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jenray.bsky.social
artist / maker of things www.jenray.net
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Really great inside look into what it's like to be a photojournalist/ how to become one, from the unstoppable and talented Sean Rayford 📸

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 50 days ago • 13 comments

Feels like a good time to learn those codes hobos used in the 30s to show which houses gave out bowls of stew

submitted 62 days ago • 3 comments

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 🧪🪶

submitted 105 days ago • 15 comments

On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"

submitted 215 days ago • 53 comments

Reach, oil on panel, 8 x 10” 2025 #art #painting #landscape

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

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.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

“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

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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

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

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. 🧵

submitted 128 days ago • 60 comments

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...

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

submitted 138 days ago • 887 comments

Late to this, but great explainer for anyone in your life who (in good faith) wants to know why Ai generated garbage is bad, why artists and creators hate it, why it’s happening to begin with, and why consumers of media deserve better. @maxread.info for @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 138 days ago • 3 comments

Good reminder from Dan: "The rise of mass social platforms has been at the cost of a truly independent, truly open internet. But it's still there. You can still build anything on it, free of platforms and the overreach of monopolists and oligarchs."

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

In 1995, Cameroonian musician Francis Bebey visited Real World Studios in Bath, #England for a special recording session. During his visit, he gave a demonstration of the n’dehou, a single-note bamboo flute originated by the Forest People of Central #Africa. 🪈🇨🇲

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments