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Still suspicious of Bluesky, but PDS calms my paranoia 👀
Ukrainian American. Liberal. Biochemist. Film camera & book addict. Atheist. 🏳️‍⚧️ Ally
Love hiking, forests & wild nature
Enthusiastic & mediocre
📍MN
✍️English, Ukrainian or Yiddish only, please
See? Not as bad :)
The funny part about -40°F is that I learned it while preparing for a dog-sledding camping trip to the Boundary Waters and that temperature happened just five days before our trip 🤭
December 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
As a Ukrainian-Jewish American atheist, I can celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas without belief, but not without meaning. Proudly cherry-picking the best parts of every world 🤭

Mamiya C220 · #Ilford Delta 3200

#FilmPhotography #ShootFilm #BelieveInFilm #BlackAndWhite #Winter #Photography #Photo #BW
December 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Stopped by the Maplewood mall yesterday and it looked even more like a zombie-movie set than before. Several big stores are gone, but in their place popped up endless little shops with fake Labubas and Pokémon. Labuba is what’s holding the US economy together 🙃
#FilmPhotography #Labubu
December 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Iran basically discovered a subscription model: grab a woman, stage outrage, get Western donations. Yes, I’m glad she survived, but white savior charity doesn’t challenge the machine that keeps producing victims 🤷‍♀️
#Iran #Theocracy #Politics #HumanRights #Women #WomenRights #Oppression #Equality
December 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Started Backman’s My Friends. Same emotional rollercoaster as always, but this time he erased every hint of place or time in an attempt to make the story universal. The result feels more like emotional IKEA furniture - functional, familiar, and very flat. Still good for bedtime reading
#booksky
December 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My first not-so-successful attempt with the Mamiya C220. I somehow managed to mess up the roll while shooting and scratch it after developing 🤭 probably I need to replace the light seals and spend a bit more time getting to know camera. But honestly, I’m happy as a clam anyway :)

#BelieveInFilm
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Outside is December gloom, inside is boredom, and I still don’t know what to photograph for the test roll for my new camera. The 120 mm reel is almost done printing though, so inspiration has about ten minutes to appear :)

#BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead
December 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Meeting a guy tomorrow to pick up another camera. I keep telling myself this will be the last one for a while. Unfortunately, I’m very good at lying to myself. But hey, at least I’m consistent

#FilmPhotography #ShootFilm #FilmIsNotDead #BelieveInFilm
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Reading Lesya Ukrainka’s essays tonight. There’s something fascinating about arguing in my head with a brilliant woman who lived more than a century before I was even born. Time collapses a little when the mind on the page is sharper than most voices around you
December 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Only immigrants drag their whole ‘world’ with them - boxes, books, and traumatized plants, because nothing is ever permanent, so you just rebuild your life out of whatever survived the trip
Photo: Winnipeg, Canada, Ukrainian cemetery, 🎞️ Fuji 200 📷 elan 7e
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Is it Thomas Dambo? I've seen his sculptures in Detroit Lakes. Where is the one from your photo located?
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Thank you, Senator. The Ukrainian community in Minnesota is lucky to have you as our legislator
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Filled out the community survey for our local McMansion City.
They asked about walkability and bikeability… while our “sidewalks” look like this in March.
Bold move for a town where the only safe commute is by ark 🫣
Olympus FT 🎞️Fuji

#FilmPhotography #ShootFilm #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Nah, too lazy to drive back to the darker area. Just set my phone on time-lapse on a front yard and decided to enjoy it with my eyes :)
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Aurora showed up in Minnesota again. Worth every numb finger :)

#Minnesota #Aurora #NorthernLights #NightPhotography #onlyInMn #mn #photo #photography
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Finished Autocracy, Inc. by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social Her faith in Russian “liberals” is almost cute. Still, she sees reality and tries to act. My hope in her success is probably as naïve as her belief that there’s such a thing as a Russian unspoiled by corruption or empire 🤭

#books #booksky
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Got 2 boxes with 12 bottles of House of the Dragon for $39 a box. Winter may be coming, but I’m clearly prepared 😆. Apparently, even Targaryens couldn’t escape inflation, though at $3 a dragon, I’d call it a victorious alliance 🥂❄️
November 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
On Artist’s Point I always feel a bit sad that I can’t draw, it’s such a perfect place for a sketchbook 😍

📷 Canon elan 7e| Fuji 200, developed in Cinestill
November 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We bought tiny pond fish in summer, now they’ve tripled in size and relocated to fishtank for the winter. One squatter bullfrog was relocated to the nearby stream too :)

📷 Canon R6
#Photo #Photography #Fish #Goldfish #Nature #Funny #Home #Story #Life #Aquarium #Animals
October 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Somewhere in the Smokies, pretending it’s all wilderness and not a parking lot just behind me

📷 Canon R6
📍 Tennessee

#Photo #Photography #Nature #Mountains #FallColors #Landscape #Travel #Hiking #Outdoors #CanonR6 #Smokies #NationalPark #Fog #Wilderness #Scenery #Forest #Tennessee
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM