Built By Ortner #Photography #FreightRail #Trains (Pentax K1000, Ilford HP5 3200)

State of the Union 2025 (Pentax K1000, Ilford HP5 3200) #Photography #Film #DeadMalls

C'mon, did anyone really think Neurotypicals made the rockin' world go round?

1) There's lots of mythbusters on YouTube these days 2) My six year old has gotten way into that show and returning to it with him is awesome 3) They sure busted a lot of Burn Notice scenes back in the day (miss Burn Notice, yo)

Is this a Chinese company? Because, if so, they may catch up with the United States in our one remaining area of dominance: Kicking Ourselves in the Balls

A few more from a recent photo walk/drive in rural central pennsylvania #Photography

My end of year wishes for each and every one:

Me: Why do I feel kinda off today (considers Christmas Cookies for breakfast) Me: Nah, that can't be it

Here’s to 2026

People's interest in Mutual Aid is largely propelled by their feelings of Alienation from making a meaningful contribution to a community, an issue which is genuine and kind of orthogonal to the question of how efficient and effective Mutual Aid is relative to more bureaucratic forms of assistance

Why are all the good flannel patterns sold out at LL Bean? Probably this is another one of those forms of Woke Oppression of White Men, right? If I whine about this loud enough, can I get picked up by the WaPo editorial page, do you think?

Ermahgerd new Children of Time universe book!!!!!

Waiting for the Bathroom Sanctity Panic from the TERF crowd

so we sucked on, chili dogs behind the Tastee Freeze, borne ceaselessly into life going on

Even if one were to accept the premise of this (which, hint, sane people do not) the idea that democracy could function when companies could just spin up server farms full of voters with any ideology they would like is absurd on its face

Attention Steampunk Cosplayers. I found an auction for you: bid.highbidswin.com/ui/auctions/...

Oh hey @literaturegeek.bsky.social Good News (for letterpress) Bad News (for bank accounts) bid.highbidswin.com/ui/auctions/... (I will probably just ogle this one. My priority now is building my actual press)

I had been considering purchasing a photo printer, a laser cutter, and a criterion subscription. I just checked and my entirely average local public library has a photo printer, a cnc machine and the Kanopy service. Getting a library card!

My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

"The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true."

I don't want to hear about your snow. Here in Pennsylvania we are getting ice pellets falling from the sky, the worst known precipitation except those caused by a volcano and/or god hardening Pharaoh's heart

My only complaint about Leah Koenig's Roman Jewish cookbook "Portico" is that if you make her butternut squash spread as an appetizer it will steal the show from the rest of your meal

All identities are socially constructed, but Whiteness is especially socially constructed

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

My big AI prediction for the new year is that using LLMs to "generate" novel, "personalized" text will largely fail, mostly because a big part of the value of texts is that they are something an audience experiences together. Using LLMs to "translate" shared texts, however, will be very successful

Tiny Tim did not die, but he never saw Molly again.

Me, having a little coffee with dessert because why not, it's Christmas

The only upside of the Internet is knowing you weren't crazy, everyone saw it that way

Baby Jesus is delivered Frankenstein. Mary objects, only to be told this is a symbol of the resurrection.

Santa Claus is real yo

When, when will I learn that any recipe that calls for "working in batches" will absolutely ruin your entire day?

Here's a little communication from the party that wants to use "antisemitism" as an excuse to arrest and deport opponents

Yes but also Curry is recast as both James Earl Jones and Fred Dalton's characters

Join me on the winning team! #TeamSumeshUncle

Hank as Clarence the Angel: You see George, whether you were born or not, you are still a fish...

Merry Christmas! Tonight I visited a Christmas light display so bright it registered brighter than a lit indoor room on my camera meter

The miracle of the resurrection, prefigured

I'm not saying he, it? Can't "laugh and play", what I take issue with is the notion that it does so in a manner "just the same as you and me"

That is not dead which can eternal lie, Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die

"Oh, oh NOW how you all love me, now that I'm saving all your asses. Save it, Donner and Dasher. We will deliver these presents, because the kids deserve that, even the ones with facial deformities like the one you gave me hell over for years. But then we are done. I don't fucking know you."

If not destroyer then why destroyer shaped?

Hamlet: and I, Hamlet, vow to honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and ... Ghost: wait ... did you say Hamlet? Hamlet: yes? Ghost: not Scrooge? Hamlet: ... no? Ghost (scrolling increasingly desperately through Google calendar) oh shiii..

Reposts are not endorsements. Reposts are gifts.

"All I said, Niles, was that it sounded like the poor fellow could use a night away from life's troubles, how was I to know that the circus WAS life's troubles for him?" "Perhaps his tiny car would have provided some indication? Or did he instead come to your session by unicycle?" "Oh ha HA."

SLAVERY [sley-vuh-ree, sleyv-ree] / ˈsleɪ və ri, ˈsleɪv ri / noun 1. Like Prime, but with human beings

Jesus: I am the light of the world Jesus’s brother Jeff: Here we go

Pretty sure if I ever got ratioed this bad I would think long and hard about why that happened, you know? Maybe course correct my actions a tad?