Brasha 🏳️‍🌈

@brasha

Navigating strange times with a mix of philosophy, compassion, and quiet outrage. Advocate for drug law reform, works in harm reduction. Expect random reposts and photos taken over the years. He/Him. No DMs. All images mine unless reposted.

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Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· 16d

The burn. 🔥🔥🔥

When Pete Hegseth said he wanted our military to embrace a "Spartan' mindset, apparently he meant suffering a crushing defeat by the Persians.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Jul 11

Made me laugh.

A satirical political meme featuring a close-up photograph of U.S. Senator John Fetterman speaking, mouth open mid-sentence, against a dark blue background. Over the lower half of the image is a black text box with bold yellow and white lettering reading:

"FETTERMAN SLAMS CRITICS WHO CLAIM MITCH MCCONNELL IS DEAD:"

Below, in smaller white text, the meme quotes:

"He has just as much brain activity as me, if not more." The senator said Thursday morning while grazing in a field.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· May 30

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A surreal abstract artwork shows a small human figure standing at the centre of a vast field of flowing patterns. Dark geometric forms converge from the left, while warm organic currents and branching shapes spread from the right, meeting at a luminous vanishing point that suggests a shift in perspective. Overlaid text reads: "The Real Test of Compassion. It's not how we treat people whose choices we understand, but how we treat those whose choices we don't." The image evokes themes of compassion, complexity, human dignity, and seeing context rather than judgement.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Mar 8

Screenshot of a social media post by Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com). The text argues that widely shared close-up images of U.S. senator Markwayne Mullin during the January 6 Capitol attack are misleading and claims a wider photo shows him hiding rather than protecting others.

Below the caption is a wide photo of the U.S. House chamber during the January 6 attack. Several people in suits and security personnel cluster near a doorway on the left side of the image, some appearing to brace or move heavy furniture as a barrier. On the right side, rows of brown leather chamber seats curve around the room. A man identified in the post as Markwayne Mullin is highlighted with a yellow circle; he is crouched low behind one of the seats, leaning forward with his hands on the bench as if taking cover.

At the bottom of the screenshot are the post’s timestamp and interface elements typical of a social media platform.

Implied meaning / tone (for archival context):

The post presents the image as evidence for a critical interpretation of Mullin’s actions during the Capitol attack, arguing he was hiding for personal safety rather than defending others. The tone is accusatory and reframes the widely circulated moment through a different photographic angle.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Mar 7

The commander reportedly cited the Book of Revelation and claimed that Trump had been “anointed by Jesus” to trigger Armageddon.

Screenshot of a social media post by the account “thatgayguycandlecompany.” The post begins with the text: “What the actual fuck?” followed by a quote attributed to a military commander claiming that “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.” The post continues: “This is what Pete Hegseth has unleashed within our military.”

Below the caption is an embedded image of a typed email or letter dated March 2, 2026. It appears to be written by an anonymous U.S. military non-commissioned officer to Michael “Mikey” Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. The writer asks for their identity to be protected and describes a combat readiness briefing in which their commander allegedly told troops not to fear current operations involving Iran because they were “part of God’s divine plan.” The commander reportedly cited the Book of Revelation and claimed that Trump had been “anointed by Jesus” to trigger Armageddon.

At the bottom of the screenshot are social media engagement icons showing over a thousand likes, hundreds of comments, and several hundred shares, indicating the post is circulating widely online.

Implied meaning / tone (for archival context):

The post expresses alarm and disbelief at the alleged mixing of evangelical end-times theology with U.S. military command rhetoric. The tone is critical and incredulous, presenting the email as evidence of religious extremism influencing military leadership.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Mar 2

ReLisa D'Files

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Jan 24

Still Life. #photography #interiors

A narrow interior hallway with dark wooden floorboards and patterned curtains pulled back on both sides, framing an open doorway. Beyond the doorway is a shaded veranda with potted green plants and hanging baskets, opening onto a leafy outdoor setting. A small dog’s legs are partially visible outside, and a single dog toy lies on the floor in the hallway, leading the eye toward the light outside.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Dec 20

Somewhere in Santorini #greece #santorini #photography #architecture

Two weathered, ornate wall lanterns mounted on a pale stone building, their curved metal brackets and cloudy glass suggesting historic street lighting. The lamps are unlit, with visible wear and age, set against dressed stone blocks and a small shuttered window, conveying an old architectural setting and a sense of quiet, faded elegance.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Nov 9

Jenga anyone? #acropolis #Parthenon #doric #Greece #AThens #photography #architecture

$This photograph captures a close view of weathered Doric columns from the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens. The stone is sun-bleached and fractured, bearing the marks of time and restoration. The compressed perspective draws attention to geometry and erosion — order collapsing slowly into texture.$

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Oct 30

"I'm not mad, just disappointed." #photography #dogs #judgy

Close-up of a light-coloured dog with soft brown eyes and expressive brows, gazing slightly off-camera with a soulful, almost suspicious expression. The dog has a pale cream coat, darker tan ears, and a dark collar with white ring patterns. Background elements are softly blurred, including a crocheted blanket and the edge of a couch, enhancing the intimacy of the portrait.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Oct 19

Boarding the Transcantabrico. What a journey. #transcantabrico #spain #camino

A long, cream-and-navy train is parked at a quiet, tiled platform under a steel canopy. The photo is taken close to the train’s rear, with the carriage stretching into the distance. The platform is empty and clean, with yellow bins and glass panels lining the right side. Overhead power lines and faint buildings are visible in the background. The atmosphere is overcast and still.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Oct 12

The guardian will judge. #Nanning #China #photagraphy #topiary #guardian

A stone guardian lion statue stands on a small plinth beside a row of terracotta pots brimming with large, pink dahlias. Behind the lion, a red temple wall features a round blue-trimmed window inset with a relief of two turquoise birds and a flowering tree. To the right, a meticulously pruned conifer spirals upward beside a vertical blue plaque with Chinese characters in gold. Sunlight dapples the scene, casting soft shadows across the steps and foliage.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Oct 4

Somewhere outside Chang Mia, Thaailand #hallways #liminal #thailand #photography #shade

A covered outdoor walkway leads toward a beaded curtain hanging in an arched doorway, with floral patterns rendered in red, green, and pink. The curtain parts at the centre, revealing a leafy garden bathed in daylight. The foreground is shadowed and damp, with a dark timber ramp and white railings. Potted plants and vines spill into the walkway from all sides, while brick walls frame the passage. Beyond the beaded curtain, a road curves past dense greenery.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Sep 28

It's bushfire season again. I still get anxious when I see smoke in the sky. 😔🔥 #bushfire #herewegoagain #ozsummer

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Sep 25

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Perfect — here’s the updated alt text post version with the photo detail included:

Photo of Donald Trump with a heavily orange-tinted face, next to a block of text. By Oliver Kornetzke, August 18, 2025. Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul — it sh*ts out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Sep 25

Brutal.

Social media post fromn Tylenol which reads "Nice try. Release the Epstein files."

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Sep 20

The latest quilting project. Between the hall and the lounge to keep the cold out! #patchwork #quilting #insulation

A handmade quilted curtain composed of vertically oriented strips in varied fabrics. The base fabric is mid-grey, with inset panels in burgundy, navy, cream, black, and small-patterned prints. The strips are irregularly spaced and extend the full length of the curtain, some continuing to the floor. The quilting lines are vertically stitched, enhancing the tall, linear composition. The curtain hangs between two white walls, with a timber floor beneath and soft interior lighting.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Sep 11

Love Letter from the Afterlife - Andrea Gibson (1975–2025), Poet Laureate of Colorado

My love, I was so wrong. Dying is the opposite of leaving.
When I left my body, I did not go away.
That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere,
but a portal to here.

I am more here than I ever was before.
I am more with you than I ever could have imagined.
So close you look past me when wondering where I am.
It’s OK.
I know that to be human is to be farsighted.
But feel me now,
walking the chambers of your heart,
pressing my palms to the soft walls of your living.

Why did no one tell us
that to die is to be reincarnated in those we love
while they are still alive?

Ask me the altitude of heaven, and I will answer,
“How tall are you?”

In my back pocket is a love note
with every word you wish you’d said.

At night I sit ecstatic at the loom
weaving forgiveness into our worldly regrets.
All day I listen to the radio of your memories.

Yes, I know every secret you thought too dark to tell me,
and love you more for everything you feared
might make me love you less.

When you cry I guide your tears toward
the garden of kisses I once planted on your cheek,
so you know they are all perennials.

Forgive me,
for not being able to weep with you.
One day you will understand.

One day you will know why
I read the poetry of your grief
to those waiting to be born,
and they are all the more excited.

There is nothing I want for
now that we are so close
I open the curtain of your eyelids
with my own smile every morning.

I wish you could see the beauty your spirit is right now making of your pain,
your deep-seated fears playing musical chairs,
laughing about how real they are not.

My love,
I want to sing it through the rafters of your bones,
Dying is the opposite of leaving.
I want to echo it through the corridor of your temples,
I am more with you than I ever was before.

Do you understand?
It was me who beckoned the stranger
who caught you in her arms
when you forgot not to order for two at the coffee shop.

It was me who was up all night
gathering sunflowers into your …

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Sep 6

Disa-piering #photography #seascape #wharf #landscape

A long timber jetty extends diagonally into calm, pale blue water under a soft pastel sky, fading from peach to dusky blue. A row of matching gabled buildings sits at the start of the jetty, painted a muted slate-blue with white trim, catching the last warm light of day. Sparse streetlamps curve gently along the jetty’s length, with small silhouettes of people scattered along the walkway. The beach in the foreground is faintly shadowed, its sand cool in tone, suggesting the onset of evening.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Aug 29

Gaspar Melchor de JovellanosJurist, philosopher, economist, writer, reformer #publicart #Gijon #Spain #Jovel #sculpture

A bronze bust of a stern-faced man, set atop a pale stone plinth in a shady park. The sculpture is rendered in a textured, expressive style, with rough surfaces and indistinct detailing on the body. A tall lamppost stands nearby, and the background is filled with dense green foliage and dappled sunlight. The name Jovellanos is faintly inscribed on the base of the sculpture.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Aug 22

Liminal spaces #photography #landscape #teatree #marshes #westernaustralia

A flooded woodland scene with still water reflecting a dense grove of grey-barked trees. Bright green grasses and mosses sprout along the water’s edge, adding vivid colour to the otherwise muted, silvery palette. Light filters through the sparse canopy, casting dappled highlights on tree trunks and water alike. The composition draws the eye to the soft vanishing point where trees meet water deeper in the background.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Aug 16

The road home... #Barralbarayi #photography #landscape #fog #australia

Country road at sunrise, with the sun glowing through mist over rolling hills. A wet bitumen road curves gently to the right, bordered by a wire fence and grassy paddocks. Scattered cows graze in the distance, while fog drifts low across the fields and tree line. Behind, a dark mountain looms softly through the haze, silhouetted against a bright blue sky streaked with thin white clouds.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Aug 3

South of Broome - Swept away #photography #landscape #Broome #WestAustralia #settignsun

Coastal landscape at low tide, featuring dark volcanic rock pools in the foreground, covered with patches of green algae. Beyond the tidal flats, a striking wall of vivid red-orange cliffs stretches across the horizon, catching the warm, low-angle light of late afternoon. The contrast between the earthy rock textures and the bright, iron-rich soil creates a dramatic palette of mossy greens, rich umber, and flame red.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Jul 24

Worlds within worlds #photography #trees #shadow #light #nature

Close-up of an old, weathered tree trunk with deep grooves, hollows, and textured bark. A small cluster of bright green foliage and delicate new shoots emerges from a natural crevice in the base, catching the light. The tree’s interior appears dark and hollowed out, suggesting age and decay, while young growth pushes defiantly from its gnarled surface. Dappled light filters through fine green needles overhead.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Jul 21

Look, up in the sky.... #streetscape #architecture #photography #bangkok

A narrow, shadowed laneway in an urban market district leads toward a towering skyscraper in the distance — the Baiyoke Tower II in Bangkok. The sky is partly cloudy, with the building’s large vertical BMW 7 Series advertisement visible high above. The foreground is busy with pedestrians, market stalls, and tangled power lines overhead. The right wall is painted a vivid sky blue with protruding white boxy features, while the left side is darker and more cluttered.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Jul 20

All washed up #Jacaranda #streetscape #Carwash #photography #trees

A softly distorted view through a rippled glass window or windscreen, looking out onto a suburban street. A large tree in full bloom with pink flowers dominates the scene, flanked by green and yellow foliage. The street is quiet, with a few parked cars and a house partially visible in the background. The distortion of the glass gives the image a painterly, impressionist feel, blurring the outlines into waves and soft colour blends beneath a bright blue sky with a few clouds.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Jul 12

Time for some quiet contemplation. #photography #cloisters #arches #architecture

View from within a stone cloister or archway, looking out onto a sunlit garden through three rounded arch windows entwined with dense green vines. The stone is weathered and warm-toned, suggesting historical architecture, and several broken or disused columns sit in the shadows. A wrought iron gate partially blocks the passage to the outside. Bright natural light contrasts with the dim interior, creating a quiet, contemplative mood.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Jul 5

It's been around awhile. #photography #Evandale #Tasmania #history #wagonwheel

A close-up view of an old wooden wagon, weathered and covered in patches of green lichen and flaking orange paint. The large spoked wheels dominate the frame, their surfaces rough and cracked with age. The wagon sits among dry rose stems and patchy groundcover in a garden bed, framed by a low metal wire fence. A beige building is visible in the background, suggesting a suburban or heritage property setting.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Jul 4

A king riding a llama. #seascapes #photography #brunyisland #Tasmania

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A dramatic seascape showing jagged vertical rock formations rising from dark, rippling water, silhouetted against a pale blue sky. The tallest sea stack on the right resembles weathered fingers or sentinels, while the water below reflects their dark forms. A metal railing at the bottom edge of the frame suggests the photo was taken from a boat. The lighting is soft and directional, likely early morning or late afternoon, lending a moody stillness to the coastal scene.

Brasha 🏳️‍🌈@brasha· Jun 25

Come to Tasmania in winter they said. It will be fun they said...