Tara Breslin

Live from Gaza as the sun sets: We’re loading up 60 tons of fresh fruit & vegetables to deliver directly to families with our All Hands & Hearts partners. 🥕🍊🧅🥔

British.

My paternal grandmother died of equine encephalitis in 1947 in Saskatchewan which had an outbreak that year. She was a midwife and often visited rural homes.

Landscape format in loose painterly acrylics on watercolour paper. A footpath of yellow flagstones with plants as tall as people, lamps, and half a dozen pedestrians with brick-red shadows falling back to the right, and the open space of the creamy pink surfaced piazza to its left with on the far side tall full foliage green trees, 3 vertical banners advertising a Klee exhibition, and a statue of a horseman on a plinth. At the back running horizontally across the picture is a band of various medieval buildings of different shades of yellows and pinks, with arches, a castellated tower and a domed one, and blue outlines and details. Roofs are red. The pink 3-storey buildings on the right, where the footpath leads, have green canopies at street level. Elaborate green lamp posts, with yellow and red highlights, along the footpath twirl up and out to contrast against the pale turquoise sky. Nearest pedestrian is wearing a short blue dress with an orange handbag hanging from her shoulder. She has a full mane of long red hair and is striding in heels towards the viewer. Following behind her a figure with glasses and short blond hair has an open red jacket over a green top and blue trousers. A brown bag hangs down from their left hand. On the right is a truncated back of a figure in a long dark garment of brown with blue shadows. Their hair is dark blue. Further away a figure in blue stands at the kerb facing the piazza while looking at something they're reading. Behind them are 2 women both walking together away from the viewer. Signed bottom right in red, Liam Daly

A #painting. A long time ago I cycled from Dublin to Istanbul. Alone, and before phones and before the internet, with languages and currencies, was challenging enough so I didn't paint. But when I got home I did. "Verona", because I'll never forget cycling into the Piazza Bra. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

😂 You speak for many of us.

If you sue people to force them to sell you pierogies, you should probably check to make sure what’s inside them.

@thealso.bsky.social Saw this over on youknowwhere and immediately thought of you.

What I especially loved about your ‘harvest’ photo was the use of a coin as a size comparison. I’ve recently upgraded my comparison tool from the coin I used for my Italian peppers photo to a wooden clothespin.

YES! Please consider that ONE DAY might not be enough. Let's follow this expert, if we can:

Finland will supply Ukraine with €660 million in new arms production, the country's Ministry of Defense announced.

Thank you, Finland! 🇫🇮🇺🇦

This is exactly what Ukraine needs right now and what will boost our defense capabilities.

"Golden Leaves V - A Walk in the Woods" Art Print for Sale by eolai The 5th in an autumnal series, this painting was in progress for over ten years, from when I had a studio in an old cobbled stableyard and would walk my bike to it through the woods up from the River ...

The original of my 5th "Golden Leaves" painting sold to a good home in Dublin, but Art Prints of it are available here: www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/...

U.S. President Donald Trump being a turd. — Photo by JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP

Trump quits WHO, abandons global health www.thewhig.com/opinion/trum... @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social

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Portrait format in loos acrylics. Green metal lamp-post including two half-horse half-fish creatures facing out in opposite directions, and the green top of bridge rail and latice-work from where post is mounted. The lamp itself is copper and glass. In the background is a river, buildings, trees and river wall in blue shadow on the left and on the right in sunshine is a row of 4-storey red-brick and white buildings with dark shop fronts at street level. Cars are on the quay and the stone river wall is rendered in lilac - behind the quay buildings on the right a large green dome on columns rises. Flag poles and street lamps are at intervals along both sides of the river. The river is blue in horizontal strokes reflecting the sky, buildings, and quay walls. The sky is blue in a gradient of darkest at the top and paler lower down. It is full of painterly candy-floss almost cartoon-ish white fluffy clouds. Signed bottom right: Liam Daly

Time to pretend everything is normal and share a #painting. "Dublin Hippocampus" is a view I painted of my hometown because I never tire of looking at Grattan Bridge or sitting on it enjoying its sea-horse lamps as they look in opposite directions at Capel St and Paliament St. #SpeirGorm #Januarty

These people have never read a book about antiquity or have any idea how big their world was, North Africa fed Europe, Roman Emperors were from everywhere from Tunisia to Serbia, and not to put a fine a point on it, the Levant is not exactly next door to Rome bsky.app/profile/shar...

Thread boost. Incredibly important to remember that despite the fucked-up times we live in, we still must LIVE.

We are dealing with ppl who lead miserable lives despite their immense wealth. Living joyfully is a middle finger to fascists who want us to dwell in the same darkness they do.

Residents of Texas who experienced the 2021 ice storm can attest to being traumatized by that event. Every cold snap since, local meteorologists emphasize that “this is not like 2021” because the chat feeds reflect high anxiety.

YouTube video by Silicon Curtain Gabrielius Landsbergis - Western Powers are Unprepared for a Russian Defeat or for a Russian Victory

Everybody knows preparation is needed, but are not there yet.
Thanks to @CurtainSilicon for this in-depth discussion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqTi...

"Millions of vulnerable UK households on prepayment meters could see their energy bills consume almost a third of their incomes this winter."

(The Guardian)

#collapse

Landscape format in loosely painted acrylics on canvas. Aerial view from over harbour showing town where it meets the water, with the 4-story Georgian Commodore hotel in blue along the front at the left edge behind the narrow JFK park which runs alongside the water and is itself beside the Titanic centre by the old ruined pier. Above the town of streets of brightly coloured three and four story houses sits the tall steepled Gothic St Colman's Cathedral at about viewer eye-level on a platform that has a high retaining wall of lilac-grey with long dark arched niches. Dark tree masses of blue-green are dotted around especially in the upper parts of the left and right edges. Sky is a painterly yellow. Signed top left: Liam Daly

"Cobh III" A painting for you to enjoy on this day of heartbreak, happiness, and how did we get here. My 3rd time to paint the Cork Harbour town was done 12 years ago. #Art #SpeirGorm #ArtAdventCalendar

Trump’s choice for Ambassador to the Vatican is a critic of Pope Francis. Even that position had to have an antagonistic bent.

Ukraine sending humanitarian aid to Syria to prevent 'food crisis,' Zelensky says "We are ready to help Syria prevent a food crisis ... I have instructed the government to organize food deliveries in cooperation with international organizations and partners willing to help."

⚡️Ukraine sending humanitarian aid to Syria to prevent 'food crisis,' Zelensky says.

"We are ready to help Syria prevent a food crisis ... I have instructed the government to organize food deliveries in cooperation with international organizations and partners willing to help."

I’m glad to read of others having this semi-conscious sense of food insecurity despite never going without (note: my parents were wartime parents). Once, before leaving my car at an auto shop, I stopped to buy hotdogs & buns in case it wasn’t ready when they said it would be. I had food at home. 🤷‍♀️

I think you and I should agree right here that it's going to be called the Magic Carpet fallacy and just publicize it on that basis. Because public discourse in this country needs a name for it.

Wieder eine wichtige Recherche von CORRECTIV! Wenn die Anti-Klimaschutz-Lobby weiterhin solchen Einfluss auf die Politik hat oder ihn gar noch ausbaut, werden wir alle (und erst recht unsere Kinder und Enkelkinder) einen sehr bitteren Preis dafür bezahlen.

"This winter is forecast to bring sudden bouts of extreme cold to Texas that could test the state's electric grid in early 2025, the grid operator's chief meteorologist said on Tuesday, reviving memories of crippling Storm Uri four years ago."

(Reuters)

#collapse

Just saw a long thread of people arguing pointlessly with an anti-vaccine, pro-raw milk troll. Please don’t do this. Block and go. Don’t give them the attention they crave.

I just googled this event. What a wonderful project. Sounds joyous, actually. And delicious!

It will be rich get richer and poor get the picture in USA from now. I can see hard labour to qualify for social security. And NO free healthcare. And empty supermarket shelves and many countries point blank refusing to trade with USA and to stop renewing their US govt bond holdings.
Will be ugly