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beardedmrbean

Periscope up

birds-in-posts

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

flareonfloof

birds have secret bones we're not allowed to know about

bnprime

that last line sounds like a bjork lyric

yossyislandd

smoke alarm is low battery beeping ughhh

agox

it's not cute, smoke alarms only do that when they're really distressed

birdsean

awheckery

help me out here, people

I'm having a disagreement with my family, and it's turning into a whole Thing, so I turn to you, the fine people of tumblr

Have you ever heard the word "panopticon" before, and do you know (without looking it up!) what it means?

I have heard it before, and I know what it means

I've heard it before, but I don't know what it means

I haven't heard this word before, and I don't know what it means

Voting ended onJul 11

Reblog for reach, and thank you in advance for your answers

agox

I think I was introduced to "panopticon" by the song "Yarn and Glue" by Joanna Newsom at some point in my misspent high school youth

#by a girl #lennie hsiao #she was a year older than me #we spent a summer together editing video she shot in China #the first time I tried pot was in her basement #she was rolling around on the floor playing her violin #I claimed I didn't feel anything but spent a long time starting at the indentation the coffee table made in the carpet #we talked about going to Reykjavik together the next summer but then Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans #and put her life onto a very different path #I wonder what she's up to now #Youtube

hapalopus

Scandinavians when outdoor string lights were invented

hapalopus

Scandinavian trees from October to March:

useless-denmarkfacts

Before this we would mostly just set things on fire to keep our spirits up

useless-denmarkfacts

Scandinavians before outdoor string lights were invented:

3liza

do you live in seattle (the american city)?

yes

Voting ended onJul 10

please reblog to get this poll out of my bubble, i want reach

3liza

so ive been meaning to do this poll for a while because my hypothesis is that seattle is the most Tumblr city, likely in the entire world. tumblr has a huge american majority userbase obviously, but just for comparison going forward, only 0.22% of the american population lives in seattle. as of this reblog, this poll is showing 4% of respondents are seattleites. given, this isnt scientific at all, because my blog just has a lot of seattle connections and seattle followers, but it's still an impressive bias

lowpawly

this is my impression of what it would look like if the toddlers at my job could make traumacore edits about me

nickcarr

Field notes from the time I scouted a decommissioned nuclear power plant...

This is the control room, and if you look closely, you'll see a dark stripe in the carpet running the perimeter of the room. This was referred to as the "velvet rope," and absolutely NO ONE was allowed to cross it without authorization. It was under constant observation from an adjacent office, and I was told that if someone did set foot inside without permission, things got VERY serious VERY quickly.

This is one of the computer stations, and to me, it's such a gorgeous encapsulation of its period of technology, the sort of aesthetic that shows like Lost will bend over backwards to recreate.

As I was scouting, I noticed the day calendar had last been torn off about when the plant closed for good...

Then we went into the nuclear reactor, and the whole damn thing was just so spooky.

Looking back, I think it came from an overwhelming feeling of utter insignificance in the face of the sheer power this colossus was designed to produce.

The scale was just so out of proportion to every day reality, the sort of place where a weight of "46000 LBS" is just casually noted on the side of a part.

Peering into where the core would've been, all I could think is that I'd never want the job where you have to climb down that ladder on the left while this thing was in operation.

If you're interested in seeing more, you can find my full tour here!

https://nickcarr.com/scouting-a-decommissioned-nuclear-power-plant/

And as always, follow for more location scouting fun...

agox

> Looking back, I think it came from an overwhelming feeling of utter insignificance in the face of the sheer power this colossus was designed to produce.

This is what being in a cargo ship's engine room feels like. The scale of it is mind boggling.

I'm about to become even more insufferable

#mamiya #film photography #medium format #you know what they say about guys with big lenses #big camera bags #I'm going to need to go to harbor freight

pangur-and-grim

they are FRIENDS!!!

pangur-and-grim

I love seeing them together

epicsause-official

i think we are long overdue for a game that does the reverse of 90s first person shooters and actively makes fun of the player for picking the hard difficulty

epicsause-official

heres kinda what i mean

janmisali

here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!

try to create a normal (bell curve) distribution

Voting ended onJun 13

Oh yeah I forgot I was a shitty film photography blog now

Minolta x-700, Kodacolor 200. I developed and scanned it myself over the weekend.

#film photography #minolta #kodacolor 200

sergal

would you still love me if i was a hulking mass of industrial machinery, so enormous that i seem to have no beginning or end, my purpose unclear and unknown?

agox

This is how I feel about commercial ships.