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Joe (they/he)

@joedecker.bsky.social

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Smithsonian-exhibited nature photographer. Polartropic. Perturbagenic. Descriptivist. Bayesian. Erdős 4. “God Hates Shrimp” creator. Enby. They/he.

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 7h

Strokkur, a wonderful, frequently-erupting geyser from the field that gave us the word geyser.

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A black and white photograph of an erupting geyser, backlit against a cloudy sky. At ground level a circular wave pushes outward from the eruption.

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 1d

Stolen, as well.

Fun fact: The implementation fo the TSA increased rates of theft from checked baggage.

Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 1d

Little Lakes Valley in the Eastern Sierra, I think perhaps Long Lake, near sunrise. Among many other things, I loved the way the shaded tree line resembled a seismograph trace.

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A color photograph of a lake (foreground) with trees along the lakeshore, a sunlit peak (left background) with a shaded line of trees near the shore, and a smaller shaded hill with trees (right background). The lake is smooth and reflective, the bottom half of the image is a near-perfect reflection of the top half.

Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 2d

It’s literally Noem’s brand

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 3d

The killer features for me in the latest iOS are phone screening and SMS filtering. Not having to deal with the flood of incompetent political and other spam (via voice and text message) is amazing.

Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 3d

And yes, I think it’s true. The amount of money chasing unicorns in this environment is telling. The hard thing to know is when, this could start tomorrow or it could hold out another few years before the whole thing blows up.

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 3d

Financially, I would look for something in the vicinity of the bubble crashes of ‘85 (pc clones), ‘01 (dotcoms), etc. Think 2 to 5 years of drastically reduced (30-60% cuts) equity prices across the market, more so in the tech industry.

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 3d

Just another East Greenland fjord. Memorable to me in part because handheld in very late dusk.

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COlor photograph of a ford, water at the bottom of the image and up to the left, mountains across the far bank, a receding glacier between the first two peaks. The scene is somewhat blue and a bit dark, there are some clouds in the sky particularly to the left.

Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 3d

The positive thing I can say about Pravda is that the name still sounds better in the original Russian than the American reboot.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 5d

Russian authorities claimed that Pravda publisher Vyacheslav Leontyev had a “nervous breakdown” and stumbled out of a window.

Pravda Publisher Dies After Fall From a Window in Putin’s Moscow

Authorities claimed Vyacheslav Leontyev had a “nervous breakdown” and stumbled out of a window.

trib.al

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 4d

Occasionally I get the timing of BiF right.

Kern NWR

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Color photograph: A Blackbird, slightly blurred from motion, toward the upper-right corner of the image flying right and up, a bright red spot visible behind his head. Most of the image is out of focus landscape, warm-colored tall grasses nearer, layers of green and brown grasses separated by silver ponds between, trees furthest back against a grey sky.

Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 5d

Buying ownership seems to be the most popular path these days

Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 6d

Fascinating ripples and curves of frozen slush, blown by high winds, floating a pond. Near Vik, Iceland.

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A color photograph of a pond surface, the water's surface clearly visible for more or less a semi-circular area on the left side of the image. Ripples seem to emanate out from that circular arc, white on dark grey, they're dirty slush pushed across the surface of the pond by strong winds. Further from the water, the patterns fade into bands of different shades of grey with perhaps a slight green cast.

Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 6d

There were a lot of moments during my winter Iceland residency where snow transformed the landscape into abstracts, yet another example here.

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A color photograph of a deep, narrow river valley covered in snow, much of the image is white, where the ground comes through it is brown, where the ice-covered river is covered by more transparent ice there's a bit of blue.

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 8d

And a little more winter Mývatn, just loved this little curl of lakeshore.

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A color photograph of a frozen-over lake in cool whites and steel blues. A curl of shore or island comes in from the right, brown, with a few bare plants visible. A few snow-covered hills are visible background, with clouds in a thin strip of sky at the top of the image.

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 8d

Noting that I’m not seeing almost any of that @ /r/fedex

Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 9d

‘Tis the season!

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 9d

Yesterday I went most of the day without caffeine. (For a med test, which came out fine.) In any case, I do not recommend that sort of abstinence.

There's an related Erdős quote perhaps, iykyk.

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 9d

A cold morning at Hverir.

Two steam vents in warm light, pouring huge clouds of steam, filling the sky. The ground is only visible along the bottom of the image, a dark reddish brown with spots of ice visible.

Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 11d

Mmmm, steam. Near Hverir, Iceland.

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A snowy color landscape photograph of a stream zigzagging lower-left to more distant upper-right. The light is warm, the snow colored pastel periwinkle and bits of steam are illumitted in a soft pastel peach.

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 11d

For my Mono Basin peeps:
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

The Parker Lake trail is beautiful time this time of year, good color along the way and across the lake. Mellow short hike too. Nobody needs to be in harm's way for hiking it.

(Police arrested the shooters on felony charges.)

www.sfgate.com

Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 11d

I mean, Conservapedia already exists.

From the article lead on the "Earth" article.

"Some biblically illiterate scientists, however, disagree with this method of calculation, falsely predicting it to be 4.5 billion years old.[6] (See also: Age of the Earth)"

Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 13d

Oh that's lovely. :)

Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 13d

Not the usual view of Mývatn.

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A color photograph, square in format, of a frozen-over lake (taking up the bottom four-fifths of the image or so) with a rounded hill, blue sky and soft clouds in the background. The lake surface is patterned with shapes of transparent ice (reflecting warmer colors near the viewer, cooler colors further away) seemingly jigsawed out of a more opaque white surface.

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 13d

I only have around 300 photos in this format, mostly from October 1999.

I'm just going to mass covert them all to give me a bit of future proofing.

Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 13d

Probably not but... just in case--PhotoCD (PCD), an old proprietary Kodak format for commercial film scans.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_CD

For those of us nuts to use Macs, Lemkesoft in Germany has a shareware image converter that reads the format, the Wiki mentions a couple other options.

Photo CD - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org