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Bob - Enough's avatar

Cheers, made up and sorry about the result.

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Wild Flower 🐝's avatar

The content is

heartfelt. Sympathies

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Tony's avatar

You and biologyphenom are the few reasons i log onto substack anymore. Its getting like twatter, including what we’re presented with by the algorythm.

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Ned's avatar
Apr 3Edited

Algorithms.

I publish where I can & it makes little difference. I can choose to stop or keep doing it. I keep doing it.

PS I just lost a Subscriber following this last post! My sense of humour remains though.

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Bob - Enough's avatar

Just read some article somewhere, that told me what I had already thought ... BUT I had not put 2+2 together, namely; once they start charging to make a comment or even to read the rest of their article (cc or dc needed to pay) - WALK AWAY, because they are collecting your digital data, analysing your views for their digital analysis of you. I think Youtube tried it first ... but then people left the site in droves, as they have done on the MSM.

People are awakening - there is hope; ???.... but I think free speech

and descent to "their orders" the globalist scumbags and their puppet politicians ... is being whittled away ....plus plus. Notice the pace of their agenda - are they panicking, or do they know that so many of us are "ignorant morons" for the taking. The "F****ing C***ts"...

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Ned's avatar

UK Government Data (Use and Access) Bill

https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825

I saved a quote from somewhere:

‘The biggest government power grab of modern times. Your personal data not anymore. That belongs to the government now.’

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Tony's avatar

Decentralised federated platforms are one way of avoiding the algorythms

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Bob - Enough's avatar

Sure that i a great help... BUT WHAT for an "older guy" ?

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Tony's avatar

Real world conversation. Try to talk one on one with people when the opportunity arises. Admittedly getting harder to do!

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Ned's avatar

I have long wanted a young IT whizz kid to manage all things online. At least I know how to 'work' Substack. They are constantly suggesting video, voice, additional options. It's too much for me; I'm more interested in fresh air and sunshine!

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Tony's avatar

Unless your decentralised…online is a waste of time unless you’re willing to operate in the limited spectrum of debate you will be algorythmd out of existence. Real world connections far better quality than any online connection. Quality not quantity. And yes they want your data. Thats what its all about

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Wild Flower 🐝's avatar

Wild Tiger here again. I accidentally found a gallery (small collection) of your work on my phone from one of your posts and laughed out loud at your amazing humor. Please make a gallery of your work. And! Go get your ART! I especially love in particular a pink hairdo in one of your illustrations.

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Ned's avatar

I'm not very good at online presentation. I lost my Red Bubble shop and rather lost enthusiasm. Being 'political' risks censorship & suspension.

My Turkish partnership is less than proficient.

I must do something about it, but where, which platform?

I'm not sure what the 'pink hairdo' refers to.

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Bob - Enough's avatar

WOW, thank you... and sorry about last night - the goal was offside BUT we deserved at least 1 red card.

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Ned's avatar

I think it's Liverpool's. En plus. we have lost Gabriel for the rest of the season.

That plastic curtain images is among the saddest, but it is what happened. I'd rather publish happier material, but we must address the... well, evil.

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Wild Flower 🐝's avatar

I am LOVING this! Reading it twice to absorb it. Good writing. Great artistic style. It roars! Rock on!

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Ned's avatar

I feel it's akin to pissing in the wind sometimes.

Thank you for your comment. It's makes the pissing more worth the while.

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Wild Flower 🐝's avatar

Be you, Van Gough…piss mightily “in the now.”

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Tamam!

Turkish for OK!

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Wild Flower 🐝's avatar

Lastly, use the energy of frustration - same energy - and put it into your worthy work. You have “it.”

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Gaye's avatar

Great work, BTW!

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Wild Flower 🐝's avatar

You see?!? When we have been exposed to countries of cultures other than our own do our minds expand and our hearts open. It is part of our education.

Who cares what grade you give yourself! The culture you bring and your experiences enlighten us.

I encourage you to continue.

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I do Duolingo practice sporadically to keep my hand in. I must retrieve 300 artworks from there one day, so must return one day...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOkRGsAb7dU

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Wild Flower 🐝's avatar

Loved the YouTube! Thanks!

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That is my last canvas painting. The church was so beautiful, I accepted to display there.

When the Turks put Ataturk's Eyes on the mausoleum steps of their founding father, t'was me, a bloody Englishman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcKRhO2hmfk

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Wild Flower 🐝's avatar

OH MY GOODNESS! THAT WAS AMAZING!

You are a TREASURE! So TALENTED! Thank you for sharing. I am honored to have exchanged words with you.

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Ned's avatar

Easy tiger, but thank you.

I am a BA (Hons) architectural graduate because my art teacher at school said our new Prime Minister Thatcher would give no money to the arts, so I was advised to take a more academic route.

I should have stuck to architecture; I'd be worth a fortune today instead of painting so often for free. Still, modesty aside, I have produced among the greatest images of Ataturk in Turkiye's 100 years.

Lovely comments. Thank you.

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Gaye's avatar

Agreed! This is fabulous work! I have to watch it again!

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Wild Flower 🐝's avatar

He was too brill for the world he was born into. His brother, Theo was a generous benefactor. The ear episode was an expression of frustration. Perhaps he didn’t have Netflix to quiet his genius chatter.

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Ned's avatar

Never watched Netflix; I just deal with frustration best I can.

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Wild Flower 🐝's avatar

So, how do you say, “Go, Baby, Go!”

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Hadi bebeğim hadi!

Sounds like: had-ee be-beh-im had-ee

Bebek = baby, bebeğim = my baby. Silent 'g'.

Let's go is a typical Turkish phrase:

Hadi gidelim!

I'm not Turkish, utterly English, but did live there for a while and considering how long, my Turkish is crap.

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Wild Flower 🐝's avatar

I say “Van Gough” referencing a study by mathematicians and physicists who studied his brush strokes illustrating “the wind,” they found them to be fundamentally precise. Your gorgeous artist of choice was also a precision master. I love his masterpieces.

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Ned's avatar

Most appropriate.

I do ask myself why Van Gogh was so miserable; he had an art agent brother apparently supporting him throughout. Cutting off an ear is extreme and rather denigrates the wonder of life and human design whether by God, natural evolution, space dust or however...

Will keep the water works healthy and on tap!

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Gaye's avatar

Why? I’m guessing it may have been something toxic in the paint that affected his mind. I think he was a good man with a somewhat sad life and an incredible drive to paint everything around himself, for which we are grateful.

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Ned's avatar

Toxic paint? Could well have been.

I had a friend, painter, sculptor, sadly gone 2014, who said to me 'depression is an excuse for behaving badly'. As some one who has frequently 'behaved badly', I suspect there is truth in this. Having completed this 24 hour painting, I returned to my hotel room to find that friend had died while I'd been producing this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObtGU3VWSck

However, who knows what crap and nonsense people were eating, drinking, breathing in Van Gogh's time.

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Gaye's avatar

Lead, cadmium, cobalt

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Ned's avatar

Indeed.

Today we have e.g. autism, obscenely over-weight people.... goodness knows what we have in our food, transfections... if only we had a decent civil process.

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Gaye's avatar

Absinthe

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Ned's avatar

Could have been.

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Wild Flower 🐝's avatar

Thought to Gaye,

I must call you “Darling” - I like your posts here.

Michelangelo breathed in - on his back! the fresco process for years and kept secret his passions from society and was never deemed mad. He lived (not) long enough. What a man!

What if “the breed of cat” - the ‘Artist’ (I was married to a mad artist) is just a special human - who sees and expresses what sleepers don’t or refuse to see… like Banksy.

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Ned's avatar

I suspect Banksy has state/intelligence agency support. Mind you, so many have e.g. Pollock.

I've just bought

https://thenewpress.com/books/cultural-cold-war

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Gaye's avatar

True about Mich! But I know formulations for artists’ paints

have been changed over the years as toxicity levels have been found to be dangerous. Surely I was worse to be mixing your own paint from scratch, and no telling with what.

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Ned's avatar

I've used acrylic for years. They produce so many tones of colour, I never mixed them. Compared to past times, we are so spoilt for choice.

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