I think I’m gonna try and shoot another zine (think The Pilgrimage) but I’m finally gonna do it with film instead of digital

He is born

Thank you to @fishlegs.bsky.social for sending along this pic of me reading at the most recent Transplants release! The response to my piece was invigorating, it made me want to write again

Introduced my wife to Die Hard (1988) and it really might be the movie that symbolizes America’s Reagan years best lmao (I love it, I’m sorry, it kicks ass)

music to get your collars clipped together to

It's unfortunate that our funniest president is also our Hitler

this feels like vintage internet. just discovered a wordpress blog called "Pre-Digital Railfan - Train Watching In The Age of Kodachrome". It is full of incredible slides of vintage trains, shot by PNW native Lindsay Korst (including this shot). it's so good, go check it out pdrailfan1.wordpress.com

one of my favorite rail photographers in that same era is Gary Morris, who has some really outstanding stuff, especially from the 70s-80s in Texas. Highly recommend checking out his work if you're not already familiar www.flickr.com/photos/43216...

this feels like vintage internet. just discovered a wordpress blog called "Pre-Digital Railfan - Train Watching In The Age of Kodachrome". It is full of incredible slides of vintage trains, shot by PNW native Lindsay Korst (including this shot). it's so good, go check it out pdrailfan1.wordpress.com

no idea when it’s going to come out but the funniest thing on the episode of @wtyppod.bsky.social we recorded today was me mentioning in passing that I’d been watching a lot of menswear content and @victoriascott.bsky.social instantly clocking that this meant I was suicidally depressed

I really need to get back to work on my novel about a transgender woman who rises to the top of the local street-racing scene with her trusty heavily-modified Celica All-Trac

today's photo post is all highlights from @asterolsen.bsky.social's TRANSPlants Issue 4 release party, which was incredibly fun and featured live music by @vivmccall.bsky.social's Pansy, playing music off her new EP. also I finally got a chance to read again and it was really fun!!

i have 3 desires on this earth: 1. the liberation and emancipation of all working people 2. thriving indie media landscape where people can make cool niche art 3. kiss wife kiss wife kiss wife

I think Paul Verhoeven might be more misandrist and anti-America than the most staunchly radical feminist women in the world lmao

I wrote much less this year than I've written in the past five, so there's not a whole lot to revisit. This piece, though, I still think is probably the best article I've ever written, even if it was a dumb professional move to write it [free to read] www.patreon.com/posts/empero...

I love when I go to a store where I bought an expensive item and get treated like an idiot for explaining that the item doesn’t work

learn the native expression instead! as in imagine dropping a bunch of raw dumplings into boiling water

I can't wait to recreate the meme in reverse. every naval engagement from 2043 onwards gonna be like The USS Sword Of The God-Emperor vs. fifteen identical copies of the PLAN '我们昨天建造了它' supplied by a ship that does nothing but make hot pot for the other ships

quote with your favorite pic from 2025 photo by @postoctobrist.bsky.social

One of the best movies I’ve ever seen, period

my friends are so cool. transplants release party last night was awesome, thanks @asterolsen.bsky.social

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

I see we’re doing terminology discourse. I call myself whatever word makes the cis people in the room least comfortable without making them leave

sorry about Posting Sad yesterday but my depression has had hands this week lol. anyway it's fine, I am sure I will never post sad again

I had a nightmare last night that I was abducted by a fascist militia and taken to their headquarters, which was a sprawling compound of neoclassical revival five-over-ones. It actually scared me more to behold the buildings than it did to be kidnapped; I blame @katewagner.wehwalt.net

[dressing for a somber remembrance of one of my ideology’s spiritual leaders, cut down in his prime] oh yeah here we go, this is God-honoring [grabs disco ball miniskirt]

I cannot believe we're doing Lysenkoism run by a fucking Kennedy. This is the dumbest fucking country in the history of the world

How the fuck am I gonna live through another three plus years of this shit

67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.

my printer also stopped working and I got rejected for a job 👍 whoever cursed me did a good job 👍

What do you even say, really, other than “don’t stand in front of a masked armed man trying to kidnap someone because you might go to prison for half a decade” and if that sentence sounds weird, well, we live in hell, so get used to it I guess

ngl that camera and the anticipation of this shoot was propping up more of my mental health than I thought

I have continued crashing out after trying everything I can possibly think of to fix it without taking the camera apart. At least I got one good Polaroid out of today I guess.

my GX680 is not syncing to my strobes, and I am absolutely crashing out over it

fuck it I’m going to distract myself with my one true love (shooting photographs of my wife on film that has been discontinued for several decades)

I wrote about Trump’s ballroom and the right’s quest to remake the symbolic order for @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/wre...

I need to log off, I’m literally glowing with anger and I’m gonna post something that I *will* regret

Honestly and sincerely, though: Fuck these guys.

What they’re proposing just isn’t fucking legal, but they’re still going to do it. I hate these criminal dipshit bastards.

You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls

Didn't recall these JVCs having a BURT mode...

Burt (on the altar of Burt)

This has to be genAI trump right, this is the most coherent I’ve seen him in months

great job whipping votes @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social you useless sack of shit. without three Dem defectors this doesn't pass, and now every American family with a trans kid gets to sleep worse worrying about this going to the Senate.

Saw they’re making a standalone Gaston movie from Beauty and the Beast. Anyway, here’s Guy Debord in Society of the Spectacle:

apropos of nothing, you should read about and fully digest Executive Order 9066 and perform a little thought experiment about what you’d have been willing to do if you were alive in an era where an entire group of immigrants were unilaterally imprisoned for nothing more than their country of origin

Alright fuck it time to find out what fresh hell is being wrought in our names

these are genuine hater shit, not just for the editing, but for the crops. look at how dwarfed by the furnishings and flag Vance is! It makes him look so physically small, overwhelmed by the size of the environment he finds himself in!

here's a cute shot of where my wife and I stayed for last year's christmas together, in Longmire, WA, at the foot of Tahoma!

/shouting over the deafening ringing of what sounds like thousands of sleigh bells "Well well well." defector.com/the-2025-hat...