Hello, Doha! Swanky hotel? Oh, yes. 🇶🇦 #indoors #travel #photograph #qatar

At Heydar Aliyev Airport. Leaving Baku again for a week on work. Destination: Doha, Qatar.

Watching "Big Trouble in Little China." Anyone else consider growing a mullet to channel their inner Kurt Russel? Asking for a friend.

Soviet mural in downtown Baku, #Azerbaijan. The mural commemorates "The Great Patriotic War," a different take on World War II.

After-school and overcast in Baku. #azerbaijan #school #football #cityscape

I greatly appreciated the street art in Tbilisi, Georgia. Lamb's work could be found throughout the city back in 2017. #travel #georgia #streetart

A friend was looking for a deal on an Azerbaijani carpet. I tell her, every carpet seller I've met is happy to cut a deal. Everyone gets a "friend price." That song and dance is all part of the game. I admire the dishonesty built into the tradition.

Beyond it being Iggy Pop, I picked up "Brick by Brick" on the Charles Burn cover alone. Icing on the cake: it also features Slash and Duff of Guns n' Roses and Kate Pierson of The B-52's. 🤩

The photographer wanted to make .gifs, but couldn't wait 70 years for their invention.

More quaint warnings from the the 1990s #punk and #hardcore scene. I found this one in Reversal of Man's (1998) "Revolution Summer." The entire insert booklet for this 10" is a work of art. It uses the old zine methods of copy editing.

Tucked inside Catharsis's double-LP "Samsara" (1998), I found this insert promoting an indie publisher. Feels so quaint these days. #hardcore #music #indie #punk

Teaching a lesson today, we had an assessment, yet no one-liner defining the objectives. I improvised. I wrote on the board, "Lesson Objective: To develop tools to prepare for an uncertain future." I left it on the board all day. I think we'll revisit it regularly.

Every day above dirt is a good day! __ ©2017, 2025 Stephen R Bissette

As I approached my front door, I heard the Mars Volta coming from inside the apartment. I then walked into a cosmic light show. #unexpected #psychedelic

After completing the shorebased course last month, I received my RYA Coastal Skipper & Yachmaster Offshore certificate today. Looking forward to applying those skills this spring. ⛵ #accomplishment

Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

My Master of Science in Business Analytics officially kicks off this week. #quantic #business #analytics #lifelonglearner #stoked

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Early Sunday afternoon near Fountain Square Baku. #Azerbaijan #photos #trees #architecture #winter

When seated without a safety belt in the back of a ₼2 Bolt ride share, I see this *all the time.*

Good morning, Baku. #Azerbaijan #photograph #skyline

The view from below inside the Istanbul Airport. #travel #architecture

I-guana wish you the happiest of New Years! 🎉 #Florida #nature #wildlife

A walk through a familiar neighborhood seven years ago. I always look forward to revisiting this street. #BoyntonBeachFL #travel #sunset

Lunchtime view of the Intracoastal in #BoyntonBeachFL.

This take I will share with my sixth graders.

Earlier this year, I visited Astana, Kazakhstan. The skyline was breathtaking. #travel #Kazakhstan #architecture

Breathtaking Aerial Shot of an Alligator 🐊 This stunning photograph captures an alligator gliding through the crystal-clear waters of the Everglades. The water is so clear you can see the alligator's shadow on the bottom of the lake. It's a truly breathtaking photo. 📷 Shelly Collins #Wildlife

Hard to believe in a time when South Florida public schools were built on the beach. Yet, in the 1930s, that's where the community developed Boynton High School. Images courtesy of the Boynton Beach Historical Society. www.boyntonhistory.org/boynton-high... #BoyntonBeachFL #history #education

Another closet rummage discovery. In high school, I was fortunate to take a photography class. In the mid-1990s, this class would have predated the ubiquity of digital photography. My parents had kept my portfolio and classwork. We were assigned to take selfies before they were called that.

Development along the Intracoastal Waterway of Pompano Beach, FL, 2012 and 1989 with 2015 map.

Other finds from my parents' closets: LPs. Let me say, Jethro Tull's turned packaging into an art. We're talking watercolor paintings, pop-up gatefolds, and a newspaper complete with help wanted ads, cartoons, a crossword puzzle, etc. #vinyl

The purpose of propaganda is not to make you believe something. It is to make you believe nothing. So that you do....nothing.

Whenever I visit Florida, I take advantage of walks before dawn. #BoyntonBeachFL

Mangrove lagoons on the shore and cumulus clouds in the sky. Can't argue with the weather during the #kayaking outing on the Intracoastal Waterway. #JupiterFL

This scene has played out in my school's IT Department.

History, territories, and ethnic/religious identities: An Ethnographic Map of the Northern Mesopotamia (Iraqi Kurdistan) in the 1920s ("Map compiled according to the ethnographical map submitted by the British Government to the League of Nations in September 1924"). #Kurds #Arabs #Turks #Christians

Azerbaijani government sources have confirmed that Flight 8432 of the Azerbaijan Airlines was shot down by a Russian missile. This was reported by Euronews.

Rummaging through my parents' closets, I came across a world atlas from the 1960s. Nabbed it. #history #geography #visualization #maps #data

Planning to kayak today on the Jupiter and Intracoadtal Waterway. Did some background research from Foster's "Paddling South Florida." I want to learn more about this story from Jonathan Dickinson. #JupiterFL #kayaking #history

Morning walk to the Venetian Bay Village in Naples, FL. Loving the waterfront scenery and the Banyan trees. #NaplesFL #trees

I made a dataset from my #ClamPass walk using Claude by @anthropic.com. Uploaded a pic of a board listing species at the park, asked Claude to list the species with several classifications, including conservation status, relationship to the ecosystem, and more. Boom: ecological data. #AI #NaplesFL

Morning walk through Clam Pass in Naples, Florida. 🌴🌊 #ClamPass #NaplesFL #NatureWalk #FloridaBeaches #Mangroves

Strolled through the Dogs and Cats Walkway and Sculpture Gardens at Maurice A. Ferré Park in Miami. So many cat sculptures. 😻 #Miami #PublicArt #FerréPark