It looks like TikTok is off the air. This doesn't affect me because I don't use TikTok. On one hand, I feel bad for the millions of people who love it. On the other hand, maybe it'll be good for people to go do something instead that doesn't involve scrolling their phone as entertainment. What's worse is that when Trump inevitably "saves" TikTok, which I believe he should, he'll be the hero in the story for those millions.

Over on The Online Photographer, Mike was poking fun at someone who made a bunch of photos of bramble. You know, bushes or sticks or what-have-you. I agree that photos of bramble are boring and meaningless, but I've taken a lot of photos of brambles and I kind of love them. I just don't share them. I also don't have a contrived artist's statement about them. I just like looking at them. So what?

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