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the corner of an old wood fence and black iron fence is left of center. the wood fence fills the right of frame as it continues out of focus. the first in-focus section shows weathered and barely visible red paint, echo'd in the red paint in the peak of a house in the background, and red brick of a square building cut-off on the left. the fences enclose a snowy yard of a whiteish old house with an air conditioner still in the lower window, and black iron fire-escape stairs visible on the right, echoing the black iron front-fence at bottom left. just inside the fence corner, on the left of frame, is an old gnarled tree, leafless, with weeping boughs and a twisted, ripply bark that is similar to absolutely nothing else in the image.... nor similar to anything outside the image, for that matter.

#photography
#tree

photo of a snow covered yard outside of an old white house that has a green awning running to the street. 4 outdoor chairs are leaning forwards and resting on their small round table in the yard. a large old yellow house is visible next door beneath the green awning.

#photography

when we die
our hearts become a flock of house sparrows
who fly off to all the places where we've lived
and carry on

that's exactly what i was gonna say lol. personal best with an asterisk: *chased by a dog

a hole in the ground where a house used to be. in front of a restaurant with a very old and weathered metal sign reading "redbones" in vertical red lettering. in the background, a crooked power pole sends out black tendrils in all directions.

I've taken many photos of the abandoned old house sat on this corner for decades.

i walked by yesterday, and it was suddenly gone.

how can impossible things happen so quickly?

i suppose i know the answer: $$$

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anti-AI “credo” I have a religious exemption from using all generative “A.I.” I am not a member of the Silicon Valley sect. Their beliefs and practices are an affront to my sensibilities. The tech is trained on stolen intellectual property. The output is riddled with mistakes, and it is incapable of comprehending the weight of its errors. It is not even an “it.” But sometimes, it is filtered and massaged by unaccountable human sweatshop workers and bad actors. I am not required to use “A.I.” any more than I am required to join Amway, buy black market rhino horn, or attend the Fyre Festival. As a human, I have a duty and right to limit my carbon and water footprint and protect my fellow human. As a union worker, I have a duty and right to oppose tech that is used to threaten workers or cheapen our product. As a tech consumer, I have a duty and right to oppose scams that lower the quality of our tools. As a scholar, I have a duty and right to oppose anti-intellectualism. As a taxpayer, I have a duty and right to oppose the misallocation of public funds and data. As a grown up, I have a duty and right to protect young people from predators. As a person with a conscience, I am appalled at the decadent disregard for user safety, the callous dismissal of responsibility for lives ruined and slaughtered. My religion is related to my identity, geography, and family, making it an irrelevant accident of birth. What matters is that I was born. I have an exemption from their digital rapture, their cultural austerity, their intellectual poverty. I practice wholesome hedonism and First Do No Harm. CS 12/9/2025

i included this in my syllabi this year

dried red berries at the end of a woody stem seem to reach out for a metal watering can buried in snow against a house wall of concrete and weathered green shingle siding. a mess of bare stems climbs up the wall, awaiting spring

#photography #redwed

Mug and sparrow bird that looks like a donut, sketched in colored pencil

Coffee and donut

i highly suggest seeing a live event if you can. even from the cheap seats. everything you lose in the way of close-up detail and vo info you gain tenfold from the raw reality of watching a human being transform into something like pure momentum and frictionless joy

their entire journey this Olympics was exhilarating. the look she gave him after he messed up in the short program and then the look she gave him after their triumphant free skate.....pure humanity, open and loving, feeding one into the other like watching two individuals become a compound entity

snow completely buries a yard, nearly reaching the bowl of a birdbath in the background. the bowl is filled with dried twigs and a small stonebird statue. In the background can be seen a house porch, also just above the level of the snow.

#photography

two dried seed pod husks dangle from a spindly wood stem against a field of deep snow. the grey husk on the right is in sharp focus, covered in thick grey "hairs". to the left is a blurry mess of dried grasses and stems

#photography

looking up at the corner of a square brick building, centered in the image. left building face has window-shaped brick-filled depressions matching glass windows on the right face. a smaller dark brick building juts out of the the left face. the glass windows reflect a pale soft-blue light from the partially cloudy but bright sky.

a pile of old snow at the base of a brick wall plastered cream/white, in a parking lot. the snow is dirty and decorated with assorted garbage. part of the snow pile and wall are reflected in a dirty puddle on the left. there is a small white parking sign in the center of the wall, and a larger square white sign on the top left listing business on the block.

#photography

all i want for valentines is
ABOLISH ICE

a hand-made cardboard sign shoved into snow piled up beside the sidewalk reads "ICE OUT!" in red paint above "dissolve it forever" in black

photo of a brick footpath leading to the Davis square subway station. snow covers everything but the path. a single pedestrian in a winter coat and long skirt walks away towards the station.

I may be sick but i still have errands and a camera
#photography

these new g o d a d d y terms of service sure makes it look like they are claiming ownership of anything you post publicly through any of their domains

and everything else new is basically saying "we're going to start censoring and there's nothin you can do about it"

what fun times we live in

looking down an empty street as night snow falls. older snow is piled up on the sidewalks and cars parked on the Street are coated in new snow underneath the triangle light cast by a streetlamp. a shadowy church steeple and dark leafless branches against a featureless sky.

streetlamps in the snow
#photography

a photo at night in quite strong snow. salted Street glistens from lights on a low building across the street. above it loom multiple apartment blocks, dotted with lit windows in different colors, mostly yellow/amber

at night in the snow, taken through a mess of skinny tree branches like eldritch scribbles against a snowlit sky. on the left, a shadow pedestrian walks away towards a lit intersection; on the the right, an old broken light-up sign shows just the letter E, surrounded by red lines and amber spots. very distant, very tall buildings can be seen in the obscuring snowfall.

night--
apartment towers loom in heavy snow
as you trudge down magazine Street
#photography

i mean... am Olympic skater just used the iconic music in her routine so maybe the people just want the jaws again

a large pile of chunky snow below a salty road. the chunks of snow are mostly white, but a more distant pile on the right is dirty and blackened.

streetside snow #photography

two swings on a playground buried in well-trodden snow

a small mountain of snow cleared from a parking lot

more snow tomorrow
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a mess of sparrows atop a mass of woody stems above some stone benches (not pictured)

three sparrows standing quite far apart on a bunch of shopping trolleys outside of a supermarket.

city sparrows
#photography

a wide view of a frozen pond in bright sunshine with a dense backdrop of leafless trees. a trail left by a pair of skis crosses the deep snow on top of the ice

a well-trodden snow pack on a footpath cuves away around a barely-visible frozen pond on the right

looking into the leafless wood, where the deep snow meets thin tree trunks, crossed diagonally by long shadows.

I've never seen this in the boston area before: 10 day old snow that still looks nice and isn't trapped under an ice-crust...its even fluffy!

#photography

looking down a short shadowed alley to a brick apartment building in bright sunlight where a vertical drainage pipe/gutter has burst and frozen, creating a skinny, 4-story high ice waterfall. a yellow stucco building on the right side of the shaded alley has also caught a bit of the sunlight, and it's reflecting in an otherwise dark puddle in the alleyway.

#photography

looking up at a huge juniper bush/tree. only the highest branches are hit by sunlight getting past a square brick bell tower on the far left of the image.

looking past the very snowy parking lot of a church at a very snowy street. a line of peaked houses goes as far as can be seen and there is a crooked telephone pole

waiting for the 83 bus
#photography

a large black bird (crow? raven?) with wings fully extended after leaping into flight from a power pole.

#photography

looking up at a blonde-brick church on the left, the square church bell tower on the right, and on the far right a religious statue out front

#photography

an oversized blue vase ensconced in snow outside a home entrance beside a narrow path shoveled through the snow

a set of icicles that has slid on cable lines into the middle of the street and turned on its side so that it is pointing at a distant brick apartment building. the sky is clear and tinged with subtle sunset colors

#photography

the entire bottom half of the image is filled by a massive intersection covered in crushed salt. directly across on the corner is a gas station, partially obscured by piled up snow. there are no cars in the intersection

a huge pile of snow obscures a small rundown brick building painted/plastered white.

winter / city
#photography

a very frozen stream lined by dark trees and surrounded by snow, seen from above on a bridge.

a field of snow and a family of 4 deer crafted from sticks. the adult deer on the left has huge stick antlers.

Winter waits
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