Allen Bryan

concentric reflective rings, waves of red and silver

a little abstract shot (lighthouse fresnel if you're curious)
#photography #abstractphotography

I often think about how since the beginning of television there has probably always been a cop show on the air at any given moment, especially if you count westerns focused on the sheriff

These days you don't actually need to learn very much, and aside from games and certain specific creative applications you don't really need windows for anything. I keep it around but barely ever boot into it aside from my surface which would have terrible battery life.

a patch of moss with pixie cup lichens growing from it, two that are right next to each other in sharp focus

pixie cup lichen from Bergen
#photography #lichen #fungifriends #fungifriday

Now the sun's out with barely a cloud in the sky and all the snow is melted. We got all the weather today.

We had 80° weather on Tuesday, and snow today. Climate change is crazy y'all.

two swans on the water by the opening of a small pier in bergen, the opposite coast in the distant background

swans hanging out near the Bergen fishery museum
#photography #birds

"fed the poor without using government or taxes" is a bit rich when what you mean is "he used magic"

I wanted to love the lumix LX100, I really did, and I've gotten my money's worth, but the sensor dust issue is just too persistent. keeping it in a case all the time would defeat the purpose for me. Anyone know if the sony rx100 (4 and up) are less prone to this?

For me gender has always been something impressed upon me from the outside, I've never had any internal sense of it. I wouldn't overthink it, sense of self is a "if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill the Buddha" kind of situation.

I've just run into plenty of trans people who are very much the right panel in that meme. "I'm [gender] because I have [sex trait]" or worse "because I wear [clothing item]", or believe in essentialism whether they call it by that name or not.

For sure. You'd think it would be as easy as "let people do what they want with their body and self expression", supposedly a fundamentally American ideal, but here we are.

I feel like it is not a good idea to suggest that trans people all have an innate understanding of gender and no one else possibly can. It's a system we all interact with daily, all you have to be is observant, and plenty of trans people end up with a relatively conservative understanding of it.

It's easy to interpret quote posting as dragging the conversation to friendly territory/your personal echo chamber. More of a Twitter thing but it happens here too.

leaves of a clover-like plant covered in water droplets from fine rain, one leaf is centered in the image

back to posting stuff from norway fir a bit, from one of surprisingly few rainy days we had there.
#photography

close up of a fully opened snowdrop bloom, surrounded by many other snowdrops slightly out of focus

snowdrops deployed, springtime activated, I don't care what the calendar says
#photography #flowers #bloomscrolling

17735 • Ellsworth, Wisconsin
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moss just beginning to cover a decaying fallen branch surrounded by autumn leaves, cast in golden afternoon light

a little moss from fall last year
#photography #moss #mossmonday

It's possible you're thinking of Antz, things got pretty heated with them and Pixar because they were working on a bugs life at the same time and Antz beat them to market

Did we really just go right from winter weather to full humidity?

a fallen branched covered in various lichens, and some kind fungus or mold that shows as small black blobs on the surface

not sure what I'm looking at here, maybe a slime?
#photography #fungifriends

It seems very unlikely that school shootings are solely a white supremacy problem.

There are many systems on earth that virtually no one understands every single facet of, but plenty understand how it works in the abstract. This is like if someone told you they know how a GPU works and you said "oh yeah? Draw me a full schematic for a h200 from memory"

close up of the bark of a tree with a triangular open wound, damp from rain. a vine of ivy with a single brown leaf creeps over the top left corner.

kids like to carve stuff into this tree, which I'm not a fan of, but it does make for some interesting patterns
#photography

He's one of the only guys from the music video era who never leveled up beyond that, he makes a great music video but that's about it, he's no Jonze/McQueen

This is why I'm always telling artists that even though most open source software is harder to learn, it's worth the effort because it can't be taken from you. Got off the Adobe train a long time ago and I couldn't be happier about that decision.

Machines - Wired For War Soundtrack Album (8 Tracks) YouTube video by Anna Curser

wow, that's a flashback, ads for shadowman would run during the install for Machines, which was a) my jam and b) my introduction to both RTS and electronic music. The disc would also play the soundtrack if you put it in a cd player, maybe shadowman is the same?

reddit occupied government

close up of turkey tail fungus cast in golden evening light. Appears fuzzy, as if covered in tiny vellus hairs.

Love it when they get all fuzzy like this, seems to have coincided with the snow melting and temps rising.
#photography #fungifriends #fungifriday

Diffractions, by Filmmaker 11 track album

if you like "music that would be playing at the club in a horror movie" Filmmaker excels at this, some of the best EBM out there today