Tonight bestie @behindthebluemotel.com and I will make up plates of poutine & Luther burgers for our friends and ourselves. Since I just can’t tolerate a donut any more, I’m having mine on hashbrown patties with vegan smoked provolone. This tradition is about as old as our adult friendship.

Got hit hard this month, so I’m selling off a bunch of camera gear. Bluesky followers get first dibs before eBay, please DM me if you’re interested in anything listed, prices can be negotiated. USA buyers only, first come, first served. I’ll be responding to DMs as soon as I can. (1/6)

Borrowed that Ricoh GRIV Monochrome over the weekend. I want one but not $2200 bad, it’s weird navigating a very small camera. Some more dinking to do with the DNGs & Jpegs but it’s real nice. Egg the dog, Frank the cat, and Phil & Michelle my darling friends.

This week on the blog: Against the State! Another military theory primer, this time focused on groups that take on the state itself, both with violent and non-violent means. Given the enormous disparity in force, how can they win? How have they won? acoup.blog/2026/02/13/c...

Tom Waits voice: ”I was gonna go to church / but I got high. I was gonna confess all my sins / but I got high. I was gonna eat that wafer too / but I got high. Now I’m burning in hell / and I know why. Because I got high, because I got high, because I got hiiiiiiiiigh.”

through pocket button presses, my charmera now displays in kanji and i need to figure out how to get it back to English because…i don’t read kanji

These mfers bout to invent Goldschläger by partially emptying their chest of gold to make room for some mead.

The theatre department at the university I work at is partnering with a local animal shelter to get some kittens adopted, and I got to make some portraits of them tonight. 📷 - Fuji GFX 100s II #Photography #Portrait #Cats #Fujifilm

My brother just discovered Daggerfall Unity and is trying to get me into it and god damn. www.dfworkshop.net

Proud to be the 141st backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Blades '68! It’s a bit nutty… www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

IT ARRIVED HOORAY I LOVE THIS LITTLE BOX. Gonna try to get spouse and friends to play this weekend and the neighborhood games group has shown some interest hooray!

Oh shit T-minus ~2 hours. GET IN MY BELLY

I did buy Darn Tough socks. They arrived yesterday at work and I changed into the heavy pair. Gonna try the “lifestyle” ones today. I fear I will be ordering more soon.

Overnight oats, but heated in the microwave because I want warm porridge damn you.

Leo and Keely, Nikon Zf, 26mm f/2.8, a little OC flash

Jill Ciment’s Consent: A Memoir (June 2024) and Jennette McCurdy’s Half His Age: A Novel (January 2026) are similar length works. The audio books each about 4 hours long. They are both stories of younger women with older men, told by the women. Fascinating in their similarities & differences.

I bought oatmeal that does not cook quickly in the microwave. Wound up eating mashed potatoes for breakfast. Oatmeal tomorrow morning.

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

We’ve watched The Blues Brothers and UHF so far. Friends up in my home eating snacks and laughing at movies. Is good.

I have half frame diptychs of one of my guys in booty shorts that read “Capitalism is a death machine and our suffering is the fuel” Accidentally showed them to a femme presenting server when describing the diptych portrait series and I was mortified, apologizing. “Oh no it’s cool, he’s HOT.” 🫠

All up onz. Jon, Blake, Bob, Bill.

Maggie took these of me with my Zf. 26mm f/2.8 - cropped a bit. Dang I like this lens & body combo. Bonus, learned that the Zf has a brass top plate so as I wear that bad boy out it’ll look cooler and that’s the most important feature in a camera.

More close portraits.

I do like a close portrait.

Cropped in a bit.

Went to the local pub, saw cool art, drank a beer and like four cups of coffee, and heard a server talk about the video game ETERNAL DARKNESS AND THEN TOOK THEIR PHOTO which was great. This painting is giving Alucard’s daughter or something.

Yes! I have two more of similar composition and density to the group shot. We were straining to get f/11 1/60 400 on HP5+ I blasted Dale there at full power with the it32 (GN9)

Is it pictures? (4x 4x5 edition)

Liquid temp in my basement currently 12.8C. If I were still brewing I could be lagering.

Sex is great but have you tried getting up from the couch at the same time as your partner and both heading to the same doorway / side of the kitchen sink? Are you even domestically partnered if you don’t race each other to The Good Bathroom?

I can see it.

"Someone should love me for just who I am" dude YOU don't even love you for just who you are start there

My friend is creweling word art to “crabby stabby” her anger and frustration about The Absolute State of things. I commissioned this one from her and we talked about cultivating peace, in being merciful.

I am in awe of the folks I get to work with.

One of the servers at Ivy’s yesterday. I asked if I could take her photo & she said sure. Pulled it to my phone from the OI Share app and airdropped it to her. Voigtlander 25mm f/.95 wide open, ISO 200, OM-1.

The lunch spot for EDU workshop Saturdays. I email them a list of names and list of selections from a limited menu with modifications down to cheese, garden, etc. They had 50 plates served in 20 minutes. English Ivy’s is a treasure. Long day, friends. Another tomorrow, somewhat shorter.

15 years. We’ll celebrate with my aunt & uncle & brother & sister-in-law next weekend. 24 and 5 years respectively.

Well hey @papashittycams.bsky.social look which three doofuses were hanging out today trafficking in artworks? @behindthebluemotel.com and @unexphotography.bsky.social tolerated me getting a couple selfies with them both.

Some day the shoveling will end. (Had to shovel the walk to the trash out back after carrying the trash outside.) At least the place I stopped for stupid dinner on the way home had Glier’s Hot Goetta tubes in stock (Needler’s on New Jersey St) and I started frying discs of it before going out.

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Woman in the neighborhood group asked for someone to go shovel a path from pedestrian bridge to the high school. Stopped after work and chopped through the plow drifts at the curbs & cleared what I could. I regret that I have but one back to throw out for my community. Because FUCK ICE is why.

Handwashing the good mug for coffee and the new Ritual Arcana abruptly gets louder for some reason then switches to Dua Lipa’s Hallucinate…because the alarm is going. Christ, using one device for goddam everything is kinda weird.

Me trying to explain The Locked Tomb series: This is Harrow, she’s a lesbian bone witch who is three apples tall and a war crime. She loves bones and her personal space. This is Gideon, a giant ginger lesbian swordswoman. She also loves Harrow’s personal space. God is a streamer and a Tumblrite.

Help I just spent so long shopping for wool socks I didn’t buy any.

Therapy can be helpful but you gotta do that work, the clinician is only a guide. Absolutely nobody thinks about you as much as you do. Listening is a skill and so is asking for what you need and you can improve your skills. Helping other people demands more humility than you think.

I’m gonna back this because I am pretty confident that my regular Blades group is just gonna play like it’s Austin Powers and that’s clearly going to be awesome.

A few of us are playing Blue Prince, into the discord I lured one neighbor who is into normie card games but I can fuck up at Euchre and have a fun time so that’s good.

Household vocab: Hottie - A rotisserie chicken from Costco Narvacardar - Avocado Haunted Witch - the sounds I made one night while lightly snoring and trying to talk while asleep, which Mox found comforting The Horrors - Any social media feed Fending - separate dinners Girl Dinner - Popcorn

The Quiet Year was so good with my guys. Gotta get a boxed set and bring it to the people.

Another world is possible if we fight for it.