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Joy Davenport
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Reminding myself once again that it is not a race.
Comic of a woman picking flowers and then having a nice kiss. Text reads: slow down. Take your time. When you're ready, you'll bloom, too.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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EVERY FRIEND GROUP GOT Panel 1: The Himejoshi (Elith Heksen) Panel 2: Transgender Allegory (Xiaoling Chavez) Panel 3: Autistic Individual (Vonnie Awning) Panel 4: The Struggler (Kim Ross)
November 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Kim battles comphet and billionaires in Dark Science High School #7! dresdencodak.com/2025/11/24/d...
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
joydavenport.bsky.social
After turning off the AI "smart features" in gmail my inbox now permanently has two unread ghost emails that I cannot find and cannot clear. So now I know I have a new email when the number ticks up to three. I guess that's what I get for not wanting my email to be smart.
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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florence pew: thread
Florence Pugh wearing an olive green dress with brown hair. Pews of the same color.
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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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
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brainmage.bsky.social
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]

🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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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
joydavenport.bsky.social
"Be not afraid"
socalleslie.bsky.social SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 14d
Royal tern kerfluffle. 🪶
Royal terns on the rocks
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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paisleystars.bsky.social
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)
Candy striped aurora Green and purple aurora Hot pink and purple aurora over a snowy mountain Red and green aurora
October 5, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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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.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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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
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Pondering the AI apocalypse
Parker Posey, looking impossibly cool in Clockwatchers, saying “No machine can replace me until it learns how to drink.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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am I gonna keep reposting this cute Cloud in a dress from last year ?
you bet I will
fanart of Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 Remake, wearing a cute dark green and grey dress, with bows in his hair holding the braids he's holding flowers against his chest, blushing, frowning, very happy but will never admit it
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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oh no I am writing my first screenplay
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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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
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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.
lexmcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25d
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.
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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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
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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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.
poemless.bsky.social Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 27d
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.
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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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.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27d
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.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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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
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October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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

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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.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM