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Tony Nuspl
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goodreads bookwyrm, culture muncher, shutterbug (e.g. banner image is my photo, 2025) & cat butler
Following #booksky #filmsky #envhist #opensource
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Looks like it will be a yet more #SilentSpring in 2026

e.g. Grassland and arid-land birds in the U.S. are among fastest declining groups, since 1970 (Cornell Lab)

#habitatloss
#environmentaldegradation
#pesticides
#NationalAudubonSociety

State of America’s birds: Population declines continue
graph: songbird decline since 1970
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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#Christkindlmarkt
#GermanAmericanSociety
#brassmusic
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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2 years ago: Victoria Inner Harbour, view from the gang plank, alighting from the Victoria Clipper V (fast ferry out of Seattle)
cropped photo ©TonyNuspl2023
#waterscape
#urbanphotography
#BlueskyMonday
#cellphonephotography
Img-right: Facade (partially obscured) of the Fairmont Empress, formerly and commonly referred to as The Empress, one of the oldest hotels in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Img-left, middleground: various vessels docked in the Inner Harbor. Roofline of various buildings downtown, in the distance. img-bottom: Blue water, in the foreground. Img-topright: A seagull in the sky
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Tom Stoppard (d.2025) author of various screenplays, in addition to many stage plays not yet adapted for the screen
🎥🎬 #filmsky #moviesky
#lastfourwatched #letterboxd
#booksky 💙📚
#GridArt #gridmix
#Broadway #WestEnd
film posters, for 4 films written by Tom Stoppard, 1985, 1990, 1998, 2017
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Craquelure (fine hairline cracks in an old oil painting)
photo©2024TonyNuspl

#sunrisemagic
#silhouetteSunday
#lakeside
Final de madrugada en Oklahoma Oriental photo credit Tony Nuspl 2024March10 dawn at Lake Hudson, OK
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Enjoyed your work depicted on-screen in "La Palma" (2024 tv mini-series)
#speculativefiction inspired by Cumbre Vieja 2021 ridgeline eruption
vulcanologists in "La Palma" (2024 tv mini-series), here, depicted as fatalstic scientists vIa IMDB speculative scene inspired by Cumbre Vieja 2021 ridgeline eruption
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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There are both native and non-native varieties, apparently.
Commelina erecta (common day flower) compared to Commelina communis (Asiatic day flower) 4 photos arranged in a grid
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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In this ISS #satelitephoto, looking from west to east, Java is in the foreground, and Mt Semeru is labelled, a white plume visible formed by winds from the northeast. Semeru has a history of near-constant eruptions since 1967 with mostly #StrombolianEruptians

#platetectonics
#PacificRingofFire
Photo from a decade ago, October 25, 2015, from aboard the International Space Station, in Near-Earth Orbit over eastern Indonesia via Wikipedia entry "List of volcanoes in Indonesia"
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Claudia Cardinale (d2025) in some of her films 🎥🎬
#filmsky #moviesky #lastfourwatched
#letterboxd #GridArt #gridmix
Claudia Cardinale in 4 film stills, 1963 (2x), 1968, and 1982, arranged in a grid
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Mise en place -- vegan tacos 'al pastor'
Tried NYTimes recipe
Remarkably well-balanced flavors
Salsa is both tomato- and onion-free
But no, did not use fresh pineapple
Makes more than suggested 8-12 tortillas
Goes well with non-alcoholic Bundaberg's ginger beer

#OmnivoresDilemma
#MeatFreeOptions
Ingredients needed for vegetarian recipe, displayed on kitchen counter, ready to start cooking. Unneeded toaster in background. Needed food processor outside of frame. Other utensils not displayed: sharp knife, cutting board, medium-sized glass and metal bowls, large frying pan and spatula. photo©TonyNuspl2025
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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"Big Ag, Stay outta my plate!" or "Don't bother me or my meal, Ag Industry"

Indigenous peoples vs #IndustrialEaters
#COP30
#ClimateJustice

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photojournalism from Conference of Parties, in Belem, Brazil: indigenous activists photographer unknown via OilChangeInternational
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Spinoza would've loved to see this.

The human-sized L1 lens of the Rubin Observatory camera, or the first lens of the observatory's telescope, at 1.55 m in diameter, the largest lens ever built.

#Astronomy #RubinFirstLook #NightSkyViewer
L1 lens, 2018 photo by LSST ( Large Synoptic Survey Telescope ) first put into service this year, in June 2025 • CC BY 4.0 via Wikipedia
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Flight season comes to an end

©TonyNuspl2025oct
#poisondata. AI overview in Google "The image shows a fire opal, a type of transparent or translucent opal known for its fiery yellow, orange, or red color. Fire opals are formed in volcanic rock, such as rhyolite, when water becomes trapped in lava. Fire opals are often found in Mexico, where they are sometimes referred to as "Hummingbird stone" due to their resemblance to the bird's plumage. Another AI image sesrch result for the same image:  "Rare orange sea glass" #funny #techfail
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Firefox is free #opensource software or #FOSS from Mozilla.org
The browser automatically blocks over 2000 online trackers from collecting your browsing data. "Mozilla isn’t in the business of selling advertising like Google, so it doesn’t have any 'backdoor agreements' with advertisers." ~Brainstorm
Firefox logo
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The above is the species' 2nd brood, or fall flight--aka "fabricii" form--emerging late Aug into Oct. Said to be able to overwinter hidden in bark or crevices.

i'll look out next year for the summer flight and the "umbrosa" form--as in this photo by Linda Smith, from Bethany, OK, 22 July 2025
Question Mark butterfly, dorsal view, summer flight (1st brood of 2) and the "umbrosa" form (upper-hindwing surfaces largely black)--photo by Linda Smith, from Bethany, OK, 2025
November 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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"Late Flight"
Question-Mark Butterfly in the third week of October
in NE Oklahoma, on Roadside Thistle gone to seed,
at midday, in full sun, at the forest edge
©TonyNuspl2025

'Nothing to munch on here, moving on...'

#OklahomaNatureWildlifePhotography
butterfly: Polygonia interrogationis aka the Question-Mark butterfly, in the Nymphalinae subfamily, part of the True Brushfoots, resting on Tall Thistle (Cirsium altissimum) gone to seed, in RogersCounty, Oklahoma
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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The remake (2020) is worth watching, with Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James
October 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Before GenZ, before GenX, before Boomers or Trads, there were the descamisados.
'Have i said too much?'
allusion to the movie-based musical

🎥🎬
#filmsky #moviesky
#YouTubeFilmSky
#BroadwayMusical
#filmadaptation
6-7 meme, Madonna starring in 'Evita' (1996 film), balcony scene at the Casa Rosada, Buenis Aires, set circa 1945. screencap via Youtube
October 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Tailgating with camp stove, lakeside
©TonyNuspl2024

#banketjestukken #carcamping #openair
foreground: portable gas-fired campstove on a picnic table provided by park services middleground: open tailgate of a vehicle, parked close by background: lakeshore with treeline in the distance
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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in Pryor Creek, OK. with mural on exterior wall
storefront, Boomerang Diner in Pryor, Oklahoma. exterior street-level view of mural featuring James Dean local restaurant chain with '50s decor, also in Tahlequah, and Claremore, other small towns.
October 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Diane Keaton (d2025) in some of her films
🎥🎬
#filmsky #moviesky #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #GridArt #gridmix
Diane Keaton, four film stills 1970, 1972, 1981, 1986, arranged in a grid
October 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Reading this just after having seen the 2021 documentary "Seaspiracy" -- which addresses, in passing, both the carbon sequestering of whales and phytoplankton
Seaspiracy (2021) supplemental infographic (appeared in the documentary) re: carbon capture in the oceans
October 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Gerry, glad you made it to London! for #DickensDay
Professional illustrator Gerry Mooney speaking in London, UK, Oct 2025 (screencap from the livestream)
October 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM