Toddling ambitiously towards my desires like a child towards an unsupervised firearm

i don't think anyone has figured out the right way to talk about the new york times yet. but i think i can do it

warblers i saw on randalls island instead of the cool rare warbler i was looking for

august with beach items (canon af35m, harman phoenix ii 200 @ 160)

sunset geometry on, you guessed it, portra 400

melodramatic ektar lake michigan sunset

BLUESKY FOLKS! You should come to the last FIGURE IT OUT of the season. xoxo

calling dibs right now on the "if the tranny doesn't feel loved, she will leave" quote as an epigraph

ok *next* year i will have the range to play the trumpet part from the song about the 21st night of september in the original octave

is she a pillar of the community or is she just happy to see me

me and gilles matching on the way home from the function last night

was listening to vulfpeck around the house and august said "i just don't understand what would drive a group of white men to make music that sounds like this"

why did they put this on the packaging for light bulbs

going for a stochastic little walk around the neighborhood

castration movie part ii last night had me drawing Diagrams

the part of the latest castration movie chapter that felt the most fucked up to watch was a shot like four hours in—silent apart from an ambient soundtrack of creaking static—where a girl came around a corner in slow motion and with the blur and grain she looked way too much like me

If you accrue enough unfinished business you should get to be a ghost before you even die

It’s always comforting to hear that a family of birds has allies. Good for them

[getting struck by lightning for like the 16th time] okay that's crazy but there's no way it'll happen again

making major progress in bilateral moth-flame relations

The origin of the name Rilo Kiley is incredible

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new la dispute album is pretty good i think

Most important harvest festival of our lifetimes

a field in michigan where they used to have horses, on ektar with an AE-1 on the left and on proimage on an AF35M point-and-shoot on the right

here is the same scene shot on medium format kodak gold

Running around like a chicken with its head attached tens of thousands of times

Jamelle Bouie come to the only transgender owned film lab in the country

these two books contain the sum of all birding knowledge

would it astonish you to learn that i got multiple compliments on my @hellgatenyc.com hat at the ridgewood variety

i'm always insisting i don't care about listing like that but i think i'm really going to try to get to 600 ABA species by the time i'm 30

Woodpeckers are so cool

had a couple drinks with this girl at wondies last night and we calculated that a peregrine falcon could theoretically deliver 3-4 times as much energy as a 5.56 round. when we went back to her place she gave me a print of audubon's passenger pigeons

[anton chigurh from no country for old men voice] it's not clocking to you that i'm standing on business right now

we also went to nowadays last night and they asked me how to say "tecate"

car horn in my neighborhood that's the same interval as the opening to emperor x "raytracer" is like a fun version of the macos file moving song being the opening chord to mitski "two slow dancers"

had fun taking a british girl and german girl to aunt ginny's and watching them try to pronounce "narragansett"

me by @birdmotif.alextey.co :)

Me: almost new years Chinese jewish guy: you’re going to have to be more specific….. twice

i love boardwalks and ferns and cloudy days and kodak proimage 100

my falconer brought me this bullshit today and said it's a new kind of falcon. told him its clearly some other bird and he kept saying "it's a new falcon. it's a round falcon" and stuff like that. i dont want a round falcon man

Two from trans girl baseball

we walked out on a breakwater into lake michigan as the sun came up

(through gritted teeth) wait i’m goated

One day—not so long from now—you will hear a symphony of car horns honking, and people cheering in the street, and music loudly playing in all directions. And after a brief moment of being perplexed, you will know exactly what has happened.

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i'm proud to be the load-bearing "guy who knows keyboard shortcuts" team member at my email job

before turning the camera on herself

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