Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli
@banditelli.org
Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment.
Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
Pinned
Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.
Our enemies are cowards and we're going to defeat them.
For every beautiful night picture of death valley there are 12-18 unfathomably hot awful hours.
Highway #190 near Panamint Springs, heading east in Death Valley National Park, looking toward Towne Pass. It wasn't too bad on this day—only like 110° out. #Photography
December 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM
For every beautiful night picture of death valley there are 12-18 unfathomably hot awful hours.
Find yourself dark skys. If you live in the United States do it between March and October on a moonless night. You'll feel DIFFERENT. Maybe you'll completely ruin your life trying to capture pictures of it!
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If you ever have the experience of seeing a night sky out in the deep countryside you can understand this; it really is a fundamentally different experience, and I can't imagine it not being formative to people.
December 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Find yourself dark skys. If you live in the United States do it between March and October on a moonless night. You'll feel DIFFERENT. Maybe you'll completely ruin your life trying to capture pictures of it!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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the nanofeathers around the eyes, tho
This is a more poorly lit eye, but it was physically closer, so i was more willing to risk a slower shutter speed(1/500) to get the ISO down(450).
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
the nanofeathers around the eyes, tho
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This is a more poorly lit eye, but it was physically closer, so i was more willing to risk a slower shutter speed(1/500) to get the ISO down(450).
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
December 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is a more poorly lit eye, but it was physically closer, so i was more willing to risk a slower shutter speed(1/500) to get the ISO down(450).
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
2025 was awful, but we also saw people organize and find strength they never knew existed
We can't influence everything in 2026, and it will be painful, at the end the end of the day we can only control what we can control
That being said, we know one thing is certain:
It's baby owl season soon
We can't influence everything in 2026, and it will be painful, at the end the end of the day we can only control what we can control
That being said, we know one thing is certain:
It's baby owl season soon
December 27, 2025 at 3:41 AM
2025 was awful, but we also saw people organize and find strength they never knew existed
We can't influence everything in 2026, and it will be painful, at the end the end of the day we can only control what we can control
That being said, we know one thing is certain:
It's baby owl season soon
We can't influence everything in 2026, and it will be painful, at the end the end of the day we can only control what we can control
That being said, we know one thing is certain:
It's baby owl season soon
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
I finally cancelled my spotify today, happy ENOUGH with Qobuz, but it still has major pitfalls, and given the company just missed one of their best opportunities ever to capture users without any attempts, I'm not convinced they're practically trying to change to a broader audience, afew notes 🧵
"I switched to Qobuz. It's an odd name but the vast majority of your favorite artists are there and you get free playlist migration, or you can import songs you bought on band camp, as well as free playlist migration from Spotify."🪶
December 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I finally cancelled my spotify today, happy ENOUGH with Qobuz, but it still has major pitfalls, and given the company just missed one of their best opportunities ever to capture users without any attempts, I'm not convinced they're practically trying to change to a broader audience, afew notes 🧵
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the bluesky experience
December 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
the bluesky experience
Working in my year end photography recap / 2026 optimism post and I want to put this in it, but I featured this bird last year too. Feels like something Brett Banditelli should be against. Maybe I'll make it Bonus Content. Whatever the hell that means.
Holy shit I fucking got it. I've been awake since 4:03am, I drove 95 miles, got here at 7:10am, and at 4:29pm one of the peregrine falcons attacked TWO pelicans and made contact on THREE attempts. 17 useful frames.
Here's a fast edit on my phone.
Let's fucking go and log off! 🪶
Here's a fast edit on my phone.
Let's fucking go and log off! 🪶
December 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Working in my year end photography recap / 2026 optimism post and I want to put this in it, but I featured this bird last year too. Feels like something Brett Banditelli should be against. Maybe I'll make it Bonus Content. Whatever the hell that means.
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Ebenezer Snoozy Floofenstein III
December 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Ebenezer Snoozy Floofenstein III
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I *hate* the phrase “speak truth to power.”
That’s not my job. My job is to figure out the truths power is keeping secret and to tell everyone else.
That’s not my job. My job is to figure out the truths power is keeping secret and to tell everyone else.
December 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I *hate* the phrase “speak truth to power.”
That’s not my job. My job is to figure out the truths power is keeping secret and to tell everyone else.
That’s not my job. My job is to figure out the truths power is keeping secret and to tell everyone else.
a) no they're not. theyve been saying this for over a century
b) follow @seiu-uhw.bsky.social, who is bottom lining this ballot initiative, they have the best member centered digital program in organized labor, and their member creators are going to LIGHT IT UP on this. www.instagram.com/seiuuhw/
b) follow @seiu-uhw.bsky.social, who is bottom lining this ballot initiative, they have the best member centered digital program in organized labor, and their member creators are going to LIGHT IT UP on this. www.instagram.com/seiuuhw/
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
a) no they're not. theyve been saying this for over a century
b) follow @seiu-uhw.bsky.social, who is bottom lining this ballot initiative, they have the best member centered digital program in organized labor, and their member creators are going to LIGHT IT UP on this. www.instagram.com/seiuuhw/
b) follow @seiu-uhw.bsky.social, who is bottom lining this ballot initiative, they have the best member centered digital program in organized labor, and their member creators are going to LIGHT IT UP on this. www.instagram.com/seiuuhw/
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Back in June, I tagged along with the legendary Mira Nair for an afternoon canvass in Richmond Hill. Production delays (by yours truly) kept this from coming out during the election, but we wanted to share this one with you for the holidays. I hope you enjoy it - this is one of my favorites.
In less than a week, I will be sworn in as the next mayor of New York City. It was only possible because of the more than 100,000 people who volunteered on our campaign. Here’s a story about one of them, my mother.
December 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Back in June, I tagged along with the legendary Mira Nair for an afternoon canvass in Richmond Hill. Production delays (by yours truly) kept this from coming out during the election, but we wanted to share this one with you for the holidays. I hope you enjoy it - this is one of my favorites.
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never forget
stay vigilant
pelicans: not even once
stay vigilant
pelicans: not even once
If that's owling, this is definitely full pelican 🪶
December 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
never forget
stay vigilant
pelicans: not even once
stay vigilant
pelicans: not even once
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When I first moved to Seattle, I worked on the reception desk at a large clinic. One day, trying to make an appt for a new patient, she gave her address as "The Highlands". I told her I needed a street address. She replied huffily, "It's The Highlands. There are no street addresses." That's me told.
Last year Carmel-by-the-Sea approved addresses but I guess not really? 🤷♂️
www.latimes.com/california/s...
ci.carmel.ca.us/post/addresses
www.latimes.com/california/s...
ci.carmel.ca.us/post/addresses
Addresses - City of Carmel
ci.carmel.ca.us
December 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
When I first moved to Seattle, I worked on the reception desk at a large clinic. One day, trying to make an appt for a new patient, she gave her address as "The Highlands". I told her I needed a street address. She replied huffily, "It's The Highlands. There are no street addresses." That's me told.
I've been told I have to learn about FIBER in 2026 and I'm putting it off till then, thank you very much.
in 2026, please do not speak to me any more about protein.
December 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I've been told I have to learn about FIBER in 2026 and I'm putting it off till then, thank you very much.
This is a more poorly lit eye, but it was physically closer, so i was more willing to risk a slower shutter speed(1/500) to get the ISO down(450).
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
December 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is a more poorly lit eye, but it was physically closer, so i was more willing to risk a slower shutter speed(1/500) to get the ISO down(450).
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
Follow Shaun if you want a Brett Banditelli 2018 tier cynic of organized labor with a Brett Banditelli-never-tier knowledge of organized labor
I've been at 2.9K followers for a while. Apparently, I'm 11 new follows away from flipping the odometer.
Also, are there any new cool people I should follow. History of U.S. Labor, American Communism. Union organizer. Staten Islander. Birding. fish tanks, fish tanks and cooking. Not in that order.
Also, are there any new cool people I should follow. History of U.S. Labor, American Communism. Union organizer. Staten Islander. Birding. fish tanks, fish tanks and cooking. Not in that order.
December 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Follow Shaun if you want a Brett Banditelli 2018 tier cynic of organized labor with a Brett Banditelli-never-tier knowledge of organized labor
2026 is probably going to be a shit show but at least we'll have a lunar eclipse if you live around the pacific ocean www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/...
December 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
2026 is probably going to be a shit show but at least we'll have a lunar eclipse if you live around the pacific ocean www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/...
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In 2024, a California Pizza Hut franchise made national headlines by firing their drivers and replacing them with DoorDash.
We organized.
This is the story of one store that showed the power of solidarity, and won.
This is union power!
#UnionsForAll
We organized.
This is the story of one store that showed the power of solidarity, and won.
This is union power!
#UnionsForAll
December 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In 2024, a California Pizza Hut franchise made national headlines by firing their drivers and replacing them with DoorDash.
We organized.
This is the story of one store that showed the power of solidarity, and won.
This is union power!
#UnionsForAll
We organized.
This is the story of one store that showed the power of solidarity, and won.
This is union power!
#UnionsForAll
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In case you missed it: I’ve got a new (warning: somewhat intense) story on @npr.org about all the ways faith leaders have pushed back against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign this year — including clergy directly confronting ICE agents and police. www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...
How the clergy has rallied against the Trump administration's immigration policies
Religious leaders have rallied against the Trump administration's detention and deportation of immigrants. Clergy are filing lawsuits, accompanying migrants to court hearings and leading protests.
www.npr.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In case you missed it: I’ve got a new (warning: somewhat intense) story on @npr.org about all the ways faith leaders have pushed back against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign this year — including clergy directly confronting ICE agents and police. www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...
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Tufted Titmouse - little, spicy crested bird with intense eyes 🪶
December 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Tufted Titmouse - little, spicy crested bird with intense eyes 🪶
What's a bird in your turf you haven't seen or gotten a really good picture of yet?
I'm living a short eared owl free life and I don't like it.
I'm living a short eared owl free life and I don't like it.
December 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
What's a bird in your turf you haven't seen or gotten a really good picture of yet?
I'm living a short eared owl free life and I don't like it.
I'm living a short eared owl free life and I don't like it.