🗡️ Mycenaean daggers from 1600 BC — gold and silver inlaid scenes of hunting and battle, hammered into bronze
🗡️ Mycenaean daggers from 1600 BC — gold and silver inlaid scenes of hunting and battle, hammered into bronze
BREAKING: After Banning Starlink Canada Just Told Elon to Go F*** Himself. From Space.
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someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
Timothée Chalamet said things about opera and ballet and I too have thoughts.
Did you #quitgpt yet?
Read this post by author @jackheathwriter.bsky.social
to make the jump.
OpenAi pirated content, consumed 500 mill litres of water/year, slopped the internet, ran a 2$ annotation sweatshop in Kenya , & co-founders Altman, Greg Brockman and Musk donated $300 million to Trump.
Today’s Canadian painting is “Silence at Kokanee Top” painted by Robert Genn in 1973.
#photography #UrbanGaze #cityscape #composite #photographersofbluesky
Incredible perfectly banded Lake Superior agate.
#Photography #Agates #LakeSuperior
Only 57% of Americans currently disapprove of Trump. Trump may leave the scene at some point. Those 43% will still be around. Europe needs to decouple, NOW!
If you’re in your seventies and had measles in the 1950s do you get it?
Medieval stone carving of a group of high status women, dressed in the fashion of the day, from the Palais des Papes in Avignon. Their faces are expressing concern, anxiety, grief, strain.
My default face listening to the news right now, utter dread at what the orange one will do next. The Medieval Ladies from the Palais des Papes in Avignon have seen it all before #PlusÇaChange
I know maps are less popular than clickbait, but pls entertain me
🧵 We are watching two escalating conflicts at the same time:
• Pakistan–Afghanistan cross-border fighting
• Israel–Iran strikes, with spillover across the Gulf
These events may converge into a regional displacement crisis.
Or espionage.
American naval and airpower has a level of unprecedented tactical overmatch whose impact should not be underestimated.
But that is power that can shatter a state, not pressure that can shape its long term strategic path after that.
PM Carney has forgotten the story of the crocodile.
The appeaser supports feeding others to the crocodile in the hope that the crocodile will eat them last.
We are watching horrific violence in the Middle East.
Canada cannot stand with the crocodiles.
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Good morning all. Peaceful breakfast and summer, aren't we all dreaming and hoping?
Hanna Pauli - Breakfast Time - 1887
#art #food
Ok this is very cool to know
Detailed watercolor painting of a western grebe floating on calm water with its reflection mirrored below. A tiny owl sketch rests between its feathers. Painted in golden tones in an Etchr A5 hot press sketchbook, held in hand beside QoR watercolors and Pentel Aquash brush pens.
Malignant.
I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and surgery is coming soon. Season 2 of the podcast is delayed and I will not be teaching until fall. This western grebe, painted in QoR watercolors with Pentel Aquash pens, reminds me that even on water that feels unsteady, we can still rise.
The combination of gilded #wood and blue-and-white tiles (azulejos) is the “signature look” of Portuguese Baroque. Since many people were illiterate, the azulejos functioned like a giant comic strip. Jesuits used them to teach people biblical scenes.
#BlueskyArtShow #Photography #Azores
Photograph of ceiling of the Pantheon. Shaft of light descends fron central oculus.
#round
#blueskyartshow
Pantheon, Rome (Italy)
American historian Hickle on how the US and Israel threaten humanity
American historian @jasonhickel.bsky.social on how the US and Israel threaten humanity
50 PARALYMPIANS ON TEAM CANADA 🇨🇦
The COC just sent out the finalized Canadian roster for the Paralympics:
Para alpine skiing 8
Para ice hockey 17
Para nordic skiing 15
Para snowboard 5
Wheelchair curling 5
19 athletes will be making their Paralympic debuts.
Canada’s GEM (CBC) will be doing full coverage but it starts March 6th.
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
totally agree
Well, I’m relieved to see that phonograph records are exempt.
Without the ability to import weapons from the US, fund themselves with cash from American narcotics users, circulate illegal tobacco in Canada or launder money through European-controlled tax havens then CJNG and other Mexican cartels would never have amassed this military power
That you now have ferocious opposition to AI and tech infrastructure coalescing among much of Trump's core support base is an indicator of how bad Silicon Valley oligarchs are at politics
Canadians in #Mexico: Violence and roadblocks are occurring in #Jalisco State. A shelter-in-place order is in effect in Puerto Vallarta. If you’re in Jalisco State, keep a low profile and follow advice of local authorities. More info:
travel.gc.ca/destinations...
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