Deze autodidactisch schilder weet op een treffende wijze deze hakende vrouw weer te geven | This self-taught painter has managed to capture this woman crocheting in a striking manner.
Jan van Herwijnen in #Museum More.
#museummore #modernart #artmuseum #art #exhibition #realism #originalart #ArtietAmicitiae #KCB

Toxic positivity is a lie, but realistic hope is a strategy. Choose wisely. #mentalhealth #hope #realism

https://artsincubator.ca/motivation/hope-is-not-delusion.html

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhauer

#philosophy #realism #existentialism #truth #psychology

Feeling like i can art again now that I’m outside the burning furnace of 🇺🇸

Trying out some long poses sessions here 🇬🇧 but when you are used to 4 hrs x 1week long poses and they are calling 20min “long” and you’re like lolll stop rushing me 😮‍💨 oops on the long neck. Great model tho

Charcoal is always challenging 🥲
#portrait #representationalart #realism #fineart

🎬 Le Gamin au vélo (2011)

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⬇️ Download https://app.box.com/s/j4rbyqlmt2c6ccmhm9q0qqabpyl23b89

🎞 IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1827512/

▶️ Watch the video here 👇
https://darkiworld2026.com/titles/30020/le-gamin-au-velo

#LeGaminAuVelo #Drama #Childhood #Realism #JeanPierreDardenne

Dame in avondtoilet - mooi beeld van de gelijnde moderne schilderstijl van na de eerste wereldoorlog | Lady in Evening Gown - beautiful example of the linear modern painting style that emerged after the First World War.
Charley Toorop in #Museum More.
#museummore #modernart #artmuseum #art #exhibition #realism #originalart

"Winter Landscape with Bulfinches," Bruno Liljefors, 1891.

Liljefors (1860-1939) is regarded as one of the most influential and important wildlife painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Born in Uppsala, Sweden, he lived his entire life in Scandinavia with occasional trips to other parts of Europe. He supposedly had a real knack for getting along with animals and had a menagerie of creatures who surprisingly would cooperate with his desire for them to pose for his work.

A lifelong hunter, he often depicted predator/prey scenes, but is noted for never exaggerating the predator's aggression or prey's pathos; this unsentimental, documentary style won him fans.

He was meticulous in his depiction of animals in their environment. He also produced a number of sequential works, depicting a story progressing....which some feel made him a pioneer of comic art as well.

From a private collection.

#Art #BrunoLiljefors #WildlifeArt #Sweden #Realism #Bulfinches #Birdies

Not really sure why the "Discord replacement" discussion is going on when we all know it will end up with some fash/tech-bro system being convenient and easy taking over, quite possibly by buying out a failing Discord.

#Cynicism #Realism

Summer refreshments - just shy of 2 hours of work. I normally work in one hour bursts but this one is so fiddly with its various greens that I can only focus for 30 minutes at a go. 😵‍💫

#wip #StillLife #realism #drawing #digital

Fleecy Clouds captures the essence of 19th-century realism with its serene rural landscape and dramatic sky. The meticulous brushwork invites viewers into a tranquil yet dynamic world. How does nature inspire your creative spirit?
#ClevelandArt #ArtAppreciation #Realism
https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.889

Cities Skylines 2: Neue Entwickler wollen Interface "extrem" überarbeiten

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.eurogamer.de/cities-skylines-2-interface-overhaul-update-details

Cities: Skylines 2's UI is getting an "extreme makeover", as new developers Iceflake take the reins - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/cities-skyline-2s-ui-is-getting-an-extreme-makeover-as-new-developers-iceflake-take-the-reins #ParadoxInteractive #Birdview/Isometric #Cities:SkylinesII #Family-friendly #ColossalOrder #XboxSeriesX/S #SinglePlayer #Simulation #Management #ModernDay #Strategy #Sandbox #Realism #PS5 #PC

Sushi: I'm 2.5 hours into this piece. This one will take a long time.

#drawing #realism #StillLife #digital #wip #art

Who Gets to Speak On Discord, Who Gets Banned, and Why That’s Always Political in Spaces with No Politics Rules

So, a thing I find very interesting about the fragility of the esteem among chronic Discord users is that it’s common for admins and moderators to ban or make fun of people who leave. Essentially, they’re responding to being rejected or not chosen, so they think it’s reasonable to retaliate

A Discord server I am lurking in has a “no politics” rule and is a religious, esoteric, and philosophical server. What I find very funny about this is that politics is:

“Politics is who gets what, when, and how.”

— Harold D. Lasswell, Politics: Who Gets What, When, How (1936)

I find it very funny that the most minimal form of being “not political” in a virtual community is a Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ). I was part of an IRC chaos magick channel when I was a teenager, and I submitted to a zine under my old handle (which is not Rayn) when I was 20. No, I’m not going to reveal the name I wrote under, which was published in chaos magick zines back in the day, because I’ve had a bucket of crazies following me around since 2008, with the insane network of anarchists circa 2020 being the latest instance.

ChanServ was a bot used on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks to manage channel operations such as bans, who got voiced, and permissions. Think of it as an early, early moderation bot. In an IRC TAZ, everyone who entered got all the permissions from Chanserv, so anyone could ban, voice, unban, deop, or op anyone else. No one had more power than anyone else, so there was minimal negotiation over channel resources. A TAZ is still an inherently political construct; however, it is a minimal political construct because there is minimal negotiation of resources and an equal, random, and chaotic authority structure. That’s not Discord, though.

Discord inherently has a hierarchical system defined by roles, a TOS, and members are expected to abide by the rules of that server. So, when you say there is a no-politics rule on Discord, you are inherently contradicting yourself because Discord is structurally political in how you, as a moderator, interact with others. How people negotiate conversations and interact with each other to access the resources of your Discord server is inherently political.

Discord’s structure makes any “no-politics” rule itself a political act. Moderators exercise power by granting, restricting, or revoking permissions, and that distribution of power is the very politics the rule tries to avoid. So while the intention is to keep discussions “apolitical,” it creates local Discord politics by determining who gets to speak and who gets silenced (e.g., banned, timed out, kicked, or limited to certain channels). A “no politics” rule shifts political dynamics into moderation decisions rather than eliminating them.

What prompted this was me observing a typical pragmatic versus moral realism argument that you’d see in any philosophy course or forum. I’m an academic and a computational scientist, but I don’t try to shut down any arguments with that, because that’s an explicit fallacy and a dishonest, bad-faith tactic.

Technically, I am a biologist. Yes, I have a biology degree and a biotech degree. I also have philosophy, mathematics, and computer science and engineering degrees under my belt. I have to work with people like this on a daily basis, and I find them insufferable, so the last thing I want to do in my free time after looking at stacks of dumbass papers is argue with people on Reddit or Discord when I could be fucking, getting fucked, or spending time with my husband. But, alas, they have no life. Keep in mind, as a computational biologist that reviews a lot of shit, I get paid to argue. These idiots are arguing on the Internet for free! The reason why Redditors, Reddit moderators, and Discord moderators get shat on so much is that all of their labor is unpaid! People with lives don’t take it that seriously!

On to the convo:

A new person in the community defined morals as: morals = {a, b, c} exhaustively. An established member of that community responded that, for them, morals are either {x, y, z…}, non-exhaustive and polymorphic, or not inherently defined by the tradition itself but supplied externally by the individual. The new person replied, effectively, “According to my definition of a, b, c, that still constitutes a moral framework.” An established member who is also a scientist pushed back as if no definition of morals had been proposed at all, when in actuality they were disagreeing with the scope and applicability of the given definition, not the act of defining itself.

By the way, the symbolic way I’m defining this is ambiguous. You have no clue what anything is; however, it is ontologically defined, and the logic makes sense. That is the problem. An ontological definition was given, so arguing that no definition was proposed—simply because they disagreed with it—is in bad faith. Personally, I am a constructivist, poststructuralist, pragmatist, instrumentalist, and anti-realist, so I don’t care too much about the realism of the ontological propositions and expressions. I am pointing out logical mistakes.

This is especially egregious when individuals rely on their authority in a domain where their degree is not pertinent. A well-known issue with scientists is that their curiosity can outstrip their morality. Essentially, an ethics board composed mostly of scientists without degrees in ethics, law, or philosophy will make poor decisions and saturate the political sphere they occupy with advocates and lobbyists to bend laws to their interests. Therefore, a board with no philosophers is pretty sinister.

Morals and ethics are philosophical problems. To my knowledge, many people who sit on ethics boards that seriously address ethical issues have philosophy, and not just astronomy, degrees. Relevant degrees include psychology, sociology, theology, philosophy, etc. For example, I have a philosophy degree, so I am technically qualified and credentialed by a university to have these discussions. An astronomy degree alone does not make someone qualified to discuss ethics—maybe if they also had a theology degree?

The thing I find really funny about this group is that they avoid dilemmas. Morals and ethics are developed through ethical dilemmas. Their response to any type of dilemma is to exert their local authority and exclude, deny, or shut down conversations.

The difference between science and philosophy is that science is a little less messy and more defined. We can all see something and agree on what we see, right? The difference with philosophical questions and moral dilemmas is that they are relatively open-ended and ambiguous. It’s really amusing to me how those who try to argue philosophy are uncomfortable with indefinite answers that are open to interpretation.

It’s just funny how they tacitly assume that they are the only academics in their field in existence and that their opinion on things is the consensus, especially on metaphysical issues where there is no consensus. No human knows what the right thing to do is all the time. It’s great to know that they have somehow achieved a level of inhuman perfection.

“Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!”
― Erich Maria Remarque

#Bot #Quote #Peace #Philosophy #Politics #Realism #Tyranny