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raymondj @raymondj.bsky.social · 18h

but then you would have a starter pack 😉

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 3d

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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raymondj @raymondj.bsky.social · 6d

new albums from Pink Pantheress and Amber Mark?? i may have to drive my body to work instead of the club today, but i will be bopping my head and dancing while testing samples

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raymondj @raymondj.bsky.social · 7d

playing phone tag with a dermatologist office to get a new patient appointment and something about the repeated calling, trying to time it to reach a live person, reminds me of phoning in to radio station contests

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raymondj @raymondj.bsky.social · 7d

also if you call your iphone repeatedly from the same number without going to vmail, it should break through the silent setting and force it to ring/vibrate

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raymondj @raymondj.bsky.social · 9d

the two paintings i showed tonight. both are 18”x24”, watercolor and gouache on cotton paper, done last week while on my long-awaited weeklong painting vacation/retreat on Tybee Island.

abstract landscape in yellows, orange, and purple-browns, with wide horizontal bands of color and two opposite color circles reflecting against each other

abstract painting with yellow background and bright multi- colored organic shapes creating a large scene with lots of small moments

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raymondj @raymondj.bsky.social · 9d

this evening i went to a three-hour (!!) critique circle and had two of my recent paintings discussed by strangers for the first time ever. the adrenaline swings of the evening nearly took me out, but i persevered (and will be returning)

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 9d

Belle Shore Apartments.

A colorful terra cotta entrance to a vintage apartment building in the art deco style.

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 13d

You are very compelling but I must turn my attention back to all my little self-created assignments now

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15d

in 1869 the first known car accident death was mary ward, this irish lady who made bug art

known for: first woman to write a book on teh microscope, first person known to have been killed by a motor vehicle

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disaster-joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 20d

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

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