An acrobat ant worker tends sunflower aphids for honeydew. Austin, Texas. I think this photo works compositionally because of the superimposition of a single ant against the repeated backdrop of almost Xeroxed aphids.
Ancuta Hansen
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Cinematographer & Photographer. Embarked on a new adventure, creating for Galleria Obscura. I write here in Ro, Fr and Eng.🌻 📍Paris, Fr https://linktr.ee/ancutahansen https://galleriaobscura.shop/
I've said it before: makeup is transformative. It's not about looking better, it's about looking different. And it's nobody's business how people choose to present themselves in public. Anyway, I'm too old (44) for this nonsense. When does it stop? Never, apparently.
Another day, another (old) man telling me that I wear too much makeup. This time, someone who has asked me to participate in a short documentary he's filming. He wants me to be the "serious" historian. I guess you cant be serious and also glam?
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 15h agoChanneling my inner Moira Rose this afternoon for a recording of Queens, Kings, and Dastardly Things with Kate Williams and Robert Hardman! We’ll be talking about everything from my new book to the hideous object in my macabre Mary Poppins bag. I’ll drop a link when it comes out this October.
Granted I'm not smart enough to be a SpaceX investor but if I was, I think I would have questions about why you need humanoid robots working in factories on the moon, presumably making things that would need to get shipped back to earth
Bit weird that the “moral imperative” is to train your members to use a technology that the companies you’re taking money from say is going to replace them.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.
Back on my potato salad quest! I am looking for the world’s best potato salad. Much like in Eurovision, Moldova is the winner in my heart. Wanna stump for your region?
📷 Le photographe Maxime Riché expose à l’Espace d’œuvres photographiques de Rouen son travail documentaire autour de la ville californienne de Paradise, touchée à plusieurs reprises par les mégafeux américains. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/9IA
These small trinket trays I’ve entirely hand made and personalized with an old family photo have started their long journey from Paris to Australia! 🙏🏻🌸 #GalleriaObscura #handmade #madeinfrance
Two customized, rectangular trinket trays on my work table today. Going to Australia, tomorrow! 🙏🏻 #GalleriaObscura #handmade #madeinfrance
I’ve got an order in my shop from Australia! My 7yo believes it’s a kangourou who ordered. 😂 #galleriaobscura
first order of business: alienate your base🫡
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
The truth about AI-generated content and writing is that, if you're actually paying attention and are actively engaged, you can tell the difference. AI only works in a society where people are dissociating and distracted and unengaged. That's the point of it. To just forward an unlived life.
This rare Art Nouveau table lamp features a Tiffany Studios "Acorn" pattern leaded glass shade paired with a Rookwood Pottery base decorated by Kataro Shirayamadani
Just realized it's Humphrey Bogart day on TCM 🌟🌠⭐️Summer Under the Stars! #tcmparty #suts #HumphreyBogart
Oh yeah, I forgot to say we saw Tati’s 1953 movie, Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot at the cinema, this time with our 7yo. She loved it, she has now adopted Hulot’s tennis moves. The film holds excellently together after all this years, so bloody brilliant, Tati.
Il y a 82 ans, 4300 Roms, sont-ils, yeniches,manouches étaient massacrés à Auschwitz www.memorial98.org/2020/08/roms...
Roms massacrés à Auschwitz: l'anniversaire tragique du 2 août 1944 - Memorial98 Contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme
Des Roms déportés A Auschwitz-Birkenau, dans la nuit du 2 au 3 août 1944, 2897 Roms survivants dans le camp, pour la plupart des femmes, des enfants et des vieillards, furent assassinés dans les chamb...
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S'infliger une telle maladie auto-immune pour un incident qui a eu lieu en Afrique et alors qu'aucun des pauvres gens impliqués ne mettra un pied en Europe, c'est vraiment se comporter comme des merdes. Les 22 pays (!!!) qui se sont prêtés à ça affichent une fiabilité zéro.
Voir l'exécutif danois houspiller l'Espagne qui fut la première à s'insurger contre les velléités du régime de Washington au Groenland a quelque chose de franchement vomitif. Que 22 pays européens participent à cette farce téléphonée depuis le bureau ovale est immonde, entre sabotage et trahison.
Ukraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity
One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.
Now, any couple who gets married in City Hall can request a pet certificate upon uniting their household! 🐾 This certificate is dedicated to the shared commitment, love, nurture and proper cuddles our pets bring to our lives. Be sure to bring your pets to make the ceremony paw-fect.
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
