Ali

Named for top-scoring footballers or union members with a grievance?

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Might be handy for #Wordle.

A puppy staring straight at the camera.

Winnie, staring at the camera with the deepest contempt for me.

A classic “why did you put me in this coat” stare from my girl.

Judgemental over the shoulder stare from Winnie. A classic.

I need to see your dogs. Show me your dogs. This is my girl Winnie. She is the queen of extremely judgy looks. Like, seriously judgy. Wind your neck in, lass.

Painting of a badlands valley with winding river at the bottom & swirling blue clouds on an orange background sky

Painting of a mother ship storm cloud lit from below with swirling clouds above over a butte.

Painting of a nebula that looks like a hand with orange yellow clouds and lots of stars on a blue black field

Painting of a spiral galaxy with swirls of blue white and red orange arms with clusters of stars and a area of stars in the center

I'm an Alberta based artist who has a thing for storms & space.

I do commissions & have originals & 50 different canvas & paper prints available earthskyart.ca/shop

#art #painting

Some thoughts on why I think it's important to remember that the natural and physical world provide joy and curiosity, even though global geopolitics is very mean and horrible right now. Appreciating the world around us gives us joy & agency. Don't forget the bad, but hold on to the good too.

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This is erm, not cheap shall we say, but sure does make the Ami look good.

That’s my Friday night sorted - thanks for the heads up.

Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Renault 4L vert jardin

Pareidolie ist was schönes

Painting of The Crooked House pub. (Famous for being, "Britain's wonkiest pub," it was severely damaged by fire and illegally demolished in 2023.)

The Crooked House (oil and acrylic on canvas - 2024)

*prints available*

I think February actually felt like it went by in about the right amount of time.

Black and white photo of a long thin rain puddle on a road with the reflection of tree branches. The nearby winter trees line the road by a village green with houses behind.

Underland.

#ClassicMono

Note To Self: (and a thousand others?)

Rétro cars voiture strange 🚘 la Matra-Simca Bagheera

How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail    I would rather  eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,  blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,  listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,  than read one page of the Daily Mail.    If I was bored  in a waiting room in Perivale,  on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,  halfway through a circumnavigational sail,  I would not read the Daily Mail.    I would happily read  the autobiography of Dan Quayle,  1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,  selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.    Far better to  stand outside in a storm of hail,  scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,  be swallowed by a humpback whale,  than have to read the Daily Mail.    If I was blind   and it was the only thing in Braille,  I still would not read the Daily Mail.    Brian Bilston 

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

A photo of a puddle on a quiet city street. Two yellow no parking lines curve around the edge of the pavement. Reflected in the puddle is the curved building of Manchester Central Library

#10minutesfromhome
Manchester Central Library this afternoon

Wonderful shot!

Looks like The Board Of Peace is bored of peace.

A kitty who needs a boop

#caturday

UAE Air Force holding patterns

Eric B and Rakim

Derek B and Drakim #totp

Instructions were confusing

However you create - painting, music, writing, film-making, woodwork, embroidery, whatever - do it for you. Never “play to the gallery” as Bowie said. It’s a sure fire way to artistic burnout.

Seeing and hearing unique human art has never been more important than during this tsunami of AI slop.

a man singing into a microphone with the words " you do it to yourself just you you and no one else " next to him Alt: Thom Yorke of Radiohead singing into a microphone the words "you do it to yourself just you you and no one else”

To UK progressives…

Close up of a yellow sunflower against a clear blue sky. Reminiscent of the Ukrainian flag.

Family Lets Cars Come Inside House During Snowstorm

Family Lets Cars Come Inside House During Snowstorm https://theonion.com/family-lets-cars-come-inside-house-during-snowstorm-1819577405/

Very (red)postmodern!

Had no design work in for 3 months now, I'm trying to get back to doing what I love.

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These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.