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mattlara.bsky.social
Multi-interest person. Photographer. Notes on life and creativity. Vegan 🌱.
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Fit check, or whatever it’s called. #fitness #bluesgay

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

There wasn't a single unit of queer or trans history taught to me in school. I had to learn it all on my own. The good, bad, ugly, and awful. We are the storytellers in this world. We are the keepers of stories, and ones who push the stories into the future. They cannot erase that.

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Arizona sunset 2025 📸: Matt Lara #photography #leica #sunsetphotography

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah, y’all aren’t getting those cheap eggs you wanted. 🙄

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

I write things. Weekly-ish: mattlara.com/weekly-this-...

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Early morning burger spot Southern California 📸: Matt Lara #photography #photographersofbluesky #photographer #leica

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

It is unseasonably warm in SoCal today. Obviously worrisome with the ongoing fires, but in my little enclave it felt like spring. And I took in a few rays of warm air to simply exist in a small California town.

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

New day. Seriously prioritizing my own peace. Plus, I have plenty of work to do.

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

The doomerism on this app has become more and more apparent. My friends, are we helping by posting panic non-stop? I’m not trying to gaslight you, but come on.

submitted 135 days ago • 2 comments

Yesterday was rough. Calling on my gay and queer predecessors who survived, marched, danced, fucked, and loved through a plague. Through times where neither Democrats nor Republicans were coming to help them. I am determined to live in a future where this is all a distant bad memory.

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

High winds are back in Southern California. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. These annual Santa Ana winds will continue to remind me of the fires, and this month in 2022 when the winds fell several large trees in my neighborhood. #photography #blackandwhitephotography

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

It will be hard to keep my head up today. But I must. The sense of overwhelming calm I had after election night has turned to fear for a lot of people. We must take care of one another in this time.

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

Deleted my tiktok account. Not interested in an app blatantly kowtowing to the incoming administration. It was a giant waste of time anyway.

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes I write things. I don't think of myself as a writer, but I like to keep a space away from social media algorithms. I hope to keep writing more things. mattlara.com/hands-in-the...

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve realized I’m essentially old hat watching a mass migration of TikTok users to whatever app is supposed to be the new TikTok. I come from a time when the prevailing thought was that social media is fun but real life is better.

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment

Good morning, Bluesky people.

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

The day before LA burned, I drove to the Bill Williams River Wildlife Refuge in Arizona for a moment of calm and a photo walk. What a way to begin this year. 📸: Matt Lara #photography #leicaq

submitted 143 days ago • 1 comment

Fires still burning and high winds expected tonight. For now, the air quality is decent and from where I am it seems very quiet.

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

So much of my mental energy this week has been on the fires here in LA. Three families I know personally have lost their entire homes. But seeing so many people support each other through this has been so incredibly moving. We have a long road ahead of us.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

Just about everyone I know in LA has stepped up. Opening their homes, their pantries, their wallets, their hearts. People think it’s all fakes and phonies here, but really it’s a huge community of real ones. This is the true California spirit. I love LA.

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

If you're in an evacuation zone in SoCal, please check in with any disabled/aging neighbors you have to see if they need help evacuating.

submitted 150 days ago • 34 comments

Los Angeles-area people! Trying to compile a list of mutual aid groups/community kitchens/animal shelters/etc offering services or mobilizing to help those displaced by the fires. Let me know/send links and any info to donate.

submitted 150 days ago • 27 comments