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#penguins #ai #tld #ReciprocalTariffs #balanceoftrade #morepenguins #cusma #reciprocity #BigHands
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I love blue! So, of course, I had to draw these penguins in blue inks. Inspired by today's #inkyDays drawing, I also added orange ink for the feet.
https://www.artatomic.io/product/penguin-blue-ink-drawing-small-/69
ArtAtomicPenguin Blue Ink Drawing (small) | ArtAtomicSmall hand drawn line art. Abstract pattern of penguins in a row with blue ink on watercolor paper. Paper is 4x4 inches. Drawing will look similar to the drawing pictured, but will not be exactly the same. Each piece is drawn by hand and is a unique work of art, even when the pattern and colors are similar.
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Ok, I'm kinda loving drawing the little penguin motifs. This time, I'm experimenting with using orange ink for the feet.
Here's an in-progress shot.
Yes, I drew some on watercolor paper. I've added the rainbow penguins to my shop, and I'm thinking about adding a couple other versions.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/125704345 https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-April-2025-L3L51CTWHJ
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Since I don't watch TV I never saw that ad. This makes me rethink my priorities. What other great ads have I been missing?
Mechanic It pays to have friends in high places 
Why did Trump not place tariffs on Russia?
“President #Trump’s tariffs affected almost every economy on the planet, from traditional powerhouses such as #China and Germany to remote Antarctic islands whose only inhabitants are #Penguins.
Even #Ukraine, whose economy has been devastated in the three years since #Russia launched a brutal, all-out invasion, was hit by the minimum tariff rate of 10 per cent.
Yet Russia itself was spared, a move that has raised eyebrows at a time when Trump is trying to improve relations with Moscow.”
#putin
https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/why-trump-not-tariffs-russia-td2b5lkbh
HA! Alt texted version of this:
Why tiny St-Pierre-Miquelon got hit with sky-high tariffs just for the halibut. “St-Pierre-Miquelon (whose population is about 5,100) exported…US$3.4 million of goods to the U.S. in 2024 … and imported only $100,000 worth. The dollar figures are small but the ratio is gigantic: a 3,300% trade deficit, from Washington’s point of view.”
| The Logic https://thelogic.co/news/st-pierre-miquelon-high-halibut-tariffs/ (in addition to the tariff against the #penguins)
The Logic · Why tiny St-Pierre-Miquelon got hit with sky-high tariffs just for the halibut - The LogicA protest over quotas and a single load of fish put the French island outpost in Trump's crosshairs
I'm kinda in love with these little abstract penguins. I started playing with these in yesterday's #inkyDays drawing.
https://www.artatomic.io/product/penguin-rainbow-ink-drawing-small-/68
ArtAtomicPenguin Rainbow Ink Drawing (small) | ArtAtomicSmall hand drawn line art. Abstract pattern of penguins in a circle with a rainbow of inks on watercolor paper. Paper is 4x4 inches. Drawing will look similar to the drawing pictured, but will not be exactly the same. Each piece is drawn by hand and is a unique work of art, even when the pattern and colors are similar.
As well as the obvious, ie. rise in sea level affecting human habitation of landmass soon underwater probably by the end of this century, other inhabitants of our planet have fewer choices of where to live
Modelling suggesting that if we continue on a high greenhouse gas emission trajectory, more than 90 percent of emperor penguin colonies will be all but extinct by the end of the century.
#antarctica
#climatechange
#penguins
Voice of the Sea Ice: Changing times https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ourchangingworld/557119/voice-of-the-sea-ice-changing-times
RNZ · Voice of the Sea Ice: Changing times
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The penguins are protesting, in today's #inkyDays drawing.
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...and then, a triggered #MAGA incel, unwanted unf*cked, entered the chat with a straight face and in all seriousness said that the reason that tariffs were placed on those islands was because there are underground facilities producing something they don't know what from those islands...
I need to know more about the penguins, people.
#penguins 
Trump imposed tariffs on an uninhabited island near Antarctica this week.
Apparently, Trump feels the import of the lower priced penguin shit is unfair to penguin shit farmers here in America.
He went on to say: ‘those penguins have been ripping us off for years’.
