The world is violent and mercurial - it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love - love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. [1/2]
'After taking office in May, the main pillars of Orbán's regime fell within just a few months: the president and the chief prosecutor left, and Orbán's once-formidable media machine was paralysed.' www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
How Péter Magyar dismantled Viktor Orbán's built-to-last regime
Since Péter Magyar's Tisza Party won a landslide in April, Hungary's president, top prosecutor and state media chiefs have all been removed, as the new government moves swiftly to unwind 16 years of Viktor Orbán's rule. #EuropeNews
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Tired by Langston Hughes I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two- And see what worms are eating At the rind.
Achilles Micawber@achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 8mo agoWhich lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
Power Lines Drawing #60 (Detroit, Georgia St) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. —George Orwell, 1984
Today is Venn Day, in celebration of the mathematician John Venn, born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn Diagram.
Happy Birthday! Percy Bysshe Shelley (from 𝘈 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺)
"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties. ...summer was an immaterial treasure and joy that belonged to all of us."
My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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'Congolese civil society leader & democracy activist Andréa Ngombet revisits one of Africa’s oldest political commitments: preserving colonial borders inherited at independence. He considers whether the borders still serve the interests of the people who live within them.' rpublc.com/story/2026/0...
The (Mis)Invention of Central Africa
For more than 60 years, African governments have treated colonial borders as untouchable. But as conflict, economic fragmentation and shifting global power expo
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Filled with the coward rage that dares to burn but does not dare to blaze, Lord Emsworth coughed a cough that was undisguisedly a bronchial white flag. P.G. Wodehouse • Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend • Blandings Castle
“Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table” — W.H. Auden, from the poem “Herman Melville”
Emerging from Silence: Mughal Painter Sahifa Banu by Gurpreet Sihat for the #ArtHerstory blog artherstory.net/emerging-fro...
Emerging from Silence | Mughal Painter Sahifa Banu
The post presents such information as is known about Mughal painter Sahifa Banu, and describes and illustrates three works attributed to her.
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Big stack after the harvest Golden hour in Norfolk #BlueSkyArtShow #Big #Photography #ECK #EastCoastKin #10MinutesFromHome
'These images tell a broader story of how Black Americans used photography to document their lives, define their public image, and preserve their histories across the late 19th and early 20th centuries.' Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early Photography. petapixel.com/2026/07/31/t...
Historic Portraits Celebrate the Earliest African American Photographers
These daguerrotypes were taken by the earliest African American photographers.
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The 42nd Traditional Kaga Yuzen Crafts ExhibitionVisiting Dress “Plum Scent” exhibited by a member, Ichiro Kakimoto Artist’s Comment : I tried to express the strength of the intersecting branches and the old tree with moss that bends vigorously.
