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Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

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Zuhair Murad | Fall/Winter 2025 Couture

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This Istanbul house was built in four historical eras

First floor: columns from Eastern Roman (Byzantine) era.

Second floor: archs from "again" Eastern Roman era.

Third floor: stonewalls from Ottoman Empire era.

Fourth floor: mud bricks from the first years of the Republic of Turkey.

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title of this is just ‘lesbian sex’

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ab. 1605-1625 Isaac Oliver - Portrait miniature of an unknown woman

(Victoria and Albert Museum)

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Lili Elbe was the model!!! 🏳️‍⚧️

Gerda Wegener, "Queen of Hearts" Paris, 1928.🥀

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subtitles from Science Gossip, 1900

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Alexander Rothaug, 1870-1946

[Siren] Sleeping Nymph, n/d, oil on canvas, 42.5x54.5 cm

Private Collection

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The Lavergne Family Breakfast, Jean-Etienne Liotard 1754

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The Woman with the Spider Web between Bare Trees 1803 Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840) Germany, early 19th Century woodcut

Cleveland Museum of Art

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The Veiled Cloud by Charles Courtney Curran, 1926

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Spotted in San Diego at an antique mall.

photo by Sarah Austin

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Do you want to be politically pure in theory or help your neighbor. Is it fruitless to help your neighbor because there's no Perfect Pure way to do it ?

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"In recent years, there has been a rush on the internet to supply image descriptions and to call out those who don’t. This may be an example of community accountability at work, but it’s striking to observe that those doing the most fierce calling out or correcting are sighted people. Such efforts are largely self-defeating. I cannot count the times I’ve stopped reading a video transcript because it started with a dense word picture. Even if a description is short and well done, I often wish there were no description at all. Get to the point, already! How ironic that striving after access can actually create a barrier. When I pointed this out during one of my seminars, a participant made us all laugh by doing a parody: “Mary is wearing a green, blue, and red striped shirt; every fourth stripe also has a purple dot the size of a pea in it, and there are forty-seven stripes—”

“You’re killing me,” I said. “I can’t take any more of that!”

Now serious, she said it was clear to her that none of that stuff about Mary’s clothes mattered, at least if her clothes weren’t the point. What mattered most about the image was that Mary was holding her diploma and smiling. “But,” she wondered, “do I say, Mary has a huge smile on her face as she shows her diploma or Mary has an exuberant smile or showing her teeth in a smile and her eyes are crinkled at the edges?”

It’s simple. Mary has a huge smile on her face is the best one. It’s the don’t-second-guess-yourself option."

--Against Access, by John Lee Clark, a DeafBlind educator

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FYI for any iPhone users who live in the USA, there's a new app out called IceBlock, which allows you to anonymously report ICE agent sightings

Worth a download if you've got an iPhone.