Yeah! Merkeley! I just discovered him last month and am a total fan--check Merkely out everyone, you will see why the talented Mr. Hawk appreciates him. - susan mernit

I get those photos but I think they are all Imaginary Friends with the lock icon. The Lock icon means others cannot see those photos in my FF stream. - Russellreno

Now here's a great example of discovery via FriendFeed. I generally don't check out photos. But because Thomas wrote this, I checked out the pix. They're wild. And interesting. Good stuff. - Hutch Carpenter

Talk to your parent or guardian. If they determine that you are responsible, they will change the settings. :) Seriously, when my daughter was younger we had MSN parent controls. They were extremely haphazard. - Ontario Emperor

Russell, you are only getting Merkley's photos that he designates as "safe." I have him as an imaginary friend as well. I'd like to get all of his photos in my FF stream -- even the one's that are designated by Flickr as "adult." On Flickr my preferences are set to allow all content, why isn't friendfeed smart enough to know this and serve me all of Merkley's photos, not just his "safe" ones? Could be the problem is on Flickr's end as well. - Thomas Hawk

Oh, and anyone who is into Merkley, definitely check out his book. I got my copy a few weeks ago. It's stunning. The print quality blew me away. http://thomashawk.com/2008... - Thomas Hawk

Ever since flickr instituted the different safety levels for content, and essentially scared me into worrying if my adult stuff would get me deleted, my flickr photos don't show up in my feedburner feed, either. I love how the impressionable mindset of an 8-year old somewhere determines how my content is distributed and consumed all across the Internets. - Rick Powell from Alert Thingy

Yeah, pretty annoying. FF will need your Flickr login info (as opposed to your public URL) to do that. And will also need to make sure that people consuming your public FF feed will not be exposed to this. See Alex Sirota's Flickriver (http://flickriver.com) for a good example of handling this. - Yaniv Golan

Yes, his feed (along with Stella523's) is useless in Google Reader as well, whose fault is it? - Edward Barnieh

being german i dont even have a choice on flickr itself. - kosmar

I think Flickr shouldn't treat us like children. It's absurd to me that the entire country of Germany cannot consume photos labeled as adult by Flickr. There are so many great nudes in the canon of photography. Interesting, artistic, depictions of the human body. You can see it in a fine art museum but not Flickr. It's a shame that I can't see all of what I choose to see from Flickr on FriendFeed. It's an even bigger shame, Kosmar, as you point out that in Germany you can't see any of it anyway. - Thomas Hawk

Thanks for the hook on to Merkley's stuff - fantastically creative. - Matt Harwood

And it is even more ridiculous that here in Germany, you could see nudes on tv at daytime (and all the bad words without a "beep") without the blurry censoring like in the U.S. So it is a big joke, that flickr tries to "save" us German users by hiding the naked photos, while there is no censoring in tv and newspapers. - Thomas Hoppe

thx @thomashawk for your words. it is a shame and total misunderstanding of german laws plus lazyness of yahoo to do agechecks properly. just - please dont let your administration know about it. no need to invade germany yet. ok? - kosmar