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Kevin Makice

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Community experience designer / geek dad / whiteboard artist / author / accomplice-in-training / he/him / Kmakice@fosstodon.org zestdelights.substack.com

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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
He spelled “Bored” wrong.
Screenshot of news article photo showing Trump holding up a signed document with a title above the photo referencing “Board of Peace”
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The Power Fantasy of Superman is you still have a staff job on a newspaper.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Jonathan captured Colin in mid yodel!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 31/08/2025
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
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Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender
Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Guerrilla art from my kid for my wife’s group practice.
Drawing of a strong flexed arm with text: This is your brain on therapy. Tearaway tags below each say: Text ‘therapy’ to 812-669-2227
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Kurt Vonnegut man
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/04/2025
This is Autumn. She was born without one paw. Gets along just fine with three, but still sometimes uses a prosthetic leg when she wants to blend in. 13/10
a small dog wearing a black and orange bandana, collar, and leash sits on a leafy dirt path and looks up at us with large brown eyes. she's white with brown spots on her ears and eyes. she has brown speckles on her left paw, and her right paw is actually a bright orange webbed duck foot. she likes to have fun with her prosthetics.
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PF Anderson @pfanderson.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Remember Cory Booker's marathon speech? If you want to read the whole thing, or extract golden nuggets, it's available through the Congressional Record. It starts on page 52 of pt 1 for March 31 www.congress.gov/119/crec/202... and goes through page 124 of pt 2 www.congress.gov/119/crec/202...
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) has a bill to return tariff authority to Congress. If it were to pass, the purposeless tariffs would end. Speaker Johnson is blocking it. Call your member of Congress, R or D, & urge a discharge petition on the bill, which forces a vote. U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.
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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Remember that "I'd like to teach the world to sing" Coke commercial? I think that's what alot of people think a protest looks/feels like. I have some footage from 2014 I'd like to show them.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
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Navigating Trans Day of Visibility in Trump's America
What it means to be seen when your government is actively trying to erase you
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.
Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The Bloomington Center for Connection is doing a free CARE workshop (2 sessions) that is worth your time. www.bloomingtoncenterforconnection.org/2025/03/care...
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CARE-ing for your mental health
Explore the impact of relationships on your mental health using the CARE Assessment framework to assess your connections.
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Five years ago, I was waking up to my first day of remote work, which was meant to be a beta test with just some of the organization but ended up being a thing that lasted a long, long time. Still valuing my hybrid schedule today.
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Always speak up. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
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"Have You No Decency?": Republican Calls Sarah McBride "Mister," Dems Erupt And End Hearing
During a meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a Republican representative, Rep. Keith Self, called transgender congresswoman the "gentleman from Delaware." Dems pushed back.
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Five years. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
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MARCH 11 2020 (Re-air)
Podcast Episode · 30 for 30 Podcasts · 03/11/2025 · 1h 9m
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/03/2025
1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Anyway, I strongly believe in the power of play to revitalize our high-cultural spaces, re-engage with the rest of humanity, and rehearse different possible forms of being. My 2-minute scholarly manifesto: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Make Theatre Playable | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Make Theatre Playable - Volume 1
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trusted toys kept me safe at night. Cowboy is probably still on duty somewhere. open.substack.com/pub/zestdeli...
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Cowboy
I never knew he had a name
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!
media.tenor.com
a man with a beard is sitting in a room with a harp in the background
ALT: a man with a beard is sitting in a room with a harp in the background
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 22/02/2025
Somebody somewhere Needs flowers today
Wild rock garden in the Beartooth Range 
Flowers in the foreground, rocks behind them with some pine trees behind that and a just the right amount of clouds to defuse the light for a nice shot.
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Trip #3 through "For All Mankind", an alternate history TV show on Apple. open.substack.com/pub/zestdeli...
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Alternate History
Asking What If is a way to critique our present
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Brilliant front page
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.
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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Democratic leadership does not lead the *citizens*, they lead the party. We elect people to be our voices and represent us in the shaping of laws and legislation. We tell THEM when we're angry. They don't give us instruction. Fighting regimes has never worked that way anywhere, ever
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ajollybengali.bsky.social @ajollybengali.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Apropos of nothing but I'm reading Black AF History by @michaelharriot.bsky.social and it is phenomenal so far! Fierce, funny, unflinching. His narration of the audiobook is fantastic.
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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Remembering John Lewis on his birthday (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) #GoodTrouble 💙🕊
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/02/2025
Whitman Walker sold out the trans community for the false idea that it will protect care for everyone by continuing to receive federal funds. It won't. They'll come back for more. You can't appease fascists. www.erininthemorning.com/p/no-more-co...
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No More Compliance: Historic LGBT Clinic Whitman-Walker's Erasing Of Trans People A Step Too Far
On Friday night, it became widely known that several links to gender affirming care and transgender resources disappeared from Whitman-Walker's website. Their stated reason is harmful to us all.
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
substack.com/@dlmayfield/...
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D.L. Mayfield on Substack
Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism: 1). They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement bc they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled thru...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
There’s something happening in this country.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/02/2025
Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/02/2025
“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 21/02/2025
One of the first targets here will almost certainly be blocking the mailing of abortion medications like mifepristone. If I'm right, it'll be a the biggest blow to reproductive freedom since the repeal of Roe.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
If you're worried about democracy, history or freedom of speech under the Trump-Musk administration, relax... The coup has already happened. And, apparently, no one cares.
dlvr.it
Kick. Scream. Go Apeshit.
The coup is finished. We are not.
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Yet another social scientist's warning: "The most underestimated element in the current crisis of our democracy is the degree to which many politicians fear for their lives if they cross or defy Trump....Fear...is the most visceral indication that...the future of democracy" is in doubt: is.gd/hyJxsd
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Trump's America Is in a Free Fall—Not a Slippery Slope—to Tyranny
He is instilling fear not just among lawmakers but every sector of society that dares to criticize him or hold him accountable
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21/02/2025
Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I miss my friend, Fake Toynbee Tile, but its spirit still invokes a smile and inspiration. open.substack.com/pub/zestdeli...
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Street Art
A local landmark was done in by an infrastructure upgrade project
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
20 minutes submerged in hot water clears away more than dirt. It's a reset to the day and fuel for the next challenge. open.substack.com/pub/zestdeli...
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Hot Baths
A Tub is My Inner Kid's Water Fort
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The Bloomingtonian @bloomingtonian.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Events: 16th Annual Trashion Refashion Runway Show Sponsored by Plato’s Closet Returns to Buskirk-Chumley Theater on April 13, 2025 bloomingtonian.com/2025/02/16/e...
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
One of my most enjoyable things to think about right now is the notion that For All Mankind is the prequel to The Expanse.
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Kevin Makice @kmakice.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
We have such reliance on help coming from systems. substack.com/@themadredne...
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The Mad Redneck on Substack
I founded a mutual aid garage in a very conservative town in Alabama. I didn’t tell people I was a communist, but I never hid it either. I just fixed people’s cars. I resigned a year ago when my son w...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...
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NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I gotta " catch up to the new tools of the industry" but the world is being destroyed by a teenager who can't recognize COBOL??!! and I am not even being egotistical I am in constant communication with people on my phone going "ARE YOU SEEING THIS SHIT"
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