The Blueseum of Fine Art

"No art is possible without a dance with death"-Kurt Vonnegut ("DANCE HALL OF THE CORPSE COUPLES 2007", 33"x29.5", charcoal & graphite on paper) #DiadelosMuertos

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity,
Percy B. Shelley #booksky #poem #quote

Flora Yukhnovich #art #artist #painter #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart #rococo

Abstract autumn painting

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

#Autumn
gouache and ink on a large envelope with lots of stamps
#BlueSkyArtShow #art #painting #nature #peaceful #mixedmedia

I had no idea she was the exception to the rule

She’s the reason this Kentucky girl believed the rhetoric that girls could be whatever they wanted to be.

As SNAP runs out, here’s where to find food and donate in Louisville and Southern Indiana As tens of thousands in the area are expected to lose their food benefits this weekend, city leaders and volunteers in Kentuckiana are stepping in to help.

As SNAP benefits freeze, here’s where to find food and donate in Louisville and Southern Indiana

Wildwood
gouache
#scape #ForestFriday #painting #nature #peaceful #art #forest

If Congress and the President are not going to act to protect SNAP food assistance, we in Kentucky must step up. The state’s rainy day fund is for rainy days, and cutting off SNAP benefits on November 1st is a downpour for 1 in 8 Kentuckians. 1/

My favorite Governor

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

all my friends look like their parents now and it's freaky and weird but it will never stop being amazing to me what genetics can do. my brother is a carbon copy of my dad, uncle and grandfather. it's deeply unsettling.

There is both hope and horror in this but I will take the hope.
h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

The Walk - Falling Leaves - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14686

Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party | Robert Reich Democratic party leaders like Chuck Schumer refuse to endorse Mamdani, and the New York Times wrongly cautions against h

This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic party.

It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic party.

Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/28/zohran-mamdani-democratic-party

SNAP’s Contingency Reserve Is Available for Regular SNAP Benefits, as USDA and OMB Have Ruled in Past The Administration must use all available options to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 people in the U.S. who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill.

As explained here, the administration is legally required to use contingency reserves to fund these benefits: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Gov. Andy Beshear joins lawsuit by states against the Trump administration for illegally cutting off SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans on Nov. 1: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with:

1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable.

2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable.

3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.

oh hey it’s @kaijusommelier.bsky.social flaps

A galactic duet in Cepheus The Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) dazzles with 10 supernovae in just a century, while nearby open cluster NGC 6939 shines only 5,600 light-years away. A cosmic blend of beauty and distance. Image Credit & Copyright: Alberto Pisabarro

A galactic duet in Cepheus
The Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) dazzles with 10 supernovae in just a century, while nearby open cluster NGC 6939 shines only 5,600 light-years away. A cosmic blend of beauty and distance.

Image Credit & Copyright: Alberto Pisabarro

Had a mental few months and posting on here has fallen by the wayside. However, I did get back out painting at the weekend. Work in progress shot from Observatory Hill in Durham catching the glorious autumn colours. I'll post the finished piece in due course.

view looking down on a snow covered sidewalk, a person holding a bright umbrella walks along

Footsteps

Saul Leiter, 1950

It's a forest and it's Friday
gouache
#scape #ForestFriday #pleinair #painting #nature #peaceful #art #forest

An Orchard in Spring - 1886
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10115

A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.

Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Democrats often think we’re having a policy discussion. We’re not.

Instead, we need to have a discussion about restoring trust with the American people.