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the new flag of Minnesota, an eight-pointed star in a dark blue field, with a lighter blue field pointed towards it. A decorative element is placed in the center of the star. Bold text in the center of the image states: Look to the North. The General Strike of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Friday Jan. 23rd, 2026. Decorative little eyes rest in the center of the capital o letters, looking up at the star.
A room running with fresh water and blooming with an orderly multitude of impossible shapes and spores. In the middle, at a small table adorned with light and writing instruments, a red-haired woman slumps forward, her head in her crossed arms. A small strange squirrel-sized creature stands by her hidden face.
Hand drawn frame of animation from the movie Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. A woman with red hair faces the viewer with arms outstretched. She wears a pink dress with a crested symbol on her chest. A strange creature shelters at her neck, some squirrel-shaped thing with bright green eyes. Her face is set in a solemn gaze. Her hands have lifted away from the strap of her wind-speeder.
Monarch chrysalis with visible wing patterns attached to weathered metal pole. Out of focus green trees and plants shine in the sun beyond the chrysalis.
photo of a beautiful pastel sunset. pine trees grow in the foreground. boxes of text float in the sky, saying be kind to yourself, you are doing the work of generations
A photo of billowing clouds in a clear blue sky. Green trees lean across the frame in the foreground. Three lines of text are superimposed on the picture. Number one in black says nature's health is people's health. Number two in white says we are natural things who need access to nature. Number three in red says all things that are in nature change.
Official Topatoco Packing Slip, with three stickers of a burning sword in trans colors, words on each sticker saying OUR JOY IS A SWORD. in the custom field of the packing slip, there is a long string of text, which says: there will come a day again where we may rest in the light of the setting sun, after our banner has been raised over fields of flowers in the radiance of the rainbow on the blue sky: but now the doing needs done. let us see to it. An employee has embellished the end of the note with a little ink-drawn heart.
Photos of a handwritten journal. It begins: "I dismounted, seated myself on an eminence, and began to mark with my pencil, making a dot with everything that passed. I rose, and, counting the dots then put down, found that 163 had been made in twenty-one minutes. I traveled on, and still met more the farther I proceeded. The air was literally filled with Pigeons; the light of noon-day was obscured as by an eclipse; the dung fell in spots, not unlike melting flakes of snow. The continued buzz of wings had a tendency to lull my senses to repose." The latter half of the page has a line drawing of a bird with a small beak, swooping as if in flight. At the top of the second page, a small illustration shows a figure in the foreground, clutching a journal and their hat as great columns of birds swoop by in a violent rush, pinwheeling into the lone figure of a hawk. The shapes blot out the horizon. "... I cannot describe to you the extreme beauty of their aerial evolutions, when a hawk chanced to press upon the flock. At once, like a torrent, and with a noise like thunder, they rushed into a compact mass, pressing upon each other towards the center. They mounted perpendicularly so as to resemble a vast column, and, when high, resembled the coils of a gigantic serpent ... — J.J. Audubon 1835 Ornithological Biography, or, an Account of the Habit of the Birds of the United States of America"
Text on screenshot of linked article's author section. Chiara Longoni is an associate professor of marketing at Bocconi University in Milan. Follow her on Twitter @longoni_chiara. Gil Appel is an assistant professor of marketing at the George Washington University School of Business. Stephanie M. Tully is associate professor of marketing at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Read more on AI and machine learning or related topics Sales and marketing and Managing employees
Mother Mary Magdalene stares out at the viewer, half-obscured by a wall of light. She has pulled back her blue shawl, revealing her blood-red shirt. A monarch butterfly rests where her heart would be. She is adorned with a graffiti crown, dollar signs stenciled onto the wall around her. In the darkness beyond the wall she is painted on, white light streaks through the frame like a passing ghost.
an unidentified jawbone among dirt and leaf litter
image of old paper sign in bold red and black text clipped to a metal shelf. the sign reads; "Don't be turned away... buy your tickets now. The sensational stage show RUSSIAN HORRORS BEHIND IRON CURTAIN. Learn what to expect if Russia wins". Below the sign is a folded piece of fabric emblazoned with the US flag atop a plastic-shrouded uniform. A sign on the uniform says Vintage Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Jacket with Silver Bullion Bosun Mate Arm Patch and 6-Four Year Gold Bullion Service Stripes. The price is marked $125.
map of the gulf of mexico. The original text of the meme says: "If we can call a body of water a new name, I feel like we can all call trans people by their name and pronouns too." The edited text on top of the original meme says "If we can call a body of water by a new name, I feel like we have not yet come to understand the wounds our country's appetite for colonialism has left upon the world, and no appeal to logic will turn the machine of hatred from its violent desires. Do not seek permission from those who would restrain you."
An image with text layered on top of a photo of overgrown weeds in a backyard. The underlaying text says "Want to stop the insect decline? Don't do anything." A red X is on top of it, with words in bright yellow saying PLANT NATIVE. The following text says Who are your leafy neighbors? Learn what your weeds are and understand what they do. Nature is not some higher power. We are responsible for how the world around us is treated.
small pocket-sized Christian booklet titled "Sign of the Times", with the subtitle There's Not Another You. The image on the front cover is a hiker looking down at a blue lake in the mountains.
plastic figurine of Sonic the Hedgehog character laying face down on concrete
Photo of a crowd in front of a four-story mural on Delmar Loop in St. Louis, Missouri. The crowd is facing the left. A Metro bus is on the background. A green and yellow mural of a Black girl holding a bird says in multicolored letters; A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. An open cage sits under it.
tropical florida lake with a big black bird in the foreground, mouth open
image of four people's boots standing around a raised graffiti tag in yellow on a concrete sidewalk