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Phil Went
@philwent.bsky.social
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Classical/realist artist, portraits and still life. Ex software dev.

https://philwent.com.au

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When life gives you onions, paint them! Spanish onion on a piece of Irish(apparently) slate. Oil painting on copper, 15cm * 15cm.
Painting of a Spanish onion on a piece of slate.
August 28, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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A painting sketch of a failed drawing sketch.. Oil on copper, 15 cm * 15 cm.
August 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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A sketch on toned paper.
August 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Mulling some Red Ochre (pr102).
#handmadeoilpaint #oilpaint #art #classicalart #artmaterials
March 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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"Dutch Baroque Lemon" Oil on wood, 30cm X 25cm painted last year. A nod to my dutch heritage with a take on a dutch baroque still life. And yes, the lemon did roll off the table a number of times so ended up looking a little worse for wear. #oilpainting #stilllife #realism #art #traditionalart
An oil painting by Phil Went of a partially peeled lemon with the peel curling over the edge of a table, a knife and blue vase on a red patterned table rug.
January 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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theshovel.bsky.social
“I Haven’t Noticed Any Changes to Facebook Since They Stop Moderating Posts” Says Mum Wearing New KKK Outfit
“I Haven’t Noticed Any Changes to Facebook” Says Mum Wearing New KKK Outfit — The Shovel
Hanging up her robes after a busy day scrolling online, Sydney mother Mandy Kayborough has told friends and family that she hasn’t noticed any changes to Facebook since it stopped moderating content l...
theshovel.com.au
January 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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restofworld.org
For this year’s photo contest, we put out a call asking readers to show us how technology is impacting their world. We received 227 entries from 45 countries — here are the winners
restofworld.org/2025/tech-ph...
January 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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ma-favelli.bsky.social

Verrry interesting. I’ll give it a much closer look (when it’s not Saturday night)

“OpenAI stole from the whole internet to make itself richer, DeepSeek stole from them and give it back to the masses for free I think there is a certain british folktale about this”

venturebeat.com/ai/why-every...
Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek
DeepSeek has a free website and mobile app even for U.S. users with an R1-powered chatbot interface similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
venturebeat.com
January 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I just wonder if things like this and the "mad cow disease" effects of ai self consumption, will ever pop the bubble of the billions being spent. There is value in ai in specific areas, but maybe not the golden bullet/bubble justifying stealing all web content.

www.404media.co/email/7a39d9...
Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."
www.404media.co
January 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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cyberciti.biz
Dev1: How do you feel entering a plane or car when you know that people like us build software that powers it ? 🤔

Dev2: 🤷🏾‍♂️

Me: 😂 what we do? Do we even have a choice apart hoping that the universe will be kind to me?
January 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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eff.org
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, “there’s been a massive uptick in social media platforms removing content related to reproductive health care and specifically abortion pills,” EFF’s Lisa Femia told @nytimes.com. "This is an ongoing, increasing problem.”
Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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artherstory.bsky.social
The Hyde Collection announces a show focused on historic #womenartists!

A Feast of Fruit & Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the C17th & Beyond
www.hydecollection.org/exhibition/a...

Oct 25, 2025 - Mar 8, 2026

Pictured: Still Life of Apples, Pears, Cucumbers, Figs, & a Melon, by Fede Galizia
A lush fruit still life with a gold basket of pears at the left; cucumbers at center front, and a cut melon at the right. In the back is a plate of figs. At the front left sit two peaches, and one peach sits at the far right.
January 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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beautifulbizarre.net
Poetic and nuanced, that delicate shadow play ignites the imagination - evoking a sense of wonder and curiosity. Absolutely stunning work by Kesja Tabaczuk.

Soaring Fantasies”
Oil on Linen
31 × 23 in | 78.7 × 58.4 cm

#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #realism #artcollectors #artinspo #art
January 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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ÉCORCHÉ FOCUS
Instructor, Matilda Bjurström, sculpt alongside the students.
📷 Through the lens of @hultinssonfotograf
January 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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It seems I enjoy painting any fruit that has beautiful bloom patterning 🤭
January 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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"Vanitas Still Life" a modern take on the vanitas meme. I always wondered why anyone in the 17th and 18th centuries needed reminding of death amid wars, floods, famine and plague, and no antibiotics. But then again, is today any different? Even a tin-foil hat won't prevent the inevitable.
An oil painting of a skull with a tinfoil haton a book next to a green robot toy and batteries on a table with a white drape over a red drape.
January 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social
How clever the techbro sleight of hand has been. First, persuade us all to work for them for free, so they can monetise our content on social media. Now, under the pretence of 'training' AI, they've persuaded us to give away all human creative endeavour, so they can monetise that too.
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December 30, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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"Three Figs" oil on wood, 23 X 30cm. Very tasty, they are actually flowers.

#stilllife #oilpainting #painting #art #fromlife #classicalart #reaism
January 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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#Oilpainting #stilllife of marbles, antique wooden spinning top and gyroscope. Not sure if these toys had anything to do with my later fascination with motorcycles.

#art #painting
Painting of marbles, antique wooden spinning top and gyroscope.
January 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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"Christiana as Diana" Christiana is a model, writer, artist, stand-up comic, musician, and with her energy levels am amazed she could hold this pose for the many sessions it took to paint her from life.

#figurepainting #oilpainting #portraitpainting #fromlife #zornpalette #limitedpalette #portrait
Painting of a woman sitting on a rock with a bow and arrow on the ground
January 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Still life oil painting on wood, 22*30cm

#stilllife #stilllifepainting #oilpainting #fromlife #art #painting #realism
Painting of an orange and mandarins plus a blue vasd
January 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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A painting solely from life last year of Alicia over 6 or 7 sessions. Limited palette of Cremnitz White, Mars Black, Yellow Ochre and Vemillion.

#portrait #painting #oilpainting #fromlife #realism #art
January 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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"Baroque and Roll" A piece I painted during Covid, when all the toilet paper, hand clenser and pasta disappeared from the grocery store shelves due to panic buying. Sold before I could take a better pic. #baroquepainting #oilpainting #realism #covid #art
A painting of a pot with pasta and a basket of toilet rolls.
November 14, 2024 at 9:28 PM