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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 22/09/2026

big solitary cumulonimbus dropping in like a mothership. the scale of this is hard to grasp. that low ridge over there is actually some of the highest peaks in colorado, 8000 ft or more higher than this viewpoint. that storm is MILES tall.

photo of a massive cumulonimbus cloud in the distance. in the foreground the dark silhouette of some city buildings and a few lights can be seen. the cloud is dropping rain over the mountains in the distance. it's dark grey but lit up vivid salmon on its western edge by the setting sun. the sky is otherwise mostly clear aside from a few ragged clouds, steel blue up high, but ominous red down at the horizon.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 22/09/2026

i don't really watch anime anymore, but i spent the summer of '98 working in a gas station and instead of buying something cool like a car or a stereo, i blew every penny i earned buying anime on VHS! i still have most of these in a box in the closet...

a 3x3 grid of anime images from a website that has you pick "the 9 anime that shaped who i am" which is putting it more than a bit strongly, but anyway, the titles are: neon genesis evangelion (original series), serial experiments lain, bubblegum crisis, slayers next, the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya, ghost in the shell (the 1995 movie), iria: zeiram the animation, cowboy bebop, nausicaa of the valley of the wind

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 12/09/2026

I suppose I should post the version from the Technical Manual while we're at it. I'd forgotten it was monochrome.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 27/07/2026

i actually thought all those photos of fat bumblebees napping in a flower were some social media horseshit, probably half of them AI fakes too, but i guess i just never looked. i saw this one hanging here in the shade on a hot day barely moving for 5 or 10 minutes before going on with her business.

closeup photo of a fuzzy golden honeybee clinging to the underside of a pale green globe thistle bloom, apparently having a little nap in the shade. a couple other thistle blooms can be seen out of focus in the near background, and the sky behind it all is clear blue.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 10/06/2026

i only play upright bass once a year anymore and it always gets gnarly

close photo of the index and middle fingers of my right hand, each with a massive blister on the tip

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 01/06/2026

i played it on winamp with the visualizations going as is correct and proper

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 20/05/2026

oh genius, i hadn't even been thinking in that direction

old ad illustration for the pogo ball! a toy from the 80s consisting of a springy inflatable sphere surrounded by a plastic platform. you'd stand on the platform and bounce around.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 17/05/2026

i made some unplanned carnitas last night, so breakfast this morning was carnitas & eggs tostadas. i thought it looked cool! it was tasty, but to be honest a bit dry. i should've done the salsa in the food processor instead of chopping it but i don't always make the best choices before coffee.

photo of a plate of tostadas next to a mason jar of iced coffee, sitting on a wooden countertop. the tostadas are two small corn tortillas fried light brown, topped with shredded pork that's a bit charred around the edges, topped with fried eggs you can't quite see, topped with red and green roughly-chopped tomato salsa, all with a bit of crumbled white cotija cheese sprinkled over it. the coffee is topped with cinnamon-flecked foam from being shaken up with ice in the jar.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 26/04/2026

chili season is over, you fools!!! it is now.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................'𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛

photo from directly overhead of a pile of fresh asparagus that's been sliced thinly on a sharp bias, in a white bowl sitting on a wooden countertop.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 23/04/2026

posted a version of this before but i wanted to see if it looked better with the exciting new file sizes

photo of a haphazard utility pole framed by huge leafy trees, all seen in silhouette against the last fading light in the west after sunset.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 22/04/2026

when i saw this achewood strip from 2007 i went 😲

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 29/03/2026

pensacola beach, fl, 1/2026 the only person i saw in the water all week

photo looking out at the ocean from the beach. it's a grey, cold, stormy day, the waves are high and the blue-green water is choppy. in the lower left a man in a black wetsuit can be seen rising up out of the surf. he's a kite surfer, being pulled by the white, crescent-shaped kite seen in the upper right.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 29/03/2026

don't wanna flood people's feeds:

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i'd never been to pensacola before, but i was stuck there alone for a week in january.

pensacola itself is trumpy as hell, like i guess you'd expect from north florida. remember how you forgot trump renamed the gulf of mexico? they didn't forget in pensacola, they've posted star-spangled, red white & blue-striped signs proudly pointing the way to the "gulf of america" on every corner.

but the island of pensacola beach was surreal, disorienting. i got a cheap deal on a hotel room with an ocean view, because it was a dead empty ghost town in midwinter, with an icy wind howling off the gulf. wherever i went, i was the only one there.

everything around me screamed that i was in a beach party town, except all the people were missing. all silent, nothing moving. the closer i looked the more it all seemed fake, like a movie set. the coffee & sandwich shop was literally named "cafe bistro." it was next to "paddy o'leary's irish pub." i got a shrimp basket at a place called, no shit, "shrimp basket," which was around the corner from "piazza pizza."

these aren't real places, these are fake names that give the audience the impression of a pizza place without having to clear copyright. or maybe it's all just carefully designed to help blind-drunk college republicans on spring break understand where they are. there was also a hooters and a señor frog's.

(to be fair, the shrimp basket was excellent. cafe bistro was closed, but above the door a foot-tall banner spanning the storefront made sure The Troops were Thanked regardless. i ate at "the reef" instead, the menu of which, in a magnificent display of creativity, turned out to have not one single item of seafood. the waitress called me y'all out of habit before catching herself.)

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 28/03/2026

for reference, here's the same sunset with my "good" camera... a point-and-shoot from 2012. ok, yeah, this one is vastly better in many ways. but. uh

photo looking out over the ocean at sunset. it's the exact same view as the photo in the post above, but everything is much clearer and the colors are much richer.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 01/01/2026

BEHOLD. every year i grab as much citrus as i'm allowed from the fruit basket my aunt sends us and juice it all into what my brother has dubbed CHRISTMAS JUICE. it glows with concentrated christmas power, and let me tell you it is some real holy shit on new year's morning.

photo of a mason jar (well, ball jar) of mixed citrus juice. it's dark in the room but the juice appears to glow golden from within. there are strings of christmas lights out of focus in the background.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 21/12/2025

hell yeah it's chili season!

top-down photo of a red enamel dutch oven on a stove, full of chili simmering. red tomatoes and green jalapenos can be seen floating in the rich, brown broth among chunks of beef.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 07/09/2025

couple last beach photos before fall. lightning pics are of course corny and cliche, except mine which are sooooo coooool. i love the huge explosions in the clouds!! south carolina 2008

view from the beach at night of a distant lightning storm over the water. a bolt of lightning hits the ocean and the storm clouds towering above are lit up from within. the lightning is all blinding purple pink but the glow of the moon behind the clouds can be seen in yellow to the left of the frame.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 25/08/2025

they dropped long rock jetties about every 1/4 mile to try to keep the beach in place. it's futile of course, but the rocks attract a ton of wildlife like these cockles. south carolina 2016

closeup photo of a cluster of cockles attached to big granite boulders on the beach. they're about half an inch wide. they're striped with black and gold in arcs, and deep ridges radiating from the hinge, and they shine iridecent where the sun hits them. it's out of the water but everything's wet from the crashing waves. green seaweed, barnacles, and a couple of tiny whelks can be seen nearby on the rocks as well.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 25/08/2025

no idea where the black sand comes from, or why it's laid down in a pattern. south carolina 2013

closeup photo of sand on the beach. it's taken at a flat angle so only a horizontal strip in the middle of the frame is in focus. the sand is mostly clear white but there are a good many black particles that have somehow by action of wind or waves been deposited in diagonal stripes across the beach. where the picture goes out of focus you can see the sand dissolve into a rainbow of lights.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 25/08/2025

this is my kind of beach: endless white sand, low waves and tide pools, no people. this isn't anything exotic and expensive, it's just south carolina. 2013

photo of the ocean from the beach. it's low tide, there are whitecaps and breakers to the horizon. a long tide pool stretches all the way across the frame. a few dead black trees stand at its edge, they were probably growing on high ground until a hurricane came through and reshaped the coast. the sand is dirty white, the sky is clear blue. there are no people to be seen.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 23/06/2025

and i got this one from @holboldoart.bsky.social‬! it's haunting, it's so silent and cold. this is what i love about winter. the quiet, the dark, the transformation. i expect i'll live to see the last of the snow, outside of the highest latitudes and altitudes.

photo of a painting of winter farmland. it's a view of small, snow-covered fields, bordered by snowy hedges, small trees and fences, stretching to the horizon. the sky is dark slate grey with heavy clouds at dusk. a road crosses from left to right, also covered with snow. cars have left some tire tracks. another road intersects with that one at a diagonal from the bottom left, and where they meet there's a utility pole with a payphone on it. the phone is hanging off the hook, and footprints in the snow lead up to it and away. the utility pole is just one in a line leading away into the distance ahead of us. in the far distance in that direction an impossibly tall radio mast towers over the landscape, lit with four red aviation obstruction lights. aside from the red lights, everything is dark and grey-blue and frozen.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 23/06/2025

i also got this incredible set from ‪@artofmaquenda.bsky.social! i think this is stunning, and it looks even better in print.

photo of two prints, one above the other. they appear to be watercolors, or maybe marker work. each is a picture of a fox, at the same time dead and decaying, and bursting with life, and the way they're lying they look almost like they're dancing. the fox in the top print looks mostly whole with orange fur intact, but you can see its ribs where its skin is gone, and springtime plant life is growing from the body in bright green and pink flowers. the fox in the bottom print is also mostly still covered with fur, but both its ribs and its skull are showing. it has fall foliage growing out all over. together the positions of the foxes in the two paintings sort of form a circle, spring-fall-death-life.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 23/06/2025

look at this badass anglerfish print i got from @phasemoth.bsky.social! in person it looks like it's about to thrash right out of the frame. i love the ocean more than anything, and i love the sort of heavy metal styling.

photo of a framed black & white print of an ink drawing of an anglerfish. the drawing is super energetic and violent, filling the whole frame. the fish's gaping mouth is huge and full of long sharp teeth. the drawing is very stylized, it looks kind of like a cross between a black seadevil and a dragon.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 24/05/2025

well what year was it though

capture from an old mcdonald's commercial showing their burger packaging with the hot meat on one side separated from the cold tomato & lettuce on the other

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 13/05/2025

another old one. i did just recently, at long last, in spite of the goddamn tiktok kids buying everything in stock everywhere, get a new [old, refurb] camera, but i'm still learning how to drive it.

photo, looking across a pedestrian bridge at night. three blue lights overhead shine dim spots down the path in the dark. in the distance the bright lights of a large arena can be seen. weathered steel trusses rising on either side show this used to be a railroad bridge.

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 09/05/2025

just for fun, here's the exact same spot today, 11 years later

photo. same spot as in the previous post, but it's sunny, and in the past 11 years trees have grown up along the path and colorful abstract murals since painted on the cement walls have started to fade.

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