after 3 days of rain, i found these mushrooms in the back yard tonight. the big one has a 4" cap and it practically grew overnight. nikon Z6 + MC105 f2.8 shot at 1/40, f13, ISO 600 50 image focus stack via helicon #macro #photography #naturelovers #photographersofbluesky #mushrooms

Susan Lipper’s photographic series Grapevine was shot over four years from 1988 to 1992. The series takes its name from Grapevine Branch in West Virginia, a small community where Susan found herself for a while after graduating the Yale photography programme.

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every article that uses this AI program's "name" and "face" in the headline is 100% playing into the PR push. they don't give a shit about the tone of the coverage, they just want to make the name and face recognizable. this is patient-zero of making AI "actors" a thing.

watching cities bulldoze significant landmarks and, as if to mock us, preserve some tiny fragment like a corpse mounted on display. feels more like set dressing than preservation. a hollow gesture to say "look, we care about history" while erasing the very thing that gave the neighborhood character.

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pornography bans and censorships make no sense to me bc sexuality is quite literally part of being human.. suppressing that part or acting like it's gross is never going to be good, we've already been there, not even for teens who go through a lot of hormonal changes and should safely learn about it

there will be dozens of articles posted on x dot com this week about the dangers of a bluesky echo chamber

Can improv comedy doulas improve maternal health?

the crowd still claps 😂 this is indistinguishable from a Hooli bit

also, just like... as an aside to the community, if you exist visibly trans in public, you have already proven yourself brave enough to do something braver than signing a piece of paper.

Just a reminder that I'm a good writer and editor who hits deadlines, if you have any freelance or part-time work you wanna throw at me.

given what we know now - the scale of anti-trans legislation, the coordinated campaigns at every level of government, and the real-world violence that follows - i don’t see how we can keep asking a marginalized group to stay defenseless.

🦋 Nikon Z6 + MC105/2.8 #photography #macro #naturelover #photographersofbluesky

For the pundit class civility means saying, for example, that trans people are “an abomination to God,” but politely, on stage with a microphone, in a suit and tie

bluesky moderation has been shockingly bad. post after post is getting removed without any mention of threats, calls to violence, or incitement. this is the platform that promised openness and user control. now mods are deleting posts in masse if they don't like your tone. pathetic.

these wealthy actors will try to distance themselves. they’ll say they support trans people and disagree with rowling's rhetoric. but those words will be meaningless. they’re operating the machine that funds hate. they’re directly responsible for risking the safety and dignity of our trans friends.

a batman movie that is going to get made one day - he's a creepy cryptid and the name will be 'bat man' with a space between

This attitude blows up rockets and kills the crew. We *know* this because we've seen it happen. This is the consequence of letting a fool who understands nothing about NASA to lead it.

one of the more unexpected and depressing aspects of our descent into tribalism is people aligning with literal machines, outsourcing their identity to an algorithm because it tells them they're right about everything.

World Leader Pretend, though Green has a few contenders www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGMe...

🐝🐝🐝 taken in the garden, handheld nikon z6 + 105mm MC f2.8 #photography #naturelovers

caterpillars all over the garden this morning, they're loving the parsley.

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

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Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

A few shots from a recent trip along the gulf of mexico Nikon Z6 with a 105mm f2.8 and 40mm f2

darkly funny how guys in this club - unfailingly confident in their genius and bravery, in the face of cowardly caution - get taken out by like, screwing in bolts. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

calling everything you don't like 'pornography for the masses'

so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group

the problem with letting democrats backslide their support of trans rights whether it be trans in sports or using bathrooms is we’ve seen “compromise” in the UK labor party. they gave into “reasonable” TERF demands and it destroyed the labor party and all rights for trans people

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If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

RSS is great! as media and tech keep merging into these unholy content silos, RSS is one of the few ways left to curate our own content and control how info reaches us. A helpful starter from @molly.wiki

sounds like Tea had shitty security and exposed their users with barely any effort from the attacker. more digital services are requiring this kind of authentication and we desperately need new consumer protections. companies don't give a shit, they just throw a year of credit monitoring at you.

depends on the game, but if you're practicing composition, lighting, focal lengths, framing - all the same fundamentals as traditional photography - then the fact that the subject exists in a game world doesn’t make it less valid as art. if anything it adds new layers for expression and creativity.

i'm honestly surprised that hunter biden, of all people, came off more real and emotionally resonant in this single clip than the whole democratic comms machine has in ages

On a Tuesday in March, Rümeysa Öztürk writes, “I was thrust into a nightmare.” For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.

Today is the 10th anniversary of Ireland's gender recognition act. Ireland's gender recognition is through self-declaration without the need for permission from a doctor, panel or judge etc. In the past decade nothing bad happened. youtu.be/1f8OxezAqTk?...

rhode island really is its own weird little universe. just got a certified letter threatening a lien over a $200 tax bill from 1998?? that’s some vintage mob energy right there. like, who even kept that file? did someone find a dusty ledger in a basement and go full collections officer just for fun?

What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life

i imagine the goal isn’t converting diehards. humor lowers defenses, repetition builds memory, and packaging it like a late-night bit makes complex issues stick. it also helps build reality consensus, which is crucial in a media landscape where people can’t even agree on what’s real.

there's been an intense campaign to dehumanize trans people from the right, a campaign in lock step with rolling back ALL CIVIL RIGHTS. yet it is the marginalized ppl asking for rights that are critiqued and centered; not the cruel bigoted denial of those rights (just to exist!) by those in power.

the reason i'm ever optimistic is because bluesky has a near-monopoly on trans folks, the strongest per-capita posting demographic on earth. it's like having all the kenyan marathon runners.

there’s plenty of disagreement on bluesky, just with less death threats and racist dogpiling. twitter isn't the model to copy. every social media site doesn’t need to be right wing debate club. it can be a place to talk about interests and hobbies like normal people.

definitely not alf, totally different guy