Karsten Wade

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"Kindness is always an appropriate response" Cares deeply. Parent, survivor (again), & esp your brother. Dharma ☸️ recovery guy Founder OpenCommAr.ch, Co-founder PAIPalooza.com He/Him/Él/They. These copyright works CC BY SA 4.0 #Leguminati! #SantaCruzCA

Television set mounted in front of a tool wall shows the selfie camera-view from the Orion spacecraft looking back at a crescent moon and in the distance a crescent Earth. We are all all Earth at the moment of this photo.
Screenshot of Bluesky with @nameshiv explaining that Platner is a candidate for the people who rely upon mediocre men being whitewashed into candidacy
Screenshot of Reddit thread from r/Lyft: Lyft has billed me for Lyft Cash I didn't order. Three times. The first time, the app notified me that I had $100 in Lyft Cash. I'd never heard of it, but I thought maybe they were rewarding me for being a loyal customer. No. I looked at my banking activity online and saw where it had been charged. Obviously, I disputed the charge with my bank and with Lyft, and it was refunded, no problem. A month later, Lyft refilled my Lyft Cash, but only for $25. This time, I just talked to customer service through the app, and it was refunded. I noticed that the customer service rep never exactly apologized or explained why it happened. The third time was 3 days ago. "Refilled" for $50 this time. And yes, my Auto-Refill has always been toggled OFF. So again I'm talking to customer service, and he promises a refund and says I can "rest assured" it won't happen again. So I told him I need two questions answered: WHY was I repeatedly charged for Lyft Cash I didn't order? How can I be sure it won't happen again? What steps were taken to fix the problem? No response from customer service. I'm using Uber or nothing from now on. I've changed the debit card on file with Lyft to an old, obsolete card, which hopefully solves the problem.
Overhead view of CBP helicopter doing a loop from Moss landing over Corralitos and up the coast to
Photo was taken from the back side of a narrow cove with tall and sheer cliffs. The cove is primarily in shade, the sun beginning halfway up the cliff on the left or east side of cove, as this is picture is taken less than an hour before sunset. The very front of the picture has a few inches of coastal sage, the slope drops down to meet the beach in the lower third of the picture. From there the beach swoops down to where the incoming waves wash over. And just above the tideline are dozens of sea lions, resting in the shade. Most of the other coves have more of a western facing right now and are awash with Sunlight.
First minutes of sunrise with a hot glowing orange glow the lower part of the horizon, with gray and blue plain clouds above. Picture taken from the second floor of a Victorian, building elements visible at the edge of the picture.
A 2-in across metal loop ring holds color samples of fiberglass material to be used for a cast. The colors are arrayed around starting in the upper right and going around counterclockwise as black, tan, light pink, pale green, light blue, c dark blue, purple, bright yellow, Dusty red, and sherbet orange.
A morning picture of a front yard Halloween decorations, the shadows cast away from the camera. Behind a short 1 ft tall spiked fencing is a miniature spooky graveyard, with clawed skeleton hands grasping out of the ground and thin gravestones with pithy sayings. In the background is a full size skeleton with full size skeleton flamingos at its feet, and then the yard's usual pink flamingo statues just in front.
Point of view shot of two legs in a pair of shorts. Sticking out of a car door and out on the pavement. The left foot is resting on a parking stripe and tilted to make an l at the end of that straight leg. The right foot is canted a little outward so that you can see the star of the Converse logo. The focus on the image is the bright yellow-orange padded-ankle Chuck Taylor high top sneakers.
The image is of the bottom of an emergency exit staircase, the stairs painted bright green and the walls bare grey concrete except for a red sign with white letters that reads, "NO STORAGE PERMITTED IN THE STAIRWELL BY ORDER OF THE FIRE MARSHAL". The area at the bottom of the stairs where people will sometimes store things is fenced off in this case and indeed there is nothing stored there. There's a kind of calm in this liminal space from the lack of chaos and perhaps the crisp shadow lines from the portion fencing off the area next to the last staircase.
List of hip hop albums released in 1987 starting with Public Enemy Yo! Bum Rush the Show on February 10th and finishing November 10th with NWA and the Posse.
A. Close-up of a telephone call Pole from the previous image in this thread, focused on a small red sign in the middle of the pool. The red sign is rectangular and wider left to right, attached to the pole with screws on both sides. In the middle of the red sign is a symbol like a six-spoked wheel with an arrow bisecting the circle pointing straight down. Effectively, it is an arrow pointing in a direction and a circle with a cross saying no about something in that direction. In the context of a utility pole, it is meant to signify that something is unstable in the direction of the arrow and not decline or Lena ladder against the pole. For that reason. The sign appears just inches above and to the right of the 86 47 of the original image.
Screenshot of Rachel maddow as quoted in this post. She is live on the set of her show, by herself at the desk talking to the camera, with an image of the White House floating to her left on the right side of the image. At the bottom of the image is a single word in all caps and a sans serif font and in the format of a graphical meme, reading "OOPS!"
Image is but from below of a hillside that seems prone to sliding, with signs of relatively recent erosion. The bottom part of the image is shades of light and medium brown of the sandy shale and soil, with various small bushes and trees growing out of the nearly vertical hillside going straight up in front of the viewer. Midway up the picture on the left side, a tree juts into the image at a sharp 30° angle toward the top, getting on another portion of the hillside angled differently to the viewer. Near the top of the image and on the right side of the image are more trees growing on the sides and on the ridge above, glowing in the afternoon sun, and the sky behind the last row of trees shines cerulean blue.
In the late afternoon sunlight with the shadow of a house cast on the path, a brick path stretches over 60 ft or 20 m up the center of the picture between a row of flowering plums about to blossom. On both sides of the path is the green of various grasses, weeds, and oxalis plants. On the left side halfway up the picture a plaster column approximately 2 ft tall stands next to a tree. On the opposite side, a bush of scented, geraniums and lavender are visible surrounding another tree. Going all the way up. The left side of the path from the viewer's perspective are the marks of a trench being dug from end to end, with the far half in the sunshine revealing a layer of earth where the sod has been peeled back, and the sod in the your side of the picture shows the lines of shovel marks cutting the edges in preparation for removal
A very orange sky and setting Sun fill the top half of the picture, with the sun half obscured by a large whale skeleton at the horizon level. Reflection artifacts obscure and bleed light into the darkened part at the bottom of the picture, with other elements of the research station buildings to the left and right of the skeleton silhouetted against the orange sky.
Picture is a view taken from directly underneath a set of utility wires connecting in for multiple directions, with the blue sky and the smattering of wispiness of cloud. In the background. The top center of the photo shows a street lamp from the right side of the picture, and perpendicular to the lamp run the main power lines above, and telephone, cable, and fiber lines below. In the center of the picture, several television/internet cable lines stretch from the left side of the picture across an open street, and connect to a bolt floating in mid-air that used to be attached to the cross wooden beam 6 in or so to the right of the floating bolt.
Lush California Winter garden, picture taken from a first floor porch with the guardrail visible and half shadow in the front of the picture. Just beyond on the left are the brown and Rusty dead Hydrangea flowers. In the center of the image are a wicker chair and a chaise lounge, one blue and white pillow scattered to the left of the chair that is facing to the left of the image. Image. The furniture is sitting amongst a small pool of green that is surrounded by small shrubs on the left and dormant plants on the right. The small shrubs are visible as yellow Mexican Daisy, lavender, and a scented geranium.
Dawn sky from the second floor, the dark neighborhood in the lower part of the picture and our Friends, the redwood tree and two of the palm trees silhouetted against the coming dawn light. There's a low pink cloud near the horizon with a yellowish gold backlight to it. Above the yellow gold is a pink haze, and three or more beams of blue sky radiate from where the sun is going to rise. Blue sunbeams in the morning sky.
View is the bottom of a concrete pool partially filled with water. In the foreground is the bone nose lip of the edge of the pool, with a chipped and decaying step just beyond. Then about 6 or 8 ft. Beyond the edge of the pool are nearly 100 3-in long comet goldfish in an array of colors eagerly feeding on bits of organic matter introduced into the fresh rainwater. The colors are mostly in the deep orange of a goldfish, with some lighter speckled and a few dark fish among them, with many of the oranges showing dark spots are there close relatives nearby. It's possible to discern a line of algae nearly 2 ft away from the edge of the water down the slope into the pool, showing the recent rise in water from the rain. Toward the top of the picture, a few hoses slope down from the pool edge and into the water, and in the very near bottom left corner of the picture is a hose of the same kind, just barely visible curling from left edge to bottom.
Images taken from the cliffs. Looking out toward a stormy ocean, a wave arriving just beyond the 1st of three large rocks with flat tops. On the nearest Rock of figure crouches, releasing seaweed from a fishing line. The figure appears to be in danger from the wave, as it is surrounded by pools of tidal water and the incoming wave seems poised to swoop over the rocktop.
Image of surf and surfers, in a stormy cove. In the foreground on bottom of the image is a walking path, then a small shift to the edge where the cliff falls away below, and a little bit of cliff in the mid distance holding position in the right side of the frame. The water is far below and the waves are beginning to curl in the whitewash. Two surfers in the left center of the picture. Watch the oncoming sets, with a small bird flying overhead. The image is mostly shades of Gray, the path the water, The horizon, and the clouds in the distance faintly, white and gray.
The mine between the top 2/3 of the picture and the bottom 1/3 is a band of the last colors of the sunset, orange and yellow and red. Above the sky shades from light to dark blue below. The land is cast in Shadow and nearly invisible, with the stump of a tree poking above the horizon line and silhouetted against the sky on the far left of the image. In the lower right corner of the image, a railroad track points directly west toward the last light of the Sun, like an iron arrow whose two sides never meet.
The sky before the sunrise, where a high altitude cloud reflects the full daylight from beyond the curve of the Earth. The high clouds are long oval bands, two or three stacked around each other, almost appearing like holes in the sky surrounded by glowing highlights. In the foreground, our friend the redwood tree is silhouetted along with a palm tree, the dark city below, and dark fog creeping in from the right edge of the picture.
Deep orange sunrise fills the picture, with horizontal clouds, strict with light and dark shades. Along the bottom third of the picture, one long horizontal cloud is darkly shaded in the direction facing picture, and bisex a redwood tree on the left side of the image that just high into the sky above the surrounding neighborhood that is shrouded in darkness. The redwood tree is silhouetted with slightly drooping limbs against the many shades of orange in the moments before the appearance of the sun.
A goldfish lurks below the surface of green water, with leaves floating about adding to the camouflage. The reflection of a swimming pool wall is in the top half of the photo, and the bottom half showing the reflection of a colorless sky.
Photo is filled with the Orange light just before the sun comes over the horizon. In the lower third of the picture, a distant mountain range just barely holds back the Sun about to pop over, with a little mountain shadow visible in the sky. Further down in the photo is the closer and tree filled City silhouetted against the slice of bay and mountain range, utility poles and wires, holding gray and blue before the world explodes with light.
Picture is of Venus appearing alone in the dusk sky after sunset, directly above a tree silhouetted against the sky with Bear branches arcing out and upward toward the single point of light in the Gray sky. At the bottom of the picture just below and just beyond the Bear tree are the tops of three palm trees like three siblings, and the bushiness of another tree to the left and right framing the bottom of the picture like a bowl. The planet Venus appears alone like the only star in the sky, watching over in beauty and loneliness.
Photo of a young baby around 2 months old, who is half swaddled from the waist down, with the arms and part of the upper torso exposed. The baby's face is camouflaged with with white markup to disguise the identity. The baby is on hey man, slap, his 10 khaki pants crossed left leg over right, with his black jacket just visible, and arm invisibly tucked under the baby. The baby is reaching a left hand up towards the camera, with the hand out of focus because the main body is the center of focus. There is the baby's right hand tucked up to the face of the baby, the head turned to the right. It's not clear in this photo, but the baby is asleep very comfortably on this lap. On the floor beyond the man's legs is a old fashioned wool carpet and a turn of 20th century pattern, and a piece of corner furniture in the upper right of the image, in dark wood with glass front and objects behind the closed doors.
The pink blush of The Western Dawn sky hangs over a tree-filled neighborhood that slopes up to a ridge, with the orange, pink and gray and light blue of the clouded sky above.
A red/leaf succulent plant, with underlying green on the flat oblong shaped leaves. The center of the focus is a pink flower with stamen s reaching straight out at the camera that looks down its throat.
Photo is the tail end of a sunset, taken from a meadow high up the hill, looking West across the openness to a row of trees silhouetted against the horizon, sunset, and lighter gray of the skies above. Above. The sunset colors are a band across the world horizon and a mix of reds and yellows and pinks, with a few gray clouds almost leaking into the colors, like sedimentary layers in the sky.
Photo of an apple harvest in a box, small yellow and red fruit filling the box. The photo is focused on a man's right hand holding an apple in a closed fist turned upward toward the camera. He is staying mala beads on the wrist, circled around four times.
Looking down from the porch level into A. Moderately overgrown patch of yard with an area of lawn. In the top half and out of focus part is a short Bush row of Mexican daisies, scented, geraniums, and lavender. In the bottom center of the image are three empty chairs, outdoor furniture in the late Autumn light. Nearest to the viewer and at the bottom of the image are two wicker chairs facing away and toward a chaise lounge that has a blue and red and green leaf pattern pillow. In the very lower left corner of the screen, drying and faded hydrangeas crowd the corner like onlookers. While the scene is green and full of life, it is also devoid of humans to sit in these chairs.
Pre-dawn sky of golden orange near the horizon that quickly dissolves into the remaining blue of night, taken from the second floor. Across the bottom third of the photo are several palm trees and redwood trees rising above all the rooftops and silhouetted against the morning sky.
Second story photo of the minute after sunrise, when the glow of the sun is breaking over the far mountain range and begin to backlit a single redwood tree silhouetted in front. The sky color quickly ranges from orange through yellow and into the blue of Dawn, with the clouds above shadowed on one side, white on the other, and a spectrum of orange and yellow underneath.
A yellow orange full harvest Moon is in the center of this picture, framed just to the side and below by tall redwood trees. The picture is taken over the roofs of single story homes in a neighborhood with many trees, and power lines Crossing above and below the Moon in the image.
Two century old millstones lie in a clearing, dappled by Autumn Forest light. Just behind the millstones is a short, black chain link fence weaving into the.
White clouds marbling a blue sky, two small planes traverse the picture in the upper Center, almost like two specs on the screen instead of a pair of sky lovers they are.
A redwood tree fills this portrait mode photo, a blue sky with white cloud marbling behind it
Sunrise from a second story balcony, using a wide-angle lens that captures the Victorian detailing of the balcony and railing. The sun is about to pop over the horizon, with a tall redwood tree silhouetted against the glow and pointing up toward the orange under light of the storm clouds overhead. The lower part of the picture shows the neighborhood in the last moments of the night's Shadow.
Sunrise over one story rooftops, with a bright golden yellow glow at the horizon as the sun is about to break, and the ceiling of undulating storm clouds picking up orange and pink above that. With the wide lens field of view of the photo, horizontally across the whole whole lower focal point for redwood trees and two palm trees seem to stretch up to touch the bottom of the clouds. The rooftops in the near portion of the photo at the bottom all remain in shadow in the moments before the dawn breaks.
View is at dawn facing Westward from a second floor balcony toward a hillside and bridge with houses and tall trees. Arcing over the neighborhood from the top of the ridge at the lower right focal point in the picture is a rainbow cutting across pink dawn-washed clouds. A farmhouse circa 1885 is in the lower center of the picture, its second floor windows lit up with the golden light of the minutes right after sunrise. The hillside beyond the house is also glowing in the same light, all the way up until it dissolves into the rainbow and pink clouds.
Zoomed in photo of a very small bird that may be a hummingbird at rest on a branch in a small thicket.
Photo taken from a second story. View over low roofs toward a blue sky. Marbled with white clouds. At the lower left focal point of the image is a redwood tree towering over what seems to be a church without a steeple. Opposite on the right focal point is a palm tree similarly towering over a two-story building. The cloud marbling shows a pattern of winds from the left to the right of the image. The whole picture is framed by two parts of a house where the picture seems to be taken from. Across the bottom a hand rail is just visible. On the right is the corner of the roof and part of the upper corner trim is visible, it's in a Victorian style with a slightly pale green siding and blue gray trim with aubergine underside for the roof overhang.