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Ricós
@enriquericos@mastoart.social
Ricós
@enriquericos@mastoart.social
Of ICE, Gestapo and Brownshirts

ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's the Brownshirts, which is worse.

I'm no historian, but I think this guy on the video is right and you might find the distinction interesting:

- Gestapo: Investigate and punish political dissent

- Brownshirts AKA Storm Division: Terror through brute force

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Sources and more info:
- https://youtu.be/BYOeamkqHtc?si=AQIN7CjgkeKbhxus
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

#USPOL #ICE #Nazis #Gestapo #SA #Brownshirts #History #Trump #Fascism #StormDivision #StormTroopers

Ricós
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Watching Netflix's version of The Three Body Problem (the Chinese one was better)

But these switches are awesome and I'd like to how they're called or if they're custom props. I might want to get them for an art project, a cyberdeck or who knows what.

Any button experts in the room? Please and thank you.

#askfedi #hardware #retrotech #casetteFuturism #electronics #buttons #switches

Screenshot from the show. Three rows of buttons and a hand over them. Each button has a round "keycap" and a dark, tall, cylindrical stem inserted in grey metal "ring" with parallel ridges. Top view. Doesn't add much information, they're just round, numbered, metal buttons, but the screenshot looks pretty.
Ricós
@enriquericos@mastoart.social

Temperature in València, Spain.
Brought to you by burning fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow.

#climateChange #valencia #spain

Screenshot of AEMET's app, showing this week's predicted temperatures. Today, December 7, I saw the street thermometer at 24 C, so that's real. The following days we expect temperatures from 18 to 21 C.
Ricós
@enriquericos@mastoart.social

I learn throug @lia_pas@vis.social that today is #InternationalDisabilitiesDay
(check her work out)

I painted this one on a phone at the hospital, when I got diagnosed with mine.
I was coming to terms with having to spend long periods of time in bed, not being able to paint and sculpt metal and stone like i used to, so I decided that at least I could use my phone to keep playing with colour and shape. That's how my pixel art thing started.

#pixelArt #digitalArt #kermitt #light #moody #disability

Pixel art based on a real photo taken by a friend in Madrid. A guy in a Kermit the frog costume, possible taking a break from a job, sits on a park bench. He looks sad and tired, which contrasts with his costume. The pixel style simplifyes the scene, but it's close to the real one, with autumn trees in the background and low sunlight casting shadows over the yellow earthy ground. Anonymous people walk by.
Ricós
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@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org , please help: I'm going to start looking into which laser level I'll buy when I'm not piss poor.
What are the key things I should consider? I just want it to be durable and reliable, a good tool, but I see wildly different prices and I don't trust strangers on the net anymore. Thank you 🙏🙏

Ricós
@enriquericos@mastoart.social

Today is the day Nvidia publishes its numbers and investors could panic an pop the bubble, right?

I don't know about investing because I've never had any money, where does one get info about how the Nvidia thing is going?

#askfedi #nvidia #aibubble #ai #economy #capitalism

Ricós
@enriquericos@mastoart.social

#SciArtSeptember Day 10: Algae

(This was going to be cast in brass, until some guy dropped it on the ground and utterly destroyed it. An incomplete process photo is the only thing left)

I arranged found Araucaria leaves so they evoked the motion of algae in water.

#sculpture #process #leaves #araucaria #metalCasting #abstract #nature #wax #SciArt #ContemporaryArt

Several twisted and brown dry araucaria leaves (they look like spiky twigs) are attached to a tilted brown wax cube, which rests on top of a white plasticine cube of the same size (this was temporary). All of it is on a wooden table with some dirty metal tools, drops and pieces of wax. The leaves extend from a diagonal plane of the cube, starting close together and getting more separated at the end, describing sinuous shapes.
Ricós
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#SciArtSeptember Day 6: Growth.

This is an ongoing visual experiment. I'm trying to "grow" paint blobs into Voronoi shapes by pressing them between two sheets of plastic or glass. I haven't pulled it off yet, (and don't pay attention the color palette), but it could work.

#painting #ContemporaryArt #process #SciArt #Voronoi

Several drops of badly mixed paint over a sheet of plastic on a wooden table. The drops are close together. They're pink, blue, yellow and purple, because I had those colours for some other project. A second sheet of plastic over the drops, pressing them slightly so they expand, colliding between themselves and creating some straight and curved lines. More pressure applied, the colours take more area and the lines between them start to mix and become fuzzy. Also the badlye mixed pigments start to show. The result is pretty bad for what I wanted, but it kind of ressembles cells forming tissue, which was the point.
Ricós
@enriquericos@mastoart.social

#SciArtSeptember Day 5: Skeleton

A cicada exuvia, which is an exoskeleton and fully belongs on Day 5.

Full disclosure: I already posted it on my previous instance, but I really like this picture.

#urbanNature #cicada #exuvia #exoskeleton #PhonePhotography

Photo of a cicada exuvia (the exoskeleton they leave behind after emerging from the ground and morph into their winged form). It is centered, symmetrical and attached to the bark of a tree. The hole on it's back, where the adult cicada came out, opens a view to the inside of the mold.
Ricós
@enriquericos@mastoart.social

Another dubious entry for #SciArtSeptember Day 1: Fluid

Water drew this irregular yellow squares. I think photographing natural processes, to bring attention to them, can be #SciArt

What happened here is that everything was covered in pollen, then it rained and watter puddles formed in the slightly concave tiles. The floating pollen in the puddles was slowly deposited on the tiles as water evaporated, registering the movement of the fluid.

#pollen #PhonePhotography #NaturalProcess #rain

Photo of orange square ceramic tiles, creating a centered grid on the image. On top of each tile, a few centimeters in and aligned with the borders, there are rough yellow lines, aprox 1 cm wide, forming organic looking squares, some more irregular than others. That's what's made of pollen.