lilies rising against a bright blue background. The flowers grow from deep purple and dark earthy tones at the bottom, with soft pink outlines and green stems. Thick, expressive brushstrokes create texture and movement, making the flowers appear as if they are emerging upward toward the sky.

"Breathing Upward"
25 х 40 cm.,
acrylic and oil on canvas,
2026

#art #originalart #lilies

Healy Pass Trail, Banff National Park, Alberta.

We evolved by cooperation. Archaeologists found fossils of adult disabled HSapiens & HNeanderthal; they couldn't survive to adulthood with no help from the group
Lack of empathy is an early symptom of frontotemporal dementia, Azheimer, damage to Fronto-Temporal lobe due to accident or drugg abuse

My art

I was raised Catholic. I learned evolution in a Catholic HS, but
I became an agnostic in college.
My email box is full Talerico videos since more than a year ago; sent by religious neighbors & friends; that is why I said religious people voted for him.They are different fr MAG A religious people

And by Jasmine Crockett herself.

Why Alzheimer's Rarely Starts With Forgetfulness—What Shows Up First Experts say subtle mood, behavior, and thinking changes may show up first.

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@norabar.bsky.social

Bajo un régimen que les prohibió educación, trabajo y vida pública, un pequeño intrépido grupo de mujeres afganas salió hoy a las calles de Kabul. Sin protección. Solo valentía. 🤍
Dia Internacional de la Mujer bajo el único régimen de apartheid de género.

@dadi17-10.bsky.social

Bajo un régimen que les prohibió educación, trabajo y vida pública, un pequeño intrépido grupo de mujeres afganas salió hoy a las calles de Kabul. Sin protección. Sin garantías. Solo valentía. 🤍
Dia Internacional de la Mujer bajo el único régimen de apartheid de género.

@dadi17-10.bsky.social @norabar.bsky.social @mjofiguerero.bsky.social

No llames a niñas de 12 anos "mujeres menores de edad"; no son mujeres son nenas. Mujer es una persona de sexo/genero femenino adulta. Lucha contra la explotacion sexual infantil

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Why Alzheimer's Rarely Starts With Forgetfulness—What Shows Up First Experts say subtle mood, behavior, and thinking changes may show up first.

creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...

When you catch a sunny male Black-headed Grosbeak as the wind lifts up his floofy breast feathers you've solved the Stunday BOTD puzzle.

Well, let's see...🤔

...I need one birb for #OrangeSun AND #SundayYellow...

...that has #lightandshade...

...and is #photogenic enough for the #BirdOfTheDay... 💡

📸 Black-headed Grosbeak 🪶🌿

#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#StunDay

Under a regime that banned them from school, work & public life — a small but fearless group of Afghan women walked into the streets of Kabul today. No protection. No guarantees. Just courage. 🤍
This is what IWD looks like under the world’s only gender apartheid regime. Share this. 🌍​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Abe plays outside after his bath.

Happy International Women’s Day!

It’s an honor and a privilege to fight for women and girls every day in Congress.

Mossy, hollow tree

At the heart of the woods #Dartmoor #Devon

An envelope with postmark stamps

#brknshards #haikufeels #emoetry
Recieved Envelope
Still bearing my Old address
Making me wistful
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A dandelion flower

Spring dandelion 🌱

#WildflowerHour #SundayYellow #Bloomscrolling

Some might call them weeds. I call them welcome garden visitors. White and blue forms of sweet violet #wildflowerhour #signsofspring

Blackthorn blossom on sloe tree, Devon

Thicket of blackthorn blossom #Devon #WildflowerHour

"Look at me, I've got 14 petals!"
There is always one show-off ...... 🙄
Lesser Celandine, Ficaria verna, at Lesnes Abbey Woods. #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

Two white Cherry plum flowers against a blurred grey background.

Cherry plum in a little wood in West Cambridge. #SignsOfSpring #WildflowerHour

No sun today but the daffodils still shone brightly for this week's #WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment