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Benj
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Florida man in Baku. Travels and sails. Student for life and teaches social science. Reads about business and history. Enjoys comics and death metal.
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More of a cat person.
Hello, Doha! Swanky hotel? Oh, yes. 🇶🇦 #indoors #travel #photograph #qatar
January 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
At Heydar Aliyev Airport. Leaving Baku again for a week on work. Destination: Doha, Qatar.
January 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Watching "Big Trouble in Little China."

Anyone else consider growing a mullet to channel their inner Kurt Russel?

Asking for a friend.
January 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Soviet mural in downtown Baku, #Azerbaijan. The mural commemorates "The Great Patriotic War," a different take on World War II.
January 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
After-school and overcast in Baku. #azerbaijan #school #football #cityscape
January 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I greatly appreciated the street art in Tbilisi, Georgia. Lamb's work could be found throughout the city back in 2017.
#travel #georgia #streetart
January 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A friend was looking for a deal on an Azerbaijani carpet. I tell her, every carpet seller I've met is happy to cut a deal. Everyone gets a "friend price."

That song and dance is all part of the game. I admire the dishonesty built into the tradition.
January 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Beyond it being Iggy Pop, I picked up "Brick by Brick" on the Charles Burn cover alone. Icing on the cake: it also features Slash and Duff of Guns n' Roses and Kate Pierson of The B-52's. 🤩
January 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The photographer wanted to make .gifs, but couldn't wait 70 years for their invention.
New year's resolution to do more exercise? A business man? Then this 1917 book, Physical Training for Business Men, may be the perfect January read. (And for everyone else, you can just look at the spellbinding photos). More here: buff.ly/3pJoD46
January 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
More quaint warnings from the the 1990s #punk and #hardcore scene.

I found this one in Reversal of Man's (1998) "Revolution Summer."

The entire insert booklet for this 10" is a work of art. It uses the old zine methods of copy editing.
January 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Tucked inside Catharsis's double-LP "Samsara" (1998), I found this insert promoting an indie publisher.

Feels so quaint these days. #hardcore #music #indie #punk
January 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Teaching a lesson today, we had an assessment, yet no one-liner defining the objectives. I improvised. I wrote on the board, "Lesson Objective: To develop tools to prepare for an uncertain future."

I left it on the board all day.

I think we'll revisit it regularly.
January 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Every day above dirt is a good day!
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©2017, 2025 Stephen R Bissette
January 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
As I approached my front door, I heard the Mars Volta coming from inside the apartment. I then walked into a cosmic light show. #unexpected #psychedelic
January 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
After completing the shorebased course last month, I received my RYA Coastal Skipper & Yachmaster Offshore certificate today. Looking forward to applying those skills this spring. ⛵ #accomplishment
January 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034
January 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My Master of Science in Business Analytics officially kicks off this week. #quantic #business #analytics #lifelonglearner #stoked
January 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
January 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Early Sunday afternoon near Fountain Square Baku. #Azerbaijan #photos #trees #architecture #winter
January 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
When seated without a safety belt in the back of a ₼2 Bolt ride share, I see this *all the time.*
when you are perched on a bicycle moving amongst cars you see shit like this *all the time*
Not the first time I've shared this
January 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Good morning, Baku. #Azerbaijan #photograph #skyline
January 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The view from below inside the Istanbul Airport. #travel #architecture
January 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I-guana wish you the happiest of New Years! 🎉
#Florida #nature #wildlife
January 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A walk through a familiar neighborhood seven years ago. I always look forward to revisiting this street. #BoyntonBeachFL #travel #sunset
December 31, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Lunchtime view of the Intracoastal in #BoyntonBeachFL.
December 31, 2024 at 7:03 PM