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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New York is my favorite city, sorry not sorry. From March 2026 #photography

A woman in a puffy coat sits in the grass with her yellow lab in Central Park

Pigeons fly over a walkway in Central Park

Footpaths snake between rocky formations in Central Park

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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

how i walk out of a job interview after leaving my empty iced coffee on your desk

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today in text messages from my father

An Apple iMessage bubble reads: “Chipotle is giving out free quesadillas but only with a $20 purchase. Even National Quesadilla Day has become a travesty of itself.”

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This large adult dog only knows how to show affection by sitting bolt upright on my chest. I have a fever and a cough and she thinks this might help

A golden retriever lies belly down on a hardwood floor, her legs splayed out behind her like a roast chicken. She looks guiltily at the camera

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A fascist had a leg day today, did you?

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The number of white people in puffy jackets in Ann Arbor is truly staggering

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I regret to share that, despite (because of?) delightful squish, Hokas wrecked my feet and we’re over to Altras now, fam

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Photographer brain has me calling plantar fasciitis “PLANAR” fascitis, and honestly, in that Zeiss Planar lenses dramatically reduce field curvature (and the arch of my foot feels like it’s caving in)… this tracks

Diagram of the 6 elements that make up the Zeiss Planar lens design

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Why is every friends’ child somehow 2 years from the minimum age requirement to run for senate already? Heck!

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You know you’re solidly in your 40s when you look yourself in the mirrror and consider fly fishing

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's one banana. What could it cost? Anyone who exchanges goods or services for money should understand this. The con artists do.

A billboard with three prices and a banana affixed with duct tape.

35¢ : banana from a grocer, specifically one of the bananas used in "Comedian"
$150,000 : The top of the range that the three editions of the conceptual art piece "Comedian" (a banana duct taped to the wall) by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan sold for Art Basel Miami in 2019.
$6.2 million : The price Sotheby's got at auction for one of these editions in 2024.

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have a theory that LinkedIn has ruined the tech industry, ask me anything

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I was looking for a hat to hike in and I’d imagined something more breathable. BUT

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bought trail running shoes – doing a ~170 mile walk on the Camino Portuguès here before too long. I regret to share that Hokas are as comfortable as everyone says they are

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Across the street, an elderly woman calls her VERY LARGE dog every day (“EMMA-A!”) with a level of well-worn exasperation that very much suggests the woman has forgotten Emma is only a dog

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Walked past this today.

Wendell Berry: "... stay away from screens" beautifully calligraphed in front of an ad-screen on Pollokshaws Road.

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My cranky 14-year-old cat and ungovernable 2-year-old dog just voluntarily touched noses, surely this means I’ve won something

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

IT CAN BE HELPFUL TO KEEP GOING NO MATTER WHAT

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Chicago is like if New York were clean and the people were sleepier, but with Detroits misguided freeways cutting through it #chicago #photography #leica #blackandwhite

Cloud Gate (the bean) in Chicago, buildings behind it and reflected / distorted on its surface

Underside of the bean, reflecting and distorting the grid of the concrete ground of the plaza below it. A little girl in the corner of the photo runs and waves up at her reflection

Underside of the bean, reflecting and distorting the people and the grid of the concrete ground of the plaza below it.

Crown Fountain. A 50-foot-high stone tower stands in a plaza with a woman’s face projected on its surface. The woman purses her lips and a fountain of water streams from her mouth. People walk in the plaza around the fountain. In the background, buildings on Michigan Avenue surrounding Millennium Park, including the Art Institute of Chicago

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TrekCore.com 🖖 @trekcore.com · 08/09/2026

NEW! The first big announcement for #StarTrek's 60th anniversary week is here — a new collaboration with luxury cookware company Le Creuset to send your kitchen to the final frontier blog.trekcore.com/2026/09/star...

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Le Creuset Cookware Announces New LE CREUSET x STAR TREK Collaboration for 60th Anniversary

The first big announcement for STAR TREK’s 60th anniversary week is here — a new collaboration with luxury cookware company Le Creuset to send your kitchen to the final frontier

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I had an uncomplicated relationship with my calculator watch until this v moment

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today I: filed my LLC documents, registered a domain, set up email, and secured the instagram handle for my not-yet born Detroit-based mail-in and drop-off analog film lab. 👀

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A good reminder that when you enjoy something someone has done -- a book they wrote, a performance they gave, a speech they made, whatever -- it is incredibly powerful to just reach out and tell them directly.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Los Angeles Angels at Detroit Tigers, May 26th of this year. Hao-Yu Lee at bat. 🎥 #photography #tigers #mlb

Color photograph of Comerica Park, view of the brightly lit field from the concourse. In the distance, Hao-Yu Lee of the Detroit Tigers is at bat, facing the Los Angeles Angels defense. In the foreground, a tv camera operator's silhouette is in shadow in the elf-third of the frame. The operator's monitor (with a close up of the trio at home plate) is visible.

Identical photo the other in this post, but black and white. Photograph of Comerica Park, view of the brightly lit field from the concourse. In the distance, Hao-Yu Lee of the Detroit Tigers is at bat, facing the Los Angeles Angels defense. In the foreground, a tv camera operator's silhouette is in shadow in the elf-third of the frame. The operator's monitor (with a close up of the trio at home plate) is visible.

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Not remotely the most notable impact of this loss but: it used to be that one could get a real photography education from, of all places, instagram using search. (How different films, formats, focal lengths, etc. render.) No longer. These companies are destroying paths to self-directed learning.

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

she's talking about the devastating loss of search as a mechanism; it is not the same thing as "answer my question" & unlike past media changes has been destroyed rather than kept alongside it. I'd nearly always like to find what I asked for (so I use quotes!), & not some semi-adjacent thing

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Dogventures on Ilford Delta 3200, shot at 1600. Home dev and scan. #filmisnotdead #ilford

Golden retriever lays on a lawn chewing on a stick, stares directly into camera

Golden retriever lays on a brick pedestrian path, lined with street lights and trees, her leash in her mouth

Golden retriever goes down stairs, leaving the house for a walk

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tacos El Rodeo, Corktown. Legendary Taco Tuesday option #detroit

A Ford employee (button up, dress slacks) stands next to the El Rodeo food truck, adorned with pictures of their menu. In the foreground a red umbrella covers the top fourth of the frame.

The El Rodeo food truck, covered in pictures from its menu, in bright reds and yellows. In front of it, two tables with bright red and yellow umbrellas. Two men stand in front of the food truck and talk, one stretching one hand out, gesturing to the distance. A fallen construction sign, down long enough to have weeds grow around it, lies in the foreground.

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A very excellent cat claims New Center as his own and we can but submit #detroit #photography

A strip of lawn and cement sidewalk between two houses. Center screen in the distance, a white and gray cat rolls on its back, displaying its belly, limbs lifted to the sky

A crop of the previous photo, close-up of the cat on its back, belly on display, paws lifted to the sky

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Look, I used to be a cyclist posting studies on helmets. Yes, helmets are not the safety panacea we think they are. Yes, I get they aren’t remotely the top safety need. AND ALSO I’m still recovering from a concussion I got 18 months ago, wear an effing helmet, forchristssake #citybike #urbantransit

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Took a bunch of film pics at Hospitality Included yesterday(development pending). For now let’s all just admire what a serious situation Leila Detroit’s Lebanon sundae is, dear l*rd #detroit #hospitalityincluded

In the foreground, a hand holds out an ice cream cone consisting of Ashta ice cream (rosewater and orangeblossom), cotton candy, and crushed pistatios. In the background a bustling crowd at the Hospitality Included restaurant festival in Detroit

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 17/08/2026

This is IT! “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy” drops tomorrow (8/18) 1st week sales are crucial to success. So: Give the tech fascists hell, make “The Nerd Reich” sell! Big things coming! Be a part of this moment—please buy it wherever you get your books.

Cover of the nerd Reich book coming August 18

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026

“Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes decades to develop writing skills, from toddlerhood into adulthood.”

nytimes.com

What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

my thoughts on why even a lot of readers are choosing a/v content over reading for some or much long-form content

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Toni Morrison describing the distinctions she needed to draw to create a work of historical fiction (art!) founded in truth. Reading with 2026 eyes: this also speaks to where AI fails (and will fail us) in creating and sustaining art, knowledge, and wisdom. (From: “The Source of Self Regard”)

A picture of a passage in a book. It reads: “For the purposes of the rest of this talk I want us to agree that in all of our education, whether it's in institutions or not, in homes or streets or wherever, whether it's scholarly or whether it's experiential, there is a kind of a progression. We move from data to information to knowledge to wisdom. And separating one from the other, being able to distinguish among and between them, that is, knowing the limitations and the danger of exercising one without the others, while respecting each category of intelligence, is generally what serious education is about. And if we agree that purposeful progression exists, then you will see at once how dispiriting this project of drawing or building or constructing fiction out of history can be, or that it's easy, and it's seductive, to assume that data is really knowledge. Or that information is, indeed, wisdom. Or that knowledge can exist without data. And how easy, and how effortlessly, one can parade and disguise itself as another. And how quickly we can forget that wisdom without knowledge, wisdom without any data, is just a hunch.”

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Cinestill BwXX on medium format will save us all. From an sun-drunk Eastern Market photowalk in July. #photography #Detroit

A man and a woman lean against a sun-soaked warehouse wall in Detroit’s Eastern Market. The man looks into the camera, his eyebrows raised over his sunglasses.

A man leans on a sun soaked warehouse wall in Detroit Eastern Market district. He wears a bright white T-shirt and black jeans.

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

No joke, this squirrel stared me down for 10 minutes straight. A science writer informs me that if you move your arm up and down in a vertical motion, this mimics the way squirrels communicate aggression to each other with their tails. In case you ever have need to communicate squirrel contempt.

A small black squirrel stands in the middle of an open green lawn at The Shepherd in Detroit. It stares at the camera, empty space all around it. In the foreground the photographer's leg and shoes are visible

A slightly tighter view of the black squirrel in the middle of a grass lawn than the previous photograph

An even closer view of the black squirrel standing in the middle of an empty green lawn than the previous two photos. It stands on its hind legs, its paws clenched together in front of its body. Its facial expression is impassive and sinister

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you invite a candidate for a six hour in person interview, don’t then ghost. I so get it: People are busy, an offer out to another candidate might fall through, maybe bureaucracy has struck again and the path forward is ambiguous, etc. But respect and kindness costs very little. 💚

A claymation penguin against a white background, head down, eyes slightly up, wings slightly flared to its side. Text above it reads “can i be mean”

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Jim Graves is apparently an invalid handle @jimgraves.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Photography blogger and all round bloody nice bloke, Jim Grey has published his customary annual list of 🎞️ Film Photography Blogs worth a read in 2026/27. There's a few new entries for this year. 📷 blog.jimgrey.net/2026/08/10/f... #believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead

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Film photography blogs you should follow - Down the Road

My annual roundup of blogs where film photography is in the subject mix.

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What I love about being mid-career: long duree friendships. Nothing beats having a few barrels of comrades you’ve shared parallel journeys with for more than a decade. Want to feel more grounded? Compare notes with someone who has been navigating the same plate tectonics

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you navigate chronic illness of any kind (including depression or anxiety) I can’t recommend this 10% Happier episode with Johanna Franzel enough. Love the focus on building people’s connection to wholeness and enjoyment in their life as the core of a path to wellness.

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Resetting Your Nervous System When You're Anxious, Hurting, or Just Powering Through | Johanna Franzel

10% Happier with Dan Harris · Episode

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Bess Anderson @beanders.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Anne Carson cracking everything open, per usual

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 04/08/2026

The Phone in Your Hand. “A layer-by-layer teardown of the most intricate object you’ve ever held.” [everythingmachine.io]

everythingmachine.io

The Phone in Your Hand

A layer-by-layer teardown of the most intricate machine you’ve ever held.

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