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Turns out some people are obsessed with dahlias. If you know anyone with such an obsession, they’d probably love our recent zine. #buynostr #photography #artstr #photostr

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Just ran the numbers for our effective 2025 electricity costs at home. We have an all-electric high-performance home with solar and energy storage. The surplus solar is exported to the grid, and during the summer we allow the grid to pull from our batteries too and get compensated for that (Virtual Power Plant events run by ConnectedSolutions in the north east, USA). So although our winter electricity bills are really high in Massachusetts, they are counter-balanced by almost zero bills in summer plus what we receive for the energy from our batteries via the VPP events. In addition we get incentives from our utility for charging our car only during off-peak hours. For 2025 our total net costs for electricity were just $483.55. Then when I calculated our total consumption of home plus car, it works out that our effective energy rate is $0.026 per kWh, which is AMAZING! The VPP events are the lifesaver here, without them we'd be toast. What this tells me is that there might be some logic to increasing our mining. Currently we have just one Bitaxe Gamma (cheers to @Solosatoshi.com 🇺🇸) which is mining in the Braiins pool most of the time, and it joins the @Rigly block parties when they occur (we also buy hashrate for those). Obviously, increasing our mining means also increasing our consumption and our effective energy rate of $0.026 per kWh would increase – although that could be offset by efficiency gains elsewhere in the house. And clearly, the rewards from Braiins alone will never recoup the costs of the mining hardware itself. But I can't help be tempted by a NerdQaxe++. Does anyone else have any guidance or suggestions here? How should I be thinking about this, and what steps should I take, if any? I should add that the incentives we receive from exporting to the grid from our home batteries and charging our car off-peak go straight into Bitcoin. So the question becomes, is it even worth investing in more mining hardware, or does it just make sense to keep stacking by funneling the income into Bitcoin? I suspect it's the latter... -Tom #massachusetts #massachusetts #newengland #newengland #mining #bitcoin

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Is College (Still) Worth It? by Andrew Yang

Is College (Still) Worth It?

A friend recently told me that she and her husband sold their house to pay for their daughter attending a private university.

We’re ready for winter. #photostr #photography #newengland

We’re ready for spring. #photostr #photography #newengland #massachusetts

Artful barn in North Adams, MA. Photograph by Diana Pappas. #photostr #photography #artstr #massachusetts #newengland #berkshires #northadams

Scenes from the snowstorm in Massachusetts. #photostr #photography #massachusetts #newengland

We are unveiling some new work in printed form: our first zine, ‘First Frost / Final Bloom’ is out now. A full color, 32-page, 6.75 x 9” staple-bound zine, it features 21 previously unseen photographs made on a walk among frozen dahlias on October 10, 2025 at a micro flower farm in West Stockbridge, MA, and includes an evocative introduction by writer Lee Buttala. In the comments below we will share the long-form newsletter post about the projects. There’s a limited edition of 30 available which include a small print, and a few open edition copies too. Visit

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6” inches of snow overnight in western MA.

Once a structure. #photography #photostr #massachusetts

Just saying hi. #artstr #photostr #photography #newengland #massachusetts

Something from the weekend. It’s well and truly fall here in western Massachusetts. -Tom #photography #photostr #newengland #massachusetts

I’ve been on an Ernst Haas kick recently, I think I have every book out that our library system had available. I wasn’t really that familiar with his work until recently but I’m enjoying noticing some overlap with how I like to see and shoot. Definitely a new source of inspiration for me, belatedly. -Tom #artstr #photostr #photography