Lou Hart
@loupgarou.bsky.social
Player of lots of instruments (some very badly), Londoner and queer artist, living in Somerset at the moment, portraits of the Dead & the Fae in felt, Marine Mammal Medic. I love cats, whales & other beings... 🌊🌀💙
I am also lamenting the loss of Sam Neil, Anthony Stewart Head, Dolly Parton and, of course, the late great Tim Curry whose Frankenfurter changed everything,!
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QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 5d ago🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...
Really sorry to hear the death of Dolly Parton who by all accounts was quite an amazing woman. Good fortune to her soul. ♥️
Full nationalisation of water companies must be at the top of the government’s agenda to prevent catastrophic water shortages in the years ahead. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK government ‘irresponsible’ for not publishing emergency drought plans
Campaigners demand greater transparency into water companies’ plans not made public due to ‘security reasons’
theguardian.com
@mariastrutz.bsky.social hello lovely! Sent you an email! Xxx
The public wants to see a real solution to the water crisis. Not public control, whatever Andy Burnham means by that. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP is the only real solution. If Andy Burnham thinks he can fudge this issue, he and his team better listen to campaigners now: https://vist.ly/5dt5x
Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last mo.Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
Completely ridiculous that thousands of people are facing prison sentences for holding placards and yet there is debate over which killers or rapists, or paedophiles or sexual abusers or robbers or batterers should be let loose
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.Burnham to focus on keeping child rapists in prison as release scheme talks enter final day
Painting Flowers 🌺 🌻🌻 🌺🌺🌺 "I paint flowers so they will not die." —Frida Kahlo #quote #sunflower #FlowersonFriday 🌺🌺🌺🌻🌻🌻🌺🌺 Frida’s Flowers
Kawase Hasui (Japanese, 1883–1957) "Night Rain at Omiya", 1930. Japanese Woodblock Print, 43.9 × 30.2 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
ass out flower ate this is how i like pollinate
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
BREAKING: Huge victory--federal judge rules Trump's IRS suit was a sham from day one, reopening the case & exposing the $1.8B slush fund Proud to fight alongside @democracydefendersaction.org & Platkin LLP Accountability wins today
Peter Poskas (American, born 1939) Sundown, Stonington, Maine, 2007 Oil on panel
Harbor Study No.21 11”x14” Oil on cradled wood panel Available on my website.
Ito Yuhan (Japanese, 1882–1951) "Full Moon over Miyajima", 1930. Woodblock Print, 41 × 27.5 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
© Jacques Soulas. 'Lemons in a Glass.' Oil on canvas, 2024. 30 × 24 inches.
Perhaps overshadowed today by the tragic news about Sam Neill, but we also lost another great actor today: Wai Ching Ho. A well-kent face most widely known for playing as Matriarch crime boss Madame Gao in the Marvel Defenders shows, and the voice of Grandma in Turning Red.
Wai Ching Ho, ‘Daredevil’ and ‘Iron Fist’ Actress, Dies at 83
She played crime boss Madame Gao in the Marvel series.
hollywoodreporter.com
Paul Evans (b.1954 UK) Southease Summer Field. Ink and acrylic.
Anyone in the UK who thinks Reform's policies towards trans people will be any better than Labour's have been is either naive or a wolf in sheep's clothing. They're equally bad www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/r...
Reform UK's election manifesto takes aim at 'transgender ideology' and 'pronouns'
Reform UK's election manifesto pledged to "ban trans ideology" in schools - here's what else it says on LGBTQ+ issues as they win four seats.
thepinknews.com