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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

What's it like to live in Astoria Oregon in February? Well. . . Top: Tuesday Bottom: Thursday #photography #phoneography #weather #oregoncoast

2 photos, one above the other, of Astoria Oregon taken from almost the same spot. The upper photo shows snowy roofs and gray skies; the lower had brilliant blue skies and water.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

You know the problem with weight watchers is there’s nowhere in it to track 2 glasses of gin and a full scouring of all the leftovers in the fridge because Jesus, the country’s heading into civil war and what, really, is the fucking point anymore?

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

This nightmare year is indeed ending; I watched the sun sink into the ocean from the far western edge of the continent myself just an hour ago. Happy new year and may it be better than the last, oh please oh gods. #photography #phoneography #sunset #newyearseve

A horizontal color photo of the sunset over the pacific ocean. In the foreground is the reflection of the sunset in an undulating car hood, which at first glance looks like a pool of water. There is a dark beach in the middle with a few scattered people near the waterline.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

The best alarm clock is the sound of a trash truck rumbling into the neighborhood early when you forgot to take the trash out Thursday night. Some early Friday morning phoneography, not pictured, the almost full moon. And the trash made it out in time. When I got […] [Original post on mefi.social]

A color photo looking down a neighborhood street. There are electric poles and wires stretching through the sky. In the distance is water and misty hills. There is a very red Japanese maple tree in the lower right.

A color photo of a deer standing in a very green grassy yard. Behind the deer is an apartment complex and behind that is an expanse of water.

A color photo of a rainbow over a wide river. There are houses in the foreground and ships in the river.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

Saw a coyote at Fort Stevens about an hour ago. I was walking Harvey at the historic area; the coyote was in the field near the Coast Guard whatever that is on the way to the Hammond marina. It was not too close - maybe 100 yards? Quite far - but then it ran towards us into the woods that *were* […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025

The winter rains have come in with a bang and so at intervals all night Harvey the dog has woken me up by trying to get *under* my pillow, where apparently it’s safe. He weighs 65 pounds or so. . It’s been a long night.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

Took 4 to see a really nice kids ballet / theater group do Cinderella. When we got back she naturally wanted to do ballet in the kitchen so helpful gran did the first 3 positions and a couple pliés for the first time in, oh, more than 40 years. . .and that’s how I discovered that I am 2 pliés […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025

I am having a really hard time with the destruction of the White House. Its weird, as atrocity piles upon outrage, which thing gets you deep in the feels. I would not have said I was deeply attached to the White House. I went on the tour once, on my 8th grade class trip to DC. I've walked by it […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

OK so I’m not entirely crazy - flapjacks are pancakes in the US and Canada but they’re granola bars in the UK. I am partially crazy though because I think I made up the British thing in books out of whole cloth. I step down as a British - American translator.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

Well TIL that flapjack is not actually just a British word for pancakes, as I have thought my entire life. I guess that’s what happens when you leave a child alone with way too many Edwardian children’s books . 🤣

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

Ran into some old friends and bless them, they hear about my caregiving nightmares and are like, you can come to my house! Just to get away! Spend the night! And they mean well but honestly that is not helpful at all. I want to be in MY house with my stuff and my life, just not constantly […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

Have I mentioned how much I love the dreamlike juxtapositions the half-frame camera creates? Diptychs forever! This one gives such a string sense of place - 2 images to say, this is what it's like here. There's no way to know which two images are going to end up […] [Original post on mefi.social]

Two images forming a diptych with a border between them. On the left is an expanse of river under cloudy skies. On the right is a bull elk on the side of the road. This was taken with a vintage Russian film camera and the images are a little out of focus and hazy.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

We - and by we i mean me, mostly, and Four - clearly aim for a certain ramshackle charm in our holiday aesthetic. 🤣 Or we're just lame and cheap. Possibly both! Holidays should be amateur, i think, not polished. Also I can't do polished, so I don't try. In other notes, Reaper was a minor […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow. This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

We got our Halloween up! I think its looking pretty good. #Halloween #halloweendecor

A color photo of a small blue house decorated for halloween with a plast I c skeleton, a small inflatable grim reaper, an even smaller inflatable pumpkinhead, a large plastic dog in an inexplicable vampire cape and some other bits and bobs like bats.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

My takeaway: nobody is going to save us and she still believes in the rule of law despite the clear evidence that it has failed. I am disappointed. I really like her as a congressperson but these are extraordinary times and I need her to breathe more fire.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

She fell back on keeping up lawsuits, grant money that was stopped will come through, reach across the aisle, people really care. There's a groundswell of support. Not enough.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

Auditorium was a Faraday cage so no further tooting was possible. I got picked by lottery to ask question! I asked if Oregon could form its own district like health alliance w/ WA, CA, HI to protect environment & clean energy initiatives. Except not as well phrased. More incoherent actually.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

At the Rep. Suzanne Bonamici town hall in Seaside OR. Going to live toot it to keep the social anxiety at bay. Not a packed house. I'm old and one of the younger people here.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

I've been sitting on this photo for a couple weeks until it was just close enough to Halloween to bring it out. Mr. Binks, can't help it, he's just creepy by nature.#caturday #halloweenvibes #phoneography #blackcat #orbweaver #spider

A color photo of a black cat sitting on top of an fence with one paw up. In front of the fence is a larg orb weaver spider in a web.

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

My study of old #folklore gets more and more relevant to current-day affairs. Example: All of these narratives about "Things That Cause #Autism " are basically recycled folk tales about #changelings . Right now, we are at the: "The child is WRONG somehow - the mother must have been careless!" […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

Now I'm in a fancy hotel in Portland. This day has been like one of those endless dreams where you just move from weird setting to weird setting.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

Annals of caregiving in rural america: after spending most of the day in the local ER with brother, am now in the big city ER with brother. Actually daughter who has some medical background is in with brother as the dental surgeons try to stop the inexplicable bleeding. Wimp me is in the jammed […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

Extremely rough night in the caregiving sector - are you familiar with the smell of blood in large quantities? No? Stay that way. - and consequently 3 - 4 hours of sleep. I was supposed to get a broken molar pulled today but got there only to find i had to have nitrous or they would not do it […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

Recycling some sketchbooks from the 80s & 90s. L - R, the fantasy illustration stuff of my teens; a world weary early 20 something self portrait; a forgotten 90s Christmas card i might reuse this year - it's truly awful, yet heartfelt, so why not?

A pastel drawing with a loosely rendered blue princess leaving a line of loosely rendered trees. The sky is pink.

A rough charcoal drawing of a young woman's face.

A completely over the top oil pastel drawing of a Christmas card design, featuring an odd Santa in the upper right, a polar bear with antlers and some green pyramids. The artist confesses these were her new age get messed up and draw years.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

Cooking marathon concludes with 2 sets of savory breakfast muffins, on the right are corn, soyrizo, hatch Chiles, cotija and cheddar, on the left are veggie breakfast sausage, apple, spinach, zucchini and cheddar. Breakfast potluck at work tomorrow, here i come! […] [Original post on mefi.social]

A color photo of two big pans of muffins.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

I have gotten myself into a tangle with this because initially I was thinking well, it makes my life easier to just go along with the crimes, so I’ll just applaud it, and then I thought, aha! This explains it all! People just want to go along! And also we are suckers for jaunty insouciance! But […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

This is beginning to make me understand how we get to where we are today. Binks is so handsome and so debonair! I admire his criming! He does not care what anyone thinks! And it’s way easier for me to think well, look how smart he is and how elegant, the way he pulled that lunch bag out of the […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

My brother says Mr. Binks the cat is an outlaw - he is not naturally partial to cats and also, he is not wrong. So now I greet Binks by asking him how his life of crime is going and congratulate him on all the successful criming. Then he does more crimes - he just pulled a whole bunch of stuff […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025

I am just going to point out that I took both of my silent sunday photos this morning. 😀

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025

But tbh I pulled the cake dome off the free pile at the edge of the yard and used it to cover the blackberry apple pie we made yesterday. 😅 so maybe I need it after all.

A color photo of an open top very dark purple blackberry pie with chunks of apple, fuchsia from berry juice, distributed throughout.

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