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Tim Bray
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Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.

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Went for a weekend walk in QE park; the colors of autumn are fading, but there are still treats for the eye.

#photography #vancouver
Autumn rose, peach-colored Purple berries against a green background Five bright birch trees are losing leaves but still have plenty to lose. A path curves into the autumn woods.
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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From a Bloomberg newsletter. I guess if enough people believe Btc holds real value, then by definition it does, by analogy with gold. Still makes my skin crawl.

#bitcoin
From a Bloomberg newsletter: It's beginning to look like the big banks are putting more than a toe in when it comes to that ocean of funny digital money out there. It turns out that JPMorgan plans to allow institutional clients to use their holdings of Bitcoin and Ether as collateral for loans by the end of the year. That would be a major dip into the pool of crypto integration. The program is said to rely on a third-party custodian to safeguard the pledged tokens, and builds on JPMorgan’s earlier move to accept crypto-linked exchange-traded funds as collateral. The expansion underscores how quickly crypto is being pulled into the financial system’s core plumbing. With Bitcoin rallying this year and the Trump administration rolling back regulatory precautions, major banks are starting to bring digital assets deeper into the lending system. Wall Street is already licking its collective lips at the prospect of investing your 401(k) in crypto as well as private assets. What could go wrong?
October 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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#caturday, World Series edition.
Black cat watching the 2025 World Series, Game 1, Dodgers at Blue Jays.
October 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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At the public library.

#halloween #photography #books
A display of books at the public library with a big label saying "Killer Thrillers" and a selection of horror titles, including "Kills Well With <something>”, “Some People Need Killing”, “The Sentence is Death”, and also “Huge” by Brent Butt.
October 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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So I pulled it into the editor and cranked all the exposure sliders.

Not exactly beautiful but amusing.

#photography
Weird looking flower-shaped splodges in the dark.
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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1/2 I was in the garden at night, thought the flowers looked sort of ghostly and dreamy, tried to take a picture with my phone and it came out black. So I tried the Android “Night Vision” thing…

Which was OK. But then I wondered if the first apparently-all-black […]

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Ghostly white flowers in the dark.
October 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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As above, so below.

#photography #autumn
Autumn leaves, rain-wet, over grass. Autumn leaves through the upstairs bedroom window. Autumn leaves against blue sky
October 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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News flash: There’s lots of really good new music out there! Here’s some of it: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/15/Current-Music

Featuring: Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana), New Eves (UK), The Good Ones (Rwanda), Alfa Mist (UK), Sona Jobarteh […]

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Vanessa SWagner plays Phil Glass's Piano Etudes The New Eves play “Mother” The Good Ones, “Rwanda Sings with Strings” Sora Jaborteh
October 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Flowers!

#photography #bloomscrolling
Lots of bright-colored flowers against a dark shady background.
October 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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LinkedIn notifications.

(I’d rather my air carrier not be using AI but here we are.)
Three LInkedIn career-change posts: Started a new position as Intentional Career Pause/Reset at LIFE Started a new position as Citizen at ANTIFA Started a new position as Head of AI Governance, Risk & Compliance at ALASKA AIRLINES
October 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Gone but not forgotten.

#photography
A brightly lit plant with green leaves and a white flower with a gold center. More of the same in the background.
October 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Marine Museum interior

https://www.lahaveislandsmarinemuseum.ca
The extremely dense and cluttered interior of a Marine Museum, featuring model boats, flags, displays about the history of the lobster fishery, and much miscellanea.
October 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Graffiti written on sand. I think there’s a metaphor here struggling to get out…

#photography #graffiti
A heap of construction sand beside a narrow pathway, tree behind. On the sand heap, typically-illegible graffiti.
October 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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That time of year.

#photography #autumn
A variety of semi-autumnal tree colors against a bright blue sky
October 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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TIL about the OctoBass as a result of my random YouTube-live-music feed stumbling into a performance of Gounod’s “Messe Solonelle” which is pretty good and, well, has an octobass in the orchestra.

#music
Eric Chappell of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra playing the orchestra's octobass Author: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (Antoine Saito) This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
October 6, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Summer in Autumn! (We moved and had to replace a lot of the back-yard topsoil, didn’t get that done till July, so we planted the spring flowers then and they think it’s midsummer.)

#photography #bloomscrolling
A garden full of colorful flowers.
October 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Cafe life (look close).

#photography #mystery
From inside a cafe, a busy street. A woman in jeans and a black T-shirt is walking and talking on her mobile. On the other side of the dense traffic, store fronts and trees. Looming over the cars - maybe on the back of a truck? - is a large vaguely human figure kneeling as if to start a race. Its surface seems organic: wood or plants?
October 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Last week I gave a talk at the IPTC’s “Photo Metadata Conference”. Here’s a blog-ified version, with lots of juicy digging into exactly what works and what’s broken in C2PA in 2025. Also strong opinions about provenance. And a link to the YouTube recording […]

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Photo in a shopping mall in Sydney, Australia, which includes Content Credentials. Content Credentials display provided by Lightroom describing the editing of a photograph. Contributor details: Information shared by people involved in making this content Produced by Timothy Bray @Instagram twbray @LinkedIn Tim Bray Content Details Information about this content and how it was made. App or device used Lightroom Classic 14.5.1 Recorded by Adobe Inc. on Sep 9, 2025 Actions Color or exposure edits Adjusted properties like tone, saturation, curves, shadows, or highlights Cropping Edits Used cropping tools, reducing or expanding visible content area Opened Opened a pre-existing file Ingredients L100004.DNG Recorded by Leica Camera AG Photograph taken with a Google Pixel 10 of objects on a desktop: A small black statuette of Budai, a crystal ball, and the base of a wooden lamp. Two wooden shafts appear in the background, but their nature is a mystery. The photo has been edited using Google's Magic Erase and that fact is disclosed in its Content Credentials.
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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@cheeaun Looks good to me. I note that the quoted post is chopped off at the bottom. (Safari on Mac.) I hope that's by design because I think it works well.
Preview of Phanpy quote posting.
September 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Last few pix from our Maritimes vacation, wrapped in a bunch of tourist tips: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/13/Maritime-Wrap

#photography #maritimes
Maritime sunset behind grassy plant stalks. Peggy’s cove, crawling with tourists White house on oceanfront slope The cove at Peggy's cove
September 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Islet near the LaHave Islands in Nova Scotia.

#photography #silentsunday
A small island with just a few trees is surrounded by a quiet inlet of the ocean under a grey sky.
September 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Hard work.

#photography
Pale purple plants, either thistles or something that looks like thistles. One is being visited by a bee.
September 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Cafe life.

(At Vancouver’s Purebread, which is a fine bakery.)

#photography
In a white cafe with wood trim, four individuals sit at adjacent tables, each back to the wall. An old bank safe is in the corner. Light comes in the windows high on the wall behind the customers and casts shadows on the floor. Another wall has a pattern of hanging artworks; below them, a baby carriage with a pink cloth which presumably covers the baby.
September 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Got bright Maritime colors if you want ’em: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/01/Maritime-Colors

#maritimes #photography
On the oceanfront, a small shed is covered with many brightly colored boat fenders. Also in the picture: Some vacation trailers, a statue of a horse and carriage, and a small front-lawn lighthouse decoration. A Prince Edward Island oceanfront shot, with the sand and water being surprisingly red. Three houses in Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, brightly colored in green, orange, and violet-red.
September 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Partially paywalled but still lots of juicy data. “State of the software engineering job market in 2025”: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market-in-2025

From which:
Graph title: Average tenure by month for software Engineers at Big Tech. Lines for Meta, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Google. All the lines are flat 2021 to 2023, then all ramp up steadily more or less in parallel. They don't cross. In descending order of Tenure: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta. Average tenure at Msft increased from ~65 to ~90 months, at Amazon ~30 to ~50
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM