Cate
@cateknit.bsky.social
Birthright citizen as of October 1945. NonChristian Golden Rule practitioner. 🇺🇦Living in the 💙 bubble of Richmond VA. Knitter. If you only repost, I will not follow back. NO DMs 🧶 #blue #knitter #KnitSky 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #BLM #Reparations #RVA
American Kestrel North America's smallest and most colorful falcon found throughout North and South America 📷: Jose Raposo Photography #birds
Farewell Dolly, beautiful, generous, talented soul. You made the world a better place.
Always interested in ways artists use clothing for social commentary.
womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21h agoSusie Freeman, Jubilee, 2000, wedding dress with (a lifetime average) 6,279 contraceptive pills, from a women’s health exhibition #WomensArt
And my Social Security would be more than a poverty income.
Erin Grievances@erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d agoSometimes I wish I'd made the kind of decisions in life that would have led me to knowing much less about the past but being much more able to afford my prescriptions.
About 300,000 demonstrated across south Wales, 1935, against means testing of unemployment benefits. Photo by Edith Tudor-Hart, Austrian-British photographer and spy for the Soviet Union.
There are more pictures of kid knits somewhere for #ShowMeYourKnits The child on the left is a teenager now. #KnitSky
Amazing #FindsFriday from Tuva's Valley of #Kings! Early #Scythian period (2,800-2,500 BC) treasures from the Chingetei burial recovered by the 2022 Hermitage Museum expedition. #Archaeology #History #art
Reminds me of Millie, my Japanese Chin. She was never this fast.
@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 5d agoby Jenny Bloomfield
'Maudell Sleet’s Magic Garden' Romare Bearden, 1978 Watercolor, Ink & Collage on board
Yes, I have seen the "smut doesn't count as reading" post and yes, it is bullshit. Take it from your friendly, neighborhood, smut-loving librarian. All reading counts as reading. Stop worrying about tallies and totals and what other people think about your reading. Enjoy yourself.
I have an eye appointment & forgot to change from slippers to shoes 🤦🏻♀️ This just a few days after I forgot I was boiling my linen coffee filters and let them burn. I have never put my keys in the refrigerator.Please tell me I am not losing my wits.
Part of petrichor, the delish earthy smell released when rain hits parched ground, is geosmin,a compound from soil bacteria-human👃s can detect it in lower concentrations than sharks can detect blood in water. Seeking out water on dry plains was essential for our ancestors. Here’s a geosmin molecule:
Two Anglo-Saxon disc brooches from the Galloway Hoard which was found during 2014 at Balmaghie in Kirkcudbrightshire. Buried at the beginning of the 10th century, the hoard is now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland. 📸 My own, #SaxonSunday #GallowayHoard
Oh my, I remember these although I have no memory of where except I know it was not LA.
Carceral Abolition@carceralabolition.bsky.social · 2w agoPeople watching coin operated tvs in a bus station in LA – 1969 www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
Terrible news.
BlackskyNews 🗞️@blackskynews.blacksky.app · last wk.On Friday, HBCU Virginia State University welcomed nearly 1,500 incoming Trojans with a ceremony featuring NFL MVP Cam Newton as the guest speaker. Saturday morning, five people were found suffering from gunshot wounds outside campus dorms around 1:30am. apnews.com/article/virg... #BlackskyNews
A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”…
One of my first quilts, made in about 1974. Colorful fabric scraps sewn to a base fabric. The shape was to fit my antique bed frame. It had constant use until it became a shredded rag. #QuiltSky #ScrapQuilt #HandMade #Sentimental
“We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl's talk.” - Nina Simone, singer, musician and civil rights activist #WomensArt
