It's important to thoroughly wiggle the old cat (I don't have a huge hand, Doris is just travel-sized)

It's basically a puzzle now The brown stuff that oozed on the side panel is worst grease I've ever seen, it's practically rubber and completely "glued" the focus mechanism in place 🫠

Bought another fucked up Ikoflex 👍 No leatherette, everything is crunchy as hell but lenses are clean so thats nice. (also a really nice badge from the store on the back - Photo Tucht doesn't seem to exist anymore though, so no warranty I guess)

the point of science fiction is not to accurately predict the future and nailing it does not make a book more or less valuable as a work of art. however. snow crash really nailed how fundamentally unserious this would be

Off to a great start bsky.app/profile/junl...

People should've just heeded Don Brocos warning years ago (and why is this 8 years old I swear it came out recently...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzuS...

Niemand wird rassistisch wegen Migranten oder Straftaten. Sie werden rassistisch, weil zu viele Medien ihnen die ganze Zeit einreden, es gäbe „zu viele“ Migranten & sie nur mit Straftaten in Verbindung bringen. Das ist komplett medial fabriziert. Wo weniger Schutzsuchende leben, ist die AfD stärker.

I'm sure I will read the most Normal Thing™ in the news tomorrow

Hey kids, worried about missing focus on the subject because the RF patch is too small? Easy: Don't have a subject, it's not illegal or anything. If you somehow fell for the "Photos should have a subject" propaganda, you can just add one later - nobody will ever know. #bnwphotography - fine art!

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

Americans could've just had their dad as the VP right now

In other news: It's time to suck at using a rangefinder again because I just don't learn. I can't even focus properly in daylight with that tiny RF so I'm suuuure 1:20AM is the perfect time to learn it and I'm not wasting film. (Lens is nice though, it's basically a Minolta HiMatic 7sII in disguise)

My hobby: Riding the train at night and accidentally startling people with the surprisingly loud "ker-PLUNK" of an X-500 (at least I didn't have the motor drive attached for a bonus WHIRRRRR) #believeinfilm #bnwphotography #delta400

Currently learning how to flirt from Snatcher (MSX, 1988)

And it's love

Reaching critical levels

At least I can make Kodak Portra look insane, so that's nice

I just reinvented the circa-2007-xbox-360-pee-filter-aesthetic and all it took was utterly failing to set white balance without making everything too blue 90s film scanning was rough man

Know what _does_ suck about old ass scanners & software though? Color balancing. There's no film profiles here, you can say "Yeah that's color" and get curves to play with but you're pretty much on your own. This is as close as I can get with random color film right now - #believeinfilm though

Anyway here are some train tracks. Deutzer Freiheit station in Cologne - relatively old picture actually, ~2010 when I moved here. I'm currently repairing a an old Minolta scanner (like, Photoshop-5-on-Win-98 old, chunky-SCSI-cable-old, you get the point) so that's basically how a 90s scan looked

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Gotta admit, slightly envious of the train arrival screen thingy at the central station that just lost all of its memories. Just living in the moment, not a care in the world (except a dead hard drive) 🥹

ban social media, put heroin in the water supply

Saw some canada geese today, and I want you to look at them

We've all been there: you grab a plastic basket off the shelf and find a half disassembled mystery lens in there and you don't remember why it's disassembled, or how to put it back together

Feststellung: relativ schwierig in soziale Berufe zu kommen wenn man bisher nur Bytes geknetet hat, zumindest erfülle ich scheinbar kein Bewerberprofil (... Nicht dass mich das bisher gehindert hätte, aber hm)

Reading international news lately:

Although I still find it kind of funny that she was already in court by the time we met and she still waited ~2 Weeks to tell me because she apparently thought "He's probably madly in love with me by now and will certainly visit me in prison" (it was not "a little side business"), I mean wtf no lmao

Starting to think my therapist would have a field day if I told her that literally every woman I've gotten a little bit interested in after the last relationship is currently fighting some lawsuit where she is very much at fault

Just get an Ikoflex, it even has 2 (!) lenses instead of just one (like a peasant) (Yes that neg is very messed up because it dropped into the bathtub while it dried, I just don't have any other pictures of my beloved Ikoflex and I'm too lazy to take one now)

Ein interessanter Nebeneffekt des Ehrenamts: ich will nun irgendwie überhaupt nichts mehr mit tech und Analytik zutun haben, und überlege stattdessen wo ich wohl sonst arbeiten könnte ohne permanent zu denken "wow das ist alles irgendwie überflüssig" Vielleicht werde ich einfach seltsamer Hermit

The bad thing about mid-September is that 13°C is too warm to put on a nice coat, but too cold to just wear a shirt so I'm going to dress like shit for at least a month and choose the 15 year old volcom hoodie that says "That guy probably has a cat"

dunno who needs to see this but medieval necromancy journal

Pink Zombie Rose is gonna be appearing on cool podcasts thru the next year and into 2027. In 2026, we’re booked to discuss the PZR series with Zombie Book Club & chatting on zombies as cultural symbols of capitalist decay. That’s in 2026, but catch us sooner on The Night Librarian. 🌙📚🧟‍♂️

Deswegen ist es wichtig, von vornherein auf die Realitätsverdrehung von Nazis zu scheißen: Es wird nichts dabei herumkommen, selbst wenn ein Nazi einen anderen Nazi entsorgt wird es wahnhaft für weitere Gewaltaufrufe genutzt.

The shorthand syntax for CSS grid is the closest thing I have ever seen in software to somebody ending up in hospital after trying to see how many different things they could fit up their own ass at the same time. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Stick Your Fingers in Chain Chomp's Cage

Ich muss sagen: positiv überrascht von der Nachbarschaft, mit den braunen unter Bundesdurchschnitt, FDP komplett eingesargt und allem 🫶

The math help

In positiveren Nachrichten: Noch nichtmal 1 Woche hin, man darf gespannt sein ob es nun wirklich bei 25°C und Sonne bleibt 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-B0...

Ya know, the fact that I can say "read another book" and nearly everybody will know what I mean kind of proves the point.

they literally want to round us up man. can democrats please get a fucking spine and stand the fuck up for us now? we literally cannot counter this ourselves when they want our voices and rights taken away. please do fucking something

He had multiple chances to take the off-ramp, stop lying, and stop inciting violence. He chose not to, because he didn't have to - there are tons of articles about the mean people on bluesky, and barely anything about Musk crying for blood for 3 days straight. This is the result of that, congrats.

Plakatgame weiterhin ungeschlagen

People are going to learn a lot about Groypers, Pepe the Frog, Furries, Helldivers 2, 4Chan and a bunch more this weekend. And they will be absolutely terrified.

Do you know how some Philip K Dick stories have this last part in them where the plot is mostly done and he just dissolves the world in a little absurdity for fun, and maybe to smoothly transition the reader back out of the story? Who knows, maybe I'll find God in a spray can soon or something

If you're going to shoot me in the head, please don't engrave a bunch of goofy meme crap on the bullet casing. Don't make my family learn what a wojak is they're going through enough