Visual artist, amateur musician, volunteer naturalist, contemplates biocenosis, cooking and sharing skills, lives and works on Salish Sea shores, unceded community land. Politics is my hobby. Who says you can’t have romance in a revolution? Planet Art is my studio; Thunder & Lightning Press is my printshop. Header image: crows at Carkeek Park, Seattle in winter trees. Once a strange visitor from another social media platform 58k tweets @odaraia
#OccupyWorkplace #DontMakeMyCityAThemepark
Just in case, like me, you're in need of something wholesome to start a new week: Betty's Reading Room by the dock in Tingwall, Orkney.
Apparently set up by a couple in memory of their late friend Betty Prictor - a place for folk to hang out while waiting for the Rousay ferry and really just the loveliest memorial I can imagine.
Mother’s Day—a day for peace. Contemplating, working for.
#peace #mothersday
Decorative tiles in the stairwell of the Connall Building on West George Street in Glasgow, which was constructed in 1898.
#glasgow #architecture #tiles #tiling #ceramics #architecturephotography
This week Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler promoted their podcast (https://www.messythepodcast.com) and general MS/Chronic Illness/Disability advocacy on Conan O’Brien’s podcast (https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/conan-obrien-needs-a-friend/episodes/christina-applegate-and-jamie-lynn-sigler) with Christina joining in “Work from Bed”-style
#MusComEnt #WorldMSDay #Disability #MultipleSclerosis #ChristinaApplegate #JamieLynnSigler
And this week’s #NoirAlley leading ladies are Ava Gardner and Virginia Christie (also pictured: Burt Lancaster)
#TCMParty #TheKillers #AvaGardner #VirginiaChristie #FilmNoir #DarknessAtNoon
We won! We won!
Not the hockey thing, who cares about that.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/love-it-or-hate-it-magpies-crowned-edmontons-city-bird/
@Natasha_Jay Statens Vegvesen (Norwegian Public Roads Administration) actually has a propane-powered waffle iron made from two manhole covers, which they bring to events
In a sane world, the government would be trumpeting this triumph of medical science—a great victory for public health.
But we live in Trump world now, so we won't be able to get the Moderna Covid+flu vaccine this year. People will get sick needlessly, and people will die.
Bikes all tuned up!
I love my #bike tuning station. It uses a folding workbench and a car hitch bike rack. Works great.
#biketooter
@christopherens very nifty. My portable paint box can’t hold a candle to this!
Cartoon by Ali Solomon (from 2022)
Attorney General Bonta Celebrates Court Order Halting Mass Firings Across Federal Government https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-celebrates-court-order-halting-mass-firings-across
Advertising is a nonconsensual, invasive mental intrusion, and should be treated as such.
Arrest of mayor of Newark during US officials’ inspection of GEO run ICE detention facility which was just contracted to run for 15 years at $1B. Arresting personnel, assumed be to ICE officers, wore masks and no identifying clothing, hiding who they were. New Jersey state government recently passed legislation outlawing private detention facilities in the state.
#ICE #newark
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-protest-ice-newark-mayor-arrested-5a2b3fefd7da563c48d2f85831cf2194
Appreciating the new Pope signals Mother’s Day with calls for peace.
#MothersDay #peace
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-leo-xiv-a16ff59f75260ca8baf5d90890523766
"Bernie Sanders calls out Congress for falling silent on US involvement in Israel's war on Gaza" [ ± 1-3 min]
by MiddleEastEye
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cjSfzQi-Dfs
Quote by MEE:
"May 10, 2025
"Why is there no discussion in the US government about why we are spending billions of taxpayer dollars starving children in Gaza?"
Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor on Thursday to condemn Congress for falling silent on the US government giving military aid to Israel.
He accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing" and the US of incitement: "Trump is encouraging the ethnic cleansing of 2.2 million people".
#NeverAgain #StopTheGenocide
#JusticeForHindRajab #JusticeForRifaatRadwan
#JailForNetanyahu #JailForGallant #SmotrichRaus
@MarkHoltom My father usually incorporated some what we would now call “hacks”into playing Monopoly with us as children. One was a periodic issue of “bonuses” of $500 bills when someone playing was losing and would be forced out. He had others less dramatic. For him the object was to keep playing the game.
