#washingtonstate
Thank you @sweetd_tothe_g happy to see this in person. Much respect ✊ for the job you did on shipping this original Into The Wave.
#art #artist #artistsoninstagram #artwork #artoftheday #insta #instagood #waves #wave #swell #water #ocean #painting #paintingoftheday #washingtonstate #illinois #fyp #foryou #bluewater #homedecor #homesweethome #wheaton #saturday (at Wheaton, Illinois)
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Friends have said their numbers of likes have gone down. Is that true for you?
Jan. 21, 2022, ️ I posted the exact same photo that I shared Jan 24, 2020 ️ (same “hero” image; different pix in the Carousel). Curiously, the likes & engagement were 40% lower this time — although other metrics suggest a different story.
Some of you know I suck at math & needed 5 tutors to get through my recent college math class, ✖️➕➖➗ but what do you make of this?
SAME HERO IMAGE ️
21 JAN. 2022
➡️ 861 likes, 422 comments + 918 views via hashtags reaching 2,401 accounts.
24 JAN. 2020
➡️ 1421 likes, 431 comments + 3 views via hashtags reaching 209 accounts.
(You can swipe through the Carousel to see more data.)
To me it looks like a lot more people saw the content this time, but didn’t like it? Can a math whiz tell me what this shows? (@webgrrrrl?)
Why is everything here so murky & mysterious? ♀️ It’s like IG doesn’t want us to know the rules so they can arbitrarily boot people off, let others have their accounts hacked & stolen , & others end up in the time-out corner for liking & commenting too frequently.
In a Feb. 9 story by Bryan Adam in the Tech Smart blog mentions 6 popular accounts with upwards of 500k followers that are leaving IG temporarily or permanently because of:
Pressure for constancy
Exhaustion
Frustration
Being at the mercy of IG changes
Competing with their own success
Need to balance personal lives
Do you relate? I’m flummoxed, but nowhere near the point of quitting. But I’ve wondered if throttling likes♥️ is like a stock market correction
Occasionally I publish a sponsored post. But more often I’m here to write ✍️, connect, view ️ & engage with friends & their content. I still post once a week on Friday, around midnight PT. And I have maybe 500 more followers than in 2020.
Do you have any ideas why “likes” for 2 identical photos could be so different?
I’d appreciate your thoughts!
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PHOTOS: #sunsets #silhouette 2/9 at #thehorsfallhouse #washingtonstate #sunsetlovers #sunsetporn #treesilhouette #cloudscape #cloudporn; #instagraminsights #instagramtips (at The Horsfall House)
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This week @JeffKeniPulver invited me to the #VON3 Summit (Voice|Video on the Net). Speakers discussed NFTs (non-fungible tokens) & Web 3.0 (Worldwide Web based on blockchain). Most of the discussions were waaay over my head, but it got me thinking.
I bet most of us have heard of NFTs but don’t understand what they are. I’ve associated them with crazy art, like the Nyan Cat that, in Feb. 2021, sold for 300 ETH (Ether crypto currency), or about $690,000.
It’s enough to make me feel like running & screaming as I cover my ears to block out the noise of the future. But is it inevitable?
WHAT IS NFT? A non-fungible token is unique & can’t be swapped for something of equal value. Like, a $10 bill = ten $1 bills, but the Mona Lisa can’t be traded for another Mona Lisa.
HOW DOES IT WORK? It’s verified via blockchain, which IBM defines as a shared, immutable ledger that eases the process of recording transactions and tracking assets. ▪️▫️◾◽◼️◻️⬛
I came across @jchris on Twitter & liked his explanations 9:24 AM–Jan 24, 2022:
“[NFT] is more like a link than an asset. You’re buying your name at the top of the list of holders. The value comes from the previous holders (& the link to the creator), more than the image. ️ NFTs are not about scarcity; they’re a new type of link—one that memorializes how it moves through a community & becomes valuable because of its history. [It’s] a link that gains its uniqueness from human interactions. This is old & new. Objects that gain value from their history become heirlooms. NFTs do that & it can feel uncanny.”
People can see & even download NFT images, but they can’t own or be verified on the blockchain. Chris Torres, creator of Nyan Cat, says many popular & expensive NFTs tend to be closely linked with internet & meme culture, that appeal to the Web3 crowd. ️
I’m not quite there. Are you? What do artists think of NFTs? If you like & collect art? Do you want to “own” something ethereal like an NFT?
PHOTOS: Our #Airbnb in Randle, WA; Grass #patterns & #hoarfrost #LewisCounty #washingtonstate #MtRainier in the #settingsun #nfts #nftstories #nyancat #blockchain
(at The Horsfall House)
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From: Tacoma, the city with a snow-capped mountain in its dooryard. Tacoma, Washington : Tacoma Commercial Club and Chamber of Commerce, 1912
F899.T2 T3
No place like home.
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#seattle #pnw #pnwonderland #mtrainier #washingtonstate #realmtravels #realmlife
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11 miles. Unplugged besides these images. Feeling a major detox after this and loving how exhausted I’m feeling ❤️
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#leavenworth #leavenworthwa #pnw #washington #washingtonstate #colchucklake #colchuckpeak #washingtonblogger #latinablogger (at Colchuck Lake)
LOST - COCKATIEL, 11/26/19, ‘Fenix’, 2200 Block of Sunnyside Blvd., LAKE STEVENS, SNOHOMISH COUNTY, WA 98258
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Spring is, definitly when Spokane’s dry lowland woods are prettiest.
#hiking #outdoors #nature #forest #pnw #inlandnorthwest #spokane #washingtonstate #selfie #gpoy #spring #colombia #osprey
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It’s #NationalPark Week! To celebrate, the Idaho Harvester is featuring postcards of Mount Rainier National Park from the Knowles Postcard Collection.
Check out the blog!
Link:https://harvester.lib.uidaho.edu/posts/2022/04/19/mount-rainier-national-park.html
Source: Knowles Postcard Collection, PG 107, Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.
#uidaho #uidaholibrary #librariesofinstagram #nationalparkweek #nationalparks #mountrainier #mountrainiernationalpark #paradiseinn #washingtonstate #tipsoolake
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#washingtonstate #huskies #arizona #wildcats #arizonawildcats #ncaaf #collegefootball #highheelsandhelmets #spikessportssass #HHH #hhhcollegefootball #northwestern #wildcats #notredame #fightingirish
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Skyline trail, Flowers, Mt Rainierbyweberpal on Flickr.
Wild flowers in bloom
icy breeze from the mountains
winter takes a bite
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Fuck the anti-Semitism hoax, this fact is found in the “Holy Quran”.
Damn anti-Semitism, personally, I don’t believe in it.
Why don’t you read the “Holy Qur'an” all the facts are in found it? #freepalestine #karlmarx #karlmarxquotes #holyquran #holybible #palestine #capitalism #economy #usury #politics #politica #política #washington #washingtondc #washingtonstate #world #fyp #fypシ #fypage
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For @stjudeplaylive I did a special painting stream as “Roberta Ross”, where we transformed our trees into Happy Little Christmas Trees (and sometimes Happy Little Hanukkah) for charity donations! This was a really unusual but super fun stream for me~ #twitchaffiliate #twitch #charity #christmas #holidays #hannukah #painting #bobross #bobrosspainting #mountrainier #washingtonstate #landscapepainting
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#roadtrip #roadtrippers #homeiswhereyouparkit #hittheroad #blogvoyage #exploremore #outdoorlife #homeonwheels #wander #wanderlust #america #usa #deathbyconfetti #travelgram #travelbloggerlife #travellife #katsuburger #seattle #washingtonstate (at Katsu Burger)
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