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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 8h
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Never work with Graziella folding bikes — they will always upstage you. A beautiful couple... plus actress Anita Ekberg and her husband, actor Rik Van Nutter, warming up for a spin in Cannes, France in April 1968. #BicycleBirthday Anita Ekberg September 29 (1931-2015)
Photo of Anita Ekberg and Rick van Nutter canoodling with folding bikes in front of boats at a marina.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 19h
Actress Emily Lloyd in the 1987 coming-of-age film Wish You Were Here Happy #BicycleBirthday, Emily! Born September 29, 1970
Photo featuring a woman in a dress showing a lot of leg while posing at a railing by the sea. There's a bike parked next to her.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 10h
"I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things." --Lech Wałęsa, Polish pro-democracy leader, president, Nobel Peace Peace Prize laureate, and e-bike rider Happy #BicycleBirthday, Lech! Born September 29, 1943
Photo of an elderly man riding an electric bike along a waterfront promenade.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 10h
Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon re-create (left) a famous photo (right) of Nobel Prize-winning physicists Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie in the 1943 biopic Madame Curie (1943) #BicycleBirthday Greer Garson September 29 (1904-1996)
Photo of a finely dressed woman and man posing with bicycles in a garden. This is Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in the movie Madame Curie.Photo of a finely dressed man and woman posing with bicycles in a garden. This is the original photo of Pierre Curie and Marie Skłodowska-Curie in front of their Paris home.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 10h
NBA star Kevin Durant riding in the San Francisco Bay Area upon being traded to the Golden State Warriors in 2016. He posted this on Instagram at the time. Happy #BicycleBirthday, Kevin! Born September 29, 1988
Instagram post by easymoneysniper (Kevin Durant) featuring a photo of him riding a bike on a gravel road with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background and the text: I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the universe was on my side.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 10h
"Anne St. Marie on Bike with Umbrella" ca. 1956 📷Tom Palumbo
Photo of a woman riding a bicycle while holding an umbrella. This photo was taken as a test for The Design Laboratory at the New School taught by Alexey Brodovitch.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 10h
Continental Polo Reifen bicycle tires ca. 1970
Advertising poster featuring a distorted photo of a person sitting backwards on a Chopper-style bicycle. The distortion makes it looks sort of like a color negative.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 10h
Cycling (Amsterdam Forest Nymph) 1962 🎨Ferdinand Erfmann
Painting of a woman wearing an outfit that just covers her torso riding a bike in a forest.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 9h
"To turn smoothly adopt ELVA freewheels" ca. 1940 🎨 Martin Dupin
Advertising poster featuring an illustration of a cyclist spinning around using a outsized bicycle gear as a tutu.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 8h
"Anything to satisfy them! Puck shows a way to keep the bicyclists from being annoyed by the public." Puck Magazine, 1888
Illustration in a magazine showing many cyclists riding at street level in a city while pedestrians, buses, and other conveyances travel on a street built overhead.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 51m
Cycling Capote 📷Slim Aarons #BicycleBirthday Truman Capote September 30 (1924-1984)
Photo of writer Truman Capote in red trousers riding a bicycle with a red and white basket in the middle of a wide, mostly empty street.
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 7h
🎣 The Fisherman — By Jean-Louis Dupart in Boissy-Saint-Léger, France 🇫🇷 The Shadows Have Other Ideas (9 Photos) streetartutopia.com/2026/09/29/shad…
Jean-Louis Dupart's mural in Boissy-Saint-Léger shows a man fishing from a chair high on an apartment wall, with a dog beside him and long painted shadows below.
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 6h
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Alex Chinneck’s Architectural Illusions (8 Photos) - STREET ART UTOPIA
A melting wax house, an upside-down pylon and a post box with a knot in it: seven works by British artist Alex Chinneck.
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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 19h
Ragnar's here to keep you company for Tuesday. I'm off to see my consultant today about the dodgy knees, and to see what happens now. Take care and have a peaceful day. 🧡 #Cats #CatsOfBluesky
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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 19h
Today - September 29th - is international #HappyGoose day (do with that what you will...) So #Poetry #Prose and #art about happy #Geese please! #SomethingEveryday #prompt #writingprompt #writing #writesky #blueskypoetry #5amwritersclub #amwriting
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Nymeria @nymeria345.bsky.social · 21h
The maintenance guys are back to clear the riverbank and keep the fairway for the ships open. Das Warttungsboot hält die Ufer und die Fahrrinne sauber.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14h
Three girls (1932) by Amrita Sher-Gil. Then, Amrita Sher-Gil, influential Hungarian-Indian painter #WomensArt
Portrait of three Indian girls dressed in pink or green saris facing left
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15h
Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, sculpture with Azores crocheted lace #WomensArt
Photo of a sculpture resembling a snake covered in green lace
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16h
Artemesia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1620 #UnlockingWomensArt
Painting of a dramic scene reflecting two women in the process of beheading a prone man
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Women’s March @womensmarch.com · 11h
From the Cornell rapists to Trump, from universities to government, our institutions continue to protect rapists while women are left fighting for our lives.
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Women’s March @womensmarch.com · 11h
Fuck that. October 1 at 8pm ET, we make the plan. October 8 we take to the streets for Jane Doe, Epstein survivors, and survivors everywhere. Join the organizing call. act.womensmarch.com/signup/stops... #StopSexualViolence
act.womensmarch.com
Stop Sexual Violence: From the Frat House to the White House
ORGANIZING CALL | Thursday, October 1 | 8pm ET / 5pm PT On October 8, survivors, feminists, and young people are calling for a national day of action to #StopSexualViolence. Join Women’s March, Me Too...
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National Organization for Women @nationalnow.bsky.social · 16h
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students. Details here: thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 20h
📣 We welcome the Government's announcement of a safe route for Afghan women and Palestinians. This is a step in the right direction. However, the scheme, pitched to be 'small scale' for a few hundred, does not go far enough and will leave many people behind in danger and at risk of harm. 1/🧵
theguardian.com
UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians
Exclusive: Move by Shabana Mahmood comes after closure of Afghan scheme last year but experts say numbers too small to deter Channel crossings
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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 20h
Safe routes save lives. But they must be genuinely accessible and scalable. The Government must: 👉 Reopen Refugee Family Reunion as a matter of urgency, and 👉 Create new safe routes for people to come to the UK to rebuild their lives and heal, without conditions attached. 6/🧵
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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 20h
We will closely monitor these new safe routes for effectiveness and accessibility - particularly for women seeking safety here. We hope this is a genuine first step by the Government to create new safe routes. Our fight continues. ✊ Safe routes, NOW. 7/7
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Act Build Change @actbuildchange.com · 17h
💼 Policy and Advocacy Manager at @4refugeewomen.bsky.social actbuildchange.com/opportunitie... We’re looking for a Policy and Advocacy Manager to join our small but mighty Campaigns team.
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Policy and Advocacy Manager at Women for Refugee Women
We’re looking for a Policy and Advocacy Manager to join our small but mighty Campaigns team.
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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 15h
🖊️ “The campaigners amongst us – often raising flags about the risk of serious individual or societal harms – are used to warm words but slow action from Whitehall.” We're proud to join 50 organisations calling on the Government to draw on civil society's expertise and experience.
thirdsector.co.uk
Government must treat civil society as a ‘critical friend’, Prime Minister urged
Andy Burnham’s government needs to draw on civil society’s expertise and experience, charities say
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Europe has been expanding legal access to abortion. Abortion on request is now legal in 25 of the 27 EU countries, according to a new study. Malta and Poland are still the two big outliers, as abortion is allowed only in very narrow circumstances.
rapporteur.com
Europe’s abortion laws are getting more liberal, study finds | Rapporteur
Abortion is now legal almost everywhere in the EU, but countries still retain criminal penalties and barriers to care
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A new bill in Nepal would amend the abortion limit, which currently stands at 28 weeks. The bill proposes allowing abortion at any stage of pregnancy if the fetus has a disability due to genetic defects or other causes. risingnepaldaily.com/news/87107
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jamaica has had severely restrictive criminal laws for more than 150 years, yet the Caribbean has the highest abortion rate in the world. Dr. Fred Nunes explains how legalized abortion leads to large reductions in abortion.
jamaica-gleaner.com
Consider legalising abortion
THE EDITOR, Madam: International Safe Abortion Day is about promoting safety. And that cannot be achieved without the decriminalisation of abortion. Jamaica has had severely restrictive criminal laws ...
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For International Safe Abortion Day, FIGO is amplifying the voices of our global community at the frontline of care. In this piece, clinicians from across the world share one challenge to safe abortion access in their country, and one solution that gives them hope.
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Challenges and hope: voices from the frontline of safe abortion care | Figo
To mark this year's International Safe Abortion Day on 28 September, FIGO is amplifying the voices of our global community at the frontline of care. Clinicians from across the world share one challeng...
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The National Women’s Council in Ireland was able to coordinate the illumination in green of public buildings, including the Mansion House and Trinity College in Dublin, as part of a European-wide initiative to mark International Safe Abortion Day.
nwci.ie
Dublin buildings will light up Green for International Safe Abortion Day
NWC marks International Safe Abortion Day
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The opposition party in The Netherlands is introducing a bill to remove abortion from the Criminal Code. Lawmaker Lisa Vliegenthart says abortion is healthcare and "truly has no place in the Criminal Code."
nltimes.nl
Pro files bill to take abortion out of Dutch Criminal Code
The opposition party Pro wants abortion removed from the Criminal Code and is planning on submitting an initiative bill, NOS reports. Lawmaker Lisa Vliegenthart says abortion should be placed in healt...
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Towera Ngwira, 29, is a women’s rights activist from Malawi, who is focused on empowering adolescent girls and young women. In this piece, she shares the barriers girls and young women face when it comes to healthcare and why it’s essential they’re aware of their rights.
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“I lost a friend following an unsafe abortion in Malawi”
Towera Ngwira is a women’s rights activist from Malawi, empowering adolescent girls and young women to access quality healthcare.
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A women's advocacy group in Nigeria is calling for urgent reform of the country's abortion laws. Criminalisation contributes to unsafe abortion and preventable maternal deaths. Nigeria has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates.
punchng.com
Reform abortion laws to save women's lives, group urges FG
A group has urged the Federal Government to reform Nigeria's abortion laws, stating that criminalisation contributes to unsafe abortions and high maternal
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In France, abortion access is becoming more difficult. A shortage of trained professionals and lack of services have led to increased wait times. Pathways are "fraught with obstacles", including refusals to provide support, pressure, or a lack of choice regarding abortion methods.
rte.ie
Access to abortion becoming increasingly difficult
Access to abortion is becoming increasingly difficult in France despite it being enshrined in the Constitution, warns the Family Planning Association.
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The infamous Hyde Amendment is 50 years old. It's one of the most harmful and cruel abortion restrictions in the USA, as it prohibits coverage of abortion care for low-income people enrolled in federal Medicaid, except in extremely limited cases.
nwlc.org
5 Things You Should Know About the Harmful Hyde Amendment on Its 50th Anniversary - National Women's Law Center
The Hyde Amendment is one of the most harmful abortion restrictions, as it prohibits coverage of abortion care for individuals enrolled in the federal Medicaid program, except in the extremely limited...
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Civil society organizations across Africa have reaffirmed a simple truth: safe abortion is essential healthcare. For International Safe Abortion Day, they call on African governments to fully implement the Maputo Protocol, reform national laws, and implement safe abortion into public healthcare.
equalitynow.org
Joint civil society organisations statement on International Safe Abortion Day 2026: Safe abortion is essential healthcare: A call to action
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Activists in Belgium held a demonstration to demand an extension of the legal abortion limit from 12 to 18 weeks.
belganewsagency.eu
NGO's push for extension of abortion term in Belgium
On Monday, a demonstration was held in front of the Palace of Justice in Brussels advocating for an extension of the legal abortion limit from 12 to 18 weeks. The action took place in connection with ...
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights commemorates the lives lost and recognises the health consequences of unsafe abortion. They call for the dismantling of systemic legal and infrastructural barriers that deny women their bodily autonomy.
achpr.au.int
STATEMENT BY THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL SAFE ABORTION DAY
STATEMENT BY THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL SAFE ABORTION DAY
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Barcelona City Council is hosting several events and initiatives for International Safe Abortion Day, including an international forum, an awareness campaign including lighting up City Hall in green, and an updated website with SRH info.
barcelona.cat
Full information and resources for a safe abortion
On the occasion of International Safe Abortion Day, held every year on 28 September, Barcelona City Council strengthens its promotion of resources and information on sexual and reproductive health. In...
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 3h
The Uganda Ministry of Health has urged medical practitioners across the country not to shy away from providing emergency care to women suffering from post-abortion complications. Doctors were reassured that new national guidelines protect them from legal harassment and wrongful arrest.
monitor.co.ug
New health guidelines seek to protect doctors treating unsafe abortion complications
Highlighting additional structural barriers, health advocates at the event pointed out critical supply-chain gaps that hinder effective emergency response
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 3h
In Nigeria, stakeholders want the law to recognise the realities of rape, incest, severe foetal abnormalities, and the mental health of the pregnant woman. There must be access to safe abortion where continuing the pregnancy would cause severe psychological or other harm.
guardian.ng
Stakeholders seek legal protection for survivors of rape and incest
Stakeholders have called for greater legal protection for survivors of rape and incest, arguing that women who become pregnant as a result of sexual violence should have access to safe abortion where ...
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 3h
Ambassadors, envoys and governments of 11 European countries have reaffirmed the right to abortion on Sep 28. "Access to safe, timely and affordable abortion care is key for the realisation of bodily autonomy, gender equality, human rights, democracy and universal health coverage for all."
regjeringen.no
Statement on International Safe Abortion Day 2026
On the occasion of International Safe Abortion Day, Ambassadors, Envoys and Governments of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden ...
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 3h
The French gov't is claiming an "unfailing commitment" to abortion access. Sadly ironic, given the dire story posted here yesterday about growing access barriers in France. It shows that enshrining abortion rights in its constitution (despite a 14-week restriction!) was meaningless symbolism.
us.diplomatie.gouv.fr
International Safe Abortion Day | France in the U.S.
France reaffirms its commitment to women having access to voluntary pregnancy termination
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 2h
In Nov, the rights of Missourians to get abortion care — which has been slowly becoming more available after a 2024 vote to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution — may come screeching to a halt. Republicans are intent on reversing that vote with a deceptive ballot measure.
19thnews.org
A state that enshrined abortion into its constitution is now at risk of losing it
A ballot measure backed by the state’s Republican party would make Missouri the first state whose constitution explicitly bans the procedure.
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 3h
Check out all the photos of European landmarks lit up green for International Safe Abortion Day on Sep 28!
reproductiverights.org
Recap: International Safe Abortion Day 2026 - Center for Reproductive Rights
This International Safe Abortion Day, prominent landmarks across Europe lit up green in support of safe and legal abortion access.
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