It’s pictures. Last roll of color from New Orleans, this one on Lomography Turquoise. The reporting from the aftermath of the apocalypse will continue.

Chaissez Lady The Chassiez Ladies march in the Krewe Boheme parade in motorized chaise lounges. This sort of thing appeals to my sense of the absurd. Pentax 17, Kodak Portra 800, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm #halfframeclub

Skeleton Keeping watch over the building entrance. Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16, Ilford PanF+, 510-Pyro. #BelieveInFilm

Time to ditch Discord. I refuse to give any more to the surveillance state and their corporate collaborators than I already have.

Water That’s the purpose of this small building behind the gun emplacements in the background, to provide water. It is not known if the water is safe since the apocalypse. Leica R4, Lomography Turquoise, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm

I question how much market there is in Ukraine for a pro-russian news network at this point….

Interesting lens project out of China on Kickstarter, a 150mm f/1.6 lens for 4x5 that has the ability to do soft focus. 6 element in 5 group double Gauss. Not something I can afford right now, but I can think of a few lens geeks who might find this interesting. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tel...

Dear Apple, When I told you “Remind Me Later” when you suggested an upgrade to iOS 26.x, what I really meant was “Fuck off”, but that wasn’t on offer. Just so you know….

Well, the Patriots literally allow their jets to be used for ICE deportations.

I feel like any country building concentration camps probably isn't going to be viewed as a good guy by future generations. It's a development that doesn't even live up to the dark "mass deportations" campaign promise.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Oh, here comes another wave of insanity. Ukraine is now supposed to surrender in a war it has not lost and willingly ensure its own destruction by Russia because Trump needs to avert a midterm disaster.

Need something warm to listen to on this bitter cold day? Check out Music Man for Africa, tracing the life of Leo Sarkisian--master field recordist, self-taught ethnomusicologist, ambassador and producer of the very popular Music Time in Africa for Voice of America-- soundcloud.com/shortwaveolo...

Free The Girls! One of the more popular krewes in the Krewe Boheme parade is this group, which asks bystanders to throw them bras instead of the other way around, which they then donate to the needy. Fucking brilliant twist. I expect this came out […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]

Janine di Giovanni has covered state terror for years. Now she turns her gaze to Israel and the US. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/08/state-terror-us-israel-donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu

What’s So Funny ‘Bout… Just across the street from the Plaza de la Constitucion in St. Augustine. Pentax 17, Fujifilm F-64D, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm #halfframeclub

Warehouse More of the active part of Fort Hancock, post-apocalypse. Leica R4, Lomography Turquoise, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm

Not going to follow Greg’s example. Now that I’m in my sixties, I’m perfectly comfortable knowing that young people say and do things that make no sense to me. We did the same thing when we were young. Now it’s there turn to be unhinged fools.

This thread gives details if you, like me, don’t subscribe to the NYT any longer.

The latest edition of the PROCSSS newsletter features some recent photography work documenting gentrification around USC and more photos from last week’s General Strike demonstration in DTLA. www.nonstndrd.com/archival-rec...

It’s pictures again. So far, I’ve developed nine of the 16 rolls of film I shots in New Orleans, eight color and one black and white. I have one more color roll to develop, and six black and white.

Statue This little park at the foot of the Bridge of Lions has a statue of Juan Ponce de Leon, the first European to reach Florida. The park is lit up in the winter for the Nights of Lights. The lights were already lit at dusk when I shot this […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]

Fort This is part of the part of Fort Hancock that’s still operational as a Coast Guard base. Usually this is behind a locked fence, but since the bombs fell, the gate has been open. Leica R4, Lomography Turquoise, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm

“This is the nature of the Epstein files: It’s the record of what a global class of very privileged, accomplished and self-important people want to get gifted… His transactional amorality actually seemed to add to his appeal to people who were convinced that the rules didn’t apply to them.”

Thread. I’ve been to the VOA building and seen the art. It’s worth saving.

Pretend I’m A Fairy Done. Pentax 17, Portra 800, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm #halfframeclub

New from me: Policy Memo: The U.S. Must Establish a Framework for Federal Online Privacy Law I completed this policy memo as an exercise for a project I’m working on, and thought I’d post it here as an evolving document I can return to in the future. Friend 🔗: stribs.medium.com/policy-memo-...

Zebra did a Kickstarter for Stearman-like development tanks. I considered the 8x10, but don’t want to mix 2 liters of chems, especially when the Stearman 8x10 takes so much less. Didn’t need another 4x5. So I got the 5x7. Under a liter, holds 4 sheets. Feels solid. Will have to shoot some 5x7 soon.

It’s pictures. Two rolls of Kodacolor 100 from New Orleans. One from the Leica R4, the other from the Pentax 17.

Bridge is down today, so none of the photos I posted today are showing up here. You can see them on my Pixelfed site at https://pixelfed.thereisnocat.com/thereisnocat

Perfect timing for this, having just gotten back from New Orleans. Best Po’boy I had was in the back of a dive bar on Conti in the French Quarter. Nice to read the history; I had no idea it was so recent.

Flickr is having issues again. The photo I posted this morning from the parade that looked like someone ate a box of crayons and vomited it up got picked for Explore. Every time I try to go to the photo from Notifications, I get an error message. I get another when I try changing comment permissions

Counteroffer: we’ll name a sewage treatment plant after you, motherfucker.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Magic Beach Motel Back to this subject. I expect to be back in St. Augustine at the end of the month. I’ll check then to see if this is still standing. I don’t expect it is. Fucking condos. Pentax 17, Fujifilm F-64D, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm #halfframeclub

I think you know the answer. The “negotiations” have been an excuse to hold back necessary equipment and aid.

Battery Potter Defensive position that was useless against the bombs when the apocalypse came. Leica R4, Lomography Turquoise, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm

It’s pictures. I shot this roll of Delta 3200 at the Krewe Boheme Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans last week in the Leica R4. It looks a lot better than the roll of Portra 800 it shot in the Pentax 17.

Imagine if four years into our war in Iraq we had only occupied 20 percent of it and lost 1.2 million men. Would anyone say the US is winning? No? Then how in the hell can you say Russia is winning?!

Mardi Gras I think this photo may sum up my feelings about the Krewe Boheme Mardi Gras parade my wife marched in last weekend. I love the explosion of color, and if you look very closely, you can pick out my wife’s face in the maelstrom. I think […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]

Mr Buddy disappeared last week sadly :( www.pawboost.com/p/72537979

Also, Schumer suggested, ICE should not be permitted to expend more than 5 bullets at a time on a single protestor. Except under extenuating circumstances.

Note that @wydenpress.bsky.social sent this shortly after the Gang of 8 were briefed on the alleged misconduct of Tulsi which implicated another agency.

“I don't know Liam... but if he's wearing that Spider-Man backpack, I feel like we told him stories about heroes and about heroes protecting people,” comic artist Greg Pak says. ”In that moment, those stories were a lie, and that makes me sick to my stomach, because he was not protected.”

I keep arguing: there are 5 ways to fight fascism: 1) 3.5% in the streets 2) Peel off 8 Reps or 4 Sens 3) Rescue Trump catastrophe 4) Win in the courts 5) Win in November If you've foresworn 2-5, fine. Then put everything into 1.

Gonna write this up at more length. But if you believe Trump's goons will not follow the law, if you believe Trump will reverse November's election. Your job is NOT to doom monger. It is to treat people-in-the-streets as the one remaining measure.

Mickey Lolich was a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers when I was growing up, and one of my favorite players. He died today, age 85. 🥺 https://www.mlb.com/news/mickey-lolich-dies

When do we get to the part in the movie when the good guys start winning?

Oleksandra Matviichuk has an excellent question.

As terrible as what is happening right now to journalism, we actually should dismantle the romantic myths we have of the press in America. I teach in my class about colonial press censorship, and then how the independent press was a tool for the wealthy, white power holders to maintain dominance.