iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Carol

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'Chinese lantern' by Oda Krohg (1860 – 1935), Norwegian painter #Womensart

Painting featuring a paper lantern hanging from a thin tree above a green field

4668108

Reposted by Carol

The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #89

318718

Carol @silentdandelion.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

On my walk yesterday, I met this fine gentleman.

001

Reposted by Carol

Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Woman looking at Ad Reinhardt’s ‘Abstract Painting No.5’, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 1964. Burt Glinn.

0132

Reposted by Carol

Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Painting by Mike Howat. ‘Circa 1984.’ Acrylic on board. Size 61 x 46 cm

1036957

Reposted by Carol

Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

An exceptional site with hundreds of vintage menus from around the world vintagemenuart.co.uk

216742

Reposted by Carol

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Amy Katherine Browning, Lime Tree Shade, 1913, British Impressionist painter #Womensart #summer

Painting featuring a white girl in a white dress and a large grey dog both standing under the shade of a tree

62039269

Reposted by Carol

Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Margaret Drabble (with Edna O'Brien) - BOTD

0196

Reposted by Carol

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Off the Beaten Path, painting by Padraig McCaul, Irish artist.

171310154

Reposted by Carol

Henri Matisse @henrimatisse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Young Woman Sitting with Bouquet of Flowers (Jeune fille assise au bouquet de fleurs), 1922–24 botfrens.com/collections/48/content…

08022

Reposted by Carol

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Lamorna Cove (c.1919) by English artist Laura Knight, one of her many paintings of the Cornish coast #WomensArt

Painting featuring a view over a small boat in turquoise calm sea next to the shore

059389

Reposted by Carol

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

For those who do love maps, let me recommend the David Rumsey map collection at Stanford--it's huge, all online, with free downloads, a stunning array of the greatest cartography over the centuries from Asia as well as Europe and the America.... davidrumsey.com

1638567

Reposted by Carol

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I had replied to the below: Paper maps are great. Never run out of juice, let you see the close-up detail and the big picture at the same time (because they're three feet wide, unlike your phone), and the more you use them the more you learn your way around without them, unlike obeying a machine.

1462511314

Reposted by Carol

Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Painting by John Moore ‘Quitting Time’ 2015. Oil on linen. 127 x 106.68 cm.

412516

Reposted by Carol

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

next time you hear someone “throws like a girl” this is what you should assume they mean

883316655

Reposted by Carol

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Print by contemporary Polish artist Laura Makabresku #WomensArt

Print feating a lone distant figure in a golden field under a dark sky and full moon

51615242

Reposted by Carol

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Sabu-chan, a larger than average cat, promotes the annual cat festival in Yushima, Tokyo.

A tuxedo cat mascot with a white headband and red bow tie stands on the street in front of a house.

161305359

Reposted by Carol

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Reading in a Landscape,1896 by Finnish painter Ada Thilen #WomensArt #Sunday

Painting of a white woman sitting amongst flowers on a forest floor reading a book amongst birch trees, dressed in dark clothing

2872144

Reposted by Carol

Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

“Hang on to your hope.” E. B. White in 1973.

7483128

Reposted by Carol

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic.

The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.

A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please.

You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.

14690151573

Reposted by Carol

kelly @kickinson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

9981032101

Reposted by Carol

old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 09/03/2026

apples, painted by mary daisy arnold

0585

Reposted by Carol

Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The reality is that studios can spend the next 10 years throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into AI-produced, algorithm-driven "content" and yet they'll never produce a work even a fraction as emotionally evocative as a 90 second Volkswagen ad from 1999 youtu.be/_-kqUkZnDcM?...

youtu.be

Volkswagen "Pink Moon"

YouTube video by Alan Pafenbach

4162389

Reposted by Carol

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

Today should be your 38th birthday..
When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

466211965297

Reposted by Carol

ianarchie.bsky.social @ianarchie.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Apple Blossom In Shadow Isleworth: watercolour and pencil (will be in my exhibition Seasons In Suburbia at Moore Gwyn Fine Art from March the 3rd)

09716

Reposted by Carol

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Imagine being like this. Maybe we actually were all once like this. Be more like this guy!

Dear Mr Kirkdale bookshop keeper,
It's me, the boy who asked to put the "One Piece" book on hold.
How's your day been so far?
Well for me, I'm getting thro teeth out at the dentist, not because their rotten but because I need to braces (I cind of scared).
Due to the above, I will not be able to buy the book so please, please, please can you keep the book for one more day.
From the boy, Jacob is my name.

p.s. plase, please, please rec.

31622111

Reposted by Carol

public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

still unclear to me how the species made it this far

2063358703

Reposted by Carol

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I’m having a hard time thinking of an interview between two human beings I enjoyed more than tonight’s interview of the great Ian McKellen by the great Stephen Colbert. Every moment of it was a pleasure that I highly recommend… but then came the most REMARKABLE ending that you really HAVE to watch.

youtube.com

"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

23539173

Reposted by Carol

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1
More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].

So says the official responsible for overseeing the TPS program. And one of those (her word) “damn” countries is Haiti. Relevant here, three days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti’s TPS designation as of February 3, 2026. See 90
Fed. Reg. 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) (Termination).

Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.” They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) ¶ 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. ¶ 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. ¶ 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. ¶ 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. ¶ 5. They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law.

Plaintiffs seek to stay the Secretary’s decision under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending the outcome of this litigation. See Dkt. 81 (§ 705 Mot.). To decide their motion, the Court considers first whether it has jurisdiction. It does. See Part II. It then considers: whether Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; whether they will be irreparably harmed absent a stay; and whether a merged balance of the equities and public interest analysis favors a stay. See Part III. Each element favors Plaintiffs. See Parts IV, V, and VI.

Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely. Secretary Noem

has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up,
twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite
country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of
suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified
Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that
she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8
U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all.
See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here
illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section
IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she
ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id.
The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary
unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes,
the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary,
Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to
replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A.
As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS
holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]

Dkt. 100 (§ 705 Reply) at 20–21.4 “Do not travel to Haiti for any reason” does not exactly
scream, as Secretary Noem concluded, suitable for return. And so, the Government studiously
does not argue that Plaintiffs will suffer no harm if removed to Haiti. Instead, it argues Plaintiffs
will not certainly suffer irreparable harm because DHS might not remove them. But this fails to
take Secretary Noem at her word: “WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.” See Section
IV.B.2.b.
Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not
cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains
unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959
lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our
economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into
the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn
the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things—in the public interest is not one of
them.
For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion for a Stay Under
5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.

14144551732

Reposted by Carol

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

'January Thaw' by contemporary US printmaker Jeanne Amato #WomensArt

Print featuring a snowy woodland as snow melts forming a puddle of water reflecting trees and sky

271096

Reposted by Carol

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

1962468912666

Reposted by Carol

donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I’m conducting a 30 year experiment to see what happens if you never get a good night’s sleep

321385244

Reposted by Carol

old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 20/01/2026

concord art show, kiamesha lake, new york, 1977

1586

Reposted by Carol

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Emilie Flöge (1874-1952) was an innovative Art Nouveau Austrian fashion designer who aimed to reform dress designs for women. Though (typically) not noted widely by history, she influenced the work of her companion, the artist Klimt and featured in his work #WomensArt

8957182

Reposted by Carol

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

5452869410165

Reposted by Carol

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 11/01/2026

We’ll have dancing afterward.

1050675

Reposted by Carol

Brian Coulter @philabcoulter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

228153693616

Reposted by Carol

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

122130434237