Wawiriya Burton, senior Australian Indigenous artist and healer who, in collaboration with her daughters, painted Mingkiri Tjukurpa, 2011 #WomensArt

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15 beautiful libraries around the world

Drinking coffee as a beverage is said to have originated in Yemen in the 15th century in Sufi Shrines. It was there that coffee berries were first roasted & brewed in a way similar to how the drink is prepared today For #InternationalCoffeeDay a thread on coffee & Muslim culture

The intensity and extent of warmth in Europe right now is hard to comprehend. Warsaw in Poland 🇵🇱 just smashed its January record by over 5°C.

“Why aren’t people making the kind of old-world classical sculptures and oil painting I like anymore?” I dunno dude why aren’t you providing an artist with a full time salary and residence on your property so they can focus on nothing but making one painting for three years.

Yeah, I need one (or 10) of these…

Endless heat wave in Australia with records broken every day. 4 more monthly records today fell (2 of highest min. and 2 of highest max.) with the highest in the country today being 43.4C at Telfer. Tomorrow and day after tomorrow temperatures will be similar with some more 43C.

Workers in France shut it down so thoroughly that cars couldn’t come within half a mile of the Paris airport. In response to the President forcing the retirement age up to 64, the people have dramatically increased their protests.

“There is a bird and a stone in your body. Your job is not to kill the bird with the stone.” —Victoria Chang

"Any proposal to defund the library is the nuclear option. It's an attack on education, it's an attack on the public good. And the idea is very much alive and gaining steam." — ALA OIF Director Deborah Caldwell-Stone npr.org/2023/05/04/117… #UniteAgainstBookBans

I only managed three points..,

A complete shutdown of cold water ocean upwelling off the coast of Peru is the sign of a strong impending El Niño... It was along this coast that the phrase was first coined by colonial Spanish fishermen. This is a huge anomaly.

Happy Birthday to gay war hero Alan Turing, pioneer of computer science: who was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts. He accepted hormone treatment commonly referred to as chemical castration. He died two years later, aged just 41, by suicide. Today we remember and honour him.

My reply to the board members of FishersIN and City of Noblesville seeking to remove my books (and over a hundred others) from the young adult literature shelves in their libraries. Heartbreaking for this to happen in Central Indiana, where I live and strive to support.

🎉🐶 Happy Birthday to everyone's favorite beagle, Snoopy! (August 10th) 🎂🎈 May your day be as adventurous and joyful as your imaginative flights atop your doghouse. Here's to another year of spreading happiness and laughter! 🥳🎁 #SnoopyBirthday #PeanutsCelebration

If you believe that: 1) Reading is critical to democracy. 2) Books help us understand complex issues. 3) Parents shouldn't make decisions for other parents' children. 4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books. Join the campaign & #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action

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A tiny house for the frog [📹 unknowndazza]