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Kelly Wright

@omnikel.bsky.social
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Words, fiber crafts, singing, dogs, black tea, long naps, good books. Chicago adjacent. Serial comma 4ever. Fascists can fuck off. She/her.

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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Late-season garden peppers destined for the dehydrator
A colander containing orange bell pepper and green poblano peppers
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, maybe I should be writing, but sometimes you really just need to give all of your energy to the D.
The completed Lego Enterprise NCC-1701-D, with nine ST:TNG minifigs. Including Riker’s trombone. The completed Lego Enterprise NCC-1701-D, with nine ST:TNG minifigs. Including Riker’s trombone.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wrong words only.
It surprisingly hard to find plausible but fake words in a crossword puzzle. I keep finding real words instead. Pictured: a crossword puzzle with only fake words circled.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Me with the fella at the Aragon Ballroom. We’re as cute as can be.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A paperback copy of Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies and Videos 1995
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:
data4democracy.substack.com
The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side
This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
data4democracy.substack.com
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Two people sit in a nearly empty auditorium. One looks into the camera. The other gazes into the distance. What has captured his attention? What lingers off camera, bewitching and/or bedeviling him? We may never know.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/08/2026
Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Western Colorado is pretty. I’ll give it that.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Nice.
Gneiss rock seen at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@hankgreen.bsky.social I’m so vexed that I didn’t manage a perfect game today, but I got two different pangrams, and that feels like a win.
My Smush score for July 20, 2026, with 408 points.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is a chocolate chunk cookie in a plastic sleeve. The label simply says “INGREDIENTS: Ravinia”
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
29 years with @airanw.bsky.social
Me and the fella in front of NaKorn, where we celebrated our anniversary.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Nbd. hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 10 940 pts · PERFECT 💯 · 3-day streak 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🥞🥞🥞
hankgreen.com
Smush
A daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required.
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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Physical books. You own them. They don't require updates. They don't surveil you or collect and sell your data. They are a genuinely safe hallucinogen that leaves you smarter and more empathetic and with a longer attention span the more you use them. Free from the library. What's not to like?
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I forget how clunky early iPhone cases were.
A collection of Neolithic ax heads on display at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The Obama Presidential Center museum building.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I stopped by the reflecting pool.
A blue plastic bowl full of slimy brown-green water.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The algae has a right to collect tolls and develop a nuclear program.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Honestly, it’s even more delicious that they put up the curtain. They are so fragile, they couldn’t bear the shame of anyone witnessing their defeat.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/06/2026
A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"Opposed to using AI for her software-engineering job, Erin Maus secured something of a miracle from her employer: a religious exemption." A lot of folks are about to find God.
businessinsider.com
She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.
Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
My yard keeps producing five-leaf clovers. Are these mutant clovers, or was my house built over a radioactive waste dump?
A patch of clover. Two hands are holding three of the clovers, which have five leaves each.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 25/05/2026
“I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school." Tom Steyer demonstrating what being human looks like
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
A still from the opening credits of Star Trek: Voyager, with the episode title “Delete the Wife”
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
There has been a birdicide.
My blue canary nightlight is broken. The plastic blue bird lies on its side on a counter, disconnected from the nightlight in the socket. There will be a reckoning.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Sebastian
Sebastian is a brown and black dog. In this photo, he is lounging in green grass, and he has turned his head to the side, nose lifted to catch a scent in the air.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Many years ago (maybe 1998?), I saw David Byrne perform in Denver, and I became obsessed with the idea of becoming one of his backup singers. Time passed, and I forgot that aspiration until tonight. David, is it too late for me? I’ll wear orange! Let me know if Hannah needs a sub.
David Byrne and three members of his band, wearing orange, perform on a stage that looks like the moon, with the Earth rising behind them.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Seeing Ravenswood Winds at The Green Mill, including the world premiere of @airanw.bsky.social’s Quantum Entanglement.
Me and Airan at The Green Mill Ravenswood Winds, a woodwind quintet, on stage at The Green Mill
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
About to see @tmbg.bsky.social at The Vic in Chicago with @airanw.bsky.social
Airan and me standing in front of the Vic Theatre, about to see They Might Be Giants.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I look like I’m having so much fun out there. Like I’m dancing with the lawnmower. The Yardwork Tango. No wonder Sebastian is jealous.
A dog (Sebastian) in silhouette looks out a window and watches as a human (me) mows the lawn with an old-timey non-motorized spinny-blade lawnmower. A dog (Sebastian) in silhouette looks out a window and watches as a human (me) mows the lawn with an old-timey non-motorized spinny-blade lawnmower. A dog (Sebastian) in silhouette looks out a window and watches as a human (me) mows the lawn with an old-timey non-motorized spinny-blade lawnmower. A dog (Sebastian) in silhouette looks out a window and watches as a human (me) mows the lawn with an old-timey non-motorized spinny-blade lawnmower.
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I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
it is genuinely so fucking weird we keep dunking on English majors of all people while we watch Computer Science, Finance, and Poly Sci majors systematically destroy civilization
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Young ensign Wesley Crusher (the boy) sits at a console on the bridge, but he's turned around like he's having a talk with safe and trustworthy adult who has walked up behind him. He looks sincere and earnest, as if it's a 'very special episode of Star Trek.' He's wearing his blue and blue and gold and red and blue again Wesley sweater, which is not a bad look, tbh. Closed caption reads, "drugs can make you feel good."
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
My favorite time of year
A cluster of lilac buds and blossoms in a blue mason jar.
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 18/04/2026
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Sup.
This is a close-up shot of a dog’s face. The dog is Violet. She is brown and black and white, and she is a very good girl.
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Jooli-AHH! Boolia 👻🍂🎃 @jooliaghoulia.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Something some people like
A photo of an alcohol menu. Under “Something some people like,” Malort is listed.
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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 03/04/2026
I’m completely sick and tired of hearing about HP but this article is excellent. “What you feel in your heart towards the series is almost entirely irrelevant. What matters is what you do, because J. K. Rowling is out there doing a lot of things.” defector.com/its-time-to-...
defector.com
It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector
HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but ...
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
remember how you only had a certain amount of paid hours a month with internet on aol? some of you need that again
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Airan Wright @airanw.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New video today! Never Go Crazy - youtu.be/BSrrwRnxA3I @omnikel.bsky.social - vocals @airanw.bsky.social - winds We didn't think we'd fall crazy in love with a cruise, but here we are. Never say never, we believe is the phrase. Here's a little of our time on the boat! @jococruise.bsky.social
Airan and Kelly Wright walking down a hallway on the Neiu Amsterdam cruise ship with the title of their video "never go crazy" in the foreground.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Working on something @airanw.bsky.social
Two people in an office/makeshift recording studio. I’m wearing headphones and standing in front of microphones. Airan is working on a laptop.
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Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
They really, really want to be friends with the chickens next door.
Two black/brown dogs (Violet and Sebastian) watching three chickens in an enclosure.
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