A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officials said. https://to.pbs.org/4bhKE4r

French wildfire created country's 1st recorded pyrocumulonimbus cloud, igniting more fires

A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officia...

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Paul Cézanne, Curtains, 1885, watercolor

What a beautiful painting.

Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Rockwell Kent, "Moonlight in the Adirondacks", 1960, Oil on canvas, 24" x 36"

Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.

a piece of good news to cleanse your timeline www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

‘This is where it all started’: Nina Simone’s childhood home gets long-awaited rehabilitation

North Carolina home preserved to commemorate legendary musician and civil rights activist, and to serve as arts hub

theguardian.com

If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."

Kara Walker's stunning "Unmanned Drone," a deconstructed & reassembled statue of Stonewall Jackson that was originally located in Charlottesville, Virginia until its 2021 removal. A fascinating & complex artwork, now on view at LA art space The Brick as part of "Monuments" exhibition the-brick.org

The Buchanan Arts Center fall fundraiser and ornament sale is TONIGHT 5-7pm 1409 Buchanan Street! Over 50 artists contributed handmade ornaments. I made some paper smallmouth bass :)

The Buchanan Arts Center fall fundraiser and ornament sale is TONIGHT 5-7pm 1409 Buchanan Street! Over 50 artists contributed handmade ornaments. I made some paper smallmouth bass :)

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

No Kings Nashville

Illustrations by the French court engraver François-Nicolas Martinet from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780), the first monograph on goldfish published in Europe: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...

Watercolour illustrations from Mary Gartside’s An Essay on a New Theory of Colours (1808). Hand-made and unique to each volume, the images have been deemed some of the earlier examples of abstraction in painting. More in our latest post on the site — publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

Nashville gardeners buy your tomatoes and other garden starts from me, all proceeds support Buchanan Arts. Get in touch for details!

ChatGPT ass presidency

Philipp Heimberger@heimbergecon.bsky.social · last yr.

Incredible. The Trump administration calculated "tariff rates" by taking the US trade deficit with the respective country and dividing it by the country's exports to the US. And then the tariff rate of the US is often just set by cutting that made-up "tariff rate" in half.

Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari also suggested some words that each of us should say to every scared child we know during these terrible times: "If *I* have anything to do with it, you're gonna be okay." That's great, imo. We should all practice saying it - and living up to it.

The lowest hanging fruit and also essential. Flood their lines. I just spoke to a woman in Rose's office who has been fielding calls like this all morning.

Ripley@ripleyw.bsky.social · 2y ago

Even if they're all maga like mine it's still worth calling your reps - got through to Sen. Blackburn and Rep. Rose on 1st try, expressed urgent alarm about Musk's role US govt. Short and polite is most effective. Blackburn 202-224-3344 Hagerty 202-224-4944 Rose 202-225-4231

Even if they're all maga like mine it's still worth calling your reps - got through to Sen. Blackburn and Rep. Rose on 1st try, expressed urgent alarm about Musk's role US govt. Short and polite is most effective. Blackburn 202-224-3344 Hagerty 202-224-4944 Rose 202-225-4231

Gallery sitting my crit group’s show HOT STOVE LEAGUE at gallery 56 in the Arcade til 3pm today, drop by if you’re in downtown Nashville!

14 amino acids (left- and right-handed)! Ammonia! Formaldehyde! We are but stardust: mundane and transcendent. My gosh, what a time to be alive! www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed

Samples from Bennu contain the chemical building blocks of life — but with a twist.

nature.com

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Banned Book Family Day and seed swap at Buchanan Arts today 11-2pm 1409 Buchanan St Here’s a few of pages from my collaboration with Kseniia Bolshakova ‘Catching A Reindeer’ - one of dozens of giant books in the UNBANNABLE Library at Elephant Gallery thru 2/1 #nationalseedswapday

I've seen a couple people say that Buy Nothing is one of their main reasons for staying on FB--here's another option

Katie Duffy@kduffy1718.bsky.social · 2y ago

Buy Nothing also has an app, which they specifically designed to encourage people to get off of Facebook. buynothingproject.org/join