Jen Ray
@jenray.bsky.social
artist / maker of things
www.jenray.net
www.jenray.net
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Go somewhere quiet before bed. Try one of these *sleep safe* episodes.
267 - A hidden dell at night > bit.ly/Len267
269 - Night crickets > bit.ly/Len269
189 - Night rain falls on a drystone wall > bit.ly/LenSett1
274 - Burgh Island midnight tide > bit.ly/LenBur2
267 - A hidden dell at night > bit.ly/Len267
269 - Night crickets > bit.ly/Len269
189 - Night rain falls on a drystone wall > bit.ly/LenSett1
274 - Burgh Island midnight tide > bit.ly/LenBur2
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Go somewhere quiet before bed. Try one of these *sleep safe* episodes.
267 - A hidden dell at night > bit.ly/Len267
269 - Night crickets > bit.ly/Len269
189 - Night rain falls on a drystone wall > bit.ly/LenSett1
274 - Burgh Island midnight tide > bit.ly/LenBur2
267 - A hidden dell at night > bit.ly/Len267
269 - Night crickets > bit.ly/Len269
189 - Night rain falls on a drystone wall > bit.ly/LenSett1
274 - Burgh Island midnight tide > bit.ly/LenBur2
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☀️🧪 Researchers at the University of Sydney developed a nano-engineered polymer coating that reflects 97% of sunlight and passively collects water from air. #science
👉 newatlas.com/materials/roof-...
👉 newatlas.com/materials/roof-...
This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air
A roof paint that can cool your home and pull fresh water straight out of the air? It's within reach, as scientists scale up production of a new kind of paint-like coating that shields roofing from the sun's rays and harvests dew from its surface.
newatlas.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
☀️🧪 Researchers at the University of Sydney developed a nano-engineered polymer coating that reflects 97% of sunlight and passively collects water from air. #science
👉 newatlas.com/materials/roof-...
👉 newatlas.com/materials/roof-...
Ok, @hannahposts.bsky.social is right- we gotta bring back mundane normie posting, even when things are terrible all around. So here's a cool spider I saw in the garden today! A Marbled Orb Weaver/ Pumpkin spider. She showed up just in time for Halloween!
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Ok, @hannahposts.bsky.social is right- we gotta bring back mundane normie posting, even when things are terrible all around. So here's a cool spider I saw in the garden today! A Marbled Orb Weaver/ Pumpkin spider. She showed up just in time for Halloween!
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Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
October 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
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🎹🌱 In 1976 composer Mort Garson created "Mother Earth's Plantasia," an all-Moog synthesizer album supposedly designed to help plants grow. It was distributed only with the purchase of a houseplant or a Simmons mattress. #music #history
👉 www.openculture.com/2025/10/...
👉 www.openculture.com/2025/10/...
The 1976 Synth Album That Promised to Help Your Plants Grow: Discover Mother Earth’s Plantasia
In 1973, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird's The Secret Life of Plants became a bestseller. Open Culture, openculture.com
www.openculture.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🎹🌱 In 1976 composer Mort Garson created "Mother Earth's Plantasia," an all-Moog synthesizer album supposedly designed to help plants grow. It was distributed only with the purchase of a houseplant or a Simmons mattress. #music #history
👉 www.openculture.com/2025/10/...
👉 www.openculture.com/2025/10/...
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Can’t recommend this documentary on extreme birdwatching enough: absolutely wild stuff! 🦅 You won’t regret it! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
YouTube video by owen reiser
www.youtube.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Can’t recommend this documentary on extreme birdwatching enough: absolutely wild stuff! 🦅 You won’t regret it! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Roberto Benavidez continues to make piñata-like creatures inspired by the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts and the surreal characters in Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights."
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/robe...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/robe...
September 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Roberto Benavidez continues to make piñata-like creatures inspired by the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts and the surreal characters in Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights."
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/robe...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/robe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F35d...
With the relentless onslaught of n*zi chuds we're all forced to deal with lately, this song pops into my head pretty much daily. Recently realized fewer people know about Embrace than I thought, so here you go. Ian MacKaye post-Minor Threat, pre-Fugazi.
With the relentless onslaught of n*zi chuds we're all forced to deal with lately, this song pops into my head pretty much daily. Recently realized fewer people know about Embrace than I thought, so here you go. Ian MacKaye post-Minor Threat, pre-Fugazi.
September 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F35d...
With the relentless onslaught of n*zi chuds we're all forced to deal with lately, this song pops into my head pretty much daily. Recently realized fewer people know about Embrace than I thought, so here you go. Ian MacKaye post-Minor Threat, pre-Fugazi.
With the relentless onslaught of n*zi chuds we're all forced to deal with lately, this song pops into my head pretty much daily. Recently realized fewer people know about Embrace than I thought, so here you go. Ian MacKaye post-Minor Threat, pre-Fugazi.
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have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...
August 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
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If you’re bored of all the big radio stations then try NTS. It’s the absolute best. www.nts.live
NTS | Don't Assume
NTS is a global radio platform broadcasting music from over 50 cities around the globe, live 24/7.
www.nts.live
February 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
If you’re bored of all the big radio stations then try NTS. It’s the absolute best. www.nts.live
Really great inside look into what it's like to be a photojournalist/ how to become one, from the unstoppable and talented Sean Rayford 📸
23. FREELANCE VS STAFF: There are two types of working photojournalists: Freelancers and staffers. Staffers are mostly on assignment with consistent work, regular paychecks, benefits, equipment and repair budgets with a connection to a newsroom. #photojournalism
www.sodacitizen.com/home/lessons...
www.sodacitizen.com/home/lessons...
Lessons in Photojournalism (Part 3) — Soda Citizen - Photo Stories from the South
25 years in the field
www.sodacitizen.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Really great inside look into what it's like to be a photojournalist/ how to become one, from the unstoppable and talented Sean Rayford 📸
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I wrote a pep talk? I started with how I actually feel powerful that an expensive computer program that ate all of my work and that of all writers is still not as good as all of us it stole from. Then I went a few places. Anyway, it's here. mailchi.mp/e87ac78bc7b7...
Alexander Chee: Let's Go
mailchi.mp
April 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I wrote a pep talk? I started with how I actually feel powerful that an expensive computer program that ate all of my work and that of all writers is still not as good as all of us it stole from. Then I went a few places. Anyway, it's here. mailchi.mp/e87ac78bc7b7...
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Feels like a good time to learn those codes hobos used in the 30s to show which houses gave out bowls of stew
April 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Feels like a good time to learn those codes hobos used in the 30s to show which houses gave out bowls of stew
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read it for free while you still can www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
www.gutenberg.org
November 7, 2024 at 3:41 PM
read it for free while you still can www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140
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JUST OUT! 🚨 Time capsule birds' nests! 🪹
I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀
“You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm 🧪🪶
I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀
“You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm 🧪🪶
February 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
JUST OUT! 🚨 Time capsule birds' nests! 🪹
I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀
“You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm 🧪🪶
I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀
“You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm 🧪🪶
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On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"
November 9, 2024 at 9:40 PM
On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"
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March 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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As humans, we long for stability and continuity, fearing what might be lost amid tides of change. Yet the Earth tells us in many languages that nothing lasts, all is fleeting in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. Read this week’s newsletter. buff.ly/43ffRSs Photo by Zeb Andrews.
March 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As humans, we long for stability and continuity, fearing what might be lost amid tides of change. Yet the Earth tells us in many languages that nothing lasts, all is fleeting in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. Read this week’s newsletter. buff.ly/43ffRSs Photo by Zeb Andrews.
“The only way to store data long term, like proper long term, is in intergenerational relationships, where data is stored in narratives, intergenerational narratives, that can last for forty, fifty, sixty thousand years. As long as relations continue, that data will last.”
—Tyson Yunkaporta
—Tyson Yunkaporta
With candor and humor, Tyson Yunkaporta pokes holes in the superiority of Western technological advances, urging us to work with knowledge and story from a place of “right relationship” with each other and the Earth. Read this week’s newsletter. https://buff.ly/42XgbVT
February 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“The only way to store data long term, like proper long term, is in intergenerational relationships, where data is stored in narratives, intergenerational narratives, that can last for forty, fifty, sixty thousand years. As long as relations continue, that data will last.”
—Tyson Yunkaporta
—Tyson Yunkaporta
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“It’s not enough to rebuild; we must rebuild in a way that withstands the future we’ve created.” In this op-ed, Lauren E. Oakes considers how learning what seeds to plant—literal and metaphorical—can help us restore both life and Earth in the wake of profound loss. https://buff.ly/40SMTFw
February 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“It’s not enough to rebuild; we must rebuild in a way that withstands the future we’ve created.” In this op-ed, Lauren E. Oakes considers how learning what seeds to plant—literal and metaphorical—can help us restore both life and Earth in the wake of profound loss. https://buff.ly/40SMTFw
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Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯
Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke...
A thread. 🧵
Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke...
A thread. 🧵
February 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯
Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke...
A thread. 🧵
Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke...
A thread. 🧵
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Refreshing point of view from Alice Zoo and @davidcampany.bsky.social on the urge for artists to smooth out their rough edges and parcel themselves up for consumption in the age of social media open.substack.com/pub/interlop...
A Conversation with David Campany
"A creative life is a life that doesn’t fit - it is resistant, searching, unsatisfied."
open.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Refreshing point of view from Alice Zoo and @davidcampany.bsky.social on the urge for artists to smooth out their rough edges and parcel themselves up for consumption in the age of social media open.substack.com/pub/interlop...
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To be clear, I support everyone who protests, but as someone with a long history of organizing protests & direct action, I'm not rushing into the streets right now. That's not about capitulation or feelings of defeat. It's about a particular strategic analysis of what's needed, as I discussed here:
Collective Survival, Adaptation and Direct Action
Defiance must be woven into the fabric of our daily lives, rather than simply proclaimed at marches or on social media.
organizingmythoughts.org
February 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
To be clear, I support everyone who protests, but as someone with a long history of organizing protests & direct action, I'm not rushing into the streets right now. That's not about capitulation or feelings of defeat. It's about a particular strategic analysis of what's needed, as I discussed here:
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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...