gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis
@gregfallis.com
Former medic, former prison counselor, former criminal defense investigator, former almost academic, photographer, writer of detective fiction, Edgar Award winner.
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This is your reminder that writing is a political action.
Remember, in totalitarian states, among the first people to be silenced are the artists, the poets, the writers. There's a reason for that.
Be that reason.
If you do art, keep doing art. Do it with as much passion as you can muster. Express yourself.
Be that reason.
If you do art, keep doing art. Do it with as much passion as you can muster. Express yourself.
This is why photography exists in that interstitial space between technology and art. The tech allows us to halt time and record a fraction of a moment; knowing where to point the camera and when to release the shutter...that's the art.
December 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is why photography exists in that interstitial space between technology and art. The tech allows us to halt time and record a fraction of a moment; knowing where to point the camera and when to release the shutter...that's the art.
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When you accidentally let a cat and a game show host into the teleporter at the same time.
A present from the great old ones that Has weirded me out. Think its the flesh colour that does it.....
December 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
When you accidentally let a cat and a game show host into the teleporter at the same time.
There's no snow today; it's 43F and raining. This is from a decade ago, when I did a lot more #LarkingAboutInAlleys.
#FujifilmX10 #WeeFuji #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography
#FujifilmX10 #WeeFuji #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography
December 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
There's no snow today; it's 43F and raining. This is from a decade ago, when I did a lot more #LarkingAboutInAlleys.
#FujifilmX10 #WeeFuji #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography
#FujifilmX10 #WeeFuji #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography
Smoking makes your hair stink. It makes your clothes stink. It makes your home stink. It makes you stink. Stinking is never cool. STFU.
With more actors, pop stars and other celebrities spotted unapologetically smoking, the cultural taboo against it shows signs of ebbing. That worries antismoking advocates. 🔗 on.wsj.com/49om2X4
December 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Smoking makes your hair stink. It makes your clothes stink. It makes your home stink. It makes you stink. Stinking is never cool. STFU.
On this day in 1868, President Andrew Johnson granted unconditional pardons to “every person who directly or indirectly” supported the Confederacy in the Civil War.
Asked for a comment today, the ghost of President Jackson said, "Yeah, my bad. What was I thinking? Sorry."
Asked for a comment today, the ghost of President Jackson said, "Yeah, my bad. What was I thinking? Sorry."
December 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
On this day in 1868, President Andrew Johnson granted unconditional pardons to “every person who directly or indirectly” supported the Confederacy in the Civil War.
Asked for a comment today, the ghost of President Jackson said, "Yeah, my bad. What was I thinking? Sorry."
Asked for a comment today, the ghost of President Jackson said, "Yeah, my bad. What was I thinking? Sorry."
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Merry Christmas all!
December 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Merry Christmas all!
For all those folks who said I was completely off my rocker, here's visual evidence I'm only half off. (There are SO MANY mirrors in the West End Architectural Salvage & Coffee Shop.)
#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #monochrome #HumansOfBlueSky
#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #monochrome #HumansOfBlueSky
December 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
For all those folks who said I was completely off my rocker, here's visual evidence I'm only half off. (There are SO MANY mirrors in the West End Architectural Salvage & Coffee Shop.)
#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #monochrome #HumansOfBlueSky
#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #monochrome #HumansOfBlueSky
You can keep your Die Hards, THIS is a Christmas movie.
The Thin Man (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
December 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
You can keep your Die Hards, THIS is a Christmas movie.
The Thin Man (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but they damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning out micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours. The damage was minute, subtle, and utterly effective.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, eventually became a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth!
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, eventually found himself on a planet called Third Earth, where he had a long-running quarrel with a group of anthropomorphic cats
December 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but they damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning out micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours. The damage was minute, subtle, and utterly effective.
It's impossible to stop for coffee at the West End Architectural Salvage and Coffee Shop without wandering around the upper floors of the building.
#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #monochrome
#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #monochrome
December 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It's impossible to stop for coffee at the West End Architectural Salvage and Coffee Shop without wandering around the upper floors of the building.
#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #monochrome
#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #monochrome
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We all understand that a significant number of people “disappeared” by the regime have been killed, yes?
December 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
We all understand that a significant number of people “disappeared” by the regime have been killed, yes?
Having a latte at the West End Coffee & Salvage. Grey, dead light day. The wee #Ricohgr3x isn't getting much of a workout today.
December 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Having a latte at the West End Coffee & Salvage. Grey, dead light day. The wee #Ricohgr3x isn't getting much of a workout today.
No, there isn't any "row over the future of Greenland." The future of Greenland is with Denmark. The commotion is simply because Trump once again believes he's entitled to take something that doesn't belong to him.
Trump's new Greenland envoy intends to make territory 'a part of the US'
Trump's new Greenland envoy intends to make territory 'a part of the US'
A new row over the future of Greenland has erupted between Denmark and the US after Donald Trump appointed a special envoy to the territory.
news.sky.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
No, there isn't any "row over the future of Greenland." The future of Greenland is with Denmark. The commotion is simply because Trump once again believes he's entitled to take something that doesn't belong to him.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:26 AM
December 22, 2025 at 5:26 AM
There's are other versions, a few of which are quite good. But this is The One. And don't mention that bastard colorized monstrosity.
It's my annual viewing of the best version of A Christmas Carol—the 1951 film with Alastair Sim as Scrooge. And don't come at me with your Muppet bullshit. It's Alastair all the way.
December 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
There's are other versions, a few of which are quite good. But this is The One. And don't mention that bastard colorized monstrosity.
A brilliant three panel narrative.
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
A brilliant three panel narrative.
If I find myself near the State Fairgrounds, I (almost) always stop and walk around; there's usually something interesting to photograph.
#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography #monochrome
#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography #monochrome
December 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If I find myself near the State Fairgrounds, I (almost) always stop and walk around; there's usually something interesting to photograph.
#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography #monochrome
#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography #monochrome
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It’s December 21, 2025, and Donald Trump can go fuck himself.
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It’s December 21, 2025, and Donald Trump can go fuck himself.
Jesus suffering fuck...
He's running for Governor of Mississippi in 1949.
He's running for Governor of Mississippi in 1949.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Jesus suffering fuck...
He's running for Governor of Mississippi in 1949.
He's running for Governor of Mississippi in 1949.
I used to write the Sunday Salons--essays about photographers as a prompt for #photography discussions.
This 2007 piece is about Peter Henry Emerson, who sparked the first photographic flame war in 1889 by insisting on photographing "people as they really are."
salon.utata.org/2007/04/29/p...
This 2007 piece is about Peter Henry Emerson, who sparked the first photographic flame war in 1889 by insisting on photographing "people as they really are."
salon.utata.org/2007/04/29/p...
December 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I used to write the Sunday Salons--essays about photographers as a prompt for #photography discussions.
This 2007 piece is about Peter Henry Emerson, who sparked the first photographic flame war in 1889 by insisting on photographing "people as they really are."
salon.utata.org/2007/04/29/p...
This 2007 piece is about Peter Henry Emerson, who sparked the first photographic flame war in 1889 by insisting on photographing "people as they really are."
salon.utata.org/2007/04/29/p...
Make someone fall in love with you in three words or less:
Trump's dead, baby.
Trump's dead, baby.
Make someone fall in love with you in three words or less:
I brought kneepads
WOT?! I was offering to weed the front yard! Jfc, get yer head out of the gutter 😂
I brought kneepads
WOT?! I was offering to weed the front yard! Jfc, get yer head out of the gutter 😂
December 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Make someone fall in love with you in three words or less:
Trump's dead, baby.
Trump's dead, baby.
I live in Iowa now. A friend asked, "Where do the corn gods go after the corn is harvested?" It's like asking where your fist goes when you open your hand. The corn gods are there & they're exacting. Follow their rules or stay out of the field.
#FujifilmX10 #WeeFuji #photography #DemocraticCamera
#FujifilmX10 #WeeFuji #photography #DemocraticCamera
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I live in Iowa now. A friend asked, "Where do the corn gods go after the corn is harvested?" It's like asking where your fist goes when you open your hand. The corn gods are there & they're exacting. Follow their rules or stay out of the field.
#FujifilmX10 #WeeFuji #photography #DemocraticCamera
#FujifilmX10 #WeeFuji #photography #DemocraticCamera
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I'm ready for the next World Cup⚽️
サッカー大好きですっ☆特に関節技が得意ですっ☆
サッカー大好きですっ☆特に関節技が得意ですっ☆
August 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I'm ready for the next World Cup⚽️
サッカー大好きですっ☆特に関節技が得意ですっ☆
サッカー大好きですっ☆特に関節技が得意ですっ☆