Mark M. Weston
@markmweston.bsky.social
The author of "The Art of Wellbeing." Devoted to the healing powers of nature and arts.
Charles Courtney Currran
Chinese lanterns shine as darkness falls and the moon rises behind the trees ~ Charles Courtney Currran’s atmospheric ‘The Lanterns’ (1913)
November 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Charles Courtney Currran
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Qajar painting of woman doing a handstand, Iran, early 20th century, oil on canvas
November 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Qajar painting of woman doing a handstand, Iran, early 20th century, oil on canvas
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Meanwhile, Ukrainian sea drones disabled two of the "shadow fleet" tankers carrying Russian oil. No doubt the start of a campaign
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-na...
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-na...
'Successful' Ukrainian naval drone strike disables 2 Russian shadow fleet tankers, source says
The operation targeted ships that, according to the source, could have transported nearly $70 million worth of oil and helped Moscow bypass international sanctions.
kyivindependent.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Meanwhile, Ukrainian sea drones disabled two of the "shadow fleet" tankers carrying Russian oil. No doubt the start of a campaign
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-na...
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-na...
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a surprise: I painted this at a different orientation, turned it, & blinked a couple of times —here is Spirit of the Raven.
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#artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #painter #art #womensartbluesky #abstractartist #blueskyart #artist #oregonartist #oregon
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November 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
a surprise: I painted this at a different orientation, turned it, & blinked a couple of times —here is Spirit of the Raven.
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#artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #painter #art #womensartbluesky #abstractartist #blueskyart #artist #oregonartist #oregon
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Reposted by Mark M. Weston
November 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
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Félix Vallotton
Effect of Mist, Honfleur, 1917
Oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm
Effect of Mist, Honfleur, 1917
Oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm
November 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Félix Vallotton
Effect of Mist, Honfleur, 1917
Oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm
Effect of Mist, Honfleur, 1917
Oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
Lili Wood
Pres de La Chapelle, 2022
Gouache on paper
20 x 26 cm
Pres de La Chapelle, 2022
Gouache on paper
20 x 26 cm
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Lili Wood
Pres de La Chapelle, 2022
Gouache on paper
20 x 26 cm
Pres de La Chapelle, 2022
Gouache on paper
20 x 26 cm
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
the price of populism
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
the price of populism
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
Albert Bierstadt - A Storm in the Rocky Mountains (1886)
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Albert Bierstadt - A Storm in the Rocky Mountains (1886)
The work of contemporary Northjmbrian printmaker Rebecca Vincent ##ReframingWomenPrintmakers
#WOMENSART
@womensart1
#WOMENSART
@womensart1
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The work of contemporary Northjmbrian printmaker Rebecca Vincent ##ReframingWomenPrintmakers
#WOMENSART
@womensart1
#WOMENSART
@womensart1
Zipora Fried
Ocean of Work, 2025
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burt berman
@bbu
Ocean of Work, 2025
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burt berman
@bbu
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Zipora Fried
Ocean of Work, 2025
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burt berman
@bbu
Ocean of Work, 2025
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burt berman
@bbu
"Love is meeting someone who gives you news of yourself."
("L'amour, c'est rencontrer quelqu'un qui vous donne des nouvelles de vous.")
—André Breton
Paroles d'auteurs
@Paroles_auteurs
("L'amour, c'est rencontrer quelqu'un qui vous donne des nouvelles de vous.")
—André Breton
Paroles d'auteurs
@Paroles_auteurs
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"Love is meeting someone who gives you news of yourself."
("L'amour, c'est rencontrer quelqu'un qui vous donne des nouvelles de vous.")
—André Breton
Paroles d'auteurs
@Paroles_auteurs
("L'amour, c'est rencontrer quelqu'un qui vous donne des nouvelles de vous.")
—André Breton
Paroles d'auteurs
@Paroles_auteurs
Eero Järnefelt
'Sunset,' (1893) probably shows a view over the Lake Pielinen near Koli in eastern Finland. The leading artistic personalities of Eero Järnefelt's generation, from Jean Sibelius to Akseli Gallen-Kallela, regarded Karelia as a lost paradise.
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Eero Järnefelt
Diego Rivera
'La Cantina.' (c1937) Famed for his huge murals across North America and Mexico, by the time of this work, Diego Rivera had dedicated himself almost exclusively to easel painting. There's a feeling of serenity in this picture, of ease; appropriate given the subject.
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Diego Rivera
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Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
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happy bday Portuguese Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, b.1632.
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
happy bday Portuguese Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, b.1632.
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
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"He knew the bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans. For him, a choice between defense of the Constitution and defense of your political party was no choice at all."
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"He knew the bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans. For him, a choice between defense of the Constitution and defense of your political party was no choice at all."
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
She will read this letter eternally and we will be eternally curious about what she learns, near this window opened upon which her inspired face is reflected
—Alexandre Blaineau
@AlBlaineau
—Alexandre Blaineau
@AlBlaineau
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
She will read this letter eternally and we will be eternally curious about what she learns, near this window opened upon which her inspired face is reflected
—Alexandre Blaineau
@AlBlaineau
—Alexandre Blaineau
@AlBlaineau
… filled with boredom the winter days were here, endless and monotonous, stretching like an unbroken thread.’
Bruno Schulz - Ptaki (Birds)
story from The Street of Crocodiles, 1934
Sabine Weiss, 1952
Ina de Bree
@InadeBree
Bruno Schulz - Ptaki (Birds)
story from The Street of Crocodiles, 1934
Sabine Weiss, 1952
Ina de Bree
@InadeBree
November 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
… filled with boredom the winter days were here, endless and monotonous, stretching like an unbroken thread.’
Bruno Schulz - Ptaki (Birds)
story from The Street of Crocodiles, 1934
Sabine Weiss, 1952
Ina de Bree
@InadeBree
Bruno Schulz - Ptaki (Birds)
story from The Street of Crocodiles, 1934
Sabine Weiss, 1952
Ina de Bree
@InadeBree
Ellen Thesleff
It is remarkable to think Ellen Thesleff painted this portrait of her sister Thyra Elisabeth in 1892. After leaving Finland the previous year to study in Paris, Ellen returned home and became one of the key figures who introduced Impressionism to the country.
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Ellen Thesleff
Alexander Liberman 1966
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burt berman
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November 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Alexander Liberman 1966
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"There are two ways of
spreading light :
to be the candle
or the mirror that reflects it."
(Edith Wharton)
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Art by Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916)
Jim Beattie
@JimBeattie18
spreading light :
to be the candle
or the mirror that reflects it."
(Edith Wharton)
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Art by Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916)
Jim Beattie
@JimBeattie18
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"There are two ways of
spreading light :
to be the candle
or the mirror that reflects it."
(Edith Wharton)
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Art by Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916)
Jim Beattie
@JimBeattie18
spreading light :
to be the candle
or the mirror that reflects it."
(Edith Wharton)
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Art by Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916)
Jim Beattie
@JimBeattie18