Beatrice Murch

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Program Manager of @internetarchive.eu – opinions strictly my own. Photographer, Wife, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Cat Servant, Coffee Lover, Immigrant, Traveler, Geek, Participant & Hope Junkie. 🇺🇸&🇬🇧 🥰💍🇦🇷&🇪🇸 🏠 🇳🇱

A woman stands in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Grey t-shirt with HRT in a box on the front of the shirt.
A field full of yellow sunflowers. The sky is covered in grey-blue cloud cover.
Shortbread just out of the oven in a 9x13 inch glass pan in baking paper.
Three women sit at a red couch for a discussion about book banning in the US and how it could affect the Netherlands. Q&A with Leila Green Little & Wilma van Wezenbeek nationale bibliotheek
A black and white tuxedo cat goes to town on a catnip plant in the garden.
Messi after scoring a goal against Austria looks to the sky and points his index fingers up.
Six pairs of very colorful leather shoes for sale in two rows of three boxes each.
View of sheet lightning in the sky from inside a house looking outside of large windows.
A woman holds up a sketch of a woman wearing glasses.
Eight people in a group look at the camera. There are three women, four men and one blond child.
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11 empanadas on a circular wooden platter with a bottle of Malbec behind.
A swan at the edge of a natural canal.
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Green trees and fields next to train tracks with yellow rapeseed flowers in the distance.
View of Japanese garden in MaximaPark Utrecht with a pagoda and beautiful blue sky
Screenshot of a webpage from 2001 from anil dash with short posts
Two people walking “My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.”
Arash Reisinezhad @arashreisi “Firing top U.S. generals is not routine; rather it signals resistance inside the military to a ground invasion of Iran. When seasoned commanders are sidelined, it suggests the push for escalation is political, not strategic. History is clear: Ignore the counsel of experienced generals, and failure may follow!”
Three people at a table making protest signs
A meme of a woman serving mashed potatoes to a man eating dinner. He is obviously Trump with his back to the viewer. Text above says "No you can’t have Greenland. You haven’t finished your Venezuela yet".
Two shadows of people walking along an asphalt footpath in a park next to a canal of water.
The steep and long escalator going up at Tottenham Court Road tube station.
Red Eurostar train (formerly Thalys) pulling into the platform at Amsterdam Centraal.
Green chalk board with writing: “Democracy is not a spectator sport”
Screenshot: While our hypothetical scenario picked a different city and a slightly different sequence of events, the conclusions we reached about the possibility of green-on-green violence are directly applicable to the current situation. First, none of the participants – many of them senior former military and government officials – considered the scenario unrealistic, especially after the supreme court’s decision in Trump v United States, which granted the president criminal immunity for official acts.
A tuxedo cat rests on top of pillows on a couch. Sitting in direct winter sunlight.
A child (face blurred) plays OldSkool Sonic at the Video Game Museum in a room fashioned to be a vintage living room with a red couch and two old big box TV 📺 sets
Netherlands Walkout *Free America * Tuesday January 20 @ 12 pm. Join us all across the Netherlands in solidarity with Women’s March. tinyurl.com/FreeAmericaWalkoutNL
Screenshot of a house for sale on Funda.nl
A middle aged woman in a thick coat sits on a wooden sleigh and goes down a slight hill at a playground covered in icy snow.
Young boy walking in the snow at night
NS yellow and blue train pulling into the platform at Rotterdam Central Station.
Countryside covered in snow with the weak sunlight shining over the field as seen through the train window.
People waiting in line to board the Eurostar
Train schedule at Gare du Nord showing a 30 min delay to the NL.
Dawn over Marseilles France.
Top of the train station “Valencia del Nord”.
Flamingo standing on one leg reflected in the water.
Screenshot of Bsky app with “Friends” and “Internet Archives” and “Morning Walk” as the first feeds to see.
Black and white tuxedo cat sitting on the bar stool.
A lake reflects the clouds above. The lake is surrounded by dry countryside with short trees and bushes.
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas on a TV screen
Canal with ice in the shade. The other side is bathed in weak winter light.
Living room ready for photos for selling
A pamphlet by "Denk vooruit" sent to every household in the Netherlands. "Bereid je voor op een noodsituatie" (Prepare for an emergency)
Two rows of poplar trees vanish into the thick morning mist.
View of rooftops lightly dusted with snow. A peace now flag flies over the street.
Chained books in a church. Bach's Bible Facsimile of the three-volume Calov Bible from the book collection of Johann Sebastian Bach - Walburgis Church|Zutphen
A young boy stands at a kitchen island making his sandwich
Early morning light in a park with lard Swam paddle boats in a canal with two ducks on the grass in the foreground.
Small green fern growing in a white wall
Cappuccino in a brown cup and saucer and a laptop in the background
WOMEN OF AFROFUTURISM Afrofuturism; an artistic and sociopolitical liberation movement, examines the past, questions the present, and reimagines the futures of Black people. The term was first coined in the 1993 essay "Black to the Future by writer Mark Dery. Afrofuturism explores the Black experience through a combination of science fiction, magical realism, mythology, history, and technology in genres ranging from literature and music to fashion, film arts. Afrofuturism may incorporate a range of components-from outer space to the natural world and popular culture. Long before the term Afrofuturism existed, visionary Black women served as spearheads of the movement. Katherine Johnson and other Black female computers contributed to grendbreaking projects at NASA that helped launch rockets and'astronauts into space in the 1960s. Nichelle Nichols appeared on the television series Star Trek in 1966—one of the first substantial roles for a Black woman on television. Two decades later, Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to join NASA's astronaut training program before traveling to space in 1992. Speculative fiction, or fiction that departs from realism, such as science fiction, fantasy, and superhero narratives, has long *allowed people to explore alternative realities. Octavia E. Butler, the first nationally recognized African American woman science fiction writer, published her novel Patternmaster in 1976. Butler paved the way for a host of Black women speculative fiction writers working today, such as N.K. Jemisin, who also penned the Far Sector comic starring the superhero Sojourner "Jo" Mullein. Ytasha L. Womack wrote what remains a quintessential primer on Afrofutufism in 2013, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture. For decades, Black musicians have infused Afrofuturist themes into their music. Immensely influential, experimental jazz musician Sun Ra pioneered the genre through his music, persona, album cover artwork, and fut…
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We only need one monarch and it’s a butterfly
Middle section of an airplane with two rows of empty seats.
Acknowledgement and Confirmation screen from filling in Advanced Passenger Information with a checkbox stating: "I understand that the U.S. Government requires me to provide my contact information and that failure to provide complete and accurate information may result in criminal penalties."
Red leaves on the brick ground with two black boots