Dr Francesca Santoro

Gimme a break!🙄

"You will not silence me, not on this issue or any other issue. Zeteo is here to stay, I am here to stay, & the truth - whether it’s about genocide abroad or fascism at home - will not be suppressed."

From my speech accepting the Arab Center's Journalistic Integrity award.
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The "Party of Law & Order" is surprisingly partial to pardoning and commuting the sentences of convicted criminals who disobey the law and disrupt the order.

A young Vietnamese woman with warm light-beige skin sits cross-legged, her long dark hair swept into a loose bun that crowns her head. She wears a flowing, pale blue-white áo dài whose wide sleeves open like wings. The silk-like garment is rendered in layered, textured strokes that catch light. Her oval face is calm, eyes softly downcast, lips a muted rose. Centered at her chest bloom strokes of coral-red and orange suggest clustered blossoms cradled by her hands while the surrounding field dissolves into deep and misty blues. Plant silhouettes and petal-like marks drift across the surface while lighter flecks resemble reflections on water. The paint is visibly scumbled, incised, and mottled so the woman seems to emerge from a lotus pond, held in a hush between breath and thought. Created during the artist’s mature oil-painting years in southern France, “Méditation” belongs to a group of contemplative female figures that merge Vietnamese spirituality with European modernist color and texture. Vũ Cao Đàm trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine and later settled near Vence, where a brighter, dream-like palette and dissolving backdrops entered his work. The blue, aqueous background and bouquet-like reds echo the serenity and life-force of the lotus (Buddhist shorthand for awakening) while the sitter’s cupped, aligned hands recall mudrā-like gestures of inward focus. The sculptor’s touch remains: palette-knife striations and incisions model the face and robe with tender restraint, a hallmark that links his early training to his later canvases. The hovering blossoms place “mind” at the heart, turning the body into a shrine of quiet illumination. Shown in the French retrospective dedicated to Lê Phô, Mai-Thu, and Vũ Cao Đàm, the painting embodies his lifelong synthesis of modern color harmonies and atmospheric backgrounds carrying Vietnamese values of contemplation, grace, and the endurance of cultural memory into a timeless present.

“Méditation (Meditation)” by Vũ Cao Đàm (Vietnamese-French) – Oil on canvas / c. 1960s–1970s – Musée Cernuschi (Paris, France) #WomenInArt #symbolism #art #artText #artwork #VũCaoĐàm #VuCaoDam #VietnameseArt #VietnameseArtist #BlueskyArt #arte #peinture #meditation #MuséeCernuschi #Modernism

Overhead shot of a beautiful brown striped tabby named Winnie. She has green eyes and a little red nose. She is lying on my lap and demurely holding up her front paws

🚨 it’s Winnie time 🚨

An orange kitten sits atop her scratching/climbing post, her head tilted over to the side.

She really just thinks she can look at me with her head tilted and she’ll just get anything she wants.

She’s right. But she doesn’t have to make a big deal about it.

a cream colored tabby named Fox standing in two legs inside a grey felt basket, leaning back with his flippers loosely held in front of him, his alien eyeballs wide, and his derpiness on display in all its neckless glory.

he is beauty he is grace

Americans Don’t Think Donald Trump Deserves Nobel Peace Prize

Some 54 percent of Americans say Donald Trump does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Gaza conflict.

Archaeologists discover Roman settlement in Türkiye's Adıyaman In a mountainous area near the village of Oymaklı in the southeastern Turkish city of Adıyaman, archaeologists have uncovered grape-processing...

Archaeologists discover Roman settlement in Türkiye's Adıyaman | Daily Sabah
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Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

'Maple Leaves'
by Andrew Wyeth
1979 - Watercolor

Le roupillon qui va bien...

The green, white & red marble panels stand out in this view.

Duomo di Firenze / Florence Cathedral

Building work started in 1296, with various architects involved in the construction, until Brunelleschi’s dome was completed in 1436.
The campanile dates from early 14th Century, with Giotto & Andrea Pisano being involved in the work.

#SteepleSaturday

A tweet from FactPost reads: “Gov. Newsom has announced California will be the first state to sell insulin through a state-backed program. It will cost just $11.” Below the text are two images side by side: on the left, California Governor Gavin Newsom standing in front of an American flag; on the right, a close-up of a gloved hand holding a vial labeled “INSULIN (rDNA origin)” with dosage and storage instructions.

California leads the way!

Lads i think i just took the best photo of my cats ever

Night night sweet dreamies

Tell somebody you love them today because tomorrow is not promised & tomorrow may be too late

Life is short, there is no time to leave important words unsaid

Love yourself too 🧡🐈

FRESCO WITH FEMALE HEAD, 20-10 BCE. MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE DI NAPOLI This detached fresco comes from an unidentified findspot in Herculaneum but is identified either as Akte, one of the Horæ or Hours, or as one of the Peliades, the daughters of king Pelias. The scant information available says that this head comes from a scene of sacrifice, which suggests one of the Peliades. The witch Medea tricked Pelias' daughters into killing him. She slit the throat of a ram and flung the dead animal into a boiling cauldron of potion, and out leapt the ram again, not only alive but rejuvenated. The Peliades, with the intention of rejuvenating their father, cut his throat and put him in the pot, but all they got was a dense broth of fatherly juices, and the mocking laughter of Medea.

#FrescoFriday brings us to somewhere in #Herculaneum where a scene of #sacrifice is underway in the wall #fresco, now in #Naples. This beautiful young woman wearing an olive-branch wreath is seen in 3/4 view, looking down to the right with her lips parted apprehensively. "Dad?" #AncientBluesky 🏺

Pink rose.

David Austin rose ‘Strawberry Hill’, on our lower terrace. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPink #Bloomscrolling # #photography #FlowerReport 🌱 #Flowers

Decodex – A Daily Cryptogram Puzzle Game Decode a quote a day! Play the daily cryptogram at playdecodex.com.

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Or, as Heraclitus used to put it: πάντα ῥεῖ—Pants' Rays —Thank you Autocorrect! 😉

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Jojo sitting on a desk chair with her hand up on the back

🚨 important 🚨
i love my kitty

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Skeleton-filled well in Croatia likely holds remains of Roman soldiers, study finds Archaeologists have discovered a mass grave of Roman soldiers hidden inside an ancient well in Croatia.

Skeleton-filled well in Croatia likely holds remains of Roman soldiers, study finds | Live Science
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A handsome brown-grey cat with green eyes.

The long-awaited handsome guy has arrived!

Naslovnica albuma electro-pop dua iz 80-ih.