Daniel Martin

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Some mushrooms in the churchyard from almost two weeks ago

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(Yellow left as an exercise for the reader, but also the way Bluesky displays three photos together in a post wouldn't look good)

red traffic light

green traffic light

Last night I captured three images of a local streetlight as it was red, yellow, and green, all perfectly lined up by virtue of having my camera sit on something and using its feature that lets my phone control it remotely to click the shutter.

The question is: now what do I do with these images?

Not if you're a law enforcement officer or officer of the court in New Jersey. (relatively recent legal change--"Daniel's Law"--still inconsistently implemented)

A mockingbird stands on a post. The background is a uniform gray sky. The bird is facing left, its mouth open in song. Burlington, NJ, USA

A mockingbird stands on a post. The background is a uniform gray sky. The bird is facing left and upward, mouth closed. Burlington, NJ, USA

A mockingbird stands on a post. The background is a uniform gray sky. The bird is facing right and upward. Burlington, NJ, USA

A mockingbird stands on a post. The background is a uniform gray sky. The bird is facing to the right. This picture is slightly more zoomed out than the others, and you can see that the post is the top of a supporting telephone pole, with support wires going off in two directions. Burlington, NJ, USA

Good morning. The #BirdOfTheDay theme today from @alan678.bsky.social is swans and the alternative is #posts (birds perched on any type of post). As I have no swan pictures, here's a local mockingbird that I encountered fairly often last spring on a post.

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The top of a chair is visible as it sticks up from a table. Sitting in the chair is a faded image of a tabby cat, that you can see through. The background has red shelves full of assorted picture frames and nick-nacks.

A bit late for Halloween, but I caught the rare New Jersey ghost cat!

(dim room, 4 sec. exposure, 1.5 sec. feline attention span)

I got it from an xkcd comic, so it's largely a joke, but I really like the rule "don't ever have older > 2*(younger - 7)", even if it might be legal.

I think what you're seeing is that Ursula blocked him, or he blocked her.

Bluesky's nuclear block is like that.

I suspect that the really bad secret things aren't so much emails as they are photos or videos.

You'll have a physical therapist on staff, or at least consulting, yes?

Our backs just don't work the way they used to.

So I don't think it's nuance to say that what was done was bad because the actions were bad, not because the bad people were doing it.

Is <otherwise good person X> in there? What they did was bad, and also demands a reckoning, no matter how good Mr. X was/is elsewhere.

I suppose one could characterize these two views as "Is pedophilia something bad that someone does, or is being a pedophile something bad that someone fundamentally is?"

The "what one does" vs "what one is" distinction pops up often in conservative/liberal disconnects.

If you believe the first, the "well, these were teens so you can see the adult physical forms were there" so-called 'explanation' doesn't help things because that doesn't change the harm done.

If you believe the second, this explanation reads as "so the sexual attraction wasn't the deviant kind".

Is the issue actual harm done to the victims, or is the issue that pedophiles experience sexual attractions (or act as though they experience sexual attractions) that most people don't, and in fact that makes most people go "ick" at the very thought of?

So it occurs to me that one possible thing going on here (because it isn't just the usual creeps beating the "well, they were teens, so _technically_" drum) is a disagreement about what the issue with pedophilia actually is.

Sometimes I wish I could witness similar energy here, but I am in the region of Philadelphia sports fandom and any intense sport-related feeling must be punctuated by property damage or at the very least someone climbing a light post or it doesn't even count.

I sympathize if you're in the suburbs and that's just where you go for your coffee, but if you look for it you might be surprised to discover some tiny hipster coffee place has opened up locally, even in your no-name suburb.

(I'm in NJ so Wawa is right there, but there's also an indy local place)

I keep hearing people say that (i.e., that you have to hit "reply" twice to make it work), so it isn't just you, but at the same time that's not what I experience.

(I'm using Firefox on Mac)

A close-up of two paws of a dark grey cat, one paw displaying claws that, while not actually extended, are clearly visible as sharp knives ready to deploy at a moment's notice.

Here's the banner picture I had on my account at the old bad place.

She should really just go ahead and say "ephebophile" since the people she's appealing to certainly already know the word.

It does help to highlight that conservatives don't seem to understand why pedophilia is a crime, and don't see it as an issue of power balance or consent.

In the wild it's in Central and and South America (my photo from today was taken in Aruba), but I've seen a domesticated flock kept by a sheep croft on Shetland so apparently domesticated they can end up just about anywhere.

A black duck with a red face mask stands on a tree limb. Some of his back feathers are a bright blue. Bubali Bird Sanctuary, Noord Aruba ƒ/7.1; 1/640 s; 300 mm; ISO 1600

Good morning to everyone.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social is #DucksOutOfWater, which made me think of the Muscovy Duck flock I saw in Aruba, and this shot in particular: a duck in a tree.

I wish they'd hired a real artist who could do things like draw ancient crocodiles with like ratios matching known fossils and not asked genAI to make an image of a crocodile on a nest.

Though I really want to know what bird image contributed to that enormous sparrow or wren-looking thing.

I'm trying to figure out what bird image the AI stole for that weird oversized sparrow or wren thing perching there above the crocodile.

3.8 million years ago we might have had some birds looking basically modern, but I have my doubts.

To arrange for how to deliver the blackmail payments he was extorting from them.

A screenshot from the episode "The History of Television" of the YouTube channel "Glove and Boots" that mocks up a scene from the opening credits of the show Jersey Shore so that the character known as "The Situation" is played by a big gorilla shaped puppet.

A female Mallard Duck stands in shallow moving water as ducklings around her swim or stand in the water getting food. The clear, shallow water shows the rocks and dirt underneath with little reflections of sky and really points out how well the ducks' natural coloring is at camouflage in this environment. The adult female duck is clearly displaying her species-characteristic blue speculum with white borders. Carleton College Arboretum, Northfield MN, USA ƒ/5.5; 1/400 s; 103 mm; ISO 3200

The #BirdOfTheDay theme from @alan678.bsky.social today is #paddling; birds standing or walking in shallow water.

I've gone with this mother Mallard standing in a shallow creek in the woods keeping watch over her brood.

A cat with a white body and splotches of darker color with stripes sits on a carpet and squints at the camera.

A tuxedo cat stands on a storage cabinet in front of a TV.

A brown striped cat sits in the top of a cat tree, staring at the camera with those bright laser eyes that come from shining a camera flash in a cat's eyes.

A grey cat with darker stripes stands on a carpet and looks over his shoulder at the camera.

It occurs to me that I don't have enough cat pictures on here, so here are the boys, under a flash that gives them those laser eyes.

A tuxedo colored cat heroically holds me in place so that I do not leave the couch.

I am pinned.