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Djangonaut, treehugger, cyclist, kayaker, photographer. Gallery at shacker.net - Ask me about prints.
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Aloha from The Bulb #bayarea #photography

📌Our Park Service Rangers have flagged the warning on El Capitan. We are under threat by an America-attacking felon.

Sorry I Am Such an Asshole (XXXII - Sabrina) #portraits

The objection to DEI is the incorrect belief that less-qualified people could get jobs before more-qualified people. 4-star general Brown was fired for his support of DEI. IOTW a black 4-star general was replaced with a less-qualified white 3-star general. Huh. breakingdefense.com/2025/02/trum...

Winter goldenberry

"Six weeks ago, we had the strongest economy, employment, and stock market in history. ..All gone in 30 days."

Gratitude to Bernie for this clear-eyed monologue - a series of truth bombs, much needed against the backdrop of Trump's literally Orwellian lies about the war in Ukraine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBM...

The symphonies not played (crystallized violin) … #music #stilllife

What was once written on this now-crystallized typewriter? Did it spit out invoices and business letters, or did someone write a great but forgotten novel? Did it ever compose love letters or memoirs, or was it more about term papers? Its history is sealed. … #history #photography

East Bay Bike Party rolling through … #cycling #night #photography

Mind-blowing episode of Radiolab. TLDR; we always knew that birds navigate by the earth's magnetic field. But how? Quantum mechanics in the eyeball allow them to see an overlay of earth's incredibly weak magnetic fields. Cosmic entanglement. radiolab.org/podcast/quan...

East Bay Bike Party rolling through

Ruhle: The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has just done the unthinkable—dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast…

Here’s a site that tracks how much of Project 2025 has been implemented. Currently at 34%. (via @jennileder.bsky.social) [project2025.observer]

Settlement at Shelter Cove … #pacifica #photography

Misinformation is rampant. Here's a reality check. apnews.com/article/soci...

Hanukkah snowflakes with Paula … #makers

Broke-down shack near Jackson, CA … #rural #decay #photography

Super proud to have one of my images featured in the highlights from last month’s theme on Glass!

“The head of the Social Security Administration has resigned after she refused to by DOGE staffers access to sensitive information. Your information.”

When there’s a just-right combination of low clouds and angled morning light, I scramble to this “secret” slanted grotto of oaks at Hillside, hoping for heavenly rays. … #komorebi #hiking #photography

Some musings on the history and sociology of East Bay Bike Party, and the joy of DJ'ing it. #bikeparty 1/ bike-lab.org/2024/12/22/k...

Roya and Millie, Oakland … #peopleofearth #oaklandish

Sorry I Am Such an Asshole (XXXI - Will) … #portraits #peopleofearth

Really excellent interview with Matt Payne, who is the host of the excellent photography podcast “F-Stop Collaborate and Listen.” Interesting to hear him on the other side of the microphone. Definitely worth an hour of your dog walk or hiking time this weekend.

Spot on.

That bend in the path at Hillside Someday I’ll search through 20 years of photos to find all the times I’ve stopped to shoot this scene, in all kinds of weather and all kinds of light. I can’t resist. … #hiking #trails #photography

I think I need an ORTBO.

Japanese🍁 in the last glow of autumn … #leaves #autumn #photography

Adrift, near Lodi