Artie Moffa
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Photography, poetry, humor, and a touch of economics now and then.
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Roosevelt Institute
about 16 hours ago
These aren’t isolated developments. They’re symptoms of a media system shaped by decades of choices that favored commercial power over the public interest. Our new report maps how we got here, why it matters, and what a democratic media system must look like.
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute
Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi...
https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/political-economy-of-us-media-system/
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One of my favorite full moon photographs. San Francisco as viewed from Ghirardelli Square.
#Pentax
K-S2 with smc M 120mm F2.8 lens. Ć’/11, 1/20sec @ ISO 200 Photographed July 2022. Thank you for looking.
#photography
#cityscape
#sanfrancisco
#fullmoon
about 15 hours ago
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American Economic Liberties Project
1 day ago
"The very explicit point of these [NDAs] is to ensure there is no public feedback when these deals are being negotiated." Pat Garofalo joined WFMU to discuss how Big Tech is using NDAs to hide the true costs of their data centers from the public👇
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Focused or defocused?
#Pentax
K-S2 with
#Lensbaby
Twist 60 F2.4. Ć’/2.8, 1/20sec @ ISO 3200. (both shots same exposure) Photographed December 2022. Thank you for looking.
#photography
#bokeh
#moon
#ireland
#dublin
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Alexandria Times
2 days ago
OPINION: "The central question, 'What were these people thinking?' is probably unanswerable. Even so, the situations of Ayanna Harrison and Erik Johnson share some important themes about what really happens when the public trust is violated."
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https://alextimes.com/opinion/columns/about-alexandria-with-mark-eaton-pondering-the-recent-local-scandals/
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The Supermoon is tomorrow night (Thursday, 12/4), so tonight was just practice. Olympus PEN E-PL6 with 1976 Olympus Zuiko 300mm F4.5, 1/350sec, Ć’/11 @ISO 200.
#Olympus
#M43
#photography
#coldmoon
#moon
2 days ago
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Congress: Colleges pay their football coaches too much. Now, they can’t pay a coach $6M unless they do something crazy like jack up in-state tuition to $600k. Colleges: DON’T THREATEN US WITH A GOOD TIME, HONEY!
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David Dayen
3 days ago
We've got 2 great stories today in our series about drivers of the affordability crisis. First up by James Baratta: Electricity rates are set by public utility commissions. But that process has become captured, with corporate utilities pushing through rate hikes and extracting profits.
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Lightning in a Bottle - The American Prospect
Regulatory capture is at the root of the affordability crisis in electricity. Public power could offer a way out.
https://prospect.org/2025/12/03/lightning-in-bottle-regulatory-capture-electricity/
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More Perfect Union
3 days ago
It’s actually up to governments to regulate AI and stop it from destroying lives.
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5 days ago
#Photography
#Blackandwhite
More Montreal stairs
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Tomorrow's full moon will also be a
#supermoon
. Make plans to get a great shot! Here is a regular full moon near the Poolbeg Stacks in Dublin,
#Ireland
.
#Olympus
#m43
#photography
3 days ago
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One more of the Cape Mendocino
#lighthouse
in Shelter Cove, California. I was particularly impressed by the high lantern:body ratio of this lighthouse. So much glass on a stocky body!
#Pentax
K-S2 with smc DA 15mm. Photographed Aug 2024. Thank you for looking.
#photography
#seascape
#landscape
4 days ago
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More edge-of-your-seat historical thrills from Balancecraft, exploring the US effort to rebuild post-war Germany without the cartels and consolidated economic power that had enabled the fascist war machine.
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5 days ago
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Three different ways of looking at a lighthouse. This is the Cape Mendocino Lighthouse, which is no longer at Cape Mendocino. It has been removed to Shelter Cove,
#California
. Which shot do you prefer?
#photography
#seascape
#landscape
#pentax
5 days ago
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"Blade Runner 2020" On September 9, 2020, the sky over San Francisco turned dark red at noon due to smoke from the Santa Cruz CZU
#Wildfire
.
#Pentax
K200D with
#Sigma
28–105mm F3.8–5.6 UCiii. ƒ/11, 3 sec @ ISO 100. Thank you for looking.
#longexposure
#photography
7 days ago
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A retail shot, in honor of Black Friday in the USA. These are United Nude shoes, a preferred brand of
@balancecraft.bsky.social
. I prefer to call them "Shinekickers." The
#starburst
is a signature characteristic of the
#Pentax
DA15 lens; this is not a digital effect.
#photography
8 days ago
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Bergen,
#Norway
(or the train line leading there from Oslo). Photographed October, 2023.
#Olympus
PEN E-PL6 with M.Zuiko 12mm F2. Ć’/5.6, 1/500sec @ ISO 200. Cropped in half from landscape into portrait. Thank you for looking.
#photography
#Bergen
#camper
#water
#landscape
#m43
#OMDigital
9 days ago
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SwiftOnSecurity
9 days ago
A roll of aluminum foil is maybe one of the most incredible things you will ever hold in your life. That was a creation for kings and you wrap it around food and throw it in the dumpster. You talk about planes as aluminum cans, as if both are not one of the most incredible creations in history.
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Amazing photograph. Can it really be 120 years old?
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9 days ago
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University College Dublin
9 days ago
The INSPIRE programme will be administered by the Higher Education Authority and Research Ireland and will be open for applications in the first quarter of 2026.
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€750 million investment package to transform Ireland’s research infrastructure
https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2025/november/27/750millioninvestmentpackagetotransformirelandsresearchinfrastructure/
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Balancecraft
14 days ago
What, don't Big Tech trials make everyone think about the rhetorical flexes of Thomas Paine?
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Day 12: Turnabout is Fair Play
In closing arguments on remedies for Google's illegal adtech monopolies, each side claims their remedy proposal is more effective, cautious, simple, and trustworthy, while Judge Brinkema keeps her eye...
https://open.substack.com/pub/bigtechontrial/p/day-12-turnabout-is-fair-play?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3ujqb
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Copenhagen as seen from the spiral steeple of Vor Frelsers Kirke.
#Olympus
PEN E-PL6 with M.Zuiko 17mm F2.8. Ć’/3.5, 1/4000sec @ ISO 250. Photographed March 2023. Thank you for looking.
#photography
#denmark
#churchofoursavior
#vorfrelsers
#skyline
#m43
10 days ago
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The Point Reyes Shipwreck is one of the most beautiful, haunting, and silly sites in all of California. It is a happenstance cathedral for photographers. Lovely shot, Jon!
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11 days ago
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Red Dahlias in Herbert Park, Dublin, Ireland.
#Pentax
K-S2 with Lensbaby Twist 60 F2.4. Ć’/2.8, 1/180sec @ ISO 200. Photographed October 2022. Thank you for looking.
#photography
#lensbaby
#twist60
#swirl
#bokeh
#ireland
11 days ago
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University College Dublin
11 days ago
💙💛 120 Laps of the Lake: Sending massive good luck to Tommy O’Brien, 4th year Veterinary Medicine student member, who is taking on an incredible 60km run, or 120 laps of the main lake, for Movember.
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Question for
@marketplace.org
: what % of the FOMC are renters? What % own multiple homes, mortgaged or outright? Are we all overlooking the real economic story as we pore over the legal drama?
#FederalReserve
12 days ago
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Maybe we're ignoring the real issue: does it unnerve you that so many political appointees in the US own MULTIPLE HOUSES? Shouldn't roughly half of our policymakers be renters? Imagine if every person in charge of setting transportation policy took a chauffeured car to work!
12 days ago
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How I feel about this photograph depends heavily on how I weight the
#LeicaQ2
tag it bears vs the
#Midjourney
tag it also bears. Anybody else feel these two ways? Provenance is everything, these days.
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12 days ago
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Three of the hardest working shipwrecks in
#Galway
Bay. It was a long shoot, several lens and lighting changes, and they never once complained.
#Pentax
K-S2 with DA 15mm F4 Limited. Ć’/15, 1/100sec @ ISO 200. Photographed in May, 2023.
#ireland
#galwaybay
#shipwreck
#photography
#seascape
12 days ago
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2022: I am starting grad school in Ireland. ChatGPT hasn't launched. It strikes me as archaic that we sit our exams by scribbling into blue paper booklets. 2023: I am finishing grad school in Ireland. ChatGPT is everywhere. It strikes me as inevitable that we use blue paper booklets.
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12 days ago
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This is not paid ad for CVS, but they are running a sale (USA) of $5 for a 16"x 20" "repositionable poster." I had some of these printed a few weeks ago. Quality is B+, and the sticky backing is like a Post-it note. Nice wall decor for $5. đź’ˇ ANYTHING is a JPG if you save as .jpg
#photography
13 days ago
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Roosevelt Institute
18 days ago
Housing + Private Equity = A recipe for profit over people. As urgency grows around housing and affordability, we peel back the curtain on an issue impacting hundreds of Detroit residents: housing as a digital investment asset.
https://bit.ly/4o1ISIg
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Martello Tower on Dalkey Island as seen from a ruined fortification.
#Pentax
K-S2 with smc DA L 18–50mm F4–5.6. ƒ/11, 1/180sec @ ISO 200. Photographed July 2023. Thank you for looking.
#kitlens
#Ireland
#dalkey
#napoleon
13 days ago
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This color palette is perfect. Really complex and engaging macro shot.
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14 days ago
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This is a lovely shot. Just the right defocus allowing the background to "lurk" behind the droplets. Joey Terrill
@joeyterrill.bsky.social
does a lot of amazing water drop photography along these lines. Would love to see more!
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14 days ago
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Shelly Corbett Photography
about 1 month ago
Happy Halloween
#lego
#photography
#toyphotography
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I bought this souvenir of the Jefferson Memorial for $5 from a street vendor. What do you think?
#Pentax
K-S2 with
#Lensbaby
Twist-60 and +2 diopter
#macro
filter.
#photography
#BlueSkyArtShow
#small
#washingtondc
14 days ago
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Fun with long exposure. J-Church MUNI line, Church Street & 15th Street, San Francisco.
#Pentax
K-S2 with smc DA 15mm F4 Limited lens. Ć’/9.5, 2sec @ ISO 400. Photographed June 2022. Thank you for looking.
#photography
#longexposure
#starburst
#transit
#bluehour
14 days ago
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Fritz Ruhmann
14 days ago
#Brutalism
#FritzRuhmann
#Midjourney
#LeicaQ2
#Black&White
#Photography
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Pixelplace.me
14 days ago
Unlike “followers” (for example, bison calves), deer fawns are “hiders,” staying put until strong enough to run. Mothers may leave them for up to 12 hours while foraging, returning periodically to nurse.
#BlueskyArtShow
#Small
#Deer
#GrandCanyon
#Fawn
#Hider
#Photos
#AnimalPhotography
#Photography
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I know, I KNOW. Trust me, I know. But still, at first glance…you know?
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15 days ago
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Cr de la Liberté, Lyons, France.
#Olympus
PEN E-PL6 with M.Zuiko 12mm F2.0. Ć’5.6, 1/3000s @ ISO 400. Photographed March 2023. Thank you for looking.
#fensterfreitag
#photography
#lyon
#window
#M43
15 days ago
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Quick Hollywood story about
#LarrySummers
: Douglas Urbanski is the longtime agent/manager of actor Gary Oldman. When Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher were casting The Social Network, they asked Douglas Urbanski if he would be interested in portraying
#Harvard
President Larry Summers. 1/3
16 days ago
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Signs of autumn on Valencia Street in San Francisco
#Olympus
PEN E-PL6 with M.Zuiko 17mm F2.8. Ć’/2.8, 1/15sec @ ISO 320. Photographed 2022 in San Francisco, California. Thank you for looking.
#vespa
#autumnleaves
#fallcolors
#bluehour
#scooter
#m43
#microfourthirds
16 days ago
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Witchspace
20 days ago
Could I but ride indefinite, As doth the meadow-bee, And visit only where I liked, And no man visit me, And flirt all day with buttercups, And marry whom I may, And dwell a little everywhere, Or better, run away -- Emily Dickinson
#Photography
#ImageAndVerse
#ClassicMono
#BNWmacro
#EastCoastKin
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Halloween Pumpkins.
#Pentax
K-S2 with smc DA 21mm Limited F3.2. Ć’/3.2, 1/250sec @ ISO 200 Photographed October 2021. Thank you for looking.
#photography
#halloween
#pumpkin
#jackolantern
#humor
#sanfrancisco
#foundart
19 days ago
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The main thing I'm learning from the Vine reboot is that many, many people here on Bluesky are active bingo players.
22 days ago
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Greetings BlueSky! I'll mostly post photographs. This one is currently the "Photo of the Week" in the
@alexandriatimes.bsky.social
.
#Pentax
K-S2 with DA 70mm Limited F2.4. Ć’/4, 1sec @ ISO 200.
#Alexandria
#ALX
#photography
So concludes my
#firstpost
. Thank you for looking!
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