shades 🕶️

Return visit, same but daylight

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Artistic treestump

Out of focus blur

Good walk

YouTube video by POEMgoesHollywood Bud Spencer - Banana Joe (Soundtrack/Theme)

Had this stuck in my head all day, you're welcome youtu.be/AQhB5NZBk2U?...

Suburban street with streetlights, sidewalk both sides, nighttime, spring.

I could just disappear

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

Very big chilli plant

Chilli update

A lamb with its head as far through a fence as it can reach so bro can more than touch (eat!) grass

Touch grass they said

Man that sucks, but it does lead me to believe you have been asleep before 4am. Could be worse 🤷‍♀️

Well last night we had a Lunar Eclipse about then 🤔

This camera really is kind of crappy despite it's heft - there is NO margin between frames - they do a lil overlap. I like how despite loading the film in *perfectly* this exposure is paritally on the bit of film that is masking taped to the backing paper

*chef's kiss*

#CrappyCommieCameraParty

A black and white photo of the Rocklands Buildings featuring the store "Balmoral Vapes", a shop postioned between a Chinese Medicine clinic and a Dairy. A car in the foreground, a man crossing the road towards the viewer and two people on a seat in front of the dairy.

A black and white photo with the store "MAX VAPE" centred. Store is positioned infront of traffic lights with a pedestrian crossing. A man is walking past the store.

I hate vapes. Some of the many places in my neightbourhood that shill vapes. Kiev 60, Ilford FP4plus 125, July 2025 #CrappyCommieCameraParty

I got the kiev out, I took the kiev out, I developed the film from the kiev, I dried and cut the negatives…

Been sitting on the table all month. I finally gave up finding the light meter (where are you!) and sunny 16'd that shiz this afternoon. Will I get it developed tonight?

Please help me champion slop resistant content consumption

The replies just prove that no social media platform is free of the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.

There are certain times when half of Bluesky being shitposters and half of Bluesky being 67 year old Rachel Maddow viewers combine into the most wonderful recursive joke spirals

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We've added 10 New #ShittyCameraChallenge shirts just for Pride & ALL the profits of them are going to The Trevor Project!

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Next level.

Still using "The Old Reader" web version over here. Looking for something more straightforward for those unfamiliar with the way things were done in the distant past

Spent half an hour attempting to find out what the best way to set up an RSS feed reader is in 2025, inadvertently discovered Substack is now also has a feed-style short-form social media platform (tweet stack?) Still no wiser on the feedreader thing tho

Crappy Commie Camera Party Rules! 1. Use a camera born from communism. (Including, but not necessarily limited to, Ukrainian, Soviet, Eastern Block, & Chinese camera brands & makes) 2. Skeet/Post pictures taken with your Crappy Commie Camera(s) using #CrappyCommieCameraParty 3. The #CrappyCommieCameraParty runs from June 1st till August 31st 4. C.C.C.P. leaders will choose a Champion, they will be held high as People’s Champion. (All others will become enemies of the party, and will be Killed)

Official #CrappyCommieCameraParty Rules!

Vote for NZ's Fungus of the Year 2025 - Manaaki Whenua Interactives

I just voted! Vote for NZ's Fungus of the Year 2025: interactives.landcareresearch.co.nz/foty/

Chur, might need a followup but I have added it to the actionable list and tagged in a friend

Someone remind me to get the Kiev out 🤔

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

pope francis could do the funniest thing wednesday

Mt Roskill shops, Friday night in the thunderstorm

YouTube video by Spectrum Pulse Backxwash - Only Dust Remains - Album Review + Analysis

...okay yeah, this is special.

I review the newest album from @backxwash.bsky.social, 'Only Dust Remains'. It's likely gonna be one of the best of 2025 - enjoy! #hiphop 🎧 youtu.be/cvWrL66frc0