Oh my. This is SO TOUCHING. Beautiful, poignant and wonderful. This is Britain’s at its best and I want more of it. Not the incessant Faragist cruelty and stupidity. More of this.
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Oh my. This is SO TOUCHING. Beautiful, poignant and wonderful. This is Britain’s at its best and I want more of it. Not the incessant Faragist cruelty and stupidity. More of this.
A small #acrylic #portrait and a similar one in #graphite
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
This one was quite fun and i was a bit lacksadasical (actually, i haven’t yet managed to acquire any discipline when painting). Weird how when you are having fun the result conveys it. #oilpainting
Starmer is simply not the man to respond to this dangerous moment in history. Labour must get rid of him.
🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
#TaxTheRich #Vermögensteuer
We must face the fact that the United States is a country that means us harm," said Pelle Dragsted, a member of the Danish parliament
The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Saw a video about the chinese artist Leng Jun today. I liked this scene in which he is painting with great concentration and is observed by an interested group. I tried to paint it in greyscale as an exercise.
Fast free fun with digital art today.
Military occupation of areas loyal to the political opposition is what you see in a civil war, kids.
Global Sumud Flotilla globalsumudflotilla.org
Fin de siecle. End of the American age.
"In recent months, Paris has spent €9.6m unsealing its town hall forecourt & simply planted a new urban forest The result looks so beautiful." From the upcoming documentary "Cycling Cities" by Ingwar Perowanowitsch. #GoodMorning, everyone. Where there's a will, there's a way.
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What if you carry a sign reading „should i support palestine action?“ Would that be terrorism?
Superhuman
What if you carry a sign saying „Do i support Palestine Action?“
We need to promote the mathematical theory developed by the emperor from Star Wars #supportPalpatineAxiom
It's important to preserve Rome's historic sites too. #supportPalatineAction
It’s important that dental health treatment addresses the roof of the mouth as well as gums and teeth, with more resources targeted at West London. Which is why I’m proud to #SupportPalateTimeActon
Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play. ‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.’
A working class hero is something we need.
The United States is not a signatory to the ICC because George W. Bush was a war criminal.
Piece Of Tremendously Unbearable Shite
Yes it reflects „the sayings of the tribe“, but also the accumulated knowledge of the elders.
My first oil painting on non-tiny canvas. Its that kind of summer. One daughter on the Atlantic coast in France, the other on the Tuscan coast.
In essence, then, a „Kur“ really. Maybe available on prescription?
Always liked the idea of wearing a shortened pencil behind my ear, but never had a reason to justify it. Until now! Never give up on your dreams.
There is no time to waste! Let’s break it down! Its the end of the Trump presidency! Before i do, please like, subscribe, comment, get my newsletter, buy the merch.
I prefer to find #portrait subjects in the unpredictable dynamism of #TikTok videos rather than static #Pinterest or #Pexels or #Unsplash. This one is of Kathrin Wirth who writes and recites her own poems (in German). www.tiktok.com/@kathrin_wir...
Newtown has a similar issue
Infuriating inexplicable insomnia indeed
As we watch Keir Starmer and his team expand NHS privatisation, please remember that he was elected to become Labour leader saying specifically that he would remove NHS private outsourcing. He then quietly dropped this pledge in Summer 2022. This isn’t OK 🚨
Letter of the day (in the Times)
PM hesitant to recognise State until it's safe to do it Nation less hesitant to recognise absolute state of PM
Summer. I like the motif. May try to paint it without messing up.
Very impressed with the folks who got arrested in London yesterday. Apparently they and the police were joking with each other during the arrest process because it was so absurd. Bravery and commitment will ensure this absurdity will end.
I regret to inform you that Starmer’s been tweeting dehumanising videos of migrants again. These videos have been shown to increase support for Reform, by increasing salience of migration. He has to go.
Its the heat
Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home of Uttoxeter CC in Staffordshire
Not a doctor. Not a scientist. A conspiracy theory spouting ghoul.
Its mammoth, extraordinary.
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Das für medizinische Diagnosen optimierte KI-Modell halluziniert offenbar – mit potenziell gravierenden Folgen.
Yeah but a catastrophic war was required…
This is not an oil painting by a master. Its a reflection on our vehicle.
If i try to access BlueSky when it finds no internet, then i am prompted to login
#pizzica #pastels #salento Stefania della Bona. Che bello ballare la pizzica.
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
Eye for beauty on the younger side.
Less than 230,000 people signed up to Farage’s party Reform UK - media won’t shut the fuck up about it. Over 600,000 people signed up to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party - absolute crickets from the media. You will never convince me the media isn’t complicit in the rise of the far right
By supporting the expansion of Heathrow Airport and spreading outright lies about decarbonising flying, Labour has again capitulated to lobbyists. This is its defining characteristic: doing whatever powerful lobbyists ask, regardless of the social, environmental and even political costs.
Online drawing tutorials are like: proportions, perspective, shadows, oooh precision is difficult. Online painting tutorials are like mix your warms and cools, slap it on quickly in big masses with big brushes, forget the detail, and stand back, you‘ll probably be alright.
"In a UK-first, a genetically unique juniper forest at Trees for Life’s Dundreggan rewilding estate in the Scottish Highlands has been awarded a special European designation to protect and enhance its globally significant diversity." treesforlife.org.uk/unique-highl...
Painting with opaque media is great. You get to paint over your mistakes. Must je what absolution for one‘s sins feels like. The cover-up not always worse than the crime.
I thought this likely, but wouldn’t virginia roberts have known and recounted this?
Similar: seeing license plates of UK cars in Germany with the awful absence of the eu flag within it, but a bold „UK“ sticker somewhere as if Britannia rules the fucking waves.
#pizzica #charcoal
Roulette could also be fun.
The UK will formally recognise the state of Palestine this September as a result of the “increasingly intolerable” situation on the ground in Gaza, unless Israel abides by a ceasefire and commits to a two-state solution in the Middle East. #Palestine #UK
Magnificent
Art practice connects one inevitably with reflections about being human: e.g. how we as observers power interpretation to simple marks, why the most important thing in art (IMHO) is intention (which AI can never have), the role art has played through history. Such thinking broadens the day.
My second bimonthly self-report on my drawing progress is positive. I have gained a lot of control and confidence. Übung macht den Meister. Have focussed on portraits and started painting. Here are a few pics..
Sadly, yes. Arsenal thug.
Federal policy makers, especially Dems, have a lot to learn from Texas if you want to rapidly expand clean energy. Even a tech-neutral approach to energy infrastructure expansion will result in an overwhelming build out of clean tech because it's faster and cheaper than fossil fuels.
Still, I for one am glad we’ve probably robbed future generations of a transformation to our economic geography. Well worth it largely through govt incompetence, saving some unremarkable wildlife and giving very, moneyed, very propertied people endless power to alter the route unnecessarily.
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
The song always transfixes me
I love the Scots.
In Liz Truss’ Reform UK cabinet as Justice Minister.
Why on earth should anyone hesitate to correct his lies? Ffs.
Holy shit, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell corrected the orange felon’s lies on live television without hesitation. This is how you do it.
I feel badly for Scotland and England but while he’s out of the country, can someone please change the locks?
Dive. Shame. Cheating.
Wow. Such entertaining football!!!!
I also do did this many times. I was usually startled by the sound of my daughters thumb popping out of her mouth to question the sudden strange turn in the story.
What he said..
They play a very long game
Great game. Lots of needle. #FRAGER
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
Outstanding goalkeeping though
Mental.
Black Forest today be like
Bonne fête encore les ti-cousins
I still can't get over the fact that "panels you point at sky and make electricity from sunlight with no fuel is the cheapest source of energy" needed explanation.