now seeking diversion
@martinesumner2025.bsky.social
I prefer 📚 & source materials to memes
I’m bewildered by some on the.Left WHILE we’re living a climate 🌎 crisis AND the Far.right gains ascension
More HATE solves NOTHING…
(Just cuz I don’t follow you back does NOT mean i don’t ✅ in
-suffering from TMI‼️)
I’m bewildered by some on the.Left WHILE we’re living a climate 🌎 crisis AND the Far.right gains ascension
More HATE solves NOTHING…
(Just cuz I don’t follow you back does NOT mean i don’t ✅ in
-suffering from TMI‼️)
🗺️ MAP
Roads of the Roman Empire
#archaeology ⚱️
“new and far more comprehensive”
- NYT /GiftLink
#archeology #history www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...
Roads of the Roman Empire
#archaeology ⚱️
“new and far more comprehensive”
- NYT /GiftLink
#archeology #history www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...
Gift link: A new and far more comprehensive archaeological effort to map the Roman Empire's road networks! I would've killed for this while I was doing my doctoral dissertation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...
All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM
🗺️ MAP
Roads of the Roman Empire
#archaeology ⚱️
“new and far more comprehensive”
- NYT /GiftLink
#archeology #history www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...
Roads of the Roman Empire
#archaeology ⚱️
“new and far more comprehensive”
- NYT /GiftLink
#archeology #history www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...
🫎 Moose Crossing 🫎
December 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
🫎 Moose Crossing 🫎
A banner week for tyrants, racists, and dummies (or banner decade, really)
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
🎄 #Xmas #Holidays 🎁
Just opt OUT of
Materialist Consumerism
Fill a stocking with well thought out items*
& make donations to charities instead
* need not be expensive - more like “I’m paying attention”
“Things I know make you happy”
#shopping #gifts #giftListS #debt #Christmas
Just opt OUT of
Materialist Consumerism
Fill a stocking with well thought out items*
& make donations to charities instead
* need not be expensive - more like “I’m paying attention”
“Things I know make you happy”
#shopping #gifts #giftListS #debt #Christmas
December 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
🎄 #Xmas #Holidays 🎁
Just opt OUT of
Materialist Consumerism
Fill a stocking with well thought out items*
& make donations to charities instead
* need not be expensive - more like “I’m paying attention”
“Things I know make you happy”
#shopping #gifts #giftListS #debt #Christmas
Just opt OUT of
Materialist Consumerism
Fill a stocking with well thought out items*
& make donations to charities instead
* need not be expensive - more like “I’m paying attention”
“Things I know make you happy”
#shopping #gifts #giftListS #debt #Christmas
Watch modern glassmakers use ancient techniques to recreate Roman mould-blown glass objects
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaOD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaOD...
Roman Mold-Blown Glass
YouTube video by Corning Museum of Glass
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
#Architecture
Frank Gehry
- BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...
- LA Times www.latimes.com/entertainmen... #FrankGehry
Frank Gehry
- BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...
- LA Times www.latimes.com/entertainmen... #FrankGehry
Frank Gehry's most iconic work - in pictures
As one of architecture's most provocative and creative forces, Frank Gehry was behind intriguing buildings the world over.
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
#Architecture
Frank Gehry
- BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...
- LA Times www.latimes.com/entertainmen... #FrankGehry
Frank Gehry
- BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...
- LA Times www.latimes.com/entertainmen... #FrankGehry
🍽️ Menu Bloopers
December 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🍽️ Menu Bloopers
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🤶🏼 XMAS🎄 #CATs 🐱
Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🤶🏼 XMAS🎄 #CATs 🐱
Over 300 rabbis, Jewish leaders call for removal of UN official who denied October 7 rapes https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-300-rabbis-jewish-leaders-call-for-removal-of-un-official-who-denied-october-7-rapes/
Over 300 rabbis, Jewish leaders call for removal of UN official who denied October 7 rapes
Letter expresses 'horror and outrage' at social media post by Reem Alsalem, UN rapporteur on violence against women and girls, is sent to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
www.timesofisrael.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🖼️ #Art
Orange Leaves in Fog
#ArtAdventCalendar #Day1
#Sweetgum #Leaves outside my window on a foggy day in Jan 2025.
#PNW #Photography
#ArtAdventCalendar #Day1
#Sweetgum #Leaves outside my window on a foggy day in Jan 2025.
#PNW #Photography
December 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
🖼️ #Art
🖼️ #Art
'Morning Star' by contemporary Polish artist Karina Smigla-Bobinski. An installation of 200 arrows. #WomensArt
December 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🖼️ #Art
🖼️ #ART
Raxhel Wright, artist who works with textiles, free machine embroidery over cut and pieced fabrics #WomensArt
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 AM
🖼️ #ART
🗿Easter Island ⚱️
(The term “aku-aku” translates to “spirit” or “guardian”)
📕 www.ebsco.com/research-sta... TY for this gift article!
(The term “aku-aku” translates to “spirit” or “guardian”)
📕 www.ebsco.com/research-sta... TY for this gift article!
December 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
🗿Easter Island ⚱️
(The term “aku-aku” translates to “spirit” or “guardian”)
📕 www.ebsco.com/research-sta... TY for this gift article!
(The term “aku-aku” translates to “spirit” or “guardian”)
📕 www.ebsco.com/research-sta... TY for this gift article!
🖼️ #Art
"Tea for One," n.d.
Watercolor batik (watercolor and wax on special rice papers)
By Sarah L. Luginbill (American artist, b.1952).
#art #painting #illustration
Watercolor batik (watercolor and wax on special rice papers)
By Sarah L. Luginbill (American artist, b.1952).
#art #painting #illustration
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🖼️ #Art
🔭 #Astronomy 2025 Dec
Oh my stars!! LOOK UP! ⭐️ December's night sky is nothing to sneeze at. . . from the Full Cold Supermoon on December 4 to the Ursid Meteor Shower on the Winter Solstice, the dark skies next month are really showing off! Visit Almanac.com/Night-Sky-December
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
🔭 #Astronomy 2025 Dec
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🇺🇸 True MAGA
The only kind of bigot that will ever make America great.
#ShareGreatNotHate
#ShareGreatNotHate
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🇺🇸 True MAGA
#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #BambergSymphony 2021
🎼 Prayer for Ukraine (1937)
Valentin Silvestrov:
Bamberg Symphony
This orchestra is composed of musicians from 20 nations including 🇺🇦 & 🇷🇺 “It is our mission…to offer a symphonic symbol of solidarity in these difficult times & to convey our message in support of peace” youtu.be/ZYUCv0vtbh4 #MusicSky
Valentin Silvestrov:
Bamberg Symphony
This orchestra is composed of musicians from 20 nations including 🇺🇦 & 🇷🇺 “It is our mission…to offer a symphonic symbol of solidarity in these difficult times & to convey our message in support of peace” youtu.be/ZYUCv0vtbh4 #MusicSky
Bamberg Symphony — Prayer for Ukraine (Valentin Silvestrov, *1937)
YouTube video by Bamberger Symphoniker
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 AM
#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #BambergSymphony 2021
🐶 Dogs 😆
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🐶 Dogs 😆
🐱 Cats 😆
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🐱 Cats 😆
📕 Crime Beat - A Decade of Covering Cops & Killers
by #MichaelConnelly before he was a novelist 2004
Rating - would keep if had more shelf space www.michaelconnelly.com/writing/crim... #books #bookSky #TrueCrime
by #MichaelConnelly before he was a novelist 2004
Rating - would keep if had more shelf space www.michaelconnelly.com/writing/crim... #books #bookSky #TrueCrime
Crime Beat by Michael Connelly
Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers by Michael Connelly. Non -fiction.
www.michaelconnelly.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
📕 Crime Beat - A Decade of Covering Cops & Killers
by #MichaelConnelly before he was a novelist 2004
Rating - would keep if had more shelf space www.michaelconnelly.com/writing/crim... #books #bookSky #TrueCrime
by #MichaelConnelly before he was a novelist 2004
Rating - would keep if had more shelf space www.michaelconnelly.com/writing/crim... #books #bookSky #TrueCrime
All things are possible when people work together
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
All things are possible when people work together