raymondj
@raymondj.bsky.social
scientist. painter. musician. writer.
queer, trans, southern
ATL to CHI to WNC
purplefluorite.bandcamp.com
queer, trans, southern
ATL to CHI to WNC
purplefluorite.bandcamp.com
my oil paintings by @davidbrace2.bsky.social arrived from Canada over the weekend!!
they are even more beautiful and impressive in person, can’t wait to gift the beetle one to my insect-loving friend. literally my first time ever commissioning art and money well spent.
they are even more beautiful and impressive in person, can’t wait to gift the beetle one to my insect-loving friend. literally my first time ever commissioning art and money well spent.
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
my oil paintings by @davidbrace2.bsky.social arrived from Canada over the weekend!!
they are even more beautiful and impressive in person, can’t wait to gift the beetle one to my insect-loving friend. literally my first time ever commissioning art and money well spent.
they are even more beautiful and impressive in person, can’t wait to gift the beetle one to my insect-loving friend. literally my first time ever commissioning art and money well spent.
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just have to get through today then tomorrow then next week then every week
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
just have to get through today then tomorrow then next week then every week
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The #1 song 40 years ago today on the Billboard Hot 100...
"Part-Time Lover" by Stevie Wonder
*Luther Vandross on background vocals & adlibs 🔥
"Part-Time Lover" by Stevie Wonder
*Luther Vandross on background vocals & adlibs 🔥
November 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The #1 song 40 years ago today on the Billboard Hot 100...
"Part-Time Lover" by Stevie Wonder
*Luther Vandross on background vocals & adlibs 🔥
"Part-Time Lover" by Stevie Wonder
*Luther Vandross on background vocals & adlibs 🔥
i was wrong it says:
“Trick ‘o or Eat”
“Trick ‘o or Eat”
the Halloween jigsaw puzzle in the break room at work was made from AI slop. it says “Trick ‘o o Treat” and many jack-o’-lanterns in the scene have multiple mouths.
i might file a hostile work environment claim
i might file a hostile work environment claim
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
i was wrong it says:
“Trick ‘o or Eat”
“Trick ‘o or Eat”
the Halloween jigsaw puzzle in the break room at work was made from AI slop. it says “Trick ‘o o Treat” and many jack-o’-lanterns in the scene have multiple mouths.
i might file a hostile work environment claim
i might file a hostile work environment claim
October 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
the Halloween jigsaw puzzle in the break room at work was made from AI slop. it says “Trick ‘o o Treat” and many jack-o’-lanterns in the scene have multiple mouths.
i might file a hostile work environment claim
i might file a hostile work environment claim
the clerk at the grocery store started talking to me about the band Panchiko, so now I’m listening to D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L while reading cookie dough recipes and letting butter soften
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
the clerk at the grocery store started talking to me about the band Panchiko, so now I’m listening to D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L while reading cookie dough recipes and letting butter soften
when i eat my favorite breakfast sandwich from my favorite bakery near work, i often have a moment of gratitude for being alive at this point in time and space such that i get to experience it.
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
when i eat my favorite breakfast sandwich from my favorite bakery near work, i often have a moment of gratitude for being alive at this point in time and space such that i get to experience it.
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Deeply moved to see that everyone is still right about everything
October 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Deeply moved to see that everyone is still right about everything
i have the house to myself all week so i’m doing exciting things like “playing Max Richter music while sleeping”
October 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
i have the house to myself all week so i’m doing exciting things like “playing Max Richter music while sleeping”
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"In a system where your income depends on performing as yourself regularly, at scale and on schedule, the temptation to shape yourself to what’s rewarded is impossible to resist"
I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News
Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"In a system where your income depends on performing as yourself regularly, at scale and on schedule, the temptation to shape yourself to what’s rewarded is impossible to resist"
flirting with the masc worker doing a sexy lean on the OSHA poster
October 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
flirting with the masc worker doing a sexy lean on the OSHA poster
….to ME 😍
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
….to ME 😍
sitting in a dermatologist’s exam room alone while You Can Call Me Al plays quietly
October 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
sitting in a dermatologist’s exam room alone while You Can Call Me Al plays quietly
“Creation, like existence, is communication and communion: continuous reception and transmission, more circle than line.”
For months I've been thinking about what precise anxieties and insecurities hide in questions like "how can I write at a time like this?" and tried to untangle them by parsing separate (though interrelated) acts: making, sharing, and selling meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/deconstruc...
Deconstructing Creative Angst
Making • Sharing • Selling • Freedom
meantforyou.beehiiv.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“Creation, like existence, is communication and communion: continuous reception and transmission, more circle than line.”
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The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major
Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand
The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…
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October 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major
new albums from Pink Pantheress and Amber Mark?? i may have to drive my body to work instead of the club today, but i will be bopping my head and dancing while testing samples
October 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
new albums from Pink Pantheress and Amber Mark?? i may have to drive my body to work instead of the club today, but i will be bopping my head and dancing while testing samples
playing phone tag with a dermatologist office to get a new patient appointment and something about the repeated calling, trying to time it to reach a live person, reminds me of phoning in to radio station contests
October 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
playing phone tag with a dermatologist office to get a new patient appointment and something about the repeated calling, trying to time it to reach a live person, reminds me of phoning in to radio station contests
the two paintings i showed tonight. both are 18”x24”, watercolor and gouache on cotton paper, done last week while on my long-awaited weeklong painting vacation/retreat on Tybee Island.
October 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
the two paintings i showed tonight. both are 18”x24”, watercolor and gouache on cotton paper, done last week while on my long-awaited weeklong painting vacation/retreat on Tybee Island.
this evening i went to a three-hour (!!) critique circle and had two of my recent paintings discussed by strangers for the first time ever. the adrenaline swings of the evening nearly took me out, but i persevered (and will be returning)
October 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
this evening i went to a three-hour (!!) critique circle and had two of my recent paintings discussed by strangers for the first time ever. the adrenaline swings of the evening nearly took me out, but i persevered (and will be returning)
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Belle Shore Apartments.
October 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Belle Shore Apartments.
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You are very compelling but I must turn my attention back to all my little self-created assignments now
October 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
You are very compelling but I must turn my attention back to all my little self-created assignments now
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in 1869 the first known car accident death was mary ward, this irish lady who made bug art
October 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
in 1869 the first known car accident death was mary ward, this irish lady who made bug art
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“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
September 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
four years ago on this date a hawk landed in our carport; twelve years ago on this date a young black bear visited the front deck and ate up the bird feeder. (the pictures are so blurry because it was raining and my hands were shaking from adrenaline)
September 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
four years ago on this date a hawk landed in our carport; twelve years ago on this date a young black bear visited the front deck and ate up the bird feeder. (the pictures are so blurry because it was raining and my hands were shaking from adrenaline)