Heheheh… I too have apple hardware… running unsupported installs (am currently on Mojave as I require 32-bit support for old peripherals and software), so when Apple tells me to upgrade, it lasts until the System Update checks the hardware then promptly fucks off never to bother me again.

I think am going to ignore Microsoft just like I do Apple and leave the gaming PC with Win10 Pro until I get a second drive for it to run Bazzite on.

Hm.

Well, Microsoft can tell me to upgrade my PC and like with Apple saying the same thing about my Macintoshes - ad nauseam - I can ignore it all. And will.

My PC is for gaming and nothing else anyhow…

This makes me SO glad I do not use Amazon.

Get pictures when they arrive!

Startpage! No shit. Used to be Ixquick, and I used that for years. Great site - thank you for reminding me it’s still there. :)

http://tenbluelinks.org/.

Will cut the AI results out of your google searches by switching the browser’s default to the web api…

I cannot tell you how much I love it.

Oh wow! Yeah, that’s a gorgeous animal!

Thank you for sharing those beautiful pictures!

If you ever get a chance to see any of his works in a gallery or museum… do it! The colors glow like nothing you’ve seen.

When I was little, I had an aunt that had one of the prints called Ecstasy - from 1929 - in her home.

Faded and of course stained (even though it was under glass) from the chain smoking she did.

It was one of her most cherished things, so I learned everything she knew about Parrish - she had an encyclopedic book on his technique which I read from cover to cover and as I got older, I tried my hand at glazing - a fierce technique of layering transparent and translucent color onto panel or canvas.

Each color separated by a clear coat so you look into the image, like stained glass, layers deep.

Years later, there was a comprehensive show of his pieces that came to the Currier Museum in New Hampshire (early 90’s IIRC) and I got tickets for myself and auntie…

I got to his most famous image - Daybreak - and the colors in it are beyond anything that any online photos show.

Not even the NY Lithographic Society that initially had rights to the image come close.

Pinks and magentas in the trees that frame the image that take your breath away. I stood in front of that painting for a good 15 minutes and have the colors burned into my mind.

At some point, if I can find a good enough high-res copy, I’m going to try my hand at doing a CMYK color separation of the image (with Photoshop or GIMP) and readjust to what it actually looks like. No one’s gotten it right. I’ve always been a bit of a colorist and zoom in on tint, tone and shade, so this challenge is one that hits my artistic monkeybone, big time.

I won’t even get into the landscapes of the New Hampshire winters and the evening light he recreated in those images. You can fall into them.

Definitely, again, if you ever get a chance to see a real Parrish… do it. It’s absolute magic.

Could you post a few? I’d love to see them!

Maxfield Parrish’s use of color theory and it’s application in his glazed paintings made using most often (esp. for commercial works made for print) cyan, magenta, hansa yellow and lamp black pigments in a translucent medium.

Two words explain why: Brendan Carr.

Any broadcast that upsets Trump’s grift, is going to get a lot of heat from FCC Chairman and Trump stooge, Brendan Carr.

I have a cup of coffee (milk, no sugar) two fried eggs and a piece of buttered toast.

More opportunity for the left to file lawsuits and go after Trump and his billions!

All that lawyers need to realize is if they play by Roy Cohn’s own legal playbook - and viciously apply all the tactics he used… Trump will fold.

Dude’s like the schoolyard bully that would always shake down all the little kids for their milk money until that one skinny kid with the worn out sneakers that no one liked, kicked the shit out of him.

Ultimately, a coward.

Well, AI or not… I can vouch for cats bringing dead things into their owners beds.

Why I twigged on it, was that my dads cat, Gandalf the Gray, used to bring him dead mice and leave them by his head when he was sleeping - or if it happened during the day, she’d just leave birds on his pillow.

He would always thank her, give her scritches, then when she wasn’t looking, flush the carcasses…

It was love.

This is awwwwtf. Cat loves its human, and showing it the best way it can… That is so sweet. (gross, but sweet)

A dog will never bring you food.

This was me with beer. Gave it up over 15 years ago, as what was making me feel shitty about it was putting out the recycling bin filled with beer bottles and cans… and realizing just how much money I was spending on something that was doing nothing good for me. Stopped drinking in 2009 and don’t miss it a bit. Saving a lot more money as well…

Just got to have a wand like Bellatrix Lestrange’s then.

No politeness there…

The extremely gullible ARE the joke.

No one technically DID say anything, because it was a film set prop.

I’d have a field day with anyone losing their shit over this and thinking it was a real thing, by showing them the film it came from…

Damn… I wish I didn’t remember my dreams. Usually they involve me trying to clean a house where the rooms constantly change. That, and my car always seems to be turned on it’s roof.

God only knows wht I keep coming back to that weirdness.

Fry that fucker up till it’s nice and golden, add some HP curry sauce and crack open a beer. Almost like Leberkäse…

Heaven. Will take all anxiety away.