This was a great watch.

So, it was predictably trashed but…it does do lens things now.

they should make peel-apart film again

These are amazing.

The entire right wing narrative in western civ right now relies on people not actually knowing any trans folk because every one I’ve ever met and interacted with has been a good and lovely human. And they certainly are prominent growing demographic in photography, and we are better for it.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture!

Lately I’ve been increasingly aware of the role of friction in learning new things and *enjoying* them. I’ve been playing older video games and while I understand why we’ve been removing “obtuse” or “grindy” things from games, I also consider that it’s making some games feel less rewarding.

So generative AI, like the blockchain before it, is theoretically a technology that there could be good uses for, but is mostly a boondoggle that can only be profitable for the heavily invested people if they find someone else to pass the bag to before it all collapses. What do we call that? LLMLM?

HOLY SHIT WE ARE BACK TO MAKE MORE PHOTOS WITH SHIT CAMERAS! NO-ONE COULE HAVE PREDICTED THIS! WE WILL SAVE YOUR ASSES FROM YOURSELVES! ANOTHER FUCKING #SHITTYCAMERACHALLENGE IS COMING! JULY 1ST TILL SEPTEMBER 30TH DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT, BUT BEST DO IT WITH A CAMERA THAT SUCKS SHIT!

"I have entire desk drawers of USB cables. Shoeboxes under the bed. I wouldn't be surprised if the shoes themselves came with a USB cable. I really can't look at a shoebox without having a panic attack about what I am going to do with all these cables."

Don't do this for several reasons (like that's not your photo to do it with) but in this case because running civil rights movement photos in black-and-white when they existed in color was literally a thing done to make it seem disconnected from the here and now to reduce the impact of them

Post an image from a game you played as a teenager

#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍 A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Latest thrift shop find, it’s in very rough shape and quite broken, but for $4.00 it’ll make a fun project.

A glimmer of good news for film shooters, at least in the near term.

f64 fuck your oppressive pictorialism

This is why as a Humanist I'm not an anti-theist. If the goal is to promote human flourishing, and these folk prefer religion as the framework to do so, I'm not just for it, I'll do what I can to protect it.

This is good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCGA...

This 👇

It's a fascinating thing to watch the youth reinvent lolcats from base principles.

Not great, Bob.

So y'all are saying I need a Charmera?

Spotify is generally terrible these days but every once in a while it’ll just go on an absolute heater. Currently enjoying a mix of assorted 00s live alternative and it’s hitting.

Facts tho.

These "Grok, put me in a bikini" women are giving me an existential crisis!As a 4th-wave feminist, a SW, and someone who posts nudes, "your body, your choice" has always been one of my core beliefs, yet I can’t shake the feeling that there’s something nefarious there. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

The media strategy of “Keep them mad enough to stay tuned through the commercial breaks” has been an absolute disaster for civil society.

There's a peace in accepting that society will only acknowledge and celebrate achievements that society itself promotes (marriage, babies, etc.) and not ones that lie along alternative life paths, like independence, or your career, or fashioning the pelts of the men you've slain into a stylish cape

Nothing comes out of these water jets but lies and insinuations. Why did I buy a j'accuzzi?

I don't want to see your dick photos. Your photos need more light. Make sure there is light on your model's face. And, credit your models! You wouldn't have that photo without them! Harumph *Get off my porch.

shel silverstein was a prophet

"AI is already here you can't just ignore it" is factually true, but I think many of the people lobbing that one around misunderstand that all it means is I have to acknowledge other people are using these things. I do not have to find them meritorious for my own needs and work just cuz they exist.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Frank Hinder - Cyclists, Canberra 1945 (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)

My new Shitty Camera has arrived from headquarters. #shittycamerachallenge

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

I think we all need this

thinking of the introverted woman who said she's never felt FOMO. she's only felt ROMO (Relief Of Missing Out)

We used to be a proper country…

Devastating loss for the photography world. Parr was a both a wonderful photographer and human being.

Local gallery selling off old camera shop’s inventory. I was restrained and only have two new to me Nikon bodies.

"I told the nurse I jog three days a week, play soccer, lift weights, and take spin classes. She just giggled. Honestly, I’m used to it. It was kind of annoying when she took my blood pressure four times, though." buff.ly/bcx3OS1

It should go without saying that these mass internment camps will be much, much more expensive to operate than just giving the homeless free or subsidized housing would be.

Exactly.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like