Maria Cecilia

Obsessive reader, a sarcastic woman who loves music, art, wine and Monty Python, slightly unhinged when it comes to Twilight. Sorry.

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

My latest books cartoon for @GuardianBooks
Many more here: https://t.co/LRRw29BKvG

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Olga Kvasha, contemporary Ukranian painter #WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'The Stone Henge' by Anna Dillon, UK landscape painter #WomensArt

[Maria Cecilia @MeanieMary]

Happy birthday to Bucky Barnes, bane of my existence, and thank you to Sebastian Stan for bringing the character to life! #HappyBirthdayBuckyBarnes

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Doris Lessing was 14 when she dropped out of school and 88 when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her abiding wisdom on how to read a book and how to read the world https://t.co/LlU7CVEqUQ

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell

[Ailish Sinclair @AilishSinclair]

It’s bad luck to pick wild daffodils in Scotland. The reason? Fairies might be sleeping in them. Scottish fairies do tend to be quite fierce beasties with a habit of spiriting people off to Elfhame. So, it’s probably not a good idea to wake them.

#FolkloreSunday #StDavidsDay

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

We’ve been warning for years that this is where AI was leading: mass surveillance, automated bombings, the imprisonment of freethinkers. It’s urgent that we collectively boycott OpenAI and ChatGPT. They are building the engines of our oppression.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Crocus & Daffodils' by UK contemporary painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
#spring #StDavidsDay

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Birds of a feather' by contemporary UK artist Dee Nickerson who explores themes of living in the countryside #womensart #BirdArtWeek

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

Roman emperor Nero built an immense palace for himself called the "Golden House" with walls covered in gold leaf & a colossal 100-foot statue of himself; so loathed was Nero that, after his death, his palace was dismantled & much of it filled with earth to eradicate the ugly memory of the emperor.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Highly recommend studying a dead language, perusing obscure dialect dictionaries, seeking out books & films that test your attention span, reading folklore & poetry from before you were born. You need to actively cultivate curiosity in a world that’s trying to make you dumb.

[David Hayward | Artist @nakedpastor]

This was my first explicitly trans cartoon I created many years ago. And I'm very proud of it. I have prints of this available with I hope all possible pronoun variations. It's called "Lost Transgender Lamb - Choose Your Pronouns Print". Trans rights are human rights!

[Ailish Sinclair @AilishSinclair]

Down by the river for the daily snowdrop! Aden Park, Aberdeenshire. #FlowersOnX

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

Celtic "Tree of Life" garden gate at the entrance of the Inverewe Garden in Poolewe, Scotland.

[Sammy 🇵🇸 @JackyWackyDA]

I believe in Harvey Dent 🪙

[Star Wars Holocron @sw_holocron]

Don’t think there’s been a more relevant and important piece of contemporary media this century than Andor

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

dont use ai to write your books, you coward. write the good old fashioned way with a quill pen in the attic of a rotting gothic mansion with a few ghosts peering over your shoulder while your relatives downstairs call you a recluse and try to poison your tea

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

We have to be clear about what the Trump Administration is doing: They are taking basic American virtues and freedoms — the ability to speak truth to power and freely — and turning them into crimes. We must see through this.

[David Bowie Official @DavidBowieReal]

David Bowie: January 8th 1947 - January 10th 2016

(Image by Masashi Kuwamoto, 1980)

#BowieForever