Geoff Cordner
@geoffcordner.bsky.social
Moralizing buzzkill on a high horse. Photographer. Neurodivergent. Retired from punk rock.
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· Aug 26
This is a picture of some of my family – inlaws – taken at Lake Onamia, Minnesota. Onamia means “dancing ground” in Ojibwe. Please do not try to tell me these scary ass men look like Minnesota natives. They’re not. They are settlers, the children and grandchildren of settlers. 1/7
Tomorrow Nov 8 at the Altadena Public Library: Myriam Gurba, Carla Rachel Sameth, Angela Peñaredondo, Veronica Reyes, and others!
2 - 4pm
600 E. Mariposa Street
Altadena, California 91001
@lesbrains.bsky.social
2 - 4pm
600 E. Mariposa Street
Altadena, California 91001
@lesbrains.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Tomorrow Nov 8 at the Altadena Public Library: Myriam Gurba, Carla Rachel Sameth, Angela Peñaredondo, Veronica Reyes, and others!
2 - 4pm
600 E. Mariposa Street
Altadena, California 91001
@lesbrains.bsky.social
2 - 4pm
600 E. Mariposa Street
Altadena, California 91001
@lesbrains.bsky.social
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TURKEY VULTURE
Cathartes aura
Family: CATHARTIDAE
Order: CICONIIFORMES
Class: AVES.
📷 @geoffcordner.bsky.social
Cathartes aura
Family: CATHARTIDAE
Order: CICONIIFORMES
Class: AVES.
📷 @geoffcordner.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
TURKEY VULTURE
Cathartes aura
Family: CATHARTIDAE
Order: CICONIIFORMES
Class: AVES.
📷 @geoffcordner.bsky.social
Cathartes aura
Family: CATHARTIDAE
Order: CICONIIFORMES
Class: AVES.
📷 @geoffcordner.bsky.social
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So many people here have developed panic disorder in response to our abandonment...and the landscape doesn’t just “look” apocalyptic. It is.
Months after fire in Altadena, determination turns to despair
Months after fire in Altadena, determination turns to despair
The adrenaline that drove victims in the aftermath of the Eaton fire has worn off for many, leaving a sense of "great disillusionment."
www.latimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
So many people here have developed panic disorder in response to our abandonment...and the landscape doesn’t just “look” apocalyptic. It is.
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Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings launches this week! I hope to see you at Skylight Books ! Come say hi and share your favorite plant name in exchange for a small botanical gift. If you can’t make it to the Los Feliz launch, please check out the other tour dates! 🌿💕🌿
October 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings launches this week! I hope to see you at Skylight Books ! Come say hi and share your favorite plant name in exchange for a small botanical gift. If you can’t make it to the Los Feliz launch, please check out the other tour dates! 🌿💕🌿
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NYC: this Wednesday, Oct. 22, I'll be seeing Myriam Gurba's book launch in Dumbo at 7pm. Swing through and say hi, and we'll keep our jealousy of California's high-quality produce at appropriate levels:
Book Launch: Poppy State by Myriam Gurba - POWERHOUSE Arena
Poppy State is a love letter to California and a story of resilience and reclamation through a relationship with plants, memory, myth, and indigenous knowledge.
powerhousearena.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
NYC: this Wednesday, Oct. 22, I'll be seeing Myriam Gurba's book launch in Dumbo at 7pm. Swing through and say hi, and we'll keep our jealousy of California's high-quality produce at appropriate levels:
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Featured in our latest Personal Narrative is an excerpt from Myriam Gurba’s “Poppy State,” a wildly inventive work of narrative nonfiction that is part botanical criticism, part personal storytelling, part study of place. (@lesbrains.bsky.social)
Fresa Can Mean Many Things - Electric Literature
A fresa can be a rich girl, a middle-class brat. If you ask me to define “fresa,” I’ll answer that strawberries led us to the house on the hill
buff.ly
October 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Featured in our latest Personal Narrative is an excerpt from Myriam Gurba’s “Poppy State,” a wildly inventive work of narrative nonfiction that is part botanical criticism, part personal storytelling, part study of place. (@lesbrains.bsky.social)
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Katie Ellison interviewed me for The Stranger and we had a fun conversation about plants, California, warriors and the taste of dirt. 🤤
www.thestranger.com/books/2025/1...
www.thestranger.com/books/2025/1...
You Can’t Get There From Here
This is a book about getting lost in order to be found.
www.thestranger.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Katie Ellison interviewed me for The Stranger and we had a fun conversation about plants, California, warriors and the taste of dirt. 🤤
www.thestranger.com/books/2025/1...
www.thestranger.com/books/2025/1...
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Feed: "Electric Literature"
By: Myriam Gurba on Thursday, October 16, 2025
By: Myriam Gurba on Thursday, October 16, 2025
Fresa Can Mean Many Things
A fresa can be a rich girl, a middle-class brat. If you ask me to define “fresa,” I’ll answer that strawberries led us to the house on the hill
electricliterature.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Feed: "Electric Literature"
By: Myriam Gurba on Thursday, October 16, 2025
By: Myriam Gurba on Thursday, October 16, 2025
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Highlighting a few of my fav non-fiction 📚 #HispanicHeritageMonth
1-Photographic-The Life of Graciela Iturbide.
2-Creep: Accusations & Confessions. A collection of essays on how people & institutions perpetuate harm.
3-Land Of A Thousand Dances. A history of Chicano Rock n Roll.
1-Photographic-The Life of Graciela Iturbide.
2-Creep: Accusations & Confessions. A collection of essays on how people & institutions perpetuate harm.
3-Land Of A Thousand Dances. A history of Chicano Rock n Roll.
September 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Highlighting a few of my fav non-fiction 📚 #HispanicHeritageMonth
1-Photographic-The Life of Graciela Iturbide.
2-Creep: Accusations & Confessions. A collection of essays on how people & institutions perpetuate harm.
3-Land Of A Thousand Dances. A history of Chicano Rock n Roll.
1-Photographic-The Life of Graciela Iturbide.
2-Creep: Accusations & Confessions. A collection of essays on how people & institutions perpetuate harm.
3-Land Of A Thousand Dances. A history of Chicano Rock n Roll.
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I’m totally all for abolishing the police but at least in Portland today they were hamming it up with the No Kings crowd
October 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I’m totally all for abolishing the police but at least in Portland today they were hamming it up with the No Kings crowd
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the postcard cited in judge young's ruling isn't just at the top, it's a framing device. the whole opinion is a letter to the postcard writer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![I hope you found this
helpful. Thanks for writing.
It shows you care. You
should.
Sincerely & respectfully,
Bill Young
P.S. The next time you’re in
Boston [the postmark on the card
is from the Philadelphia area]
stop in at the Courthouse and
watch your fellow citizens, sitting
as jurors, reach out for justice.
It is here, and in courthouses
just like this one, both state and
federal, spread throughout our land
that our Constitution is most vibrantly
alive, for it is well said that “Where a
jury sits, there burns the lamp of
liberty.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:maiw2rfujepnphhrejytvuu5/bafkreidbrekbkq3duu4ev7w4wmiamoiupplzgmu5nj5np4yyjze2svfyoy@jpeg)
September 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
the postcard cited in judge young's ruling isn't just at the top, it's a framing device. the whole opinion is a letter to the postcard writer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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You do know that only believing and surfacing privileged voices is how we got to this point of fascism.
It’s not “good marketing”
It’s signaling to fascists you agree that policy and government is only for certain people
The core tenet of fascism
It’s not “good marketing”
It’s signaling to fascists you agree that policy and government is only for certain people
The core tenet of fascism
September 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
You do know that only believing and surfacing privileged voices is how we got to this point of fascism.
It’s not “good marketing”
It’s signaling to fascists you agree that policy and government is only for certain people
The core tenet of fascism
It’s not “good marketing”
It’s signaling to fascists you agree that policy and government is only for certain people
The core tenet of fascism
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i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
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A Los Angeles protester charged with assaulting a border patrol agent in June was acquitted on Wednesday after US immigration officials were accused in court of lying about the incident. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
September 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A Los Angeles protester charged with assaulting a border patrol agent in June was acquitted on Wednesday after US immigration officials were accused in court of lying about the incident. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
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I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.
The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.
Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.
Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020
A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.
www.texastribune.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.
The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.
Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.
Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
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The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
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Remember how confident everyone was that US soldiers wouldn’t follow illegal orders?
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors
American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Operations Command, and more attacks could come soon.
theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...
American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Operations Command, and more attacks could come soon.
theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...
U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors
American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Forces, and more attacks could come soon.
theintercept.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Remember how confident everyone was that US soldiers wouldn’t follow illegal orders?
Myriam Gurba @lesbrains.bsky.social "the brilliant if sometimes controversial critic and cultural writer" & "a master of language, and her books are a delight to read because of it" interviewed in Lithub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
lithub.com/myriam-gurba...
lithub.com/myriam-gurba...
Myriam Gurba on Packing a Punch with Language
Memoir Nation: Weekly Inspiration for Writers is an extension of the Memoir Nation community hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner, two friends and colleagues who bring a community-minded sens…
lithub.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Myriam Gurba @lesbrains.bsky.social "the brilliant if sometimes controversial critic and cultural writer" & "a master of language, and her books are a delight to read because of it" interviewed in Lithub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
lithub.com/myriam-gurba...
lithub.com/myriam-gurba...
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Re-reading Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies 📷. @geoffcordner.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Re-reading Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies 📷. @geoffcordner.bsky.social
This is a picture of some of my family – inlaws – taken at Lake Onamia, Minnesota. Onamia means “dancing ground” in Ojibwe. Please do not try to tell me these scary ass men look like Minnesota natives. They’re not. They are settlers, the children and grandchildren of settlers. 1/7
August 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is a picture of some of my family – inlaws – taken at Lake Onamia, Minnesota. Onamia means “dancing ground” in Ojibwe. Please do not try to tell me these scary ass men look like Minnesota natives. They’re not. They are settlers, the children and grandchildren of settlers. 1/7
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Donald Trump could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and Democrats would say “he only committed murder to distract us from his failure to lower grocery bills for working families.”
Trump is desperately looking for a scapegoat to cover for his own failure to lower costs for Americans and firing Lisa Cook is his latest move.
It’s an authoritarian power grab that blatantly violates the Federal Reserve Act, and any court that follows the law will overturn it.
It’s an authoritarian power grab that blatantly violates the Federal Reserve Act, and any court that follows the law will overturn it.
August 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Donald Trump could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and Democrats would say “he only committed murder to distract us from his failure to lower grocery bills for working families.”
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This US veteran burnt an American flag in protest of the EO Trump signed today that contradicted 2 SCOTUS rulings (1989 & 1990).
August 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This US veteran burnt an American flag in protest of the EO Trump signed today that contradicted 2 SCOTUS rulings (1989 & 1990).
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F*ck James Dobson and every Christian pastor who tells parents to whup their children! The world is a better place when people like him DIE.
Read here: drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/james-dobs...
Read here: drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/james-dobs...
James Dobson is Dead. Good. The Father of Spanking Kids Finally Got Grounded.
This Substack is reader-supported.
drstaceypatton1865.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
F*ck James Dobson and every Christian pastor who tells parents to whup their children! The world is a better place when people like him DIE.
Read here: drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/james-dobs...
Read here: drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/james-dobs...