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Jen Ray

@jenray.bsky.social
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artist / maker of things www.jenray.net

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026
I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:
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Filipp @filipparts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
How your email finds me.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A good book that nobody really noticed was just written on this topic.
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Shade by Sam Bloch: 9780593242766 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An extraordinary investigation into shade, this “compelling . . . conversation-starter draws examples from history, city-planning and social policy” (NPR) to change the way we think about a...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“Your horror has been stolen from you” is a 10/10 sentence.
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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Jacob Lawrence, "When It Is Warm the Parks Are Filled with People," 1943 learninglab.si.edu/resources/vi...
Stylized, graphic painting of Black figures in a park, with a woman placing a baby into a carriage, another sitting on a bench, and an ice cream vendor, among others
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It's Nice That @its-nice-that.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Silvana Trevale photographs of Venezuela’s youth are a love letter to a generation growing up in uncertainty> buff.ly/NaYfrQf
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The piping plovers this morning at Montrose Beach
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...
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How I Learned to Read Way, Way More
I had to rethink my relationship to attention
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Weasel and Caterpillar Eddy Cobiness ~ Ojibwe 1979
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Robot legs are here and they aren’t going anywhere. [booing begins] Whether you like it or not we are going to cut off all of your legs and arms [booing intensifies] and heads and replace them all with robot legs and only robot legs [shouting over boos] well I can see you aren’t ready for the future
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Sure, we live in hell BUT ALSO Denali Park has a sled dog puppy webcam www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...
little balls of fluff wandering around a large penned area
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
Template Maker is on our of our most favourite websites. Just enter your dimensions & it will create nets for bags, boxes, envelopes. www.templatemaker.nl/en/
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A little curiosity and focus will open up a world stretching back centuries that will shock you with how familiar it feels, how current and relatable its concerns are. Those people were humans just like you, and what they made is every bit as exciting as anything being made now!
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Capitalism lives in the eternal "now". It doesn't want you to know about history, it doesn't want you to know art has existed for tens of thousands of years, it wants you slavering for whatever's coming NEXT, whatever's HOT and NEW, and ignoring everything else. You do not have to do this.
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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 06/05/2026
Street photographer Janusz Jurek embraces the weirdness of everyday life. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/05/janu...
A candid street photograph by Janusz Jurek of two elderly women walking by costumed and masked figures during a folk festivalA candid street photograph by Janusz Jurek of textiles hanging on a drying line and someone's legs sticking out from behind one of the piecesA candid street photograph by Janusz Jurek of women carrying dogs, with a denim jacket with a Leonardo Da Vinci painting of a woman holding an ermine
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food. Me: That's--Hold on,
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Jon Nelson @byjonnelson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Did my tree pruning for the winter and had a bunch of branches without a use. With only a couple tools I made a whistle in 15 minutes, in case you might need a whistle some day soon. 🌱
Hand carved whistle from apple wood.
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Sometimes only the comforting sound of gentle rain will do. This is a long rainy, *sleep safe* episode. Episode 128 - Persistent rain (51 mins) bit.ly/LenRn128
raindrops on a window. Some grey and other brighter colours blurred. It's not clear what is behind the window. Maybe some kind of concreted path.
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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“Hypernormalization describes a state where a false, simplified, or surreal version of reality becomes so accepted as normal that people lose the ability or will to challenge it, even when aware of its untruth, often due to systemic inertia or lack of alternatives.”
Hypernormalization describes a state where a false, simplified, or surreal version of reality becomes so accepted as normal that people lose the ability or will to challenge it, even when aware of its untruth, often due to systemic inertia or lack of alternatives. Coined by Alexei Yurchak for late Soviet society, it was popularized by Adam Curtis's documentary, applying it to modern Western cultures where complex problems are met with fabricated, anesthetic narratives by those in power, leading to collective cognitive dissonance where everyone pretends a dysfunctional system is working.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I'll be thinking of you & your PROBLEMS.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
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After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
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jam @socialistboat.dad · 31/12/2025
They call it the Polar Express but it stops in front of every child's individual house more like the Polar Local. More like the Polar Local. (shuffling note cards, adjusting mic stand) Polar Local
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Manuela Boeckle @manuelaboeckle.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
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Light Needs review – a blooming lovely meditation on plants and their people
Houseplants appear to make conversation and yearn for lost friends in a witty yet luminous documentary from Jesse McLean
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The Kid Should See This @tksst.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 💃🏻🕺🏻 A 34-year-old Dick Van Dyke attempts to learn the mambo and cha-cha from an impatient dance instructor in this 1960 sketch from CBS's The Fabulous Fifties. It's a masterclass in physical #comedy just a year before The Dick Van Dyke Show. #tv 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/D7Ybu
Dick Van Dyke in a suit and bowler hat stands beside dance instructor Maria Karnilova in a striped dress during a 1960 television comedy sketch.
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Go somewhere quiet before bed. Try one of these *sleep safe* episodes. 267 - A hidden dell at night > bit.ly/Len267 269 - Night crickets > bit.ly/Len269 189 - Night rain falls on a drystone wall > bit.ly/LenSett1 274 - Burgh Island midnight tide > bit.ly/LenBur2
a copse of trees at night. dark with a hint of sky behind. quiet. still. a bramble or briar, long arms with spikes against a night skysingle drop of water hangs from a twig at duskNight sky over the sea and land. This is a quiet peaceful place.
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The Kid Should See This @tksst.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
☀️🧪 Researchers at the University of Sydney developed a nano-engineered polymer coating that reflects 97% of sunlight and passively collects water from air. #science 👉 newatlas.com/materials/roof-...
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This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air
A roof paint that can cool your home and pull fresh water straight out of the air? It's within reach, as scientists scale up production of a new kind of paint-like coating that shields roofing from the sun's rays and harvests dew from its surface.
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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Ok, @hannahposts.bsky.social is right- we gotta bring back mundane normie posting, even when things are terrible all around. So here's a cool spider I saw in the garden today! A Marbled Orb Weaver/ Pumpkin spider. She showed up just in time for Halloween!
Outdoor scene with a bright golden spider with delicate black marbling on her large, rounded body. Her legs go from deep orange to black-and-white-stripes at the tips. She is building a web in the garden. She is a marbled orb weaver spider, also known as a pumpkin spider.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
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The Kid Should See This @tksst.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🎹🌱 In 1976 composer Mort Garson created "Mother Earth's Plantasia," an all-Moog synthesizer album supposedly designed to help plants grow. It was distributed only with the purchase of a houseplant or a Simmons mattress. #music #history 👉 www.openculture.com/2025/10/...
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The 1976 Synth Album That Promised to Help Your Plants Grow: Discover Mother Earth’s Plantasia
In 1973, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird's The Secret Life of Plants became a bestseller. Open Culture, openculture.com
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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 05/10/2025
Can’t recommend this documentary on extreme birdwatching enough: absolutely wild stuff! 🦅 You won’t regret it! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
YouTube video by owen reiser
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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 15/09/2025
Roberto Benavidez continues to make piñata-like creatures inspired by the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts and the surreal characters in Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights." www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/robe...
a papier-mâché sculpture by Roberto Benavidez of an imaginary bird creature based on a detail of a Hieronymus Bosch paintinga papier-mâché sculpture by Roberto Benavidez of an imaginary mouse-like creature based on a detail of a Hieronymus Bosch painting
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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F35d... With the relentless onslaught of n*zi chuds we're all forced to deal with lately, this song pops into my head pretty much daily. Recently realized fewer people know about Embrace than I thought, so here you go. Ian MacKaye post-Minor Threat, pre-Fugazi.
Image of the lyrics to the Embrace song "Said Gun", which read:
Look what you've organized
Do you believe all those lies
There's no courage in hatred
Only in love 
Look what you've organized
Attack, defend, you live a fantasy
Nobody wants anything that belongs to you
Sometimes I'd like to kick your fucking ass
But I guess you're just a human too
Why? Why are you here?
You're looking for a reason to hate
So you can fuck someone up
You'd hate yourself if you had the chance
I guess you already do
You fuck yourself up 
Every night.
If you have to fight
Then fight the violence
That rules your life
Said gun, said knife
It's going to end your life
If you have to fight
Then fight the violence
That rules your life
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Nature headline "I invented a life-saving frog sauna." Photo of said frogs in said sauna
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
If you’re bored of all the big radio stations then try NTS. It’s the absolute best. www.nts.live
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NTS | Don't Assume
NTS is a global radio platform broadcasting music from over 50 cities around the globe, live 24/7.
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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Really great inside look into what it's like to be a photojournalist/ how to become one, from the unstoppable and talented Sean Rayford 📸
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I wrote a pep talk? I started with how I actually feel powerful that an expensive computer program that ate all of my work and that of all writers is still not as good as all of us it stole from. Then I went a few places. Anyway, it's here. mailchi.mp/e87ac78bc7b7...
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Alexander Chee: Let's Go
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Feels like a good time to learn those codes hobos used in the 30s to show which houses gave out bowls of stew
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chadzia dax 🔞😷 @m00psy.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
read it for free while you still can www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 28/02/2025
JUST OUT! 🚨 Time capsule birds' nests! 🪹 I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀 “You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x #scicomm 🧪🪶
Three photos are shown. A) The Rokin nest, a colourful plastic-filled nest inside a metal pipe. B) The Eurasian coots swimming side by side through the Rokin canal, Amsterdam C) A whole list of vintage plastics ranging from 2022-1991. Photos: Auke-Florian Hiemstra
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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 09/11/2024
On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"
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