Amazing. I learned something new and interesting today. I must add this to my list of shipwrecks to see!
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco.
#Olympus PEN E-PL5 (infrared converted) with M.Zuiko 17mm F2.8 lens. ƒ/6.3, 1/250sec @ ISO 250.
Photographed April 2024. Thank you for looking.
#photography #infraredphotography #m43 #sanfrancisco #monochrome
Q: ND64 but why???
A: Oh, okay f/1.2
My 25mm f/1.8 does just fine with my ND8 or a CPL…
A lot of Americans, while still technically alive, have already given their souls over to evil and are completely dead inside
Over 150,000 federal workers resigned in 2025. Some did not go quietly.
Our next book will spotlight some of the principled civil servants who said, "Count me out," who walked away rather than follow policies that violated their oaths to the Constitution.
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Round #1
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Today's bonus "One First" responds to the new claim on the right that the Roberts Court's "real project" is "reining in" executive power / empowering Congress—a claim that depends on (1) cherry-picking the data; (2) understating the immunity ruling; & (3) ignoring *dozens* of cases to the contrary:
Hi stargazers! Tonight, the waxing gibbous #moon will lie near bright #Jupiter and the twin stars of #Gemini, Castor and Pollux. They’ll set before sunrise. Check them out! 🌔🌌🔭
Watch this video:
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And visit EarthSky’s night sky guide:
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📹 EarthSky.org.
Excited to see writer @legroff.bsky.social tonight at Poetry & Prose (the one on Conn. Ave) in DC for her new collection of short stories. Free event! You should go.
Related: I have two tickets to see Lauren at Odyssey Books in South Hadley this Saturday that I won’t be using…
Can somebody, anybody please check on @stevevladeck.bsky.social and make sure he’s hydrating properly? Legit concerned for the guy.
Hi stargazers! Tonight, after sunset, check out the pretty waxing crescent #moon near #Saturn with elusive #Mercury nearby. Mercury is also at its greatest distance from the sun tonight. Can you spot Venus near the horizon? 🌒🪐🌌🔭
Watch this video for more information:
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📸 EarthSky.org
Those are some good lines. Has kind of an 80s silk-screen vibe to it.
If you don’t take your camera out disco dancing every once in a while, why even own one?
Pentax K-S2 with Lensbaby Twist 60 F2.4. ƒ/2.8, 1/125sec @ ISO 800.
#Pentax #photography #lensbaby
Electrical panels neatly arranged, 4012.
📷 Pentax K1000
🔘 Pentax M 35-70mm
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400 (converted to B&W in post)
#Photography #StreetPhotography #Art #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #Urban #Urbex #UrbanGaze #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Architecture #Pentax #P446
The view from under the snowdrops with Mancunian blue sky and sunshine for #MacroMonday and #BlueSkyMonday
🩵🌿🤍🩵🤍🌿🩵 #flowers #Gardening #Ancoats #sunshine #springtime #EastCoastKin #white #FlowerReport #Manchester #MyBalcony
Up next for #MacroMonday: Six water droplets on a glass coffee table, with my laptop on the floor under the table.
I got the idea from Joey Terrill.
#Pentax K-S2 with smc DA 18–50mm F4-5.6 DC and +1 diopter filter. ƒ/11, 4sec @ ISO 200. Focus-stacked in Affinity Photo.
#photography
Is America still a democracy? Scholars tell NPR that after the last year under President Trump, the country has slid closer to autocracy or may already be there. n.pr/4rhf7Wb
The dollhouse makes it art.
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Sticking with the Fourvière district of Lyons, here is the majestic Basilica de Notre Dame.
#Olympus PEN E-PL6 & M.Zuiko 12mm F2 lens, ƒ/7.1, 1/1500sec @ ISO 200 .
Photographed March 2023. Thank you for looking.
#photography #lyon #wideangle #m43
“Vibe skating” is when you tell a LLM about the kind of figure skating routine you’d like to skate, and it scores the routine and says nice things about you.
A small lizard on a sunny porch in Florida.
Pentax K-S2 with Lensbaby Twist 60 F2.4 and +2 diopter macro filter. ƒ/5.6, 1/250sec @ ISO 100
#photography #lensbaby #pentax #macro
It's reminiscent of Bezos's spur-of-the-moment decision to stop the Washington Post from endorsing political candidates. No way to read it as a neutral act.
For sale: Infant Mortality & Maternal Health Data Set, never released. 😢
We are deliberately blinding ourselves, for reasons that make no economic sense.
A Chinese restaurant near my sister’s home in Chicago has a wall full of bronze Buddha heads. One of my favorite #Lensbaby Twist 60 shots. This is why I bought this lens. I love this shot.
#Pentax K-S2 with Lensbaby Twist 60, ƒ/2.8, 1/40sec @ ISO 800.
#photography
Let's see if the Bluesky update really did enable animated GIFs today as they claim…
Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket.
Me in today’s “One First”:
