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Leonora Carrington, The Lovers, 1987

Pictures emerging from today’s heavy bombing of Isfahan. Damages to the mirror works, tiles, floors, and carved wooden doors of Safavid palaces of Aali Qapu and Chehelsotoon. Both of these are within the UNESCO Heritage complex of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. These are 16th-17th century bldgs.

This video of the damages to the Chehel Sotoun palace in Isfahan is hard to watch. The finest example of Safavid architecture, the palace is a marvel of art & architecture that has survived more than 400 years. It is unbelievable that the “most moral army in the world” has cared so little about it.

Some photos of Chehel Sotoon before the Leader of the Free World got to it. Some of these paintings are irreplaceable historical record, including the scene of Shah Abbas hosting the Mughal emperor Houmayoun.

Socialization #23: Family Art Museum Visit Another pietà. A French queen. A Hollywood staple by Annie Leibovitz. A princess in velvet adorned on a chaise. A widow weeping. A glamorous starlet. Another queen. In the art museum, a mind is an envelope. Each painting falls in. A child is the image’s first communicant. We read the captions to ourselves. When men speak of the unborn angels, I suspect an immaculate flesh bore them privately. Everything private is mistaken for preciousness. A hernia hidden beneath a corset. All beings are bourne by a laboring body. Life is art’s spite. The womb that gets used finds no respite.

Everything private is mistaken for // preciousness.

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social

Oh dear. Typos. Oh well.

Anyway, carry on, y'all. Just a little frustrating to see this person's intellect and opinions lauded over and over again knowing my experience with them as being dismissive of new opinions/ideas contrary to their own.

Their handlers had them out of there soo fast....(I promised I was polite. Actually, I was kinda speechless - like jaw-hanging flabbergasted.) Anyway, just saw them effused over 2 separate times today, and because I don't generally tell tales about folks...whew. Some judicious scrolling past there.

They then proceeded to tell me my considered thoughts about my town (I'd been to tons of lectures, read articles, talked with respected architects, etc. Plus I workes there.) opinions about this town were dubious b/c because they wrote an article about said town 10 years prior and they didn't agree.

Right, so super small thing, but aggravatingly perpetual...I just gotta get this out just this once....There's this famous (You would probably know who I was talking about.) nonfiction author I met in 2020 at the ABA (bookseller's) conference and they commented on the origin town on my lanyard.

Henley duo's network now home to more than 800 female gardeners Janet Wood and Justine Hutchinson from Oxfordshire have grown a network of more than 800 female gardeners.

In other non-dreadful news.
"What I found was that there's a huge need out there for women gardeners to work with older people who just can't manage their gardens anymore."
The company ... connects women across England and aims to support them entering the industry.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music

Several dozen folks did

Some even dubbed music over the original clip.

I haven't been able to get this out of my head.

So I give you

A Bluesky exclusive:

Reservoir Ducks

🐣 🪶

Digital drawing in white ink against a black background of a small mouse with unusually curly whiskers perched on the back of a hunched-over and worried-looking rat. A small spiny lizard is curled up in front of the rat. The rat is drawn semi-realistically while the lizard and mouse are more stylized with dashes and dots indicating form.

Illustration countdown to #WrensAria publication!

12/52 Mograth, Barney, and Clarissa (lizard, rat, and tiny mouse with curly whiskers): three small friends who aid Wren in a daring escape

a black and yellow background with a few yellow spots Alt: A timelapse of a bright yellow slime mold spreading across a log

We've got a ROOTin'-tootin' flash fiction theme for you this month! 🍄‍🟫🫚

March's flash fiction theme is MYCELIUM. Please be aware that mushrooms alone will not be sufficient - we're looking for mycelium specifically. You have until the end of the month to submit!

www.patreon.com/posts/march-...

A playful poster graphic featuring flat illustrations of national postal services around the world that use bird logos. From March 2022

Postal services around the world that use birds as logos. One of my favorite poster graphics I've made! 🐦✉️

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

Dirty Data An ERC investigation looking into the cost of data center infrastructures powering AI and the people paying the price.

New to me: Dirty Data, a collaborative project featuring 40 journalists across Asia, Latin America, and Europe investigating data centers, their impacts, and how communities are fighting back against data center construction. The website includes original reporting and an interactive map.

It's International Women's Day! :)

Same, actually.

I had an absolute blast writing this, and I hope we get to see more epic disabled stories in the future. If you needed a push to read Tank Chair - this is me running you over in my Monster Truck Chair.

Very much so. Best wishes!

Lovely thread!

A young hoops fan mirroring Kevin Durant's free throw behind the baseline in tonight's game vs Portland.

What the game is all about.

Chicory: A Musical Tale, by Resonant Union 33 track album

6️⃣ hours left until Bandcamp Friday and the Chicory Pre-Order sale end!

We've officially hit 300 album copies of Chicory: A Musical Tale sold - we are so grateful to you all for supporting us.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. 💛

resonantunion.bandcamp.com/album/chicor...

Join in the celebration for Women's History Month & International Women's Day, with the 🎁 #WomensDaySale 🎁 by @wingsfund.me 💗 They have curated a @steampowered.com sale oriented around supporting games by women-led studios.

💗📅 March 6th - 15th, 2026
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GIVE LIS THE BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT AND BID AGGRESSIVELY ON THEIR KID’S KEYCHAIN!!!!

An Army Corps project could wipe out one of Florida’s last thriving coral reefs The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida may be imperiled by plans to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades.

The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger.

People know this, right?

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

🧪🦑🌎

Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Stop literally everything.

Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.

fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

Bandcamp Fridays In 2026

The next Bandcamp Friday of 2026 is this Friday, March 6th. From midnight to midnight PDT, we'll waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists and labels.

you probably know the famous quote about “Shouting ‘Fire’ in a crowded theater”- what a lot of people forget was that the judge who said that was trying to jail a Yiddish-speaking socialist for distributing anti-draft pamphlets (zines) during WW1

so yeah, zines are actually really fucking important