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world's worst goth
@worldsworstgoth.bsky.social
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Charm City original nerd bringing you open data from space and climate resilience from Baltimore. Also: liminal places, analog art (incl occasional cyanotypes), local weirdness. Not: employer opinions.
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Sprites at Cylburn Arboretum by Aaron Smith, from reclaimed materials from Baltimore's Camp Small, a city-run wood reclamation project. There are 18 of them to find, and you are encouraged to move them.

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A small carved wooden figure behind a mossy rock A small wooden figure with antlers in a forest at golden hour
November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Muddy Creek Falls, Swallow Falls Gorge Trail, western Maryland, 2025.
A boulder wrapped in tree roots foreground echoes similar shapes in a waterfall, background. Trees are turning yellow
October 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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I get furloughed in this shutdown, maybe I can start a side gig as a pumpkin influencer.
Farm stand red barn porch piled high in pumpkins
September 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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One more:
View of a tiny waterfall from the bottom of a deep gorge. Stairs are built into the side wall as part of a trail. Ferns and other plants along the walls fill the middle in green
September 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Watkins Glen NY State Park Gorge Trail immediately after overnight rain certainly is a thing.

#waterfalls
View from the trail at a point where one of the lesser falls splashes on your head, looking out across to a bridge and more falls. It is very soggy and green View of several small falls from the center of a bridge. Beginnings of yellow foliage falling on the wet rocks.
September 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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This begs the question of who but the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York is even in the running for largest glass pumpkin, but it's still an impressive feat.
Display in museum lobby of the Corning museum, a retro pickup truck full of hay with giant glass pumpkins on top. A sign notes details of the record winner's size (70lb) and construction (took 17 tries)
September 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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New embellished #cyanotype print just dropped (at Mt Royal Tavern's annual art salon).
Framed print of a hand x-ray drawn over with a hamsa in silver ink, on brown Kraft paper. Print is laid out on bubble wrap for protection in transit.
August 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I grew up on these streets
August 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Well these aren't so bad framed up. Now to make one more by the weekend for a show.

#cyanotype #botanicalart
Two blueprint x-ray images of hands printed on brown kraft paper. One has floral images scribbled on it in the pattern of veins. The other is, roughly, an evil eye ward.
July 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Work in Progress: extra cicada parade-a fellow picked up last year. Approximately 1 in 200,000 17-year cicadas have blue-grey eyes. I found one in the old yard, gonna paint up a friend in its honor.

The original project in Baltimore:
www.cicada2021.com
A plaster bug sitting on a mosaic table, balanced poorly on thick copper legs. It is at a jaunty, almost inquisitive angle. Its head is painted black and its eyes are light blue.
June 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Needed some coasters, so I'm back on my nonsense.
Pine coaster with inset cotton print of a poppy flower with silver doodles drawn over it, plus more materials lined up for more prints. Two cyanotype contact prints in cotton, exposure in progress on a sidewalk around astronomical noon. One is a bright orange flower, the other a melange of weeds and a suckered branch from a recently pruned crepe myrtle.
May 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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The Iceland poppies had some feelings about yesterday's weather, too, but now the rain barrels are full. #bloomscrolling
Close up of a potted plant with a bright orange flower weighed down by a few raindrops
May 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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American Visionary Art Museum Kinetic Sculpture Race from Patterson Park. Pure and bright #Baltimore weirdness. #AVAM.
Amphibious human powered vehicle titled play2pus, made of a metal frame connecting bicycles over a red pontoon base, topped by a giant stuffed platypus. The front of the vehicle is decorated as an air horn with "platypus" written backwards like an ambulance. A price is right wheel sits on the back of the vehicle, listing highland games to try. The riders are costumed in kilts and Scottish hats, as is the platypus. Fifi leads the charge: a giant fluffy pink dog sculpture atop a wheeled vehicle pulled over on the side of a park park. Bicycle riders with helmets decorated to look like the art vehicle flank it. Onlookers sit on a picnic blanket in the shade nearby.
May 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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For morale: the Iceland poppies are still going and bright beyond the capabilities of this camera firmware.

#bloomscrolling
Four poppy flowers growing in a shape similar to their crinkly quartile petals. Two yellow, one darker, one red-orange. They're growing in a pot surrounded by other green leaves
April 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Potential fun and educational new #StreetPhotography project: world's most dodgy ATMs.

Along a walk to the 9:30, DC
A red metal box attached to a pink painted brick wall between two recessed glass doors. The box has very non standard cutouts to access an ATM keypad, display, receipt printer, and light up "ATM" text. It is covered in stickers and small marker-based graffiti. Below, a mailbox lid. Above, a yellow sign testing "24 hour ATM" also covered in stickers and graffiti. Street number 924. The company claiming to own it has a website still under construction.
April 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Nice night to see HR of Bad Brains and the Dead Kennedys in the shadow of the Capitol though.
HR, a Black man in a complicated hat, wails on a guitar with backing vocals and instruments, against a Dead Kennedys logo tapestry backdrop, from the pit
April 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Long walk from a family celebration, discovered the DC suburban cherry trees are suddenly in peak bloom.
A cluster of light pink cherry blossoms in focus against a backdrop of more out of focus and a black sky
March 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Peak #cherryblossoms popped up overnight in Silver Spring MD
A cluster of light pink cherry blossoms in focus against a backdrop of more out of focus and a black sky
March 29, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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A knitted acorn, pattern from Tiny Nonsense
March 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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In other news of small useless coping projects, current #knitting is turning sock scraps into a gazillion tiny plush acorns; I expect by the time I finish a dozen, I will finally appreciate double pointed needles.

Idea and pattern recipe by Hunter Hammersen / tinynonsense.com
A very small orange acorn with a blue and green cap, knitted from scrap sock yarn as shown in balls in the background, on blue DPNs
February 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Met a screech owl today! Her name is Tiny and she lives at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary since she can't fly. Don't make fun of her ear tufts, she's molting.
An extremely smol, angry owl with one missing ear tuft, perched on a keeper's gloved arm.
February 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Just because I haven't seen it with alt text here, David Lynch's birthday meditation celebration sounds like a lovely thing to do this Jan 20, 2025:
David Lynch, our beloved dad, was a guiding light of creativity, love, and peace. On Monday, January 20th---what would have been his 79th birthday-we invite you all to join us in a worldwide group meditation at 12:00pm NOON PST for 10 minutes. Let us come together, wherever we are, to honor his legacy by spreading peace and love across the world. Please take this time to meditate, reflect, and send positivity into the universe Thank you for being part of this celebration of his life. Love, Jennifer, Austin, Riley and Lula Lynch
January 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Not bad,  Kodak Star 335, not bad.

Portra, Local Print Shop overnight scans, #EllicottCity #RailsToTrails Trolley Trail No. 9 and ice cream shop,  #shittycamerachallenge
Film photo of a boardwalk along a formerly trolley track, now walking trail, cut into a hillside. Bridge above. Winter sun casts long shadows and lens effects. Film photo, vintage bicycle garden shop display in several inches of snow. Picnic tables, also snow covered, and bare crepe myrtle(?) Tree.
January 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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That good winter light in the American Visionary Art Museum garden.

#AVAM #Baltimore
Photo of an outdoor staircase encased in a hallway and tower made of logs, with low sunlight streaming through large gaps. Autumn leaves scattered throughout.
December 15, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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From the archives, more extremely expired #Polaroid from the trip to #Arizona where I filled my entire luggage with astrophotography gear and instead of clear skies I got rained on in the desert. Arguably more precious an experience. Still a little mad.
Black and white pack film Polaroid, faded green and pink. Scraggly tree and a fence in the desert with mountains in the distance. Classic Polaroid, faded greenish. Falling apart billboard and some cactus, cloudy skies.
December 2, 2024 at 12:15 AM