A higher tide around cliffs at Cabrillo Tidepools, San Diego. #sandiego #california #southerncalifornia #cabrillonationalmonument #beach #ocean #sea #seascape #landscape #landscapephotography #photography #photographer #landscapeart #waves
© Rick Stevens. 'Autumnal Grace.' Oil on linen, 2023. 28 × 22 inches.
© Tom Thomson. 'In the Northland.' Oil on canvas, 1916. 101.7 × 114.5 cm.
Dolphins swimming in bioluminescence, Merritt Island, Florida. IG: @patricke_lao Taken with a Sony Alpha a7S II
- The American kestrel (Falco sparverius) is the smallest and most common falcon in the Americas. - Photo courtesy of George Rosema.
Although Namibia's east wind had transformed the coastal dunes into an unnavigable inferno, we came upon this intensely beautiful scene of Springboks, surrounded by a sea of furiously churning sand. A moment of sublime wonder & serenity, gone all too soon! #photography #bluesky #naturephotography
Coast of Oak grove of Peter the Great in Sestroretsk https://botfrens.com/collections/210/contents/48932
#Poetry #Painting #EverdayMagic Nature is not stingy with her miracles We simply forget to look - Sara Sarna 🎨 Maynard Dixon
"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary." - Gloria Steinem RIP Warrior♥️ We will carry your torch as we continue the fight for change Go with the wind, knowing you've made a monumental difference in innumerable lives #loss #GloriaSteinem #hero #photography #change
Morecambe Bay View 31 August 2026 - 1940 20cm x 10cm, Oil on wood. #Morecambe #morecambebay #pleinair #landscape #skyscape #seascape #painting #skypainters #oilpainting #plywood #michaelhardingpaints #jacksonsartsupplies
Constantinople, the mosque of Tophane, by Ivan Aivazovsky (1884)
Night falls and the restaurant lights crawl. 8”x10” Oil on wood panel
Meet me at the ocean with your @petite_paintbox. 5x7 oil on linen panel. 🌊 #oilpainting #beachpainting #pleinair #enpleinair #art
The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.
Data centers are noisy, they take out drinking water and emit tons of EMFs all in the same package. And possibly take out jobs.
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Adult art education: you’re never too old to be bad at something | Carol L. Douglas
Discover why adult art education requires the courage to fail, and how painting can restore curiosity, confidence, and the joy of learning.
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Christ in the House of His Parents, by John Everett Millais
When there are multiple stories about data centers simply building gas turbines without permits, PROVING they can’t be trusted, you’d be a fool to trust them. This is not paranoia, it’s pragmatism.
Anil Dash@anildash.com · 2d agoI'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise is a simple, correct one: you can't trust what Big Tech says in its promises to a local community.
This jay has developed a faintly smug expression and I don't know how to feel about that... #WIP #watercolors #painting
Data center land use regs, tax incentives, etc that may have looked like a good deal for a city or county before hyperscalers (say, because of a colocated tech campus) now look like a very very bad deal. goodjobsfirst.org/cloudy-with-...
Cloudy with a Loss of Spending Control: How Data Centers Are Endangering State Budgets - Good Jobs First
Data centers are budget headache for states and localities: Pre-Ai tax-breaks are suddenly costing governments billions in lost tax revenue.
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This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.