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In the elections of 2025, Democrats were amazingly successful:

Chris Cillizza: "So far in 2025, Democrats have flipped 25 GOP-held state legislative seats.
Republicans have flipped 0 Democratic0-held seats."
#politics #winning copy: @renewedresistance

😇THE TEMPLE OF THE 2 BUDDHAS😇

Nison-in (二尊院) is named after its two statues: Shaka Nyorai (釈迦如来 Buddha) blesses the world's newborns, and Amida Nyorai (阿弥陀如来) greets the dead.
It's unusual for a temple to have two principal images.

#Nisonin #二尊院 #Arashiyama #嵐山

TFW your annoyance with trying to fine focus the new, inexpensive, digital microscope serves as justification to purchase an XYZR stage…
Well, my current streak of 1333 consecutive days with no fewer than 10k steps is about to end. Perhaps, if I’d received the cortisone shot for my grade 2 meniscus tear in the morning, I could have eeked out the needed steps today. On the other hand, cortisone FTW! Although it might really be, cortisone WTF?!
Damn it. RIP @stevesilberman
Brother Sebastiano and Bishop Vincenzo
Cirami, Italy
#photography #blackAndWhite #sicily

I'm making brand-new silver gelatin prints from century-old negatives and it's making me giddy. I had always planned to make a custom holder and dig out the 4x5 enlarger, but it occurred to me that these negatives are big enough for simple contact prints, so that's what I'm doing.

Also, never throw away your negatives! 100 years from now, someone might want to make new prints from them.

#FilmPhotography

Recent prints of photographs taken on the streets of San Francisco circa 1976.
#sfba #photography #streetPhotography #believeInFilm #blackAndWhite #35mm
Wood turner
Palermo, Italy
#photography #blackAndWhite
Got back in the darkroom at Harvey Milk Photo Center after a half century hiatus. (Well, maybe only 49 years and it was just called 50 Scott Street then…) Prints of Harvey and Scott Smith at Castro Camera seemed like a fitting way to resume. The occasion was a pie for Scott’s 27th birthday. Bette from Mendel’s Far Out Fabrics on Haight Street was there too. I was trying to recall why Bette was there when I realized I can’t recall why I was.
#photography #blackAndWhite #believeInFilm #hmpc #sfba