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Brasha 🏳️‍🌈
@brasha.bsky.social
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Navigating strange times with a mix of philosophy, compassion, and quiet outrage. Advocate for drug law reform, works in harm reduction. Expect random reposts and photos taken over the years. He/Him. No DMs. All images mine unless reposted.
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Jenga anyone? #acropolis #Parthenon #doric #Greece #AThens #photography #architecture
This photograph captures a close view of weathered Doric columns from the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens. The stone is sun-bleached and fractured, bearing the marks of time and restoration. The compressed perspective draws attention to geometry and erosion — order collapsing slowly into texture.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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"I'm not mad, just disappointed." #photography #dogs #judgy
Close-up of a light-coloured dog with soft brown eyes and expressive brows, gazing slightly off-camera with a soulful, almost suspicious expression. The dog has a pale cream coat, darker tan ears, and a dark collar with white ring patterns. Background elements are softly blurred, including a crocheted blanket and the edge of a couch, enhancing the intimacy of the portrait.
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Boarding the Transcantabrico. What a journey. #transcantabrico #spain #camino
A long, cream-and-navy train is parked at a quiet, tiled platform under a steel canopy. The photo is taken close to the train’s rear, with the carriage stretching into the distance. The platform is empty and clean, with yellow bins and glass panels lining the right side. Overhead power lines and faint buildings are visible in the background. The atmosphere is overcast and still.
October 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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The guardian will judge. #Nanning #China #photagraphy #topiary #guardian
A stone guardian lion statue stands on a small plinth beside a row of terracotta pots brimming with large, pink dahlias. Behind the lion, a red temple wall features a round blue-trimmed window inset with a relief of two turquoise birds and a flowering tree. To the right, a meticulously pruned conifer spirals upward beside a vertical blue plaque with Chinese characters in gold. Sunlight dapples the scene, casting soft shadows across the steps and foliage.
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Somewhere outside Chang Mia, Thaailand #hallways #liminal #thailand #photography #shade
A covered outdoor walkway leads toward a beaded curtain hanging in an arched doorway, with floral patterns rendered in red, green, and pink. The curtain parts at the centre, revealing a leafy garden bathed in daylight. The foreground is shadowed and damp, with a dark timber ramp and white railings. Potted plants and vines spill into the walkway from all sides, while brick walls frame the passage. Beyond the beaded curtain, a road curves past dense greenery.
October 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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It's bushfire season again. I still get anxious when I see smoke in the sky. 😔🔥 #bushfire #herewegoagain #ozsummer
September 28, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Perfect — here’s the updated alt text post version with the photo detail included: Photo of Donald Trump with a heavily orange-tinted face, next to a block of text. By Oliver Kornetzke, August 18, 2025. Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul — it sh*ts out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."
September 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Brutal.
Social media post fromn Tylenol which reads "Nice try. Release the Epstein files."
September 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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The latest quilting project. Between the hall and the lounge to keep the cold out! #patchwork #quilting #insulation
A handmade quilted curtain composed of vertically oriented strips in varied fabrics. The base fabric is mid-grey, with inset panels in burgundy, navy, cream, black, and small-patterned prints. The strips are irregularly spaced and extend the full length of the curtain, some continuing to the floor. The quilting lines are vertically stitched, enhancing the tall, linear composition. The curtain hangs between two white walls, with a timber floor beneath and soft interior lighting.
September 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Love Letter from the Afterlife - Andrea Gibson (1975–2025), Poet Laureate of Colorado
My love, I was so wrong. Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before. I am more with you than I ever could have imagined. So close you look past me when wondering where I am. It’s OK. I know that to be human is to be farsighted. But feel me now, walking the chambers of your heart, pressing my palms to the soft walls of your living. Why did no one tell us that to die is to be reincarnated in those we love while they are still alive? Ask me the altitude of heaven, and I will answer, “How tall are you?” In my back pocket is a love note with every word you wish you’d said. At night I sit ecstatic at the loom weaving forgiveness into our worldly regrets. All day I listen to the radio of your memories. Yes, I know every secret you thought too dark to tell me, and love you more for everything you feared might make me love you less. When you cry I guide your tears toward the garden of kisses I once planted on your cheek, so you know they are all perennials. Forgive me, for not being able to weep with you. One day you will understand. One day you will know why I read the poetry of your grief to those waiting to be born, and they are all the more excited. There is nothing I want for now that we are so close I open the curtain of your eyelids with my own smile every morning. I wish you could see the beauty your spirit is right now making of your pain, your deep-seated fears playing musical chairs, laughing about how real they are not. My love, I want to sing it through the rafters of your bones, Dying is the opposite of leaving. I want to echo it through the corridor of your temples, I am more with you than I ever was before. Do you understand? It was me who beckoned the stranger who caught you in her arms when you forgot not to order for two at the coffee shop. It was me who was up all night gathering sunflowers into your …
September 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Disa-piering #photography #seascape #wharf #landscape
A long timber jetty extends diagonally into calm, pale blue water under a soft pastel sky, fading from peach to dusky blue. A row of matching gabled buildings sits at the start of the jetty, painted a muted slate-blue with white trim, catching the last warm light of day. Sparse streetlamps curve gently along the jetty’s length, with small silhouettes of people scattered along the walkway. The beach in the foreground is faintly shadowed, its sand cool in tone, suggesting the onset of evening.
September 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Gaspar Melchor de JovellanosJurist, philosopher, economist, writer, reformer #publicart #Gijon #Spain #Jovel #sculpture
A bronze bust of a stern-faced man, set atop a pale stone plinth in a shady park. The sculpture is rendered in a textured, expressive style, with rough surfaces and indistinct detailing on the body. A tall lamppost stands nearby, and the background is filled with dense green foliage and dappled sunlight. The name Jovellanos is faintly inscribed on the base of the sculpture.
August 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Liminal spaces
#photography #landscape #teatree #marshes #westernaustralia
A flooded woodland scene with still water reflecting a dense grove of grey-barked trees. Bright green grasses and mosses sprout along the water’s edge, adding vivid colour to the otherwise muted, silvery palette. Light filters through the sparse canopy, casting dappled highlights on tree trunks and water alike. The composition draws the eye to the soft vanishing point where trees meet water deeper in the background.
August 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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The road home... #Barralbarayi #photography #landscape #fog #australia
Country road at sunrise, with the sun glowing through mist over rolling hills. A wet bitumen road curves gently to the right, bordered by a wire fence and grassy paddocks. Scattered cows graze in the distance, while fog drifts low across the fields and tree line. Behind, a dark mountain looms softly through the haze, silhouetted against a bright blue sky streaked with thin white clouds.
August 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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South of Broome - Swept away #photography #landscape #Broome #WestAustralia #settignsun
Coastal landscape at low tide, featuring dark volcanic rock pools in the foreground, covered with patches of green algae. Beyond the tidal flats, a striking wall of vivid red-orange cliffs stretches across the horizon, catching the warm, low-angle light of late afternoon. The contrast between the earthy rock textures and the bright, iron-rich soil creates a dramatic palette of mossy greens, rich umber, and flame red.
August 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Worlds within worlds #photography #trees #shadow #light #nature
Close-up of an old, weathered tree trunk with deep grooves, hollows, and textured bark. A small cluster of bright green foliage and delicate new shoots emerges from a natural crevice in the base, catching the light. The tree’s interior appears dark and hollowed out, suggesting age and decay, while young growth pushes defiantly from its gnarled surface. Dappled light filters through fine green needles overhead.
July 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Look, up in the sky.... #streetscape #architecture #photography #bangkok
A narrow, shadowed laneway in an urban market district leads toward a towering skyscraper in the distance — the Baiyoke Tower II in Bangkok. The sky is partly cloudy, with the building’s large vertical BMW 7 Series advertisement visible high above. The foreground is busy with pedestrians, market stalls, and tangled power lines overhead. The right wall is painted a vivid sky blue with protruding white boxy features, while the left side is darker and more cluttered.
July 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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All washed up #Jacaranda #streetscape #Carwash #photography #trees
A softly distorted view through a rippled glass window or windscreen, looking out onto a suburban street. A large tree in full bloom with pink flowers dominates the scene, flanked by green and yellow foliage. The street is quiet, with a few parked cars and a house partially visible in the background. The distortion of the glass gives the image a painterly, impressionist feel, blurring the outlines into waves and soft colour blends beneath a bright blue sky with a few clouds.
July 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Time for some quiet contemplation. #photography #cloisters #arches #architecture
View from within a stone cloister or archway, looking out onto a sunlit garden through three rounded arch windows entwined with dense green vines. The stone is weathered and warm-toned, suggesting historical architecture, and several broken or disused columns sit in the shadows. A wrought iron gate partially blocks the passage to the outside. Bright natural light contrasts with the dim interior, creating a quiet, contemplative mood.
July 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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It's been around awhile. #photography #Evandale #Tasmania #history #wagonwheel
A close-up view of an old wooden wagon, weathered and covered in patches of green lichen and flaking orange paint. The large spoked wheels dominate the frame, their surfaces rough and cracked with age. The wagon sits among dry rose stems and patchy groundcover in a garden bed, framed by a low metal wire fence. A beige building is visible in the background, suggesting a suburban or heritage property setting.
July 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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A king riding a llama. #seascapes #photography #brunyisland #Tasmania
Alt text: A dramatic seascape showing jagged vertical rock formations rising from dark, rippling water, silhouetted against a pale blue sky. The tallest sea stack on the right resembles weathered fingers or sentinels, while the water below reflects their dark forms. A metal railing at the bottom edge of the frame suggests the photo was taken from a boat. The lighting is soft and directional, likely early morning or late afternoon, lending a moody stillness to the coastal scene.
July 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Come to Tasmania in winter they said. It will be fun they said...
Alt text: Two people dressed in warm black puffer jackets, knit beanies, and sunglasses stand in the foreground of a misty alpine landscape. Behind them, a densely forested mountainside rises steeply, dusted with a fine layer of snow near the summit. The light is bright but diffused, with a soft lens flare across the left side of the image. Grasses and low scrub frame the lower edge, while eucalyptus trees stretch into the distance. The overall mood is cheerful and brisk—capturing a crisp winter morning hike.
June 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Spring has no filters #photography #gardens #storms #jacaranda #flametree #nofilters
Vibrant suburban garden scene with jacaranda and flame trees in bloom, their purple and red flowers glowing under warm late-afternoon sunlight. A stormy, charcoal-grey sky looms behind the canopy, creating stark contrast between the bright foliage and the gathering clouds. The angled roof of a white weatherboard house peeks through the trees on the left, its tin roof catching the light. The overall mood is rich and cinematic—part springtime abundance, part incoming tension.
June 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Space fillers wanted. It's like they're expecting no-one to show up. #farce #NoKIngs
A Craigslist-style ad titled “Seat Fillers Needed - June 14th - Constitution Avenue - DC” features a photograph of uniformed soldiers marching in tight formation in front of a red government building, evoking the aesthetics of authoritarian military parades. To the right, a map shows a highlighted area around Washington D.C. The text below the image reads: T-Mellon Events is looking for seat fillers and extras to provide their time for space maximization and attendance perception for an event taking place in Washington DC on June 14th. Extras and Seat fillers will check in on the morning of June 14th at 9:00 a.m. Extras are required to wear Red, White and Blue clothing and will be provided a RED hat to wear. GOLD accessories are acceptable as well. The team will advise the extras where to stand or sit according to the line of sight from a VIP viewing platform area. Extras and Seat fillers will be paid a flat daily fee and will be provided a lunch of fast food and soda. We encourage people of color and ethnic groups to sign up for maximum perception control and these individuals will be prominently displayed on the televised broadcast and local viewing screens to be seen by the VIP platform.
June 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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'The Pier' #photography #seascape #waterviews #westernaustralia
Large fig tree in the foreground with a thick, textured trunk and broad canopy casting dappled shadows across a shaded park. Through the branches, a bright blue sky and turquoise sea are visible, with a wooden pier stretching across the midground. In the distance, a few people wade in the water near the shore. The scene blends the quiet grandeur of the tree with the open calm of the beach beyond.
June 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM