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Fliss
@flisswave.bsky.social
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Howling into the void since dinosaurs roamed. From Carolina, now Oregon coast. Dogs, art, photography, books, expressions of despair. Black & trans lives matter, no gods no masters. She/her. Masto: https://bsky.app/profile/flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy
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Reaching the end of #flyday with another one from the archives, also 2019. #murmuration #pnw #oregoncoast #birding #photography #canonphotography #eastcoastkin
A large flock of small birds flying together in a murmuration low over the beach on a cloudy foggy day. They are reflected in the wet sand below.
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Continuing to welcome myself to #eastcoastkin with maybe the most over the top #scape and #flydayphoto I ever took. From early February 2019, a few months after I moved here, bald eagles over the river and snow on the Washington hills. #photography #canonphotography #dramatic #baldeagles
A color photo of two eagles flying over the Astoria anchorage near the mouth of the Columbia River. There is a white fishing boat in the foreground right, then a metal wall in the water, then a red and black cargo ship, then, across the river, the hiss of Washington state, dusted with snow. The sky is very cloudy and dramatic.
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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3 photos from this morning's walk, whoo mid week holiday. #RockinTuesday and #TidesOutTuesday (tides don't go real low this time of year by daylight at least) & I am inviting myself to #EastCoastKin even though I live on the *far* west coast. 😁 #phoneography #photography #oregoncoast #beach #jelly
A color photo of a small green rock on the beach. The rock has an old chip in it that looks like a fish or a bird. The photographer wishes she had brought it home but she has too many rocks already. A color photo of the beach at low tide, taken from a very low angle. In the lower left is part of a clear jellyfish with foam on top of it. Foam leads away towards the waves. The blue sky and clouds are reflected on the wet sand. A color photo of an oval brown rock with a white ring around it on the sand. It has been on the beach long enough for a small depression to form around it in the sand.
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Is cats in sinks still a thing? Asking for a friend.

#catsinsinks #phoneography #blueskycats
A color photo of a black cat sitting in a kitchen sink. He looks mildly annoyed.
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Happy one week before Halloween. As 4 says, fall is full of spiders and deer. #phoneography #spiderweb #photography #fall #autumn #pnwfall
A color photo of a large spiderweb outlined by water droplets in front of a blurred neighborhood landscape including a road and a very red fall tree.
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Every time ancestry releases an update it becomes more apparent that my ancestors really did not get out much. What happened to my treasured 2% North African? Replaced by the Isle of Man? Yikes. It's time, come on British Isles, repatriate me, i'm tired of the US.
A map of Europe with several areas in the British Isles and a couple in Scandinavia colored in. According to Ancestry.com, I am 40% Irish and 44% English with a smattering from Scandinavia, which, cough, is common to many Irish people because Vikings.
October 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Obligatory fall wet leaves shot. 😁 #phoneography #photography #autumn #fall
A color photo closeup of vibrant wet autumn leaves next to a triangle of wet gray cement.
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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😁😁🎃👻
A color photo of a small blue house done up for halloween, including some small inflatables a plastic skeleton and dangling bats in the window.
October 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa.
A black and white film still of Ingrid Bergman from the 1942 movie Casablanca, in which Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman famously defeat a few Nazis.
October 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Happy #caturday! Mr. Binks, a living Halloween icon, is not impressed with feeble human Halloween decorations. Although his human wishes she had had the phone out when he saw the inflatables inflating.
A color photo of a black cat not looking at a Halloween decoration. The decoration is multiple blue eyeballs on flexible stakes that are then on a central stake in the ground. The cat is unimpressed.
October 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Halloween is still a month away but Mr. Binks is getting ready. #caturday #blackcat #cat #spider #Halloween #phoneography
A color photo of a black cat sitting on top of an fence with one paw up. In front of the fence is a larg orb weaver spider in a web.
September 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Met a new friend while picking blackberries yesterday. For scale, these are not particularly gigantic blackberries. Scientifically, i'd say normal to small blackberry sized. 😁 #frog #treefrog #pacifictreefrog
A color photo of a tiny green pacific tree frog on a stem of a blackberry bush. The frog is the same size as the blackberries. The frog and the leaves are very green.
August 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Happy #caturday from Mr. Binks, warning you never to leave the car door open for even a minute because he loves to drive.

Seriously he jumps in any car given half a chance. Then he won't want to come out. If you start the engine he will leap to the top of the back seat and balance. #cat #carcat
A color photo of a black cat relaxing in the driver's seat of a car with light beige upholstery.
August 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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This stuff is just fancy expensive shelf paper. Also I ordered green and got black, but whatever, I'm out of time & energy..Behold, the beginning! Matching up the toile design bit of a PITA, would have been better if I'd done it right. 😅 but the hell with that.
The top of an old white dresser covered with a nautical themed black and white toile design. There are octopi and ships, mermaids, maps, diving helmets and skates, it's all very coastal and rather pleasing. If busy. Probably too busy to do the whole dresser.
August 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Enough wind and rain on our morning walk to blow Harvey's ears around. #dog #beachdog #dogsturday
A square color photo of a large wet red dog on a beach. It is raining and windy but the dog looks happy nevertheless. His ears are akimbo because of the wind and his muzzle is graying because he is probably around 8 (we are not sure.) He has white feet and a big smile.
August 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I have posted on nextdoor to try to find someone to pull up the tack strips and staples from the cursed linoleum. They're probably going to need an amulet as well as gloves and an N95.
A color photo of some vintage linoleum that is, uh, hard to describe. It's squares of fake wood grain in an entirely unlike wood grayish brownish color aligned to create an optical illusion of depth. And it makes diamonds. And in every diamond there is an orange diamond. Make it make sense.
July 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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This is from the first roll I shot on a 1960s Chaika II half frame camera. Just got it on EBay and really loving it.
A color film photo of a tall metal bridge over a wide river. In the foreground of the photo is a multi trinkets spring tree surrounded by tall grass and weeds. Behind it stretches the river with many pickings, then the bridge, then distant purple hills on the other side. The colors are soft and muted; the film is grainy. This is Astoria, Oregon.
June 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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And for more in the #crappycommiecameraparty here's a terrible photo I find very amusing. Half frame half a cat! #caturday #believeinfilm #chaika #staybrokeshootfilm
A color film photo of the back half of a black cat. the cat is apparently lying on its back in the grass.. All the viewer can see of the cat is its 2 hind legs in the air and some of its tail; the rest of the (implied) cat is out of the frame. The grass is brown, the cat looks very healthy.
June 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Late for #caturday i present this action sequence starring Mr. Binks and Harvey. Extending the definition of #blep and also, dog, you bore me but I will tolerate you. #adoptdontshop #friends
A color photo of a black cat who is sitting on a padded bench while the head of a large brown dog peers inquisitive at him, trying to get a sniff. The cat looks bored. They are best friends. The same cat and dog from the previous photo but now the cat is yawning mightily and the inside of his entire mouth is completely visible.
June 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Yesterday's dog walk - a time for reflection. #reflection #waterylandscapes #phoneography #photography #oregoncoast #landscapephotography #noai #astoriaor
A color photo of a marshy edge of a tidal river. The water is perfectly reflective of the dramatic clouds overhead and looks metallic. The top of the sky is very blue but it looks as if its raining hard on the Megler Bridge in the distance.
May 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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In the last waning hours of #caturday, let me present Mr. Binks, stone killer of unattended socks. Whether there are feet in them or not. #cat #blackcat #phoneography
A color photo of a black cat walking towards the camera. The cat is outdoors on a patio; he is threading his way through multiple plant pots of different colors. It looks like winter (even though it isn't) theres nothing but weeds growing in the pots.
April 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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1400 people in little Astoria, OR. Hard to tell with these because we were all spread out, but damn. That's more than 1/10 of the entire town. #handsoff #april5
A color photo of a stream of people protesting in Astoria, Oregon on Marine Drive at the April 5, 2025 Hands Off protest against Donald Trump. A color photo of a stream of people protesting in Astoria, Oregon on Marine Drive at the April 5, 2025 Hands Off protest against Donald Trump. A color photo of a stream of people protesting in Astoria, Oregon on Marine Drive at the April 5, 2025 Hands Off protest against Donald Trump. My protest selfie. My sign says No. Bad muskrat! Hands Off! Education * Social Security * Medicaid * Medicare * NIH * CDC * NOAA * National Parks * IMLS * VA * Give back the USA! There is a picture of a muskrat with a pointed KKK hood, long red claws and dripping blood on the side. 🤣 I am rather proud of my sign.
April 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Art / Nature / nature / art / things I find on the beach and move around. Gooseneck barnacles on an old round crab pot buoy. And driftwood. #phoneography #photogeaphy #foundobjectart #flotsam #jetsam #beach
A color photo of an old round faded orange crab pit buoy filled. It has a crown of gooseneck barnacles and more in the round hole at its center. It is wedged in what was once the crook of a tree and is now white splintering driftwood. Sand dunes and beach grass are visible in the background.
March 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Happy Caturday in which Mr. Binks realizes that there's a whole interesting world on that shelf in the living room. Also he fixed the filter by whacking it with his paw. #caturday #blackcat #phoneography #photography #catphoto #cat
A color photo of a black cat on top of an aquarium. The cat (Mr. Binks) is very intent on trying to get into the aquarium; there is one visible bright pink fish looking out from the aquarium.
March 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Spring. More or less. Every spring I am amazed by these random daffodils on a trail on top of a dike along a marsh. Was there a house here once? (How?)Did somebody plant them just to do it? So many questions. #phoneography #photography #bloomscrolling #daffodil
A color photo of a daffodil from the back on the right and several daffodil buds on the left. The flowers are in front of a body of water; behind that is a causeway with cars on it and behind that is a line of distant blue hills. The sky is cloudy and low.
March 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM