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Elana Levin
@levin.bsky.social
Digital & narrative trainings @NewMediaMentors.
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️‍🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
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The real James Bond has been in a cocoon in the East River since 1980. #jamesbond
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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i am going to sit on the house steps with some fellow furloughed folks who do not like the current deal

while also firmly believing all of the current discourse drastically understates how bad the shutdown pain has gotten and what that ultimately imperils

i contain multitudes
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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I find that there’s usually a direct line between people who habitually post unattributed artwork and AI boosterism. Like, if they already act like images just appear out of the ether and have no provenance, they’re also very likely already openly hostile to artists.
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I also feel like songs he wrote, or in this case co-wrote, make more sense when he sings them. I'm not saying they're better necessarily, but the rhythm clicks for me.
Ace Frehley - Parasite - Origins Vol. 1
YouTube video by Ace Frehley - Space Man
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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very similar to trump telling the german prime minister that he must feel bad about America defeating germany and he said, "no we celebrate that as our liberation from the fascists."
Those white residents of South Africa that Trump is trying to paint as victims?

Have this to say: "Singling us out as victims of multiracialism alienates us from our fellow South Africans and harms relationships that have been fostered over the past 30 years."
Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false.
www.npr.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Victoria, your parents were fucking- how do you think you (regrettably) got here
This feels like peak infantilisation of the elderly.

What exactly is ‘disgraceful’ about giving the elderly/infirm practical advice about how to be physically intimate in a safe way? They aren’t children. Their innocent eyes don’t need to be protected. Plus it’s medical guidance not a jazz mag
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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With Cyndi Lauper’s WELL-DESERVED induction into the Rock Hall tonight, thought I’d re-up this piece I wrote on her a while back. anniezaleski.substack.com/p/shes-so-un...
November 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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M: My word, Bond, I thought you died!
Bond: No, I didn't.

THERE. IT'S DONE. YOU'RE WELCOME.
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Seattle folks!!!
There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.

Go. Check. Your. Ballot.

komonews.com/news/local/s...
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
are you ever... (Dynasty so underrated)
Kiss Hard Times
YouTube video by Juan Camilo Castañeda Casas
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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"The relationship between Israel and the Jewish Diaspora." You mean the one where you constantly hit me up for cash while telling me I'm not a real Jew and that I better not make any other friends if I know what's good for me? Yeah, man, great relationship there. Really worth maintaining
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Oh my god. So it will be just as much fun as buying a car every time we need a doctor’s appointment? Cause we all know how much fun car buying is. 🤦‍♀️🩺📈
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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... when Jews in the diaspora then act in our own interest to build coalitions that improve Jewish safety abroad, we are seen as traitors.

IDK! The whole thing just rubs me wrong, very in my feels about it.
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Like, IDK... when I read those lines I'm just like, "I mean what has Israel done for the diaspora lately???" It's not like it has lived up to its promise of creating a safe haven for Jews — if anything, the government's actions have continued to make Israel *less* safe for everyone — and yet...
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Another Haaretz piece that I am struggling with, but this, in particular, just makes me feel like the "relationship" between Israel and the diaspora is — in the eyes of many Israelis — that the diaspora sends money while being dismissed as lesser Jews. Not healthy!
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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No, YOU'RE crying. 😭😭😭
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).

A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Incredible win for democracy coming out of Utah this morning (ET). The new map will finally reflect what the people want after the polls and asked for back in 2018.

Really amazing work by everyone that never gave up and kept fighting so hard to make this happen!
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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So many symbiotic relationships in the ocean. Very smart of the anemone to extent the crab's home since hermit crabs outgrow their shells. I once saw a whole line up of hermit crabs waiting to switch shells, truly fascinating cooperative behaviour www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1dn...!
Crabs Trade Shells in the Strangest Way | BBC Earth
YouTube video by BBC Earth
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Nature out here writing allegories—mutual aid, waste-to-wealth, portable architecture. The crab gets a fortress, the anemone gets a chauffeur. Balance, not hierarchy. #OceanWisdom #Symbiosis
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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SEATTLE: If you know someone who lives in Seattle and guess they probably voted for Katie Wilson for Mayor, your contribution to this fight is to text them this information about making sure they voted with their signature on the envelope! TEXT them NOW.
There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.

Go. Check. Your. Ballot.

komonews.com/news/local/s...
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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"Fascists out of Berkeley"

"Say it loud, say it clear, fascists are not welcome here."
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Thank you to the Irish Independent for this article and this is why so many folks are off sick. Sadly now six of my friends have long covid. This is a national crisis behind closed doors. www.independent.ie/life/health-...
Long-Covid is still here. I can’t walk, cook, work, socialise or live independently – and I am not alone
The country, and the rest of the world, was in the grip of a global pandemic, so when Lydia Fischer Dooley, developed a dry cough, fatigue, weakness and lack of appetite at the start of 2022, she righ...
www.independent.ie
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
NY doesn’t have caucuses we have closed primaries. But same deal. That’s why @nywfp.bsky.social wants us to stay registered as Democrats: so we can win the primaries like Zohran & AOC did.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.

Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.

One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Including me. Go sign up right now at ABetterDFL.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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More National Book Award-winning writers need to spend the later portion of their careers picking one billionaire and just absolutely going to town.
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM