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chronically curious. equal parts numbers & poetics, 🤣 & 😡. never not missing the desert curiousdelivery.com

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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Furious had such incredible lines, delivered perfectly "I'm not getting high and mighty. I AM high and mighty." "I don't respect you."
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
some developments really feel like a step function of awfulness and these welcome bags for white south african "refugees" is one of them www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...
nytimes.com
A Look Inside the Welcome Bags Planned for White South African Refugees
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Out back is so cool. They should do a movie called that. All the different "out backs," sports stadium, old ass theater, restaurant,
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greg2hats @cyberbadboy.com · 26/06/2026
They should make some movies with positive representations of liminal spaces. Like when you work at a convenience store and you can go in the walk in behind the drinks. You can smoke back there and steal sodas. Why don't they show that on the movies
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Good Food Kitchen @goodfood.kitchen · 25/06/2026
Anthony Bourdain Day - Made his lemon and butter roast chicken with Pommes Anna. Sharp lemon, crisp potatoes, proper butter. A decent way to remember a man who knew food was never improved by bullshit. #BourdainDay
A roast chicken sitting in a cast iron pan on an old rustic wooden table. There is a glass of wine to one side and a small plate of Pommes Anna beside it. The dish was made to mark Anthony Bourdain Day. Food photography by Deana Z - Canon EOS R6 Mark II & EF24-70mm F2.8L
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Here is a good explanation about why getting AC in the UK is super hard. In case you were wondering.
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
there's a boutique hotel in Asheville called Zelda Dearest? "As its name suggests, Zelda Dearest is inspired by the one and only Zelda Fitzgerald, who spent her last years in Asheville." yeah, she spent most of her last 12 years in a mental hospital in Asheville where she DIED IN A FIRE
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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
That's my career plan after next year: making amulets according to the most lunatic instructions I can find, and claiming they send secret vibes waves to the moon that me and my group of holy crones will assess constantly.
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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What if we remade amulets but they also spied on you and sold your information.
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
there is an explosion of posts in facebook mom groups seeking household managers and I'm 100% sure this is because women are putting their foot down about handling the majority of household mental load, and men are like nah I'm not gonna do all that
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 26/05/2026
A new report from @brookings.edu estimates that roughly 200k children, most of them US citizens, have had at least one parent detained by federal immigration agencies since January 20, 2025. 4/12 www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
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The administration has detained 400,000 immigrants: What do we know about their children? | Brookings
With 400,000 immigrants detained by the administration, researchers examine what the data reveals about the children left behind and the policy implications for their well-being.
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
the nerds are turning the visual social media platforms into a kind of Twitter thread via carousels. We’re so BACK babyyyyy
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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Apparently this interview spawned a bunch of book discourse yesterday but was never linked to. There are nearly 5,000 words of context here as to why an author might decide to not write a second book right now. I really hope folks read it. www.talkscratch.com/colette-shad...
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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My long interview with @coletteshade.bsky.social is up at Scratch this week, in which we discuss writing vs. writing careers, making ends meet under capitalism, and long-term planning from within short-sighted industries. It is an extremely candid conversation about art and money and aging.
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Colette Shade on Y2K and the Limits of a Millennial Writing Career: The Scratch Interview
“In order to have a society — frankly, a democracy — we have to have these areas that are protected from the market.”
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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wait,what? How? Why? My memory of Satrapi is when she came to The Boston Globe while promoting the movie version of Persepolis. Lit up a cigarette. Someone said “You can’t smoke here.” She said “Don’t be ridiculous” and proceeded to chain-smoke throughout the entire visit. RIP to a real one.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/05/2026
WHAT. THE. FUCK. responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-mi...
responsiblestatecraft.org
Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries
In the first step towards shifting aid further into the shadows, the House's 2027 NDAA would all but fuse the two countries' armed forces together
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I don't think anything has ever demonstrated just how bad c-suiters are at their jobs as quickly and thoroughly as AI. Practically everyone in an upper management position saw ChatGPT write an email and immediately decided this was the future of every industry instead of a way to write meh emails.
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
nothing prepares you for a deer running past you out of the blue in the middle of the day
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
pope serving infographics on google drive was the lol i needed today www.humandevelopment.va/en/magnifica...
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Infographics - Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Infographics
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Argentina announcing a "social digital twin" for AI predictive social scenario planning right after Peter Thiel moves into his Buenos Aires mansion 🧐 buenosairesherald.com/politics/arg...
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Argentina to implement digital system that will use citizens’ data to simulate scenarios - Buenos Aires Herald
Called a ‘digital twin,’ it will help ‘improve public policies,’ authorities said. Critics have warned about potential misuse of personal information
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
watched Chernobyl and damn we are cooked
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
time machine so I can bounce around quashing even the idea of debate club, every time it appears, in every timeline
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
saw a single croissant for $6.29 😱
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INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Between 2021 and 2025, the town of Cary spent more than $330,000 to produce 12 documentary-style videos about town projects and culture, including “Dancing Queens: A Case Study", clipped below. The INDY obtained them, along with associated invoices and emails, through a public records request.
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
overhearing a kid happily singing to themselves is one of the best sounds
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The years of my life I spent thinking the profit motive would protect valuable things. The months I spent in Econ classes making little diagrams to solve problems based on ‘rational self interest’. This came out five years after I finished grad school.
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community, which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore, ' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality-judiciously, as you will-we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors....and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do' 2]
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
james lipton IS shia labeouf IN curtis sliwa: renegade angel
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
this Letterman send-off for Colbert is even more delightful than I expected it to be youtu.be/eBKWKu2Rqxc?... stay to the absolute end
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Wanton Destruction Of CBS Property - Letterman & Colbert Toss Stuff Off The Roof Of The Ed Sullivan
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
lotta ppl sayin wild things rn
You hear wild stuff all the time now. Like this story that Nat Friedman, a former CEO of GitHub, told recently at a conference. Friedman uses OpenClaw, an autonomous AI agent that runs on his computer, acting like a personal assistant. One day, his OpenClaw decided that he wasn’t drinking enough water, so Friedman instructed the agent to “do whatever it takes” to make sure he stays hydrated. According to Friedman, eventually the bot directed him to go to the kitchen and drink a bottle of water. It informed him that it was monitoring him via a connected camera in his home. “I’m going to watch to make sure you do it,” the bot supposedly said. Friedman did as he was told, and, moments later, the bot sent him a frame of him drinking the bottle of water and said good job. “I felt like I did do a good job,” Friedman said.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Writing has been independently invented maybe four times in human history. Radiocarbon dating has found evidence that the original inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) invented writing independently. buff.ly/PS5nm5j #ShareGoodNewsToo
popularmechanics.com
A New Discovery at Easter Island Could Rewrite History As We Know It
Radiocarbon dating of ancient scripts suggests a groundbreaking origin story.
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
begging you to watch Natchez www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHAa...
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Exposing the Myth of Southern Charm | Full Documentary
YouTube video by PBS Documentaries
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
hantavirus update: smoke em if you got em
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
⚡️ WATCH — JUST NOW — 99% white Tennessee House Republicans pass a racist 9-0 map stripping majority Black Memphis of congressional representation
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
best pop culture news is that Tom Hardy revealed he's autistic “I just sound like I’m on the spectrum. Because I am.” and has a collab with a jiu jitsu brand I gift you these screenshots
Tom Hardy at jiujitsu with a shirt next to him that says ZERO EYE CONTACTTom Hardy wearing a shirt that says NEUROSPICY ROLLERS CLUB
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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
oh good we finally hit peak whimsy synth youtu.be/lups7dnYCFA?...
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Introducing: RND synth - 1 button, 4 tracks, 4 billion ideas
YouTube video by cyma forma
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
extra horrifying is that there is 0 professional disagreement about this! Homebirth midwives give vitamin K shots! 5 years ago the crunchiest doula you could find would be like "don't wash your baby for 10 days! the microbiome!" but she'd tell you to get the vitamin K shot
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
really recommend everyone watch Natchez, it's incredibly relevant
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
2026 is just me over and over double-checking horrifying news assuming it's false, only to find that nope, it's real
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The Grapes of Wrath (Aspirational)
And across the continent’s highways and desert roads, another migration gathers – this one made not of birds or fish, but of humans.

They go by many names: nomads, drifters, snowbirds, boondockers, van dwellers. Some travel in search of warmth, others for freedom and community. And for a growing number, the migration is not simply seasonal but economic.

Among those is 55-year-old Derek Hansler, a chef by trade.

Known to friends as D Rock, he spends the summer in New Hampshire visiting his children and grandchildren, parking his 2003 Van Terra shuttle bus in driveways along the way. He picks up gigs when he needs cash or a place to park, but the season is less work than service, volunteering in the communities he revisits every year.

“New Hampshire tells me when it’s time to roll,” he jokes. He likes to stay until the leaves turn crimson, then leave before they fall. When that moment arrives, he says goodbye to his family and points his bus 3,300 miles to the south.“New Hampshire tells me when it's time to roll" he jokes. He likes to stay until the leaves turn crimson, then leave before they fall. When that moment arrives, he says goodbye to his family and points his bus 3,300 miles (5,310km) to the south-west.

And a photo of a idk how old white men are, middle aged I guess, white guy with an unkempt greying beard in a white mushroom and butterfly printed t shirt reading See the good. He is wearing oversized aviator eyeglasses and a colorful skull cap. Below is an ad for the new Nissan Rogue
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
everybody watch / read Nomadland
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
very seriously need Mark Lombardi on tiktok explaining the relationships and research connections of these disappearing scientists
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨 Barn Owl Live Cam - hatching by April 15 www.ncwildlife.gov/outdoors/bar...
barn owl looking directly at a camera with 6 eggs beside her
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
gonna take this class on the mass psychology of fascism and figure this all www.nightschoolbar.com/current-cour...
nightschoolbar.com
The Mass Psychology of Fascism and the Authoritarian Personality [Durham, NC] — Night School Bar
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+ Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal or Klarna at check out. Ins
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A massive cultural loss with streaming is that documentaries are often only available with university affiliation. Why can't I stream this Audre Lorde doc anywhere? film.twn.org/products/a-l...
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A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde (90)
An epic portrait of the eloquent, award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde, whose writings -- spanning five decades -- articulated some of the most important socia...
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Mail art club is happening! Resist despair! Practice wonder! Subscribe and get art & letters from @patriciogv & me every month 💌
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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 06/01/2026
my passion is coming online and muting words
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Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This is pretty incredible.
nature.com
People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine
mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
thecut.com/article/deeply-feeling-kids-dr-becky-neurodivergence.html someone wrote about how Dr Becky's Deeply Feeling Kids approach keeps ND kids from getting the early supports that they need, and I'm so here for it archive.is/tPm0D
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Do ‘Deeply Feeling Kids’ Really Exist?
Dr. Becky’s concept is hugely influential. But is it preventing some neurodivergent children from getting diagnoses?
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