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@rachelvardeman.bsky.social

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Whiteness only demands civility and grace in response to calls for accountability and responsibility for whiteness and white supremacism.

11.09.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 419    πŸ” 130    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

I love Holly πŸ₯Ί

11.09.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Though that's nothing compared to watching a video on full volume without headphones.

30.08.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I read this two hours ago and I'm still cackling

30.08.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They'll probably impeach him for a third time but still not remove him from office.

30.08.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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People really just talk on the phone in public. Amazing.

30.08.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee America’s health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.

27.08.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8071    πŸ” 1609    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 48

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading."

Isaac Asimov

25.08.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 12008    πŸ” 2339    πŸ’¬ 166    πŸ“Œ 79

Nothing says "I don't care about cardio" more than wearing Birkenstocks to the gym.

18.08.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As my late, sainted mother used to say (yell), "it's the long skinny pedal on the right"

10.06.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Denver has to be the only city in the WORLD where people BREAK WHEN THE LIGHT TURNS GREEN

10.06.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
This is an oil painting done on a 3 foot wide canvas panel. The view is dominated by the Orientale Basin, a vast sprawling depression with three concentric mountain rings surrounding a dark lava plain covering the lowest central region. The upper portions of this view are visible from Earth, with the higher lighter cratered highlands contrasting with the dark Maria plains filling the lowlands.
 
This oil painting was done about 1970, referring to numerous original prints of this giant impact basin. It took over a month, starting from a perspective drawing that I scaled up to the panel size. The large dark region near the middle is Mare Orientale, the 'Sea of the East', named by German astronomer Julius Franz in 1906 back when Lunar East and West were 'flipped', used in reference to the Terrestrial viewer rather than the Lunar globe. In the mid 20th century Percy Wilkins and Patrick Moore made observations and described this Maria 'lake'. which is at the very edge, or limb', of the Moon as seen from Earth. At the most favorable orientation, or libration, of the Moon the far 'shore' of this large lave lake can barely be seen. In 1962 Arizona's Lunar and Planetary laboratory, under the great planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper, produced a Lunar atlas showing overhead views of the regions of the moon visible from Earth. This was accomplished by taking the best full disk lunar photos and projecting them with a narrow angle lens onto a white hemisphere at the end of a long hall. On the photos showing the Western limb the new view looking 'down' on the feature suddenly revealed the concentric mountain rings for the first time. William Hartmann, planetary scientist and artist, was first to realize the significance of this feature and soon found similar and more degraded or lava buried examples across the Lunar near side. Orientale was recognized, particularly with the aid of the Lunar Orbiter photos, as the youngest and best preserved of the giant Lunar impact basins.

This is an oil painting done on a 3 foot wide canvas panel. The view is dominated by the Orientale Basin, a vast sprawling depression with three concentric mountain rings surrounding a dark lava plain covering the lowest central region. The upper portions of this view are visible from Earth, with the higher lighter cratered highlands contrasting with the dark Maria plains filling the lowlands. This oil painting was done about 1970, referring to numerous original prints of this giant impact basin. It took over a month, starting from a perspective drawing that I scaled up to the panel size. The large dark region near the middle is Mare Orientale, the 'Sea of the East', named by German astronomer Julius Franz in 1906 back when Lunar East and West were 'flipped', used in reference to the Terrestrial viewer rather than the Lunar globe. In the mid 20th century Percy Wilkins and Patrick Moore made observations and described this Maria 'lake'. which is at the very edge, or limb', of the Moon as seen from Earth. At the most favorable orientation, or libration, of the Moon the far 'shore' of this large lave lake can barely be seen. In 1962 Arizona's Lunar and Planetary laboratory, under the great planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper, produced a Lunar atlas showing overhead views of the regions of the moon visible from Earth. This was accomplished by taking the best full disk lunar photos and projecting them with a narrow angle lens onto a white hemisphere at the end of a long hall. On the photos showing the Western limb the new view looking 'down' on the feature suddenly revealed the concentric mountain rings for the first time. William Hartmann, planetary scientist and artist, was first to realize the significance of this feature and soon found similar and more degraded or lava buried examples across the Lunar near side. Orientale was recognized, particularly with the aid of the Lunar Orbiter photos, as the youngest and best preserved of the giant Lunar impact basins.

When the Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft gave us our first good view of the Orientale basin it was revelatory. Not only was this giant multi ringed impact basin first revealed in its general form, other such basins were recognized across the Lunar near side. Oil paints on canvas panel.

04.06.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Oh you picked a great one to start with! The second is (in my opinion) even better.

05.06.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Truly the one silver lining in all of this is that most of these idiots have the attention span of a gold fish.

03.06.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a hero

03.06.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI think a bill can be big or it could be beautiful,” Musk said. β€œBut I don’t know if it could be both.”

It really doesn't get much worse than this. Except from the cheeto himself!!!

29.05.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration after criticizing president's 'big beautiful bill' Elon Musk is leaving his government role as a top adviser to President Donald Trump after spearheading efforts to reduce and overhaul the federal bureaucracy.

Well that was short lived. Good riddance.
apnews.com/article/elon...

29.05.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This weekend at the Denver Botanic Gardens!

28.04.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm glad they didn't give him that attention. But those guys are intimidating.

27.04.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Feels like a missed opportunity for the Vatican not to have placed a Swiss Guard right next to 47.

27.04.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

All I really want is for people to stop wearing sandals in the winter.

31.03.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My painting WISCONSIN FARM

22.03.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 16210    πŸ” 1500    πŸ’¬ 472    πŸ“Œ 47
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Happy #springequinox πŸ’

21.03.2025 03:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy Spring Equinox, everyone. Longer days, a change in the air, and the first magnolias openingβ€”spring is here. #SpringEquinox

20.03.2025 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 390    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2
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Today has been weird but I did get to see some Keith Haring in person and it was really cool.

18.03.2025 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Adulthood is relatively exhausting but then I remember that sometimes it looks like this and I feel okay again.

18.03.2025 06:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Even the fallen petals were beautiful.

06.03.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 297    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

Actually, if we're being real, J. Cole is the right answer.

06.03.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For the record though, Kendrick is the right answer.

06.03.2025 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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