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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis
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Former medic, former prison counselor, former criminal defense investigator, former almost academic, photographer, writer of detective fiction, Edgar Award winner.
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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · Nov 7
Remember, in totalitarian states, among the first people to be silenced are the artists, the poets, the writers. There's a reason for that.

Be that reason.

If you do art, keep doing art. Do it with as much passion as you can muster. Express yourself.
maryrobinettekowal.com Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · Nov 7
This is your reminder that writing is a political action.
gregfallis.com
I love the relaxed balance of this image, and the shadow of that tree against those delicious repeating geometric shapes.
December 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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anoosh100.bsky.social
This is a preview of the questions I plan to answer in the series.

Please stay tuned! Next video drops on Monday.

Watch part 1 here on YouTube: youtube.com/shorts/ETBor...

#FAQBB #TransRights #BethBourne
FAQBB: Who Is Beth Bourne?
YouTube video by DTAB
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December 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
gregfallis.com
A subset of pleasing lines and shapes, with occasional winter light, can make even a men's toilet in a 1950s brutalist building look good.

#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography #SurfaceMapping
White railings on a brutalist concrete structure. A stairway leading down to a men's toilet. Some wooden benches.
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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A few apples, a few ponies, Shetland...what's not to love?

Apple Pealings myshetland.co.uk/apple-pealin...
Apple Pealings
I made apple crumble today.  The apple peelings and cores were sitting in the “for animals” box and I thought to myself “who would like this most?” So I clambered over the f…
myshetland.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
gregfallis.com
Yes, he'll be gone...but his stank is going to cling to the US for a long, long, long time.
thefarce.org 🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 21h
There's a long history of authoritarians hiding infirmity because fascism demands the performance of immortality.
One Day Trump Will Be Gone
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
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December 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
gregfallis.com
Lawdy, that coat. I mean, great portrait and all. But that coat.

Longcoats like that are another victim of car culture.
dean.bsky.social Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 20h
Remembering Jean Marais on his birthday 🎂
📷 Clifford Coffin, Vogue, 1946

Someone who looks that cool in 1946 is obviously one of the inventors of cool.
Marais leans against a wall, his hands in the pockets of his leather jacket.
December 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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gewilli.bsky.social
I do indeed - lots of video evidence and I've used it in quite a variety of different snows.
E-bike and studs are best but this is the tern pulling in slushy wet snow (that then froze solid so moving it was critically important) w/o studs
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pfhlick.bsky.social ┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · Feb 16
@ternbicycles.com #getstuffdone plowing the icy bike path

i LOVE my GSD!!! 🚵🏿❄️💪💪🏿💪🏾
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Midwest winter (before the snow).

#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #monochrome
A black-and-white photograph of a harvested field, with crop rows visible. On the right side of the frame are a couple of electrical poles and a railroad track. In the distance, a storm front is moving in.
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
gregfallis.com
6 years ago, Trump pulled US forces out of Syria, abandoning the Kurdish allies who'd helped defeat ISIS. He left some US troops in place.

Why? Oil. He said, "We're keeping the oil. We have the oil. The oil is secure. We left troops behind only for the oil."

Venezuela? Same thing. It's about oil.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Q: What happens to the oil on the tanker you seized?

TRUMP: Well we keep it I guess
December 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
gregfallis.com
Jesus suffering fuck.

Trump ruins piracy. Our Flag Means Fuckwitted.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. Largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening."
December 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
gregfallis.com
Wait...when did Hakeem Jeffries actually join the Republican Party?
notdred.bsky.social Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d
“Does not have the support of her party’s leaders” fucking Jeffries fails again
by-cjewett.bsky.social Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 1d
A Michigan Democrat is seeking to impeach Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
December 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
gregfallis.com
Had to step into a Big Box store today & came across this horrifying bastard.

#photography #DemocraticCamera #pixelphone #HolidayHorrors
A crystaline plastic snowman for sale in a big box store.
December 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
gregfallis.com
The most important stat in my Bsky harvest? 457 images this year on Bluesky, 100% with alt text. (151% above the average; so shame on you if you're not using alt text).
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Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025 - Bluesky Wrapped
Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest: your comprehensive Bluesky Wrapped for 2025. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your year in the ATmosphere.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
gregfallis.com
Mobility options! Every city administrator should consider how to make year-round car-free travel better & safer. Put the welfare of people above the convenience of vehicles.
emmanuelspv.bsky.social EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 2d
Two minutes of footage of wheelchair users on bike lanes in Paris. A classic video I posted on Twitter a few years ago I had not posted here yet.
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
gregfallis.com
I am concerned about Santa's safety record. (This thread is a delight.)
richterscale.bsky.social Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · Dec 25
Oh no! Old Saint Nick has crashed his sleigh and those no-good reindeer have abandoned him to his fate! Whatever is he to do?

Don't worry, old postcards have OPTIONS for Santa's delivery needs.

(a thread)
Old postcard depicting Santa's crashed sleigh, toys everywhere. Old postcard depicting Santa's crashed sleigh, toys everywhere, reindeer having run off.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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ebharrington.bsky.social
Countries famously make their soybean purchases out of respect for a country and its leader, rather than based on price or quality of the product.
December 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
gregfallis.com
Hell is the home of the car-brained. It's an endlessly looping search for a parking spot, eternal idling in the school pick-up line, an everlasting traffic jam with irritated drivers honking & revving their engines.

Heaven is #bicycles. Quiet. Happy. Carefree. Car-free.
artologica.net Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 2d
Why do people think the road to hell is paved at all? Are you planning to drive there?
jensfoell.de Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 2d
More specifically, the road to hell is paved with the intention to make good things last.
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
gregfallis.com
Hey, NPR...you spelled 'bribe' wrong.
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
gregfallis.com
I still get a wee bit creeped out by the large open spaces of the Midwest, but lawdy, when the light is right...

#FujifilmX10 #WeeFuji #photography #DemocraticCamera #landscape
A field that's been harvested, with a treeline in the background, illuminated by winter light, with clouds being dramatic AF.
December 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
gregfallis.com
I don't see this every day (I believe @evilgalprods.bsky.social has posted it every day since Trump returned), but every day I DO see it, I appreciate it. I find it encouraging. It's a sentiment that bears repeating.

Donald Trump can absolutely go fuck himself EVERY GODDAMN DAY.
evilgalprods.bsky.social Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 4d
It’s December 7, 2025, and Donald Trump can go fuck himself.
December 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
gregfallis.com
I used to write the Sunday Salons--essays about photographers as a prompt for #photography discussions.

This 2007 salon is about John Humble, who scraped away the sedimentary layers of media-driven images of Los Angeles to find out what lay hidden beneath.
salon.utata.org/2007/12/23/j...
A photograph by Los Angles photographer John Humble showing a small bungalow. In the background is a tall, angular modern building.
December 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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spahn711.bsky.social
This is U N B E L I E V A B L E. #Kilauea
December 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
gregfallis.com
I drove through the Target parking lot to get to the pet shop that stocks the only thyroid-friendly treats the resident cat can eat. I figured it was permissible to shoot a photo of the bench & bike racks without violating the boycott.

#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera
I had to drive through the parking lot of Target to get to the pet shop that stocks the only thyroid-friendly treats the resident cat can eat. The winter light was nicely dramatic; I figured it was permissible to shoot a photo of a bench & bike racks without violating the boycott.
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
gregfallis.com
For the photographers shouting, "But...but #streetphotography!" let me just say there's a very real qualitative difference between unmediated candid photography and creep photography.

There's a legit debate about street photo ethics, but defending this guy is NOT defending street photography.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d
In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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mark-allerton.bsky.social
This really needs to be understood: "The confusion appears intentional and is proving profitable and deadly."

The people selling these vehicles are not our allies. velo.outsideonline.com/ebike/...
E-Bike Injuries Are Up 1,800%, But It's Not Actually E-Bikes: It's Electric Motorcycles
The vehicles causing a recent spike in injuries and worse aren't e-bikes. Here’s why, our solution, and how to differentiate an e-bike from an e-moto.
velo.outsideonline.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM