Midwestphoto - Troy Freund
@midwestphoto.bsky.social
Commercial photographer, feminist, trailrunner/ultrarunner, comicbook fan, believer in trying to make things better.
Milwaukee, WI, USA.
See my work at www.troyfreund.com
Milwaukee, WI, USA.
See my work at www.troyfreund.com
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Do I know anyone using TIDAL, instead of spotify?
Long video, but a good overview of what #Milwaukee #Krampusnacht was this year! :) Skim on through it, if you don't want to watch all 50 min!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_KQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_KQ...
Milwaukee Krampusnacht - Largest Krampus Celebration in the United States! - Milwaukee, WI
YouTube video by The Carpetbagger
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Long video, but a good overview of what #Milwaukee #Krampusnacht was this year! :) Skim on through it, if you don't want to watch all 50 min!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_KQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_KQ...
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Worth the click through.
Japanese Monk Racks
Brain For Haiku That Will Knock
Them On Their Asses
https://theonion.com/japanese-monk-racksbrain-for-haiku-that-will-knockthem-on-their-asses/
Brain For Haiku That Will Knock
Them On Their Asses
https://theonion.com/japanese-monk-racksbrain-for-haiku-that-will-knockthem-on-their-asses/
December 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Worth the click through.
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"Let This Radicalize You," didn't even have to think about it for a millisecond
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
"Let This Radicalize You," didn't even have to think about it for a millisecond
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BREAKING:
The AP calls the Miami mayor's race for Democrat Eileen Higgins.
Higgins defeated a Trump-endorsed Republican — becoming the first Democrat in nearly three decades to win the office.
The AP calls the Miami mayor's race for Democrat Eileen Higgins.
Higgins defeated a Trump-endorsed Republican — becoming the first Democrat in nearly three decades to win the office.
December 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
BREAKING:
The AP calls the Miami mayor's race for Democrat Eileen Higgins.
Higgins defeated a Trump-endorsed Republican — becoming the first Democrat in nearly three decades to win the office.
The AP calls the Miami mayor's race for Democrat Eileen Higgins.
Higgins defeated a Trump-endorsed Republican — becoming the first Democrat in nearly three decades to win the office.
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This is the economy that Donald Trump called "A++++++" today.
December 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This is the economy that Donald Trump called "A++++++" today.
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Um
Trump on Karoline Leavitt: "That beautiful face and those lips that don't stop like a little machine gun"
December 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Um
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Tough alpha guys who believe so strongly in their shit that they won't show their faces.
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Tough alpha guys who believe so strongly in their shit that they won't show their faces.
I regularly think about how different the world could be, if a bunch of dumb, ignorant, racists and sexists weren’t so scared of a woman president.
December 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I regularly think about how different the world could be, if a bunch of dumb, ignorant, racists and sexists weren’t so scared of a woman president.
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Ignorance and sloppiness are certainly on-brand for this White House.
December 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Ignorance and sloppiness are certainly on-brand for this White House.
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This is why I think the combination of consolidation of media and tech companies, and the roll out of LLMs and AI is so aggressive. For about 20 years, the average users experience w/the internet was a riotous democracy that spawned a slew of social movements. They want an end to it.
More and more I think the purpose of LLM’s is to turn humanity into helpless idiots dependent on Silicon Valley’s digital snake oil
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is why I think the combination of consolidation of media and tech companies, and the roll out of LLMs and AI is so aggressive. For about 20 years, the average users experience w/the internet was a riotous democracy that spawned a slew of social movements. They want an end to it.
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every so often I remember how a plot point in High Fidelity was that a thirty-something guy in the 1990s who'd turned a hobby into a business that did well enough that he had two employees was considered to be a dead end failure by his partner and peers
and I get angry all over again
and I get angry all over again
December 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
every so often I remember how a plot point in High Fidelity was that a thirty-something guy in the 1990s who'd turned a hobby into a business that did well enough that he had two employees was considered to be a dead end failure by his partner and peers
and I get angry all over again
and I get angry all over again
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It was great to speak with students at Stoughton High School taking classes in U.S. history and government! Keep learning and stay engaged. Public service is an essential part of our
democracy.
democracy.
December 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It was great to speak with students at Stoughton High School taking classes in U.S. history and government! Keep learning and stay engaged. Public service is an essential part of our
democracy.
democracy.
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I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
terribleminds.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
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There is so much wrong with this. One privileged white lady hosting a town hall for a self-righteous, attention-seeking white lady to answer a completely un-serious question... No good will come of it.
December 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
There is so much wrong with this. One privileged white lady hosting a town hall for a self-righteous, attention-seeking white lady to answer a completely un-serious question... No good will come of it.
Fuck the gop.
#WIunion
#WIunion
Trump's farmer bailout will primarily go to massive row-crop farmers. Big Ag as they say. Smaller and diversified farms are getting something else - it rhymes with shackjit.
Trump is going to dump tens of $ billions in payments for huge commodity farmers to compensate for huge losses they will suffer from his idiotic trade war. Meanwhile, small farmers growing for local markets will get nothing. Just canceled grants and "thoughts and prayers". wapo.st/3YXdAbU
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Fuck the gop.
#WIunion
#WIunion
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Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
Fock the GOP and the Big Ugly Bill.
SAVE HEALTHCARE for millions of Americans; bring back the subsidies.
We can subsidize Argentina? We can subsidize farmers because of GOP's crappy tariffs? We can spend money chasing America-supporting immigrants? But not healthcare?
GOP spells IDIOTS.
#WIunion
SAVE HEALTHCARE for millions of Americans; bring back the subsidies.
We can subsidize Argentina? We can subsidize farmers because of GOP's crappy tariffs? We can spend money chasing America-supporting immigrants? But not healthcare?
GOP spells IDIOTS.
#WIunion
In less than a week, this price hike is going to be a reality for Kurt up in Onedia County if Republicans don’t join me in protecting critical health care tax breaks for working families.
December 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Fock the GOP and the Big Ugly Bill.
SAVE HEALTHCARE for millions of Americans; bring back the subsidies.
We can subsidize Argentina? We can subsidize farmers because of GOP's crappy tariffs? We can spend money chasing America-supporting immigrants? But not healthcare?
GOP spells IDIOTS.
#WIunion
SAVE HEALTHCARE for millions of Americans; bring back the subsidies.
We can subsidize Argentina? We can subsidize farmers because of GOP's crappy tariffs? We can spend money chasing America-supporting immigrants? But not healthcare?
GOP spells IDIOTS.
#WIunion
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December 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen
Two months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting H-1B visas, soaring costs are roiling rural health care facilities that have long struggled to find staff.
Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out.
The Trump administration’s demand for companies to pay a $100,000 fee to hire an immigrant worker using an H1B visa has created turmoil among rural health providers.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen
named my fists Ken and Connell cuz the Starbrand is the most powerful weapon in the universe.
named my fists simon and garfunkel 'cause if you fuck with me all you're gonna hear is the sound of silence
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
December 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
named my fists Ken and Connell cuz the Starbrand is the most powerful weapon in the universe.
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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He’s lucky it didn’t BITE
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM
He’s lucky it didn’t BITE
#MikeJohnson #SpeakerJohnson is an ass-kisser of the highest order and that's not a compliment. It just means he suuuuuuucks (in the tradition of GOP Speakers...).
Johnson slammed for plan to quickly swear in GOP rep while making Democrat wait 50 days
www.alternet.org
Johnson slammed for plan to quickly swear in GOP rep while making Democrat wait 50 days
twp.ai
December 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
#MikeJohnson #SpeakerJohnson is an ass-kisser of the highest order and that's not a compliment. It just means he suuuuuuucks (in the tradition of GOP Speakers...).
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When this aired everyone was talking about it but if you didn't watch it live & didn't record it yourself or have a pal who did, you were kind of out of luck & I swear mostly people were talking about Prince's ass & not the rest of it (!!!); I was not prepared when I finally saw it.
The official sign that Prince was hot again was when he was asked to be the closing act for MTV’s VMAs. Prince delivered the *most* scandalous performance in MTV’s history with the live debut of Gett Off, which was easily the most talked-about moment of the night. youtu.be/yRfYWJmWN2U
PRINCE & THE NPG / GETT OFF / MTV VMA '91
YouTube video by no name
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
When this aired everyone was talking about it but if you didn't watch it live & didn't record it yourself or have a pal who did, you were kind of out of luck & I swear mostly people were talking about Prince's ass & not the rest of it (!!!); I was not prepared when I finally saw it.