Chris

@chb.bsky.social

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Talk books to me.

website toast that says: "The user failed validation: Screen name must be more than 4 characters."
Crowded street full of pedestrians and 🇺🇦-colored tents
snowy landscape in the yukon or thereabouts, from airplane window
cargo ship at sea; a very, very large sea
Really loud singer at the 14th St station
equinox storefront ad that reads "question everything" on the left over a deathly-pale detached robotic head (with someone else's thumb in is mouth) and "but yourself" on the right over an androgynous model with capacious underboob
Backlit world map that could very well be hand-cut, with the entirely of Europe/Asia labeled as "Russia", among various other discrepancies. Japan is completely omitted, and the Suez and Panama Canals have become veritable straits.
Fanning kid in death stranding 2 getting cuddled by higgs
Plants growing off the side of the maritime hotel
Through the window glare we can see a very empty pizza takeout counter with an importunate mattress leaning against the bar waiting (ever so long) to be served. The mattress is old and well-used but also encased in plastic, and its presence in a food-service establishment is not explained.
Mossy waterfall coated with assorted moss types. It is small, but beautiful. A small tree is in the top right the corner.
Another mossy scene from Nara park. There is moss on the stone lamps, there’s moss on the tree, there were deer but they were mossless so they are not pictured.
Gangly tree with mossy limbs near the ground. This is not the best moss I saw, but I like the tree. Overhead are dormant wisteria vines.
Moss, close up
Two doors, one has typical restroom icons for male and female, the other has a single icon of someone wearing a tuxedo
Bright orange pagoda
Dinosaur inside kitschy jewelry shop with spikes that can only be described as “undoubtedly buttplugs”
Multicolored print on a door with words partially overlapping from top to bottom: TRANS PEOPLE SING LIVE CRY GO TO SCHOOL WORK GARDEN GROW OKRA LOVE EAT FOOD PLAY GUITAR EXIST DRIVE CARS VOTE BELONG IN TEXAS
Screenshot of invoice email from PayPal, which *is* genuinely from PayPal, but which perverts merchant-settable fields to try to get the scammer's mark to call their telephone number, which presumably pretends to be PayPal customer service.
Spotify screenshot with absolutely terrible UX
A mouse at the Montreal airport. It is a small mouse but still
Absolutely random scooter with a very faded ocaml sticker between a Y and Z (and under ‘be free’) on the headlight fairing. The actual camel is just barely visible if you zoom in
Atlantic ocean gettin some woefully unprepared guy wet but breaching a concrete jetty
A large slice of bread battered in something and sitting in a soup… it’s called francesinha, and there’s actually a substantial amount of ham and steak inside
Azor, Color etching, 1888 Henri-Charles Guérard (1846-1897) was one of the most skilled and inventive French printmakers of his day. It was to Guérard that the Impressionist painter douard Manet turned whenever he needed help making etchings, no doubt due to both Guérard's expertise as a professional printmaker and his innovative approach to the medium. Guérard often looked to the animal kingdom for his subjects, including his own pet dog, Azor. Sentimental portraits of "man's best friend" were much sought after by the middle class in the 19th century, but Guérard's treatment differs from these romantic portrayals, and his pet brims with personality as a result. This print, one of several studies the artist made of Azor, depicts him as proud and stately, with his name emblazoned above him in Roman lettering. (alt text OCR'ed from museum label)
seagull on snowy railing, looking skeptical
My lit tripartite butter candle in loaf
#57,937, it purports
Unused NYC subway platform. It’s very dirty.
Sidewalk couch encased in plastic wrap with graffiti ‘J.D VANCE STOOD ME UP ☹️’
First page of patent US22186 with a VERY nondescript jar
wide-angle photo looking nearly straight up from a sidewalk in tribeca with two skyscapers trailing off into the blue, blue sky a distorted sun casts lens flare from the corner
Cell phone photo of Portrait of a Young Woman in White by CIRCLE OF JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID in the National Art Gallery, a nipple clearly visible through the sheer chemise
iOS emergency alert "4.7 magnitude earthquake has occurred in the NYC area. Residents are advised to remain indoors and to call 911 if injured. More info: https://bit.ly/3vMVLRe"
Photo of a playground behind a sign that reads “no adults except in the company of a child”
Photo of Elfreth’s Alley in Philadelphia, facing West, absolutely gorgeous, lots of British-ish flags hanging over, no cars in sight. Doesn’t look that crowded right now but that’s because I waited for this segment to clear.
Botero kitty cat sculpture (in bronze?)
Bay Bridge and Treasure Island, SF
In the background: back of the SFMoMA building; under which and in front: entrance to the Gold Club
Scene inside SF Commons as Rose and Emily brief the crowd on Bluesky