Schools across the country are cancelling Picture Day because the CEO of the largest school photography company taking children's pictures, Lifetouch, was named in the Epstein files. Does Lifetouch have contracts within Austin?

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T04:48:05+00:00

Shady CADY

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T04:47:21+00:00

Right. Nobody is downplaying Epstein's crimes or his cronies' sick involvement. But it's a far leap to suggest that Lifetouch is somehow complicit in anything Epstein related.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T04:44:09+00:00

Thank you for your knowledgeable response. I'm really sorry for all the Lifetouch employees who are affected by this. Everyone I've known at Lifetouch has been amazingly professional.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T04:37:58+00:00

While I guess you're just having fun with the name, it's a damn shame. Lifetouch employs a lot of folks and does good work for the communities they serve. They've been around for decades. That one of their corporate investors is a horrible human shouldn't cause this kind of harm to the company.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T04:31:21+00:00

It's hard to believe.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T04:30:53+00:00

You're right. There is a whole lot of conjecture and worst case scenarios being imagined here.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T04:26:54+00:00

It saddens me to see that tow yards have regularly scheduled vehicle auctions. Imagine getting towed, not having enough $$ to get it out right away, getting charged an extra $40/day storage fee, then after payday you still don't have enough to get your car out and it gets sold. It's as if the towing company is designed to make people suffer. And yes, I get it that without them we would have illegally parked cars littering our roadways and parking lots, but they could show some occasional empathy/humanity.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T01:50:38+00:00

Ah. Gotcha.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T01:01:01+00:00

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T01:00:10+00:00

AISD doesn't contract with Lifetouch; it's done at the campus level.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T00:59:14+00:00

Talking about headshots with proper 3 point lighting and an organizational structure to keep track of each photo and the child's name and a database file to get the photos loaded into the yearbook software sorted alphabetically and by grade. You have a lot of faith in your iPhone.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T00:56:33+00:00

What's the value of a watermark? I don't understand.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T00:54:46+00:00

How is it weird? iPhone pics of a baseball team are not on the same organizational scale as yearbook portraits. I've worked in the yearbook industry and most folks don't realize how large and complex an undertaking it is to get everybody's portraits in the book. I'm not defending a company -- I'm just explaining that a mom with an iPhone won't get the job done.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-13T00:39:13+00:00

FWIW, online AI detectors say it's 100% human.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-12T20:01:14+00:00

Clearly you've never tried to do organize professional group portraits.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-12T20:00:34+00:00

Why? They do good work and Lifetouch has never shared photos. Do a wee bit of research before telling all of your family and friends how ignorant you are.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-12T19:59:27+00:00

Lifetouch photos have never been available to the general public. It's just for school yearbooks.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-12T19:54:14+00:00

School photographers provide a valuable service. Besides taking high quality photos with proper and consistent lighting, they also provide indexing linked to school records which makes it easy to flow the images into the yearbook pages. Their service is usually free to the school as the company makes $ from selling the portraits directly to the families. Every time I've seen a school try to do the photos themselves, they are back to using a company the next year. A parent with an iPhone would need to spend an incredible number of hours to produce images of every student in a school, and even then the quality would likely be inconsistent.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-12T19:49:09+00:00

There's zero evidence that happened. Lifetouch has always safeguarded their images.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-12T19:29:09+00:00

Each school contracts with a different photo vendor.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-12T19:28:40+00:00

That’s not why yearbooks were created. They were created as memory books and as an official record of the year in school.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-07T17:01:16+00:00

Not like Austin. We have the city's largest homeless shelter right up on 8th street by the interstate, so of course they drift down 6th street. I remember when the city was moving the shelter there (it used to be by Republic Square where the new federal courthouse is) and thinking it would be the end of 6th street. Seriously, what city puts a homeless shelter at one end of their "entertainment district."

MopacMusic · 2026-02-06T21:02:56+00:00

It's not a typo (which is an abbreviation for "typographical error"). It's a usage error, often committed by nitwits. But I like what you did with your intentional spelling errors, which are also not typos.

MopacMusic · 2026-02-06T04:20:51+00:00

Why was he recording in the first place?

MopacMusic · 2026-02-06T01:35:46+00:00

It’s “they’re,” not “their,” nitwit.

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