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An attempt at alla prima painting. This was as far as I got before everything was too wet and colors were getting muddy. I think in the future, I want to start with a toned board and use a more limited palette.
#OilPainting #phoenix #camelbackmountain #allaprima #MastoArt #LandscapePainting
And of course @contrapoints drops a bad take just as I was about to compliment her. Oh well...
#OneTakeMan #InOneTake #Top10 #Philosophy #Psychology #politics #PoliticalPhilosophy #PopPhilosophy #ContraPoints #Videos #Top10Videos #Top10ContraPointsVideos
Beautiful post by Marco.
I’m as profoundly lonely as I have been in my professional life. Marco sums it up well. I’ve worked from home for 20 years. That’s not the problem.
It’s important to acknowledge that “asshole” is not the same as “person I disagree with” We can disagree amicably, and Bluesky is FULL of assholes I agree with. It’s all about your tone, and respect for others.
I also want to say, as I mentioned the other day, the ravens don’t always want to come near me, so I respect the distance and don’t chase. I’m also not in the habit of feeding them (or any other birds). As someone who cares deeply for birds, I recommend following local ordinances and practices, common sense, and the ethics of interacting safely with wildlife.
This painting always just grabs me, as I hone in on the little house in the swirl of colors.
Notice the band of blue water holds the view while while the small pale house is nestled in the field of wheat.
I host this original by Janet Dyer, where textures in the grasses and along the shore guide the eye and keep the scale familiar. It's worth a closer look on our site.
#art #janetdyer #michigan #mastoart #mastodonart #boesegalleries #landscape #pond
People who insist on confusing loose and lose.
People who "identify as." (I identify as as an adverb).
Websites that just reload or have unhelpful error messages when you try to log in. ("Something went wrong.")
Text messages with web links in them (I don't have a smartphone).
People who smoke in hallways, public bathrooms, elevators, etc. when it's posted no smoking! What are you, in junior high?
The Syrians Languishing in Israel’s Prisons
Hassan Saadeddin Mohammed scrambles out of a yellow tractor as I approach the plot of land he farms…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #prison
https://www.europesays.com/iran/343042/
The little favicon + custom name design is nice, though it's not as easy to see what the URLs are (especially on mobile). There's also no way to verify links as far as I can tell.
#Inktober No25 Fracture
"Ah ken ye love nature an want tae ease the hatchin by brakin the egg but that could be seen as ill-makin. Even tho that’d be ill-ta’en – as I’m sure you would agree.
So … ye’ll no mind if I leggit then, will ye?"
#translation in alt txt. #Scottish #Scots #illustration #art #dinosaur #drawing
Why the fuck did someone put what I can only assume is an evangelical worship song (I skipped it as soon as I detected religious vibes, and the cover art is very much giving “evangelical”) in a playlist titled “Chappell Roan Radio”?? What a fuckin jump scare
@jaykuo
Of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Webbon
The " #ChristianNationalists " are not #Christian in any sense of the word as I understand it.
But very consistent with the Crusades and "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius (Kill them. For the Lord knows who are His.)"
⚡️Muscovy was a village when Kyiv was already a city. As I wrote in 2022, "Russia's self-image as an eternal monolith masks its continuing colonial legacy."
On the podcast: https://www.decodingtrolls.net/p/podcast-future-russia-the-pattern
Hot on the heels of a major conference, and as I have mild prosopagnosia (face blindness), here's how you can help: if you don't have a name badge, give your full name (there's plenty of "Lee"s), or some context (we spoke about query plans last month). Not being rude, I just don't connect faces or profile pics to names easily!
If you are a British Gas customer - see if you can work out how to change account password as I bliddy well can't!
You want accountability? Bush made the Trump monster, as I wrote in 2008:
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-manipulation-of-conservatives/
"...a vast group of Americans apparently are so unable to process information that they have become highly vulnerable to manipulation (social engineering, foreign influence) in a very, very bad way. And that is probably exactly what Rove wants."
Voted today. Going up the road to the early voting site I passed the local veterans memorial. As I passed I said "this is for you", and said a small prayer. If we don't turn this around then they will have died in vain. #USElections #Vote #Veterans #Democracy
Having already lost my “I VOTED” sticker, I went back to the polling station (which happened to be the same venue as my evening swimming lesson) and stated my case, stuck strictly to the facts, and before I could even ask the poling agent for a replacement, he offered me as many as I wanted. #Toronto
Will we see new, more intense attacks on Iran this week?
As far as I understand, on 28th the Fed will, most likely, raise the interest rates, which may break the US bonds.
I read somewhere, that the US forces might strike within three days.
Next week are the Midterms, plus elections in Israel.
The third carrier group should arrive soon too.
I can't fit the puzzle, it's just a feeling, I'm not sure, if he chickens out of this one...
But on the otter hand, something doesn't match up.
Dunno, how it will affect us in Europe, but I guess, shit ain't getting cheaper.
Dunno, but I'm actually worried.but it's more of a feeling, feels different.
Stay safe.
I scanned the public IP of my home router - surprise, I have 2 ports open! My router decided to enable UPnP after a firmware update. And it turned out that Syncthing is not as LAN-only as I thought.
I fixed it, but I also thought about other problem. Let's call it a paradox of privacy: using Syncthing instead of OneDrive or GDrive keeps my personal files to myself, but also makes my devices easier to fingerprint.
One of a handful of odd little milestones in the next few weeks.
Was straightening out my home office yesterday and ran across this, which is (hopefully) the only time I end up as front page news somewhere.
I remember being quite surprised when this got printed, as:
I had not interviewed for it.
The Rensselaer Republican ended my long and odd history as a news item for them by getting my title wrong (Chief Intelligence Officer?)
I hated that picture.
Did some debugging before starting work today --
- This machine is in suspend, so the OS should be inert.
- The MPCP Pause frames cease as soon as I wake the machine.
Suspicion: I recently enabled Intel AMT. It shares the network card with the OS. Is it possible that when sleeping, the nic tries to queue packets (for the os) and the barfs these Pause frames when the buffer is full?
Why do I find the weirdest friggin problems. Why.
Man With Sign, October 26, 02026
I wake with the alarm in the blessed aftermath of a good night's sleep (rendered sweeter by the election results from Brazil just as I was going to bed), drink my coffee in the kitchen, and head to Roosevelt Circle in the muted light. Arriving at 7:32, a soloist, I set up my big sign, couple my loudspeaker, & hold up my customary ALL-BLACK sign for the Monday rush hour.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nCdeZ7EYC4
#ClimateChaos #GlobalWarming #HindustaniMusic #CitizenActivism
I donated again to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School https://www.brennancenter.org/
Due to the dire threats to the USA from the current administration and the Republican party I am donating as much money as I spend on myself this year to protect us from those threats to our way of life.
The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law works to build an America that is democratic, just, and free.
Defend #democracy
Reform #Justice
Protect the #Constitution
I just asked copilot what it knew about me, and the answer was surprisingly detailed and included work, a blog I wrote for 20-odd years and my presence here (linked through usernames and the tagline on my profile). As I don’t really pretend that I’m something I’m not, none of this really bothers me. What stopped me dead was the summary (of the blog) that said “the blog is unusual as it is a public longitudinal record in which the older you repeatedly revisits and reinterprets the younger you”.
I haven’t written on the blog regularly for a few years now, but yeah…. That’s pretty much it. Thinking about it now, a lot of it is about processing how my perspective has changed as I’ve got older and as my #MS has progressed.
I should write a book.
Stand for truth!, Evangelical Focus
Washington’s capitulation to Moscow has caused me sleepless nights this week. I toss and turn as I wonder…
#Ukraine #UA #Europe #Europa #EU #News #christians #churchnews #digitalevangelicalnews #evangelicalnews #religionnews #Russia #testimonies #truth #UkraineChristiannews #VladimirPutin #war
https://www.europesays.com/ukraine/60747/
Hi Fediverse Fam! I'm sitting here hoping that the art lovers here can help me out.
I'm a digital artist/photographer, and with the economy as it is, sales have been unusually slow this year. Bad timing as I also had three surgeries this year, which meant a lot of down time and unexpected expenses that wiped me out.
Normally, things pick up by now, but this year they just haven't. I'm getting pretty frantic and hoping this post might connect me with people looking for art for their spaces.
As you can probably tell from the small sample of my art I've shared, I rarely stick to one subject for very long. I like some variety, and I tend to follow whatever has caught my interest at the moment.
If anything you've seen catches your eye, or you'd like to see more, my Etsy is here: https://marktisdaleart.etsy.com
And if buying art isn't in the cards right now, helping more people discover my work would mean a lot.
New characters and more new characters
So many new characters in my story world
I haven’t had even time coming up with the names for all of them. As I have gotten new ideas to add already existing stories. And the plot twist that has been bring so many great new layers into the stories. Can’t wait to get add everything on their rightful places on the stories. Seeing it all coming alive more.
I was so happy that for once having new characters didn’t mean that I need to start new stories. LOL Because that is how it has been for awhile now. But for once I manage to add 3 new bands with all the members plus one wife of a drummer. Without adding any new stories or books. None of that. I was so happy. And honestly just relieved about more than anything.
But that did last until Saturday evening. Being handed piece of information. That could be used as the inspiration of not only a new story but probably even new book series. I’m not revealing what the piece of information was. Because If I would end up using that I’m not giving that big of a spoiler.
The thing that find most annoying about it this new possible inspiration for story. Is that I know it can be used as a base for really good story. And something even more darker than the other stories so far. It’s a temptation see what this idea could grow into. Not sure will I take it or not. Kinda need do more research about information to see. Is there actually story I would write down.
So I’m not still sure will I give in and look how to turn this idea into story. That is my writing update this time.
With love C.F. Grönroos
Creator of the Mysteries by Rose
#CFGrönroos #creatingStoryWorld #FallingStarsUniverse #MysteriesByRose #writing #WritingUpdate
#UniLife #Lesbian #babysitting
So Jennie stayed over last night, it was nice to snuggle with this cute little girl as I fell asleep. To head off any perverts, we both wore #pajamas and nothing untoward happened. This morning we got up early, showered and had #GlutenFree cereal with #LactoseFree milk. Then we got dressed and her mom came by to pick her up. I'm babysitting her again tonight. Jennie had a gymnastics competition this afternoon, which is why she didn't just spend the whole day with me. I hope she did well ❤️ especially since I'm a #gymnast myself 😉.
She should be coming over in about 20 minutes. I've got more anime for us to watch, I'm thinking something from #StudioGhibli ❤️
Pajamas or a nightie, h'mmm?
