Digital art has its drawbacks, but it has surely made art more accessible. For the price of a professional coloured pencil set, you can get a tablet. Unlike pencils, with a free painting app the tablet lets you practice colour ad infinitum. Digital made learning more affordable.

Monet's The Magpie was rejected by the 1869 Paris Salon for its innovative style. This rejection led Monet to organize impressionist exhibitions. It's now considered a masterpiece of early Impressionism.

Not having any condition or illness that requires constant medication.

❗ ICYMI: Over 14 MILLION people faced hunger across UK last year. People don’t have enough money to survive. We live in one of the richest countries in the world – how can this be happening?!

Pretending you didn't see something so the other person doesn't feel uncomfortable is a level of empathy not everyone will understand

Art supplies are expensive, but you can start with little. Start with a graphite pencil set to learn 3D forms, tone, shading, figure drawing etc. There are some free digital painting apps to start learning colour. Once you have that foundation, you can start investing more.

Media is also available in "off". This is what changes their minds.

2025 is so heavy. Even when you’re happy there’s the weight of humanity’s suffering in the back of your mind.

Farage will never speak for me, his policies will never be acceptable to me and his vile rhetoric will always sicken me. It’s about time that the media started representing this position as it’s a widespread one. #BrexitBoats #MoneyLaundering #Racist #Fascism

Hate gets us nowhere. That’s why I preach and practice unconditional love. Love thy neighbor as yourself. Love thy immigrant. Love the poor and afflicted. Love marginalized and oppressed people. Stand together as a force of love for justice and truth and we will prevail.

BREAKING: A MAGA televangelist who told his congregants to give him all their money because the rapture would happen today has reportedly disappeared with all the cash.

Too many people dismiss the possibility of reform winning the next GE, despite all polling evidence. The same people didn't think Brexit would happen, or that trump would win again. Burying our heads in the sand gets us nowhere. We need to face this challenge head on.

“To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn’t care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet" - Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Effectively any brit, myself included, who has a foreign partner will likely have to move out of the UK. That’ll be a lot of talented young mobile individuals lost. The irony that a foreign born person marrying a brit isn’t enough to ‘assimilate’ by reforms standards.

i told someone i was flying tomorrow and they said oh no on the rapture and i laughed so loud in their face they got offended

Nigel Farage is shamelessly copying Donald Trump’s playbook. For decades, politicians and the media have attacked refugees and migrants. Now even the rights of documented migrants are under threat. As many of us have warned: an attack on one is an attack on all of us.

We've had enough @Ofcom do your fucking job and get Geobells off our TVs.

just like here in the disunited klandom, the toolish temu-tory gave his "nation of strangers" tribute to the "rivers of blood" speech

Hey God, come get your crazies. What’s the hold up?

Seeing a lot of talk about reform UK and Christian values, but this doesn't resonate with my Christian upbringing. I seem to remember it is love thy neighbour, not deport thy neighbour. The story of the good Samaritan teaches that compassion for people from different