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My take: clothes are to be used until they rip apart.
This #linocut shows an obstinacy of buffalo in all senses of the words. The collective noun for a group of buffalo is a "obstinacy". Clearly, these are hard-headed beasts. These ones have drawn a line in the sand. I dare you to cross it. Technically, these are American bison (Bison bison), known colloquially in North America as 'buffalo'. These mighty beasts were once obiquitous across the Great Plains. 🧵1/2
Hubert Airy's 1870 visualisation of the scintillating scotoma that would characterise his migraines.
More on 19th-century attempts to visualise "sick-headaches" here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/visualizing-migraines
Er lernte sein Rüstzeug bei William Shockley, dem Vater des Transistors, und erlebte die Geburtsstunde des Silicon Valley. Seine Kenntnisse beflügelten auch die Forschung hierzulande. In der vergangenen Woche ist Hans-Joachim Queisser im Alter von 93 Jahren gestorben.
Happy birthday to #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. My portrait of Leavitt is printed in silvery lavender ink on Japanese kozo (or mulberry paper). Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t). She is printed over constellations in gold (Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Draco, 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #sciart #histstm #astronomy #constellation #mastoArt
The notion that Palestine Action, who threw paint on some planes, are not in the same category of organisation as Al Qaeda, who flew some planes into buildings, is the kind of thing Labour used to understand. Not now, it seems.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-vicar-83-taken-away-10322580
A ban on Palestine Action, which describes itself as a non-violent direct action movement, came into place today after the group was officially proscribed under the Terrorism Act, which makes support for the group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
The Metropolitan Police said that it had arrested “more than 20 people on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act” at the demonstration and taken them into custody.
Petition to ask the UK government to stop deep sea mining before it starts.