Joy Davenport
@joydavenport.bsky.social
I make documentaries and other stuff | she/her 🏳️⚧️
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[Happy 86th birthday to solar eclipse photographer and composer Wendy Carlos, known for "Switched-On Bach," A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE SHINING, TRON, and “Peter and the Wolf” with Weird Al Yankovic. Listen to “Switched-On Bach” below.]
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November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
[Happy 86th birthday to solar eclipse photographer and composer Wendy Carlos, known for "Switched-On Bach," A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE SHINING, TRON, and “Peter and the Wolf” with Weird Al Yankovic. Listen to “Switched-On Bach” below.]
archive.org/details/wend...
archive.org/details/wend...
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
On any given day in the USA there are more children being sexually assaulted in a place of worship than there are trans folks playing sports. But sure! Tell me more about how you're just concerned with keeping kids safe.
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
On any given day in the USA there are more children being sexually assaulted in a place of worship than there are trans folks playing sports. But sure! Tell me more about how you're just concerned with keeping kids safe.
"Be not afraid"
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"Be not afraid"
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New aurora hunters who are going out tonight: I do not claim to be an expert but I do get *lots* of practice
My cheat sheet (with résumé):
* Lens with the widest aperture you own, aperture all the way open
* EV -5/3
* Exposure 4 seconds
* ISO to match
* Focus almost infinity (make the stars sharp)
My cheat sheet (with résumé):
* Lens with the widest aperture you own, aperture all the way open
* EV -5/3
* Exposure 4 seconds
* ISO to match
* Focus almost infinity (make the stars sharp)
October 5, 2024 at 6:16 PM
New aurora hunters who are going out tonight: I do not claim to be an expert but I do get *lots* of practice
My cheat sheet (with résumé):
* Lens with the widest aperture you own, aperture all the way open
* EV -5/3
* Exposure 4 seconds
* ISO to match
* Focus almost infinity (make the stars sharp)
My cheat sheet (with résumé):
* Lens with the widest aperture you own, aperture all the way open
* EV -5/3
* Exposure 4 seconds
* ISO to match
* Focus almost infinity (make the stars sharp)
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom.
PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.
DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.
DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom.
PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.
DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.
DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
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Pondering the AI apocalypse
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Pondering the AI apocalypse
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am I gonna keep reposting this cute Cloud in a dress from last year ?
you bet I will
you bet I will
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
am I gonna keep reposting this cute Cloud in a dress from last year ?
you bet I will
you bet I will
Just got an email with the subject line "Black Friday starts now!" and dear sweet lord no thank you please let's not.
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Just got an email with the subject line "Black Friday starts now!" and dear sweet lord no thank you please let's not.
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oh no I am writing my first screenplay
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
oh no I am writing my first screenplay
Been feeling sickly so made some garlic tea: a handful of roughly chopped garlic cloves boiled in a few cups of water and then mixed with some lemon juice and honey. I realized I'd basically made a garlic hot toddy without the whiskey, so, like a beautiful genius, I added whiskey.
November 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Been feeling sickly so made some garlic tea: a handful of roughly chopped garlic cloves boiled in a few cups of water and then mixed with some lemon juice and honey. I realized I'd basically made a garlic hot toddy without the whiskey, so, like a beautiful genius, I added whiskey.
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Devastating. Teen Vogue's politics coverage has been incredible and this is a major loss for journalism.
Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.
Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Devastating. Teen Vogue's politics coverage has been incredible and this is a major loss for journalism.
Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.
Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.
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I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...
The Death of Shame
Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.
www.the-reframe.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
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This thread is about Evanston, but this has also been going on without reprieve in Elgin, Aurora, and other Chicago suburbs—a metro area of nearly 10 million people.
Some context to the viral videos:
Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.
They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.
Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.
They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This thread is about Evanston, but this has also been going on without reprieve in Elgin, Aurora, and other Chicago suburbs—a metro area of nearly 10 million people.
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I really can't emphasize enough that OpenAI is, as Dr. Gilliard has described in the past, a social arsonist enabling racism, and I urge colleagues in education using OpenAI's products - including ed-tech platforms that incorporate its products like Khanmigo and MagicSchool - to stop.
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I really can't emphasize enough that OpenAI is, as Dr. Gilliard has described in the past, a social arsonist enabling racism, and I urge colleagues in education using OpenAI's products - including ed-tech platforms that incorporate its products like Khanmigo and MagicSchool - to stop.
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set up a new TV, and YouTube immediately recommended this very short Man or Astroman doc from Alabama PBS and hey it’s good youtu.be/44PXi7Nxdg4?...
How the Drummer from Man or Astro-Man? Brought the World to his Hometown
YouTube video by Alabama Public Television
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
set up a new TV, and YouTube immediately recommended this very short Man or Astroman doc from Alabama PBS and hey it’s good youtu.be/44PXi7Nxdg4?...
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"An organized urban wing of the [Underground] railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives."
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies
Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.
hammerandhope.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"An organized urban wing of the [Underground] railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives."
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
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Get rekt nerd. You can't comprehend the brilliance of guys like QBert and Bad Boy Bill. They make original music scratching off the break and you're posting TikToks
October 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Get rekt nerd. You can't comprehend the brilliance of guys like QBert and Bad Boy Bill. They make original music scratching off the break and you're posting TikToks
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The same week we lost a sister to anti-trans policies, were blamed by the government for 42m people losing SNAP, were told we should be abandoned by centrists yet again, & Trump declared Congress null & signaled he'll never leave office, the regime seeks to torture & kill every trans kid in America.
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The same week we lost a sister to anti-trans policies, were blamed by the government for 42m people losing SNAP, were told we should be abandoned by centrists yet again, & Trump declared Congress null & signaled he'll never leave office, the regime seeks to torture & kill every trans kid in America.
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I just organized some resources for whistles if anyone wants to DIY an event or join forces with my whistle event team.
We could use support with 3D printing whistles! I’ve got files, donation links, and a sign-up sheet. Also a link to the zines if you need it!
linktr.ee/apwhistles
We could use support with 3D printing whistles! I’ve got files, donation links, and a sign-up sheet. Also a link to the zines if you need it!
linktr.ee/apwhistles
Chicago Whistle Links | Linktree
We host weekly whistle events at places like Nighthawk in Albany Park, Beermiscuous in Lakeview, and more coming soon. Please help us print whistles & zines!
linktr.ee
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I just organized some resources for whistles if anyone wants to DIY an event or join forces with my whistle event team.
We could use support with 3D printing whistles! I’ve got files, donation links, and a sign-up sheet. Also a link to the zines if you need it!
linktr.ee/apwhistles
We could use support with 3D printing whistles! I’ve got files, donation links, and a sign-up sheet. Also a link to the zines if you need it!
linktr.ee/apwhistles
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Border Patrol slammed the burbs this morning while Bovino was in court. Now they're patrolling the city. Multiple people detained in Humboldt Park. A Blackhawk has been circling the north side. Just watched a FB live from Berwyn end as an agent backed into someone behind him, then detained them.
October 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Border Patrol slammed the burbs this morning while Bovino was in court. Now they're patrolling the city. Multiple people detained in Humboldt Park. A Blackhawk has been circling the north side. Just watched a FB live from Berwyn end as an agent backed into someone behind him, then detained them.
In the past I've said that Mississippi is ground zero for the American apocalypse, but this isn't exactly what I had in mind
October 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
In the past I've said that Mississippi is ground zero for the American apocalypse, but this isn't exactly what I had in mind