Ajax 🏳️🌈 Bell
@ajaxbell.bsky.social
Seattle author. Stops to smell the flowers. Amateur nerd (I wanna go pro but I haven't found anyone to pay me). Humble hippo enthusiast. queer/bi. they/them. books at https://flickerjax.com fic at https://archiveofourown.org/users/androdaixa/profile
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People don't understand what is meant by "literacy" and the "literacy crisis".
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
People don't understand what is meant by "literacy" and the "literacy crisis".
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
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This creater puts "reading levels" into perspective in a really helpful way, so sharing it here.
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This creater puts "reading levels" into perspective in a really helpful way, so sharing it here.
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WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
Moving Stories: Short-Form Graphic Novels for King County Metro Transit RapidRide
King County Metro and 4Culture seek six artists to create short-form graphic novels that illuminate community stories along new and existing RapidRide lines.
www.4culture.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
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🚨 ALERT🚨
ICE operating in South Seattle.
Abductions yesterday, agents spotted today in Othello.
Be on the lookout:
ICE operating in South Seattle.
Abductions yesterday, agents spotted today in Othello.
Be on the lookout:
December 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
🚨 ALERT🚨
ICE operating in South Seattle.
Abductions yesterday, agents spotted today in Othello.
Be on the lookout:
ICE operating in South Seattle.
Abductions yesterday, agents spotted today in Othello.
Be on the lookout:
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
And while I'm thinking of poetry, this Rilke has been living in my head rent free for at least year, not as letter to God from The Book of Hours, but as regret penned by Lan Wangji for Wei Wuxian. (Yes I can make everything about them.)
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
And while I'm thinking of poetry, this Rilke has been living in my head rent free for at least year, not as letter to God from The Book of Hours, but as regret penned by Lan Wangji for Wei Wuxian. (Yes I can make everything about them.)
Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.
been rattling in my brain near daily for a couple decades.
Green wind. Green branches.
been rattling in my brain near daily for a couple decades.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.
been rattling in my brain near daily for a couple decades.
Green wind. Green branches.
been rattling in my brain near daily for a couple decades.
Only through ep 9 of Blood River but IDK if I can emotionally survive 30 more eps of how they look at each other. Su Muyu is absolutely ill with longing and Su Changhe is completely devastated by love. Both these actors are killing it, but oh my god just get back together already.
December 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Only through ep 9 of Blood River but IDK if I can emotionally survive 30 more eps of how they look at each other. Su Muyu is absolutely ill with longing and Su Changhe is completely devastated by love. Both these actors are killing it, but oh my god just get back together already.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Ah...I made a Discord for #WhereWindsMeet players who want to talk about Chinese language/history/pop culture related to the game, but I didn't realize there'd be nowhere to tell people about it. The official fan Reddit & Discord ban links; XHS bans links and even the word "Discord" 🙃 #YYSLS
December 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Ah...I made a Discord for #WhereWindsMeet players who want to talk about Chinese language/history/pop culture related to the game, but I didn't realize there'd be nowhere to tell people about it. The official fan Reddit & Discord ban links; XHS bans links and even the word "Discord" 🙃 #YYSLS
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In Darkness, by The Obvious Tells
12 track album
theobvioustells.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Hey, I know time’s are tough, so it’s all there for free, but if you’re looking to spend a few dollars on #bandcampfriday, I can always use the support!
tedleo.bandcamp.com
tedleo.bandcamp.com
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
tedleo.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Hey, I know time’s are tough, so it’s all there for free, but if you’re looking to spend a few dollars on #bandcampfriday, I can always use the support!
tedleo.bandcamp.com
tedleo.bandcamp.com
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My very first quilt is tragically transexual
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
My very first quilt is tragically transexual
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If you are undecided on this matchup, please vote for THE FIRST FROST, the only new drama I watched TWICE from beginning to end this year!!!
#CdramaCup2025
#CdramaCup2025
R1M6
The First Frost v. The Glory
Will you choose the modern trauma recovery second chance romance with the utterly devoted ML,
or the Ming dynasty morally grey twisty revenge drama with the AMAZING costumes?
(vote link in post below)
#CdramaCup2025
R1M6
The First Frost v. The Glory
Will you choose the modern trauma recovery second chance romance with the utterly devoted ML,
or the Ming dynasty morally grey twisty revenge drama with the AMAZING costumes?
(vote link in post below)
#CdramaCup2025
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
If you are undecided on this matchup, please vote for THE FIRST FROST, the only new drama I watched TWICE from beginning to end this year!!!
#CdramaCup2025
#CdramaCup2025
And now resurfaced by accident while looking for something else, so sharing again because everyone needs a 37 min break in their day
Found utterly by accident, but in case you need it, here's 37 minutes of Xiao Zhan singing a cappella.
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weibo.com/5103645868/O...
December 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
And now resurfaced by accident while looking for something else, so sharing again because everyone needs a 37 min break in their day
Troubadour Hou Minghao for @ohnotheeyebrow.bsky.social just because
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Hou Minghao "You're Not Here"
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December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Troubadour Hou Minghao for @ohnotheeyebrow.bsky.social just because
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I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.
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You should read these books because they are my favvvvvvvvvvorites. Start here: jugumpress.net/bone-mend-an...
I’ve had a recent spate of queries from people (I think) who run book clubs/recommendation schemes. Each enthuses over a book I’ve written…then asks if I want to pay them to expose my book to readers. Each query praises a book that’s the *last* in a series (w/ no reference to series). 1/3
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
You should read these books because they are my favvvvvvvvvvorites. Start here: jugumpress.net/bone-mend-an...
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I'm at the combination
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I'm at the combination
LYN is always the right choice regardless of the question 🤷
R1M5
The Blossoming Love v. A Dream Within a Dream
Will you choose the xianxia reincarnation star-crossed lovers drama,
or the transmigration-into-a-script comedy romance?
(vote link in post below)
#CdramaCup2025
The Blossoming Love v. A Dream Within a Dream
Will you choose the xianxia reincarnation star-crossed lovers drama,
or the transmigration-into-a-script comedy romance?
(vote link in post below)
#CdramaCup2025
December 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
LYN is always the right choice regardless of the question 🤷
I guess this is just who I love and who loves me? (Also very pleased with my alt text completionist stat.)
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I guess this is just who I love and who loves me? (Also very pleased with my alt text completionist stat.)
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NOT A ASS OUT PASS OUT PHOTO They didn't have to do my guy like that
The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed and alcohol pooled on the floor.
The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.
The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.
Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in Virginia liquor store and passes out on bathroom floor
A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
NOT A ASS OUT PASS OUT PHOTO They didn't have to do my guy like that
Mark Strong as Armitage is probably enough to sell me on this and the secondary casting in general looks great, but I'm definitely feeling very wait and see about the casting for Case and Molly.
Please, Apple, do this one right.
Neuromancer by @greatdismal.bsky.social finally gets a TV series. Could be amazing, but expectations will be high from all of us who read these books when we were young.
Count Zero was a personal fave.
Neuromancer by @greatdismal.bsky.social finally gets a TV series. Could be amazing, but expectations will be high from all of us who read these books when we were young.
Count Zero was a personal fave.
Apple TV's New Cyberpunk Show That Was Called 'Unfilmable' Is the Sci-Fi Event of the Decade
One book-to-screen adaptation that was once thought impossible is finally coming to Apple TV next year--and we couldn't be more excited.
www.cbr.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Mark Strong as Armitage is probably enough to sell me on this and the secondary casting in general looks great, but I'm definitely feeling very wait and see about the casting for Case and Molly.