Self Portrait with a Cat, 1938
by Swedish German painter
Lotte Laserstein
#WomensArt

Just to note that number 14 was actually in the Personals ad I placed that ended with our getting married

but we can’t have any of that, no more child care, or hospital funding, or climate policies, because what? corbyn has foreign policy opinions like “we shouldn’t nuke iran” and “the occupation of the west bank is illegal”? man, we all really dodged a bullet there !!

Cats were valued by Islamic scholars, who are said to have kept them in their libraries, because they would prey on mice that would ruin books. Cats are often depicted in paintings alongside Islamic scholars & bibliophiles

For Caturday, a thread on cats, books and the Qur’an…

Is is amazing how the protesters are always right 50 years ago and always wrong today

I feel that if I were to do something like this I would immediately flee out of embarrassment and go and park on the other side of town, but each to their own

A tale of two awards.

Parade of Cats, Inagaki Tomoo, mid 20th cent. Woodblock print. collections.artsmia.org/art/135692/par…

Snapshots from one of the most emotional games of the 11th round of the #FIDECandidates : Vidit Gujrathi - Ian Nepomniachtchi 0-1 🔥

📷 Michal Walusza
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On the bench, Moscow, 1960 (photo by Marc Riboud)

The euro crisis was addressed not just by massive austerity but with a massive amount of screaming at anybody who wanted to discuss whether it might be a bad idea. And a decade later, whaddaya know.

Bob Dylan plays chess on board the private plane “Starship” during his 1974 tour with The Band. 📸: Barry Feinstein. #BobDylan #Dylan

A pro-Palestine meeting with Yanis Varoufakis was closed down in Berlin all of four days ago, Ghassan Abu Sitta wasn't even allowed into Germany and do you know, I'm struggling to find much reference to it at all in the UK media, let alone any of today's shrieking and howling.

Of course what has always 'undermined public support for generous welfare provisions' has been spitefulness and mythmaking, and these are wilfully reinforced by politicians who make noises about 'benefit cheats' (a phrase that I suspect rather post-dates Judith Hart).

Libel laws are monstrous BUT Would this piece carry more weight if the writer himself hadn’t hired lawyers to threaten defamation proceedings against people regarding his misconduct? It would be less hypocritical probably.

Yes, and obviously yes, and I would sign up for this tomorrow and today and yesterday, but pretty much our entire political system and commentariat is dedicated to ensuring that this shouldn't even be seriously discussed, let alone allowed to happen.

Starmer giving Labour back to the workers, here

Not to take too much away from Kay Burley when she does something good, but her questions to Cameron and Healy weren't particularly searching, just what anybody watching would surely have had in their heads. Why do the obvious questions often go unasked? That's the thing really.