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Michael Audette
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Flaneur, Maker, Photographer, Sojourner

Mostly Digital and Analogue Monochrome Film.
Color when it's called for.

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
―Lao Tzu

ICE & Assoc:
Fuck off and develop bleeding hemorrhoids.
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#dog #dogphoto

Judah, the Sarplaniac (also known as Yugoslavian or Balkan Shepherd)

He's my buddy.

His job is to guard the house, the yard, and all who dwell within.

Sarplaniacs are rare in the US, and they require special handling. They need a job to do, or they can easily become ill-tempered.
Dog photo of Judah, the Sarplaniac, also known as Yugoslavian Shpherd
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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#bicycle Project for Winter:
A circa 1970 #Peugeot Grand Sport, to be rebuilt and converted to a 3 speed internal gear hub with 26 inch wheels.

(This vintage Peugeot came with 26 inch wheels, but not the current standard.)

The intent is a wet weather commuter that doubles as a utility #bike. >ALT
Hulk of a Peugeot Grand Sport (C.1968-1972?). My intent is to build up a wet-weather commuter and general utility bike with wider tires to enable dirt and gravel road riding. This was sold as a nice bike to ride around town. It's not a racing bike despite the nice Atax drop handlebars. The main gain in this frame is the vintage Peugeot cachet and the French geometry in how the frame is laid out. I favor French geometry in a road bike, and my favorite rides have been Peugeot and (French) Motobecane. The tubing is Peugeot's house brand Carbolite 103, which is pretty decent steel in a straight gauge, The headset bearings are fine, the bottom-bracket (bearing for the crank) is suspect, but I won't know what it needs until it gets disassembled. It has a French-Threaded Bottom Bracket instead of the current international standard, but I have sources for the appropriate parts. If I need to replace the bottom bracket, I'll alsop replace the crank and pedals with current standard parts to ease servicing issues down the road (sic). The crank is the old steel and cottered pin type. It came with an unusable front wheel. The brakes are Peugeot labeled Weinmann center-pulls. It has a bottle-generator and wiring for lights. The fenders are in excellent shape and only need mounts for the rear. The seatpost is a pipe-type. The wheels on this vintage cycle are close to our current 26" standard, and I ought to be able to replace them with such. The brakes hopefully will be able to be adjusted, but if not, they will need to be replaced. The remains of the rear derailleur are a low-end Simplex (French manufacture). The front derailleur is missing. My intent is to replace the wheelset and gearing with a modern Shimano 3 speed internal gear hub. That will involve a bit of arithmetic to calculate my desired gear ratios. The first set of tasks will be disassembly, examination and cleaning of components, and component replacement.
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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image of Voltaire, with quote reading "If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize."
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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There's a lot of watching and anxiety here, too.

Thank you for your good thoughts.

FWIW, Canada's selection of Carney as PM (former national banker for England) almost supports the concept of Divine Guidance.

But the Hegelian Dialectic of it all has elevated Social Democrats. (See Image ALT)
Image of an album cover for Symphonie Fantastique, by Hector Berlioz. Uploaded to exploit the long comments in the <IMAGE ALT> _____________________ My own home political caucus was Republican, and while we always had some crazies and sociopaths on the outskirts, the party was run my generally sane and sensible people. We even had some Progressives. But now, it's The Democrat Party that is the least hostile to Free Markets with sensible guardrails. MAGA officials have turned to litigation against the government as a path to enriching themselves. In the Continuing Resolution, funding the government until the end of January, 2026 (we've not passed a budget yet for 2025!), a provision was made that any elected official whose email was subpoenaed by the Dept. of Justice following the uprising of 6 January 2021 can sue for $500,000usd of relief. The whole litigation as legal cover for a bribe is a Trump specialty. And all of this could have been avoided had Trump been convicted in impeachment following his first term (US Constitution prohibits The Impeached and Convicted from holding governent office without an act of Congress having rehabilitated them).
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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If I post this, I suspect I may be gender-shaming.

But, frack it. I's Vance.

Check out Vance's shir. Looks as if he's lactating.

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JD Vance with Saudi Crown Price, aka MBS, the guy who ordered a jounalist to be cut up into little pieces. Vance has a suspicious stain on his shirt that resembles lactation. (On the count of three: 1.2.3 "EEEEEwwww!")
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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this is interesting...

USCG Commandant refutes story in WAPO that swastikas and nooses are to be removed from lprohibited hatespeach lists.

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uscg ensign-flag patch
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Something for you to enjoy over (good) headphones as you pause from your tasks of the day and take in a cup of tea or coffee.

Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Opus 14.

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Cover of London Symphony's recording of Hector Berlioz' "Symphony Fantastique. He wrote this to seduce a woman. It worked. They married. They were miserable together. (You have been warned!)
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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For a couple seconds, I contemplated filling out an application.

That kind of money would finance a modest little sailboat backyard build and pay for a couple years of provision staples if you like rice and beans.
Screenshot of an article from 1928 Motorboating Magazine, showing a 20' v-bottomed catboat with unusually pleasant accommodations. From Motor Boating magazine, build-a-boat feature. Porpoise, designed by Wm. Deed, a highly sought after naval architect with an unusually wide ranging repertoire of design practice and expertise, from runabouts to dinghys, to motor and sail cruisers with excellent cabins, and he also designed heavy commercial ships. Deed didn't design to cheat rules and win races. He designed boats to be used with joy and comfort. Porpoise would likely struggle to sail close-hauled (near to the direction fo the wind), but that's what the motor is for. She does excel in he intended function, though: A weekend cottage on which you can take out all of your friends for a day, and take out one special person for two weeks of summer holiday.
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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"Behind the scenes, and still with deep connections around the country, a shadow Republican Party is lying in wait to take over when Trump is gone."

Remember: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

This will take all of us.

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GW Bush
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I deeply appreciated a story my morning reading that likened Johnson to Wylie Coyote, from the Road Runner cartoons, who devises intricate plots but succeeds only in self-demolition.
Wylie Coyote, self-destructing despite his most intricate plans, lighting his tail on fire instead of the rocket-fuse onto which he is strapped.
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Joyce Carol Oates at 87.
#joycecarolotes @joycecaroloates.bsky.social

An example of how educated, cultured women are eternally enrapturing.

(London) Telegraph has a great story today on how she's castigating Musk for being a philistine. (& She's doing it over X!)
Joyce Carol Oates at 87. An example of how smart, cultured women are the most enchanting of their sort.
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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link to original document, judicial memorandum, Comey motion to dismiss.

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James Comey, headshot photo
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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1. An overcast morning in Myrtle Beach, SC. View of 14th St. Pier.

Digital color, but the light is so indifferent, it's difficult to distinguish from monochrome.

2. Sneakers in the Sand.

Taken with my venerable compact camera, a Canon G9, that I piked up off Craigslist for $45 around 2016.
An overcast morning in Myrtle Beach, SC, USA 14th St. Pier Sneakers in The Sand
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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With a $1usd for scale, here's a photo of a very good girl, Pandora, a Great Dane, hanging out with me in the kitchen as I make my coffee and porridge.

She's 8 years old, near the end-of-life for her breed, and she was kept chained up in a back yard without shelter or even a warm blanket.
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photo of Pandora, an 8 year old Great Dane. $1usd paper bill in photo for scale. She was kept chained outside, to a tree, all ear long, without shelter or a warm blanket. She had no toys. Her previous owners tried twice to have their vet euthanize her once she lost the ability to produce puppies that they could sell, and the vet refused (this was in her paperwork). When picking her up as a rescue, the previous owner said he'd never heard her bark in all the 8 years. She's since learned that she has a good set of lungs and a deeply resonant voice! Once in awhile, we catch her either warming up to bark, or still practicing. She does a bit of running in the fenced yard, and she's easy to pet since she's hand-height when she stands up. She loves her big pet bed and blanket, and she's earned how to take a treat. While some dogs would have become mean and bitter from a lifetime of ill-treatment and neglect, Pandora is gentle, and working to make up for her isolation by calmly constantly giving and asking for affection. She's a good girl.
November 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Our power went off, precisely at 9am.

We live in The Country, alongside a two-lane highway, and we looked outside to see this coming down the road.
#photography #R100 #Moving
Large House with smaller el, detached for transport, moving down the road in front of our house in The Countryside. #R100 Main House being moved down the road. Note how it overhangs the edge of the road. #R100 Smaller el, detatched from main house, being moved down the road. #R100 House being moved down the road in front of our place in the countryside. #r100
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Large house, overhaning road, being moved down the rod in front of the house! Digital Monochrome of large house being moved down the road in front of the house. Shot looking into The Sun, rubber lens hood in use. Canon R100 Guest House being moved down the road in front of where I live.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline.
Story by Ruby Mellen • 1d • 6 min read

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silhouette of a man in darkened room, viewing large video screens with data and graphs
November 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Candidate for trump horror duJour

Oil leases off coast of California, Alaska.

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photo of oil rig in sea
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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paste-up photoshop of Trump's face on the body and head of Marie ANtoinette.
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I know the 60 Minutes isn't a Grateful Dead Concert, but...

Someone's gotta have a bootleg of Mango Mussolini's tantrum over the mention of the crypto scam corruption in his admin!

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Transcript in ALT
screenshot of transcript from an edit out of ^0 Minutes interview where Trump had a meltdown ove questions on his crypto corruption. At the end of the interview, which was conducted at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, O’Donnell asks Trump if she can ask two more questions. During the interview she had frequently mentioned she was conscious of time and occasionally interrupted some of Trump’s longer answers. “That means they’ll treat me more fairly if I do,” Trump, 79, said, as per the CBS transcript. “I want to get.... Now is good. Okay. Uh, oh. These might be the ones I didn’t want. I don’t know. Okay, go ahead.” O’Donnell, 51, then asks Trump about people he has pardoned, including the crypto billionaire Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, who was let out of jail in September after pleading guilty to money-laundering violations. Transcript of Donald Trump's full 60 Minutes interview from the CBS website. Transcript of Donald Trump's full '60 Minutes' interview from the CBS website. screen grab Some of Trump’s answer went to air in the truncated version of the interview, including where the president admitted he had “no idea” who the man he had pardoned is. “I don’t know who he is,” Trump said of CZ. “I know he got a four month sentence or something like that, and I heard it was a Biden witch hunt.”
November 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Today's Happy Story:
We look at how architects bound by rules preserving historic ruins are incorporating preservation into modern (and quite posh) living space.

Via Archive.is

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A contemporary outdoor kitchin and dining nook within an historic shed that needs to be preserved.
November 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says....

by JOSEPH COX

Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.

--via Archive.is from 404media
image of a Federal form Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not let people decline to be scanned by its new facial recognition app, which the agency uses to verify a person’s identity and their immigration status, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by 404 Media. The document also says any face photos taken by the app, called Mobile Fortify, will be stored for 15 years, including those of U.S. citizens. The document provides new details about the technology behind Mobile Fortify, how the data it collects is processed and stored, and DHS’s rationale for using it. On Wednesday 404 Media reported that both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are scanning peoples’ faces in the streets to verify citizenship. “ICE does not provide the opportunity for individuals to decline or consent to the collection and use of biometric data/photograph collection,” the document, called a Privacy Threshold Analysis (PTA), says. A PTA is a document that DHS creates in the process of deploying new technology or updating existing capabilities. It is supposed to be used by DHS’s internal privacy offices to determine and describe the privacy risks of a certain piece of tech. “CBP and ICE Privacy are jointly submitting this new mobile app PTA for the ICE Mobile Fortify Mobile App (Mobile Fortify app), a mobile application developed by CBP and made accessible to ICE agents and officers operating in the field,” the document, dated February, reads. 404 Media obtained the document (which you can see here) via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with CBP. ...
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
JOSEPH COX
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Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
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October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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#photography #filmphotography

Look! Look! Look!

Up on Ebay is a 5x7 color attachment for an Eastman 2D (I have an 8x10 Eastman 1 from 1914).

See the Alr for a description of how photogs in the late 19th-Century were making color prints!
photo of a CUrtis color photography attachment for an Eastman 2-d in 5x7. This technology used three monochrome glass plates with a 1-in/3-out cube beamsplitter, creating a three color system. The photog then made 3 carbon-transfer intermediate prints called "tissues" in RGB. Then, using register pins to align the three prints, the primary colors combined to produce a deep and detailed color print I've read about this in the books, but I've never seen one! If I shot 5x7, I'd buy this immediately.
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Shakespeare would be devastated. And Anne Hathaway would no doubt need to console him.

But... which one?
Side-by sides of two women named Anne Hathaway. One is the American Actress, the other is the wife of some playwright. Gratuitous Content: https://youtu.be/2rNopZDwahg?si=215jVpZsuGvzQBLm
October 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM