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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

aka "The bigger the belt buckle the smaller the brain" aka #FuckICE #ICEBarbie #MAGAFace #FuckTrump

"ICE Barbie" Noem portrayed w/ thumbs in pockets of her jeans, a giant belt cowboy belt buckle and a massive cowboy hat that requires a complex shoulder-mounted support system and makes her appear even more ridiculous and insignificant than she already is.

BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

10 gallon hat on a pint-size mind. How does she sleep at night. Not a question. If you're not outraged, you're not an American. #FuckICE #AbolishDHS #ICEBarbie #MAGAface #Invoke25th #FDJT

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Phone, not film. On my way to work.

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The Lotus Mahal, Hampi, India 2025 IR trichrome, Pentax 645n, 45-85 4.5, Rollei Ir (@100) #BelieveInFilm #TrichromeEverything

A false color image of the beautiful “lotus mahal” at the World Heritage site of Hampi.

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

My wife died 9/23; left me 4 wrapped presents. Opened one, Mr Bou's Ornithographies book. I don't exaggerate, I gasped audibly turning the pages. I shoot 5x7 film, abstracts. I think birds are like fish in thin water, following its currents. This book gets it. My wife perfectly got me. Tears flow.

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

The good news is, there's room for further deterioration AND degradation. Eyes on demise, Piggy! #QuietPiggy #TreasonIsTheReasonForTheSeason #FuturePrisonBitch #TrumpCult #FuckTrump

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The Justice Dept, a part of the executive branch, investigates the Trump/Epstein Files. #FuckTrump #QuietPiggy #TisTheTreason #MerryChristmas

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

So, white. Right? Puttin' the honky back in honky tonk, yee haw. #Grammys #Racist #CountryMusicIsShittyRock

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

And I'm thinking he meant him and the other petulant little rich kid. It'd be funny if it wasn't so pitiful; two egos, both losing their dick measuring contest. #LittleDickSyndrome #Musk #Trump #PitifulChildren #ImpeachTrump #MoneyIsTheRootOfAllEvil #MuskRatLove

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Two hater hetero egos having (and both losing) a dick measuring fight is the best Pride Month present ever. #Pride #LGBTQ #Musk #Trump #HowEmbarrassing

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Except perhaps common sense and an aversion to opportunists. Andrew Yang is a sentient glass of really hoppy, unpalatable IPA.

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Heather, Scotland 1994 These are the colors I searched for, found in a Harris sweater sewn by a MacLeod (my ancestral antagonists; one of my forebearers impregnated the clan chief's wife), in an odd shop in Ullapool. #Velvia50, the only film that could do magenta justice. #BelieveInFilm #120Film

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I mean, I’ll try. I guess. My wok does NOT get hot enough tho’. #FuckTrump #MAGA #MAGACult #InsiderTrading

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Trick question! It was the scary brown people eating the pets!

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I believe the phrase you seek is “buyer’s remorse.” #HandsOff #FuckTrump #SilenceIsComplicity

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"Let's put the drunk Fox guy in charge", they said. "What could go wrong?", they said. But her emails, amiright? #TrumpCult #Resist #RussianAsset #Krasnov

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

There is no, I repeat, NO Secret Bushmiller Society. Nope nope nope. 3 rocks.

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Korean surf music-ish,my new most favorite thing ever for at LEAST 3-4 days. This one is instrumental; try it, you'll like it. I have excellent taste in music, you see.

open.spotify.com

The Memory of The Time

Say Sue Me · The Last Thing Left · Song · 2022

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

They need more sunshine up their chicken butts.

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Well hung in life, hung well in death. As it was in the beginning, yadda yadda. Amen.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas. Cartoon by the wonderful Liz Climo

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I’ve never had a favorite lichen and that never bothered me until now.

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

This is one of my son’s all-time favorite Calvin & Hobbes strips

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Heritage Gardens does it up with what must be a million lights. This is prob’ly my wife’s last Christmas so I pushed a chair until I couldn’t any more and then some. We try to do happy, it distracts from the sad and the terror. #CancerSucks #FuckCancer #LoveIsForever

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

So this, in my email. “Okay, umm… die in fire?” Mind you, I’m not a customer, so. #irony #DenyDefendDepose #JustifiableHomicide #ToneDeaf #AreYouKiddingMeRightNow #Healthcare #SinglePayer

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

True Person of the Year!

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

L: Mother, sister, my wife, grandma. R: Father, sister, wife. They have welcomed me as their own. This was 2018, seeing grandma in their former home of Novi Grad. First return in 18 yrs. I was along for emotional support and to drive a stick. #FuckCancer #Bosnia #LoveWins #Yugoslavia #Forever

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Been here a few times in the 25 yrs since I moved south from Boston. Trees grow. I prefer off-center or having something that takes it off-center. Balance is visually dull, usually, to me. Also, I don't trust even numbers. Don't know what they're up to. #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmisNotDead

Overcast clouds above a horizon line in the Fall.
Coming up from just behind that line there are 3 leafless trees in the bottom 3rd of the frame(L, C, R), and between the lefthand tree and the center tree, 3 additional trees further in the background are mostly below the horizon line; 1 (1,2,3), 2, 3.
The bottom 3rd is patchy grass, the sky goes from some grey cloud detail behind the trees to white in the top 3rd.

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Isle of Skye, Sept/Oct '94 Other than for skin tones, my love of Fuji Velvia 50 knows no bounds. Rich saturation across the spectrum. Almost (ALMOST) makes me not miss Kodachrome 25 **sniff**. #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #FilmPhotography #Scotland #FujiVelvia #Rolleiflex #I'nItInnaeScots,I'sCRAP

A three-quarter view down the side of 2 stone outbuildings on the Isle of Skye in Scotland; Fall of 1994, photographed on film in a square format. Between the 2 low buildings, there is a chimney visible on the furthest and both have thatched roofs.
Someone has attached stones along the bottom edge of the thatching, presumably to anchor it down during high winds.
The sky is a very rich shade of blue and there are low white clouds following the same angle as the roofline.

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Kenmore Sq Boston, early '80s. I had no respect for color film started waving an old Argus 35mm around, 10-20 secs or so, closed all the way down. Kodachrome 25, RIP. This one, I was driving. The light stays still, the camera moves, was the point. #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #NightPhotography

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

So this is the red arched neon lights at the Back Bay T stop in Boston, with a band of blue & yellow. Fuji Velvia 50 @ f22 for prob'ly 20 secs. I have no idea how I moved the camera but that's the idea; the subject stays still while the camera moves. What do you see? #BelieveInFilm #AnalogPhoto #wtf

A moving-camera image of red neon lights w/ blue & yellow. It somehow made these weird tornado/cylinders like trumpet horns. It was years ago and I have no idea how I moved but I think I spun in a circle while keeping the light in the same area of the camera frame.
This is shot on Fuji Velvia which is a highly color-saturated film. Lens closed down to f22 so I can make a prob'ly 20 second exposure.

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Not usually a big fan of centering but here it really works. This gentleman has a lovely body of work, quite the skill set. Must be Scottish.

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Sarajevo 2018. The adhan or call to prayer, starts first with the muezzin high in the minaret of the oldest mosque, then in the next oldest, & the next, & you're sitting drinking strong coffee with the call swirling around you like a wind, pulling you out of your seat. Beauty. #BelieveInFilm #B&W

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

From being the best part of the Pixies to Pod & Safari, Last Splash to Title TK & All Nerve and now her first solo; Kim Deal never fails to impress. “Nobody Loves You More” came in the mail today and I am gobsmacked. #vinyl #recordcollection #rock&roll #NeverTooOld #AnalogForLife #StereoIsJustAFad

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