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There is little doubt about the significance of this painting that was done in February 1890, at a particularly troubled time in Van Gogh's life. He was severely depressed and desperate to leave the stultifying environs of the asylum at Saint-Remy, but it had been decided that he would not be fit to cope alone until the spring. His feelings of being physically trapped and mentally caught in a perpetual cycle of mental illness beyond his control are clearly evident. Prisoners Exercising was actually made after a print of Newgate Prison in London by Gustave Doré, whose work Van Gogh had admired for some years. Van Gogh had begun to collect graphic illustrations from magazines in the early 1880s, and added prints of Doumier, Paul Gavami and Doré to his collection. He then referred to these works in later years (as well as multiple prints of Millet's paintings), often making several copies of a single image. The prints were in block and white, so Van Gogh improvised with the color and gave the paintings his own visual interpretation.

Prisoners Exercising (Prisoners Round) by Vincent van Gogh, 1890, Pushkin Museum (Moscow, Russia)

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Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move.

1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

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A moment of zen from the falls down the road from my house

A dirt road near Loch Turret in Scotland. There are mountains around the Loch.

Gods, Scotland is so beautiful.

The Thai cover band you didn't know you needed in your life.

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Remembering Johnny Nash on his birthday. Here’s a fantastic photo of him and Bob Marley playing at a school in Peckham in 1972. It was taken by Keith Baugh, the art teacher who invited them there. He tells the story on this lovely clip from The One Show youtu.be/_cPturcTKIk

Still waiting on those files

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"Come Dance With Me", Oscar Peterson Trio

Oscar Peterson on piano of course, Ray Brown on bass, and Ed Thigpen on drums

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National Guardsman poked his bayonet at Gloria Richardson

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Senator Bo Watson (R) heckled in CHATTANOOGA — after pushing a bill to kick undocumented kids out of Tennessee schools, which had other Republicans weeping on the house floor because it was so cruel. (It failed)

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NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia offered his first account of the “severe beatings” and other abuses he says he suffered while jailed in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.

He says in a court filing that he lost 31 lbs in two weeks.

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Ghost Town: The story behind a special song Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?

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... When will men realize that women are the biggest part of sci-fi fandom. 🫩

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Olive Elaine Morris (26 June 1952 – 12 July 1979) was a Jamaican-born community leader and activist in the feminist, black nationalist, and squatters' rights campaigns of the 1970s in the United Kingdom.

Also in the
British Black Panther Movement alongside Linton Kwesi Johnson and Clovis Reid.

Dick Beattie the 7-1 game ☘️☘️☘️

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Francesca Albanese has been reappointed as UN Special Rapporteur for another 3 years, the Netherlands failed to get her banned from being reselected.

Not everyone bows down to Israel.

Keep resisting.

Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

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