De partij heeft jarenlang niks anders gedaan dan proberen radicaalrechts te imiteren en te overtreffen. Het enige principe dat er nog heerst is: de democratie-vijandige kiezers niet voor het hoofd stoten. Het is zo reflexmatig geworden dat ze zelfs Sieg-heilende NSB-vlaggeraars niet konden afwijzen.

All of these miniatures, and a ton of other pieces of all shapes and sizes, available at the Fall Arts & Music Festival in Hoboken this Sunday. Hundreds of vendors, food, and live music on two main stages. Looking forward to this!

New on the blog. I had some leftover bacon that needed to be cooked. Added green onions, bean sprouts, a big spoonful of ssamjang, and folded it into an omelet. Definitely a flavor combo I would recommend and one that I’ll come back to. #food #foodSky #foodAndCooking #homeCooking #korean 🍽️

Because nothing fucking matters anymore.

Timeline on point.

I don’t think anyone outside of the MAGA cult is arguing for this.

Reminder voor ons allemaal, maar vooral voor Eelco Heinen:

This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.

Believe it or not, the vast majority of us do. You can debate for hours about how exactly this man got elevated to the highest office, but it was not because of deep rooted, widespread popular support.

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

doomers: there’s not going to be elections in America ever again me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections

'Conservatives are cosplaying normal human emotions. It’s an act. It’s a performance.' Dat herken ik volgens mij. En het voelt heel erg als gaslighting.

For better or worse, American culture is centered around celebrities. So it’s way past time for celebrities to condemn this reality-show presidency and the damage it is doing. No, they won’t save us, but they can help remind us that we are the social majority.

The problem with LLMs is more than just a few wrong answers here and there. It’s software making things up entirely in order to create an internal logic feedback loop, because that’s what it was programmed to do.

Klopt. Dit waren geen hooligans. Dit waren wat ze ooit, in de late jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw,‘’knokploegen’’ noemden.

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

From a reference photo taken at the banks of the mighty Hudson River in Kingston this afternoon. Acrylic on panel, 4x4 art.monospace.com #art #artSky #fineArt #acrylic #miniature #landscapeArt #HudsonRiver #Kingston #NewYorkState

@beatricedegraaf.bsky.social : "Ik vind het echt schokkend dat in principe rechtstatelijke partijen als de VVD en de SGP meegaan met de populisten in de Tweede Kamer, die op deze manier de democratische rechtsorde willen inperken." Democratieën sterven niet met een klap, maar geleidelijk.

It’s like setting off a nuclear explosion under entire sectors of the economy. No wonder this was announced under the cover of darkness on a Friday night.

Gaat wel lekker daar in Nederland. (Fascist mob running amok in The Hague, see video)

Far-right thugs rampage in the Hague, attacking police and the HQ of centrist party D66. While parliament condemns the threat of “fascist” antifa. Shame on every politician -including VVD ones - who spent the last year ramping up tensions to win votes. You don’t get to do that and then condemn this.

I’m in tears. I was literally going to visit BWAC tomorrow.

Hongarije aan Zee.

A wee little painting™️ of the beach at Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Acrylic on panel, 4”x4” art.monospace.com #art #artSky #fineArt #acrylic #miniature #landscapeArt #JerseyShore #NewJersey

Two of my pieces will be on display at an as of yet undisclosed location on Washington Street in Hoboken, for the entire month of October. I will share which pieces and the exact location sometime next week. Stay tuned.

Finished the first box. Here’s a group photo. art.monospace.com #art #artSky #fineArt #acrylic #miniature #landscapeArt

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

A deeply important read.

De tekst van @estherouwehand.bsky.social bij de Algemene Politieke Beschouwingen verdient het om gedeeld te worden. Het is een schande dat dit uiterste rechtse rompje van een stompje van een kabinet de koning liet suggereren dat je uitspreken tegen afbraak van de rechtstaat polariseren is. /2

Having fun cranking these out. A great exercise to force myself to simplify, focus on composition, colors, and brush marks, and figure out what I liked about the scene in the first place. These are all 4”x4” (10x10cm), so really quite small. #art #artSky #fineArt #acrylic #miniature #landscapeArt

There is deep truth in this analysis

Hmm.

Fascists don't have a sense of humor.

"The charges don't have to be real, they just have to be unaffordable." Exactly.

Okay, to put an even sharper point on this: they are not even 9 months in and they are openly censoring *Jimmy fucking Kimmel* because he poked fun at the president for lack of empathy. These are desperate moves. They are desperate because they are weak and people are naming it.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Also, Citizen United. This is what you get when the Supreme Court declares that money equals speech, and all the mainstream media is owned by billionaires.

And the NYT is doing MAGA propaganda without any threats or prompting. Great.

Another wee one, also of the Meadowlands, near Secaucus NJ. Acrylic on canvas panel, 4”x4” art.monospace.com #art #artSky #fineArt #acrylic #miniature #landscapeArt #meadowlands #NewJersey

Another wee little painting™️ on a wee little easel. Somewhere in the New Jersey Meadowlands this time. acrylic on canvas panel, 4”x4” art.monospace.com #art #artSky #fineArt #acrylic #miniature #landscapeArt #meadowlands #NewJersey

Trump-aligned billionaires owning all the social media platforms is a really big deal

A wee little Dutch landscape painting on a wee little easel. Many more available at the Fall Hoboken Arts & Music Festival, September 28. Acrylic on panel, 4”x4”. art.monospace.com #art #artSky #fineArt #acrylic #miniature #landscapeArt #HobokenArtsAndMusic

They have protests in Hungary, even Russia and China. You are not getting blackbagged for going to a daytime public march carrying a "Stop Hate" sign with the farmers market crew. This trivializes the real risks and terrors undocumented people face.

kirk was not a “conservative.” he was a christofascist extremist and stochastic terrorist. his colleagues know this. their entire *thing* is built on flooding the zone with so much shit that you can no longer call a duck a duck without the meaning of birds & your sanity being called into question.

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

I feel seen

Passing the time at McAnn’s Bar at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, waiting for the bus to New Jersey. One of the best Irish dive bars in NYC, and one of its best kept secrets, inside of a bus station. #art #artSky #fineArt #IrishBar #penAndInk #NYC #urbanSketching #NewJersey

I have been asked to contribute this letter U as part of the art walk in Union Township NJ next month. art.monospace.com #art #artSky #fineArt #acrylic #UnionArtWalk #landscapeArt #meadowlands #NewJersey

Troonrede vol loze woorden. Kabinet saboteert klimaat en natuur, dient agro-industrie, voert zondebokpolitiek en neemt woord genocide niet eens in de mond. Mensen voelen aan alle kanten onrust. We hebben kabinet nodig dat grote problemen aanpakt, werkt aan gezonde toekomst en opstaat tegen genocide