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/About

moin¹, i’m pzumk (/piː tuː keɪ/)

i’m just a random guy in my mid-30s living hamburg, germany with my wife and our newborn. my day job has nothing to do with the web at all but i’ve been on the internet for as long as i can remember and have always been posting, chatting, and moderating communities in different corners of the internet. i have a passion for missed opportunities, apple, and photography. and it’s that last one that inspired the relaunch of my blog.

when i got into photography i first started uploading to flickr but eventually moved to instagram like everyone else.

nowadays i don’t feel good posting to instagram anymore². haven’t done a proper post for a few years actually, and deleted my profile(s) twice. while instagram brought me into photography, it also pushed me away from it. ads, influencer marketing, and an algorithm obsessed with random people’s reels took over.

this blog doesn’t have an algorithm, it only shows photos i manually upload in the order i upload them. the downside: no social features. the upside: no social features. some of the pictures get crossposted syndicated³ to mastodon, most of them probably don’t.

when i set this up in 2025 i wanted it to only be a photo blog, but it quickly became more than that after i decided to import old posts from various sources like old social media profiles or my day one archive⁴ and also adding lots of slash pages (maybe this will grow to a little⁵ digital garden?). i will be uploading photos, but i’m also posting little tweets toots posts status updates which i’m syndicating to other social networks, again, mainly mastodon.

#ShotOniPhone will be my ‘instagram’ on this blog. there’s also a list of /tags and since this site is an ever-changing project, a list of changes to the site can be found at /changelog.

my verified socials are on /verify with many ways to contact me, if needed.

also als a bonus if you’ve been reading so far, here’s a rare portrait of me.

xoxo pzumk