Niiiick Henry

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He/Him Plays tabletop games, sells cameras, donates blood, smells like chlorine. Loves metal. Using bsky mostly for personal interests.

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Niiiick Henry@friction· 27d

Furthermore, time is an abstract concept created by carbon-based lifeforms to monitor their ongoing decay.

Thundercles, a giant killer robot, with meme text:

Time is an abstract concept
created by carbon-based lifeforms to monitor their ongoing decay.

Niiiick Henry@friction· 28d

The real star of last night's event - Maci the therapy dog. Lee says she's gained a 'Firefly fifteen' as she daily makes her way between 5 staff offices...all with their own dog biscuits.

A white dog with a pink neckerchief rolling on marble tiles, goofiest grin on her face.

A white dog with a pink neckerchief rolling on marble tiles, happily getting chest rubs, satisfied grin on her face.

Niiiick Henry@friction· 29d

hey @mroahrig.bsky.social thanks for stopping in and saying hi!

Black and white photo of a man with glasses looking sorta up and with his hand over his chin

Niiiick Henry@friction· 29d

Charmera Millennium photo from the other side of the table.

A skillet nearly overfull of melter cheese with corn and the tiniest sprinkle of sesame seeds in glorious low resolution and low dynamic range.

Niiiick Henry@friction· 29d

Well I was awkward, and the CEO handed me a physical object that is way big and she went in for a hug. When my pal Lee went in for a hug I did tear up a little.

A clear acrylic triangle on a wooden base over a magazine.

FIREFLY
Children & Family Alliance
175 YEARS
HOPE
GLOWS
HERE

FIREFLY
Children & Family Alliance
2026
VOLUNTEER of the year award
NICK HENRY

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jul 11

character sheets

Five small sheets of paper with assorted spellings of “Bear” and “Criminal” in mostly childish handwriting

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jul 9

This is what pro-capture is for. American Dipper feeding her bb. Not showing the full sequence bc pulling images from OI Share but she would fly in, stuff whatever she’d fished out of the creek, and fly back out in seconds. Mox and I disagree whether it’s like 2 or 10 but still super fast.

A blurry, adult American Dipper lighting on a rock, her juvenile waiting, beak open

An American Dipper, a smallish gray bird, placing a creature of some kind into the open beak of her juvenile

An American Dipper, beak inside her juvenile’s wide open beak. The juvenile’s eye is either closed, rolled back, or covered by a nictitating membrane

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jul 9

Another angle on the critter but not as good pic overall

A monarch butterfly clings to a flower with tubular petals

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jul 9

Ponce chillin

A golden cat curled in the basket of a cat tree amidst a living room. Out the windows trees, a covered grill, bunting styled with stars and stripes

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jul 9

Some water plant, stem fallen into the pond

Black and white photo of a half-submerged flower, the surface of the water is almost all white, the stem’s reflection makes a wedge on the right of the frame.

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jul 9

Hell yeah a 300mm f/5.6 for flowers and shit

A water lily being all pink and orange in bright sun, floating with out of focus lily pads in the background

A monarch butterfly all up ons a flower with tubular petals

A monarch butterfly on a flower with some yellow and orange tubular petals but at the point where the butterfly is touching makes a division where the rest of the petals are wilted and brown and swept down.

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jul 7

Teleconverter on at the Denver Botanic gardens

the corner of a lily pool and on the pavement an Olympus OM-1 with a 2x extender and 40-150 lens with the hood extended.

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jul 7

Stopped at RitualCravt in Denver and around the corner is Corridor Bookstore corridor-bookstore.com “your back-alley weird girl fiction dealer” and I talked with the owner who was super cool. Picked up Kirsten Bakis’ Lives of the Monster Dogs and it’s extremely my shit.

Back cover of Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis

After a century of cruel experimentation, genetically and bio-mechanically altered canines are produced by the followers of a nineteenth-century Prussian surgeon. Possessing human intelligence, speaking human language, fitted with prosthetic hands, and walking upright, the monster dogs are intended to be supersoldiers. Rebelling against their masters, however, and plundering the isolated village in which they were raised, the now wealthy creatures make their way to New York, where they become reluctant celebrities. Unable to reproduce, doomed to watch their race become extinct, the highly cultured dogs want no more than to live in peace, little suspecting that the real tragedy of their brief existence is only now beginning.
Told through diaries, newspaper clippings, and even an opera excerpt, Kirsten Bakis's award-winning Lives of the Monster Dogs uses its science-fictional premise to launch a poignant exploration of the great themes: lov-ing, dying, and the limits of compassion.

"The brilliance of Lives of the Monster Dogs), and its bravery, is that Bakis wants to show you not just what happened on her version of the island of Dr. Moreau, so to speak, but the aftermath. Where did the animals end up?
How were they haunted? How are we haunted?

—JEFF VANDERMEER, from the Introduction
KIRSTEN BAKIS attended the lowa Writers' Workshop and is the recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Fellowship, a Bram Stoker Award for First Novel, and a Whiting Award. She is a resident faculty member at the Yale Writers' Workshop, teaches at the Hudson Valley Writers Center, and is an editor at Origins Journal.
Fiction
$19.00 / $25.00 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-374-53714-2
COVER DESIGN by Matt Dorfman
AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH by Linda Avellar
FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX
www.fsgbooks.com
51900 >

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jul 7

Letting the kids use my cameras often yields fun pics. My sister & her husband out at Horsetooth here - the 10 year olds were taking turns with my OM-1 & 40-150. Left it at 1600 ISO because ope.

A woman in aviators and a bright yellow ball cap quirks a corner of her closed mouth at the camera, in the background a scrubby hill with scattered firs

In right frame, A man with a gray beard and dark mustache looks down, left frame is deciduous foliage

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jul 7

Oh yeah, perfection.

Black and white photo of a man and a woman on a paddleboard, the woman is facing away from the camera, twisting around to raise a can in a coozie. The man is standing, facing away from her, knees bent and leaning over to keep from falling over. The woman has tattoos and is wearing a bikini top & shorts and sandals. The man is wearing a cap and short briefs and water shoes.

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jul 6

This old man went walkabout, apparently sis needs to chickenwire the gates at their new place. Not seen since this morning, at 8:30pm he comes sauntering up the back deck, not hot, not dirty, just old & all of 8lbs.

An old, leonine, yellow cat being held by a woman with tattoos on her arm, she’s laughing, he’s looking over her shoulder

An old, leonine, yellow cat being held by a woman with tattoos on her arm, she’s got most of her face buried against his back, he’s looking over her shoulder

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jul 5

av.startpage.com/__av/aHR0cHM... From New Yorker October 1994 - Thomas Lynch calls marriage “the public spectacle of private parts: cheque-books and genitals, housewares. fainthearts” Anyway.

74 - Thomas Lynch
Thus we proclaim our fond affirmatives:
I will, I do, Amen, Here Here, Let's eat, drink and be merry. Marriage is the public spectacle of private parts:
cheque-books and genitals, housewares, fainthearts, all doubts becalmed by kissing aunts, a priest's safe homily, those tinkling glasses tightening those ties that truly bind us together forever, dressed to the nines.
Darling, I reckon maybe thirty years, given our ages and expectancies.
Barring the tragic or untimely, say, ten thousand mornings, ten thousand evenings, please God, ren thousand moistened nights like this, when, mindless of these vows, our opposites, nonetheless, attract. Thus, love's subtraction: the timeless from the ordinary times-nine thousand, nine hundred, ninety-nine.

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jun 30

bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/ I must be getting soft because I figured I was a straight hater. I haven’t done the math; I just resent this shit more than beer that is too hoppy on every tap.

A multicolored plot where the answers fall under “Bad” and veer mostly towards Overhyped.

YOU ARE...
The Skeptic
patron saint: Ed Zitron
It's oversold, it's losing staggering amounts of money, and the harms are arriving faster than the value. You've done the math on the unit economics and it doesn't close. You are loud about this, prolific about this, and you suspect history will vindicate you.
Impact: -0.6 • Valence: -2.1

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jun 25

David, proud of his new beaded earring. Zf 26mm

black and white photo of a man with long hair giving a little smile to the camera, from his left ear a pewter bird skull dangles from a short, beaded length

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jun 20

Nikon Zf, 26mm, iso1600, f/2.8, 1/10th and +.7 ev - converter to b+w from NEF and jazzed up the red a little for glowy skin

black and white photo of a young man with big glasses and a thin mustache holding a tabbed open PBR just away from his face

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jun 20

Offered to walk with a customer to pick up her daughter from a bar in downtown Louisville. 24 year old daughter had absolutely no interest in calling it a night and we peaced out. I think I sustained hearing damage and I definitely took a shot from a comically large syringe.

Black and white photo of a woman on a mechanical bull, fog jetting into the space and in the foreground the broad back of a man doing something to a computer screen.

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jun 19

My employer handed out Kodak Power Flash cameras to those going to the Indy Pride Parade and developed & scanned them - there’s a reel on IG. It was fun. Here’s me & a couple of my college roomies. One guy works with me, the other teaches English and does translation work.

Color film photo of a man standing in a Pride market smiling wide and holding a crocheted lavender.

Two middle aged guys in hats smiling outside

Two middle aged guys inside and the film is kinda green & grainy because the flash didn’t fire.

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jun 16

Pals from the videogame club. We were giggling about the dildo weapon in Cyberpunk and two dudes knew what the hell was happening in Undertale and the rest of us just could not. Ember, the Shiba Inu wanted her mom's sammie but it was in the to go box already.

$Black and white photo of a shiba inu in a woman's lap, mostly obscuring her frace.$

Black and white photo of a man and woman sitting next to each other at an outdoor restaurant. The man has long hair and is giving the camera a thumbs up, the woman is looking off frame, behind her man's head. There are full beers on the table.

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jun 13

Why am I thinking about @papashittycams.bsky.social right now?

gay stickers on display, one of which says Forklift Certified with pastel colored hearts and a rainbow

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jun 6

Anyway, here's ELI who popped in. He's not a coworker any more and definitely knows he's beautiful.

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jun 4

EEesh

I should interpret the fable as
follows. The victim of a malodorous disease which
renders him abhorrent to society and periodically de-
grades him and makes him helpless is also the master
of a superhuman art which everybody has to respect
and which the normal man finds he needs. A practical
man like Odysseus, at the same time coarse-grained
and clever, imagines that he can somehow get the
bow without having Philoctetes on his hands or that
he can kidnap Philoctetes the bowman without regard
for Philoctetes the invalid. But the young son of
Achilles knows better. It is at the moment when his
sympathy for Philoctetes would naturally inhibit his
cheating him so the supernatural influences in So-
phocles are often made with infinite delicacy to shade
into subjective motivations it is at this moment of
his natural shrinking that it becomes clear to him that
the words of the seer had meant that the bow would
be useless without Philoctetes himself. It is in the
nature of things of this world where the divine and
the human fuse that they cannot have the irresisti-
ble weapon without its loathsome owner, who upsets
the processes of normal life by his curses and his cries,
and who in any case refuses to work for men who have
exiled him from their fellowship.
It is quite right that Philoctetes should refuse to
come to Troy. Yet it is also decreed that he shall be
cured when he shall have been able to forget his
grievance and to devote his divine gifts to the service
of his own people. It is right that he should refuse to
submit to the purposes ofOdysseus, whose only idea is

to exploit him. How then is the gulf to be got over
between the ineffective plight of the bowman and his
proper use of his bow, between his ignominy and his
destined glory? Only by the intervention of one who
is guileless enough and human enough to treat him,
not as a monster, nor yet as a mere magical property
which is wanted for accomplishing some end, but
simply as another man, whose sufferings elicit his
sympathy and whose courage and pride he admires.
When this human relation has been realized, it seems
at first that it is to have the consequence offrustrating
the purpose of the expedition and ruining the Greek
campaign. Instead of winning over the outlaw,
Ncoptolemus has outlawed himself as well, at a time
when both the boy and the cripple arc desperately
needed by the Greeks. Yet in taking the risk to his
cause which is involved in the recognition of his com-
mon humanity with the sick man, in refusing to
break his word, he dissolves Philoctetes' stubborn-
ness, and thus cures him and sets him free, and saves
the campaign as well.

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jun 4

From Edmund Wilson's The Wound and the Bow (1941), on Sophocles' Philoctetes. Lol, lamo. Anyway it's a fascinating essay.

The play opens with a scene between Odysseus and
the boy, in which the former explains the purpose of
their trip. Odysseus will remain in hiding in order
not to be recognized by Philoctetes, and Neoptolemus
will go up to the cave in which Philoctetes lives and
win his confidence by pretending that the Greeks have
robbed him of his father's armor, so that he, too, has
a grievance against them. The youth in his innocence
and candor objects when he is told what his role is to
be, but Odysseus persuades him by reminding him
that they can only take Troy through his obedience
and that once they have taken Troy, he will be glori-
fied for his bravery and wisdom.*
As soon as we have won, Odysseus assures him, 'we shall conduct our-
selves with perfect honesty. But for one short day of
dishonesty, allow me to direct you what to do and
then forever after you will be known as the most
righteous of men." The line of argument adopted by
Odysseus is one with which the politics of our time
have made us very familiar.'
Isn't it base, then, to tell
falsehoods?' Neoptolemus asks. 'Not,' Odysseus re-
plies, 'when a falsehood will bring our salvation.'

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jun 2

Buddy of mine and I are big fans of the “everything reminds me of her/him” meme and often reference with “todo.”

A brick building under construction and a cylinder of plastic is inflated at an erect 45 degrees, white script in a black background reads “todo me recuerda a él”

Niiiick Henry@friction· Jun 1

Cut a few yesterday, tracing a leaf was one. I quailed at trying to draw the flowers themselves.

A linocut of a leaf, the leaf, a couple of gouges, and a bone folder sit on a shiny wooden table.

a small bouquet of flowers in a party hat and napkin next to a few pens and a digial camera.

Niiiick Henry@friction· May 26

My SIL got me to help her prune a tree. Got a lot of tree in my beard.