My #painting of two #magpies and their treasure is progressing - though rather more slowly than I would like. I need a least an hour completely undisturbed to get any painting done and that has been hard to find!

Anyway, check out all those awesome colours in the plumage. Gosh, that was fun to paint.

My next task is to start on their treasure, all tangled up in the nest.

#WorkInProgress #picapica #detectorists #art

In an era when tech bros are ruining everything it's good to remember that before 1980s marketing attempted to drive women out of computing they pioneered it.

#InternationalWomensDay #computing #computerscience #computerhistory

https://www.gracehopper.com/blog/15-remarkable-women-programmers-who-transformed-the-tech-world

https://allthatsinteresting.com/margaret-hamilton

https://web.archive.org/web/20191130180008/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html

The fish doorbell season in #Utrecht starts today!

See some fish 🐠 🐟🐡, ring the bell. 🛎️ The operator will let them through the #Weerdsluis.

#visdeurbel #fishdoorbell #slowtv #fish

https://visdeurbel.nl/en/

I find Trump as repulsive as most people here, but as a German, one thing I want to push back on is focusing only on one man.

Hitler's rise was possible because he was able to exploit the racial hatred and conspiratorial thinking that already existed.

It's MAGA acolytes that see Trump as an extraordinary figure. He was a reality show grifter with a crumbling business; Hitler was an undisciplined drifter with delusions of grandeur.

It's the soil that matters, not just the rotten harvest.

FISH 🐟
DOORBELL 🔔
TIME ⏰

In the Netherlands, spring fish migration has begun! This literal live stream from a manually operated canal lock in Utrecht lets you click a button when you see fish, which sends a screenshot and lets the lock-keeper know to open the lock and let fish through.

The #Visdeurbel returns March 3 and there will be some exciting additions: updates from 4 fishways (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_ladder) across the Netherlands! The latest Visdeurbel news report explains: https://youtu.be/BQNPNQ6Ui2Q

https://visdeurbel.nl/

Organic farmers and environmental groups sued the Agriculture Department over the removal of climate change references from its website, claiming it blocked crucial data and funding for farmers. The suit argues the actions violated federal laws and requested restoration of the pages and protection from further deletions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/climate/agriculture-farmer-website-data-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU4.eQ7h.1GZXd8zt66Hd&smid=url-share

I share this not just because it's good news, but because of the framing.

It's easy to overlook things like the introduction of legislation in all 50 states, but this is what a quietly moving revolution looks like.

Be shrewd. Move quietly & plant things. Our future is still coming.

https://www.404media.co/all-50-states-have-now-introduced-right-to-repair-legislation/

#solarpunk