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Teapots of the Day! ✨🫖✨ “Teapot Ghosts" created by Anouk Pantovola.
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Kurdish Warrior with His Companion Cat, Transcaucasia, 1870s.
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American novelist Shirley Jackson's reply to an unhappy reader in 1953 is the only energy I have left for 2026
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Winking at the devil, from Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, 1882.
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Toshiyuki Enoki (1961-) - Black Cat Painting
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Jason Alexander says he feared visiting Palestine as a Jew until 10 Palestinians protected him during an Israeli army raid in Ramallah “How much of a risk would I be taking as an American Jew walking into Palestinian cities? And Mohammed said, ‘The greatest dishonor that could happen to a religious Muslim is to allow harm to come to an invited guest’” “And he said, ‘Jason, if they had to, they’ll take a bullet for you.’ And what was so interesting about that trip is, we were having lunch in Ramallah with a bunch of actors and artists at a sort of outdoor restaurant” “And the Israeli army was conducting a raid on a bank that they thought had terrorist ties a couple blocks away. And they must have, to announce themselves, just shot into the air. And I remember 10 of those guys at the table surrounding me. And I went, ‘Oh my God, he wasn’t kidding. They’re not going to let me get hurt’”
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The term “cartel” now does the same job “terrorist” did after 9/11. Once someone has that label, they can be bombed, kidnapped, or jailed without proof, and the target can be anyone: a fisherman, a farmer, a migrant, or a head of state. But are drug cartels as we imagine them even real? ■ In 2022, Mexican scholar and former journalist Oswaldo Zavala published a book titled "Drug Cartels Do Not Exist." His argument is that the drug trade is real, but the “cartel” as we imagine it is largely an invention of governments. The term “cartel” itself was coined by US officials and the DEA in the 1980s, then adopted by Mexican media. ■ The mythical, sensationalized idea of the "cartel" as a monolithic criminal empire powerful enough to rival the state in reality serves to obscure the US's direct role in global drug trafficking. By @CallaWalsh
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🍃🏹🍃"As many arrows, loosed several ways, Come to one mark..." 👑Henry V #ShakespeareSunday
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Proof that bumblebees are just gentle giants.
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This is real footage of Claude Monet painting beside his famous water lily pond in Giverny
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"The Harvest Moon," 1914 Luther D. Bradley (American 1853 – 1917)
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Harry Clarke (1889- d.6 Jan 1931) "Judith slaying Holofernes"
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Everybody gets a lovely psychopomp Thomas Cole (engraved by James D. Smillie), The Voyage of Life (details), ca. 1856.
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I think we have no real idea how gorgeous the ancient past could be:
Joyau de l'art minoen, ce vase en quartz découvert à Zakros, l'un des plus grands palais crétois après Knossos. XVe siècle av. Jésus-Christ, musée archéologique d'Héraklion.
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Coast Guard Cove - 1929 #artbots #hopper
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I wanted to share something relatively mundane in comparison to what happened at Cornell, because every day versions of my story happen. Was it rape? No. Was it wrong? Yes, and no one stepped in. It took these people being personally impacted by this man for his poor behavior to matter to them. It is everyone’s responsibility to say something when they see something wrong. Not doing so only enables it.
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River Landscape Aert van der Neer, ca. 1650
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This news comes directly from Israel:
A week and a half before October 7, 2023 UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Abu Dhabi and spoke with him for 45 minutes. In that conversation, bin Zayed warned that Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a major operation against Israel. Bin Zayed urged Netanyahu to take the situation seriously. To his surprise, however, the prime minister reacted with relative calm. Netanyahu said that, in his assessment, Hamas intended to operate in the West Bank area, and he reassured bin Zayed that Israel was prepared for any scenario. 🔗haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…
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Google Earth updated the images of Gaza. It's devastating.
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