Andrea Hacker

Untitled, 1969 #rothko #minimalism

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

"Leave big tech behind"...on the front of the Graun, even. Are things finally shifting? #ai #socialmedia #google #enshittification www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Waterloo Bridge, Hazy Sunshine - 1903
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📢 New #DiamondOA event series by SeDOA
Real examples, lessons learned, and discussion on implementing Diamond OA in practice.

🔎 First session 5 March 2026 | 14:00–15:00 CET
Diamond OA with Janeway at @tuwien.at
More details & registration: eveeno.com/139459322

#OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing

This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!

Bees 🐝

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Slept until 9:30 (unheard of), had lebkuchen, cookies, and a mince pie for breakfast and am now on a serious sugar high. Oh and it is noon, apparently Friday (wot?), I am still in my jamies and What's Up Doc just started on TV. Am I doing this right? #joinin #christmas2025 #boxingday

Indy?

The Road to Giverny - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10096

This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

🍻 oh and Die Hard?

#joinin #christmaseve - listening to #carolsfromkings ("it's wot old people watch," says himself, so yeah) - the Brits are so good at at the old fashioned (traditions).

A wee dram of Red Breast Irish whiskey against a christmas tree

Right. You know what, Ima join you bc it is Xmas and I am happy to share a moment! Here is to light and friendship. Cheers!

Lol cheers Martin (she typed looking at her glass of water bc age) oh and seriously, what on earth are you drinking? It looks a bit like a dishwashing tab in jelly 🤣

Merry Christmas 🤶🎄👼❄️

Some folks dont open Christmas mails I send them...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Born this day in 1884, on Neskuchnoye estate in Ukraine, the marvelous painter Zinaida Serebriakova. After my time, but worth making an exception! Here by herself at the mirror in 1909.

Haystacks at Giverny, the Evening Sun - 1888/1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10313

Riding with Death

Riding with Death, 1988
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5311

OJC are hiring and you could be a part of the growth of Diamond Open Access publishing!

Red and Brown, 1957 #colorfieldpainting #americanart

Tür in der Stabi Hamburg

Hinter jeder Tür der Stabi verbirgt sich im #StabiHHAdvent​skalender ein digitalisierter Schatz. Tür 1 kann heute im Blog geöffnet werden: blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de?p=41352

There were masses of people there for days, weeks even - not behind this demonstration but in the queue to get in...

Das erste Feuerzeug

Guten Morgen,
Ihr Lieben! 👋😘🍀
Ein gemütliches,
stressarmes Wochenende
wünsche ich Euch.

Photo featuring two sculptures of horses created with driftwood, side view facing each other on a beach in shallow water with reflections in blue sand under a pale blue sky

Heather Jansch, British sculptor who was known for creating life-sized sculptures of horses from driftwood #womensart

Abundance of fruit, plus monkeys, squirrel, & guinea pigs. All the animals are alive because it's Jan van Kessel II's pantry, and today is his day.

The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Jette - 1887
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14189