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Artie Moffa
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Photography, poetry, humor, and a touch of economics now and then.
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the-pentaxian.bsky.social
Electrical panels neatly arranged, 4012.

📷 Pentax K1000
🔘 Pentax M 35-70mm
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400 (converted to B&W in post)

#Photography #StreetPhotography #Art #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #Urban #Urbex #UrbanGaze #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Architecture #Pentax #P446
A black and white photo of the rear entrance of a business showing the back door and a lot of neatly arranged electrical panels.
February 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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freyasnowball.bsky.social
The view from under the snowdrops with Mancunian blue sky and sunshine for #MacroMonday and #BlueSkyMonday
🩵🌿🤍🩵🤍🌿🩵 #flowers #Gardening #Ancoats #sunshine #springtime #EastCoastKin #white #FlowerReport #Manchester #MyBalcony
February 16, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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Nopal
#photography #flowers #nature #macromonday #minimalmonday #eastcoastkin #blueskyartshow
February 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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Up next for #MacroMonday: Six water droplets on a glass coffee table, with my laptop on the floor under the table.

I got the idea from Joey Terrill.

#Pentax K-S2 with smc DA 18–50mm F4-5.6 DC and +1 diopter filter. ƒ/11, 4sec @ ISO 200. Focus-stacked in Affinity Photo.

#photography
a color indoor photograph. six droplets of water on a glass coffee table, each act as a lens to focus on some detail of a computer keyboard underneath the table. the scene is lit by a strong red light. there are no people, animals, or vehicles in this picture.
February 16, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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npr.org
Is America still a democracy? Scholars tell NPR that after the last year under President Trump, the country has slid closer to autocracy or may already be there. n.pr/4rhf7Wb
Concerns over autocracy in the U.S. continue to grow
Is America still a democracy? Scholars tell NPR that after the last year under President Trump, the country has slid closer to autocracy or may already be there.
n.pr
February 16, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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marketplace.org
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February 14, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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Sticking with the Fourvière district of Lyons, here is the majestic Basilica de Notre Dame.

#Olympus PEN E-PL6 & M.Zuiko 12mm F2 lens, ƒ/7.1, 1/1500sec @ ISO 200 .

Photographed March 2023. Thank you for looking.

#photography #lyon #wideangle #m43
a color outdoor photograph. an ornate limestone cathedral, light grey in color, against a cloudless blue sky. there are no people, animals, or vehicles in this picture.
February 14, 2026 at 9:23 PM
ransackedroom.bsky.social
“Vibe skating” is when you tell a LLM about the kind of figure skating routine you’d like to skate, and it scores the routine and says nice things about you.
February 13, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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A small lizard on a sunny porch in Florida.

Pentax K-S2 with Lensbaby Twist 60 F2.4 and +2 diopter macro filter. ƒ/5.6, 1/250sec @ ISO 100

#photography #lensbaby #pentax #macro
a color outdoor photograph. a tan lizard basks on a sunny brick. this is a close-up photograph. The lizard’s eye and snout are in focus, with its facial scales in sharp relief. the rest of the lizard and the brick surface are defocused into a swirled blur. there are no people or vehicles in this picture.
February 13, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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For sale: Infant Mortality & Maternal Health Data Set, never released. 😢
marketplace.org Marketplace @marketplace.org · 6d
The Trump administration has been burying data, including information on food security, the labor force, and maternal and infant mortality. With so much unknown, the impacts of these losses are hard to gauge.
What's lost when the White House cuts over 3,000 government data sets
The Trump administration has disappeared statistics on the economy, public health, and more from public access.
www.marketplace.org
February 11, 2026 at 7:45 PM
ransackedroom.bsky.social
We are deliberately blinding ourselves, for reasons that make no economic sense.
marketplace.org Marketplace @marketplace.org · 6d
The Trump administration has been burying data, including information on food security, the labor force, and maternal and infant mortality. With so much unknown, the impacts of these losses are hard to gauge.
What's lost when the White House cuts over 3,000 government data sets
The Trump administration has disappeared statistics on the economy, public health, and more from public access.
www.marketplace.org
February 11, 2026 at 2:51 PM
ransackedroom.bsky.social
A Chinese restaurant near my sister’s home in Chicago has a wall full of bronze Buddha heads. One of my favorite #Lensbaby Twist 60 shots. This is why I bought this lens. I love this shot.

#Pentax K-S2 with Lensbaby Twist 60, ƒ/2.8, 1/40sec @ ISO 800.

#photography
A color indoor photograph. a repeating series of dark bronze buddha heads line a wall. The closest buddha head is sharply focused, and each head behind it is progressively less focused, until the entire frame dissolves into glowing white and brown circles. There are no people, animals, or vehicles in this photograph.
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket.

Me in today’s “One First”:
209. The Modern Emergency Docket Turns Ten
The February 2016 rulings blocking the Clean Power Plan were unprecedented; in retrospect, they were harbingers of a paradigm shift in the Supreme Court's role.
www.stevevladeck.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:33 PM
ransackedroom.bsky.social
Four years at Amherst College, and I never did the "registration rush" that my UMass friends resigned themselves to. We just…signed up for classes.

Registration for #AmherstLitFest opens in 18 minutes, and apparently we're coiled like it's Target on Black Friday?

www.amherst.edu/about/litera...
LitFest: Amherst College Annual Literary Festival | Literary Amherst | Amherst College
www.amherst.edu
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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superchinois801.bsky.social
Eiffel tower

#paris #france #streetphotography #photography #photographie #photo #photos #travel #35mm #streetphoto #street #streets #omsystem #b&w #olympus #landscape #nature #landscapephotography #city #photographer #umbrella #flowers #flower #architecture #blackandwhite #parisian #french
January 29, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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The Tour de Fourvière in Lyon, France. This is exactly what you think it is: Paris built the Eiffel Tower, and Lyon got jealous, so they built this one a few years later.

Olympus PEN E-PL6 with m.Zuiko 12mm F2 ƒ/6.7, 1/750s @ ISO 200.

#photography #M43 #olympus #Lyon #France
a color outdoor photograph. a large radio tower built of steel scaffolding stands high above some standard concrete homes in a sunny neighborhood. there are no people, animals, or vehicles in this picture.
February 7, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Anybody else disappointed that @davidplotz.bsky.social didn’t go with “This Job Sucks” edition for this week’s episode title of @slate.com ‘ Gabfest? I was certain he was going to pick that one!
A color screenshot from a mobile phone. Shown is the “album art” for the podcast Slate Political Gabfest alongside the episode title “Is the Melania Movie a Bribe?”
February 5, 2026 at 10:40 PM
ransackedroom.bsky.social
Big turnout just now for the lunchtime #savethepost rally at Franklin Park in Washington, DC. People seem especially unhappy with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post and also a very large yacht. Has anyone heard if there have been any yacht cutbacks announced?
a color outdoor photograph. several people stand in front of a large handheld sign. the sign has the nameplate of The Washington Post, the motto "democracy dies in darkness," and the headline "Jeff Bezos, coward, who turned off the lights." The sign contains a retouched photograph of Jeff Bezos's face on the body of the Cowardly Lion from the movie the Wizard of Oz. a color outdoor photograph. a large crowd of people stand on a sidewalk facing a building. some are holding cameras, and many are holding hand-lettered signs. many of the people are dressed for winter weather. two of the signs read "SAVE THE POST" and "Fighting for Justice!"
February 5, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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Lights on the north bank of the River LIffey, Dublin, Ireland.

#Pentax K-S2 with smc DA 21mm F3.2 Limited. ƒ/3.2, 1.3sec @ ISO 100.

Photographed June 2023. Thank you for looking.

#photography #bokeh #defocused #longexposure #ireland #dublin #cityscape #triptych
a color outdoor photograph. lights and shapes are reflected in water at twilight. the photograph is profoundly out of focus, such that the lights and shapes form colorful, almost abstract septagons, without distinct form. there are no people, animals, or vehicles in this picture.
February 5, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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Lots of political news today, lots of strife. So here is a photograph of a ladybug. What kind of ladybug? An Irish one (because I photographed it in Ballsbridge, Dublin).

#Pentax K-S2 with smc DA 35mm Limited F2.8 Macro. ƒ/5.6, 1/180sec @ ISO 200.

#photography #macro
a color outdoor photograph. a black ladybug with orange spots basks in the sun on a large black object. this is a close up macro photograph showing tiny details of the ladybug’s face. legs, and shell. the background is defocused green. there are no people or vehicles in this picture.
February 5, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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I would watch a full-length movie of these shots.
earthskyscience.bsky.social EarthSky @earthskyscience.bsky.social · 12d
The full #SnowMoon dazzled skywatchers across the world on Sunday evening, including many photographers in EarthSky's talented global community. Here's a video gallery of some of the gorgeous images you shared with us. Enjoy!
buff.ly/b2TDB5o

📹 EarthSky.org.
February 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
ransackedroom.bsky.social
My wife sensibly told me to title this photograph “Stripes.”

Olympus PEN E-PL6 & Lumix G X 45–175 @ 175mm. ƒ/8, 7/10sec @ ISO 400

#photography #Olympus #m43 #Panasonic #moon #fullmoon #dublin #poolbeg #ireland
a color outdoor photograph. the full moon rises low between two large industrial smokestacks. the smokestacks are striped red and white. the sky is dark blue at twilight. thin clouds form stripes across the full moon. In the foreground are many small lighted cranes and shipyard structures. in the immediate foreground is a body of water. these are the poolbeg stacks of dublin ireland. there are no people, animals, or vehicles in this picture.
February 3, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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bicyclecomics.bsky.social
“Narrative is the most important element in politics and in organizing. We as human beings organize our lives, our own lives, around stories. And you don’t have to win for a story to be good.”

@davidcorn.bsky.social , on the Deep State Radio podcast last week.

For those who needed a reminder.
February 2, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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badartbeatnik.bsky.social
Under The Dome

#photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #architecture #pentax
February 2, 2026 at 5:41 PM