Chris Nelson

@chrisnelsonsdog@mstdn.social
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Socially awkward penguin, rollin' hard in the land of fediverse chicks and reply guys.
Dear Chasey Lain
I wrote to complain
You never wrote me back
#Sing

Standing in the bakery line at Safeway in a small town.
Old fellow, kind who has enough tools in his truck to change your engine, is in front of me.
He orders a sheet cake, and asks the worker to "put some gay stuff on it", since his son has just come out.
The worker draws a rainbow, dad picks out rainbow flags. Asks her what else is "gay".
After he leaves it takes the young baker and I a moment to stop smiling at each other.

@lgbtqia
@lgbtq
@lgbtq_plus
#trans #lgbtqia #happypride

IF THIS WATER'S SO SMART, HOW COME I'M DRINKING IT?
Goodnight Mastonauts
#Sunset
@jackcole this is why I love the Fediverse!
@chrisnelsonsdog if the Sun were the size of a grain of table salt, the distance to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star, would be about four kilometers. Think about that. Can you imagine putting a single grain of salt down, walking four kilometers, looking back and being able to see it? But it gives off tremendous amounts of light, so we can.

There’s a little family of wrens in the garden so I took my camera out, hoping to get a pic. They’d busied off by the time I got back. But then I heard a low hum…

A hummingbird hawk moth feeding on the soapwort flowers. So fast that even the stills from 4K video are blurred.

#insects #moth

Don’t donate your plasma. It’s a big scam and they’re just using it to make TVs.
Birds eye view.
#Sunset
The tiny dinos are all lined up on the power line to watch the sunset.
#Birds
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Edited for drama. This orchid is a more pale, delicate yellow in real life. But these edits bring out the details and the sparkliness of the petals.
#bloomscrolling #orchid
@dillyd
Filters bring out sharp contrast the human eye misses in normal light. My camera at sunrise never misses a cloud line.
@Rasta
I love zooming into photos to see what I've missed
@dillyd Decades ago, 70s and into the 80s, they had a club, called VOICESPONDENCE, where you mailed cassettes, or tape reels around to *pen pals*. It was very detailed. I'll explain:
The book had an index for every listed name.
IE: Gardening G, Computer C, Blind (EYE SYM) and sports, hobbies, etc. I had a good group, varied. One girl in California was blind, and got free mailing materials, so she had her subscriptions sent to me free, and I read them to her on cassette tape to pass the time at sea, and we got magazines to read at sea. Another took macro photography and would include a photo from time to time. and we round-robinned the tape to 4-5 others, each recording content and answers back, and guessing what the macro photo was in the envelope. A simple comb tooth will amaze you
@Rasta that's amazing. What a cool program.
@dillyd imagine, before Digital, no CDs, no PCs, and we had 5000 members in the book.
@dillyd Freaking amazing!