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boston biped. always walking always looking often hiding from the world we've made ++queer is beautiful++ most photos taken w minolta 58mm f1.2 or c-mount lens all images are mine, except reposts ofc

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nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · May 24

new profile pic is from
a med format film photo i took

part of a series of images of decorated and painted mannequin heads. no one knew exactly where they came from.

the store where they lived has closed, and they've been scattered to the winds. i have 3

#mediumformat #120 #film #photography

medium format film 'scan' (actually a dslr photo of the negative taken with a light box) of a decorated mannequin head. photo taken from below, where the eyes seem to be looking, highlighting the damaged and cracked chin and bright red painted lips, also chipped and damaged. the nose is also chipped. despite it all, the general vibe is defiance and strength.

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nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 59m

today was sunny
so i skipped the bus that wasn't coming anyway
and walked to the river
#architecture #photography
#minoltarokkor58mm

a dark exposure of the decorations on the corner of the roof of an old brick building, contrasting with a distant skyscraper partially obscured by the old facade. due to the dark exposure, the skyscraper is just a set of parallel vertical lines of bright aluminum.

photo of the rotting facade of a building awaiting demolition across the street. 2 ppl wearing blue caps are crossing towards the camera and against traffic.

vertical photo looking between two buildings to see two iconic Boston buildings in bright sunlight, Prudential on the left and Christian science center on the right. deep shadows obscure the bottom of the image except three reflective street signs:"Massachusetts ave" "no turn on red" and just "no" with the rest of the sign cut off.

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 10h

people in the parade
#photography #cmountlens

a parade marcher sits on a metal parking barrier in an empty lot next to a lineup of horns

a person in an oversized felt hat holds a bunch of balloons and looks off to the left

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nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 1d

haha ya...ooops. ty 4 the right word ;)
did u see the dbl dragon suzy (earlier photo)??? im calling em suzies now, catch up...

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 1d

parade prep
#photography #blackandwhite #cmountlens
#honk2025

photo of a drum slung over the shoulder of an attendee arriving to the parade staging area

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 1d

dbl dragon tuba

was stuck at a crosswalk when i saw it in the crowd. waited for traffic then ran like an agent in a movie whose lost their mark. how could a dbl tube disappear? i turned down a side street then spun around and it was right behind me. I let it pass and took pics
#photography #tuba

a tuba with two horns decorated with spines on the back and flames in the horn. making its way through a crowd

a distant double headed tuba disappears into the crowd

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 2d

faces in a crowd
#photography #honk2025

a mask decorating the front of a modified bike about to take part in a parade

photo of a mostly blurry crowd. one man in focus is dashing to the left wearing a tricorn hat and a white wig

light hits a single face in an otherwise dark crowd

4 kids stand next to a large papier mâchè bird with a long bent beak. the kids have just arrived and each one is expressing a completely different emotion as they look out over the crowd.

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 2d

setting up for a parade
on a grey day promising rain
#blackandwhite #photography
#cmountlens

crowds of people preparing for a parade. in the foreground, everyone is carrying white cardboard fish on sticks. in the center is a woman in a knit cap wearing a shirt with the same fish on it under a clear plastic rain poncho

the back of a small group approaching the parade staging area. the person in the center is wearing an oversized mad-hatter hat with a bright oversized ribbon tied around.

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 3d

i got confused and rushed to the parade route an hour early. as i walked home, staging and setup for the parade were starting.

so . . . instead of pictures of a parade, I've got pictures of people _preparing_ for a parade! even better, right??
#photography #honk2025

honkfest.org

photo of band member's left side and back, wearing all red and a red sequin cap, finishing their bagel before marching in a parade. on the back of their red jacket is a large patch depicting a tarot card "the tower" (rider-waite version)

a very dark image of the back of someone in a pink felt cowboy hat holding a bunch of balloons in their left hand.

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 3d

honk festival in Davis square
#photography #tuba #trombone #trumpet

the opening of a very shiny tuba reflects the crowds, a building and the sky

the back of someone playing a slide trombone. the shiny horn reflects a large dark tree against a bright sky

a man with a grey beard plays a trumpet in a crowd. behind him a round sign on a tuba horn reads "expandable brass band"

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 3d

honk festival in Davis square today
#photography #honk
#blackandwhite #cmount

a man with a big bright beard waiting to play his clarinet. in the background are multiple blurry shiny horns.

a tuba player in a black cowboy hat and face glitter

photo of the back of someone in a black cap carrying an old weathered tuba and walking in a crowd

in the center a blurry trumpet player is playing.a washboard player is in focus on the left wearing a huge headpiece of bright white feathers and heart sunglasses.

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 4d

#photogratree
#photography

the slender trunk of a young tree on a city sidewalk. there is a long vertical rupture in the bark that has healed but still remains

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 5d

above the doorway of an old rag and bone shop that's never open
#photography

sunlight fights it's way through dirty painted glass above an old window above an old entryway.

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 6d

a found arrangement im always trying to photograph but it's usually snarled with parked cars. thanks, roadwork!
#photography

photo of a bunch of buildings made of different materials and arranged in s strange geometry. nearby roadwork has left a large pile of dirt in front of the closest building and a worker carrying a broom and shovel has just entered frame bottom right.

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 7d

yesterday's sidewalk flower
#photography

a pale white flower going purple at the seams with a yellow center on a very long stalk, making the background a great green blur

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 8d

all regressive politics right now is literally

"i am rubber and you are glue. anything you say bounces off me and sticks to you"

which i believe is..kindergarten level wisdom?

i don't care what you believe but i do care how you talk about it. if ur using grade school logic, then ur just wrong.

nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 8d

incidental pic before going out
#photography

i actually take this pic whenever i change a lens before walking out the door... just to check everything's working right (i like past glass and it can be moody). but also creating an accidental incidental photo series of a lamp in different light

photo of a lamp (off) in a room between two super bright windows

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 8d

Gender strength differences are quantitative rather than qualitative.

Although 👨‍🦰 usually have larger muscles than 💁, the force exerted by equal-sized muscles is the same in both genders.

Muscle tissue is essentially the same regardless of gender.

brzycki.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

brzycki.scholar.princeton.edu

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 8d

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social I did the US tour already but this post says a bit about the book—and it’s so much about how we fight, how we hold on to hope.

bsky.app/profile/bsch...

Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 8d

Hello #UK friends! I’m touring the book THE INTERMEDIARIES starting next week. It’s a deeply researched look at the way #LGBTQ and #women used science and rebel alliances to fight fascists—it offers up a reminder that we can fight back. Nazis are not inevitable—they just want you to think so.

BRANDY SCHILLACE
THE INTERMEDIARIES
UK BOOK TOUR
All event are listed in local time.
OCT. 16 - 6:30pm
LONDON, ENGLAND WATERSTONES - GOWER ST in conversation with C.N. Lester
OCT. 21 - 5:00pm
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
OCT. 22 - 7:00pm
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND LIGHTHOUSE BOOKS
OC. 23 - 7:00pm
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND WATERSTONES - ARGYLE ST
OCT. 20 - 6:30pm
LONDON, ENGLAND KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
OCT. 21 - 7:00pm
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND QUEER LIT
OCT. 23 - 2:00pm
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE

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nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 9d

we are not alone, toiling in silence. it only feels that way (constantly!). quality of character is defined for me by how we give respect and dignity to the elderly and sick. you are, by default, a great human. and so am i! i just wish it felt more like it...

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nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · 9d

we are also dealing with this-6 months now. 1 has died the other is in deep dementia. like i said to nurse the other day: we're doing all this and neither of them will remember, or even know that we broke our lives to help them.we do it because it is right. no rewards, no big resolution. so hard.