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Big Pharma Can Tweak Drugs to Keep Generics Off the Market Taking advantage of a broken patent system, Big Pharma is making minor tweaks to medications just to keep affordable generics off the market, a new report suggests. They’ve made billions of dollars in...

This is the kind of stuff that really radicalizes me and should infuriate any decent person: Big Pharma’s abuse of the patent system.

I know this sounds naive, but something has got to change… there’s no constituency for Big Pharma!

And no one, except for the lobbyists, wants higher drug prices.

Day 6 of misspelled #ArtAdventCalendar *sigh*

Paper cut art. Cut out of black paper is a scene of two storks displaying to each other from their nest on the top of a chimney. My hand holds the paper cut up against an off-white background.

Day seven of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Already a week in! I briefly tried paper cutting a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Here’s one of the scenes I cut out.

A whimsical landscape of green elephant hills with their trunks joining to form bridges. Colourful trees dot the landscape, and there is a blue sky with a swirly yellow sun in the corner. Mountains are in the distance, and a portal to another world is in the middle leading to a world with mountains, palm trees, and three suns in its sky.

Day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar
This piece started as a random background, and I saw a bunch of elephants, so they became part of the landscape in a whimsical world. 😊☀️
"Connections" acrylic on cradle board 8x8
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#Art #Painting #ElephantArt #ArtYear #ColorADay #GreenSat

Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.

Two beams of light shine down through holes into a lava tube, scattering off of the dust suspended in air and casting a deep golden glow on the walls of the lava tube.

Motes of dust suspended in Sunbeams within a lava tube in the Mojave Desert. #Photography #ArtAdventCalendar

Re-reading Lord of the Rings at the moment, and I'd forgotten how relentlessly Gandalf drags Hobbits.

"Of course, The Enemy has overlooked one thing: dipshits such as yourself, Frodo. Buffoons with fat feet and shithole burrows. Yes, perhaps your painful loser energy may surprise Sauron yet!"

A painting of Weymouth harbour showing some boats on the water and buildings behind them.

Another painting of Weymouth harbour by my Mum for Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Large art quilt, hung on a wall, with a white background, a herd of colourful horses made from a rainbow of fabric.

Bright and colourful fibre art for a chilly day #ArtAdventCalendar "True Colours", art quilt

Two travelers walk down a moonlit path towards the Last Lonely Mountain. Many trees, hedges, woodlands (and a few giant spider webs!) lie between them and the entrance to the mountain. Autumn colours of gold, orange, green, rust, and purple represent the landscape.

I find recreating Tolkiens artworks to be as therapeutic as disappearing into Middle Earth. Here is one of many

Autumnal Tolkien Travels
digital paints
2021

#ArtAdventCalendar

Letters c, p, j, k in black micron pen ink and outlined in red or blue decorative lines and circles

Tis the season for… #ArtAdventCalendar!

Day 7️⃣

#calligraphy doodles, aka versals

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30

Six Geese Bricklaying

Oddvent Day 6.

On the sixth day of Christmas my next door neighbour was having some work done on his house and I’m guessing this lot’s quote was the lowest…

#ArtAdventCalendar #Oddvent #Advent #Art

Quilt hung over a wooden fence. A grid of sunflowers on a background of blue squares.

Close up of quilt, showing the hand stitches. The inside of the sunflowers have a grid pattern of stitches and there are stitches following the flower petals.

Ukrainian beauty. Hand quilted with love. 💙
#ArtAdventCalendar

The Magical Animation of 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' The Christmas television special—the longest running in history—was groundbreaking in its use of stop-motion animation with puppets

This is a fun holiday read. Who made Rudolph happen? A Jewish copy writer; his Jewish composer brother-in-law; the BIL’s neighbor who happened to be Arthur Rankin; and a Japanese animator who had pioneered new stop motion techniques. Now that’s an American Christmas

A friend was once told to "get in the Xmas spirit!" He said he was Jewish. She said "then get in the Chanukah spirit!" He said, "The Chanukah spirit is the spirit of killing people who try to make us celebrate their holidays."

time to pull out the seasonal favorites

Close up of the thumb nail with swirls and blobs of shimmering purple, green, blue, and orange over a deep blue base. There are two large white 4-pointed stars and a bunch of smaller pinprick stars scattered all over.

A view of all 5 nails facing the camera. The otter is on the ring finger nail, appearing to be poking its head out of the “water” of the nebula.

A close up of 4 fingers, which shows the otter a bit better.

#ArtAdventCalendar day 4 is a cute little space otter I did for a friend’s birthday. Done in nail polish - the background is built-up layers of different shimmer polishes dabbed and sponged over a deep blue creme base. Painted some stars and the otter overtop with creme nail polish. #OtterSpace

A polymer clay dragon pendant. It has a Prestige crystal in its tail and rhinestone eyes, and has been brushed with chameleon powder so it shimmers from aqua to purple depending on the light.

A dragon for #ArtAdventCalendar day 6! This little dragon pendant was handmade with polymer clay. It has a Prestige crystal in its tail and rhinestone eyes, and has been brushed with chameleon powder so it shimmers from aqua to purple depending on the light. 🧶🐉

abstract painting of a mountain scene with a range in back and a greenish valley with a creek through the middle and a waterfall in the foreground.

How about my largest commission piece ever for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 6 morning.

Bison Valley
84x46 in 213x117cm
Oil on Canvas
2024

Linocut showing an apple, leaves, a bundle of hair tied with a bow, and two human teeth all floating in space. Pfiel tool is visible. Black ink.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 6

A linocut of a witch bottle with the bottle.

#printmaking #art #artsky #art #crafts #traditionalart #prints #blockprint #ink #witchsky

Stormsailor. Silver viking ship on a large blue lapis lazuli sea, with silver swirling waves silver moon and star, finished with blue diamond and opal accent stones.

Day 6 #ArtAdventCalendar

Stormsailor. Tiny silver viking ship on a lapis lazuli sea with silver waves, moon, and star with blue diamond and opal accent stones.

#Art #artyear #artjewellery #artisan #handcrafted #handmadejewellery

Repost with alt text (looking at you @npr.org):

Whatever else it can do, this tech adds work and erodes trust. The extra work is time-wasting and wearying, and I resent the erosion of trust most deeply. I cannot believe it is healthy for society to be ever less sure that anything you encounter is the real thought or expression of a fellow human

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

All 5 fingernails aimed toward the camera showing a cottagecore manicure. The thumb features a frog playing the banjo, with a swampy, flaky background. The index has a pair of fly agaric mushrooms, one with a snail on top, on a murky green background. The middle nail has a navy background with pink and green flowering vines. The ring shows a white duck with a blue bow around its neck against a red shimmery background. The pinkie is more of the flowering vines but against a sage background.

A close-up shot of the same manicure but without the thumb nail visible.

A close-up shot of the thumb nail with its banjo-playing frog.

Still playing catchup on #ArtAdventCalendar - for day 3, how about a little cottagecore cuteness? All hand-painted with nail polish. We call this style where every nail has a different base colour a “skittle” 😅

This painting is filled with large, bright red and pink poppies swaying closely together. The petals are bold and curving, painted with strong lines and deep shadows that make them look lively and full. Tall green stems and leaves weave upward through the scene. In the background, soft blue and white shapes suggest a sky with drifting clouds.

Day Six & Saturdaaaay!!!
Why not bring back some summer vibes?
#ArtAdventCalendar
"Endless Summer"
Acrylic On Canvas
#painting
#torilart
#art
#fineart
#acrylic
#stillontime 😀

I love this random exoplanet youtuber who starts all of his videos like "for those of you who've been living under a ROCK" and then talks about the most obscure shit.

I’ve read almost $400 worth of library books this year. The library system is one of most transformative public resources we have.

View looking down on a sheet of white paper with a design created using pen and ink and a combination curly lines with sprigs and branches

Tis the season for… #ArtAdventCalendar!

Day 6️⃣

In the spirit of the season

#calligraphy