The Fighting Temeraire, 1839 by J. M. W. Turner (English, 1775 - 1851).
Oil, canvas | 91 × 122 cm.
Location: National Gallery, London, UK.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Ah hah!

This was the previous post! It wasn't paintly plagiarism in 1959, after all! It was just a slip with cutting and pasting the label!

So I'm not wanting to stir any pot here, but give this link a click...

Well, Tucker, tell you what: Put things back the way they were before your messed it all up, and then we can talk over what happens next. But until then, nothing's changed, even if you think you have.

BE AHEAD OF ALL PARTING Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy) Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened, like winter, which even now is passing. For beneath the winter is a winter so endless that to survive it at all is a triumph of the heart. Be forever dead in Eurydice, and climb back singing. Climb praising as you return to connection. Here among the disappearing, in the realm of the transient, be a ringing glass that shatters as it rings. Be. And, at the same time, know what it is not to be. That emptiness inside you allows you to vibrate in resonance with your world. Use it for once. To all that has run its course. and to the vast unsayable numbers of beings abounding in Nature, add yourself gladly, and cancel the cost.

Rilke
#poetry

Yup. Best way to get people to respect the First Amendment is to print its text on something you blow your nose into. Brilliant move.

Those spoiled DOGE brats working with Musk and Rubio to destroy USAID practically overnight must never be allowed to forget the singular accomplishment of their lives was giving the Holocaust a run for its money in total deaths.

This is an excellent (and upsetting) column…but this wasn't all Trump.

Israeli strike kills Lebanese journalist, wounds another despite ceasefire The Lebanese government has condemned the strike, calling it a 'violation of international law'.

Israeli strike kills Lebanese journalist, wounds another despite ceasefire

Rideau Canal - April 22 - Earth Day

Toronto keeper Luka Gavran scores on a header in stoppage time (via Toronto FC)

Teen guilty of conspiring 'to murder as many Jewish persons as possible' in unusual trial | CBC News A 17-year-old has been found guilty of conspiring 'to murder as many Jewish persons as possible' in Ottawa, among other domestic terrorism charges, after an unusual one-day trial that preserves his ri...

'He planned to pack the bombs with…ball bearings "to maximize the death and injury caused by each," and to strap one of the bombs to himself to detonate at the end of his attack…

"[H]is overarching intention was to murder as many Jewish persons as possible in the attack," [said] the document.'

Jean Charest: "We're not saying to the Americans they absolutely need us. What we are saying is you're not going to get a better partner in trade than Canada."

Even used that way, "usufruct" applies: The Earth is ours to use as we live on it, and our obligation to the next generations is to pass it on "unmortgaged" by debts or damage they are left to pay off and clean up ― and to especially not pass it on as irreparable ruins they can but live among.

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I first read it during my undergrad in a letter Jefferson had written to Madison shortly before that in 1789: "The earth belongs in usufruct to the living."

Some now present this as if J. were enviro-aware, but in context he was complaining about inheriting mortgages from previous generations. /2

A definition page in the online Collins dictionary: usufruct in British English noun the right to use and derive profit from a piece of property belonging to another, provided the property itself remains undiminished and uninjured in any way Derived forms usufructuary noun, adjective Word origin C17: from Late Latin ūsūfrūctus, from Latin ūsus use + frūctus enjoyment

Good word for Earth Day, even if it's a bit clunky.

It's the right to use (usus) and draw profit from (fructus) an object or piece of land ― (here's the important part) on the condition it not be damaged or deminished by this use.

The right to do the last bit (or sell or give away) is "abusus"

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He used to play shirtstop.

He started his career playing shirtstop.

Happy #EarthDay from some my favourite corners of the Earth near(ish) to where I live. I know everything is dark and overwhelming these days, but I hope this can bring you a little light and a reminder of the incredible beauty we share this planet with.

"...largely due to the loss of trust and goodwill..."

”The worst problem overall, is apathy.” Dr. Jane Goodall

Pretty sure it's fake. I chased this earlier this week. It's not from Troot Social, and the wording doesn't show up in searches of his X account. Others found the same. Sad we just can't be sure on the face of it with him.

Pic taken in the cable news show's green room after a bitter on-air argument about fundamental values and principles.

Pic taken in the cable news show's green room after a bitter on-air argument about fundamental values and principles.

"There's two ways of calculating percentages..."

One of them is wrong.

A color action photo shows Guy Lafleur skating on the ice during a hockey game. He is wearing a red Montreal Canadiens uniform with blue and white striping and the number 10 on his sleeve. He leans forward while controlling the puck with his stick, his skates angled as he moves across the ice. The boards and glass are visible behind him, with a blurred crowd in the background.

On this day in 2022, Guy Lafleur died.
Born in 1951, in his Hall of Fame career he won five Stanley Cups, three Art Ross, two Harts, three Lester B. Pearsons and a Conn Smythe. He remains the Montreal Canadiens leading scorer with 1,246 points.

Today, @ICEgov got around to deleting questions I sent for the article below -- which was published in August 2025 (!!!) -- without ever reading them.

This is why reporters need to ferret out stories.

Thanks for all your work, James Covington!

Reuters:

The U.S. military has introduced Ukrainian counter-drone technology at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia after repeated Iranian drone attacks damaged aircraft and infrastructure.

Peace should consider impeaching its president.

Peace should consider impeaching its president.

Washington demanding 'entry fee' from Ottawa before trade talks: sources | CBC News The Trump administration is demanding what amounts to an "entry fee" from Canada to engage in trade talks toward a revised Canada-United States-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (CUSMA), four sources told R...

' "We tell [Washington], ‘If we make concessions, if we take steps, you’ll do the same.’ And on that point, they’re not open to it at all. At least, not right now,” said another Canadian source familiar with the discussions. '