Jen Ray
@jenray.bsky.social
artist / maker of things
www.jenray.net
www.jenray.net
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Did my tree pruning for the winter and had a bunch of branches without a use. With only a couple tools I made a whistle in 15 minutes, in case you might need a whistle some day soon. 🌱
February 4, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Did my tree pruning for the winter and had a bunch of branches without a use. With only a couple tools I made a whistle in 15 minutes, in case you might need a whistle some day soon. 🌱
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Sometimes only the comforting sound of gentle rain will do.
This is a long rainy, *sleep safe* episode.
Episode 128 - Persistent rain (51 mins)
bit.ly/LenRn128
This is a long rainy, *sleep safe* episode.
Episode 128 - Persistent rain (51 mins)
bit.ly/LenRn128
February 2, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Sometimes only the comforting sound of gentle rain will do.
This is a long rainy, *sleep safe* episode.
Episode 128 - Persistent rain (51 mins)
bit.ly/LenRn128
This is a long rainy, *sleep safe* episode.
Episode 128 - Persistent rain (51 mins)
bit.ly/LenRn128
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“Hypernormalization describes a state where a false, simplified, or surreal version of reality becomes so accepted as normal that people lose the ability or will to challenge it, even when aware of its untruth, often due to systemic inertia or lack of alternatives.”
January 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
“Hypernormalization describes a state where a false, simplified, or surreal version of reality becomes so accepted as normal that people lose the ability or will to challenge it, even when aware of its untruth, often due to systemic inertia or lack of alternatives.”
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I'll be thinking of you & your PROBLEMS.
January 2, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I'll be thinking of you & your PROBLEMS.
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After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
capitalbnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
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They call it the Polar Express but it stops in front of every child's individual house more like the Polar Local. More like the Polar Local. (shuffling note cards, adjusting mic stand) Polar Local
December 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
They call it the Polar Express but it stops in front of every child's individual house more like the Polar Local. More like the Polar Local. (shuffling note cards, adjusting mic stand) Polar Local
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 💃🏻🕺🏻 A 34-year-old Dick Van Dyke attempts to learn the mambo and cha-cha from an impatient dance instructor in this 1960 sketch from CBS's The Fabulous Fifties. It's a masterclass in physical #comedy just a year before The Dick Van Dyke Show. #tv
👉 Learn more: zurl.co/D7Ybu
👉 Learn more: zurl.co/D7Ybu
December 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 💃🏻🕺🏻 A 34-year-old Dick Van Dyke attempts to learn the mambo and cha-cha from an impatient dance instructor in this 1960 sketch from CBS's The Fabulous Fifties. It's a masterclass in physical #comedy just a year before The Dick Van Dyke Show. #tv
👉 Learn more: zurl.co/D7Ybu
👉 Learn more: zurl.co/D7Ybu
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Go somewhere quiet before bed. Try one of these *sleep safe* episodes.
267 - A hidden dell at night > bit.ly/Len267
269 - Night crickets > bit.ly/Len269
189 - Night rain falls on a drystone wall > bit.ly/LenSett1
274 - Burgh Island midnight tide > bit.ly/LenBur2
267 - A hidden dell at night > bit.ly/Len267
269 - Night crickets > bit.ly/Len269
189 - Night rain falls on a drystone wall > bit.ly/LenSett1
274 - Burgh Island midnight tide > bit.ly/LenBur2
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Go somewhere quiet before bed. Try one of these *sleep safe* episodes.
267 - A hidden dell at night > bit.ly/Len267
269 - Night crickets > bit.ly/Len269
189 - Night rain falls on a drystone wall > bit.ly/LenSett1
274 - Burgh Island midnight tide > bit.ly/LenBur2
267 - A hidden dell at night > bit.ly/Len267
269 - Night crickets > bit.ly/Len269
189 - Night rain falls on a drystone wall > bit.ly/LenSett1
274 - Burgh Island midnight tide > bit.ly/LenBur2
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☀️🧪 Researchers at the University of Sydney developed a nano-engineered polymer coating that reflects 97% of sunlight and passively collects water from air. #science
👉 newatlas.com/materials/roof-...
👉 newatlas.com/materials/roof-...
This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air
A roof paint that can cool your home and pull fresh water straight out of the air? It's within reach, as scientists scale up production of a new kind of paint-like coating that shields roofing from the sun's rays and harvests dew from its surface.
newatlas.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
☀️🧪 Researchers at the University of Sydney developed a nano-engineered polymer coating that reflects 97% of sunlight and passively collects water from air. #science
👉 newatlas.com/materials/roof-...
👉 newatlas.com/materials/roof-...
Ok, @hannahposts.bsky.social is right- we gotta bring back mundane normie posting, even when things are terrible all around. So here's a cool spider I saw in the garden today! A Marbled Orb Weaver/ Pumpkin spider. She showed up just in time for Halloween!
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Ok, @hannahposts.bsky.social is right- we gotta bring back mundane normie posting, even when things are terrible all around. So here's a cool spider I saw in the garden today! A Marbled Orb Weaver/ Pumpkin spider. She showed up just in time for Halloween!
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Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
October 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
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🎹🌱 In 1976 composer Mort Garson created "Mother Earth's Plantasia," an all-Moog synthesizer album supposedly designed to help plants grow. It was distributed only with the purchase of a houseplant or a Simmons mattress. #music #history
👉 www.openculture.com/2025/10/...
👉 www.openculture.com/2025/10/...
The 1976 Synth Album That Promised to Help Your Plants Grow: Discover Mother Earth’s Plantasia
In 1973, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird's The Secret Life of Plants became a bestseller. Open Culture, openculture.com
www.openculture.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🎹🌱 In 1976 composer Mort Garson created "Mother Earth's Plantasia," an all-Moog synthesizer album supposedly designed to help plants grow. It was distributed only with the purchase of a houseplant or a Simmons mattress. #music #history
👉 www.openculture.com/2025/10/...
👉 www.openculture.com/2025/10/...
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Can’t recommend this documentary on extreme birdwatching enough: absolutely wild stuff! 🦅 You won’t regret it! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
YouTube video by owen reiser
www.youtube.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Can’t recommend this documentary on extreme birdwatching enough: absolutely wild stuff! 🦅 You won’t regret it! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Roberto Benavidez continues to make piñata-like creatures inspired by the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts and the surreal characters in Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights."
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/robe...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/robe...
September 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Roberto Benavidez continues to make piñata-like creatures inspired by the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts and the surreal characters in Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights."
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/robe...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/robe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F35d...
With the relentless onslaught of n*zi chuds we're all forced to deal with lately, this song pops into my head pretty much daily. Recently realized fewer people know about Embrace than I thought, so here you go. Ian MacKaye post-Minor Threat, pre-Fugazi.
With the relentless onslaught of n*zi chuds we're all forced to deal with lately, this song pops into my head pretty much daily. Recently realized fewer people know about Embrace than I thought, so here you go. Ian MacKaye post-Minor Threat, pre-Fugazi.
September 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F35d...
With the relentless onslaught of n*zi chuds we're all forced to deal with lately, this song pops into my head pretty much daily. Recently realized fewer people know about Embrace than I thought, so here you go. Ian MacKaye post-Minor Threat, pre-Fugazi.
With the relentless onslaught of n*zi chuds we're all forced to deal with lately, this song pops into my head pretty much daily. Recently realized fewer people know about Embrace than I thought, so here you go. Ian MacKaye post-Minor Threat, pre-Fugazi.
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have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...
August 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
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If you’re bored of all the big radio stations then try NTS. It’s the absolute best. www.nts.live
NTS | Don't Assume
NTS is a global radio platform broadcasting music from over 50 cities around the globe, live 24/7.
www.nts.live
February 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
If you’re bored of all the big radio stations then try NTS. It’s the absolute best. www.nts.live
Really great inside look into what it's like to be a photojournalist/ how to become one, from the unstoppable and talented Sean Rayford 📸
23. FREELANCE VS STAFF: There are two types of working photojournalists: Freelancers and staffers. Staffers are mostly on assignment with consistent work, regular paychecks, benefits, equipment and repair budgets with a connection to a newsroom. #photojournalism
www.sodacitizen.com/home/lessons...
www.sodacitizen.com/home/lessons...
Lessons in Photojournalism (Part 3) — Soda Citizen - Photo Stories from the South
25 years in the field
www.sodacitizen.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Really great inside look into what it's like to be a photojournalist/ how to become one, from the unstoppable and talented Sean Rayford 📸
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I wrote a pep talk? I started with how I actually feel powerful that an expensive computer program that ate all of my work and that of all writers is still not as good as all of us it stole from. Then I went a few places. Anyway, it's here. mailchi.mp/e87ac78bc7b7...
Alexander Chee: Let's Go
mailchi.mp
April 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I wrote a pep talk? I started with how I actually feel powerful that an expensive computer program that ate all of my work and that of all writers is still not as good as all of us it stole from. Then I went a few places. Anyway, it's here. mailchi.mp/e87ac78bc7b7...
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Feels like a good time to learn those codes hobos used in the 30s to show which houses gave out bowls of stew
April 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Feels like a good time to learn those codes hobos used in the 30s to show which houses gave out bowls of stew
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read it for free while you still can www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
www.gutenberg.org
November 7, 2024 at 3:41 PM
read it for free while you still can www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140
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JUST OUT! 🚨 Time capsule birds' nests! 🪹
I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀
“You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm 🧪🪶
I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀
“You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm 🧪🪶
February 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
JUST OUT! 🚨 Time capsule birds' nests! 🪹
I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀
“You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm 🧪🪶
I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀
“You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm 🧪🪶