Anna Foden

Painting of three sitting black cats facing forwards in a row, one larger than the others, created in a naive or simple child-like style, the sits sit in a green garden with tulip flowers and under branches full of blossom

'Three black cats' by Maud Lewis (1903-1970), Canadian folk artist #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

What a great idea from the brilliant Orkney Library & Archive.

Congratulations!

Love this.

What a gorgeous boy 😍 the little bark!

“The resource over which they hold custody is of great worth to the country …Would Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi and George Orwell, all erstwhile users of the British Library, have produced their masterpieces without this resource?”
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.

I love this not-entirely-a-joke:

Q: What did Watson and Crick discover?

A: Rosalind Franklin's notes!

sudden urge to share @mcnees.bsky.social 🧵 on Rosalind Franklin

This distinguished Odesan gentleman wishes all a quiet Friday.

A group of people gathered around a glowing glass apparatus in a dimly lit room, observing a scientific experiment by candlelight.

Wright of Derby: From the Shadows opens at the National Gallery today 🕯️

Explore one of his 'candlelight' paintings in detail with this The Superpower of Looking learning resource 👉 https://artuk.org/learn/learning-resources/the-superpower-of-looking-an-experiment-by-candlelight

📷 National Gallery

Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider books, wonders why so many schools lack libraries & librarians, while public and prison libraries are a statutory right, @ School Library Association Awards @ CLPE

This Kharkiv cat is a spirit of autumn and a great yoga instructor.

Painting of a transparent round teapot half full of reddish brown tea, resting on top of a pile of books with two further piles of books either side

'Tea and Books' by Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt

𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝗞 𝗧𝗩 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮? 𝗪𝗲’𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆. We’re making a short film with Candour Productions as part of the @ukri.org -funded project 'What’s On? Rethinking Class in the UK Television Industry'
📍 Filming in Leeds w/c 5 January 2026 (expenses covered)
📅 Deadline: 21 November 2025

Congratulations, Sian! Great news.

Big trouble in ‘Little Berlin’: the tiny hamlet split in two by the cold war A new museum in Mödlareuth tells the story of how a settlement of only 50 people straddled Bavaria in West Germany and Thuringia in the east

Big trouble in ‘Little Berlin’: a new museum in Mödlareuth tells the story of how a settlement of only 50 people straddled Bavaria in West Germany and Thuringia in the east www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... via @theguardian.com @johnkampfner.bsky.social

I can't believe you managed to hobble around on a broken leg! Like a lioness. Hope you mend soon.

That's so interesting. There was a great exhibition at the Whitworth in Manchester a couple of years ago.

Palestinian?

Starting Monday LinkedIn will begin using data from your profiles/posts to train AI. If you live in EU/EEA/Switzerland/Canada/Hong Kong your data is subject to being used this way, but you can opt out. Go to Settings/Privacy/Data for Generative AI Improvement and toggle the switch to off

So cute. I'm sure she's a good cat really.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

Brilliant from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Painting of a woman in a room dressed in a long blue dress and head scarf pointing to a black cat on a green mat on the floor, on the wall is a picture in a frame of a black cat lying in exactly the same position on a green surface

In Western arts over time cats could be included in paintings as symbolic of ideas of mystery or female sensuality. Black cats particularly were associated with witches (aka wise women who had skills in healing).
Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, Two Cats and a Lady, 1958 #womensart

Dale Bissland ~ Texture & Light, Crail, 2022

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

Popular Account 'We Rate Dogs' Unloads On Border Patrol For Killing Family's Beloved Dog During Search

Pure evil 😡

A personal opinion is that if an archive is moving to ‘structured content releases’, it is no longer an archive but a private comms repository. What an incredible loss to our understanding of UK culture and heritage.

No longer Duke of York? Good. Now off the civil list, please, no taxpayer support.

Next: scrap the civil list

Then scrap the lot of them

That's so awful. Poor Chop and his poor family.