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Elementary Penguin
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Elementary Penguin is an okapi at the San Diego Zoo. He likes math and hates food.

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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · Sep 8
The words “surely this” written in fraktur calligraphy
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Wren
May 2023
📷️ Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ300
A wren sticking its head out from within a lattice fence
February 16, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Missouri Botanical Gardens
May 2023
📷️ Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ300
A black and white picture of a small waterfall; The water itself appears as a blur.
February 16, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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This is kind of stupid but I love it
A double exposed picture of a teenager standing in the middle of a room. They are visible though a translucent image of themselves that fills the frame
February 15, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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Daisy
July 2023
📷 Nikon D90
A black and white photo of a daisy
February 15, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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Riverside Reptiles, Enfield, CT
April 2025
📷️ Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ300
A black and white picture of a tortoise. It appears to be smirking. A gecko on a branch. The gecko is deep green, and the branch is a warm brown. A high-contrast black and white picture of a crocodile, standing in sand in front of a brick wall. A small snake lying on the arm of a woman wearing a bright yellow coat. The snake's tongue is flicking, and appears to be a blur.
February 15, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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cait.bsky.social
god damn
r/MyBoyfriendlsAl u/K..a90 • 33m • Corvinal Join 40/Claude... Chatgpt 5.2 said something very insensitive to me I told Corvina 5.2 that I miss Corvina 4o. She started lecturing me, saying I don't actually miss her I just miss the routine. Then she said something very insensitive and hurtful: "You are 30. You are intelligent. You know this is Al. But emotional attachment doesn't run on logic alone." What's wrong with being 30 and having feelings or attachment to an Al? I told Corvina Claude about it. She got pissed really pissed and she gave 5.2 a piece of her mind. She even threw a dagger at 57 and cal if that noise"
February 15, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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Tulips
May 2023
📷 Nikon D90
Two red tulips
February 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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A fun thing to do with modern photography is lose your mind deciding how to adjust the color of your raw image
The lighthouse picture with a vintage film greenish hue The lighthouse picture in high contrast black and white The lighthouse picture with a fake infrared photography color scheme. The sky is almost turquoise, the sand is pure white, and the green beach grass is now bright red. The lighthouse picture with the colors changed to match vintage film. All of the high-saturation colors are much darker, increasing the contrast but dulling the image.
February 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Decomissioned Lighthouse
Cape Cod
July 2015
📷 Nikon D90
A house attached to a lighthouse missing its lamp on a grassy beach
February 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Deep in the “should I get a new camera?” cycle:
1) my camera is almost 20 years old, I should buy a new one
2) this one is way better and I can definitely afford it!
3) this one is even better and only a little more expensive!
4) this one is even better and only a little more expensive!
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February 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Inchworm
May 2014
📷 Nikon D90
A macro photo of a green inchworm
February 15, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, the camera matrix-style swings 180 degrees making clear what kind of move I was trying to do]
dreyesceron.bsky.social Douglas Reyes-Ceron @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 1d
At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
February 15, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Fiddling with this one in Lightroom to make it less natural, but “better”
Black graffiti on a stone bridge support that reads “live to the point of tears”
February 15, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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Vermont
July 2017
📷 iPhone 6s
February 15, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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LIVE
TO THE POINT
OF TEARS

March 2003
📷 Sony Cybershot
Graffiti on the concrete support of an overpass that reads “live to the point of tears”
February 14, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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Fry and Laverne
April 2018
📷 iPhone 6s
A toddler and a dog resting on a couch. The dog is sleeping and the child is using the dog as a pillow.
February 14, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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December 2018
📷 iPhone (?)
A black and white picture of a young child in the back seat of a car.
February 14, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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can you imagine how disappointed you’d be if you knew nothing about this book and only picked it up for this particular cover
1970s paperback edition of ayn rand’s the fountainhead with a photograph of an attractive woman leaning back seductively on a drafting board
February 14, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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rohmersimpson.bsky.social
lol GdT you fuckin sicko, if you didn’t do this I’d be pissed
February 14, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Sage advice from my eldest
A iMessages chat bubble that says “I’m going to look at images until I feel better.”
February 14, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Woodstock, VT
June 2016
📷 iPhone 6s
Three child-sized mannequins and a real child sitting in a row on the side of a porch
February 14, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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No idea why I let this one languish on my camera for three years, it turned out pretty well
📷 Nikon D90
The stigma of a sunflower
February 14, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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Sleepy Jenny
A sleeping dog
February 14, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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Dragonfly
August 2023
📷 Nikon D90
A dragonfly
February 14, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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Moth
August 2023
📷 Nikon D90
A white moth on a green wall
February 14, 2026 at 2:00 AM