Cirthador1453

This is a fundraiser from a very trusted grassroots network in Lebanon working on shelter, food and medicine aid. I know A LOT of people who are organizing with them rn. Please help them reach their goal and beyond.
www.chuffed.org/project/1719...

You know I hate govts in general, but fuck it's impossible not to notice how much Spain stands out in the current European landscape. They're not even radical in any proper sense of the term, just a basic counter to the relentless xenophobia and warmongering happening across the continent

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

An illustration of a black wolf decorated with pink, white, and light blue flowers. Hand-lettering around the wolf reads “Defend Trans Lives, Fight for Trans Rights.

I’ve been trying to use my art to be more visible in the world as a trans person, I hope it helps others know they aren’t alone.
Aspenhearted.com if you’d like this on a shirt or sticker ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

My photo shows a Roman floor mosaic depicting an octopus. The octopus is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) and has eight writhing arms with suckers and narrow curling tips. It is set against a white tesserae background. Octopus detail from a monochrome marine mosaic featuring Triton with a cherub and various sea creatures, including the octopus, dolphins and a cuttlefish, at the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in Herculaneum.

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum.

📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Emergency Solidarity Fund for Displaced Families in Lebanon: in Okaibeh and surrounding — support Hunna ENG. Lebanon is once again under heavy agression and bombardment by Israel and more thean 1,5 million people have been forcibly displaced. We are raising funds to support Hunna Arts & Culture Centre, ...

"Emergency Solidarity Fund for Displaced Families in Lebanon"

Set up by a dear Libanese friend of mine in Brussels, please consider a donation to help the 1,5 million Libanese people currently being displaced:

chuffed.org/project/1722...

Please circulate widely!

All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter!

Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

My photo shows a famous wall painting from Pompeii known as the Sappho fresco. It shows the head and upper body of a young woman framed inside a painted circular border. She faces forward. Her eyes are large and dark, gazing to one side with a calm and thoughtful expression, as if pausing mid-thought. Her skin is pale, and her hair is dark brown and tightly curled, forming small ringlets around her face. A thin golden hairnet holds her curls in place. She wears small gold hoop earrings, and a brown cloak over a green garment. In her right hand she holds a thin dark metal stylus (writing tool) up against her lips, as if thinking about what to write. In her left hand she holds a small rectangular wooden wax writing tablet. The fresco is now on display at the Muso Archeologico Nazionale in Naples

The ‘Sappho’ fresco from Pompeii.

A beautiful Roman portrait of a young woman for #InternationalWomensDay

She holds a writing tablet, and raises a writing stylus to her lips in thoughtful contemplation. 55-70 AD.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Empresses from Late Antique and Medieval Roman (Middle Byzantine) eras
Empress Theodora and her court at San Vitale in Ravenna, Empress Ariadne and Personification of Constantinople at Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Empress Zoe in Hagia Sophia, Empress Eirene (Piroska of Hungary) in Hagia Sophia

A horse with an elephant head used in warfare, transporting two soldiers and a fortified tower. This detail is from a 1471 printed book (Speculum humanae salvationis).

Tell me you have never seen an elephant before without telling me ... #skystorians

I really hate how our leaders have decided they are going to recreate the atmosphere of Mordor while executing children!

Artwork on a residential wall in Khartoum of a woman holding up a stick usually used for cooking. The text says A woman's place is the resistance in Arabic المرا مكانا المقاومة.

One of my favourite artworks from Sudan's 2018-19 uprising. The Arabic writing translates to "A woman's place is the resistance" (by A. Satir, 2019).

Collage of images: bust of Cleopatra; 19th century illustration of Boudicca, 19th century sculpture of Veleda, 19th century print of Cartimandua

Statue of Livia as Ops, Busts of Julia Donna and Agrippina the Younger, 19th century painting of Hypatia

On #InternationalWomensDay we remember remarkable women of the #Roman world: #Cleopatra, #Boudicca, #Cartimandua, the Germanic seeress #Veleda, imperial figures like #Livia, #Agrippina the Younger & #JuliaDomna, & the philosopher #Hypatia of Alexandria.
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#WomenInHistory #RomanWomen #AncientHistory

“The sky over Tehran is black. Like the night sky…” a friend

“i cannot breath, I am breathing through a wet towel”. My mum

10.000.000 people are being choked to death. Tehran is surrounded by mountains. There is very little wind.

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

I think @yoyoni.bsky.social is working on a Luddites game right now!

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Elements from Egyptian and Greek mythology are combined in this delicate figure. The view taken here is that Anubis is represented, wearing military costume and breastplate that signify his role as a fighter against the enemies of Osiris. He holds a staff topped by a cone-shaped object - the thyrsus carried by followers of Dionysus with whom the Greeks equated Osiris. In his other hand he carries a falcon. On the other hand, the snout and ears appear short for Anubis and more like those of a cat, and the short dress can be worn by Artemis who is associated with Bastet. The identity of the figure is, therefore, not certain. Roman, from Egypt, 2nd-3rd century CE. Height: 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm) Met Museum, New York (67.190)

This l’il fella is a gold amulet from Roman Egypt, possibly representing the Egyptian god Anubis as a defender of Osiris-Dionysus. He wears a military tunic and breastplate, signifying him as a defender of Osiris; he also holds a thyrsus of Dionysus, equated with Osiris. 🏺 1/

📸 me #MetMuseum

I’m starting to believe Israel doesn’t want peace in the Middle East

Repost if your account is a safe space for the trans community. 🏳️‍⚧️

y mab darogan rises

It’s hard to properly convey the lunacy of these proposals to people outside aerospace.

Reflect wants to put gigantic mirrors in orbit and beam down sunlight at nighttime.

SpaceX wants a million more starlink sats.

If either of these actually happens, space will be unusable.

Yep. “Knowing who to be mad at is praxis” is Mariame Kaba’s quote and it is wisdom for these times. (1/2)