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Thomas Schmall
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Artist living in the #Netherlands.
Here with art and opinions.
Only art at...
Pixey: https://pixey.org/i/portfolio/ThomasSchmall
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/thomas.schmall/
Or my site: https://www.oxpal.com/
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Now even the @financialtimes.com is using AI generated slop as header images. Because clearly they can't afford or make a photo of a hand on a keyboard.

I guess I'll just have to get used to the slop-look everywhere.
😮‍💨

#AI #Slop #FT
FT times front page image - which is an AI generated hand on a keyboard.
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Change my mind meme: the Epstein files are the distraction
August 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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This is a New Yorker cartoon.
August 27, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Last month I've posted my Forest Hut artwork. The results:

#Mastodon: 161 likes | 61 reposts (with ~300 followers)
#PixelFed: 50 likes | 2 reposts (88)
#BlueSky: 50 likes | 4 reposts (438)
#Instagram: 37 likes | 274 views (647)
#Reddit: 3400 upvotes | 78.000 views (69)

#SocialMedia #Social
Reddit post insights for an artwork post on r/painting.
August 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Here are some detail shots - the setup in the forest. And the pic on the wall (I've put it in my webshop).
Details of a watercolor painting showing flowing patterns and yellow flowers. Further details of a watercolor painting showing the red collapsing roof of the wooden hut. Painting setup in a forest. Forest hut painting hanging on a green wall.
July 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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A watercolor artwork I painted in a forest in the German Eifel - and just did the finish touches to show at a painting festival.

#art #アート #illustration #イラスト #絵画 #芸術 #gemälde #Dreamy #FairyTale #GermanForest #Rursee #watercolor #artwork #pleinair #watercolors #ink #schilderij #Ampersand #Eifel
Dreamy painting of an old hut with a red roof in a forest. Watercolor and Ink with flowing colors.
July 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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This #painting from my Japan residence, is now at the #Noordwijk #PleinAir painting festival.
Today is the closing event with a grand price for the best work the 50 artists painters there there this week.

#Oilpainting #outside #Nature #NorthSea #Netherlands #machiya #町家 #京町家 #JapanAdventure #oil
Oil painting of a gateway to a Japanese alley, with two locals chatting. Details of an oil painting ofJapanese backalley in Kyoto,showing the bikes on a wall. Flyer about the painting festival - front. Flyer about the painting festival - details.
July 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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I can't believe anyone still pays those guys for their opinion. We have direct evidence of that competence:
Reuel Marc Gerecht - NYTimes - "It's war won't destabilize the mideast"
June 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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The same author:
June 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Grok says what now?

#AI #AIFail #Grok #TheOtherPlace #Twitter #X #XAI
Twitter's Grok hallucinating Saddam Hussein into a curvy booty silhouette.
June 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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I'm often think back on how prophetic "The Leftovers" was in 2014!

A big percentage of the population suddenly dies. Which creates a cult that makes life miserable fore everyone. It's impossible to make sense of them.

#TheLeftovers #Leftovers #TVShows #Cult #Prophecy #MAGA #MAGACult #Vaccines
Screenshot of the TV show "The Leftovers" - with actors in Hazmat suits. Screenshot of the TV show "The Leftovers" - with cult members in white suits staring. Screenshot of the TV show "The Leftovers" - with a cult member holding up a note saying "Not a Cult".
May 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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I can try PayPal. But the link above always gives me this result with any payment method.
May 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Turns out, in the US absolutely none of the rules constitution or the law have any enforcement mechanism whatsoever.

Seems like an oversight, but apparently nobody tried for 250 years. 🤷
April 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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#Tesla... make it make sense. 🤷
Financial Times headline saying Tesla suffers it's worst quarter... deliveries tumble. Screenshot showing Tesla stock riding 5% today.
April 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Outside painting weather is back, baby!

I finished this #watercolor last year, starting in a garden in our village. I loved the sunlight seeping through the roof onto the grape vines.

#ink #Amsterdam #Ampersand #art #アート #fineart #イラスト #gemälde #contemporyart #ペン画 #aquarell #mixedmedia #絵画 #芸術
Watercolor painting of a sun-lit roof with grape vines growing beneath. Detail of a watercolor painting, showing a rope holding bamboo wood. Detail of a watercolor painting, showing the sunny garden and some wooden blocks. Watercolor painting exhibited on a wall with other artworks.
March 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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A #portrait of my beautiful wife Cecilia @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social. Made with #ink and #watercolors.

I've sent it to the 2025 Dutch Portrait Award - wish me luck!

#paintings #watercolour #inkdrawing #ペン画 #inkdrawing #aquarell #ポートレート #アート #watercolor #portraitpainting #絵画 #芸術 #bskyart
Watercolor portrait with flowing brush strokes of a woman with beautiful eyes. Detail of a watercolor portrait of a woman: Nose and mouth in warm colors. Detail of a watercolor portrait of a woman: close up on inked details of the eyes.
March 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Four #pencil #portraits of fellow artists at our draw club. The model had skipped, so we acted as one ourselves.

These are the 15 min poses. It's a fun struggle to get the likeness of people you know right.

#pencildrawing #graphite #art #drawing #アート #portrait #絵 #芸術 #amsterdamartist #Landsmeer
Pencil portrait of a woman. Pencil portrait of a smiling woman. Pencil portrait of a woman. Pencil portrait of an older man.
March 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Just like this recent insanity on Trump and Bitcoin.

The click-bait title isn't supported by anything in the text.

#Trump makes nothing "useful" except for fascism. And you're gonna imply that he is educated on #Crypto?

And it's just put as fact that the US could buy 1 million #Bitcoin...
February 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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What is going on at the Financial Times?
Navarro is no general, he's a criminal.
He wasn't nebulously "thwarted". He was convicted and imprisoned for contempt of Congress!
And #Trump has no "visions". What's the goal of this sane-washing?

@financialtimes.com #Press #FT #ObeyinAdvance #sanewashing
Financial times headline about the criminal Navarro - with a glorifying picture.
February 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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😑 F all these corporations!
Screenshot of Google Maps showing the insane "Gulf of Mexico".
February 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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The particle-fx / UIs / fireworks or whatever to call it... were also next level in Tron.
Tron movie shot with person surrounded by circular light patterns.
February 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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A #watercolor #portrait of Kees - a villager sitting for our #painting group (and thereby my series of portraits from #Landsmeer).

#paintings #ペン画 #画 #tusche #aquarell #ポートレート #アート #portraitpainting #bskyart #fineart #illustration #イラスト #thomasschmall #LandsmeerPortraits
Watercolor portrait of a white haired man. Close-up of a watercolor portrait, showing ink lines of the face.
January 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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It's an old but efficient tactic of anti-semites.
Sartre quote: Never believe that anti- Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
January 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Also well expressed by David Lynch:
Quote text: People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of, or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
January 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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From Friedrich's book „Äußerungen bei Betrachtung einer Sammlung von Gemählden [...]"

Original: "Der Maler soll nicht bloß malen, was er vor sich sieht, sondern auch, was er in sich sieht. Sieht er aber nichts in sich, so unterlasse er auch zu malen, was er vor sich sieht."

Pic: Krähenbaum (1822)
Painting of an old tree with crows.
January 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM