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Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?)

@hunterje.bsky.social

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Photography and bullshit, not necessarily in that order. If you follow me for photography be ready to put up with some bullshit; if you follow me for bullshit good news, you'll also get to see some pretty pictures time to time as a bonus! He/they

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Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 3h

It's kind of impressive that The Shane Co did such a good job cultivating such a local-business-core brand marketing identity that people all over the country get the shared experience of incredulously discovering it's not actually a local chain...

Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 3h

Or, as I will always think of it because my dad made the joke while making dinner one time when I was a small child, [to the tune of Talking Heads "Wild Wild Life"] "Wiiiild, wiiild rice"

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Bevin Flynn @bevinflynn.bsky.social · 7h

Child sees that the emperor has no clothes. Decides not to say anything because they aren't a single issue voter.

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Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 3h

Soup of the Week is tarragon chicken with wild rice

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Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 8h

(Annuities claims) Six overseas minor beneficiaries

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 9h

I am a huge advocate of non-car-centric cities and while yeah the number one reason is kind of by default the world not burning down the close number two and the more viscerally personal one is the fucking noise, so yeah a car-free event with giant loudspeakers feels real incongruous

Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 23h

Found the pics from that trip

A teeny tiny toadlet among dead fir needles on a granite surface

A tiny toadlet walks on a dead leaf among various twigs and leaf litter

A large white, black, brown, and rust-colored toad peers through blades of grass on the forest floor

Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 1d

Like, there was at least one per meter for that whole section of trail, it actually considerably slowed down the hike because I had to watch my step so carefully! Also saw two big adults on the same hike.

Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite anuran encounter was a few years ago time I was on a hike in a Pacific coastal forest and saw movement near the trail's edge and on closer look realized it was a tiny toadlet, then after watching a while looked around and saw another, and realized the woods were full of them

Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow the way you can see the standing waves when the toad trills is so cool what a shot

Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 1d

Trumpeter swans have chosen the wetlands park down the street from me as a wintering spot the last few years, hope to see them back this year in about a month

Two large white waterfowl greet the sun on calm water cloaked in mist

Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 1d

Something that really bugs me is this popular narrative that the current anti-vax movement arose whole cloth on the right and is completely separate from more generally left-leaning alt-medicine movements, because noticing the ways they've fed in to each other doesn't fit the political framing

Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh the facile “intertexuality must always be read the most literal way as saying things are happening in a shared universe” idea is one of my big media literacy pet peeves

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Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I'm a Seattleite but admittedly at most an M's well-wisher and occasional bandwagoner (I just don't have the attention span to keep up with regular season baseball generally), but I am a die hard fan of M's fans

Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 1d

Wow what a game

Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone wins, if they just keep the score even it could go forever

Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like it's OK here because their self-awareness is kind of the bit? Like at least for me that way sets it apart from the "no subtext allowed modern audiences can't be trusted to read between the lines" thing

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Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 2d

"'Tis!" replied Aunt Helga...

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 11d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 2d

If you'd asked me ten minutes ago if I'd seen Pete's Dragon I'd have said "yes of course" but seeing this makes me doubt it, unless I hard suppressed or lost attention span for this number every time?

Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 2d

Especially because I'll always charitably re-read it two or three times trying to make it fit so not only is it wrong it made me work to be sure it was wrong

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Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 2d

So glad I'm not alone in feeling physical pain when someone does a lyric joke that doesn't scan (and not scanning is not the joke)

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Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 2d

"On Hydrogeology in Popular Music," by Seamus E. Defervaas

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Oct 1

there are like 5 crises that are all accelerating at once in America now, but a fun game to play is to pick one and say the other four are just the media's way of distracting us from the one you picked

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Haunter Elenbaas (do we do the "scary october name" thing here?) @hunterje.bsky.social · 2d

One is the loneliest number that you'll ever Stu...