Sleeping Dog

Like death and taxes, one of the sureties in life is that Meta is evil.

as my wife refers to me as the "dog magnet," but with Lexi, I'm the proverbial kid whose mother needs to tie a pork chop around his neck to get the dog to play with him. Oh well.

For the first few days, she'd only leave her dog bed to eat or go out or to growl at me, but slowly she came out of her shell and after about 6 weeks her real personality began coming out. She adores my wife and tolerates me, only because I feed her and give out treeats.

This is all pretty funny,

so the search was on after T-giving. She found a Potcake rescue org, strays from the Caribbean islands that had Lexi who was difficult to place due to extreme timidity. The pup, 9 mos old was being fostered a couple of hours from us so we visited and after Christmas, she came home with us.

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This past November, we needed to put down our Pug, Tucker. Now immortalized in my avatar. Tuc was my wife's dog, though he wiggled his pudgy body and outsized personality into my heart. In our near 45 years of marriage, we'd never been w/o a dog, since we usually had 2 or 3,

Thank you for the repost Barry!

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We start the day to discover that the felon has embarked in another pointless, performative exercise. Squirrel!! How many will die for his whims?

Lots of snow + significant rain = collapsed roofs and building.

Be careful what you wish for.

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Thanks for the repost KLMNOP11th!

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It may or may not be to my taste, but that is a question of artistic judgement and a separate question. I absolutely want to work that you've created through your own expression, but not that of a computer that composed the image from stolen works.

If you put together collages taken from street photos that were taken by yourself or others, you are going through a creative process of selecting the fragments that you're using and then arranging them into a single image, you are by definition creating a piece of art.

AI is not photography, it isn't even a creative process as it steals from the work of others whose photos were scraped off the internet. We are being deluged with AI slop, both intentional and unintentional fakes, there is no need to add to that.

please don't

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Have you tried searching YouTube? I've found how-to vids for the most obscure subjects. Given that there is a thriving camera repair/restoration community there, someone probably covered bellows replacement.

Thank you for the repost Mr. Media!

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Boys will be boys...

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Thank you for the repost Sophia!

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