Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Yes. My photographs do look a bit like painitngs sometimes, tbf. Like most of my photos, it was taken with the (unfulfilled) intention of making a painitng from it. 010
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 11/02/2025It's a coup. This is the most powerful - and admittedly, frightening - piece I've read yet on what's happening to the US. And very likely to the rest of us soon if we don't do something*. *"Something" starts with being informed. broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coupbroligarchy.substack.comIT IS A COUPThis is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong. 5124
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Oh yes, I just figured that out, thank you! I've got a book but I didn't know about the art ones. 010
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 26/01/2025If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery. 6100
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I had a feeling this was coming. It's why the celebrations of the ceasefire made me sick with worry. It was far too good to be true. 140
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Sunday so some fiddle practice. Plus the weather's awful so staying in by the fire and playing tunes. Today I'm practising Ashokan Farewell. Yes, I know my playing is baggy 😬 I'll get better, honest. 9270
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 25/01/2025@lowqualitycats.bsky.social Haven't laughed so much at something on social media for a very long time. Thank you for alerting me to this profound source of hilarity @chromamagic.combsky.app 050
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Thank you. Seriously the best thing I've seen on social media for a very long time. I'm off back for another look. 010
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I hope they got the bit about the high chroma in the shadows! 120
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Thank you! Sometimes painting with the cameras off is necessary to focus better. 000
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Sandpaper pan scrub spatula knife. Maybe one or two bushes too. 120
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Final stage on the quince painting. This is 10 x 8, oils and cold wax medium. I mention the medium just because. It made a lot of the texture and it sounds cool to say it. 6483
Reposted by Paul FoxtonLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I think a lot about an interview I heard with Ben Ferencz, who was the last living Nuremberg prosecutor and a lifelong human rights activist. He lived to be 103 and was working to the end. He talked about progress as the work of lifetimes. Of knowing you won’t reach your goal in your life. 12643129
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I will anyway, but if there was any doubt, this would be enough by itself to keep me going. Thank you. 020
Reposted by Paul FoxtonChris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Yes it’s a set back . A major one . But we cannot give up . Not now , not ever . In the UK I’m campaigning for a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship , because for too long these companies have had largely unlimited £££ to greenwash their filthy reputations . No more .petition.parliament.ukPetition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorshipAdvertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced... 15536180
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Given that the world appears to be ending I feel strangely proud that I managed to paint today. Session three, no plan, but there will definitely be at least one more session. A quince. #oilpainting #'stilllife #realistpainting 10281
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 20/01/2025And now with his Trump meme coin he can take payments of any amount, from anyone, anywhere, for anything, with no tracking at all! Perfect! 110
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 19/01/2025I keep thinking today about how Trump said that people won't have to vote gain, as if it was a imposition to do so. I think he meant it. 280
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 18/01/2025I'm sure I'd feel the same Cecelia. But everything is so connected I think the ripples will be felt everywhere, certainly here too. It's like the world is holding it's breath. 030
Reposted by Paul FoxtonMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/01/2025It’s impossible to overstate just how crazy it is that the incoming president launched his own fake money right before taking office. 412559481
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Apparently, he's getting an early start in. Appalling doesn't come close. 410
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025That came out so beautifully! I like it more than mine. I think you got more variation into it, between the soft and more realised parts. Really gives it life. 120
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 14/01/2025"Feel the pain. Cry the tears. Witness the suffering. Experience the beauty...No matter what happens, nobody can take these things from you. No matter what else the bastards might take, they can never take away your innate exuberance at living a human life on this terrestrial wonderball." Beautiful 390
Reposted by Paul FoxtonAIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 14/01/2025With his final days in office, President Joe Biden is authorizing an $8 billion arms transfer to Israel in direct violation of the Leahy Law: "Israeli soldiers say they have been ordered to target and kill innocents arbitrarily, including children." youtu.be/RI7lK1lyD20?...youtu.beChris Hayes: Biden is leaving a ‘disgraceful legacy’ on GazaYouTube video by MSNBC 48340
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025That would be so cool! I used to play quite a lot with my oldest boy, but he's 15 now and it's increasingly hard to bribe him to play with me :D Two violins together is a lovely sound. 010
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Me too. Snufkin is still one of my favourite characters of all time. Mostly for how much he hated the park keeper and other peoples' rules. 010
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Yes! In fact we're playing at a wassail soon, there's still time for you to organise a flight over and come and see us! 110
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Yes I think that pretty much explains why I don't attempt it! 110
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I've subscribed, and am supporting. I've been reading Dave Troy for a good while, wasn't convinced about all his analysis at first. He's been proved right time and again. We need poeple like this to unravel the obfuscation and they need to eat so they can do it, that's how I look at it. 020
Paul Foxton @paulfoxton.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I resolved to post more of myself here than I did at that other place. This is my favourite Sunday morning thing to do. Most mornings actually. And this is a bit embarrassing for me to post so good for accountability 🙄 it's a Scottish tune I'm learning called Da Stocklit Light. 10270
