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Chert
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Burdensome friend, lives by the river
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Live Work Play is now Podcasting Rooftop
photo of a building’s storefront window with lots of van reflections and glare, advertising “podcasting” and “rooftop” as supported building activities/amenities
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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poor little sweetie must have hit a window. put it in a box w/ a bunch of custom wrap shreds, but it is up to my boss now to see to the bird’s recovery
a fuzzy gray junco in a box full of shredded brown paper
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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went to the dinosaur museum yesterday and remembered ancient songs as well as organisms

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natural history museum display, with three big blobby casts of Paluxy tracks dinosaur footprints
November 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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tarrytown train station overpass art is very good
natural history museum-style tableau of animals on driftwood in water. featuring bobcats, an otter, a bird, and two enormous butterflies, one of which is riding a half-submergedsturgeon window art of bears posing on a log with stripers passing by around them
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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the green lady
big oil painting of a woman in a cool green dress. kinda doing a john cena/look at my rings pose
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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saw a pair of classic USian birds on the river 🫡
photo of two shadowy birds perched on top of a shadowy steel frame channel marker tower in the Hudson river, with the misty Hudson Highlands in the background photograph of two bald eagles on top of a river channel marker tower, with rocks and trees in the far background
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Bill should know
freeze frame of Bill Kristol getting hit in the face with a chocolate cream pie in 2005
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I wish I could tell you, but I’m not very sharp on birds! it’s a bit bigger here on the left, but out of focus sorry!
two gulls on lamp posts in front of a river
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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saw 2 of my friends in slightly novel locations
photo of Peekskill Bay, a strip of light gray water with brown hills all around under a gray, dim sky. a tug boat is on the far shore fueling up photo of asso subsea’s Argo in the Hudson just above the Ham Fish bridge
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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blood on the asphalt
slice of pizza in the road. it’s been run over by a car, according to the tomato-tinted streak of pizza viscera.
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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commute critters this morning
photo of a white and tan hawk on a tree limb against a flat gray sky photo of a busted wasps’ nest hanging from a tree branch a silvery gray squirrel on a tree branch, hunched over and scraping on a nut shell
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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didn’t see any from up there, but I did catch one on the way home
landscape photo of a pine tree in the foreground, with long green needles and some pinecones, and a partially visible suspension bridge tower and brown hillside in the fuzzy background, under a blue sky photo of a red gravel barge being pushed by a red and white tug boat, just down the river from a suspension bridge, in front of a rocky brown hillside where the photo taker was hanging out a little earlier in the day.
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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this is the famous elephant
In 1973, Lucy the Elephant in Margate, New Jersey, was almost torn down. Only a Saturday morning court injunction stopped the wrecking ball, according to Richard Helfant, Lucy’s executive director for the past 22 years. As he tries to raise the final $800,000 for the landmark’s present-day renovation, Helfant wants shore locals to remember that history. So, in a summer fundraising mailer, he sent a picture of Lucy from that year alongside the phrase, “Never forget, never again.” The mailer helped raise $70,000, but it also angered summer Margate residents Susan and Matthew Klyman for its obvious connection to Holocaust remembrance language. The Jewish couple asked for a public apology from Helfant, who is also Jewish, and received one in recent days. To the Klymans, the phrase is not exclusive to the Holocaust, but it should be reserved for Holocaust-type events.
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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pulled off the road to look for tugboats
photo of Hudson River and Iona Island from just below Bear Mtn Bridge
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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bittersweet from a couple days ago
photo of a couple twigs bearing yellow and red bittersweet berries photo of bittersweet berry clusters up in the otherwise bare trees, against a blue sky. berries are mostly red with a few yellow ones
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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lmao
Photo of a Red Grooms oil painting titled “De Kooning Breaks Through Revisited, ” wrapped in clear plastic. Painting depicts a shirtless Willem De Kooning riding a bicycle “through” the canvas with his famous Woman from Woman and Bicycle sitting on the handlebars
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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still out there when I went home, had to look at it some more
another photo of asso subsea’s Argo, near the Bear Mountain Bridge, with some kind of crane thing sticking out off the side/back of the boat another photo of the Argo in front of the Bear Mtn Bridge
November 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Asso subsea’s Argo off Jones Point on a cloudy morning. for some reason all the blown out highlights in 1 photo came out pink
photo of the Argos off Jones Point, taken from the opposite shore. Argos is a medium large orange-hulled, white-on-top ship with a huge crane/cable thing on the rear deck. the river and sky are gray and the hill behind the boat is reddish brown due to autumn photo of Argos from Jones point. gray river, gray and white clouds, brown hillsides, and a big orange and white boat in the middle head-on photo of Argos taken from up on Rt. 202. Argos off Jones Point with a big pink streak across the sky
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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big swan in the river, which i have not seen before
photo of a river with a white swan pretty far out in the light gray water. there are autumn trees on the hilly far shore, and a freight train running on the bank.
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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⚠️scary bug⚠️

cool wasp on a weird Soto thing
photo of a wasp on a yellow art rectangle
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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gravel barge thru the tourist binoculars
round image of a gravel barge heading towards the viewer down the Hudson River, in front of the Bear Mountain bridge.
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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poppin’ the top
gallery photo of a round, artist-distressed farm bin with a doorway cut out, altogether made of rusty corrugated steel. It’s about 12’ tall with an 8’ diameter. photo of a guy driving a forklift in a warehouse, with the top of the farm bin suspended from the forks. photo of farm bin cylinder and lid, placed separately on the warehouse floor
November 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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one man’s trash
loong poster of a red lamborghini countach in a dumpster full of wood, books, boxes, and a mirror under a chain link screen
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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boatyard
photo of a boat gantry on a river, hauling up a little boat. bigger boats rest in shadow in the foreground on either side of the photo
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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AM/PM commute today
photo of a flooded clay pit, surrounded by trees and shrubs in autumn foliage - a lot of yellow and orange and some red. the water has a green algae streak and tree reflections photo of hudson river from a train station. the far shore is dark and the sky is dark silver with blushes and streaks of orange/gold. the river has an orange tint reflected from the sky
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM