I think one of the things that the internet has done to our politics is that it’s made people stop caring what’s true. What’s true is what gets the most retweets. What’s true is what my friends on social media will share and agree with. A lot of people can’t even seem to tell the difference anymore.

Manfrotto is what I have and a bogen, but they are both so huge. I expect I could use an 8x10, or maybe even an 11x14 view camera with the bogen

I’ve been gifted by a few different people, tripods that all use the same baseplate

They are old and heavy as fuck but they work

I don’t have any experience using this system, but www.kentfaith.com/tripods

I held one of these in my hands, seemed pretty solid and functional

Have you seen Hail Caesar

Congratulations!

Keep the faucet open a bit, and throw a space heater up there if you can

Did a pipe break? Or did you get it figured out in time?

Peggy fell on a patch of ice (literal, not metaphorical) and got a compound wrist fracture at the beginning of January.

Losing full functionality of a limb sucks

Oh no, hope you heal up soon

This just dropped in my feed and IDK if you were referring to it or not

We know that that lots of social scenarios will reliably make lots of people go completely insane - put them in a cult, make them a prison guard, whatever - but didn’t consider that “being active online” or “watching a lot of Fox News” are also high-pressure social scenarios

White people really pretend not to know how racist New Jersey cops were in the 1970s, or what they did to Black people.

It's 2026, and most white people still don't know that cops killed more Black people in 2024 than any other year in recorded US history, directly thanks to Biden policies.