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Correlated Noise

@correlatednoise.net

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Usually post about photography and whatever nerd shit I'm up to. Background in NetSec and commercial fireworks in the Ohio River Valley. Slowly remembering I have hobbies. Vehemently Antifascist. He/Him

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Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 11h

They’re drag racing steamboats holy shit that rules

Two paddle steamers drag racing down the Ohio river between Newport and Cincinnati

Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 13h

Steamboaaaats

The Belle of Louisville sailing down the Ohio river

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Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 1d

Its finally not 80 degrees! I can wear my battle jacket again!

Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 2d

Oh thank god its not just me. I stared at it and went… nah thats not cheetah… what the hell is the pattern? And just gave up and took a stab in the dark for the alt text

Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 2d

omg it migu

A black and white photo of a guy dressed as Hatsune Miku at the Ohio Renaissance Festival. The dude's posing on one leg with the other raised up behind him, somewhat visible behind his skirt, and is throwing double peace signs while smiling. What a lad. There's a guy to his left looking at a map while wearing a leopard print cloak or vest and some fairly normally dressed people in the background.

Taken with a Minolta SR-T 201 and MC Rokkor PG 50mm F/1.4 on Tri-X. Developed in Rodinal 1:50.

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Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 2d

Was it at least from on top of a steamroller?

Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 2d

I'm pretty sure every argument in favor for throwing the world's resources towards Abominable Intelligence is just "but what if tho"

That includes this story about bein weawy scawwed, because anything to counter their fantasies on a surface or deep technical level is just met with "but what if tho"

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

Glad to see Russ Vought is setting himself up to go to jail when accountability starts.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 2d

a man wearing glasses and a leather jacket is standing in front of a lamp and a microphone .

Alt: Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park: Life, uh, finds a way

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Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 2d

Even in a future where America balkanizes, life would still find a way to make me dust off a text file with ASCII diagrams from IETF just to make a vendor, provider, or TAC agent cooperate.

Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 2d

If there's one thing I can count on it's work putting me in a situation where I have to quote RFCs at people. This time being RFC4364 which is a nice change of pace to break off the neteng rust

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Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 3d

Aight, finished my first playthrough of Silent Hill f and that's a good ass game. The full embrace of it's themes was the right move

a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards

Alt: Garth Marenghi: I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards

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Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 3d

I popped the luna pro open and it smells like ozone in there so something must’ve let the magic smoke out. The pot that adjusts where the needle lands during battery check can’t offset enough to correct for batteries that I confirmed good voltage

Add one for the project pile I guess

Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 3d

The Ralph Wiggum meme about making babies and the baby looked at him except with the caption reading "I saw Mother Anarchy and Father Communism in the closet making antifa and antifa looked at me

antifa.... looked at you?"

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Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 3d

Isn't she the daughter of Mother Anarchy?

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Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 3d

One of my coworkers started a game store with a separate but attached clubhouse for himself and his friends to keep their armies and terrain at. He just charges a small membership fee to keep the place running in exchange for the door code so people can play when he's gone. Genius idea really

Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 3d

Lmao dude the music in it slaps too, I’m hyped for the full release

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Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 4d

Don't Stop, Girlypop having Tommy the cowboy dinosaur tamagotchi that you have to feed love into or else he explodes, forcing you to chain multikills, is such a good idea

Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 4d

Excuse roughly inverting a not-quite-level phone pic of sleeved sheets, but I think I'm getting the hang of using movements to compose the shot that I want.

My Luna Pro needs to be re-calibrated so I metered with my Minolta and forgot to consider averaging bright sky+people in grey+black face paint

A phone picture of four sheets of sleeved 4x5 negatives that are on a light panel then inverted to a positive. All from the Ohio Renaissance Festival again.

The top left is the joust from behind two spectators with the focus being a narrow band up the center keeping the two spectators in the foreground as well as the knights jousting in the midground in focus.

The top right is looking down a street lined with shops and a music venue. A woman is sitting on a bench in the foreground on the bottom left of the image. The focus goes from her and the banner behind her reading "Marvelous Melodies The Lady Victoria" and somewhat diagonally down the road following the pirate selling Pickles and festival goers.

The bottom left is the front entrance during the opening ceremony where a sea of people are "lined" up waiting to get in as the Queen and her guard are giving a speech from the battlements. From the sea of people to the queen on the battlements is in focus.

The bottom right is a hastily done portrait of two adorable nerds I met and, I believe, will be married in a few weeks. The man's dressed as his Tiefling rogue from D&D while the woman's dressed as a viking. It's severely under exposed so let's see if I can save this in the darkroom because I know they'll be here this weekend.

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Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 4d

Anything that sticks out that I *will* forget with time.

So yeh, stuff.

Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 5d

what a fucking slimy bastard

Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 5d

Cracked a joke to my psychiatrist about already making peace with having to participate in gli anni di piombo americani once shit pops off. It's cool, we still only scheduled a 20min follow up so her laugh *was* genuine

Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 5d

I don't think I've scanned a single thing in a week because all of my free time's been spent fixing gear, processing, and playing Silent Hill f

Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 5d

Neat, there's going to be a bunch of riverboats this weekend with "cuisine and music from their home port", which just means I'm gonna chill at the one from NOLA

Correlated Noise @correlatednoise.net · 6d

CONVOY MY BELOVED