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Farce Majeure

@vathpela.uncooperative.org
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Hooloovoo, kernel{, }hacker. Building better worlds. Opinions are messages from space. Facts approximate. Photos are square. he/they. 0.9x engineer 🚴 🚉 🌹 Ban cars. Sometimes I make portraits of buildings and infrastructure.

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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 21/10/2026
Just like that, my voting plan goes down the drain. Guess I'll swing by the election office tomorrow.
A jury duty summons for election day.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 20/10/2026
Two Bridges and a Train #photography #EastCoastKin #BlackAndWhite #CambridgeMA #Boston #ClassicMono #ArchForma #Transportation
The Longfellow Bridge, on the Cambridge side, with car lights passing underneath and a train crossing above
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 19/10/2026
Head of the Charles Regatta #photography #Boston #CambridgeMA #BlackAndWhite #HOCR #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin
A two person crew boat passes under a brick bridge on a river in an urban area.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 18/10/2026
Head of the Charles Regatta #photography #Boston #CambridgeMA #BlackAndWhite #HOCR #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin
A crew team of four races up a river.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 18/10/2026
Head of the Charles Regatta #photography #Boston #CambridgeMA #BlackAndWhite #HOCR
A crew boat going out of sight as it crosses under a bridge
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 17/10/2026
I get why there's a DJ and food venues and whatnot, but who decided a regatta was a good reason to permit making a car dealership in a state conservation area?
A car dealership built in the middle of a park
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 16/10/2026
Also it directly precipitated the AP switching to using color film by default, because a whole lot of papers asked for a color version of this shot, and they didn't have one because it wasn't an important enough event to use color film stock:
Budd Dwyer waving a .357 Magnum around while telling people to stay back so they wouldn't get hurt.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 16/10/2026
Winter is coming. #photography #CambridgeMA #BlackAndWhite #ArchitecturePhotography #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
A large salt barn on a clear sunny day.  There are trees with bright leaves.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 12/10/2026
Coincidentally I just got some big prints from my Easter trip to Chicago back... #HATM
Photo of a 12x24 print of a detail of the Carbide and Carbon buildingPhoto of a 24x12 print of a reflection of an Art Deco skyscraper off of an International style building
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 11/10/2026
I couldn't make it last week due to a work trip. Glad to be back! #HATM
A girl taking a photo of the obelisk in Prague CastleThe entryway to the large tower of St. Vitus CathedralLights leading down to the Vltava river, with Prague Castle and St. Vitus Cathedral visible in the background A guard station near Saints Peter & Paul Basilica on a rainy night
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 09/10/2026
This airport terminal has one of those robotic barista booths. It has completely run out of supplies, but continues going through the motions.
A big box with windows and a robot arm flailing about
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 09/10/2026
Portrait of the artist as a young girl #photography #ArchitecturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #prague #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #scape
An obelisk in the open courtyard of a medieval castle is being photographed by a small girl with a phone.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 08/10/2026
It's nice of them to put a bar by the castle wall in case it's suddenly pouring rain.
Some outdoor furniture looking out over Prague from way above the city. There is a pilsner.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 04/10/2026
I don't know what a Mediterranean Breakfast Calzone is, but at least it smells good.
Mediterranean Breakfast Calzone
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 27/09/2026
So much weather is happening in Cambridge
A cherry picker sawing fallen tree limbs off of a power line
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 25/09/2026
Well, that's wild.
The sky a bit after sunset. It is a gradient of blues and glowing pinks and oranges.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 19/09/2026
?
Still from the well known Folgers ad
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 15/09/2026
TFW Google says I can use Gemini to take notes of my personal conversations.
Stringer Bell asking "is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 14/09/2026
#photography #Boston #BlackAndWhite #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
Portrait of an elephant sculpture built from lantana stalks stitched together
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 14/09/2026
Also Jaws 19. I hear Alan Silvestri does the score. #HATM
Marty McFly in front of a holographic shark above a Jaws 19 marquee
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 14/09/2026
1) Graeber's "Debt: The First 5000 Years" 2) nothing too fancy but it's pretty good: chicken wings and beans from Smoke Shack #HATM
A tray of chicken wings and a cup of baked beans.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 12/09/2026
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only
The cast of Gilligan's Island
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 11/09/2026
I could do this all day.
The scene is blindingly white. Through the snow, you can see the Boston Community Boating dock, covered with tarped boats for the winter. The sky and the river are the same color, with just a hint of anything beyond the lines of masts.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 11/09/2026
RP W/ UR HOME RIVER
A different view of the Charles River in Cambridge. The Longfellow Bridge extends across the frame to Boston, with a skyscraper extending above the crossing train, as two students make out on a small dock below.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 07/09/2026
1) oh you have no idea how very much not in a D&D party I am. 2) Ronin 3) barbecue from Redbones #HATM
A cardboard takeout tray with pulled pork, mac & cheese, and plastic tubs of baked beans and barbecue sauce.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 01/09/2026
It's done locally. In Cambridge we get these, which were designed by a local high school student some years ago:
Cambridge's "I Voted" sticker
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 29/08/2026
Post your getaway vehicle
Photo of a Citi Bike rental bicycle
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 28/08/2026
Bunker Hill? #photography #Boston #UrbanGaze #EastCoastKin #BlackAndWhite #ClassicMono #Scape
Boston's Bunker Hill Bridge just after sunset
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 27/08/2026
Simpsons screenshot with subtitles:

That's "chowdah!" "Chowdah!" I'll kill you! I'll kill all of you! Especially those of you in the jury!
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 19/08/2026
"LaserLight Digital" CD of Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 17/08/2026
Wait, why aren't people supposed to know who Steve McQueen is? #HATM
Screenshot of Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen and the words "I never rode shotgun on a hearse before".
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 17/08/2026
3) it's sushi night... #HATM
A plate full of sushi with a dish of soy sauce and some chopsticks
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 15/08/2026
- here's a map in the train station of how to get around Charleston. Note that the train station isn't anywhere near being on the map. In fact it's about 3 maps away.
A map of bus routes around Charleston.  The train station isn't on this map.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 15/08/2026
- sure, 90 minutes early, why not... - it is insane that the kitchen will already be closed.
Amtrak train status that says the train is currently 53m late coming in to Charleston tonight, but 91m early in New York tomorrow morning.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 14/08/2026
Screenshot of James Gandolfini as the mayor of New York in the remake of "The Taking of Pelham 123”.  Someone off screen is saying "I have a car waiting for us downstairs.". The mayor replies "the subway will get us there faster!"
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 14/08/2026
"beach" #photography #BlackAndWhite #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin
The screen porch of a beach rental apartment. There's so much rain the screens are completely diffuse.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 10/08/2026
Here we go. #HATM
An Amtrak roomette with a movie playing on a tablet and a plate of steak with green beans and mashed potatoes.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 10/08/2026
Looks like this should work out alright. Dinner should be delivered sometime in act 1. I'll let y'all know, but if it's on the menu I'll probably get the flatiron. #HATM.
An Amtrak roomette. There's a tablet showing the MGM logo on the fold-out table.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 03/08/2026
1) gotta go with the Gardner Heist, as it's local and unsolved 2) Star Trek II. 3) restaurant ramen #HATM
Fancy ramen
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 28/07/2026
"There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible"
Screenshot of Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters.  He's playing with his mashed potatoes.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 24/07/2026
Well, it's finally happened. Complete temporal inversion. Fellas, it's been good to know ya.
Weather forecast time-series chart that has an eronious zero value and is inappropriately using splines to draw the line through sample data.  As a result the past and future converge on a figure 8 on the temperature.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 22/07/2026
John Cleese as a Roman centurion in Life of Brian
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 20/07/2026
1) d.b.cooper (j/k, I'd really rather not.) 2) Sliding Doors, just so we can all go "wth, an Oscar for that?" 3) Friday night's chili #HATM
A bowl of chili covered in cheese and with some sour cream and a small margarita on the rocks
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 17/07/2026
Rally for Louisa Gag at Boston City Hall.
A lot of bicyclists in front of the brutalist wonder
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 15/07/2026
The sort of day that makes you wonder if you can get a home CO2 scrubber in case it's never safe to open your windows again.
A very orange/brown sky over some condo buildings
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 14/07/2026
Sail Boston #photography #Boston #BlackAndWhite #SailBoston #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin
Nautical flags on a line from the bow of a sailing ship, heading up towards the mast.
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 13/07/2026
1) don't think I've ever read one specifically 2) We're going to steal the Declaration of Independence... 3) Shake Shack, who have unfortunately sent me fries >instead of onion rings :( #HATM
A bunless burger chopped up on a plate and some french fries and condiments
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 13/07/2026
Scene from The Hunt for Red October with the Secretary of State asking: Andrei... You've lost *another* submarine?!
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 12/07/2026
Lisa and Bart Simpson. Bart is explaining "I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda".
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 12/07/2026
The pier #photography #CharlestownMA #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
Wooden pylons supporting the deck of a large pier.  You can't see the light of day through them, and you can tell it's low tide because of a lot of mosses and tiny barnacles.
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