They’re not going after criminals. “Criminals don’t get up and go to work and pay their bills.” These are not criminals; they’re hard-working people. EVERY LAST WORD OF THIS🔥

I don't know. It's been heading this way since the mid 70s. In a way, I'm not surprised. I'm impressed at the number of people who jumped at the opportunity to be their worst selves to 'own the libs', etc. The stupidity, cruelty, and selfishness were always there, just waiting for permission.

Elderly man in the Ilam bazaar.

"I saw that."

Elder monk at Swayambhunath.

Sadhus at Pashupatinath. It costs about 100rs to make a few photos of these men. I rarely do, but there they were and

The Sharma family have run the two tea shops that I've long frequented when I'm in Ilam.

The shoemaker of Ilam. I've known this man and his family for many years. It was good to see them again. Ilam, Nepal

Washing at the temple fountain. Patan, Nepal.

This is brilliant

When you rebuild your flat after the earthquake, but want to avoid having neighbours. Sankhu, Nepal.

I've started editing the images from Nepal. This is Pashupatinath, the Hindu funerary temple in Kathmandu. The dead are cremated at the riverside and their ashes placed in the Bhagmati River, which eventually flows into the Ganges.

It's pretty rare for someone to get a photo of me I'm not aware of, and with my own camera at that. Anyhow, this is me, Fat Thor, sitting in a small tea shop in Ilam this past October.

BREAKING: Risking his own life while daringly inspecting a misplaced FBI van, FBI director Kash Patel has found George Washington's autopen. What a hero! This is a developing story. Follow Vandammit for more #KashFinds #KashPatel

To my dad, uncles, great-uncles, brother-in-law, niece, and cousins, all who served in conflicts from World War I to Sarajevo, Kuwait, and beyond: To those I never had the chance to meet, to those who made it home, and to those whose families will wait for them forever, my humble thanks.

The energy of what? A 25-year-old lead-acid battery?

Taps sign

I am jet-lagged and awake despite my efforts to sleep. Who else is up?

Opinion pieces in the NYT have become little more than the generally privileged writer parting their gluteus maximumus and showing the world their anus, as though it were something special to be marvelled at and that no one else has. The paper edition makes for an okay fish wrapper still though.

People are wondering what has happened to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Nothing. She has always been an opportunist with no moral convictions. She now wants a higher office and saw the writing on the wall Tuesday evening.

Glimpses of a fleeting moment. The ghosts of Tokyo. 2013

Feet on the ground in Vancouver again. Nice to be able to drink the water again. First comfortable bed in a month. First truly hot shower in a month. Picked up the Kathmandu cough, again. Good to be home in a sad way.

😂🤣😂🤣

Travel advice: if you know you're going to have a long stopover in Hong Kong you might want to book a sleeping room at Refreshhh by Aerotel, not "cheap" but a lot nicer than kicking around in a lounge. Now, if you're traveling business class this isn't a problem, but who does that on their own dime?

19 hour layover in Hong Kong - no entry visa for China so I can't leave the airport. Been lounge surfing and managed to get a sleep pod for a few hours of much needed sleep. There has to be a better way to get to Nepal and back than going thru Hong Kong. Singapore, maybe?

Hey @sonycamera.bsky.social , I wanted to let you know that as a recent convert to the A7 and now FX ecosystems that after a solid month of shooting in Nepal, over trails, jeep rides that would shake organs loose to torrential rains, that the FX2 has been an absolute unit throughout the journey.

As for Dick Cheney shuffling off this mortal coil, in the words of Oscar Wilde, "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." The glowing eulogies for this monster are nauseating. Stop polishing the worm-infested turd that is his legacy.

Things are so bad I'm expecting people to start to pronounce the 'L' in Salmon, because it just doesn't matter anymore.

This is me sporting my covid fat layer, terribly out of shape and almost 65. Life gets weird, you just have to ride it out so you can see where it leads. In my case, it leads back to daily walks, the spin cycle, the gym and a high protein, log carb calorie restricted diet... I don't wanna be Santa!

NICE COLLECTION!!

When you post an absolute banger from your Huawei phone.

MAGA Republicans.

The idea of the President being America's CEO is absurd. The notion a country can be run like a private company is absurd. What are the origins of these absurd ideas and why do they seem so popular among so-called constitutional conservatives? chatgpt.com/s/t_6909bb13...

Mike Johnson is the man who pretends to know nothing. While it's perfectly clear to the world he knows exactly what's going on - it's literally his job to know.

One wonders if it's not unreasonable to hope, in these cases, for history to repeat itself.

I don't resent poor people who use food stamps to buy another soft drink. I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.

"where do you see yourself after you retire?"

Good morning fellow blatherscapiens.

Well, I've been flagged as a bot by twitter and it looks like I may not be able to prove I'm not. So this is how it ends over there.

Reading my Nepali textbook, I found this: के यो झाडापखाला हो? (Is it dysentery?) यो झाडापखाला हो। (It is dysentery.) कुन दिशा? (Which direction?) .... Wait. There's more than one direction?? And I've been laughing like a schoolboy for 5 minutes.

I've heard right wing conservatives demand an end to minimum wage legislation, here's the problem with that: there are unscrupulous people who would happily pay their workers next to nothing if they could get away with it. These may be the same people who say slavery wasn't so bad...

Well, two more days in Nepal. My goals for the year: - Get back down to 190lbs. (I look like fat Thor at the moment at 230) - Daily walks, back on the bicycle, back to daily cardio - Study conversational (Spoken) Nepali every day. - Play that new guitar every day for an hour.

Portraits from Sankhu, Nepal. Made these portraits while interviewing people about their memories of the earthquakes and recording their recovery and rebuilding stories.

Portraits from Sankhu, Nepal. Made these portraits while interviewing people about their memories of the earthquakes and recording their recovery and rebuilding stories.