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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Be careful out there

Check your Halloween candy carefully. Someone tried to hide the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary layer in mine. Snickers image with the KPg boundary

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Maybe lettinge a small amount of immenselye wealthye tech bros control technologyes needed for the public was... a badde ydea?

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 22h

Eek!! Today is the day they are finished! Custom made by Premeditated Moments, repurposing old Precious Moments figs, which were huge in St Louis, every house (but mine) had them. She also sent the pic she based them on. Love this!! ❤️❤️❤️

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 23h

He didn't even know about my pin jacket. 🙂

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 23h

Met up with a long time Cher Scholar friend last night (from Atlanta) for dinner and he came bearing gifts! He said he based them on my music 10 list! How cool is that? And what a nice pick-me-up from a few rough 🥴😫🤕 weeks.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When someone points out coincidences on the show Ludwig, he always insists anything over three is "statistically significant." Meanwhile, Professor T insists he doesn't even believe in coincidences. I think I'm up to about 50 by now. But what can you do. Both shows are back on again this month. ♥️

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Running errands today and this song came up on ABQ nostalgia radio and I hadn't heard it since I was a tween and listening to Adult Contempo radio in St. Louis. I LOVED this song and confused the singer with EW&F. Too sentimental I can see now. I'm gonna listen to it 50x now. ♥️ youtu.be/d6AHjroSkfM

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Stanley Clarke, George Duke - Sweet Baby (Official Vedio)

YouTube video by StanleyClarkeVEVO

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Growing up with very slick gaslighters I know anybody can call an insult a joke. It's probably the lowest level schoolyard gaslight there ever was.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It is the cavalier mistrust that burns the cynic, the unwillingness to face the self that only ever returns a desolate self, the hardness that always makes the bricks collapse, that lets the water recede back into the ocean like a rock impervious to the waves of lament.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This moment in warfare history is also another reminder of how fragile our lives are in the Internet and being so dependent on technology, most of it meaningless and detrimental. 😞

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Think of all those people who took an oath to defend the US Constitution: the president, senators, congressmen, the supreme court, CIA, military...so many have betrayed it & its Ukraine this weekend who's soley struck a blow to Russian's years-long attack on American democracy through social media.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Two things can be true at once." - Ludwig

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

America's first epic poem, America's first poem and the best example of an eyewitness explorer poem, from the Oñate expedition of 1598.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Speaking of oversharing: I find myself showing up every day (or most days), showing up & trying to come up with new ideas, showing up while doubting and wondering WTF my role even is in this bleak space. And I often wonder if too much bad stuff has already happened. And maybe it's already too late.

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Dog Scroll

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't know where I fit into this continuum. I mean, I'm posting it...but without a picture of me pointing at it. So I'm guessing somewhere in the middles. I aspire to be this person though. www.youtube.com/watch?v=facy...

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Psychology of People Who Don't Post their Photos on Social Media.

YouTube video by PsyCode.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Took a while to figure out what this Halloween costume even was. After much debate and deliberation, turns out it's.... Kato Kaelin. (And that's dark.)

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The next PodClass on the poetry of The Explorers is cookin'! These are all the poems I found over the last two weeks and need to read. And then thin the herd! Turning out to be a very interesting class.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I believe this is a recovery poem but why can't we all benefit from it?

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was surprised he didn't have a bigger online presence. youtu.be/VjfdZR1E8K4?...

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You're As Close

YouTube video by Isaac Aragon - Topic

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One webpage bit of marketing calls him "the soul of New Mexico." youtu.be/Wo0bdo1RUdU?...

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Tip of My Tongue

YouTube video by Isaac Aragon - Topic

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Went to a ⚽ game last weekend with three friends. On my way home, a local station was playing the full R&B album of Issac Aragon (who does that anymore?) and I caught the last three or four songs. Looking him up when I got home, he's a local artist. youtu.be/8EFPx1gGWCw?...

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All I Got

YouTube video by Isaac Aragon - Topic

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unexpected pleasure of this project: writing out other people's names and thinking about where they live and what they might be doing where they are right now. Get your own postcards at Signs for Justice in Portland.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Halloween month continues with the Cher head. #2: Cher as sunflower. This Halloween outfit was formerly Bianca's, purchased from PetCo. Rest in peace Bianca Jean.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My hand was shaky today for some reason. But I got 17/50 done! Meanwhile, my assistant...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/10/2026

Can't work, have a cat on me, could be here all day

Spice the cat, laying on my legs whilst I am in bed, looking out the window

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

seen on my porch this morning

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"We are upgradinge the OS, so nowe your software and printer will no longir worke" ys just anothir greate feature of livinge yn thys shininge momente for tech

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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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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Simon Frith on gender and musical tastes.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Speaking of Turnstiles, Billy Joel was my 2nd concert. I could only go if I took my parents. Ugh. They wanted to get there early so they could park by the exit. Ugh. But they liked it and my pianist mother was very impressed by Billy Joel playing the Prelude laying on his piano. youtu.be/WdyxH3UzKr0

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Billy Joel - Prelude / Angry Young Man (Official Audio)

YouTube video by billyjoelVEVO

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am mesmerized by this visualizer (more than the demo actually). It gives us an outtake of the record album cover that fans have stared at for hours and memorized and bought it to life, energizing all the archetype characters. The train even comes and goes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMwI...

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Billy Joel - James (Band Demo, June 12, 1975)

YouTube video by billyjoelVEVO

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the sound of grief, 4 days old and just in time youtu.be/SJlLd3XY6_U

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M83 - 'Opera' (Official Audio)

YouTube video by M83

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the Internet poems I did there was always a hidden set--the Grammar set a hidden poem called Synecdoche about how 1 woman can feel the pain of all women or visa versa (something women are feeling bigly now). As the argument goes in this song, ergo it's opposite is also true. youtu.be/LG58Z9QAVL0

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CHER SHE'S NO BETTER THAN ME 1966

YouTube video by ildiscollezionista

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Joy Harjo surprised us with her band, Poetic Justice, last night. They played this, which she called "Stomp." I had only seen her play sax once before, at a theatrical show she did at the Autrey Center in LA. "Take care of the music and this music will take care of us." youtu.be/UJlH7Gzwy50?...

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Joy Harjo - Stomp All Night

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last night's reading at the Kimo Theater. She's the artist in residence now at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa and The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music has just commissioned a children's book poem from her about American music which she read to us last night.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My arguments often are not about me. I personally don't love technology & look forward to an analog old age. At the same time I will defend those who attempt to bend tech to their artistic will, especially artists with a cultural critique to make. Much of my thinking around this is from this essay:

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ANUBIS: "And nowe the weighinge of your hearte, to see the worthe of your lyfe, the sum of your deedes. Reache ynto your chest, seize it, and putte it on the scale. You may not believe you kan do thys, but you kan. Heere all rules bende and change." Me [figuringe out wher to putte my iced coffee]

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In a recent comment on this video "Ted Lasso brought me here." Another song from this week's episode of a show that brings us all here in one way or another. youtu.be/UkDbB2rMouM?...

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Royel Otis - Til The Morning (Visualiser)

YouTube video by Royel Otis

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