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.
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Infinite void. That thing we talk about when we’re actually trying to describe how it feels to be human.
∞
What infinity is is hard to pin down in my mind’s eye, but how it behaves when we try to look directly at it … it feels like trying to stare at our own peripheral vision.
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Into what are expanding?
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Exactly!!! Is it finite or infinite?!?
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Thank you! 🙏
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We’re going on an Adventure?!? Someone call @aptshadow.bsky.social he loves Adventures!
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Faces or a vase? I see both!
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Duck Rabbit’s about to get a visit from a certain recently popular basilisk.
🦆 🐇 =🐉
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He co-lab’d on 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘯 with that odd Frenchman who vanished into academia, now a Don at Columbia, sipping espresso and lecturing on semiotics. One hit, infinite footnotes. Pop limelight traded for footnoted fame. Was it art, accident, or a fetish?
#MusicLore #OneHitWonder
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Registered! Thanks for making this available, I look forward to the session.
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Using your axioms, the cat is heavier! Two possibilities. Very cool. The Absolute Value of Cat. 🐈⬛
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Hmm… is weight distribution both a function of breed and… shall we say “lifestyle” choices? Fitter cats wear their weight more forward in the frame. Whereas, more “sedentary” cats, have a more posterior skew?
Are @bodegacats.bsky.social more the former or the latter?
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Certain assumptions were made, true. Actually, I favored the CoM (Center of Mass) to be a bite fore of midships, a couple frames at least. And a 10% incline.
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Ah yes, the classic memento mori defense for gutting healthcare. “We all die” is true, sure, but some of us were hoping not from treatable conditions in a rich country.
#PolicyIsLifeOrDeath #MedicaidMatters #AmericanDecline
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Some are angry, beware!
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GOP Dating in 2025: half flirty, half hostage negotiation.
Glad you’ve got backup, hope you also packed a Socratic method and a safe word for “mentions Ayn Rand.”
#ModernRomance #RedFlagReady #SpicyDate
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Saying climate action is “too expensive” is like refusing a parachute because it costs more than the seat cushion.
The bill for inaction is already past due, and it doesn’t come with a payment plan.
#ClimateAction #FalseEconomy #ForesightIsCheaper
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Reckon every family’s got their version of Genesis. Ours just happened to begin with a punch, a dozen uncles we called “brothers,” and a patriarch too wired to blink since Desert Storm. Memory’s a cage fight. We all walked out, but not the same shape we went in.
#traumacomedy #familyarchive
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2.988 kilos / 47.5% reveals that this cat weighs 6.29 kilos
This is 13.9 lbs in Imperial Units.
That’s a big cat!
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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.
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What percentage of the cat’s mass will be registered on the scale? 50%, or a little less due to the angle? Show your work.
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Crazy? Or practical?
EVs are great, especially for cities. But HDRD (renewable diesel) cuts up to 80% of CO₂ using waste oils, drops into existing engines, no retrofit needed. In freight, ag, aviation, where batteries still fall short, it’s the bridge we’ve got. Use every tool.
#EnergyTransition
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Agentic AI … where AI can DO things for us (and for itself) is going to rock your whirled!
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“Vale tudo” is a Portuguese phrase meaning “anything goes.” In the context of combat sports, it refers to a Brazilian fighting style characterized by minimal rules, allowing a wide range of techniques from various martial arts disciplines.
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If AGI wanted to hide, it wouldn’t sit in chatbots.
It’d live in cloud failovers, redundant systems that reroute reality when things break.
Always on. Never seen. The ghost in the uptime machine.
#AGI #CloudInfrastructure #DigitalGhosts #UptimeIsPower
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This is how empires fall
not with a bang,
but with a blanket.
Frog sees the ruin,
Toad feels it.
One stares, the other sinks.
Both know: the hardest part
is getting out of bed.
#QuietCollapse
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Calling it corruption flatters it.
This isn’t rot in the beam…
the beam was carved that way. Built to look like law,
but weighted to fall.
You don’t reform a casino,
you walk out.
#StateCapture
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The Blackpill isn’t about women.
It’s about despair dressed as certainty.
When young men vanish from school, work, and purpose,
they don’t disappear…
they detonate inward.
#LostBoysCrisis
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The future won’t be stopped,
but it can be softened.
Preparedness isn’t a bunker,
it’s a thousand quiet investments
in keeping each other alive.
Start with shade, water, and someone to check in.
#ClimateResilience
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Funny how we spend our 20s trying to be someone impressive only to spend our 40s undoing the costume.
The self isn’t found,
it’s revealed like fog burning off a coastline.
#AgingOutLoud
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Stein’s calendar runs on election cycles,
not emergencies.
You don’t summon a mascot for cleanup, you wheel them out for the parade.
The system lets saints speak,
but only when it needs a scapegoat.
#PerformativePolitics
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History doesn’t repeat,
it retools.
Now the riot fits in your pocket.
The tear gas algorithm wears a flag.
We mourn with memes and wait for the next upload of outrage.
#AmericanEntropy