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Elana Levin
@levin.bsky.social
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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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Kara Jackson is a Clean Air Club partner working with @cleanairclub.bsky.social to bring HEPA air filtration to shows & she’s spoken out to encourage fans mask at shows to protect each other. So many artists have lost the ability to perform due to long COVID. www.instagram.com/p/CroXEPBv3A...
A photo of Kara Jackson from her album Cover with the clean air club logo on it. It’s an Instagram post which reads, “clean.air.club We're so happy to announce that Kara Jackson (@karakara) is now a @clean.air.club artist partner!! Her debut album, "Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?," was just released to widespread acclaim, and it's no wonder why. All of us resonate with this former National Youth Poet Laureate's moody and broody folk tunes, with melodies weaving in and out of reflections on love, gendered labor, and grief. We're so happy to be providing air purification at Kara's Chicago shows and tours abroad, keeping her and her crew covid-safer. Thanks so much to @karakara for prioritizing covid-safer spaces and accessibility for all!! Res Give her music a listen, her poetry a read, and her page some love. Covid safety is easy when we do it together”
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Happy #Caturday from Axl Rose.
Please tell him he’s a wonderful young man.
Ginger cat standing up in front of some framed art. His eyes match his fur. His mouth looks kinda flappy and he has no teeth. But to be clear his mouth looked flappy even when he did have teeth.
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Also I saw the old photo released with it and thought “there’s only three guys?! Where is fourth person?!”
No wonder they weren’t metal yet. Only three guys?!! (Yes I am extemely aware of the classic Motörhead lineup, Rush, Venom etc but you gotta admit it’s less common).
Three musicians with long hair in a grainy black and white photo.
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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“Wow, all that #JewsForZohran was so powerful & looked like fun! I wish I had something like that…”

Well you can! Tonight’s the Jews for Racial & Economic Justice post election debrief. It’s the perfect time to meet @jfrejnyc.bsky.social and it’s on zoom 7:30pm. RSVP
Jfrej.org/mass-call
Photo of a ginger cat with the following written on a notebook “We Won! What's next? Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Call 7:30 Jfrej.org/MASS-CALL
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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I was in Ditmas Park with JFREJ for Zohran too! We sang a parody. There were bagel props. The crowd loved it. (That's Matt doin a Cuomo impression at left). #JewsForZohran get creative.
a man in a suit makes a face and points at a crew of four JFREJ volunteers holding painted food signs "Done with Cuomo's Capers", "Universal Childcare" on an onion, "A mayor for the people! its a big dill!" on a pickle, a piece of lox "rent freeze make NY a lox better" and hidden behind us is a NYC greek design coffee cup you can't read.
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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💖story from @jennpozner.bsky.social that shows the value of volunteering for Zohran today. She met a young man who was vaguely aware of the election but didn’t plan to vote. His mom runs a food bank & he spoke re the value of serving the community. They talked for 15 minutes! He’s voting Zohran!
Woman in a No Means no Cuomo t and a young man with hair in braids who’s holding up a Zohran flyer
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Just another #JewsForZohran voter volunteering with @jfrejnyc.bsky.social. We need every last vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, so Zohran can win by a decisive margin (we are aiming for 50+% of the vote!) Volunteer with us! www.jfrej.org/news/2025/06...
Photo of me , person with orange and blue hair in aviator glasses and a blue western jacket holding up a sticker that said Brooklyn Votes Early and a Zohran for Mayor pin. I’m under a nice maple tree with leaves changing their colors
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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From a friend who has been volunteering his tail off for Zohran all year.
My take on the housing ballot propositions follows below. But first, on #6, which would change the timing of City-level elections...and help elect establishment candidates like Andrew Cuomo. I'm AGAINST Proposal 6, which would move municipal elections to align with federal election years. It's hard work to engage voters about new ideas for our city even when elections for mayor & city council are the main thing on the ballot. If municipal voting happens at the same time as federal & state races, it'll be much harder: those who vote will spend less of their time thinking about City-level races, since federal & state will capture the lion's share of public attention. It'd be more difficult for groups like WFP, DSA, JFREJ, DRUM, CAAAV & others to organize for City-level races, since their volunteer power would be split between municipal & other races. Result: name recognition and ad spending would be even bigger factors in City elections than they are today. If we'd had federally aligned election dates with this year's mayoral candidates, our odds of ending up with Mayor Andrew Cuomo would have been much higher! So l'm voting No on Proposal 6.
November 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Vote NO on ballot prop 6 in NYC because having municipal elections on off years is like having crops bloom at different times of the year to keep the bees alive. The bees here are campaign volunteers, small dollar donations from working folks, news coverage, voter attention spans etc. #NYCvotes
Photo of different colored autumn squash with the words Vote No on prop 6
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Covering Peacemaker season 2 on my podcast @graphicpolicy.com radio this Saturday with @aboynamedart.bsky.social! Send us your questions! #Peacemaker
a mural painting featuring The Top Trio. Emilia and Chris walk past it.
October 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Post a perfect album from 1989 that somehow didn’t make it into @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social
Alice Cooper Trash album cover of him looking down wearing a leather studded biker jacked and a tshirt with his face as a skull
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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This should be a popular Halloween costume for couples! Maybe folks worry they’d be Banned in LA…
Meme “cute couples costume idea” is a photo of Mike Muir from Suicidal Tendencies wearing a blue bandanna far down over his eyes (how can he see like that) with a backwards bicycle hat on top, a mesh sports shirt over a long sleeve sports tshirt and acid washed ripped jeans. He has long hair. He’s the singer in a band And the other photo is a woman painted blue dressed as a Pepsi can.
October 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Happy #Caturday from that sweet child o mine, Axl Rose my cat
Ginger cat sitting at my side. His eyes match his fur. His lips are pale pink with black polkadots but his nose is more of a peachy color
October 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Welcome New folks! Love to see you. Here’s Bluesky tips;
Follow starter packs to find new people.
Use alt text when posting images (you can set your account to require it) because we do accessibility & search-ability.

Block and move on, don’t RT to flame a douche bag.

Saturdays are #Caturday
Ginger cat sits on a white sofa. He looks alert. A lighting fixture is behind his head like a halo.
October 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Some of my light reading circa 2001/2002.
Can is for scale.
A beer can of Modelo used for scale with tiny books balanced on it Félix Guattari Soft Subversions. Chomsky’s Acts of Aggression and 9-11 book
October 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Happy #Caturday from Axl whose whiskers are in many directions and who also seems short a few of them? You can’t tell but when I took this he had an entire hind foot shoved in my pocket.
Ginger cat with a very interesting face and lots of whiskers and different directions laying on a couch. His expression is engaging.
October 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Aww Axl had to get his last toothies yanked (they were his tusks). He is doing much better now. I know you’ll feel all better soon and have no more pain.
Ginger cat yawning he has no theerh just four huge fangs. Well now he doesn’t even have those anymore
October 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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unsolicited Dick Picks (by Nicola Scott)
a comic book variant cover by Nicola Scott of Dick Grayson aka Robin Aka Nightwing in various costumes over the years. In one of them he's giving you the butt glamor pose.
October 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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A belated #Caturday from Axl whose intellect may be stimulated by dangling a toy over his head. Enviable.
Ginger cat with his head looking up which means his mouth is open because he’s got a big overbite and no teeths. His golden eyes seem engaged
October 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Cartoonists/ illustrators who work on paper: what pens are you inking with these days? I hate the feel of standard micron w the flat tips. I used to love uniball but it’s skipping when I draw over my pencil marks… I figure I need something brush tip and a few sizes but idk.
Close up of a pencil drawing of a man’s face I’m working on. You can see his eye looking down and part of his nose and head
October 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Happy #Caturday from Axl who can show you his tummy.
Golden cat with his mouth slightly open and a smile shaped face stretched on the sofa with his knees and tail curled. It actually looks like he is covering his crotch with his tail, very demure .
September 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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How do I store this challah we tore into? If it was sliced I’d freeze it but now I don’t know
A beautiful round challah with apples and honey that is far more picturesque than mine
September 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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So I usually grow indeterminate cherry tomatoes, but this year I got one determinate. The regrowth I’m having right now it’s fruit feel very different than my other unripe ones. Very dense and hard and they stay pale. Even though they’re in the same place the first harvest flourished in
Small whitish, green cherry tomatoes with slightly visible veins
September 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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As #Andor said — (meme via @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social )
“Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.” Words from Andor on a star filled field above an still from the tv show of the two Galactic Senate tech staffers who kept Mon Monthma from being assassinated because they claimed they didn’t know how to unlock the door . Great example of everyday people being heroes.
September 18, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Yessssssss
(I made this)
Red peppers orange tomatoes and hints of eggplants with lots of green basil on top of fusilli pasta.
September 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM