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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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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 · 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 · 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 · 06/04/2025

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

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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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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

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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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

50 yrs young today: Brian Eno- Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). Bought this cutout OP a few years post release, his first 4 solo albums remain in regular rotation. Genius, I would bear his lovechild. #vinylrecords #StereoIsAPassingFad #AnalogMusic #AnLPsWorthOfTunes #AVinylIsNotAThingDamnIt

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Peters Pond, Sandwich, Cape Cod, MA, US My beloved spent much of her misspent youth getting in/out of trouble around this place. I have another shot of this, with her bared legs only, sitting on the angle. But that one is for me alone. #BelieveInFilm #IlfordFP4 #DirectPositive #LifeIsAnalog

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

So the endgame of all the QAnon dumbfuckery? The pedo will be our Atty General. OUTSTANDING. #PedoGaetz #JustKillMeNow

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Herring Run, Marstons Mills, Cape Cod, MA US. Beauty place for a looong exposure tho' it does require some degree of self/tripod immersion and a #Rolleiflex TLR requires rubber bands to hold an ND filter in place. #BelieveInFilm #B&W #FP4 #DirectPositive #EatSwimSpawn #LifeIsAnalog #KeepBlueskyHappy

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Scotland, vicinity of Ullapool, '94. Commenting on the lack of latitude w/ slide film, needing to shoot -1/2 & -1 stop darker and wishing for just that tiny bit more detail in the darkest region here. The only solace to losing Kodachrome was Fuji #Velvia 50. #BelieveInFilm #Scotland #FerFookSake

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

My beloved is dying of ovarian cancer that comes back stronger after each round of chemo. We walk here most every night. It’s on train tracks so we don’t see many others. There’s a pond behind us with osprey. She knows their names. When it all comes to pass, this will be my solace. #FuckCancer #Love

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

A "Take Out/Catering" sign & the lights in a small Xmas tree in the next storefront, at night; exposed the blue, hand over the lens, exposed the lights. #Velvia50 @ f.22 in an old rangefinder, 20 secs. Got a bunch of these from Boston life. What do you see? #BelieveInFilm #LifeIsAnalog #NeonOnFilm

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Monument Beach, Pocasset MA (Cape Cod). 3rd of 3; not my favorite I guess but certainly the more abstract so let me think about it for awhile. I do like the numbers. Scroll to see the other 2, I haven't been here that long. #BelieveInFilm #b&wfilm #120film #Rolleiflex #LifeIsAnalog #FilmIsNotDead

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

To illustrate the gravitas of today’s US elections,puking unicorn socks. It’s great when your candidates win. This is the first time I will question the sanity of our voters if they lose. Also their commitment to maintaining this republic, for better or worse. #Vote #Muskisillegal #NoToFelon/Rapists

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Novi Grad, Bosnia 2018. When my beloved got US citizenship after 20 yrs, they asked for nation of origin. When they left, it was still Yugoslavia. This is the local stadium. Soldiers came in the night and took the men here. Some returned, some not. #BelieveInFilm #120Film #LifeIsAnalog #Rolleiflex

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Another of three, from a foggy Cape Cod morning a few years back. This is a mile up the road from our home, after the town pulls all the docks for winter. I moved from Boston in 1998, took me a few years to adjust. This I like. #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #LifeIsAnalog #B+W #Rolleiflex #120Film

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Only 55 days until Christmas! (Not sure where I stole this) #ElonCanEatMyWholeAss #MuskSucks #FuckMusk

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Tickle Me, Bitches is a lesser known Jim Henson character.

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

My last Dead show in Providence, maybe '86?, Phil Lesh sang Box Of Rain. I had moved on musically in the late '70s when I first heard the Clash but I guess once you've been indoctrinated or sold sheets at shows, you never really leave. RIP. This one hurts about as much as David Bowie. I'm aging out

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Is it a beautiful day in the neighborhood?

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BerthaDeCool @berthadecool.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

The problem I'll soon run up against, I have a limited number of color/b&w positives that I've scanned over the years and my only means at the moment is a malfunctioning G11 Canon as a copystand. We'll see. I like it here and want to post more. #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #120Film #LifeIsAnalog

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