jarlywarly posted:

The internet was a mistake.

Helen Highwater posted:

I was visiting my inlaws in Colorado one time

Doggles posted:

President Trump Boards Air Force One by The White House, on Flickr

jarlywarly posted:

The internet was a mistake.

Helen Highwater posted:

eggsovereasy posted:

I got a new follower on Flickr this week... He mostly posts typical weird Flickr stuff, candid photos of women's feet and photos of himself wearing women's shoes, but there's some pretty great stuff mixed in his feed:


https://www.flickr.com/photos/56618835@N08/31136013367/in/dateposted/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/56618835@N08/41207764955/in/dateposted/

Helen Highwater posted:

I was visiting my inlaws in Colorado one time and we went to visit some friends of theirs for dinner one evening. Pretty standard family setting, suburban house, older parents, one daughter about my age at the time (mid 30s), son in late 20s. We get there and the parents and the daughter are getting everything together in the kitchen, the son isn't there yet because he has been travelling and is on his way home still.

A car pulls up outside. It's a converted minivan with a sliding door. "Oh God!" says the father. "He's brought his girlfriend." Guy hops out the front. Normal-seeming, reasonably in-shape dude wearing regular urban fashion stuff. He waves at us in the kitchen and slides open the side of the van where there's a wheelchair ramp. This gets unfolded and a few minutes later he's wheeling a chair up the driveway. Father goes to the door.

"Leave it in the car!"

"But she's cold!"

"I don't care, don't bring it into the house. We have guests tonight."

Argument continues for a while. Father compromises on letting him into the house if the girlfriend stays in another room. Son insists that this is disrespectful to her and digs in. I'm pretty sure that violence is about to happen when the mother steps in and says it will be ok, she can come to the table.

That was the most loving awkward dinner I've ever been at. There was this life-size doll in a wheelchair, complete with makeup, expensive looking clothes and jewellery. Everyone else at the table was either grinding their jaws in impotent rage or studiously pretending that it wasn't there. The son kept trying to involve the doll in conversations by asking it what its opinion was. Then he'd lean over with his ear near its mouth and make some kind of reaction. Everytime he referred ta a woman or actual female humans he'd be careful to qualify them with the term bio-women. It would be like "Oh, i was driving home and there was a bio-woman in the outside lane just texting on her phone, can you believe that!" Or "My friend who is a bio-woman called Judy says that...." He was telling us about how he had togo away for a week recently and he was so glad to be home again because his girlfriend had missed him so much.

jarlywarly posted:

Humanity was a mistake.

xzzy posted:

Not sure how that's physically possible on any body newer than 5 years. My 80d has to be at iso 12800 to get that kinda noise, and the depth of field says they were pretty wide on the aperture too. Was that room pitch black?

Thom12255 posted:

Yeah ^^ it looks like a very underexposed shot that was boosted in post.

quote:

Exposure +1.50
Contrast +9
Highlights -13
Shadows +10
Whites 0
Blacks -8

ianskate posted:

Seems like it was, at least according to the metadata:

Helen Highwater posted:

I want to believe he took that shot by putting his camera on the turntable inside the microwave, then turning it on at low MAXIMUM power.

xzzy posted:

Scrolling through Explore every so often is a real eye opener.

(flickr's discovery tools need a ground up rewrite because it's worthless)

xzzy posted:

second life screenshots

xzzy posted:

The Explore page is personalized? By stuff you've favorited I assume?

I was under the assumption it was a daily generated list of images that got the most group invite spam.