stitch artist 👩🏻🦰💕🎨 always be curious
Hamilton, Ontario
Joined July 2014
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i wrote this down in 2017... and it’s never been more true than it is right now @cyriakharris #foodquilts
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Technological progress — valuable in itself — requires careful discernment of the anthropological vision that guides it and the ends it pursues. If technological development advances without a corresponding ethical and social progress, the result may be an increase in means without a growth in humanity: “having more” without “being more.” There is a risk that individuals will be evaluated principally according to the outcomes they produce. #MagnificaHumanitas
vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
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Physicist Brian Cox reminds us of a truth so profound it’s almost impossible to grasp: we are not just observers of the universe; we are a part of it that has finally woken up.
Every atom in your body; the carbon in your skin, the iron in your blood, the oxygen you breathe; was forged in the intense, ancient furnaces of dying stars. For billions of years, those atoms drifted through the cold void, only to find themselves, by some miracle of cosmic chance, arranged in a pattern that can think, feel, and dream.
As Carl Sagan famously said, we are a way for the cosmos to know itself. We are the means by which a universe of dust and gas suddenly starts writing symphonies, painting masterpieces, and asking where it came from.
It sounds unlikely, perhaps even impossible. But here we are, sitting on a small blue rock, having a conversation about it. And that might be the most extraordinary thing of all.
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did you know there’s a network of open mics streaming nature sounds 24/7. I’m listening to the birds waking up in Poland. thank God for EU arts funding
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-cease and desist
-null and void
-aid and abet
-free and clear
-ways and means
Why is law stuff like this always two words?
These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans.
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Incredibly depressing how many responses to this assume it's about computer memory / file storage rather than physical storage space like CUPBOARDS for art and craft supplies.
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Our day has come! Happy St Getrude's Day, patron saint of cats. The OG cat lady. So, hug a cat, boop a nose, scratch a belly, treat them extra and celebrate your furry little sidekicks... 😺🤗
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Painted in 1935, Tamara de Lempicka’s still life is a rare departure from her portraits but it does have common characteristics such as her love of transparent and reflective surfaces.
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“No armed victory can make up for a mother’s grief, a child’s fear, or a stolen future.” - Pope Leo XIV
artwork by Be a Heart
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One of the most beautiful lines I have read
“Half the World are Women. The other half are their children”
- Efu Nyaki
#InternationalWomensDay
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🔎 Rare 18th-century punches used to create the original Baskerville typeface have been digitised and released online. Designers, historians and the wider public now have the opportunity to study the physical tools that shaped modern typography. 🔗loom.ly/1ulLaFI
ALT A bearded man wearing teal gloves uses a green rubber air blower to clean a small metal type punch. He sits at a desk with an open wooden case filled with neatly arranged metal punches, while a computer monitor displaying a magnified image is visible in the background.
ALT A close-up of a person wearing teal gloves holding a small metal type punch engraved with an ampersand symbol. In the background, part of the person’s face is softly out of focus.
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Thankfully we have created these magic robots to spare you the burden of thinking, writing, making music and art—leaving you to your true passions such as dishwashing, trash disposal, and diaper-changing which we are unfortunately unable to automate at this time
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I once thought green was a safe colour.
Then I painted this.🖼️
Now I think green’s secretly the most rebellious colour in the room. It seems calm and polite — then refuses to be ignored.
Which is probably why I keep coming back to it.
“Interior in Green”, 60X60cm.
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More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.
Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.
Beautiful and devastating all at once.
