Notices by Jo-chin up, elbows up. (joblakely@mastodon.social)

I’ve been doing a lot of research on Textiles, especially rugs, of the Silk Road and I really love the sampler rugs, called Wagireh, which show a number of different patterns in one rug.
Some of them are so beautifully and creatively designed themselves to make a pleasing rug. There are only a couple of quick samples of samplers I found…but I’ve seen many that are more beautiful…just can’t find now, and some with unusual & beautiful asymmetry.

So, maybe this Canadian businessman should not be on the board at the ROM, or a mentor at Schulich School of business…

He is executive chairman of the passenger & cargo airline whose planes are the ones taking people to forever prison camps in El Salvador for ICE without due process.

From @r.gilmore
https://youtu.be/O8El6gbYHx0

#Canada #Ontario #Toronto #humanRights
#fascism

Trump caught on hot mic talking about needing more prisons for the ‘home-growns’. “At least 5 more.” (Prisons).
US citizens as political prisoners.

https://youtu.be/Q_sb0UsUbaQ

City of Boise refuses to comply with the fascists. Will not remove the Pride flag from city hall.

https://youtu.be/lqwJ-e0x5Nw

Maybe instead of pretending to bring back extinct species, do real actual science you don’t have to lie about, that has real purpose…like invest in stuff to prevent everything that is now alive from going extinct from climate, pollution. People should be very trepidatious about gene editing. There is other more pressing science to do if we are to live healthy lives.

Work in progress on a 5 x 7 #portrait of Chef & Humanitarian José Andrés. It’s coming along. A likeness is showing up. A few small finishing touches to do.
#portrait #humanitarian #chef #food #painting #art #artwork #mastoart #workinprogress #noAI #handmade #oilpainting #fineart #joseandres #gallery

Please consider being a ko-fi supporter of my #art & help me buy art supplies if you can. I am prolific & go through a lot of paint & surfaces.
https://ko-fi.com/joblakely

I am also accepting #portrait commissions which are a wonderful way to capture a moment, a memory, people or animals you love.
Portrait commissions are $700 for 8 x 10” cradled wood panel. A unique #luxury gift.
Smaller & Larger sizes available too.
Price list at http://www.joblakely.com/pricelist.html

Thank you!

#artist #painting
#boost

A quick little painting I am liking a lot.
It’s always the ones I do quickly and decisively that I love the most. It’s very tiny, about 4 x 6” oil on canvas board & some digital painting over top & retouching.

Beaded earrings from @Tzipporah
Muse (not a portrait exactly) was @twospiritdyke@bsky.social

#lgbtq #twoSpirit #queer #art #artwork #portraitart #painting #lesbian #pride
#mastoart

They want to tell you the boycotts don’t work…except Target has already lost over 16 billion since they trashed DEI. Walmart stores are empty & while I can’t find figures on losses…truth will out eventually. And Tesla alone has lost over 750 Billion.
People aren’t flying to US.
Keep up the good work people. You may not see the results published and they may say it doesn’t work, but it clearly does.
#resist #resistance #boycott

This Jewish comedian pulls no punches roasting Zionists.
https://youtu.be/DjihuT-R94E

Just learned this Fun fact: ””socialist Norway” has almost 2 trillion USD in their Sovereign Wealth Fund.
If everybody quit working today, Norway could maintain its standard of living for more than 400 years.
They nationalized their oil and gave the profits to the government, not shareholders.
Socialism is the enemy of billionaires, but the friend of the middle class.”

#Canada needs to do the same. The whole world needs to do the same.

@fkamiah17 @SrRochardBunson
Saw this today too from London ( from YT)

@aehdeschaine @hollie
SAME!!!!!
I don’t watch much as a result, bc I also really hate police, fbi, cia, and military propaganda shows. And I hate horror & violence. And now dislike most dystopias or negative future visions.
It doesn’t leave much.
I love most British comedy panel & game shows.
I like funny human stories told well.
Fleabag, Derry Girls, Chewing Gum, Ghosts, Dinosaur, Catastrophe, Colin From Accounts, Upload, Undone, Lower Decks & Strange New Worlds.

@aehdeschaine @hollie I got into the first series, finished it, but could not do the second. The first ended so disappointingly, I wasn’t going to waste my time. It was so violent, so many awful people with power. I didn’t need more of it. I used to love costume dramas…but not so much anymore either. It is all off putting these days.

@kaia @overholt
I’ve read of a few awful humiliations we were forced to endure. But most records of our achievements and our sufferings have been completely & purposefully destroyed. 1000s of years of it.

@blogdiva I really learned about this scarcity economic bullshit through Buckminster Fuller who spoke about Malthusian Darwinian economics as bullshit which is scarcity & population control eugenics. Who is fittest to survive.

@WarnerCrocker we definitely need to see more Dem leaders helping communities organize, stay safe and brainstorm solutions.

Someone posted a video with the caption ‘the wolf is at the door…’ about these times.
No. That’s not right. The wolf is in the house, has reproduced and is in every room of the house defecating everywhere and destroying everything. And have already killed many.

The time is long past. The wolf was welcomed in with open arms, over and over. What are you going to do now?

Took this from another poster who posted without alt text.

Fuck Imperialism.