Western Honeybee in flight, approaching Mexican Sage flowers. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October, 2025. #laarboretum #bee #honeybee
On The Road - To Xi’An 🪭
在路上 - 去西安 🪭
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Koko Taylor:
🎵 Up in Flames
#KokoTaylor
https://vaaticanrecords.bandcamp.com/track/koko-taylor-up-in-flames-amon-tobin-bitter-and-twisted
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Day 3: Octavia Butler.
Incredibly dark, graphic, and disturbing near-future science fiction, which has proved absolutely prophetic. In the 1990's she was writing about a charismatic Conservative Christian and white nationalist president elected in 2024, and the horrors his paramilitary followers would unleash, including forced labor & indoctrination camps. Did I mention those books include ebikes & pseudo-cellphones too? Characters fleeing north from a disastrous social collapse in Loss Angeles? This is "The Parable of the Sower" and "The Parable of the Talents" and the later was tragically rushed to an end because of Butler's declining health.
Her work deals unflinchingly with racism and the darker parts of society, and to those who might say "her depiction of social collapse is overblown," I'd say that while it's not literally the world we live in, it's *effectively* the world that the poorest of us live in. If you're a homeless undocumented latinx person in LA right now, I'm not sure how meaningfully different your world is from the one she depicts.
Her work comes with a strong content warning for lots of things, including racial violence, sexual abuse and slavery, including of children, animal harm, etc., so it's not for everyone. Reading it in 2023 was certainly an incredible trip. Her politics are really cool though; with explicit pro-LGBTQ themes and tinges of what might today be considered #SolarPunk.
#20WomenAuthors
Bees caught in monochrome flying around Calico Asters (𝐴𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑢𝑠)
#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling
Followers is pretty pointless. Like what are we following?
The news?
Are we the news?
Are we microblogging?
OMG, just realized, this is not a social network.
This is just everyone on their blog...
#NotASocialNetwork #followers
Echinacea in front of my barn, I was seeing these everywhere two months ago and now they're all gone
#photo #photography #flowers
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Flying Vipers:
🎵 Dub Will Never Die
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