Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing cannot accept any country acting as the “world’s judge” after the United States captured Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro.

Micron pens on paper. Sometimes I’m just a basic bitch who likes to sketch a cubone.

https://archive.is/SO7Cg

I’m very excited to switch when I can microblog to my own profile!

My Linux Mint MATE setup. Been using it for awhile and its pretty grest. Really stable and customizable.

This is not a good look. Far better to target things like private jets which are at the intersection of wealth and excessive emissions

In January 1914 George Bellows wrote to a friend, “There has been none of my favorite snow. I must always paint the snow at least once a year.” Soon after, on February 13, a major blizzard hit New York City, inspiring the artist to paint Love of Winter. He used bright reds, yellows, and greens to intensify the winter scene and broad, slashing brushstrokes to convey movement, wind, and speed. The energetic group of skaters and onlookers, composed of people of a range of ages and social classes, reflects the diverse populations who enjoyed the public parks and the leisure activities they offered in early 20th-century New York City.

In 1917 Picasso traveled to Rome to design sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s famed Ballets Russes. Deeply impressed by the ancient and Renaissance art of that city, he began painting monumental figures inspired by antiquity. His new classical style was influenced by the finely modeled odalisques of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and the late, oddly proportioned female nudes of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Mother and Child was also inspired by Picasso’s own life. Just three years earlier he had married Russian dancer Olga Khokhlova, and in 1921 their son Paolo was born. Between 1921 and 1923 he produced at least twelve works on the subject of mothers and children, returning to a theme that he had explored during his Blue Period.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/56360109

Around 1920 Georgia O’Keeffe painted a number of oils exploring, as she later recalled, “the idea that music could be translated into something for the eye.” In Blue and Green Music, O’Keeffe’s colors and forms simultaneously suggest the natural world and evoke the experience of sound. She was drawn to the theories of the Russian Expressionist painter Vasily Kandinsky, who, in his 1912 text Concerning the Spiritual in Art, argued that visual artists should emulate music in order to achieve pure expression free of literary references.

#GeneralStrike2026

unironically

The Incan Temple of the Sun in Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire. But there’s even more to admire below ground. Recently, archaeologists confirmed a long-held rumor: the existence of a labyrinth of underground tunnels extending out from the temple, sometimes over a mile in length.

An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said Sunday in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.

@fediverseThe speed with which it happened prevented users from accessing their data, highlighting the risks of decentralized social media without backups. Its administrator ceased operations, causing confusion and data loss for many healthcare professionals who had signed up as an alternative to Twitter.This event serves as a reminder: If you follow this group, you can:1. Follow it and mention it in your messages, and it will reshare all your public posts addressed to it (this only applies to an initial message, not a reply to another message).2. Follow it only to read all the messages from fellow doctors who send messages through it.#MedMastodon

Academics produce papers and give it to Elsevier for free. Academics referee the paper for free. Elsevier sells the papers back to Academics. This has been their business model for some time… but now they’ve found another way to monetize you. They sell your data.

Worst part, this is the one component Prusa injection molded with no parts 3D Printable. I’ll probably figure something out.

Left: grocery store frozen meatballs, smoked oysters, banana peppers. Right pizza: pepperoni, olives and banana peppers.

Just one more hit please

Editorial January 3, 2026

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They died of seizure and heart failure, stroke, respiratory failure, tuberculosis or suicide. Some died at ICE detention centers and field offices, others after they had been transferred to hospitals, but were still under ICE custody. In some cases, their families and lawyers have alleged, they died of neglect, after repeatedly trying and failing to get medical care.

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/34220035

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/57942825

Recipe is so time consuming but worth it when you use the right hot sauce

They literally used to duct tape.

Love her music, she’s a lyrical genius!

If the information is stored at some value of bits per cm… There’s less bitrate (bits per revolution) in the middle of the record vs the outer edges.