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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · 3h

About time for a Mira Nair films rewatch?

Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · 5d

New fave seasonal image. 💀

“Calavera de artesanos” by José Guadalupe Posada from The Met’s collection, 1892.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

An engraving by Jose Guadalupe Posada of skeletons working on various tasks like cleaning shoes and sawing wood.

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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · Oct 31

This Halloween I’m roasting a mini pumpkin and listening to a fave spooky (but no TOO spooky) album by Broadcast and The Focus Group. 🧙🎃 open.spotify.com/album/6LjY0v...

Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age

Broadcast · Album · 2009 · 23 songs

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7d

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm

Support Jamaica

supportjamaica.gov.jm

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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · 8d

Love this! Last year Vasilis kindly shared some of his favorite books with me for my lil Instagram books x designers project. Very nice dude. www.instagram.com/p/C4plqOYNJd...

Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 8d

For the New York Times, I talked to Vasilis Marmatakis, the Greek artist behind the unique posters for Yorgos Lanthimos’ brilliantly bizarre films starting with DOGTOOTH, and for every film since, including his latest, BUGONIA: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...

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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · 10d

Checked out the very interesting maps of Ursula K Le Guin exhibition yesterday at the AA Gallery. She would often draw maps before she wrote the book!

Some banners with Ursula K Le Guin’s maps imprinted on them, hanging in a gallery space.

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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · 11d

When Human Rights Watch even has to take notice of what’s happening in the Chicago area.

Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 13d

NEW: @homelandgov.bsky.social federal agents have used excessive force against protesters, medics, legal observers, and journalists at numerous protests outside a US ICE facility in Illinois.

This isn’t crowd control but a campaign of intimidation.

Congress must act. https://bit.ly/476v5uS

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Zakiyyah Alexander @zakiyyah.bsky.social · 13d

When I was younger, I thought one day maybe I'll go to a bar all the time and the bartender will know my order. Never happened. But today the pharmacist looked at me and said, we got your order, hold on. Not the way I imagined this moment at all.

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · 21d

🌟 New release!

Love & Lightning is a collection of manifestos with a queer, feminist or queer-feminist perspective. Discover how the manifestos jump across time and space, and sometimes even outside of it.

This book is in collaboration with Girls Like Us Magazine.

🛒 👉 valiz.nl/en/publicati...

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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · 14d

I blame the 90s and Anne Geddes photographs.

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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · 15d

All this talk about French jewel thieves makes me think it’s a good time to rewatch Jules Dassin’s great “Rififi.”

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17d

Happening now: Here’s a view of the “No Kings” protest in Washington, DC

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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · 21d

With eerie remnants of the Book It Book club free pizza program laying about.

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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · 21d

That SNL performance of “Really Love” is something else.

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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · 21d

One of my favorite live performances from D’Angelo. What a beautiful song.
youtu.be/CEph_2Qx-7Q?...

D'Angelo, The Vanguard - Really Love (Live on SNL)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · 23d

One Battle after Another 🫨😮‍💨🥴🫠

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 25d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 26d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · 28d

There are so many tickets for the London run of “Oh, Mary!” which has me confused but also okay with since I already snapped mine up.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Oct 3

‘Like James Baldwin, she thought social revolution required a reckoning of all relationships, including the individual’s relationship to herself.’

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy

Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · Sep 26

Or it’s an Ed Hardy lower back tattoo.

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Mel Stone @melstone.xyz · Sep 19

it's wild that we're expected to just go to work and be normal

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Michelle ✧˚ · . @michelleruiz.bsky.social · Sep 17

Sweater’s on, which means it’s officially Harold Budd with Cocteau Twins season. youtu.be/hvKdWQmCa9g?...

Sea, Swallow Me (2024 Remaster)

YouTube video by Cocteau Twins - Topic

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · Sep 16

One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · Sep 15

“The whole thing is screwed up,” said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.”

Incredible.

'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers

They're pushing lawmakers to move faster on a farm labor solution, even as the president cracks down on immigration.

www.politico.com

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