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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈

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🇺🇦 Writer, artist, PhD candidate | C19 US, New Orleans, immigration, religion, death | Disabled Jewish queer trans | Husband and cavalier of @thelionmachine.bsky.social 🪬

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 58m
The great news is that when I finish typing up the actual document that goes in my academic record with minimal changes, I am good to go. This is the outcome I hoped for and expected. Y'all are so nice to me. 😭😭😭
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 42m
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They Had Us In The First Half, Not Gonna Lie Meme
Alt: They Had Us In The First Half, Not Gonna Lie Meme, only it's a Union soldier
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 2h
My beloved @thelionmachine.bsky.social is in the dissertation proposal right now, so please leave some positivity and enthusiasm for Lev to read when the proposal is passed, as I'm certain it will be!
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 14h
We went past the Skeleton House on St Charles on the way home, and they are Ready For Halloween.
A somewhat hazy photo of a large white New Orleans mansion lit up and covered in skeletons, each dressed up in some sort of funny/punny getup, such as the skeleton playing a violin on the roof with a sign that says "L'chaim!" (A Fiddler on the Roof joke, in case it wasn't obvious). The lawn is covered, wall-to-wall skeletons. They mean spooky business.
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bonque, ben (טריפה שאלות) @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 22h
We're about a month out from Yom ha Tzefardim ha Sfardiyot
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 18h
Someone got on the streetcar wearing something that smells *exactly* how I remember Gap Dream smelling in the 90s, and oh, what a poignant pang of nostalgia.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22h
i’ve been busy most of the day but i’d be remiss if i didn’t mention eric schmitt, who took a faceplant so hilariously legend that even the NYT couldn’t sugarcoat it (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Hawkeye and BJ Waving Goodbye in MASH
Alt: Hawkeye and BJ Waving Goodbye in MASH
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 23h
Yes but --
the cover of fiasco's next novel, 'the hamsome man,' featuring him (the hamsome man) sitting on a faux-wood table in front of some blue and gold curtains
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW. PENGUINS.
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 01/09/2026
Underneath the "progressive" papacy of Pope Leo remains a deeply reactionary institution, one of the biggest enemies of trans rights worldwide. @sjklapecki.itch.io, who survived the Catholic Church's bigotry firsthand, goes in-depth on why it's time to see through the propaganda and face reality.
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The Pope is Not Our Friend
Underneath the supposedly progressive papacy of Pope Leo remains a deeply reactionary institution that is one of the biggest enemies of trans rights worldwide. A trans survivor’s view: it’s well past ...
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Gooseberry (ready for Spring 🌷) @eisforenkidu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mamdanides
Mayor Zohran Mamdani: The Talmud teaches *cuts off*
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Posts by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 29/09/2026
France is known among Jews for 1. Foundational scholar Rashi 2. The Dreyfus Affair, thought to have been the impetus for Herzl to develop Political Zionism 3. Shipping their Jews off to Auschwitz a couple decades after that
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Troy. I know it's awful. But I snuck out of my college graduation rehearsal (outside, in May, 90° + humidity) with a classics major friend to sit in a cold theatre and binge popcorn to it. I've loved it ever since. Sean Bean as Odysseus! Eric Bana as Hector! Perfection!
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Troy
Alt: Agamemnon in Troy: "Of all the warlords loved by the gods, I hate him the most."
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Historian here UT Austin has eliminated courses on slavery, civil rights, the Holocaust and women from its core curriculum. We know the kind of people who have censored history in the past. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes
The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.
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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please help Amy get her kitty needed end of life care <3
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is how New Orleans celebrated the first annual Dolly Day here in the Quarter. www.nola.com/multimedia/p...
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Photos: Krewe of Dolly celebrates Dolly Parton and ‘9 to 5 Day’ with a parade
The Krewe of Dolly dances through the French Quarter on ‘9 to 5 Day’, celebrating Dolly Parton with a parade with big wigs and glitter. The parade started outside Armstrong
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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Regarding Dolly Parton
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El is in the Details @elsbells.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s Friday (good!) and I’m $0/$950 for Oct. rent (not so good). Could someone help me nudge this forward? I’m on Day 2 of an increasingly brutal migraine and could use a win; small amounts add up! Cashapp/Venmo: Elsthere
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Pay Elizabeth Leinback using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/aislinndelyon and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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Dani_B @danib.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dolly Day 9/25 Let's Go
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Dolly Parton - Workin' 9 to 5 Performance
Alt: Dolly Parton - Workin' 9 to 5 Performance
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Lily/Paper 🌈♿️🍉 @paperstainedink.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey. Psst. Y’all are rad. Hydrate your skeletons. Take your meds. Check your posture. Have a snack. Whatever you need to do today/tonight, I believe in you. No matter how big or small it may be. I hope the week brings joy, relief, laughter, success, coziness. You got this. 💕
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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @ ASC @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sekhmet wound up developing pyometra, and needed an emergency spay. Final bill, $1700, oof. (More details in the thread) SO, I'm going to take some loose YCH commissions! Your Cat Here! Reply with a photo of your cat, and what pose you'd like! Then message me for payment information. 🐈🐈‍⬛👀
Sekhmet the cornish rex cat. A tortie cornish rex wears a lemon shaped soft cone. She has a massive red blaze. Her tummy is a bit bald as she was just spayed.YCH (Your Cat here)
$80 each, $60 for voids (solid black cats)
Image depicts 7 different cat poses. Pose 1 shows 3 examples of a finished cat drawing.
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Don't set parchment paper on fire in your countertop convection oven/air fryer. It's, uh. Not fun.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 23/09/2026
This year, the winner of Fat Bear Week will come to your home and replace your smoke alarm batteries.
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RNS @rns.org · 23/09/2026
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes Yom Kippur, a bishop's ordination and more.
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Photos of the Week: Yom Kippur, a bishop's ordination
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes Yom Kippur, a bishop's ordination and more.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
😯 Mind blown
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Made it up to the thrift shop that benefits AIDS research and care, and impossibly, I found 3 pairs of my favourite trousers for $10 a piece. That's an all around win.
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Gollum Lord of the Rings Close-Up
Alt: Gollum from the Lord of the Rings, who looks wide-eyed with excitement, then reconsiders
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𝔍𝔬𝔢 @joeblivion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
little possum in leaves with the text "it's finally autism"
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 22/09/2026
just_call_me_oche on Threads:

"String of words your grandpa lets out when he stubs his toe"

Archaeology & Art (@archaeo...) on Twitter:

"Whaler made scrimshawed whale ivory Sea Horse pie crimper, circa 1850"

[a scrimshawed whale ivory Sea Horse pie crimper]
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I managed to fuck up my knee and shoulder at the same time by yawning and stretching recklessly. Talk to your kids today about the dangers of stretching.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 22/09/2026
The Pennsylvania measles outbreak “seems to be accelerating,” one infectious disease specialist told me. “And we’re seeing, actually, types of measles we’ve never seen before.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be ‘accelerating’
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to count four measles deaths in the state though doctors are ‘seeing new forms’ of disease
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great news, and looking forward to a book historian becoming Chief Exec of the UK Space Agency sometime soon in this brave new world!
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Occasionally, perhaps often, I think about how the Whig Party fell apart on the eve of the Civil War because they couldn't quite find a position that mattered on the question of the slave power.
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hannah @hannza.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this is kind of mesmerizing
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
what being alive currently feels like
4 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy steps in bear trap and screams 

Panel 2: Purple Guy gets punched in the penis by a boxing glove

Panel 3: Purple Guy gets set on fire

Panel 4: Purple Guy lying on the ground, almost dead. Blue guy sticks head into shot and says: Heads up, things are about to get bad
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Rachel Grant/R.S. Grant @rachelgrant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great article about AI and pseudoarchaeology that I'm adding to my Author's Note on my website for FALSE FLAG. AI is distorting archaeology and flattening Indigenous Knowledge
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AI is distorting archaeology and flattening Indigenous Knowledge
While artificial intelligence can help archaeologists, it can also spread pseudoscientific claims and false histories, stripping Indigenous knowledge of context, consent and community control, say Uni...
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Tempvs Frangit @tempvsfrangit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Do not give me a seat at the table if you will not let me speak, and if you do let me speak then I would expect you to listen." --heard years ago. Art credit to Megan Nicole Dong (@sketchshark) 2017.
Cartoon drawing. First panel: toad says to cat, "There are so many stories about cats and so few tales of toads. I would love to share more toad stories with the world." Second panel, cat exclaims, "My God... You are right." Third panel, cat leans over to toad, "There SHOULD be more stories of your kind." Forth panel, cat in all seriousness proclaims, "*I*.. will tell these stories about your kind..." as toad looks concerned. Final panel is toad looking dejected as cat acts in the background wearing a toad-shaped hat and painted toad-color.
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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New Yiddish curse alert!
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Digital Tolkien Project @digitaltolkien.com · 21/09/2026
Today is the 89th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit. Here's a thread on interesting glimpses the book gave us into the legendarium Tolkien had at that stage already been working on for over twenty years but which readers at the time would have had no sense of.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Toad found a frying pan in the kitchen. “I will hit that big animal with this,” said Toad. “All of his teeth will fall out.”
Toad grabs a cast iron skillet from his kitchen.

From "Christmas Eve"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This genuinely made me laugh out loud today
HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
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On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For heathens like me and folks of other faiths, a reminder that some of of our Jewish friends have been fasting for Yom Kippur from sundown Sunday and will continue through tomorrow's sunset. Monday is a major Jewish holy holiday. Be cool.
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