I posted about spacecraft knots in 2012! Well, I edited a post by knot tyer David Fred:

www.planetary.org/articles/201...

Odilon Redon ( French, 1840-1916 )
Fleurs, c 1930
Oil on canvas 61.3 x 46.9 cm.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Max Weyl (American, b. in Germany, 1837-1914), Hollyhocks, 1881. Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (64.8 x 42.0 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum,
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Dale Byhre (Canadian, b. 1956)
“Whaling Ships Off of Lahaina, 1850”, 2026, acrylic on panel, 18 x 24
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Peder Mørk Mønsted (Danish, 1859-1941)
"Pergola on Capri with a View Of Vesuvius," 1889
Oil on canvas
75 x 120 cm

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Stephen Fox (American, b.1957)
"Storming the Hudson," 2022
Oil on linen
43 x 49 in

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Ilya Chirun (Russian, b.1985)
"The Platans," 2016
Tempera on canvas
70 x 70 cm
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Rukiye Garip. Born (1964) Turkish
Watercolor, 76 x 56cm (30in x 22in)
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Wojciech Krupa (German Artist, born 1966)
“Solitary tulip “
With chalk pot 30x21 cm
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Wojciech Krupa (German Artist, born 1966)
Oil pastel, 42 x 30 cm

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Wojciech Krupa (German Artist, born 1966)
Oil pastel, 42 x 30 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

"The Ice Birds" 1891

Emile Claus (1849-1924)

Belgian Artist

Oil on Canvas

MSK Museum, Ghent

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Peonies (1876) by French artist, Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), which exemplifies his virtuosic manipulation of paint - not only with brushes, but also with the butt of the brush and scrapers.

Oil on canvas

52 x 45 cm

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

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Mike Hall (British Artist, born 1960)
"Lunch prepared by the Window", 2022.
Acrylic on Panel, 30 × 36 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Margaret Merry (British Artist, born 1953)
"Blue Door", 2012.
Watercolor, 35 × 25 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Derek Penix (American, b. 1980)
Old Port, 2024
Oil on canvas
24 x 24
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Under a Winter Sky (2022) by British artist, Paul Evans (born in 1950).

Ink and acrylic

28 x 28 cm

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Anders Andersen-Lundby (Danish, 1841–1923)
"A Busy Town in Moonlight", 1882.
Oil on Canvas, 115 × 175 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Jo Quigley (British Artist, born 1969)
"Rainy Night, Fleet St", 2026.
Acrylic on Canvas, 91 × 76 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Guiding Star The story of the path to Polaris, a groundbreaking technical achievement marked by naval visionaries who dared to think big, work tirelessly, and expand the realm of the possible.

A nice short retrospective on the Polaris program and the birth of the American SSBN www.usni.org/magazines/na...

In the real world, cultures change constantly - they cannot help but do so - and people change their individual cultural blend all of the time.

What matters is values and it turns out some of the values that are better for human flourishing are pluralism and a high degree of individualism.

For what it is worth, I do not think all cultures - that is, bundles of social practices - are equal.

I think the culture that Thiel and Karp and MAGA are trying to create is clearly, obviously worse than the American culture we have had.

There are cultural vandals and they wear red hats.

A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.

I've set out the framework I'm using here in an earlier thread, on VDA, the Arc of Democracy, and the moral-epistemic stacks idea, what follows applies that framework to the Palantir document directly. skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

Early Morning - Alexandre Jacob (1876–1972) #realism #landscape

Evening at the Iris Field (1993) - Timothy Easton (b. 1946) #contemporary_landscape

Cannot recommend the show and the book Destiny of the republic enough. Garfield was the only president who didn't want the job but tried. A story of corruption, reform and American delusions of deserving greatness

The cover of the book "The Distant Sound of Thunder: A Marine's Story of the Korean War" by Sgt. Robert J Mitchell, USMC.

Gotta read the book when you know the author, right? 😁 #BookSky

I'll Wait For You
David Wilson
2025

Hinting Green
Nicki Ault
2026

Early Spring
Mary Hiester Reid
1914