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Kira キラ

@lumpyplum.bsky.social

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Civil litigator, art nerd, soccer lover, club demon. 🦋 lumpyplume.com (Goodreads/ Storygraph) 🦦🦦 Carti +トンボ (Tommi)📍Philly

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Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · Jan 16

2025 Nonfiction thoughts, collected:

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Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 3h

Failing the bar exam and making a tiktok complaining to her psychic? Her clickbait prowess remains devilishly powerful

Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 13h

My lowlights are a teensy bit too flat black, like channeling pro wrestler Chyna c. 1997

Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 1d

my little silky princes

Up close white ferret, Carti, with a gold framed painting in the background

Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 1d

Man I am so tired from giving medication and vet check ups for just one ferret. I can't believe people have pets and also children and keep all of them alive.

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Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 1d

Textiles and mixed media by Qualeasha Wood, Malware in Transit show at the Philadelphia airport

Textiles and mixed media by Qualeasha Wood, Malware in Transit at the Philadelphia airport. The textiles are jackard printed with the artist taking a selfie of herself in opened images, which are within screenshots of various computer windows. A drop down window says face care, hair stuff, toothbrush, and other text items related to care that are difficult to read

Textiles and mixed media by Qualeasha Wood, Malware in Transit at the Philadelphia airport. Textiles look like computer screenshots showing the x button to close a window and a pointed cursor. There are screens and electronics also encased with the textiles.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 4d

Hey fellow alums: if you'd like to voice your displeasure, here is the contact info for Cornell President, Michael Kotlikoff.

(607) 255-5201
president@cornell.edu

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Cornell caved.

Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

SIGNATURES
For Cornell University:
Michael I. Kotlikoff
President of Cornell University
Office of the President
300 Day Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Ben the Winited States (including but not limited to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Servives and the U.S, Department of Education):
/N
istant Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530
For the Department of Health and Human Services:
Paula Matana S
Paula M. Stannard
Director, Office for Civil Rights
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Effective Date:
14/7/2025.

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Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 6d

They were not kidding about the kpop demon hunters soundtrack trapping your brain in a loop.

Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 6d

Late to the game, but our boy's mam-done it

Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 6d

youtu.be/HlAUXoisjbQ?...

Nakama, Mc Staff - MENTE MÁ (Extended)

YouTube video by SUKA.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 7d

roses are red
big laughs are hearty

The crowd has gone silent at Cuomo's party.

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Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 7d

www.gq.com/story/ssense...

SSENSE Owes Millions to Indie Fashion Brands. Here’s How They’re Dealing With It.

When the influential luxury e-tailer filed for bankruptcy protection, independent designers soon found themselves in trouble.

www.gq.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d

Locked in with @arimelber.bsky.social.

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Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 12d

My time has come 🌰🍃🐨

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Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 12d

seasonal ferret alert

Sable ferret sits on orange pumpkin in a grouping of seasonal display items including a straw broom on a sidewalk

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 16d

I’ve seen students playing hacky sack in this

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 17d

Most histories of hoodies go with 12th century monks as the originator, but I like to show my students this one from 5th-7th century Egypt.

FIG. 2: Child’s Tunic with Hood Tapestry weave of dyed wools, plain (tabby) weave ground of dyed wool, fringe of dyed wools along edge of hood and lower edge of tunic L. 101 cm; W. 89 cm Egypt, ca. 5th–7th century CE The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of George D. Pratt, 1927 (27.239) Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 16d

What a good idea

on.ft.com/4oCEPTd ‘Do not trust your eyes’: AI generates surge in expense fraud

‘Do not trust your eyes’: AI generates surge in expense fraud

[FREE TO READ] Business software groups warn that top AI models are increasingly being used to create ultra-realistic fake receipts

on.ft.com

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Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 25d

if you block a party here, you are adding yourself to a list. You should mute if you don't want a script to identify your account as "anti" whatever other account.

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Big Roux @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 25d

Fettermaine.

NEWS CENTER Maine @newscentersmaine.bsky.social · 25d

Graham Platner asked why Black people ‘don’t tip’ and referenced rape in old Reddit posts

Article by: @themainemonitor.org

Graham Platner asked why Black people ‘don’t tip’ in Reddit posts

The Democratic U.S. Senate candidate posted to the online social media site Reddit more than 1,800 times between 2009 and 2021.

themainemonitor.org

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Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 26d

Mother! by Darren Aronofsky

Bunny @fitterflittermouse.bsky.social · 26d

You can wipe one movie from existence, what would you choose?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 27d

We’re kicking the politics of the past aside and scoring a new generation of leadership — and we want you on our team.

Join us for The Cost of Living Classic, a free citywide soccer tournament in Coney Island this Sunday, co-hosted by NYC Footy.

Details + register at zohranfornyc.com/colclassic ⚽

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Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 26d

Event recap photos for Shaping Ground art show at my home 🌺

Collage of artists for shaping grounds show (left to right): Kira Lum, Imani Anderson, and Elizabeth Burns

Large earthenware Ceramics with white glaze, and photographs by Elizabeth Burns of portraits and cityscapes

Collage of guests at Shaping Ground art show over photographs by Elizabeth Burns of pink dogwood flower covered in dew. In the collage is a watercolor of a ferret in a Chinese calligraphy style kozo by Kira Lum.

Collage of guests over photograph of plants, image of Kira Lum prints of watercolors, photos by Elizabeth Burns. Visible text inscription

(wall text to accompany photography reads: D. Elizabeth Burns Photography

Poems by D. Elizabem Bume

Image: Graduate smelling flower in celebration, milestone accomplished: 2004

Title: Qween mывала

a sometimes chaotic world a single mother your lessons about love could be left through expenences, bearing withess ness with icy threaded through it, you were on the road of alf discovery defring what true unconditional love could be, you showed your three jewels a fragile ersion you, we didnt understand unit we were met with the same dilemma as grown women wwep breath, sowww deep breaths. A flower nourtshed by the sunlight can't go out quietly, you see shines in celebration, pacing eff and taking the time needed for its growth

sage: Leo in neing images: 2023

have nen the next growth phase so the sun could look upon & As you walked through thal saw the colors of the wind rushing to meet you, the water droplets chattering in tement, keeping you bydrated as you steady on your path. The earth expresses joy as it cradlies Bottom of your feet, protecting you as you walk. The friction caused by unpredictability if you didn't take ownership of it for long your presence, heaven sent. To a world so serving of you so through and through You're the delicate wishy growing in the hood, airy th and free, yet sturdy A force of nature you will always be

al gardens, I see the cousins to the sunflowers, holering to the lilies, in awe of your radiating baning witness to you rising up in love, self discovery in preparation for this next season

In depth interview with Chanel Addison Photo: 2022

Fixing my crown

up to the clouds for peace, why it's so intriguing to me, they carry weight wat in me too. I felt silhouette of your love carest my face as i walk out into this world day by aming to stand on business. ....

Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 26d

I'm concerned the next generation is gonna know Rihanna as that makeup brand lady

Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 27d

"I will say a hard thing to work with is people thinking that what they say has to be a full reflection of them as a human...
Say your silly bar it will be fine i promise lol" - dances

Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 27d

Starting On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) by Solvej Balle and pre-ordered volumes III and IV. At first I called it an "artsy groundhog day" but realized by page 30 this wasn't right, as Solvej Balle vacuumed me into her world. #booksky

Kira キラ @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 27d

About halfway through Sapiens, which I started without reading any reviews. Kind of shocked an irl friend recommended this eugenicist book replete with factual misstatements??

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