Chris

🤡 State Duma Deputy Andrei Lugovoy (and Alexander Litvinenko's poisoner) calls for:

▪️Infiltrating their people into US domestic affairs;
▪️Buying politicians;
▪️Setting Americans against each other, playing on contradictions;
▪️Bringing them to a shutdown not only in the economy but also in politics;

Morrison cost taxpayers $3.4B cancelling France subs contract
He oversaw the illegal & immoral #Robotdebt that cost over 2,000 people their lives
He abandoned Aus while it burned so he could holiday in Hawaii
Covered up a rape in his ministerial offices
Women “lucky not to be shot”
Should I go on? 🤬

ta2020photography
Tohid Azimi
"The fastest being on the planet
Male Peregrine Falcon aka Odin the Stoop Master.
Shot with Sony a1 Mark 2 and Sony 200-600mm Lens.
For these kind of fast moving action shots being able to track well in not enough, having a Camera that can reliably auto focus is a must.

I absolutely love this painting.
It breathes with calmness.

Yes, it is Ukrainian art.
Ivan Pylypenko,
The River of Time, 2020

 The amazing Caravaggio 🩶

More art in between those damn political stress

The Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms once a year at night.

A man sits quietly in the filtered light of a veranda, cradling a cat in his arms—an image rendered with restraint and tenderness in this large-scale watercolor by Lars Lerin. At Home exemplifies Lerin’s ability to draw intimacy from stillness. His layered washes and softened contours evoke not only the warmth of light on a wooden interior, but the deeper, emotional texture of solitude shared. One of Sweden’s most esteemed contemporary artists, Lerin is widely celebrated for his mastery of watercolor and his meditative, often autobiographical depictions of Northern domesticity and landscape. A prolific author and television figure, his reputation is grounded in the quiet integrity of works like this—where silence, affection, and time itself seem to settle visibly onto paper.

And now for something completely different..
Lars Lerin, Swedish, b. 1954
At Home, 2011
Watercolor on paper
100 × 150 cm

Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July

The welfare revolt does *not* prove that Labour MPs are "constitutionally incapable of making hard choices".

It proves that they will not just wave through hugely damaging changes, that harm those most in need, on which they've not been consulted.

That's MPs *doing* their jobs, not abdicating them

#art

#artiststrending #

Blue sky with stunning clouds

Sometimes just looking up is a re-set . Simply beautiful

#artists #sky #blueskyart #clouds

Of course.

Rise and Shine!

Pettson and Findus

Sven Nordqvist-1946 is a Swedish writer/illustrator of children's books, best known for his series Pettson and Findus, about the old farmer Pettson and his talented cat Findus. He is also active as a comic artist

Destroying the agency that brought us the internet, the SuperCollider and modern telescopes. Heading into the dark ages here

Kenya's High Court has ordered World, Sam Altman's crypto/identity verification company, delete the biometric data of Kenyans that the startup unlawfully collected in September 2023 www.citizen.digital/tech/court-o...

Friday Finnish!

Helene Schjerfbeck
( 1862 - 1946 ) Finnish painter

"Läsande Flicka" ( Reading Girl ) charcoal and gouache on paper 27 x 21,5 cm, c.1910

private collection

No miracles except the VACCINE.

Dawn over the River Medway, the Kingdom of Kent Photo by my lovely wife

Dawn over the River Medway, the Kingdom of Kent

Photo by my lovely wife

Drawing of a cat writing the date 1831 with a brush

For #Caturday, a thread of pictures of cats by French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, who was born on this day in 1798. First up, "A Cat Writing the Date 1831 with a Brush," which I love for its silly insouciance collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...

Gustav Klimt,
On Lake Attersee

USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.

We are here now. 🧪

(The suspension of milk testing by the FDA was announced last week try to keep up)

www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...

THIS.

Oh, this as well -
300,000 government employees out of their jobs.
Everyday people in foreign prisons.
Eliminating programs to help HUMANS stay alive and healthy (USAID, SNAP, HIV PREVENTION, FDA, etc.)
...and so many more things.

Lo, the rich man telleth the poor, “Pull thyself up by thy bootstraps.”
But verily, he weareth golden sandals, woven by the labor of those he scorns.
And when asked to lift a finger, he lifteth only his middle one.
The louder they preach merit, the deeper they drown in inherited spoils.

The freedom for oligarchs to lie Is Starmer preparing to sell out Britain to the tech oligarchs?

✍️ The freedom for oligarchs to lie

Is Starmer preparing to sell out Britain to the tech oligarchs?

By Andy Brown
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

The Acrobats (or The Wounded Child), by Gustave Doré
#Art #painting #illustration

Always remember your manners