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Despite the hundreds of shiny new screws in unopened packages, I’ve still got my ‘special’ jar, overflowing with rust and illogical retention.
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Sign close to the old Eastham Ferry Landing. There might be a long wait.
Since the Middle Ages, a ferry service operated across the River Mersey between Eastham and Liverpool, the early ferries being run by monks from the Abbey of St. Werburgh. By the late 1700s, up to 40 coaches each day arrived at a newly built pier, carrying passengers and goods for the ferry. Paddle steamers were introduced in 1816 to replace the sailing boats, but the demand for a service declined in the 1840s with the opening of a railway link between Chester and Birkenhead Woodside Ferry.
If you read up on the slide from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era and into the Great Depression, you'll see many things that remind you of the present day.
It's not exact, of course. That's not how history works. Things tend to cycle in a very loose way, but history doesn't actually repeat itself.
For instance, in a lot of ways, we've cut the Gilded Age a bit short and mostly skipped the Progressive Age. We did a bit of it at the same time (we've gotten very good at multi-tasking over the last century).
While certainly mainstream, the progressive movements of the Progressive Era had quite a bit of direct action and grassroots activism as their foundation. Today, it's essentially the other way around almost like they've got us coming and going.
If you read much of what Herbert Hoover was about, you'll see much of the current president-elect in the broad strokes.
There are probably more differences than similarities between them, thought they both travel the same path. Hoover won all but seven states in his election. He was so unpopular after four years, he lost all but five in his re-election bid. The Depression hit and Hoover had no answer for it.
Hoover left Washington in disgrace after four years. I'd love to be wrong about this, but I don't think the president-elect, should he survive four years, will do the same.
If true, looking to American history for rhymes and echoes will be pointless. Look towards Europe and nearly a century in the past for that comparison.
In fact, it might be a good idea to start looking there now, just in case.
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'The Corner Turned'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Fomapan 100
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
July 2021
Oregon
Running many hours late, Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr sails downgrade between Low and Marblehead, Utah on the old WP mainline. Amtrak's 50th anniversary edition of the 'pointless arrow' leads the charge through a snowy scene.
AMTK 161 ~ AMT6 ~ Low, Utah
Union Pacific's Shafter Subdivision
01.23.2023
20901 is seen running on the down through road at Bristol Temple Meads at stupid o clock this morning.She arrived at Kingsland Road on Monday tea time but her first run later the same evening was cancelled. This meant that my visit from Teignmouth was going to be a bit of a gamble. Luckily her working was activated but it entered RTT as 3Q81 2220 Kingsland Road to BTM platform 15 with no other details. She was towing a new gadget which i believe is a specialised piece of kit for checking the condition of pointwork. Anyway she spent the whole night running backwards and forwards between Stapleton Road and Parson Street each time taking a different route through the station. Thank Odin for Open Track.
The other problem to contend with was that Temple Meads seems to be used as a large storage depot overnight nowadays with an IET or Castle Set on most platforms making photography very challenging. Combine that with the loco not stopping and the hideous scaffolding over the main arch with grim horrible white lighting and you can understand the scale of the challenge.
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In summer 2014 we went for dinner at Mt. Adams near downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. I found this floodlight illuminating the Holy Cross Immaculata Church. Bugs attracted to the light were performing a futile dance for us.
Have you been attracted to people or things where you later realized that it was pointless? I have. Keep these bugs in mind. :-)
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure taken with my favorite 50mm prime lens.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposures, NEX-6, _DSC5246_hdr1bal1c
Colored North Vortice. July2025. Almost identical, black and white version, shot on the Fujica ST801 with a 28 mm: www.flickr.com/photos/200106881@N04/54765885247/ Abandoned storefront on The Square in Dewitt, Arkansas, USA. KodakPortra160. NikonFE2. Voightlander20mm. BelliniC41ColorDeveloper. AGOFilmProcessor. CameraScan:FujifilmXH1
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صراخ من هنا او هناك .. دماء هنا وهناك .. و في كل معركة .. ينتصر فقط المصفقون ..
وألوم نفسي .. أكنت يوما من حزب المتفرجين ..
فلا جنون الحرب تغريني ... ولا كلمات الطغاة تغويني ..
وحدها وحشة الطريق أبكتني .. فغدوت كورقة خريف .. سقطت يوما في منتصف الصيف ..
I can't be quite sure, but I do believe this is my old buddy "Big Ben" from last year.
He seems to still be the dominate male in the herd.
His antlers grew in very weird this year. You can see on the one side where points start to pop out of the main branch but never form into a full point.
Amtrak 156 leads P091 across McGirts Creek Bridge in the perfect morning sun, only because he's over an hour late.
I took this photo in Point Roberts one year ago on this April day, and today I'm wondering when I'll ever be able to revisit it and I imagine all the Canadians that own cottages there and all the Americans who rely on us Canadians to shop there are all feeling sadness, we miss each other, its so strange, its so close to us and yet we can't go there ... sigh.
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The TV quiz show Pointless often has rounds with photographs of wildlife to be identified in the earlier rounds but last week there was a wildlife question in the final. The three categories in "British bugs" were to name a British butterfly, bumblebee or ladybird. In case you've not seen it they ask 100 people the same question, and the contestants have to come up with an answer that none of the 100 people picked. Anyway, what I am getting round to is that Bilberry Bumblebee was a pointless answer. Though I think most answers were pointless, with Red Admiral being the highest scoring insect.
Bilberry Bumblebee (Bombus monticola) is a rare Bumblebee, restricted to the uplands of Britain. It does feed on Bilberry flowers (Vaccinium myrtillus) early in the year which grows on moorlands, which is where it is most often seen. Fortunately the Peak District Moors close to my house are a hot spot for this rare Bumblebee so I see them quite frequently. The scientific name monticola also means mountain-dweller. They have trouble finding nectar sources on the moors between the spring-flowering Bilberry, and the autumn-flowering heather and many depend on flower-rich haymeadows on the moorland fringe.
Bilberry Bumblebees can be identified by the combination of a massive orange tail (more than half the abdomen is orange), and a "typical" yellow and black striped thorax. Though the yellow stripes are a very pale, cold yellow unlike the bright, warm yellow of the common garden Bumblebees. Bilberry Bumblebee rather looks a bit like two bits of the wrong Bumblebee have been stuck together. This one was nectaring on a Marsh Thistle on the Peak District Moors near Holmfirth..
Their distribution map is on Bumblebee Conservation's website here: www.bumblebeeconservation.org/bumblebee-species-guide/
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Enveloped Ideas by Kamoteus2003 (The Dawn)
Singing out my enveloped ideas
Doesn’t seem all too bad
Hoping it would be easier
To sing out my enveloped ideas
Stanza I:
T0rying pointlessly to understand
Having nothing to say
Just shadows what remains boy Inside
This is called is what my envelope ideas
Singing out my envelope ideas
Doesn’t seem all too bad
Hoping it would be easier
To sing out my enveloped ideas
Stanza II:
Why should I carry this platter? (platter)
Didn’t it just pass me by? (by…)
And does one cling right on the edge? (the edge)
I have an empty dream, this here my ideas.
Copyright© 2009 Kamoteus/RonMiguel RN
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There are days when Lysanne hears the screeches and many wings beating outside long before she opens her eyes. They wind their way into her dreams... or nightmares.
She knows there's no point in even getting out of bed, for there will be no living on these days <3
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Porcelain bjd, outfit and wig by OvkStudioDolls
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I'm finding it difficult to get myself out of bed at the weekends these days... if I'm not working :/
Rather pointlessly I’ve got another picture of 676, in the same place I took the majority of the Streetdecks on Hockley. Although considering it was repainted, this is the one time I saw the nearside while still in lilac line livery.
Although 675 and 676 said 24/25/26/27 on the sides, they never seemed to do the 25 or 27 very often... or at all, really? I dare say they did the occasional run on one or the other, but I don’t remember one ever doing a full day on 25/27.
BN75 NWW
Hockley, Nottingham
10.6.26
After what seemed like a pointless, long run to Milford Carting and back, CSX train B747 ties down in Cedar Hill yard, North Haven, CT.
Same spot as the previous photo. The cloud was forming around us, engulfing everything in whiteness. It did feel like it would be a pointless trip to the Peaks, as we couldn't see anything below the ridge. And then - a small, but significant gap in the cloud has opened. We suddenly could see the whole ridge, down to the bottom of the valley, all the way to the famous Hope Valley cement works chimney. And then the colours appeared. It was only a narrow band of pinks and reds, on the edge of the gap, but it was worth it. My obsession with LE took over, whilst my partner was taking countless phone photos of how nice it was. And then all of it disappeared in the cloud again.
This is POINTLESS
A battered and broken jetty,that has seen far better days
Hope you like her,it's a bit of an expedition to get to it but I think worth it
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Pointless.
Íomhánna radacacha a shíneadh ábhair thaitneamhacha saothair thábhachtacha a léiríonn blianachtaí ag crith le réaltaí farraigí doimhne sólás gleoite gormacha ag dul amú,
visages abominables reflets ronds sourires bon marché méditant harmonies thèmes fantaisistes lumières étranges babillage combats dribbles colonnes,
dühös bejárat gondolkodó utcák szemlélő morzsákat blokkoló ablakok sötétség sarkok csillogó függöny arany falak gőzök messze,
prionnsapalan tuairisgeulach dearbh fhaclan rannan ainmeil samhlachail pàipear-taice abairt bàrdachd tòimhseachain leasanan rannan seann mhìneachaidhean,
poszarpane poranki żółte ruiny dzwoniące miecze niewygodne śmierci zaciekawione zbroje bijące wrogów ciemne owoce wirujące niebezpieczne piosenki muchy,
冷たい金属のいたずらのすべての破裂する緑裸の考え華麗な野生のプルームが役割を果たしている灼熱の作品艶をかけられた目燃える太陽狂った世界木材の変化サテンの雲紫色の穴どこでも.
Steve.D.Hammond.