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@smashtie@mas.to
2025-10-05 12:55:59

Here are my favourites from the National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Award 2025. It's a fantastic selection this year, and free to see as always.
#art #portraits #painting

Mother, by Diego José Aznar Remón

Composed in muted tones, with momentary flashes of pink, this portrait of the artist's wife and son shows them on an unkempt bed, the exhausted mother asleep, the baby awake and looking directly at the viewer.  It is a moment of gorgeous intimacy.
The Echo - Self-Portrait, by Pippa Hale-Lynch

This self-portrait has the quality of a doubly exposed photograph, or one that has slipped and smudged in the process of development. Your eye slides over the detail, unable to lock on. Her face is pale, but with flushed cheeks, against a black background. The painting explores themes of solitude and grief stemming from the loss of her mother.
Ukrainian Girl, by Nelson Hernandez

A female figure with her back to the viewer stands at a window, through which shines a wintry light illuminating individual strands of her light blonde hair. Chilean artist Nelson Hernandez's spectral portrait of his Ukrainian friend, Kseniia, captures a brief moment in time: 'I was moved by her stillness as she gazed out the window. Suddenly, the drawing in her hoodie evoked in me a scene of war, a metaphor of her past and the burden she carries.'
Portrait of a Sculptor, by Dide

Blasting out bright red, the surface of Dide's portrait of the sculptor Laurence Edwards seems alive with a kinetic, electric energy. The sculpture sits in a brightly patterned armchair, looking directly at the viewer, with legs crossed and grubby boots prominent.  It explores 'the messy plaster-splattered existence of artists in their studios'.
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com
2025-10-06 14:03:16

Is there any way to get details of past power outage events in the UK?
Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks notified me of a power cut yesterday. I wasn't home but it did happen. The URL they gave to track it did not work. A few hours later they sent an update saying it was fixed. I'd be interested to know anything more about it, because it's fairly unusual here.
Their URL was

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-09-05 20:39:29

Bills put kicker Bass on IR, could miss 4 weeks espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/461682

@arXiv_hepph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-06 09:34:29

Suppression of scalar perturbations due to a heavy axion
Kai-Ge Zhang, Jian-Feng He, Chengjie Fu, Zong-Kuan Guo
arxiv.org/abs/2510.02828 ar…

@arXiv_hepth_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-07 09:41:44

Perturbations of Black Holes in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion (EMDA) Theories
C. N. Pope, D. O. Rohrer, B. F. Whiting
arxiv.org/abs/2508.04589

@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-06 19:09:30

“1984” portrait of the Prime Minister in the sand
needtoknow.co.uk/wp-content/up
#1984

Democracy Noir, the 90-minute documentary
– opening in the US this week and portraying Orbšn’s creeping authoritarian takeover of an erstwhile liberal democracy through the eyes of three women;
Timea Szabó, an opposition politician,
Babette Oroszi, a television journalist,
and Niko Antal, a nurse
– has universal resonance and urgent relevance for American audiences grappling with the consequences of Trump.
“I’d say this is the most ‘hitting the zeitgeist’…

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-06 10:24:09

ZeroShotOpt: Towards Zero-Shot Pretrained Models for Efficient Black-Box Optimization
Jamison Meindl, Yunsheng Tian, Tony Cui, Veronika Thost, Zhang-Wei Hong, Johannes D\"urholt, Jie Chen, Wojciech Matusik, Mina Konakovi\'c Lukovi\'c
arxiv.org/abs/2510.03051

@arXiv_csCV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-06 10:09:29

Geometry Meets Vision: Revisiting Pretrained Semantics in Distilled Fields
Zhiting Mei, Ola Shorinwa, Anirudha Majumdar
arxiv.org/abs/2510.03104

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-07 17:51:52

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Gregory Porter:
🎵 Liquid Spirit
#NowPlaying #GregoryPorter
speakeasyelectroswing.bandcamp
open.spotify.com/track/5GGnwpB