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The world is beautiful. The world is terrible. I like sunsets. Fighting fascism one pretty picture at a time. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · Dec 13

I joined as part of the Great November 2024 Migration for the #ArtAdventCalendar. But I'll be sticking around because I found about 2/3 of my old Twitter follows. Hi, gang!

Here, have a pretty picture. Sunset colors on water. Aug. 23, 2024. Wolverine Lake, MI:

#photography #abstract #introduction

Sunset reflections on Wolverine Lake, Michigan, form small pools of color: yellow, orange, maroon and black. August 23, 2024.

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 1h

Benny says that Jojo needs a snackum.

Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 1h

You think Lex Luthor or Norman Osborne is ridiculously over-the-top and then you watch Elon Musk doing a less competent knock-off version and you’re like … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ … I guess this is our world now.

Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 5h

“Excuse me, but is that a snackum?”

October 12, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#dog #dogs #beagle #beagles #DogsOfBluesky

Photograph of a beagle looking sadly and hungrily up to the left, as if he has never had a snackum and never will again. Gentle reader, that is a lie.

Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 17h

For some reason my wife thinks I spoil this dog.

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 20h

Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to?

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 20h

BENNY BEAGLE: Do you realize that it’s been several minutes since I’ve had a snackum?! What are you going to do about it?

October 12, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#dog #dogs #DogsOfBluesky

Photograph of a beagle, staring intently at the camera, projecting hunger, and slight disbelief that there are not more snacks to be had.

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 1d

Casting for “Werewolf Terror!” was uneven.

Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 2d

Earlier in last night’s sunset. The Sun tries on a scarf.

October 11, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#sunset #photography #michigan #autumn #fall #water #clouds #art

Sunset photograph of a narrow horizontal crowd across the center of the Sun in a dark orange sky.

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 2d

Another from last night’s splendid sunset. We’ve had a couple of these “slot sunsets” lately with the sunlight and color reaching in from beyond low clouds. Such drama!

October 11, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#sunset #photography #michigan #autumn #fall #lake #water #clouds #art

Sunset photo of a clear yellow sky beyond low dark clouds over a lake with orange light lighting up the underside of the clouds near the western edge.

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 2d

Saturday night half-Moon and its reflections in the lake.

October 11, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #moon #reflections #art #AbstractArt

Large waning half-moon in a black sky with the bright part tilted to the lower left.

Photograph of moonlight reflected on water at night, forming white swirls on a black background.

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 2d

Saturday night sunset.

October 11, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#sunset #photography #michigan #autumn #fall #lake #water #clouds #art

Sunset photo of the brightly lit undersides of clouds in orange over a lake reflecting the clouds and light in orange and purple.

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 3d

Twilight swan.

October 10, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #clouds #twilight #sunset #michigan #art #bird #birds #swan #swans #nature #naturephotography #BirdsOfBluesky

Photograph of a mute swan swimming from left to right in grey, choppy water and muted light.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

I love this image.

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 3d

Twilight clouds.

October 10, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #clouds #twilight #sunset #michigan #art

Photograph of dramatic black and grey clouds forming vertical stripes above a lake and shore in the shadows.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 4d

One year ago: The photographer photographed. Plus the picture I took.

My wife took this picture of me with my camera on our pontoon boat. By then it seemed the auroral nights would never end.

10:18 and 10:19 pm. October 10, 2024. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #aurora #michigan #art

Photograph of a man standing on the back of a pontoon boat working with a camera on a tripod with green and red aurora filling the sky over a suburban lake.

Photograph of red aurora in the sky over an island in a suburban lake.

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 5d

A fun photo of the MG TD from tonight’s Windsor-Detroit MG Club meeting.

October 8, 2025. Farmington Hills, Michigan.

#car #cars #ClassicCars #MG #MGTD #photography

Photograph of a dark green MG TD seen from the front right with the sun behind it covering it in rays.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, I don’t see any way this could go wrong.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

From @theathletic.com: The NCAA Division I Administrative Committee approved a recommendation to allow college athletes to legally wager on professional sports.

NCAA Division I votes to allow college athletes to bet on professional sports

If Division II and Division III also vote to approve the change, the new rules will go into effect Nov. 1.

nyti.ms

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 7d

The full Harvest supermoon living up to the hype.

October 6, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.
 #moon #moonrise #photography #michigan #autumn #fall #art #HarvestMoon

Photograph of a yellow full moon over a treeline in a dark lavender sky.

Photograph of a yellow full moon in a dark lavender sky with a lake and Canada geese in the foreground.

Photograph of a full moon in a dark purple sky with a cloud top mostly blocking the lower 90% of the moon.

Photograph of a full moon in a cloudy blue sky with a lake in the foreground.

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𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙼. 🌎 @davidpmolina.com · 9d

I awoke too early today, so here you go.

A red, powerful sun rises over the Idaho prairie after a short summer night. August 2025.

#Stunday #Idaho #dawn #prairie #red #sunrise #photography #travel #camping #earlybird #landscape

A red, powerful sun rises over the Idaho prairie after a short summer night. Some cumulus clouds partially cover the sky. The land looks still dark, but the orange light has begun to inundate everything.

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 8d

Holy crap, yes! I’m going to have to see a little more effort than Chuck Schumer tweeting about the rising cost of avocados if they ever want to see another effing dime out of me.

If the Democratic Party was a thing on the ground, right now I would be poking it with a stick to see if it’s alive.

Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 8d

LOL, the film version: “Night of Terror: Moonrise in a Pink Sky.”

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Mar 16

When I posted this many folks said this likely isn't an injury, it's just something they do to stay warm, and OMG today over 100 sanderlings flew in right next to me and almost all of them were hopping on one foot. See thread for more 😭🪶

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Patioboater @patioboater.bsky.social · 8d

Pretty good moonrise tonight, too.

October 5, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.
 #moon #moonrise #photography #michigan #autumn #fall #art

Photo of a nearly full moon rising over a lake surrounded by pink clouds.

Photo of a nearly full moon surrounded by pink clouds.

Photo of a medium-large nearly full moon surrounded by pink clouds.

Photo of a large nearly full moon surrounded by pink clouds.

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