Now I got that ZZ Top intro ear-worm…

Just FYI: Media Bias Fact/Check reports Reclaim The Net as having a right-wing bias and mixed factual credibility.

Businesseses?

“business’”

The headline would be unsurprising even if it ended at the word China.

Cathedral Rocks, A Yosemite View — c. 1872. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. Size 48.3 x 34.9 cms (19 x 13 1/2 ins)

Hiroshige, along with Hokusai, Sharaku, and a few others, is one of the great masters of Japanese ukiyo-e traditional woodblock printing. Ukiyo-e means “pictures of the floating world.” I love how Japanese, and Chinese, landscape art usually show the human presence as almost insignificant. This is a wonderful example.

They are trying to save money by adding a solvent mixture refined from recycled plastic. But since the feedstock contains a wide variety of junk (called “UVCB substances" or “Substances of Unknown or Variable composition, Complex reaction products or Biological materials”) the resulting additive is a very complex mixture, including many untested and/or potentially toxic chemicals.

The reason they don’t identify these chemicals is, um, …because they don’t really know what they are. They are the reaction products from recycled plastic feedstock, which contain a wide variety of source materials, and so they call them “UVCB substances" meaning “Substances of Unknown or Variable composition, Complex reaction products or Biological materials”. Also called “Natural Complex Substances (NCS) of biological origin.”

In other words, junk from plastic garbage that will be added to boat fuel.

Yeah, looks like Memmy was escaping the characters, but I can’t replicate now… thanks.

Yep, looks like the same problem I had (unless the link is fine for you, in which case it’s my OS)

I did that when the API fees were first announced, and it took a couple of weeks for them to respond, but I got a full text file of my comments and posts.

Polish artist, b. 1929 - 2005, hits Wikipedia page is interesting: Zdzisław Beksiński (sorry, unable to link)

I’m always interested to know the scaled of these 19th C works, because some can be quite enormous. Turns out this is a small oil on canvas, on exhibit at the Santa Barbara Art museum, which lists the size as: 14 1/8 x 20 1/4 in. (35.9 x 51.4 cm).

Long time Usenet user, started Reddit in Feb 2013. There were a few scandals and growing pains, but it always felt like a (somewhat rowdy) community. As a user-centric volunteer generated forum I never imagined it would succumb to corporate greed, but here we are. Or, there we were. Lemmy feels like a breath of fresh air.

Escher was first inspired by the tessellated patterns of the Alhambra in Spain during his travels in the 1930s, and the geometric, some would say mathematical, style was prominent through the 1960s. The woodcut Smaller and Smaller was done in 1956. You could almost say he influenced the art of the 60s, more than the other way around.