#UK: We've sent a letter to Yvette Cooper expressing deep concern that funding for the BBC World Service is due to run out at the end of March. We urge the government to confirm a long-term funding arrangement to ensure their vital work continues ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/02/the-...

GOOD NEWS: The world’s largest steam-producing heat pump is now online in Finland, delivering 12 MW of superheated steam from waste heat and CO₂-free electricity. Proof that industrial heat can be electrified at scale. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/19/w...

a year is a long time in politics

Peter Mandelson, yes. But also, ffs, Tony Blair!

This morning in a street in the #Stühlinger Stadteil from #Freiburg im Breisgau. #oilpainting #KleineKunstKlasse

Look, now that we're trying for real consequences for the Epstein files, maybe we should also take another look at the Panama Papers

Anyone wanging on about our ‘Judeo-Christian heritage’ should be forced to make their internet search history publicly available

Two things are simultaneously true: 1. The Iranian regime treats its people with extreme brutality and cruelty, and we should honour the citizens seeking to overthrow it. 2. A US attack on Iran would turn a crisis into a catastrophe.

Someone posted that Lutnick's kid is running a company that Lutnick used to run, and it's been going around buying the rights to tariff refunds for a year now for pennies on the dollar from companies. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...

Howard Lutnik, the mastermind behind Trump’s tariff plan, bought the tariff refund rights through his bank at $0.25 on the dollar last year. Actively betting on his own policy to not work. Lutnik and his bank now stand to make billions.

Andrew arrest is another opportunity for American commentators, including liberal ones, to display their astonishing ignorance that there is a world out there: american processes, laws, conventions etc do not apply „overseas“ ffs. Also the identification of the UK with „London“ omfg. 🤬 🤮

#portraitchallenge 19/02/26 from another universe #studioteabreak #kleinekunstklasse #mastoart #artchallenge

I have woken up thinking about the Allegretto from Beethoven’s 7th again, as we all should do, often. (14:40)

I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.

A wave might be breaking #oilpainting #kleinekunstklasse #ocean

Feeling quite patriotic. This is what equality under the law is meant to look like.

I think it is fair to expect a Mandelson arrest.

So andrew was arrested pretty much as soon as he moved out of a royal residence which leads one to suspect they have been ready to arrest him for a while and forced the kings hand to distance him first to protect the state.

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

BBC reporting that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. There is no precedent for a senior member of the royal family being placed under arrest in modern British history. A seismic moment for the monarchy.

Historic for our class-ridden country. Excellent

Die AfD-Landesverbände Brandenburg, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen werden vom Verfassungsschutz bereits als gesichert rechtsextremistisch eingestuft. Seit heute gilt das auch für die AfD Niedersachsen. Wie viele Einstufungen dieser Art will man noch abwarten bis man ein Verbot auch nur prüft?

The agony of a welsh international preparing to sing their glorious anthem in the certain knowledge they will be thrashed by the french even though this really used to be *their* game. #oilpainting #rugby

Happy President’s Day! Did you there’s a country that named the seat of its federal government after a man who held human beings as property? Wild, right?

What at least some of the ruling global 'elite' really think and want: mass genocide of the plebs. We have a system that seeks out THE most moronic, evil, psychopathic individuals, and hands them the greatest power. Understanding that is central to the fight against climate & ecological breakdown.

Spine tingling. 5 notes intro and then ..

A scene in the lovely Usambara mountains in north eastern #Tanzania. #oiloainting #kleinekunstklasse

#portrsitchallenge #kleinekunstklasse had fun with this one for some reason

Yesterday i painted my granddaughter drinking while looking at her parents playing chess in the garden. Could not conceivably paint any better subject than that. #kleinekunstklasse #oilpainting #family

#Antigravity is an amazing product, but if I am not mistaken a recent update has the software now validating its changes to a web app by opening a browser and performing tests. It takes forever and is a big UX mistake IMO.

Today am finding it amusing that we refer to the most fundamental concept in highfaluting mind-bendingly abstract modern theoretical physics with probably one of the oldest, most solid germanic peasant words: *field*. We‘ve come a long way, „folks“. #bodenständig

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

#portraitchallenge #kleinekunstklasse #oilpainting

El Paso, Texas airport, and a 10 nm radius around it (not including Mexican airspace) are closed to *all* flight operations for 10 days, starting late last night, with no prior notice to *anyone.* 1/4

At school we has to read a short story by EM Forster „When the Machine Stops“. An unlikely science fiction about a society which had become incredibly dependent on a machine. Well, our internet just went out for half an hour.

The Trump defence!

A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️ A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm. Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin #FindsFriday #Archaeology

#portraitchallenge i painted his far more anxious brother

If Starmer is serious (he's not, ofc) he'd introduce strict new anti-lobbying laws, bring in firewalls against revolving doors, and undertake a deep, unflinching investigation into financial and influence ties in politics, with criminal sanctions.

Palestine Action are found not guilty for the offence that our government claimed as grounds for proscribing them.

Fun painting a Frauentormauer scene, #art #painting #nürnberg

Bonjour à tous

Another germanic term which survived regionally is dale. Not only can we delight in hills and *valleys*, but we can go up hill and down *dale* in Yorkshire most famously, but also in Derbyshire, Cumbria, etc. Dale clearly in origin the same as Tal in german.

He evidently has to be prosecuted. It is called espionage innit? Don’t we immediately arrest such people? Burgess, Mclean, Philby, Blunt, Mandelson.

Also, Blair.

In England, northerners know how great it is to be out in the „fells“, though the more common english term is hill/mountain. It evidently has a common ancestor with the german word Felsen.

Yesterday‘s portrait. I really enjoy painting singers. #art #painting

W.H.A.T. A. B.U.R.N.! The city of Minneapolis and its residents were formally nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

The imperturbable Ilhan Omar. #art #painting