Jutland! The only time the Dreadnaught Battleship was used as intended! And it was inconclusive! Why yes I am mostly interested in it as a synecdoche for the futility of violence!!

So it's not at all *surprising* that you can make the "spatchcock a chicken and stick it on a pile of sliced potatoes and roast off the whole thing" from "Good Things" substituting some of the potatoes with sweet potatoes and shallots (if you have pounds and pounds of these), but it is *delicious*

Nobody but the ultra wealthy can afford meat, protein is brewed from microbes. Good news fellow scifi freaks. The cyberpunk future is here.

Be the Toothed Whale you want to see in the world

Could I get away with proposing an upper level seminar just on "Mother Night." Probably. Would it run in time to have the impact i would be going for? Probably not.

OH HAI

The US Air Force actually has to stand down from operations today because the F-35, B-2, and F-22 are only fully stealth thanks to their exclusively bisexual pilot corps

"The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living." - Marx, absolutely NAILING the year 2025

Most handsome family in the neighborhood

Does anybody out there on the #Bird part of bluesky ( #Birdsky ?) know who this is? Hanging out with two adult Kestrels, so I'm guessing immature Kestrel? Or is in a Merlin? It looked bigger than the Kestrels, but I am not sure?

(Workday Social Media Blackout Ends) Well, let's see how it is out there How it is out there:

There is so much I am not commenting on right now. Now I know what Jimmy Fallon feels like.

Bad Messaging: "TikTok has been conquered by dangerous fascists and if you use it you're a BAD PERSON" Good Messaging: "TikTok got bought by some boomer losers and the algorithm only shows you boring boomer stuff and anyone still on there is a dork"

I'm just so tired. Not so much in my body. In my soul.

Turns out it was a mistranslated. They were destroyed by the "C" people, folks who barely passed in school

An "echo chamber" is what they call it when you have enough power to establish a space where your values are uncritically accepted as correct, but not enough power to impose those values on everyone else

There are things outside of the text, but culture is never outside of the text and we are never outside culture. The topology gets a little weird, is what I'm saying.

Me (tears open can of planter's peanuts): Awwww, twenty dollars, I wanted a peanut!

Blue sky users only want one thing, and it's this (or moss):

Her Highness Does Not Grant You Audience (Pentax K-1000, 50mm f1.7, Kodak T-Max)

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age

"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here." - Mitch Hedberg

BREAKING: Dave Matthews has been murdered

Neil Postman has entered the chat

Shooting film, economically, is like smoking cigarettes... If like only 4 cigarettes in each pack made you feel good

Grains Were Alien Rescuers

Even Homestar knows what time it is

Oh hey, Moby Dick wants to comment on the convo me and @thehangedman.com are having about (non)Cartesian theories of mind

Welcome back to the cold war: (Pentax K-1000, 50mm f1.7, kodak tmax 400)

I bought a three pack of Tri-X off Amazon for $30, I thought that was a bit of a rip-off since I can get a roll of Tri-X from B&H for $9, but I was buying something else and it was convenient. I just now realized, they are 24 exposure rolls. Total rip-off!

422 Overpass, Chester County Pennsylvania, September 2025 (Pentax K-1000, 50mm f1.7, Kodak T-Max)

My only regret about my recent acquisition of a film photography hobby (other than it costing about as much as a moderate drug habit) is that I have acquired it too late in life to string my spent film cartridges on a chain and wear them as a necklace without feeling ridiculous.

My understanding is you can't actually do this. It won't work. They are called "large" language models for a reason, they need all that data to, well, model language. Maybe if you already had embeddings? (but then the embeddings are determining what words "mean" so...) Fine tuning is not training!

Three cameras, an extra lens, and a cup of coffee. Gonna do Saturday morning golden hour.

The great thing about film photography is you've got like 200 combinations of film and developer to try, just using major brands, before you have to admit to yourself that you need to work on your composition skills. Then you can start pushing and pulling! (Pentax K-1000, HP5+ pushed to 800)

The Miami Vice sound track, but only until I turn 12 and steal it

I feel like if you are sitting on the trademark for "Head on" the headache remedy applied directly to the forehead, now is your moment

Used the first butternut from our garden to make a version of the winter squash, parsley, whipped ricotta and honey salad from Samin Nosrat's new book. Happy Friday all.

My son was sent home with a worksheet with a "feelings monster" on it, and I think we should all channel the feelings monster's look of "I am deeply uncertain about this, but I will try" in these difficult times

American Street Photography

Oh hello there, sailor. Looking for me?

I have decided not to comment on politics On Here for awhile, but if you listen very hard, you can hear me screaming with despair into the void, a method of communication I have determined to have a similar amount of impact as commenting On Here with a somewhat better threat profile.

Blue hour + late season zinnia + vintage pre-ai nikkor 35mm =

What's the German word for "the unsettling feeling you have missed an email to reply to after attempting to answer all your outstanding email at the end of the day" Also why can't an "outstanding email" be like, a really good email, and not an email you feel guilty about

Beep boop. Just a little guy posting photographs. Beep boop.

Just sayin deleter.shiroyama.us

You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter The Scary Door.

"The AAUP says make it shut the fuck up Friday all week long" was not on my bingo card, TBH