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Chert
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Burdensome friend, lives by the river
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lmao
Photo of a Red Grooms oil painting titled “De Kooning Breaks Through Revisited, ” wrapped in clear plastic. Painting depicts a shirtless Willem De Kooning riding a bicycle “through” the canvas with his famous Woman from Woman and Bicycle sitting on the handlebars
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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still out there when I went home, had to look at it some more
another photo of asso subsea’s Argo, near the Bear Mountain Bridge, with some kind of crane thing sticking out off the side/back of the boat another photo of the Argo in front of the Bear Mtn Bridge
November 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Asso subsea’s Argo off Jones Point on a cloudy morning. for some reason all the blown out highlights in 1 photo came out pink
photo of the Argos off Jones Point, taken from the opposite shore. Argos is a medium large orange-hulled, white-on-top ship with a huge crane/cable thing on the rear deck. the river and sky are gray and the hill behind the boat is reddish brown due to autumn photo of Argos from Jones point. gray river, gray and white clouds, brown hillsides, and a big orange and white boat in the middle head-on photo of Argos taken from up on Rt. 202. Argos off Jones Point with a big pink streak across the sky
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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big swan in the river, which i have not seen before
photo of a river with a white swan pretty far out in the light gray water. there are autumn trees on the hilly far shore, and a freight train running on the bank.
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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⚠️scary bug⚠️

cool wasp on a weird Soto thing
photo of a wasp on a yellow art rectangle
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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gravel barge thru the tourist binoculars
round image of a gravel barge heading towards the viewer down the Hudson River, in front of the Bear Mountain bridge.
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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poppin’ the top
gallery photo of a round, artist-distressed farm bin with a doorway cut out, altogether made of rusty corrugated steel. It’s about 12’ tall with an 8’ diameter. photo of a guy driving a forklift in a warehouse, with the top of the farm bin suspended from the forks. photo of farm bin cylinder and lid, placed separately on the warehouse floor
November 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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one man’s trash
loong poster of a red lamborghini countach in a dumpster full of wood, books, boxes, and a mirror under a chain link screen
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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boatyard
photo of a boat gantry on a river, hauling up a little boat. bigger boats rest in shadow in the foreground on either side of the photo
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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AM/PM commute today
photo of a flooded clay pit, surrounded by trees and shrubs in autumn foliage - a lot of yellow and orange and some red. the water has a green algae streak and tree reflections photo of hudson river from a train station. the far shore is dark and the sky is dark silver with blushes and streaks of orange/gold. the river has an orange tint reflected from the sky
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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irish americans dressed as mice
November 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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posting to make sure Wanda knows i am a big nyc fan from old times
old photo 3 boys sitting on a waterfront park bench on a cloudy day. behind them, the Whitestone Bridge
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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pathetic graspers… nobody “owns” a moving blanket
photo of an orange moving blanket laid out on a concrete floor. “NOT ON ATLAS CORPORATE TRAILER STOLEN — 877-###-####” is printed in large letters on the blanket
November 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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looking forward to some cold and damp weather so i can wear these sick trigger mitts (in “blowin’ a gale” pattern) that my Canadian friend sent me
photo of a dark navy and gray-blue wool mitten on a wood table. The mitten has a separate index finger, and is called a trigger mitt
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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i love to make dumb looking crap that doesn’t have structural integrity
photo of a 5’ tall speaker stand made from a 20” x 6” x 12” wooden box attached poorly to 4 spindly, angled, and unstable legs
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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they were laying down revetments or something off Verplanck, kinda across from Stony Point.. presumably CHPE related but not sure.
photo of an orange crane on a boat lowering a flexible mat of concrete blocks into the river. a blue tug is anchored nearby, green-brown hills rise up in the background on the far riverbank.
October 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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someone is coming to pick up muriatic acid and i am not surprised to learn that we keep it in a VOSS bottle wrapped in microfoam
voss bottle of muriatic acid on a desk, next to a microfoam sleeve with an acid warning on it muriatic acid in its microfoam sleeve, with a warning image printed off the internet
October 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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had a really far delivery today, went to a little county park next to a golf course for lunch
photo of a saltwater marsh under a gray cloudy sky. there is a field of light-brown marsh grass in the foreground, with an egret(?) stalking in the far distance. at the edge of the field is a big stand of various trees, leafy and pine, in autumn colors a little plover of some kind, thinking about something while standing among tan/brown beach pebbles and vegetation photo of a juniper branch LOADED with clusters of blue juniper berries photo of a bay taken from a big hill, with a very narrow strip of sandy land stretching horizontally across the middle. a massive caged house sits on the strip
October 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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finally finished making a new box for the Blues Junior. Polyurethaned pine matches my decorating scheme a little better than the old black and red tolex
photo of a guitar amplifier in someone’s carpeted living room. the amp cabinet is made of light colored wood, with tv-staticky gray grille cloth. it’s sitting at an angle on a low stand painted white. behind the amp, the empty red and black cabinet of the original blues jr cab is sitting on the floor different, more steeply angled photo of wooden amp. it has a brown handle on top
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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at the park, contemplating boat
photo of a red boat at anchor in a river, in front of a truss bridge, under a cloudy sky
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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most boat names are just rich guys designing a bumper sticker/doing a pun, but 1 in 10 is pure insuppressible perversion.
stern of a boat, with the phrases “SLIPPIN’ OUT” “DIPPIN’ IN!” painted in white
October 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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dual carry
a left sweatshirt pocket swelling with possibility - it’s packed full with a sandwich wrapped in paper right sweatshirt pocket with a sandwich wrapped in paper
October 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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USCG Penobscot Bay, warming up for another season of domestic icebreaking
photo of USCG Penobscot Bay, an icebreaking ship, heading upriver towards Bear Mountain Bridge. the ship’s yellow-painted light/radar mast pokes up above the bridge’s span photo of USCG going upriver on the Hudson, off Rockland County across from Indian Point photo of USCG Penobscot Bay, a largely white icebreaking tug with a black hull on the Hudson River. The hull shows the angled blue/white/red-orange US coast guard stripe, and the words U.S. COAST GUARD. The background is a tree-filled early autumn Hudson River hillside, green with a few red leaves.
October 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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this backboard is so heavy. feels like an artifact from a dimension where Shaq is an immortal tyrant
photo of a black marble basketball backboard with brass hoop/hardware on a pallet
October 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM