Nathaniel Harari @natharari@qoto.org

happy may the fourth eve

Our final day in Paris spent at the refreshingly quiet and uncrowded Rodin Museum. Soaking up as much sun and green as we can before we head back to Alaska. #Paris #France #Rodin #TravelPhotography

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@natharari Actually, I shouldn’t let the alt-left off the hook either. Seen from a cosy distance, in sunny Southern California, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is every bit as much of an opportunist as Donald Trump, and almost as good at lying.

I don’t want to ruffle anyone’s feathers here on Mastodon, but that’s how it seems to me, as a moderate centrist who considers himself socially and fiscally “responsible”.

#JeanLucMélenchon #Qanon #LaFranceInsoumise #BlackBlocs

@natharari It’s a new reality in today’s world, and French alt-right political movements are trying to take advantage of it as well, not to mention those self-immolating #Brekshit fanatics.

"#America is a #Christian #nation!"
Let's see what our #FoundingFathers had to say:

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law." -Thomas Jefferson

“The government of the #UnitedStates of #America is not founded on a Christian #religion in any sense.” -John Adams

“The purpose of the #SeparationOfChurchAndState is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries." -James Madison

Good morning, the good social network <3

Very sad news from Unsung Stories

https://mailchi.mp/2895ef938a22/the-end-or-how-to-stick-the-landing-indie-press-style

Huge, huge discounts on all their books.

I highly recommend GIGANTIC by Ashley Stokes, GREENSMITH by Aliya Whiteley, DARK RIVER by Rym Kechacha, and both the Malcolm Devlin short story collections

Small presses need our help and support more than ever. I will miss Unsung Stories and always treasure their books

(And ebooks, too)

🇫🇮🇺🇦President Zelensky meets with Finland's president (VIDEO and more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3704116-zelensky-meets-with-finlands-president.html #Ukraine #Finland #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

Who could have imagined that Tucker Carlson, a white supremacist in public, was also a white supermacist in private? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/business/media/tucker-carlson-text-message-white-men.html

The spate of media hype about RFK Jr. is not a harmless diversion. The far-right is leveraging it in order to accomplish two goals:

1) Radicalize people to QAnon and similar conspiracy cults.
2) Degrade the value of empirical reality in politics.

https://www.salon.com/2023/05/03/steve-bannon-alex-jones-rfk-jr/

With writers on strike, can an AI chatbot be as funny as Stephen Colbert?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65465386

#AI #ChatGPT #comedy #WritersStrike #BBC

Painting Experiment!

I've been recently trying to experiment with a new style that combines both watercolor and tempera color, and this was the very first attempt.

The goal was to have a more "painterly" style that is not as reliant on lineart as my current one, and I think I've been quite successful!

#watercolor #watercolour #tempera #painting #forest #autumn #TraditionalArt