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Jen Ray

@jenray.bsky.social
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13h
I REALLY like this @anildash.com piece on 'unalive' and algospeak in general, particularly the exploration of the implications for a generation of people growing up steeped in it.
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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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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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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
THIS 100%
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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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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
That is just SO cool. ♡
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Filipp @filipparts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Alex Merto
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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ohh these are so gorgeous!
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
How your email finds me.
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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Would support
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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Authorities have not said whether or not they suspect foul play" ???
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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Falcor!
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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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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Oh this looks great! Just purchased and looking forward to reading. Thanks!
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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A meme from the TV show Arrested Development, showing Buster with text saying "These are my awards, Mother, from Army" but in this one the word Army has been replaced with the word "Bronx"
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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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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Whoaaa it looks so good! The video and the sweatshirts both!
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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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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
www.bobsredmill.com/product/hemp... You've got a lot of good ideas here and are probably all set, but just thought I'd mention this one- a hemp protein powder by Bob's Red Mill. Dissolves well, very mild taste, nothing but hemp. I stir a spoonful into beans or soup or smoothies and really like it.
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Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods | Hemp Protein Powder
Hemp Protein Powder dissolves easily and has a mild taste, making it a wonderful addition to your smoothie or shake. It can also be added to baked goods,…
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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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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Oh wow I'd never heard of this at all! Crazy
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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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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Whoaaa that is beautiful! Green cherry is so satisfying to carve, and smells so nice.
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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Looks so good!
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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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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
SO cool and pretty. I've always been jealous of this look and wish my hair would do that
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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
This definitely resonated 🫣 and was really interesting!
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Jen Ray @jenray.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
My son the same age also loved all of those, and he's really into Warriors www.shopwarriorcats.com/collections/...
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Books
Shop the complete Warrior Cats book series. Discover all clans, adventures, and stories. Official books for fans and new readers alike.
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