Ari B
@utahraptor1115.bsky.social
An overpowered mutant. Attorney in environmental and energy law, perpetually learning photographer, aspiring author, and award winning dirtbag.
One cute scuba mermaid.
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One cute scuba mermaid.
Follow me on the instant gramophone too: @utah_raptor
My little life companions and spiritual guides are getting ready for a blissfully lazy #whiskerswednesday
I love their chaos gremlin ways. #catsofbluesky
I love their chaos gremlin ways. #catsofbluesky
December 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
My little life companions and spiritual guides are getting ready for a blissfully lazy #whiskerswednesday
I love their chaos gremlin ways. #catsofbluesky
I love their chaos gremlin ways. #catsofbluesky
Happy Saturnalia! Chag sameach! The party season has officially begun!
December 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Happy Saturnalia! Chag sameach! The party season has officially begun!
It has been a magical experience watching this lil lady get domesticated and what a wild ride to be the human she is most comfortable with, but I think it's possible this street cat doesn't believe in baths or personal space.
#adoptdontshop #catsofbluesky #photography #cats
#adoptdontshop #catsofbluesky #photography #cats
December 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It has been a magical experience watching this lil lady get domesticated and what a wild ride to be the human she is most comfortable with, but I think it's possible this street cat doesn't believe in baths or personal space.
#adoptdontshop #catsofbluesky #photography #cats
#adoptdontshop #catsofbluesky #photography #cats
#mountainmonday for #photosky with this photo of the mountains on fire from last summer. This is a view of southernmost tip of the south side of the fire maybe a week and a half before it was contained. It burned 73,746 acres of beautiful #utah.
#wildfire #photography #sonyalpha #wilderness
#wildfire #photography #sonyalpha #wilderness
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
#mountainmonday for #photosky with this photo of the mountains on fire from last summer. This is a view of southernmost tip of the south side of the fire maybe a week and a half before it was contained. It burned 73,746 acres of beautiful #utah.
#wildfire #photography #sonyalpha #wilderness
#wildfire #photography #sonyalpha #wilderness
Currently firing my pharmacy that added an AI assistant to its phone system because I've decided to stick to the rule that I simply don't do AI between myself and health care.
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Currently firing my pharmacy that added an AI assistant to its phone system because I've decided to stick to the rule that I simply don't do AI between myself and health care.
I love my bedside shrimp tanks and i love waking up gasping and sweating from the night terrors and having two emotional support kitties and breaking up a little algae on the side of the tank to summon some little shrimpies and i can watch them graze in dim light until i fall back asleep.
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I love my bedside shrimp tanks and i love waking up gasping and sweating from the night terrors and having two emotional support kitties and breaking up a little algae on the side of the tank to summon some little shrimpies and i can watch them graze in dim light until i fall back asleep.
I am an OG hater, oppositional and defiant, but often I'm also just absolutely correct and from JK Rowling to Quentin Tarantino, I am vindicated again and again. Mark my words, someday we'll all recognize the tumbler as the dumbest and worst water vessel.
December 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I am an OG hater, oppositional and defiant, but often I'm also just absolutely correct and from JK Rowling to Quentin Tarantino, I am vindicated again and again. Mark my words, someday we'll all recognize the tumbler as the dumbest and worst water vessel.
Rolling out the company social media, maybe give me a follow? It'd be real cool
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December 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Rolling out the company social media, maybe give me a follow? It'd be real cool
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Not to be insensitive to "I almost drowned as a child and am uncomfortable in water" but that's a consideration to make before reaching out to the underwater photographer for opportunities to assist.
Also, volunteering to help on a porn set but being uncomfy when people get penetrated? C'mon kids.
Also, volunteering to help on a porn set but being uncomfy when people get penetrated? C'mon kids.
December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Not to be insensitive to "I almost drowned as a child and am uncomfortable in water" but that's a consideration to make before reaching out to the underwater photographer for opportunities to assist.
Also, volunteering to help on a porn set but being uncomfy when people get penetrated? C'mon kids.
Also, volunteering to help on a porn set but being uncomfy when people get penetrated? C'mon kids.
Soliciting thoughts on how to seek out a coconut crab while travelling in the Philipines. Not for catching, killing or eating, but photographing, admiring, and potentially loving because who doesn't love a weird little guy??
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Soliciting thoughts on how to seek out a coconut crab while travelling in the Philipines. Not for catching, killing or eating, but photographing, admiring, and potentially loving because who doesn't love a weird little guy??
My favourite move when sick is to tuck myself into the couch under my old cat and watch Hellraiser, muttering Pinhead's lines with him around my tissue walrus tusks.
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
My favourite move when sick is to tuck myself into the couch under my old cat and watch Hellraiser, muttering Pinhead's lines with him around my tissue walrus tusks.
It's called Wellington Paranormal
there should be a Ghostbusters tv show in the style/format of Cops
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It's called Wellington Paranormal
So few sleeps are as magical and deep as the sleep you get on a rocking boat.
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
So few sleeps are as magical and deep as the sleep you get on a rocking boat.
Not every underwater wildlife expedition is a success, especially when you're trying to tread as gently and ethically as possible as an ocean visitor. Oh well! I did, however, meet a most beautiful winged moon worshipper who asked if I had accepted the lunar saviour into my heart.
#moth #photosky
#moth #photosky
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The fuck I do.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The fuck I do.
What a day! started a journey to photograph some sea lions and whale sharks (here's hoping) and found out this lil ray got second place in a juried exhibition and is going to be printed by the #decagon gallery. Seems auspicious! Go give it a click!
www.decagongallery.com/forgotten-ar...
www.decagongallery.com/forgotten-ar...
November 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
What a day! started a journey to photograph some sea lions and whale sharks (here's hoping) and found out this lil ray got second place in a juried exhibition and is going to be printed by the #decagon gallery. Seems auspicious! Go give it a click!
www.decagongallery.com/forgotten-ar...
www.decagongallery.com/forgotten-ar...
At the start of every damn dive year I inevitably lose the mostly full tube of silicon lube and have to emergency get another one right before departing. Underwater photographers get it.
#underwaterphotography
#underwaterphotography
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
At the start of every damn dive year I inevitably lose the mostly full tube of silicon lube and have to emergency get another one right before departing. Underwater photographers get it.
#underwaterphotography
#underwaterphotography
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Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now.
Ok another hot take- I also do this deliberately, including to work subordinates and opposing counsels. I know it makes your anxiety fester, that's the whole point. If it isn't about a fuck up, I'll say so right away. When I just say "we need to talk," yeah you should be pretty freaked out.
Speaking of anxiety -- Do not vaguely tell someone you need to talk to them without disclosing the seriousness of the discussion. If it's not serious, a person with anxiety will have already spun a handful of scenarios.
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Ok another hot take- I also do this deliberately, including to work subordinates and opposing counsels. I know it makes your anxiety fester, that's the whole point. If it isn't about a fuck up, I'll say so right away. When I just say "we need to talk," yeah you should be pretty freaked out.
Back on my bullshit #photosky with a trip back to the shipwreck of the Gallant Lady out in #bimini
It was a freighter that ran aground off #Bimini in 1997, and now creates a beautiful haunting view from a small vista, and a pretty great date spot frankly.
#travelphotography #sonyalpha
It was a freighter that ran aground off #Bimini in 1997, and now creates a beautiful haunting view from a small vista, and a pretty great date spot frankly.
#travelphotography #sonyalpha
October 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Back on my bullshit #photosky with a trip back to the shipwreck of the Gallant Lady out in #bimini
It was a freighter that ran aground off #Bimini in 1997, and now creates a beautiful haunting view from a small vista, and a pretty great date spot frankly.
#travelphotography #sonyalpha
It was a freighter that ran aground off #Bimini in 1997, and now creates a beautiful haunting view from a small vista, and a pretty great date spot frankly.
#travelphotography #sonyalpha
This season is the fourth anniversary of checking into the hospital for what would be two years of torture with no clear resolution, and begging for the sweet release of death.
And I'm finally feeling like my brains are coming back online. Feels good. Takes time. Maybe I'm gonna make it after all.
And I'm finally feeling like my brains are coming back online. Feels good. Takes time. Maybe I'm gonna make it after all.
October 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This season is the fourth anniversary of checking into the hospital for what would be two years of torture with no clear resolution, and begging for the sweet release of death.
And I'm finally feeling like my brains are coming back online. Feels good. Takes time. Maybe I'm gonna make it after all.
And I'm finally feeling like my brains are coming back online. Feels good. Takes time. Maybe I'm gonna make it after all.
Full bars, allergy/sensory friendly treats, Halloween decorations, and unbounded enthusiasm for kids in hilarious costumes are my weapons in the war on Trunk or Treating
we don’t get a ton of kids on my street but the kids who do come this halloween are getting the good shit
October 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Full bars, allergy/sensory friendly treats, Halloween decorations, and unbounded enthusiasm for kids in hilarious costumes are my weapons in the war on Trunk or Treating
I'm realizing one of the body changes I have to accept since the last big sick is doing best with closer to 9-10 hours of sleep.
The good news is sleepy romantic partners make the best romantic partners- If you always be sleepin, you'll never be cheatin.
The good news is sleepy romantic partners make the best romantic partners- If you always be sleepin, you'll never be cheatin.
October 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I'm realizing one of the body changes I have to accept since the last big sick is doing best with closer to 9-10 hours of sleep.
The good news is sleepy romantic partners make the best romantic partners- If you always be sleepin, you'll never be cheatin.
The good news is sleepy romantic partners make the best romantic partners- If you always be sleepin, you'll never be cheatin.
Four(?) months ago someone dumped this lil mama and her six kittens behind my house. She went through the #humanesociety last litter program, her kittens have all found their own homes, and I guess we've added a mouthy bat-eared gremlin to the gang.
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Four(?) months ago someone dumped this lil mama and her six kittens behind my house. She went through the #humanesociety last litter program, her kittens have all found their own homes, and I guess we've added a mouthy bat-eared gremlin to the gang.
Unnecessary aside: I say "excuse my language" as a linguistic flourish when I'm about to use profanity in a socially unacceptable place for dramatic emphasis.
Random thought: Stop saying "Excuse the language" when you speak or write profanity. You're an adult. You can write or speak...however the fuck you want...without apology.
You'll be better emotionally...and physically...because of it.
You'll be better emotionally...and physically...because of it.
October 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unnecessary aside: I say "excuse my language" as a linguistic flourish when I'm about to use profanity in a socially unacceptable place for dramatic emphasis.