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This felt great.
This #frockingfabulous dress of Spitalfields silk dates to c.1725. And that pattern matching is a thing of beauty! #Fashionhistory via the Met.
Inspiring 🧵
CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration
www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/c... via @statnews.com
Boston Common was a crucible of resistance in spring 1775, at the very start of the American Revolution, 250 years ago to the month.
Angels from the Heidelberg Coptic Magical Papyri Project.
Michael accompanied by his two Powers, intended to be copied onto an amulet.
P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 686. (KYP M166), 10th century
#Medieval #Manuscripts #Angels #Papyrus #Coptic @anestudieswue.bsky.social @dfg.de
A woman at a demonstration carries a sign saying ‘Wisconsin hates Elon so much it could be one of his kids’.
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Less complaining about how big rallies don't do anything, more brainstorming about how to activate their attendees to get involved with targeted campaigns, direct action, and mutual aid.
They do i at least one thing which is get people to not feel so alone.
Be like Rosemary
#HandsOff
#April5
loving this one i saw on another site #handsoff
Working on an extensive update to this toolkit for current conditions - mapping for survival, community defense and building spaces of resistance and resilience - stay tuned!
I’m not an economist but there seems to be a ton of charts out the last few weeks that all look something like this
For those of us who grew up in the Reagan 80s, when the spectres of Stalin, Mao & Castro were invoked as terms of harshest condemnation by the GOP, it is almost unimaginably disorienting to find ourselves in a right-wing dystopia led by people who apparently view Stalin, Mao & Castro as role models.
Putting your opposition on record may seem futile but it is the stuff that history is made from.
A vaporwave edit of a classic communist propaganda poster showing a chinese, white, and black dude standing shoulder to shoulder: "The Only Dangerous Minority Is The Rich."
Today's pick: David Slaying Goliath (ca. 1616) - Peter Paul Rubens.
David has just slain Goliath with a stone from his [..] #art #Rubens
www.artbible.info/art/large/363.html
Self-Portrait By Sofonisba Anguissola about 1556
"The maiden Sofonisba Anguissola, depicted by her own hand, from a mirror, at Cremona."
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Update from Jerusalem: the Educational Bookshop was once again raided by Israeli Police about an hour ago. Police confiscated books, arrested an employee and shut down the bookshop.
Seriously, Lucrezia Tournabouni was the original Marie Barone.
Someone just tried to yell me that Lorenzo de' Medici named his first child after Lucrezia Donati. He was not such a big momma's boy that she helped him write love letters when he was a teenager for this erasure.
Composite picture showing busts of nine people each wearing an elaborate hat and also supporting impressive moustaches
It's #NationalHatDay! Here's some excellent headwear (and moustaches) from an album of 19th-century Ottoman fashion. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/1...
Found a new dream job.
Hand written letter detailing an astronomy professor who would jump out at tourists & lecture to them
This makes me giggle ridiculously but there was apparently an Astronomy prof in Portsmouth in 1775 who lay in wait for unsuspecting tourists to jump out & lecture to them! I can just imagine the academic ambush! #18thcentury #navalhistory #Portsmouth #history #archives #astronomy #academiclife
Someone just compared Martin Luthor to Elon Musk.
We have strayed too far to come back, I fear.
People with a job opening:
I'm sure this is a thing in Academia, but I'm not even talking about that, I'm talking about fucking customer service and retail jobs. Fuck job hunting.
Why do I have to beg and grovel for a job but employers can treat me like shit and waste my time?????
