Just_Art

Making a video for my granddaughter to show her that oil paints can be mixed right on the canvas. Start of a self portrait, basic brushing, zero details yet.

I'm confused. Sometimes, I see posts attributed to you with pastoral boating scenes, a few words about an idyllic life and, at other times, political stuff, and a life of fending off nasty people and battling corruption. Are there two of you, or a stolen identity posing as the "real" you?

My wife and I have five grandkids under the age of 12 and have been babysitting three of them for years, so naturally I use whatever is handy to pass on my enjoyment of art to them. With only one exception, they do a lot on their own now. This is our youngest, at 14 months. A sixth child is due in July.

@SairaAhmed178 The path I walk.

@AdkStudioArt What inspired this beautiful poem about nature's healing path and peaceful shoreline dreams?

The Path An old stick was all he had To steady his way along the wooded path That led down to the shoreline Patches of sunlight Through the birch and pine Followed in the shadows While glistening waters captured the rising sun In all its glorious light and warmth And there along the banks of what became His personal retreat He bowed his head Gave thanks And dreamed.

@RoyalFamily I stood in the same spots. A "must visit" on your bucket listm

Parks and Rex! 🏕️ The King has spent time at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Appalachian Highlands.   ⛰️ The Blue Ridge Mountains are among the oldest in the worldand the Appalachian Highlands were, remarkably, once connected to the Scottish Highlands as part of a single mountain chain.   Conservation efforts at Shenandoah include those aimed at preserving the iconic bald eagle, which was at risk of extinction in the mid-1900s. 🦅

@jefftrent2 @GuntherEagleman You can't be serious. The French saved us from the British. Revolutionary war. 5th grade history knowledge.

@AdkStudioArt @GuntherEagleman You don’t understand history. Or maybe you can explain to me how the British saved us from the French.

🚨 King Charles just hit President Trump with a hilarious comeback at the State Dinner: “You recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that if it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking French.” Trump laughing, the room cracking up, perfect banter between two leaders who clearly respect each other.

@jefftrent2 @GuntherEagleman Study the revolution war.

@SarahAllisonFl Click bait

This 🏳️‍🌈trans man says he’s deeply interested in the teachings of the Quran and wants to convert to Islam, believing that ‘Allah is beyond gender’. How do you think this story will turn out?

@jefftrent2 @GuntherEagleman You won't get it unless you understand history.

@GuntherEagleman The only problem with this is that it’s not true. England did not rescue us from the French.

@GuntherEagleman You'll get it if you understand history.

@SrtSimsek @girisimcihisler Sick

@girisimcihisler Depresyonun başımız üstünde yeri var. En azından kendimizi yer bitiririz. Asıl bu kitlesel hastalıklar incelenmeli ve yok edilmeli.

DEPRESYON BİYOLOJİK BİR ÇÖKÜŞTÜR! Stanford'dan Robert Sapolsky, depresyonun zihinsel değil bedensel bir iflas olduğunu kanıtladı. "Güçlü ol" tavsiyesi saçmalıktır çünkü kronik stres beyninizi fiziksel olarak yeniden kablolar.

@matthew_labosco Why I paint.

Robert Sapolsky is a Stanford neuroscientist who proved chronic stress is the silent killer doctors ignore. On Chris Williamson's podcast, he revealed 10 "normal" habits you do every day that wreck your sleep, mood, and nervous system: 1) Replay conversations in your head

@owroot It's a form of narcissism.

The angry seething replies to this post are genuinely mind boggling. I would think a post like this might be one of the most anodyne, calm, and positive reflections imaginable. But no, not here. Not on X. This is deeply angering apparently, and a personal offense to a strange group of people who are apparently deeply and profoundly connected to their dryer, and who I guess hate the smell of the outside too. I don't know. Whatever it is, people are very disturbed, things aren't good, a break happened somewhere at some point and people have become more insane or deranged. So much so that they rage at a gentle reflection on the lovely beauty of drying clothes in the fresh spring air. Disturbing times and disturbing people.

@watergypsi Thank you. That's a lot of territory. It looks like an idyllic way to enjoy the countryside, and I never would have imagined there would be that many miles to explore.

@watergypsi You don't seem to answer questions, but I'm curious. How many miles of waterways exist over there? Do you end up going around and around, or are there always new places to explore?

@shagbark_hick I called that "camping."

One thing I miss about being homeless is how much PRIVACY I got each night. This may seem counterintuitive, but proper stealth camping is 10x more private than living in a house with neighbors. I slept out of sight in odd places and weird corners, amongst reeds or brambles, whatever. With no car to signal my presence, and no worn trail to tell others that I was there, I could very easily relax in blissfully perfect privacy. Now that I live in a house, my neighbors know when I'm home. They see me sitting on my porch throughout the day. They wonder what I do, where I am going -- one of my more paranoiac neighbors even seems to perform "inspections" on my house occasionally, to see if we are here, leering into the windows and the driveway etc. Some will say: "so don't live in town, then!" But even in an isolated country home, your name is still on the tax records. They know who you are. They check you out on satellite. It's when you own nothing and just drift place to place that you're truly private. As a traveling vagabond, I was never subjected to the scrutiny of prying eyes, chiefly because I was good at finding stealthy sleep spots. No one had any knowledge of who I was, where I was, or what I was doing between dusk and dawn. It was truly beautiful and I deeply miss it. There is no luxury quite like being truly unseen, unknown, totally hidden. I am sad to think that that part of my life is really over forever.

@TonySeruga They'll never grow old, right?

🚨 New York Times: Old People Suck and We Should Take Their Stuff It's time do away with these societal "grifters" and "stowaways," says an eminent Yale professor —MATT TAIBBI The New York Times on old people: It is not ageist to ask whether older people should be required to give more to younger Americans… Older Americans favor restrictions on immigration… there is a correlation between age and resistance to policies to halt the overheating of the planet… impose age ceilings on political offices… Older Americans own much of the most desirable real estate… It is not ageist, finally, to impose policies to transfer jobs, houses and wealth down the generational chain. Yale law professor Samuel Moyn, whom I interviewed once, always seemed generous and reasonable, even when our politics differed. But unless it’s an elaborate meta-joke, the above column and forthcoming book Gerontocracy in America: How the Old are Hoarding Wealth and Power in Americaadvance some of the most intellectually vicious ideas I’ve ever seen. The Godwin’s Law factor alone is a shocker. Moyn observes that people of years have accumulated money and influence and contrives to end the “tyranny of the old” by having “the elderly divested of political power, wealth, and property,” because reasons. The title of the Times piece, “Older Americans Are Hoarding America’s Potential,” carries the obscene lefty connotation that no one really owns anything and the elderly, by din of living too long to begin with, and having a generally shitty quality of life compared to the young, and voting incorrectly/selfishly (hilarious, in the context of open scheming to seize their savings) and wasting resources “playing for time” for “another day, month, or year among loved ones” makes them lousy stewards of what the author unironically calls “our inheritance,” i.e. their homes and bank accounts. racket.news/p/new-york-tim…

@KR3Wmatic How did you convince yourself?

How do I convince an atheist that there is a God?