Rick Marriner
@rickmarriner.com
Photographer, writer, trouble finder. Chasing light, chasing truth. A navigator of oceans and ideas, relentless in pursuit. Endurance in sport, life, and thought … always searching, always seeing.
The journey continues! Loving these most recent drops. I am so glad I joined at the Patreon level. Bonus stuff! Yay.
It’s not exclusionary, y’all… it’s participatory. Let’s do our part to help show these two we believe in their work and appreciate the little smiles they bring to our lives!
It’s not exclusionary, y’all… it’s participatory. Let’s do our part to help show these two we believe in their work and appreciate the little smiles they bring to our lives!
October 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The journey continues! Loving these most recent drops. I am so glad I joined at the Patreon level. Bonus stuff! Yay.
It’s not exclusionary, y’all… it’s participatory. Let’s do our part to help show these two we believe in their work and appreciate the little smiles they bring to our lives!
It’s not exclusionary, y’all… it’s participatory. Let’s do our part to help show these two we believe in their work and appreciate the little smiles they bring to our lives!
Pets… I think the judges would allow pets as one of the right answers too.
Seen here being carried. A dog named Squirrel. 🐿️
Seen here being carried. A dog named Squirrel. 🐿️
September 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Pets… I think the judges would allow pets as one of the right answers too.
Seen here being carried. A dog named Squirrel. 🐿️
Seen here being carried. A dog named Squirrel. 🐿️
Very cool. +3 to your uncles! Thanks for sharing.
Merchant Mariners are the unsung, often forgotten, omni-capable champions of our international economy!
Merchant Mariners are the unsung, often forgotten, omni-capable champions of our international economy!
September 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Very cool. +3 to your uncles! Thanks for sharing.
Merchant Mariners are the unsung, often forgotten, omni-capable champions of our international economy!
Merchant Mariners are the unsung, often forgotten, omni-capable champions of our international economy!
Oops… dating myself. My particular “skill set” got rolled up after I separated from the service (1992-2007) :
September 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Oops… dating myself. My particular “skill set” got rolled up after I separated from the service (1992-2007) :
By the glacier she rested from the journey, frostfire tangled in her hair, the low sun casting her eyes a deeper blue than the ancient ice itself. Her #scrutiny unspooled me, thread by hidden thread, yet offered no clues. Archive me, melt me, or free me: all futures lay silent in her gaze.
#vss365
#vss365
September 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The #bass beat carried as Congreve rockets hissed across the water, claws of fire across the sky at Pigs Point. We dug in, Norfolk boys with damp powder and dry mouths. I thought, we don’t fight history, we outlast its thunder, and pray our names survives the silence.
#vss365 #historicalfiction
#vss365 #historicalfiction
August 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The #bass beat carried as Congreve rockets hissed across the water, claws of fire across the sky at Pigs Point. We dug in, Norfolk boys with damp powder and dry mouths. I thought, we don’t fight history, we outlast its thunder, and pray our names survives the silence.
#vss365 #historicalfiction
#vss365 #historicalfiction
The Germans, in their infinite gift for compact truth, have the word : morgenmuffel
… someone constitutionally unfit for mornings.
Some wake to seize the day.
Morgenmuffels want to sue the day for emotional damages.
#LanguageOfMood
… someone constitutionally unfit for mornings.
Some wake to seize the day.
Morgenmuffels want to sue the day for emotional damages.
#LanguageOfMood
July 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Germans, in their infinite gift for compact truth, have the word : morgenmuffel
… someone constitutionally unfit for mornings.
Some wake to seize the day.
Morgenmuffels want to sue the day for emotional damages.
#LanguageOfMood
… someone constitutionally unfit for mornings.
Some wake to seize the day.
Morgenmuffels want to sue the day for emotional damages.
#LanguageOfMood
AI won’t kill jobs all at once. It’ll chip away at the tasks that made us feel competent. People can survive unemployment. What we can’t survive is purposelessness in a system optimized to ignore us.
#AIandWork
#AIandWork
July 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
AI won’t kill jobs all at once. It’ll chip away at the tasks that made us feel competent. People can survive unemployment. What we can’t survive is purposelessness in a system optimized to ignore us.
#AIandWork
#AIandWork
Four year shelf life? That’s downright sturdy food right there! Best if used by… end of the decade.
June 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Four year shelf life? That’s downright sturdy food right there! Best if used by… end of the decade.
I’m not a fan of conscription except in the most dire existential circumstances for a culture.
I volunteered back in 1992, and served until 2007, my grandpa, and dad before me and our son joined up last August.
As long as people know the risk, and the price of freedom, joining up is still noble.
I volunteered back in 1992, and served until 2007, my grandpa, and dad before me and our son joined up last August.
As long as people know the risk, and the price of freedom, joining up is still noble.
June 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I’m not a fan of conscription except in the most dire existential circumstances for a culture.
I volunteered back in 1992, and served until 2007, my grandpa, and dad before me and our son joined up last August.
As long as people know the risk, and the price of freedom, joining up is still noble.
I volunteered back in 1992, and served until 2007, my grandpa, and dad before me and our son joined up last August.
As long as people know the risk, and the price of freedom, joining up is still noble.
When the house is on fire, you don’t hold a private meeting about whether to unlock the hose.
We need leaders, not hall monitors. The stakes aren’t subtle.
The clock isn’t paused.
The republic is watching,
and so are its enemies.
#DemocracyInCrisis #LeadOrStepAside
We need leaders, not hall monitors. The stakes aren’t subtle.
The clock isn’t paused.
The republic is watching,
and so are its enemies.
#DemocracyInCrisis #LeadOrStepAside
June 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
When the house is on fire, you don’t hold a private meeting about whether to unlock the hose.
We need leaders, not hall monitors. The stakes aren’t subtle.
The clock isn’t paused.
The republic is watching,
and so are its enemies.
#DemocracyInCrisis #LeadOrStepAside
We need leaders, not hall monitors. The stakes aren’t subtle.
The clock isn’t paused.
The republic is watching,
and so are its enemies.
#DemocracyInCrisis #LeadOrStepAside
“Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct…”
But when the threat is internal, when power defends sedition, we must recall: here, the people are kings.
Tyrants fall when citizens remember their station.
#FederalistWarnings #Hamiltonian #CivicDuty
But when the threat is internal, when power defends sedition, we must recall: here, the people are kings.
Tyrants fall when citizens remember their station.
#FederalistWarnings #Hamiltonian #CivicDuty
June 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct…”
But when the threat is internal, when power defends sedition, we must recall: here, the people are kings.
Tyrants fall when citizens remember their station.
#FederalistWarnings #Hamiltonian #CivicDuty
But when the threat is internal, when power defends sedition, we must recall: here, the people are kings.
Tyrants fall when citizens remember their station.
#FederalistWarnings #Hamiltonian #CivicDuty
She has my old journals and is holding them ransom? For what, I don’t know.
I have the ache of unwritten pages. Fell for her when I was #single.
I’ll try, “I am all the writers I have read.”
If she replies, it will be to a version of me that still lives in her margins.
#LiteraryGhosts
#vss365
I have the ache of unwritten pages. Fell for her when I was #single.
I’ll try, “I am all the writers I have read.”
If she replies, it will be to a version of me that still lives in her margins.
#LiteraryGhosts
#vss365
June 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
She has my old journals and is holding them ransom? For what, I don’t know.
I have the ache of unwritten pages. Fell for her when I was #single.
I’ll try, “I am all the writers I have read.”
If she replies, it will be to a version of me that still lives in her margins.
#LiteraryGhosts
#vss365
I have the ache of unwritten pages. Fell for her when I was #single.
I’ll try, “I am all the writers I have read.”
If she replies, it will be to a version of me that still lives in her margins.
#LiteraryGhosts
#vss365
On Stochastic Models…
Deterministic models offer certainty, the kind priests sell.
Stochastic ones give you distributions and ask how much risk you want in your adventures.
We build tools not to predict the future but to bargain with its most likely ghosts.
#QuantNerd
#TradingTools
#Probable
Deterministic models offer certainty, the kind priests sell.
Stochastic ones give you distributions and ask how much risk you want in your adventures.
We build tools not to predict the future but to bargain with its most likely ghosts.
#QuantNerd
#TradingTools
#Probable
June 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
On Stochastic Models…
Deterministic models offer certainty, the kind priests sell.
Stochastic ones give you distributions and ask how much risk you want in your adventures.
We build tools not to predict the future but to bargain with its most likely ghosts.
#QuantNerd
#TradingTools
#Probable
Deterministic models offer certainty, the kind priests sell.
Stochastic ones give you distributions and ask how much risk you want in your adventures.
We build tools not to predict the future but to bargain with its most likely ghosts.
#QuantNerd
#TradingTools
#Probable
Booted into flesh again today.
… no patch notes, no wings, no firmware, just this damp animal chassis reconciling coffee, gravity, and … thermodynamic surrender.
I suspect a bug in my code masquerading as a “teachable moment”.
I’ve become ungovernable.
#SimulationTheory #MondayMood
#SoftReboot
… no patch notes, no wings, no firmware, just this damp animal chassis reconciling coffee, gravity, and … thermodynamic surrender.
I suspect a bug in my code masquerading as a “teachable moment”.
I’ve become ungovernable.
#SimulationTheory #MondayMood
#SoftReboot
June 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Booted into flesh again today.
… no patch notes, no wings, no firmware, just this damp animal chassis reconciling coffee, gravity, and … thermodynamic surrender.
I suspect a bug in my code masquerading as a “teachable moment”.
I’ve become ungovernable.
#SimulationTheory #MondayMood
#SoftReboot
… no patch notes, no wings, no firmware, just this damp animal chassis reconciling coffee, gravity, and … thermodynamic surrender.
I suspect a bug in my code masquerading as a “teachable moment”.
I’ve become ungovernable.
#SimulationTheory #MondayMood
#SoftReboot
Discovered who’s in my Skircle today. Also today, I learned that a Skirkle is something!
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skircle.me/api/show/684...
June 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Discovered who’s in my Skircle today. Also today, I learned that a Skirkle is something!
skircle.me/api/show/684...
skircle.me/api/show/684...
If the universe were infinite and eternal, the night sky would be white-hot with starlight.
Every line of sight should end on a sun.
But it doesn’t. It’s dark.
Which means:
The universe had a beginning.
And not all light gets here.
#OlbersParadox #Cosmos #NightThoughts
Every line of sight should end on a sun.
But it doesn’t. It’s dark.
Which means:
The universe had a beginning.
And not all light gets here.
#OlbersParadox #Cosmos #NightThoughts
June 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If the universe were infinite and eternal, the night sky would be white-hot with starlight.
Every line of sight should end on a sun.
But it doesn’t. It’s dark.
Which means:
The universe had a beginning.
And not all light gets here.
#OlbersParadox #Cosmos #NightThoughts
Every line of sight should end on a sun.
But it doesn’t. It’s dark.
Which means:
The universe had a beginning.
And not all light gets here.
#OlbersParadox #Cosmos #NightThoughts
Some are angry, beware!
May 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Some are angry, beware!
Answer :
With a 10% spine angle (rear elevated), approximately 47.5% of the cat’s mass is registered on the scale when only the front paws are on it.
With a 10% spine angle (rear elevated), approximately 47.5% of the cat’s mass is registered on the scale when only the front paws are on it.
May 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Answer :
With a 10% spine angle (rear elevated), approximately 47.5% of the cat’s mass is registered on the scale when only the front paws are on it.
With a 10% spine angle (rear elevated), approximately 47.5% of the cat’s mass is registered on the scale when only the front paws are on it.
Sentience is a Slope,
Not a Step
We assume sentience is binary, but our dog (named Squirrel) disagrees. 🐕 🐿️
Maybe machines, too, will feel their way into consciousness, inch by inch.
The lights switch on and then slowly brighten.
#Consciousness #SentienceSpectrum #AIPhilosophy
Not a Step
We assume sentience is binary, but our dog (named Squirrel) disagrees. 🐕 🐿️
Maybe machines, too, will feel their way into consciousness, inch by inch.
The lights switch on and then slowly brighten.
#Consciousness #SentienceSpectrum #AIPhilosophy
May 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Sentience is a Slope,
Not a Step
We assume sentience is binary, but our dog (named Squirrel) disagrees. 🐕 🐿️
Maybe machines, too, will feel their way into consciousness, inch by inch.
The lights switch on and then slowly brighten.
#Consciousness #SentienceSpectrum #AIPhilosophy
Not a Step
We assume sentience is binary, but our dog (named Squirrel) disagrees. 🐕 🐿️
Maybe machines, too, will feel their way into consciousness, inch by inch.
The lights switch on and then slowly brighten.
#Consciousness #SentienceSpectrum #AIPhilosophy
Compost is memory. Water holds longer, birds return, roots deepen. Regenerative agriculture builds living systems, not yield spikes. It listens to the land instead of forcing it to perform.
#regenerativeagriculture #soilhealth #longnow #carbonremoval
#regenerativeagriculture #soilhealth #longnow #carbonremoval
May 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Compost is memory. Water holds longer, birds return, roots deepen. Regenerative agriculture builds living systems, not yield spikes. It listens to the land instead of forcing it to perform.
#regenerativeagriculture #soilhealth #longnow #carbonremoval
#regenerativeagriculture #soilhealth #longnow #carbonremoval