Oh! Actually Rafael Mena posted his Colossus of Rhodes recreation here on Bluesky! Go give him some love! (his Mesoamerican illustrations are wonderful) bsky.app/profile/rafa...

Chinampas #art #artist #illust #illustration #aztec #mesoamerica #mexico #history

Morgenthau plan for Israel honestly seems like the only reasonable option for Israel tbh

You can support my work on Patreon! #art patreon.com/DoktorNo

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region. Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat. We live in Orwellian times.

Rendered out a test shot of this vocalising Cryolophosaurus! It's all a bit janky and I have a lot to learn, but it is so fun working in Blender that I can see myself doing loads more of these little shorts. #sciart #paleoart

Art really scored one against AI here.

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

no sorry we’re not doing this anymore. not for a volunteer army committing atrocities

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

Just a few weeks ago, all these European powers spoke of the threat that the US now presents to Europe. They talked about the possibility of Trump attacking Greenland, like it was an imminent and existential danger. Now Trump unilaterally bombs Iran and they all fall in lockstep

schools are never valid military targets, on or off base if someone bombed a DoD school in Okinawa and killed a bunch of American 4th graders, that would be a war crime. The murder of Iranian schoolchildren is a war crime.

Home of reformist opposition leaders from 2009 Green Movement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard was also hit by Israeli/US strikes. They have been under house arrest by the regime for over a decade.

no war on iran, hands off iran. the united states and israel are an existential threat to all human life.

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Patreon request of an nahua man with a flower cloak carrying his young infant. I think it came out pretty nicely, but what do you think? www.patreon.com/c/Rafaelmena

I'm not an expert on the region, but the egyptians, nubians and related horn of africa societies are basically the same civilization right? Like, in the way that the Itza, Tzotzil and Yucatecs are all mayan?

This should be the biggest story on the planet today; Netanyahu's regime reportedly shot & killed Paramedics from as little as 1 metre away, some shot "execution-style" from close range! forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...

Talking about Mesoamerican can be frustrating at times because a whole lot of it feels like trying to get across that they did all the normal stuff that was done in the 'old world', as though it was a crazy revelation. For good or ill it feels like the idiosyncrasies are the baseline.

Lots of mixed feelings about the whole Mencho affair rn.

Minha ilustração de capa feita para o segundo livro da Saga Extinction, de Isaac Wilson

This is pretty sick ngl

A Raid in the Mississippi (July 2022)

Hey guys, I know it's a hard ask but I'd appreciate your support if you're able. I have a lot of great ideas for paintings, from all around the Americas and outside of it, and it would be of great help if you chipped in with even a dollar. www.patreon.com/c/Rafaelmena

I'm down to my last £100, Ive signed on for work in warehouses/factories or whatever to keep the lights on but it takes a while to organise, if you'd like to support my artwork here is my Patreon, cheers! patreon.com/c/AlexDuneBr...

Tezcatlipoca #art #artist #illust #illustration #aztec #mesoamerica #mexico #mythology

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

I am utilisong some 3D in Blender to facilitate work on my webcomic. Unfortuneatly, I am behind the scheldue, and I want to make a bigger buffer, to avoid burnout.  http://cuauhtlicomic.com #webcomic #cuauhtli #fantasy #Aztec #Mesoamerica

“The solution for Gaza is to get all the Gazans out of #Gaza, either by emigration or by eliminating the residents.” Read that again.This isn’t a fringe comment online. It was said on Israeli TV, Channel 14, on February 10,by strategic adviser Ramy Piro.A fellow panelist, lawyer Tamar Arbel, agreed.

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

Maybe it's just my specific branch of academia, but paleoartists have it so good, man. Scholars are directly linked with and support artists, even if only through dissemination. Archaeologists within academia here couldn't care less, it's no wonder mesoamerican representation is stuck in the 50's

Interesting rhetoric from AOC here

Gods willing

"I think that the goal of Tom Homan switching out for Gregory Bovino is purely optics and damage control. It's not actually a change in their tactics of intimidation and indiscriminate apprehension,” said Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne.

Maya goddess emerging from a flower. Based on a whistle figure.

Zapotec woman of Tehuantepec from the late classic period. Based on a figurine.

The Last Stand Year of 7-House (1473), month of Tecuilhuitontli, day of 5-Rain. The Great Temple of Tlatelolco. Tlatoani Moquihuix made his last stand against the Tenochca army.

No amount of latino solidarity is gonna convince me that Bad Bunny is good music, but good on him for pissing off the fash.

Not a big Warhammer fan but something I really appreciate was the concept of Aztec dinosaurs, and the restraint of not making them the bad guys while keeping them very warlike. That dinosaurs turned out to be feathered was astonishing serendipity.

Gohan and Videl #dragonball

May i join the party? #art #history #Aztec

WIP of an oil painting I'm working on depicting Cazonci Tariacuri, the king of Patzcuaro and the person who laid the foundations for the Tarascan empire. You can check out advances I've posted, and will continue to post, on Patreon, cheers! www.patreon.com/Rafaelmena

Mexican Noblewoman #art #artist #illust #illustration #aztec #mesoamerica #mexico #history

Old yard. Plyos. https://www.wikiart.org/en/isaac-levitan/old-yard-plyos-1890

Doodling

It's pretty much all mossad huh?

Urimare Was commissioned to do a color sketch of the Venezuelan folk hero and semi-mythical chieftain Urimare.

Urimare Was commissioned to do a color sketch of the Venezuelan folk hero and semi-mythical chieftain Urimare.

Here is the finished butterfly throated raptor! This waist height species hunts for fish and other small animals in the swamp. Its long legs and flared toes allow it to wade in muddy water with ease. #dinosaur #paleo #paleoart #raptor #creaturedesign

Hey folks! My latest Histocrat video, this time covering the second half of the 1st Punic War, is now live over on youtube!