nicholas_pumper_art.avi 🎨❤️‍🔥

#catholic painter / USAF vet / born 🇬🇧 ➡️ raised MN 🇺🇸 ➡️ ‘22 🇰🇷 ➡️ ‘23-26🇧🇪 / “Beauty will save the world” / no gen AI ever used

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Is it just me or are the Snickers here in South Korea a tad more… depressed??

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Really enjoyed my impressionist take on a Great Blue Heron hard at work here in the Puget Sound

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Experimenting with bird Impressionism

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2300 is optimal, I want my brain to feel like it’s by a campfire

[critter @BecomingCritter]

You can figure out everything you need to know about someone by their home lighting temperature

[Rajjath @Rajjath24]

George Orwell on writing:

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Experimenting with bird Impressionism

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Paddled past the neighbors

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Got into kayaking to reset my life post-military

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Pope called it SOCCER 🇺🇸

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

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View of the Olympics from kayaking with the wife

[Voyageurs Wolf Project @VoyaWolfProject]

In the early morning of May 5, we received a mortality signal from a GPS-collar on a deer we had collared a few months earlier. We reached the deer carcass by 6 a.m., and immediately knew it had been killed by a cougar because the carcass had been dragged 117 meters and then buried under debris (i.e., cached).

We set up cameras on the carcass, knowing the cougar would likely be back soon. Later that day, we captured hours of footage of this male cougar feeding on his kill. Capturing such footage (along with the female and kittens) in northern Minnesota has been surreal for us. And we cannot help but wonder could this be the beginning of a self-sustaining cougar population in the state?

We don’t know but we want to find out by studying and documenting the cougars that appear to have recently settled (or been born!) in our area, including this male—but we need help. We literally have no budget to study cougars…frankly, we didn’t even expect this to be a possibility a year ago.

BUT, it is too interesting and unique to not pursue but we need donations (link below!) to support this research. We want to purchase another 40-50 cameras to deploy in areas where we know cougars are (a camera set-up is ~$200).

For perspective: the footage of this cougar was only possible because of the >10,600 donors who have supported our project and enabled us to purchase trail cameras supplies (cameras, SD cards, mounts, batteries)—HUGE thanks to everyone who has donated!

We want to get more footage of this male, the female and her kittens, and of any other cougars out there. And we want funds to collect and analyze any genetic samples we encounter (scats, hair, etc.).

We will use a portion of the donations made at the link below to do just that. Plus, all the cameras simultaneously help us study wolves of the area more intensively at the same time.

So support our efforts and donate here: https://t.co/kZq9wddP8h

Lastly, huge thanks to the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund for supporting the Voyageurs Wolf Project and the recent effort to understand deer survival in the area. Their support was critical to this observation—without it, we would never have captured this footage.

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Had a lovely time kayaking with the wife, we are at our best outdoors with God

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

when you realize that routines are actually rituals of devotion to yourself and your dreams, they become much easier to follow.

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Had an idyllic forest picnic with the wife this past weekend

[FEAR GOD @FEARGODMINDSET]

Nietzsche

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Mingu @lowgradef]

In fiction evil is often written to have depth and complexity while good is written to be simple and boring. But in real life evil is boring and predictable while good is complex and unique every single time.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

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For my wife and I’s first anniversary we hiked 1000ft of Mount Rainier

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@wolffdew I really thought those were sausages being put in there at first

[Mads @europemaxxed]

Life when nobody knows wtf you're up to

[Michael Thomas of Sharon 🌳🌳🌳🐑🐕🏡 @MichaelTG09]

“In Christ, we are called to cooperate in the work of creation, rather than be disinterested observers of technological processes that limit our freedom and responsibility.” ~Pope Leo XIV