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Thom

@thisthom.bsky.social

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Writer, reader, musician, & vinyl enthusiast. Snaps are taken on my #FujiFilmXT5, mostly. #author #horror #vinylcommunity #booksky #writer #SFF #Photographer #UrbanPhotography #Photography

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Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · Jul 12

Genuinely surprised and delighted to discover that We Keep Our Own has made the top 100 for the Launch Pad Prose Writing Competition.

Proper chuffed.

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Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · 1h

Glimpses…

#Photography #UrbanPhotography #CityPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · 1d

#KhaoSokNationalPark, and it’s giving me #RaidersOfTheLostArk vibes.

#Thailand #KhaoSok #Photography #LandscapePhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · 1d

#KhaoSokNationalPark, and it’s giving me #RaidersOfTheLostArk vibes.

#Thailand #KhaoSok #Photography #LandscapePhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

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Tom Berkhof @taxedotom.bsky.social · 1d

As Lee Konitz was born on October 13 back in 1927, thought best to play this album as a celebration. Splendid album, Lee together with Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker is playing along as well!

#Jazzsky #vinylcommunity #leekonitz #gerrymulligan #chetbaker

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Ben Randall @benrandall.bsky.social · 2d

Blue skies over a yellow field on a #BlueSkyMonday

Contax 645
80mm
Fuji Velvia 50

#mediumformat
#filmphotography
#believeinfilm
#EastCoastKin

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Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · 2d

So, to put it in context, someone called a fascist a fascist, then gave them a shove.

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Noel Ransome @noelransome.bsky.social · 2d

Reminds me of Edward Said’s playbook from decades ago. Sometimes I gotta open his Representations of the Intellectual to remind myself how the moves of a certain kind of intellectual is an old, and easy template

Quote from representations of an intellectual

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Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · 2d

#Blackpool seen from beneath the pier. On #MonochromeMonday.

#Photography #MonochromePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Black&WhitePhotography #Monochrome #BeachPhotography #LandscapePhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · 3d

“All creation is awake and astir, but I am painfully alive in a dead world.”

#CharlotteBronte #Villette #Photography #Bacup #Stacksteads #LandscapePhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky #BookSky

Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · 3d

“It’s all for you, Damien. It’s all for you.”

Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Saturday, this is #Manchester. And, yes, the sun is shining still.

#Lowry #Photography #CityPhotography #UrbanPhotography #StreetPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · 4d

“There is a child sleeping near his twin
The pictures go wild in a rush of wind
the dark angel, he is shuffling in
Watching over them with his black feathered wings unfurled.”

I’m #writing with this as my soundtrack.

#Grace #JeffBuckley #NowListening #Listening #WritersOfBlueSky #MusicSky

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature, On the Road A “very significant” unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as “a lost chapter of the On the Road saga” has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years. The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing and is dated 15 April 1957, five months before his classic of beat literature, On the Road, was published. Continue reading...

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Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · 5d

“Time is a flat circle…”

#TrueDetective #Photography #UrbanPhotography #CityPhotography #LandscapePhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · 6d

“It’s just the melting of the sun…”

#StVincent #PakarangBeach #KhaoLak #Thailand #Photography #BeachPhotography #LandscapePhotography #FujiFilmXT5 #FujiFilm #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · 6d

And yet Illinois, CA and the rest are just taking it.

Maybe now is the time to muster the state NG, raise a militia, and actually push back.

Thom @thisthom.bsky.social · 6d

It needs to move from “here are a 1000 protests, each with 10 people, across 50 states to: here is a million people marching on Washington. Ideally, all legally licensed firearms.

Not to start shooting, but to make the point: MAGA is vastly outnumbered and outgunned.