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Juli McKenna Kearns

@idyllopus.bsky.social

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Author. Artist. Playwright (twas). Cinema analyses. Dem Socialist. She/her. Husband is a musician/engineer/producer. Son makes films and I sometimes assist. No AI. Atlanta GA. Plutonium-enriched childhood in WA. My website: https://idyllopuspress.com

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Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · Nov 9

On my profile picture. It's an image that I took and has been my choice to use across platforms for years. My initial processing was high contrast.

Imperial Rome Exhibit at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Mask of Tragedy, From the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence. 2006, processed 2016

A photo in which the Mask of Tragedy has been isolated from its surroundings and the tones processed so the black of the mask's open mouth stands out. This particular mask hints at under the cloth hat the horns of Dionysus.

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Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 16h

Crazy. I have no clue how anyone could be a Nazi-loving Hitlerite.I know they are but I don’t understand what they emotionally and intellectually get out of it.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 18h

Last Day of Summer In The Tropical Zone (or) Gidget Puts Away her White Shoes, 2007
Animated Shorts Series
Digital painting
8.7 by 14 inches

#art #digitalpainting #digitalart

Drawing/painting of a woman with her nude back turned toward the viewer. She is surrounded by a blue atmosphere that sweeps over her and beyond. A flat plain of yellow landscape is barely there beyond. A vivid light, as if from the sun, reflects off her forehead, the light slightly haloing her body in a lighter blue.

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 19h

2005 View from the Road, Number 47, Train, New Mexico

If you look closely there are also a couple of small wood buildings and a trailer in the mid-ground.

#photography #viewfromtheroad #train #newmexico #newmexicophotography

A distant shot of a train, New Mexico hills in background and mid-ground, that has turned away from running immediately parallel the road. The train is captured just before it disappears behind the mid-ground hills. Also in the mid-ground, before the train but not obscuring it, are two small wood buildings and a trailer. The sky above is filled with clouds off which the sunset reflects pink and yellow.

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 19h

Atlantic Station 2020, Apartments
Balconies of Atlantic Station

No one is ever out on their balconies in Atlanta.

#blackandwhitephotography #atlantaphotography #atlanticstationatlanta #atlanticstation #architecturalphotography #balconies #highriseapartments

Black-and-white view of side of an apartment building that is garnished on all sides by balconies. No other buildings are in the frame.

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Aaron Dylan Kearns @eyeodyssey.bsky.social · 1d

Quick reminder for those in Georgia that the Buried Alive Film Festival Intravenus tickets are currently being sold on the Plaza Theatre''s site! Seating will sell out so get your spot before it's too late.
www.plazaatlanta.com/movie/baff-2...

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Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 1d

The First Veil, 2007
Salome and Friends Series
Digital painting
22.9 by 25 inches

Model reference: Lady Belar.

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting

Woman lying down, seen from shoulders up, facing the viewer, blue sky with cloud and a white disk, moon or sun, in the sky.

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Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 1d

2005 View from the Road, Number 39, New Mexico
Photograph

#blackandwhitephotography #monochromephoto #newmexico #viewfromtheroad #interstate

Through the windshield, view of blacktop of interstate and hills leading into mountains beyond.

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 1d

Downtown, 2019. Forsyth Street view of Five Points Plaza (right foreground) and Digital Realty at 56 Marietta Street (left foreground)

#blackandwhitephotography #atlantagaphotography #downtownatlanta #architecturalphotography #mariettastreet #forsythstreet

Forsyth Street view of Five Points Plaza (right foreground) and Digital Realty at 56 Marietta Street (left foreground)

Five Points Plaza was formerly the First Federal Building, constructed in 1964. Digital Realty is given as the #1 connectivity hub in the Southeast. In the distance, the 50 story tower is 191 Peachtree.

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 2d

There are many good pieces on how destructive AI is. This is also good reading addressing the leap in reality confusion via Sora 2, and the myriad costs.

AI and the Total Destruction of Trust

Generating fake videos, ripping the social fabric, and what comes next

www.jphilll.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 2d

Blinds
Augusta, GA. Analogue photography. Mid 1970s.

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#analoguephotography #blackandwhitephotography #monochromephotography #blinds #window

Horizontal planes of gray (the blinds) alternating with the bright light through the window, but not bright enough that it overwhelms the room's interior. It must have been cloudy.

Taken of a bedroom window in the second place we lived in on Broad Street, downtown Augusta, while attending college. These were old wood venetian blinds rather than metal.

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 2d

Downtown Atlanta, 2019. 72 Marietta Street, now Two City Plaza, viewed from beyond Digital Realty, at 56 Marietta Street and Forsythe

#blackandwhitephotography #monochromephotography #atlantaphotographer #downtownatlanta

A wall of narrow vertical windows in concrete.

72 Marietta Street was the location of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution from 1972 or 1973 to 2010.

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 2d

Cupid Wedding Chapel, 2006
Digital painting based on my photo of Cupid's Wedding Chapel, Las Vegas, from 1991.
14 by 20 in
For "Scenes for Quiet Walls" series

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #cupidweddingchapel #lasvegas #oldlasvegas #scenesforquietwalls

Cloudy twilight scene, roiled clouds above a wet street and the hot pink and red and cool blue neon of the Cupid Wedding Chapel.

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you. I appreciate that you care.

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 3d

This rejection is therefore what one would expect from ICE.

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Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 3d

Accountability List, and he finally did. I don't believe, and the throwing about of hierarchal authority and powers repels me, but I also know parts of the ritual resonate deeply with human needs, is medicinal, and human rights demands the ability of believers to practice their faith.

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Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah. I grew up largely unchurched then my family joined the RC. As it was my 3rd baptism, and I'd been unchurched, I could be skeptical of the RC experience as a child, but was sucked in by the ritual. Problem is I was under a priest who I waited for decades to make it onto the Bishop...

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Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 3d

Bondi shamelessly tries to bend facts to make it appear that the murder of Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, was by antifascists rather than a right wing terrorist.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 3d

One of Aaron's lobby cards for Intravenus. We hashed this out at some length the past few days and I'm unsure how many he's going to make but the ones from production shots so far look great.

Aaron Dylan Kearns @eyeodyssey.bsky.social · 3d

Tickets for the Buried Alive screening of Intravenus are now live! You can get them on the Plaza Theatre's (@plazaatlanta.bsky.social) website. This is gonna sell out fast so reserve your seating while it's available!
www.plazaatlanta.com/movie/baff-2...

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 3d

Downtown Atlanta, 2019, 235 Peachtree Center

225-235 Peachtree Center viewed from Peachtree Street.

#blackandwhitephotography #dowtownatlantaphotography #atlantaconstructionphotography #architecturalphotography #monochromephotography #peachtreecenter

Black-and-white view of the many windows of Peachtree Center running off as into infinity.

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 3d

2005 View from the Road, Number 26, New Mexico

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#blackandwhitephotography #monochromephotography #newmexico #viewfromtheroad

From the side of the road--a blurred tree, a distant mountain.
Some photography is planned, but with many photos I depend upon the chance of the moment, which means accepting the random as an essential voice. Which sounds good, "This is what I do, this is how it works", but leaves out the fact of culling from many images. And yet that is also how it is.

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 3d

Pas de Deux, 2014
Alternatively titled Ballet.

#art #photography

A blur of the faces of two indiviuals melding together against a gray-green background.

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 4d

After these lying, deranged, power-mad, grotesque bags of pork feed are gone, how long will it take for anyone to be able to muster an iota of respect for the offices they’ve crapped all over?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 4d

Tiresias' Daughter, 2018
Salome and Friends series
Digital painting
15 by 15 inches

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting

Against a black background, blur of partial view of a woman's face, eye hollowed and blacked, mouth lost in a black blur.

Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 4d

2005 View from the Road, Arizona

#photography #viewfromtheroad #arizona

An amber semi-arid desert Arizona hill with brush vegetation against a blue sky.