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Mother, grandmother and retired educator. A lover of arts, crafts, nature, honesty and kindness…

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There are still some nice turkey tails about and the moss is doing well #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Moss

06.03.2026 11:38 👍 431 🔁 38 💬 4 📌 0
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Today's #photograph is another moody one from yesterday's dawn #cycle ride. This is a view from the #Conwy bridge, looking towards #Llandudno #Wales #photography

06.03.2026 08:11 👍 2286 🔁 188 💬 53 📌 3
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Truly. But this criminal regime wants profits before people. They don't give a fuck about what it does to our planet.

06.03.2026 18:21 👍 81 🔁 27 💬 6 📌 1
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The Celestial Nest
Sitting Hen Formation
Monument Valley
Utah

This is a composite image. The foreground was taken just before sunrise, and the stars were captured the night before.

05.03.2026 17:13 👍 599 🔁 80 💬 24 📌 1
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“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

— President Dwight Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961

06.03.2026 17:44 👍 53 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

The lack of media coverage about the bombing of the girls elementary schools is shocking.

06.03.2026 12:52 👍 18178 🔁 5061 💬 1325 📌 307
Yes and yes and yes. @BernieSanders @rokhanna   #breakingnews #taxes #billionaires
Yes and yes and yes. @BernieSanders @rokhanna #breakingnews #taxes #billionaires YouTube video by Angry MaleVet

Now here are ideas worth sharing. Broadcast as widely as you can… #somethingtofightfor
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04.03.2026 10:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Milk Street in #Shrewsbury has a name rooted in its medieval past. Back then, the town centre was alive with trade, and streets like Butcher Row, Fish Street, and Milk Street marked where each type of produce was sold. #urbansketcher #shrewsburyart #sketchbook #pleinair #travelsketches #Shropshire

03.03.2026 21:34 👍 961 🔁 88 💬 16 📌 0
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Satellite images show how Antarctica's vanishing sea ice is changing the food chain — The Conversation UK With the loss of sea ice, tiny filter feeders known as ‘salps’ can thrive, while shrimp-like krill lose out.

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03.03.2026 08:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
REFORM ARE STILL THE TORIES! (Original Song)
REFORM ARE STILL THE TORIES! (Original Song) YouTube video by Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq

The song and the message are spot on…
youtube.com/watch?v=GJQq...

28.02.2026 18:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Adrian Macovei (@adrianmacovei) The Bee Hummingbird is the smallest bird in the world!

So tiny, so beautiful, so perfect
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27.02.2026 18:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🫶🏻

27.02.2026 10:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reminds me of Monty Python and the Ministry of Silky walks 😆

27.02.2026 00:40 👍 813 🔁 132 💬 33 📌 8
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Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula): These magnificent 16cm (6in) finches feed their young insects during the breeding season, but the rest of the year they normally feed on seeds, fruit and buds. Fantastic photo taken by Roland Kuck in the UK. #bullfinch #bird #finch #wildlife #nature

27.02.2026 07:54 👍 143 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 0
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#BlackHistoryMonth2026 24/28

𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 (1897-1993) was a contralto singer, performing a wide range of music from operas to gospels with renowned orchestras in venues from 1925-1965. She was important in the struggle for African American artists overcoming racial prejudice in 20th century US

24.02.2026 11:35 👍 1520 🔁 454 💬 33 📌 14
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Ancient art could hold clues to the origins of written language Thousands of markings on objects made around 40,000 years ago may have been more than just doodles, a new analysis suggests

Thousands of markings on objects made around 40,000 years ago may have been more than just doodles, a new analysis suggests

23.02.2026 20:27 👍 641 🔁 176 💬 17 📌 6
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Marta (@grammamarta)

🤭😂
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23.02.2026 19:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Why everyone is now single: the mouse experiment
Why everyone is now single: the mouse experiment YouTube video by Istok Pavlovic

A very interesting and slightly alarming hypothesis. I almost think that you can watch it happening in real time…even more alarming!
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22.02.2026 22:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Celia Imrie, Alan Carr and more read hilarious letters about farts
Celia Imrie, Alan Carr and more read hilarious letters about farts YouTube video by Letters Live

I love it! The best, school-yard, British humour on full, magnificent display! 😂
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22.02.2026 12:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Highland Laddie
Highland Laddie YouTube video by Haizhen's Hut

#bagpipes #seaoftartan #scotspipeband #information #discipline #militarytradition
youtube.com/watch?v=1NRG...

22.02.2026 11:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Another Marginal Way (Ogunquit Maine) sea scape on a glorious February day. Sony a6700. Sigma 16-300 at 24mm equivalent field of view. Processed in Photomator.

20.02.2026 13:10 👍 1082 🔁 82 💬 37 📌 5
A classic black-and-white portrait photograph of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer, taken in a classroom or lecture setting. She stands in front of a large chalkboard filled with handwritten nuclear physics equations, nuclear mass data, and element symbols (including notations like I¹²⁹, Cr⁵², and various alpha, beta, and gamma values). Goeppert Mayer has a thoughtful, focused expression as she gazes upward slightly, with her lips pursed in concentration. She wears a patterned dress with short-sleeved matching jacket with a geometric black-and-white design, a pearl necklace, and her hair styled in soft curls. In her hands, she holds a wooden slide rule.

A classic black-and-white portrait photograph of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer, taken in a classroom or lecture setting. She stands in front of a large chalkboard filled with handwritten nuclear physics equations, nuclear mass data, and element symbols (including notations like I¹²⁹, Cr⁵², and various alpha, beta, and gamma values). Goeppert Mayer has a thoughtful, focused expression as she gazes upward slightly, with her lips pursed in concentration. She wears a patterned dress with short-sleeved matching jacket with a geometric black-and-white design, a pearl necklace, and her hair styled in soft curls. In her hands, she holds a wooden slide rule.

Theoretical physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer died #OTD in 1972.

She shared the 1963 #Nobel Prize in Physics (w/Wigner & Jensen) "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure." She was the second woman to win a Nobel in #physics. (Who was the first?)

#WomenInSTEM

20.02.2026 15:04 👍 2413 🔁 573 💬 59 📌 15
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Loved this at Pompeii: either side of the fountainhead are indentations worn into the stone rim by the hands of people drawing water 2,000 years ago #Roman

20.02.2026 15:05 👍 914 🔁 116 💬 20 📌 7
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ya, if you're smart enough to understand it.

20.02.2026 02:04 👍 4288 🔁 983 💬 193 📌 45
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20.02.2026 12:11 👍 48 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
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Post from Tony Dortie - YouTube Bad Bunny street art spotted in Barcelona

#barcelona #musicalgiant #humanity #comparisons

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19.02.2026 16:38 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Standing next to a massive rock face and one of a series for waterfalls in stunning blue light, an epic twist on Blue Hour.  Guillard Glacier lies ahead, a small lake marks the termination of our advance of our 2 kilometer wet walk in.    It's a relentless, a thick mist of water falls, sometimes sideways, even the camera is thankful for its raincoat.  It's a magical experience.

Guillard Glacier is an impromptu stop, I guess they wanted to test our rain gear.  No worries there's dry clothes, a warm ship and a fully stocked bar upon our return.

Standing next to a massive rock face and one of a series for waterfalls in stunning blue light, an epic twist on Blue Hour. Guillard Glacier lies ahead, a small lake marks the termination of our advance of our 2 kilometer wet walk in. It's a relentless, a thick mist of water falls, sometimes sideways, even the camera is thankful for its raincoat. It's a magical experience. Guillard Glacier is an impromptu stop, I guess they wanted to test our rain gear. No worries there's dry clothes, a warm ship and a fully stocked bar upon our return.

Wrapped In Blue

…but not blue. There's water from the rocks, and water from the sky. Guillard Glacier #ChasingWaterfalls #WaterfallWednesday

Natales, Magallanes & Chilean Antarctica, Chile

#photography #landscape #waterfall #glacier #originalcontent #eastcoastkin #westcoastkin #patagonia #Chile

18.02.2026 17:27 👍 87 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0
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The artistic wonders of Valparaiso, Cerro Concepción, Arts and Crafts area. #streetart #beautifulstreets #people’sart #intheeyeofthebeholder

18.02.2026 18:54 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Looking up at outdoor stairs which go up the side of a hill in a park, the mosaic steps are colourful and reflect a whole image of a path by flowers going to a moon, the stains have met silver coloured railings

Looking up at outdoor stairs which go up the side of a hill in a park, the mosaic steps are colourful and reflect a whole image of a path by flowers going to a moon, the stains have met silver coloured railings

Mosaic Stairs (San Francisco) by Irish ceramicist Aileen Barr and US mosaic artist Colette Crutcher #WomensArt

18.02.2026 07:05 👍 1013 🔁 211 💬 8 📌 8
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Susan Collins wants to make it harder to vote.

She just bailed out Trump and cosponsored the "SAVE Act.” Under this terrible bill, if you get married and change your name, or if you can't find your passport — you could be turned away from the polls.

18.02.2026 16:36 👍 182 🔁 69 💬 19 📌 1