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I paint.

London
Joined May 2012
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I’m skint. Buy me a coffee here: ko-fi.com/benhopeartist Cheers. Back to work.
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Watch the sweat on Pete Hegseth’s brow as Jon Ossoff takes him apart without ever raising his voice. Now imagine Ossoff on a presidential debate stage. Then imagine him in the Oval Office, looking Putin or Xi in the eye and pressing them with that same composure.
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Here’s the video for anyone that wants to see it.
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Keeping men out of women’s sports is common sense. Today I voted for that protection. Conservatives are leading the fight to protect our women and girls.
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Top Democrat strategist Van Jones, One of Obama’s former aides during his presidency Released this message to #Michigan on #AbdulElSayed #Midterms
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Oi Dems. Well done. But don't let this make you think candidates like El-Sayed or a lurch back to insane far-left wokery are a good idea. That would wind up biting you, and the world, in the arse. Hold the centre.
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Spelling bee contestant is give the word "woman". He then asks them to define "woman". The rest is comedy gold 🤣
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Neither man could possibly have imagined that just one generation later, Europe would be defending itself against both of their future successors. What is happening is truly unfathomable.
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10 years later and it’s still one of the best attack lines in a presidential debate. And now everyone knows she was right.
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The Railway Pub. Did my first sesh on this back in 2022 and been actively neglecting ever since. Thought it was about time to give some attention...
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BREAKING: Nearly half of the girls cross-country team in Camas, Washington, just forfeited their race. They refused to compete against a boy. This is bravery. Vote YES on I-638 to stand with them. Video: @KnownHeretic
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WOW. Holy shit. The best response to Palestinian bullshit ever. Meticulous. Masterclass by @benshapiro You’ve gotta watch this
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It was Blackheath Kite Day yesterday.
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Blackheath Farmers' Market. Oil on canvas. Painted on site today.
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Oi American podcasters: stop saying "x" instead of "times"
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Worth watching: "It is not a genocide; it is a counterattack in a war."
This should be pushed far and wide. Watched in every college class in the U.S. Thank you @billmaher The moral confusion is gross. "It is not a genocide, it is a counterattack in a war...Gaza equals genocide is a lie, an easily provable lie (as I have argued from first hand observations in Gaza). The fact that so many democrats go along with it is to me the party's worse moment since they undid reconstruction after the civil war...words have meaning...genocide, kill or try to kill an entire people, you can't just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people including civilians die, that's every war..."
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Been wanting to paint this corner of Collins Street since lockdown. Oil on canvas, 20x25"
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WTAF this can't be true! I'll pay the damn fine and carry on.
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My God, I wish I could be a conspiracy theorist. Imagine how easy life would be. No sourcing. No burden of proof. No homework. No checking whether the thing you’re about to say is actually true. Just wake up, make some shit up, hit POST, and congratulate yourself for “doing your own research.” Someone proves you wrong? Ignore it. Someone produces the paper? Don’t read it. Someone posts the raw data? Fake. Primary source? Compromised. Expert consensus? Bought. Photographs? CGI. Video? Edited. Measurements? Rigged. Your own eyes? Trusted, but only when convenient. Every possible piece of evidence against you arrives with a factory-installed escape hatch. And if somebody corners you so completely that there’s nowhere left to run, you pull the emergency brake: “SHILL.” Done. Argument won. Then tomorrow you post the exact same claim as if yesterday never happened. That’s the real luxury. Claims never have to survive contact with evidence. They just respawn. Flat Earth. Anti-vax. 9/11 “truth.” Chemtrails. Virus denial. Evolution denial. Different costumes, same operating system: Make claim. Provide nothing. Get corrected. Ignore correction. Change subject. Make new claim. Get corrected again. Call opponent a shill. Repeat original claim. And if you’re truly committed, you follow the person who debunked you and camp in their replies for months, dropping dead claims under completely unrelated posts like a door-to-door salesman who won’t leave the porch, still pitching a product that was recalled years ago. Meanwhile, if I get a statistic wrong, quote a paper sloppily, miss contrary evidence, or make an embarrassing typo, it’s screenshotted within the hour. And here’s the humiliating part: I care. I go back and check. I correct it. I sit there irritated with myself over a decimal point. I couldn’t knowingly repeat a claim after finding out it was false. I’d be embarrassed by it. Conspiracy addicts have been liberated from all of that. No embarrassment. No recalibration. No learning. No moment where anyone stops and thinks, “maybe I got this one wrong.” They double down, triple down, invent three new conspiracies to explain why the first one collapsed, and come charging back into the replies like getting dismantled yesterday was a warm-up. Being wrong isn’t a setback for them. It’s just another day. God, that must be restful.
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Every word.
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Another heatwave? Surely not. Took to the shade of couple of trees yesterday over next to Duke Humphrey Road.
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