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The Old Man of the Lake. It's a 30 ft tall hemlock, floating vertically in Crater Lake for over 100 yrs. It wanders the lake. Attempts to restrain or track it seem to anger both the spirit of the tree and the spirit of the lake.

#photography #my photos #crater lake #the old man of the lake

Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach, Oregon

#haystack rock #cannon beach #my photos #travel photos

Crater Lake, Oregon

#my photos #nature photos #crater lake #phantom ship #wizard island

Pride Is Still a Riot

Seattle Sounders Pride Night 2025, tifo by the ECS.

#pride 2025 #seattle sounders fc

Lazy frog.

#frog

Great blue heron out frogging.

#gbh #great blue heron

mikashida

poetry by Caitlyn Siehl

fuckyeahchinesefashion

Cnetizens: What's with the two busy clams? Other Cnetizens: to add some flavor （Shantou汕头 have leveled up from lion dance to lobster dance）

cricketcat9

Dear followers, to brighten your day 😆

Kooza, Cirque du Soleil

#cirque du soleil #kooza #photography #phone photography #my photos

#photography #phone photography #flowers #a spring thing

KOOZA, Cirque du Soleil

#KOOZA #cirque du soleil

geezerwench

In Prince's funky name, amen.

emfyre

please please please I can read faster than you can speak

findingfeather

I am also a “send me the article” person but yet again I SWEAR TO YOU this is not a generational thing, this is a “preferred brain mode” thing and the ONLY reason you think it’s a generational thing is that when WE got on the internet it was MASSIVELY OVER SELECTED for People Who Prefer Text so everyone you met ON THE INTERNET was someone who preferred text and people who didn’t prefer text ACTIVELY AVOIDED using the internet because Too Much Text.

Now the internet as a MEDIUM allows much greater access for the many many people who do not like using text that much, and younger people are functionally FORCED to use digital spaces and also you probably don’t spend a lot of time dealing with older people who WEREN’T part of the I Prefer Text block back when the internet selected for them.

Signed: An Information Worker Who Has Both Massive Numbers of Coworkers and Patrons From Older Demographics Who ALSO VASTLY PREFER VIDEOS and Send Them To Me/Ask Me For Them/Discover Whole New Fields Of Interest Because Youtube Has Instructional Videos.

(I am so fucking serious you guys anyone who thinks Gen X "naturally has an easier time with text" has no fucking idea how many people their age actually loathe, hate and struggle with text and absorb and prefer video-media . . . .because you have nothing to do with them, because the disconnect is that big. I do. They come to my public library to ask me how streaming works because they just discovered that there's so much shit they can actually learn - yes, I do mean Generation X, yes, they do come to my public library to learn how to use technology because they did not know and only recently realized that Holy Shit, Video Shit Online Is Fucking Amazing - because it turns out that streaming videos especially in short bites of attention-span work great for them for learning shit! Amazing! Who could have predicted this! I even teach many of them how to use Text-to-Speech when they get this downcast face realizing that their thing is still Very Text Heavy online, because text is unpleasant for them.)

(Please stop assuming that your personal preferences and those of the population that was previously hyper-selected for you because the practicalities of the format demanded a certain kind of mind to use efficiently is a universal for a chunk of time.)

(But also meanwhile: please send me the text article, I absolutely am capable of reading and retaining like twelve times faster than anyone can talk.)

This has been yet another episode of "for the love of god the next time you're convinced something is a big generational change take thirty seconds and ask yourself 'is it perhaps that there was previously an excluded or hidden or otherwise unexperienced population of This Thing that I am now experiencing, rather than a New Phenomenon/Massive Change?'"

Thank You.

liprairian

I work as a sort of "librarians' librarian" in a rural consortium and a super interesting branch off this was that we kind of overcorrected for this when creating our training! We started moving to video for a lot of our more practical stuff, especially when it was digital - thinking that would be the easiest way for the library staff we serve to absorb information, since most of them were very much not tech-literate Internet People. Nope! They, en masse, requested text; some, somewhat desperately.

We'd run into the exact same selection bias from a totally different source: in this case, the only person in a town of 500 who's willing to run a library on 10 hours a week for minimum wage is going to be extremely fond of print media.

findingfeather

Oh Jesus H Frog, so much yes. xD

sreegs

remembering when the something awful forums made a word filter that changed the word "females" so it was surrounded by Ferengi emoji (we called em 'smilies' not emoji back in the day) so it looked like this: