Five Owls. Dora de Larios, 1933-2018. Glazed ceramic.
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If you thought that war in Ukraine is not your problem - russia specifically said they are at war with you. You may think it doesn't concern you, but russia will make it your problem. Now they have their hands full in Ukraine, but you better believe that if they could they would, quoting Lukashenko, "reach the English Channel". And that's not even mentioning the propaganda and hybrid information war they're waging against you every single day.
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I absolutely adore the ongoing history of the Douglas DC-3, a design born in the early 30’s as the DC-2 passenger plane
Which showed so much potential it was improved into the current DC-3 version just a few years later
Then the US Army Air Corps took notice of the plane, equally liked it, and turned it into quite the formidable military transport, eventually helping win WW2
But her military carrier didn’t end there, as the airframe proved rugged and reliable enough to be turned into a gunship barely 20 years after WW2
Meanwhile enjoying massive success in the post-war civilian market, with so many made they basically became a mainstay of airports all over the world, even somehow turning into a floatplane in the process.
But as the years went on, the type proved to be virtually irreplaceable, so rather than retiring it, many operators opted to upgrade it, ending with a full modernization effort that basically turned the plane into a turboprop
Which was also reflected in its earlier military form, now deadlier than ever
And while some failed yet interesting attempts where made along the way to give the plane other uses, like this long-range three-engine variant
The success of the original design has ensured we will keep seeing them in the skies above long after it turns 100 years, arguably the most remarkable aircraft design of the XX century.
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This isn’t and has never been about abortion. It is about women’s rights.
And the ugly truth? They never wanted us to have them.
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South Dakota-class Battleship USS Indiana entering San Francisco bay, 1945.
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Never forget that the Republicans used the covid pandemic to use eugenics to kill off hundreds of thousands of chronically ill and disabled people by insisting we should use "herd immunity" as our response and went on about how it was okay because "most people won't die" leaving out the fact that many of those who died were chronically ill and disabled. They didn't care about the lives of the chronically ill and disabled if it meant they preserved wealth for millionaires.
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