Sam Luyk

A letter to the director of the CIA from Senator Ron Wyden saying he has sent a classified letter that expressed concerns.

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

I'm on a cut rn and holy smokes I be starving #gym #athletics #diet #exercise #mealprep

hey photographers who know a little about legacy Nikon glass

I want to buy a fun old F mount lens for my ZF to walk around with

Where would you start? Autofocus not required.

#nikon
#fmount
#photography

Blue Mountain Center residency applications now open! All meals provided for a month to do your work while hiking the Adirondacks, swimming and canoeing in the lake, and gazing in the Milky Way, free of phones and internet.

Applications due February 1:

www.bluemountaincenter.org/dates-and-gu...

a man wearing glasses and a black suit is standing in front of a sign that says ' the ' on it Alt: larry david looking exasperated

Apple's leadership is going quisling, tidal is owned by jack dorsey, and the house of saud has a stake in deezer...having to weigh all the different awful ownership situations from the non-spotify companies in the space is such a fun time.

Hot take:
If you call yourself a "content creator" I just assume you make slop.

If youre a photographer, producer, artist, musician - call yourself that. You're making art. Not just 'content' for a 'platform'

#creators
#photographers
#artist
#photography
#videography

Enjoying some of the pretty fall colors this week ft. an eagle :-)

#bladeagle #eagle #adirondacks #teamnikon #fall #autumn

Cal & Kats Wedding July 26th, 2025. Absolutely one of the humidiest days of the summer of '25.

It's been a while since I've shot a wedding AND blogged and here's how that looks on Ghost 6!

www.samluyk.com/cal-kats-wed...

(Gotta start somewhere!)

#weddingphotography #nikonz8 #ghost #ghost6 #blogging #photoblog #portrait #portraiture

I'm pretty lucky to be able to take pictures of people during some of their happiest times :)

#portraiture #portrait #weddingphotography #teamnikon #50mm #nikonz8 #tattoo #couple #letchworth #letchworthstatepark

Woods Lake Loons, July 9th 2025 Woods lake in Benson, NY along the Northville Placid trail offers some incredible views, and even sometimes loons!

Hey! Here's my first ever attempt at blogging!

www.samluyk.com/woods-lake-l...

#photography #nature #loons #adirondacks #upstateny #birding
#loon

Please enjoy some crisp video of Maximilian hardly working #cat #cats #tigercat #tigercats #catsofbluesky #caturday

Went on this absolutely SICK train ride a few weeks ago, the path goes through some swamplands. Turns out this photographer knew it was coming and was taking pictures of us! hah!

#trains #train #upstatenewyork #upstateny #adirondacks #swamp #getoutside #nature #forest #ponds

So here's the bottom of my first ever barbell squat attempt

- could've gone lower
- a little curve in the back

I felt wobbly and bleh about it so something needs work/stability

Oh well! Gotta start somewhere.

#gym #gymsky #squat #critique

The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid

@brianmannadk.bsky.social Have you considered moving your posts (or bridging them) to Mastodon?

lets all give it up for max :clap: :clap: :clap:

#cat #cats #catsofbluesky #tigercat #pets #lick

went #birding this week

#greatswamp #greatswampconsetvatory #nature #animals #teamnikon #wildlife

buddy is not exactly happy about hearing the blender going

#cat #catsofbluesky #ragdoll #ragdollcats #caturday

I hate to be consumeristic here but I cannot wait to use this puppy on the northern lights tn

#nikon #teamnikon #nikon20mm #wideangle #northernlights #cameralens

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I want to share my photos, preferably in one place. I think (looking for input!) that I would be able to sort of "tag" an image with permissions. For example "public" or "friends" and/or "family" for a picture which would determine who could see it

hey selfhosting photographer people of the internet, question for you!

I want to selfhost some sort of photo sharing app with really granular permissions.

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#selfhost #selfhosting #servers #foss #photography #homelab

words can barely describe how good this stuff is

must try

#water #hydrohomie #deadbillionaire #liquiddeath

An absolutely beautiful day for a drive (and leg day)

#sky #clouds #cloudy #road #driving #travel #getoutside #pixelfed #gym

Podcast Episode: Love the Internet Before You Hate On It There’s a weird belief out there that tech critics hate technology. But do movie critics hate movies? Do food critics hate food? No! The most effective, insightful critics do what they do because they...

There’s a vast difference between decentralization of power and decentralization of compute, @molly.wiki told EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @thejasonkelley.com on the latest episode of “How to Fix the Internet.”

Who's got the link where I can actually read this

I'm on such a :-) kick these days

there's little more disappointing in life than a bad iced coffee
#icedcoffee
#coffee
#sadness

dam them beavers go ham

#nature #getoutside #neature #dam #beavers #hiking #upstateny #upstatenewyork #adirondacks #outdoors #beaver #beavers

This assessment of President Trump's deportation policies, sending US residents and potentially American citizens to foreign prisons, was written by a federal judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943