JeanVengua
@jeanvengua.bsky.social
#FilipinoAmerican writer, editor, artist. #California born & raised. Website: jeanvengua.com Newsletter: jeanvengua.substack.com Mastodon: @jeanevergreen on montereybay.social #mailart #asemics #abstractart
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In the city that serves as the headquarters of the American Library Association, the Chicago Public Library has undergone significant cuts, severely reducing services and endangering its library workers...
Libraries are sites of refuge, where curiosity is nurtured, where people find shelter, education, entertainment, job assistance, skill-building programs, and access to resources that would otherwise be out of reach.
In the Fight Against Fascism, Libraries Should Be Defended — Not Defunded
Libraries represent the kind of infrastructure progressive leaders must fortify at all costs, especially in this moment.
truthout.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
In the city that serves as the headquarters of the American Library Association, the Chicago Public Library has undergone significant cuts, severely reducing services and endangering its library workers...
Unboxing #tarot decks through the ages: Ancient rare and historical tarot decks (from @aeon.co): www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyu1...
#history #esoterica
#history #esoterica
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Unboxing #tarot decks through the ages: Ancient rare and historical tarot decks (from @aeon.co): www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyu1...
#history #esoterica
#history #esoterica
Issue #219 of my newsletter is up, titled "Monsters," in which I recall Dad taking me to my first boxing match in San Francisco, and consider how anger and fear might inform #art. jeanvengua.substack.com/p/monsters
#memoir #art #history #Filipino #music #culture
#memoir #art #history #Filipino #music #culture
Monsters
No. 219: "Monsters"; Art; Tarik Kiswanson, Malak Mattar, Albuquerque Murals, Pastel, Daphne Arthur, Lynda Barry, Dyani White Hawk, Vicky Lindo & Bill Brookes; Justin Jordan Dalisay, & Django Reinhardt
jeanvengua.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Y'all, I just learned that there is a bird called the "Juan Fernandez Tit-Tyrant" (possibly related to the Red-Rumped Bush-Tyrant). Here is your next choice for holiday gifting: www.creativereview.co.uk/stu_royall_t...
#birding #birds #books
#birding #birds #books
Tits, Twitching and Tweeting
Every now and then a truly viral phenomenon comes along: here we talk to advertising creative Stu Royall about how he turned a joke on Twitter into a book
www.creativereview.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Y'all, I just learned that there is a bird called the "Juan Fernandez Tit-Tyrant" (possibly related to the Red-Rumped Bush-Tyrant). Here is your next choice for holiday gifting: www.creativereview.co.uk/stu_royall_t...
#birding #birds #books
#birding #birds #books
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Fox News legal contributor Andy McCarthy knocks down Hegseth's defense:
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
‘We Intended the Strike to Be Lethal’ Is Not a Defense | National Review
The laws of war, incorporated in the federal war crimes statute, prohibit the killing of people who have been rendered hors de combat.
www.nationalreview.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Fox News legal contributor Andy McCarthy knocks down Hegseth's defense:
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
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By the way, the Christmas tree in Kyiv is almost ready.
I saw it yesterday.
The official opening is coming soon (no announcements, of course)
I saw it yesterday.
The official opening is coming soon (no announcements, of course)
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
By the way, the Christmas tree in Kyiv is almost ready.
I saw it yesterday.
The official opening is coming soon (no announcements, of course)
I saw it yesterday.
The official opening is coming soon (no announcements, of course)
November 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Taunting, ageism, and vilification aren’t legit tools, instantly gratifying as they can be. Matching abuse with abuse is self-defeating. Pls reconsider this reposting. On the transformational process of nonviolent civil resistance, cf. Kazu Haga, Fierce Vulnerability, & Healing Resistance.
April 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Taunting, ageism, and vilification aren’t legit tools, instantly gratifying as they can be. Matching abuse with abuse is self-defeating. Pls reconsider this reposting. On the transformational process of nonviolent civil resistance, cf. Kazu Haga, Fierce Vulnerability, & Healing Resistance.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
Recently downloaded a paid premium word game from Google play that promised no ads, but then gave me ads. Agh! So I started searching F-Droid and found myself a nice tessellated puzzle game--no ads. And...also found an app that will make my phone audibly scream every time I drop it. LOL! #games
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Recently downloaded a paid premium word game from Google play that promised no ads, but then gave me ads. Agh! So I started searching F-Droid and found myself a nice tessellated puzzle game--no ads. And...also found an app that will make my phone audibly scream every time I drop it. LOL! #games
#Gratitude to everyone who try their best to make things better: @Avie Sheck and his mom singing a cover of Coldplay's "Yellow":
Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah, they were all yellow
Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
And you know, you know, I love you so
You know I love you so
🎧 YELLOW 🦋 AVIE SHECK & MUM 🦋 COLDPLAY (cover)
youtu.be/gwuEVFCDDXQ?...
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah, they were all yellow
Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
And you know, you know, I love you so
You know I love you so
🎧 YELLOW 🦋 AVIE SHECK & MUM 🦋 COLDPLAY (cover)
youtu.be/gwuEVFCDDXQ?...
Mom & I Cover Yellow - Coldplay (she's a Classical Indian Singer 🕉️) #yellow #coldplay #spring
YouTube video by Avie Sheck
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
#Gratitude to everyone who try their best to make things better: @Avie Sheck and his mom singing a cover of Coldplay's "Yellow":
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I wanted to show this yesterday,
but the attack happened.
A charming piece of art:
🇺🇦 Mykhailo Lishchyner
Street Violinist, 1990.
but the attack happened.
A charming piece of art:
🇺🇦 Mykhailo Lishchyner
Street Violinist, 1990.
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I wanted to show this yesterday,
but the attack happened.
A charming piece of art:
🇺🇦 Mykhailo Lishchyner
Street Violinist, 1990.
but the attack happened.
A charming piece of art:
🇺🇦 Mykhailo Lishchyner
Street Violinist, 1990.
First Descent: #Kayaking the #KlamathRiver after the largest dam removal in history: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FuG...
#Oregon
#Oregon
First Descent: Kayaking the Klamath River after the largest dam removal in U.S. history
YouTube video by Oregon Public Broadcasting
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
First Descent: #Kayaking the #KlamathRiver after the largest dam removal in history: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FuG...
#Oregon
#Oregon
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Thank you.
I know you won't give up the ship, Captain.
I know you won't give up the ship, Captain.
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Thank you.
I know you won't give up the ship, Captain.
I know you won't give up the ship, Captain.
"Wellsprings: Fortuna Major" is up on my newsletter: jeanvengua.substack.com/p/the-wellsp.... Also: Poklong Anading, Thom Minnick, Nolan Fisher, Lindsey Holcomb, Sainer, Peter Deligdisch; Max Richter x 2 w/Derrick Gee, & Waak Waak Djungi.
#newsletter #art #writing #music #culture
#newsletter #art #writing #music #culture
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
"Wellsprings: Fortuna Major" is up on my newsletter: jeanvengua.substack.com/p/the-wellsp.... Also: Poklong Anading, Thom Minnick, Nolan Fisher, Lindsey Holcomb, Sainer, Peter Deligdisch; Max Richter x 2 w/Derrick Gee, & Waak Waak Djungi.
#newsletter #art #writing #music #culture
#newsletter #art #writing #music #culture
Hmmm...
#SundayReads: A. D. Manns on the speculative origins of Aradia, "the Gospel of the Witches"... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/roma-lister-aradia/
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Hmmm...
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Now this is how to start a history book. A Wiltshire story teller 1890s.
"There were a time, 'tweren't in my time, neither in your time, nit (nor yet) in anybody else's time; 'twere when magpies builded in old men's beards and turkey-cocks chewed bacca”.
"There were a time, 'tweren't in my time, neither in your time, nit (nor yet) in anybody else's time; 'twere when magpies builded in old men's beards and turkey-cocks chewed bacca”.
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Now this is how to start a history book. A Wiltshire story teller 1890s.
"There were a time, 'tweren't in my time, neither in your time, nit (nor yet) in anybody else's time; 'twere when magpies builded in old men's beards and turkey-cocks chewed bacca”.
"There were a time, 'tweren't in my time, neither in your time, nit (nor yet) in anybody else's time; 'twere when magpies builded in old men's beards and turkey-cocks chewed bacca”.
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November 20, 2025
Red-eyed Vireo
Background Paint: Cherry Magenta
#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #redEyedVireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Background Paint: Cherry Magenta
#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #redEyedVireo
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
November 20, 2025
Red-eyed Vireo
Background Paint: Cherry Magenta
#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #redEyedVireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Background Paint: Cherry Magenta
#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #redEyedVireo
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VOICES FOR GAZA brought together Palestinian writers, activists, & their allies. Before hundreds, the speakers demonstrated one of the most important values that can sustain us in a time of seemingly unending mourning, resistance, and struggle: solidarity. In this post, we hear from Mosab Abu Toha.
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
VOICES FOR GAZA brought together Palestinian writers, activists, & their allies. Before hundreds, the speakers demonstrated one of the most important values that can sustain us in a time of seemingly unending mourning, resistance, and struggle: solidarity. In this post, we hear from Mosab Abu Toha.