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Jeff Moore
@jbm0.bsky.social
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Photographer, music lover, computer weenie, wristwatch aficionado, beverage maker, lounger-about.

At WFMU: longtime volunteer, Technical Director for 7ish years, occasional substitute DJ on Drummer stream and Mothership.

Masto: https://ohai.social/@jbm
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Jeff Sarge has announced that the last episode of his Reggae Schoolroom radio show on @wfmu.bsky.social will be the November 30th, 2025 one – ending the popular show's 41-year(!!) run.

#reggae #DJ #dub #WFMU #ReggaeSchoolroom #JeffSarge #music #photograph #portrait #environmental #radio
A man wearing headphones looks into the camera. A man wearing headphones looks into the camera. In the foreground is an out-of-focus microphone arm; in the background are black velvet paintings of Kurt Cobain, and of Lemmy Kilmister holding a lamb.
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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A perpetual issue these days... podcast from last year, but the subject is evergreen.

Via the link there's a full written transcript for those who prefer to read words at their own pace, and also a player for the podcast audio if that's the way you like to roll.

freakonomics.com/podcast/mult...
Small text at the top reading: "EPISODE 601" Large text in the body of the image: "Multitasking Doesn't Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying?"
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Zohran Mamdani opened his victory speech with a sweet Eugene V. Debs reference.

It warmed the fatigued cockles of this old heart.
Logo of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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The 11 Oct 2025 evening performance/showing of The Map by @heartywhite.bsky.social and friends, presented at @wfmu.bsky.social 's venue, Monty Hall.

Full set of photos at Flickr:
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#HeartyWhite #MontyHall #WFMU #multimedia #monologist #TheMap
A bearded man with eyeglasses wearing a lounge suit stands and speaks with his hands raised and eyes closed while a colorful projection plays to his right (the viewer's left). A bearded man with eyeglasses wearing a lounge suit stands and speaks while a colorful projection plays to his right (the viewer's left). A bearded man with eyeglasses wearing a lounge suit stands and speaks while a colorful projection plays to his right (the viewer's left). A bearded man with eyeglasses wearing a lounge suit stands and speaks while a projection plays to his right (the viewer's left). The projected image reads: Starring Dorothy K. Berryman Brittany Peel Harrison Rebekah Reynolds Chris Reynolds
October 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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@heartywhite.bsky.social and @gregcircanow.bsky.social chat in @wfmu.bsky.social's Monty Hall before the 11 Oct 2025 evening performance of The Map.

Full set of photos at Flickr:
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#HeartyWhite #MontyHall #WFMU #multimedia #monologist #TheMap
Two bearded men with eyeglasses and bald heads share a contemplative moment. Two bearded men with eyeglasses and bald heads converse. The one on the right is forming a shape with his hands as he speaks.
October 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Here's one for the nerds!

#RebelAlliance #RebelAllianceFlag #StarWars #AllianceToRestoreTheRepublic #nokings #nokings2 #protest #photography
A protester holds aloft the flag of the Alliance to Restore the Republic (from Star Wars). Protesters' faces are obscured with black discs.
October 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Gee, I hope so.

#photography #uspol #protest
A group of protesters. The closest, most prominent sign (held by someone wearing a red hat and yellow jacket) reads "LOVE WILL WIN" in silver block letters on a black background. The text is surrounded by bright brush or fingerpainting strokes in many colors. A view tilted upward. Near the bottom of the frame, we see the back of a sign reading "I [red heart] USA". We see a brilliant backlit US flag before a blue sky with swirly white clouds. We also see tops of urban buildings, another US flag, and the glass globes of an outdoor light.
October 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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No Kings 2, 18 October 2025
Jersey City, NJ USA

Even though people were proudly engaged in public protest, I choose to obscure their faces in these public Internet posts.

#nokings #nokings2 #protest #antifascist #uspol #photography #JerseyCityNJ #JerseyCity #jerseycityNJUSA
A line of people standing along a sidewalk. One holds a large sign reading "THE ONLY GOOD ICE IS CRUSHED". Most people's faces are obscured with black discs. A crown of protesters. Visible above them, a banner on a staff reads "Smash the Oligarchy" in a stylized script. Protesters' faces are obscured with black discs.
October 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Thoughtful and Fluorescent

#nokings #nokings2 #protest #antifascist #uspol #photography #JerseyCityNJ #JerseyCity #jerseycityNJUSA
Protesters seen from behind. One, off to the side, wears a bedazzled red white and blue top hat and carries a small US flag. Closer, and filling much of the frame, someone holds hand-lettered signs on fluorescent card stock (one orange, one yellowish). One reads "It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it –George Orwell" and the other "If you see injustice and say nothing, you have taken the side of the oppressor. –Desmond Tutu".
October 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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No Kings 2, 18 October 2025
Jersey City, NJ USA

#nokings #nokings2 #protest #antifascist #uspol #photography #JerseyCityNJ #JerseyCity
We see a crowd of protesters with two signs especially prominant above them. One reads "Down With the Moronarchy" (all in black type except for "Moron" in red). A larger one reads "UPHOLD the RULE of LAW no kings 10/18/25". Protesters' faces are obscured with black discs. A group of protesters seen from the back. Visible above them are signs reading "RESPECT EXISTEN", "NO KINGS", "JUSTICE FREEDOM" inside a heart, "LOVE AMERICA DUMP TRUMP" and a US flag on a pole. Many protesters seen from behind. We see them holding up US flags and signs. The largest, most visible sign - nearly filling the upper-right quarter of the frame - shows images of Donald Trump, Javier Milei, and Scott Bessent. There are dollar signs behind them and text running over their chests reading "DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA". Some protesters' faces are obscured with black discs.
October 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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No Kings 2, 180 October 2025
Jersey City, NJ

#nokings #nokingsII #nokings2 #protest #jerseycity #jerseycityNJUSA
In a crowd of people holding protest signs, we see one which reads: "My favorite season is the Fall of Fascism"
October 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Thanks for your service, canine comrade.

#nokings #nokings2 #nokingsII #protest #antifascist #antifascistdog #dogwithsign
A dog wearing a sign which reads "I BITE FASCISTS" looks straight into the camera.
October 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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A very special milestone at Bandcamp.
A screenshot from Bandcamp, showing a "collection" numbering exactly 666 musics. A bit of a Billy Bragg album cover is visible at the bottom of the image.
October 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Fixed Point Considered Harmful
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Oh, and another little quirk of this Sinclair Scientific was that it always used scientific notation, so its manual went so far as to shame fixed-point as "confusing, irrelevant and dangerous"!
a scan of text from the 1974 Sinclair Scientific Calculator manual, reading: "Actually the calculation has used only the first 3 digits of 1250000-namely, 125. The strings of O's are confusing, irrelevant and dangerous (since omitting one will throw out the whole calculation)."
July 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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This is fun!

righto.com/sinclair

An affordable (at the time, compared with the HP-35) RPN scientific calculator squeezed into an impossibly small amount of ROM through impressive coding chops; if it sometimes didn't actually give the right answer, well, see above: it was affordable!
An image (likely a rendering rather than an actual photo) of the Sinclair Scientific calculator from 1974. The image shows a calculator with a display at the top, "sinclair Scientific" and some reminders of handy mathematical constants written on an otherwise blank space below the display, then an array of blue and gray keys below. Image source: the article at http://righto.com/sinclair
July 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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New York remains a good place to be.

Seen while passing through The Oculus: a large Progress Pride Flag and some nicely-done themed lighting design.

Official and commercial New York aren't going along with the creepy hatreds the current US regime is obsessed with.

Happy Pride, everyone!
A large Progress Pride Flag hangs from the railings of one of the high observation balconies at either end of The Oculus, the World Trade Center / World Financial Center adjacent transit hub in downtown Manhattan. The themed lighting design has illuminated the space's vaulted white ribs in colors from that flag; they've done a particularly good job of evoking the light blue from one of the trans chevrons.
June 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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line segments everywhere; some loom

Higher-res and photonerd minutiae at Flicker:
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#photo #photography #architecture #formalism #geometry #lines #linesegments #WeatheredBuilding #industrialbuildings
A massive, weathered, off-white and green(?) building looms across a road. The building has vertical and horizontal rust-colored lines surrounding the many weathered off-white panels which cover much of it; other parts of the walls are taken up by some sort of vertical louver-like formations. The top of the building features metal braces forming protruding right angles; those braces are painted grey, except where paint is missing and has been replaced by rust. At the building's left side, a complicated protruding construct of metal casts an artistic design in angled lines of shadow on a vertical surface beneath. In the foreground, a road and its lines stretch from lower left to mid-right. Filling the lower-right corner is a pedestrian area which is carved into rectangles by shadows – some parallel to the roadway, others at right angles to it.
June 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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numbered

#parkingGarage #carPark #torturedPerspective #illuminatedSigns #photograph #photography #xpanformat #xpan #65x24
Brightly-illuminated numbered signs, whose backgrounds alternate between red and orange, hang down from the ceiling of a large parking garage. The numbered signs appear smaller as they continue to appear in rows into the distance. Parked cars loom dark, and exhibit curious geometric distortions.
June 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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No Kings protest (14 June 2025, Jersey City NJ)

More from this event at Flickr:
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#NoKings #protest #rally #demonstration #NewJersey #JerseyCity #photograph #photographs #photography
People are gathered carrying signs ("FIGHT IGNORANCE NOT IMMIGRANTS", "PROTECT NEIGHBORS NOT NAZIS", "NO KINGS!") and US flags. The largest of the flags, streaming above the protestors, is flying upside-down to signal distress.
June 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Yow!
Presents for me!

#pinheadproductions #billgriffith #zippythepinhead #zippy #mediamail #brownpaper #brownpaperpackage #stamp #rubberstamp #zippythepinheaddotcom
The photo's entire background is brown paper, as used to be common for wrapping packages to be mailed. On it we see, rubber-stamped, the words MEDIA MAIL above a box. The box is mostly filled with the head and shoulder of Zippy the Pinhead. In speech bubble, Zippy is saying "HA, HA.."
June 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Downtown Jersey City, NJ

(and you can get a peek at the replacement WTC tower across the river, tucked in at the right side)

Full camera resolution and photonerd info at Flickr:
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#photograph #urban #19mm #skyline #monochrome
A monochrome wide-angle photo of some urban buildings: a little tilty, with the tops of the buildings trying to converge toward the top. The sky is dramatic, and the top of a chain-link fence runs along the bottom of the photo. One of the buildings is particularly reflective, and on it we see the image of another nearby tower.
June 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Bubbles!
a monochrome photo looking upward – we see some tree leaves in the lower left corner, two bits of building-roof seeming to converge at the right and bottom-right, dramatic clouds... and two soap bubbles flying away into the sky silhouetted in light from the clouds
June 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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That Downtown Manhattan view again.

I keep coming back to this same scene, because this view has endless different ways it can look depending on the state of the light and clouds.

Full camera resolution at Flickr:
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#photography #skyline #manhattan #gfx #gfx100rf
A view of Downtown Manhattan as seen from Downtown Jersey City. There are fluffy clouds and a very blue sky, and the colors of the buildings are vibrant. A fluorescent green speedboat is on the Hudson River proceeding from the viewer's right to left.
June 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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goofball dog

#unseriousPhotography #dog #dogpicture #dogphoto #poodle #blackpoodle #blackstandardpoodle #blackdog #goofydog
A black-and-white head-and-shoulders snapshot of a black standard poodle. She has her mouth open slightly, in what humans would interpret as a goofy grin. We can see that she wears a harness, a leash, and a WFMU "Woof Mew" collar.
June 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Intersecting.

Also at Flickr, with photogeek info in EXIF:
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#photography #architecture #urbanarchitecture #geometry #spatialcompression #impossibleperspective #aposummicron #xpanformat #65x24 #wide
Walls of two buildings (a grey and white one on the left, a blue glass one on the right) appear to be meeting, and perhaps even be butted together at right angles, near the middle of the frame. This is of course a visual illusion aided by the spatial compression of a long lens.
June 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM