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benny pinto
@bennypinto.bsky.social
designer // cyclist // photographer
Huge gratitude to the ASL interpreter at Four Chord Music Festival today. Nothing is more punk than accessibility. 🤟
September 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.
September 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Vacation is clearly over when you were just in a country that has embraced 4ply toilet paper as the standard and you return to your sad 2ply bs. Unintentional metaphor? Maybe.
August 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The USDA wants to close every forest service regional office and Outdoor Alliance has made it easy to send a comment demanding reconsideration.
The USDA has released a reorganization plan that would affect our country's National Forests. Since February, The USDA has lost critical staff at the Forest Service which have put our public lands and outdoor recreation opportunities at risk.
Protect Public Lands and Outdoor Recreation
The Forest Service lost thousands of staff this year. Now, USDA’s staffing & reorganization plan could mean more layoffs, office closures, and reduced access to the outdoors.
action.outdooralliance.org
August 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Presque Isle North Pier Lighthouse
📷 Olympus Stylus
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
#filmisnotdead
August 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Finding a typo in a popular book does the same thing to my adult brain that finding an Easter egg in the yard did to my child brain.
August 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Pittsburgh Parking Garage
📷 Olympus Stylus
🎞️ Ilford HP5
#filmisnotdead #ilfordphoto
August 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Gratitude to the trail builders at Watters Smith in Lost Creek, WV who have created something really special for all MTB skill levels.

What was most surprising though was the amount of Arrowhead Orb Weavers I pulled off my bike.
August 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Pittsburgh Branches
📷 Olympus Stylus
🎞️ Ilford HP5
#filmisnotdead #ilfordphoto
July 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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This whole "Let's use computers to do everything badly in the most expensive and unethical possible way" thing is really testing me.
July 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Random Pittsburgh Weather
📷 Olympus Stylus
🎞️ Ilford HP5
#filmisnotdead #ilfordphoto
July 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Ordinary folk: I will share images of the horror with the hope that my elected officials do something to stop it.

Elected officials: I will also share pictures of the horror then email you asking for $10.
We’re now seeing paramilitary ICE raids in LA — with full on military garb, military tanks, flash bang grenades & the arrest of a major labor leader.

This is a core manifestation of fascism — using federal forces to put down dissent.

If we don’t stop this now, this is the future everywhere.
Heavily-armed DHS paramilitary forces in military vehicles fired dozens of stun grenades at a crowd of onlookers today in Los Angeles.
June 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Troll Sculptures by Thomas Dambo
iPhone
June 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
16 Exposures
📷 Canon A1
🎞️ Kodak Ektar 100
#filmisnotdead
May 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Scotland Fog
📷 Canon A1
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
#filmisnotdead
April 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"For our activism to be consistent, it must also be sustainable. As in, for a lifetime, not just a season."
Omkari L. Williams, "Micro Activism"

This read was a timely and powerful reminder that "the small, often unnoticed actions are the ones that create the tipping point."
April 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Sometimes, a person reaches a point in their life when it becomes absolutely essential to get the fuck out of the city."
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

From the very first line I knew this was going to be a good one. Currently dreaming of simpler times playing in the woods.
April 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Gratitude to Unision Bike Lab in Pittsburgh for putting on a banger of an event yesterday. The Pittsburgh Roubaix was a rad exploration of gnarly, steep cobblestone climbs around the city in the cold rain. 10/10!
April 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Barras Street Art in Glasgow, Scotland
📷 Olympus Infinity Jr
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
#filmisnotdead
April 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Weekend Randomness
Pittsburgh, PA // iPhone
April 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
A show lineup that makes total sense to me, but probably didn’t happen, is The Jesus Lizard and Tom Waits. I’m not going to bother looking it up…but I will certainly dream about how sick that show would’ve been live.
March 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
“Imagine how beautiful it would be if the way we navigated the world was about creative expression, not conforming to arbitrary norms.”

Alok Vaid-Menon
“Beyond the Gender Binary”
March 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Allegheny River Sparkles
📷 Minolta XG-M
🎞️ Ilford HP5
#filmisnotdead
March 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“I have learned that the most lethal part of the human body is not the fist; it is the eye. What people see and how people see it has everything to do with power.”

Alok Vaid-Menon
“Beyond the Gender Binary”
March 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I dunno, “it” doesn’t seem fine.
📷 Sony Cybershot
March 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM