Lara T is a museum nerd

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Nobel Peace Prize 1986 The Nobel Peace Prize 1986 was awarded to Elie Wiesel "for being a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and dignity"

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere."

- Elie Wiesel

I enjoy coffee on special occasions Like "being alive" and "existing " words on a plain background, no picture

we are all worthy of coffee!

Those who have tamped down concerns about the SAVE Act’s chance of passage in the Senate are wrong. Keep your eyes on the prize. The potential for a blowout in 2026 is top of mind for Trump, and there are only a few ways to avoid it.

Call your Senators. 202-224-3121.

#poetry #mpprompt

joys of the first warm day
a light breeze with sunrise
fog dims the fields & trees
scent of wet earth & grass
hot tea steaming little ghosts
the first daffodil blooming
from among buds of crocus
a golden harbinger of spring

Fake Xerox and real piano wire. Gorillaz’s new video for ‘The Mountain’ rebuilds a 1950s animation pipeline using painted backgrounds, optical tricks, and strict self-imposed limits. www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos...

And given that we know that, I think it’s important to make sure that the conversation remains centred around the actual risk: that austerity and budget cuts and lack of regulation means fire safety improvements get skipped, again and again and again until this happens.

LIVE updates from Glasgow's Union Street as multiple buildings collapse The fire took hold on Union Street this afternoon, before speading to Gordon Street. Glasgow Central is closed and a nearby hotel has been evacuated.

Updates on the Union St fire in Glasgow

The Union Corner was built in 1851 so is a huge loss of architecture as well as the livelihoods of numerous folk. When it's finally out we'll need answers as to why it wasn't controllable

www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2591832...

Heartbreaking scenes of an iconic building in Glasgow engulfed in flames. A horrible hit for local businesses, the people of Glasgow, and for our city's history.

Inside the Trump Administration’s Plan to Change Public Education YouTube video by ProPublica

WATCH: Lindsey Burke wrote Project 2025’s chapter on education. Now she’s helping to run the Education Department.

ProPublica looked at how she and other advisers are realizing their vision of a dramatic decline in public education.

Looks like a round circuit board

Part 240 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

A turquoise and gold-inlaid bronze mirror, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States Period 380 BCE

#poetry #mpprompt

Why do they call dark
that which is unseen?
Sunlight & shadow
both grace this orb
Imagination
my rocks will populate
with alien monsters
Yet in truth only minerals await
their exploration
on their next lunar vacation

“We can no longer prevent an Iran War, but we can shine light on the past and let the facts inform the present.”
Sarah answers many of the questions others are speculating about using historical and present data. Read this and the article links and it will make scary sense.

Folks in health care: DO NOT FUCKING WEAR THESE-**ESPECIALLY** IN PATIENT CARE AREAS!

If I ever catch a colleague wearing these, I am reporting them to management, the state, whatever press outlets I can, and to the patient & their family.

I do not care who it pisses off. Just fucking DO NOT.

A sequence of shots from the TV series MASH. Three surgeons are operating in a mobile army surgical theater, and are masked in cotton masks, wearing cotton caps to cover hair, and aprons. Bright lights are visible in their backgrounds. The first, panel shows Frank Burns (an absolute jerk character but Larry Linville, his actor, was not) saying, “Everybody knows war is Hell”. The second panel shows BJ Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) saying (sarcastically) “ remember, you heard it here last.” The third and fourth panels show Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) saying, “War isn’t Hell. War is war and Hell is hell and of the two, war is a lot worse.“ 5th panel shows Father Mulcahey, the chaplain (William Christopher) saying, “How do you figure that, Hawkeye?” 6th is back to Hawkeye, saying “ Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?” 7th is Fr Mulcahey saying “ Sinners, I believe.” The last three panels are all Hawkeye, saying, “ Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. But war is chock full of them. Little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for a few of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.”

With alt-text:

Agree that I hate this is still relevant.

Dive into Wool Creature Lab's World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs How artist Arina Bovenich's job at a remote biology research station transformed into a unique craft practice.

Wow, amazing #sciart via @thisiscolossal.com

The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells! There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: ‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!

This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲

Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.

From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400

📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn

#Archaeology

Zuckerberg’s Pervert Specs should be banned by any business that takes the safety of their customers seriously.

US sub sinks Iranian warship in Indian Ocean, Hegseth says More than 100 personnel were thought to be aboard the vessel, which went down to the south of Sri Lanka.

We sank an Iranian ship in violation of the 2nd Geneva Convention. The ship was unarmed and participating in a peaceful exercise with other ships (including the US). We sank an unarmed ship and did not take survivors. The Nazis did this last. This is a war crime.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Countries that have adopted electric vehicles the fastest will suffer the least from oil price spikes caused by the US/Israel attack on Iran.

NZ is not one of those, thanks to Luxon’s poor leadership.

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85 Bernard LaFayette, who died Thursday, laid the foundations of the Selma, Alabama, campaign that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He was a Freedom Rider and helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Bernard LaFayette, who died Thursday, laid the foundations of the Selma, Alabama, campaign that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He was a Freedom Rider and helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. n.pr/4csIbWh

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agreed. it's a bananas religion.

a troll holding a sign that says trolls vote how we choose on it Alt: a troll holding a sign that says trolls vote how we choose on it

not all heros wear capes... some apparently wear crazy hair?? and not much else...

I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.

AIPAC sure got their money’s worth from these 4 Dems today

A budget is a moral document.

Four democrats voted AGAINST a war powers resolution that would’ve forced Trump to seek congressional approval to continue waging Israel’s war on Iran.

Henry Cuellar (TX)
Jared Golden (ME)
Greg Landsman (OH)
Juan Vargas (CA)

The resolution failed 219-212.

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