Ferdinand Knab, German painter, 1834-1902. Arcadian landscape, 1894. Oil on panel. Private collection. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Art History

From the public forums of Ancient Greece to modern investigative journalism, a free and robust press has always been the bedrock of democracy, transparency, and liberty. Congrats to Hungarian reporter @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social and all the 2026 International Press Freedom Awardees! 🏛️🔎🏆

Bluesky was down for the past few hours. I blame Putin. ☠️🇷🇺🥷

I grew up in Reseda, California in the 70s with sweltering heat in the summers which softened the asphalt on the schoolyard. We played in sprinklers, swam in the pool at YMCA, or headed to Zuma Beach for a dip in the ocean. I have never felt sustained heat as I am currently. 🌡️

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues." — Washington Irving, 1819 Georgian pianist Mariam Batsashvili performs Adagio, J.S. Bach, Concerto in D minor, composed in 1715. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

The Illitona panpipe group playing on homemade instruments in a village on the Island of Kolombangara, Western Province, Solomon Islands 🇸🇧. 🙏🏼🌏🕊️ 📹 Alphonse Betokera©

"Torres del Paine in Patagonia, Chile 🇨🇱." 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Photo by Mads Peter Iversen©

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of humanity. That is what love looks like.” — St. Augustine of Hippo, 416 AD 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

Jan Bernard "Jean" de Vriendt Belgian painter, 1809–1868. Hollyhocks - an oil study, ca. 1850. Oil on paper. Private collection. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Mousumi Das | Botanical Art

At the rate we’re going with unmitigated, devastating Climate Change in Hungary, across Europe, and the entire planet, I’m going to make this my permanent screensaver, since I’ve been getting these constant alerts for weeks on end. 🌡️⚠️🤕

Born on this day, August 2, 1820. Georg Emil Libert, Danish painter, 1820–1908. Danish National Gallery, Thorvaldsens Museum 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Virtual Art Museum

“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.” — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862 The Danish National Choir performs Agnus Dei, Giuseppe Verdi, Messa da Requiem, composed in 1874. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

The majestic Sass de Putia peak rising over the rolling alpine meadows of the Passo delle Erbe pass in the Italian Dolomites 🇮🇹. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Lukáš Bečkovský©

Friedrich von Nerly, German painter, 1807–1878. A moonlight view of the Piazza San Marco towards San Giorgio Maggiore, 1849. Oil on canvas. Sotheby's, Amsterdam. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

From Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar: "The Paks power plant is now producing only 240 megawatts, and tomorrow, for the first time in 44 years, it will be completely shut down." #ClimateChange ⚠️🚨

"Simplicity." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Christian Brailsford© | Minimalist Photography

"Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this." — Odysseus, Homer, The Iliad, 8th century BCE French classical pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs Johann Sebastian Bach, Piano Concerto No. 5, composed in 1738. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

I frequent a pro sports forum brimming with MAGAs. The overwhelming opinion remains the same. Climate change is a joke, we've always had hot summers & cold winters. Seeing the burning landscape across the continent, the water & electrical shortages, I feel existential dread. 🌡️😐

So cool to learn that you are in The Odyssey, @johnales.bsky.social, playing Irus (Arnaeus), the beggar of Ithica. I can't say I recognized you among the beggars in those shadowy scenes, but in hindsight, knowing that you are in this epic film is very impressive, indeed. Congrats! 🎬👏🏼

Happy Birthday to my lovely wife, @zazimadiary.bsky.social! To many more, indeed! 💖🎂🥂

Germain Fabius Brest, French painter, 1823-1900. A Caravanserai in Trabzon, c. 1855. Oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, France. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Virtual Art Museum

The iconic Seceda Ridgeline – Monte Seceda – in the Dolomites of Northern Italy 🇮🇹, part of the Puez-Geisler Nature Park. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Robert Skórka©

Buskers tribute to Oscar-winning musician Glen Hansard in Dublin 🇮🇪 this evening with a collective version of Falling Slowly, which he co-wrote with Markéta Irglová. Glen Hansard, 1970-2026. ❤️‍🩹🕯️🕊️ 📹 Dublin Live

Absolutely nothing to see here. Climate change is a liberal myth concocted by communists & the Chinese to make American right-wing conservatives look bad. 🙄

"Summer light in the Dutch forests." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Albert Dros©

Much like data centers, we forget nuclear power plants need water to function. "For the first time in its 44-year history, Paks Nuclear Power Plant in Hungary is facing a complete shutdown due to a severe heatwave and critically low water levels in the Danube River." 📷 hvg.hu

Sanford Robinson Gifford, American painter, 1823-1880. The Artist Sketching at Mount Desert, Maine, c. 1864. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Senuri Nimaya

“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart, 2020 Latvian classical violinist Kristīne Balanas performs Antonin Dvořák, Violin Concerto in A minor, composed in 1879. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

White stork chicks (Ciconia ciconia) framed by the full moon in their nest in Bátonyterenye, Hungary. Soon, they will take flight for Africa, as their ancestors have for millennia. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Gábor Pozsik©

Kitchens were a much simpler affair, back in the day. Love the puritan, minimalist style, perfect for my steady diet of instant Ramen noodles. 🍜 📷 Emlékszel?