i will not give up hope and neither will you

A bit of fun painting my favorite subject tonight.

Free Dutch therapy: the view from my garden gate.

Pen and watercolour sketches of fungi and oak galls

Fungi, galls and snoozing ladybirds from a walk along Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire, last week.
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#fungi
#invertebrates

#landscapeart #landscapepainting

Painting featuring a cityscape crowded with bluish houses illuminated by street lamps

'Bristol Night II' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #womensart

#booksky

Un deux pour un

A purple mermaid sits in a still pool, surrounded by purple iris flowers.

Iris 🌱 #art

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control

See How Marine Heat Waves Are Spreading Across the Globe

As politicians from around the world discuss the ocean in Nice this week for #UNOC3, the ocean itself continues to warm from climate change. My latest story dives into the toll this takes on marine wildlife and fisheries: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/c...

Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh sets second swimming world record in three days Summer McIntosh set a world record for the second time in three days at the Canadian swimming trials, breaking the 200m individual medley mark

Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh sets second swimming world record in three days

I’ve read too much science fiction too many dystopian novels and too many poems on civil rights to be quiet…

Sunbeams in the only cathedral I attend

Yesterday, I saw something unusual. It was a crow with some white feathers. This is a specific stage in the life of a crow chick, and some of its feathers temporarily turn white as it matures into an adult. I was surprised when I saw it because I didn't know about this phenomenon.

#birdphotography

Blue Skies pt2

#pixelart #art #aseprite #vgen

+ Everything by @naomiaklein.bsky.social, but especially The Shock Doctrine.
+ The New Jim Crow
+ On a smaller scope, Unmasking Autism by and Divergent Minds helped me come to terms with my (highly suspected but not officially DX) ASD

A school of baby yellow jacks has been brightening our days in Coral City this week🐟💛🐟☀️🐟💛🐟 #yellowjacks #jacks #school #sunshinyday #juvenile #shimmer #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation

A colorful acrylic painting by Jim Musil depicting a woman riding her bike through blossoming pink trees. The grass is a bright yellow green for Spring.

My painting SPRING RIDE

The crevalle jacks were really booking it today 🐟🐟🐟💨💨💨 #jackcrevalle #jack #school #bookingit #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation #ccf #kbcf #keybiscaynecommunityfoundation

Crazy Cool Sunsets Mazatlan Mexico. Blue and orange sky with clouds like fire waving high in the sky, as the sun hits the horizon.

Crazy Cool Sunsets Mazatlan Mexico.

#sunset #mazatlan #mexico #photography #travel #tf_photography #tf_photoscapes #tf_photoescapes #landscape

a guy playing bagpipes to a penguin

TIL there was a Scottish National Antarctic Expedition and it produced this image

On average, each watercolor I paint takes about two months. I have been enjoying ballpoint pen paintings lately, but I feel like I need to start painting new watercolors soon.

#Illustration
#CommentPls
#RTpls

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

Coinbase announces it's joining the S&P 500 and then announces a serious data breach two days later.

oof.

Sun, fog, and water. This is the view looking east over Lake Michigan this morning.

mais aucun des quatre partis politiques qui mène dans les sondages n’a l'intention de faire quoi que ce soit à cet égard parce que la gauche c'est mal et fuck le peuple, sont là pour eux autres

Acrylic painting of a Blue whale with tropical fish surrounding it

Acrylic painting of a green sea turtle

Acrylic painting of an eagle ray swimming

Acrylic painting of two red jellyfish, a big and a small one

J’ai peinturé des animaux marins pour la chambre de bébé. Pis je les aime bien 🥰

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I’ve painted marine animals on the nursery walls. And I quite like ‘em 🥰

#acryliconwall #marinelife #jellyfish #turtle #eagleray #whale #tropicalfish

Branchu, huile sur toile, 9x12

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Wood duck, oil on canvas, 9x12

#oilpainting