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Esq vean! Hasta sus patitas son como un conglomerado de piedritaaaaaaas

No mameeeeeeeeen, clarooo, las tortugas son como piedras pero vivas por eso m gustan tantoooooooo

You don’t need to grip summer to keep it. Carry its warmth forward. Let it stain the vineyards, silver the olives, and nourish the food.

“There’s no sadness in this death; it happens in broad daylight with a sun flooding everything with light of pure gold.”

In "The Red Vineyard" (1888), figures meld with ripe crops and dry grass. Harvest has kicked off as fields bask in lingering warmth.

Grapes lie on the ground. They look bountiful rather than tragic.

Hay una estación de radio (la 91.5 en gdl mx) que pasa mucha rolita 90ra en inglés and its a lovely mood.

Why Literary Festivals Still Matter What does a punk drummer have to do with a scholar of caste in India, or a border reporter who has walked for years with coyotes? At first glance, almost nothing. But their work, their testimonies,…

A case for the importance of literary festivals: “The time we devote to others in person has shrunk, almost without our noticing. A festival interrupts that trend.”

Factories Seen from a Hillside in Moonlight - 1887
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One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.

SAVING POSTS IS POSSIBLE FINALLY NEW AGE NEW YEAR NEW ME

Feeling increasingly frustrated and hateful towards myself before realizing construction sounds + bad music blaring all day + being hot cause the windows are closed might have something to do with it. Turned on a fan, put in ear plugs and I instantly feel much better. Sensory processing is wild lol

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

creativity doesn’t live in perfectly curated grids or trend-driven sameness. It lives in collaboration, in-person connection, and the kind of messy, raw work that risks failure but feels alive.

Process ☼ On Photography, by Wesley Verhoeve | Substack Weekly photography newsletter for people who want to feel proud of what they make—real talk about creative blocks, building a body of work, and showing up with your camera. Click to read Process ☼ On ...

It's a way of learning how to find and tell stories. And like any of those things, it takes repetition (...) the magic isn't in getting it right once. It's in showing up again and again.

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We don't expect musicians to play perfectly without rehearsal. But somehow, with photography, it can feel like we're supposed to get it right on the first try, especially online, where everything is a performance.

But photography is a language and a craft and it takes time to develop.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

a high key photo of op with Pulpo the Queen Cat at their desk with the afternoon sun bleaching everything and a few wip on the wall

new profile pic (in a social media profile different from this one)

YouTube video by Eyeshot Photos Bill Shapiro on Life Magazine, Photo Editing & The Future of Photography | Eyeshot 50mm Ep. 16

I was recently interviewed by @eyeshot_magazine about my years at LIFE, how I look at pictures, some of the common missteps I see, and a ton more. (They asked fantastic questions!) Take a look:

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Anselm Kiefer-style garage doors, Son Servera, Majorca.

#outsiderart #accidentalart #sonservera #majorca #wanderings

Are you?

ME: i had a nightmare i was eating a nature valley bar in bed

THEM: and then what happened

ME: no that’s it. there were crumbs everywhere and it was awful

Visual Diary: La cascada de El Salto en Michoacán (english in italics)

La época de lluvias es la mejor época del año. Los riachuelos reaparecen en las carreteras, los campos reverdecen, los cultivos crecen y las cascadas como esta de “El Salto” en Michoacán, revive:

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A maiz crop framed by overgrowngrass in the foreground and rain clouds in the background, around sunset. The sunset is painting the clouds with a gradient that goes crom light blue to white and light orange-salmon, in Santa Ana Pacueco, Guanajuato, Mexico

#photooftheday some beautiful light on some beautiful crops before a heavy rain

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Visual diary: Las fiestas de Santa Ana 2025 Un vistazo rápido e incompleto de una fiesta patronal A quick and incomplete view of a patron saint festival

En otras noticias, estoy aprendiendo a escribir y hoy les traigo otra historia incompleta.

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Foto tomada desde un carro en movimiento donde se alcanza a captar un terreno abandonado. En una de las paredes del espacio se puede ver un dibujo de un perro de perfil con letras amarillas pintadas por encima. En una esquina de la imagen, alcancé a salir reflejada en el espejo retrovisor. Santa Ana Pacueco, Guanajuato.

Una construcción que se asemeja a la torre de un castillo en una calle con tierra. Un señor va caminando acompañado de un niño, a punto de cruzar camino con otro señor con mochila. Distribuidos en el encuadre: una camioneta blanca, una moto individual, una motoneta de vendedor de frutas y un vocho rojo. Sentados junto a la torre de castillo, un señor con sombrero y un muchacho con gorra. Santa Ana Pacueco, Guanajuato.

En la banqueta va un señor con gorra y sudadera en bici pasando un terreno baldío con el pastizal muy crecido por las lluvias. Este terreno tiene un letrero que dice "Se vende terreno" y lo flanquea una pared de ladrillos. El atardecer pintó las nubes de un degradado que va del azul cielo al naranja salmón deslavado. Santa Ana Pacueco, Guanajuato.

#photooftheday es la calleeee esa infinta fuente de aleatoreidad, en especial en lugares poco turísticos (poco gentrificados, homogeneizados o absorbidos de su alma)

A swallow mid air feeding a younger one standing in an electricy cable. The photo was taken from a top window looking down.

The silhouette of a cat looking out the window at a swallow resting on an electricity cable and at someone riding a bike with a dog walking near them

#PhotoOfTheDay : pulpito the queen cat Hemingway and literal lovebirds (gross, they were just feeding each other!)

The Border Patrol El Centro Sector employs five dedicated agents to make what are essentially ICE “fancams” for social media. But they’re not editing in CapCut like most people on TikTok 😳

Reporter @marinamasako.bsky.social shares five key takeaways from watching their social media videos.

🟣 De acuerdo con especialistas, solicitar datos biométricos para la CURP representa un riesgo⚠️ para la protección de datos y no ❌ atiende la crisis de desapariciones. animalpolitico.com/verificacion...