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Davi Gray (she/they)

@davigray.bsky.social

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Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, & abolitionist. 🌐 davigray.com. 18+ 🙏🏼 Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (Trio House Press).

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · Apr 28

If you’re a cisgender ally (especially over 50), you should know that you can access hormones through your medical care provider - e.g., estrogen “to treat symptoms related to menopause” or testosterone “to treat symptoms of low libido.”

Your trans friends’ lives may soon depend on your access.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Apr 28

1. The White House has just released a "fact sheet" where it announces that 8 fake "experts" are about to release a federal report opposing transgender care.

It also announces investigations on manufacturers has begun.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/white-hous...

White House Teases Fake Anti-Trans "Report," Announces Investigations Have Begun

A new fact sheet released by the White House Monday morning confirms the imminent release of a "Cass review" type report. It also announces investigations have begun.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I really just gotta bump The Chronic.

youtu.be/qib9AmACFtI?...

Dr Dre - The Chronic (Full Album)

YouTube video by Hip-Hop Heads

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chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 1d

well said and such an important thing to remember

everything has a lineage

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 1d

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

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Adrienne Novy @adriennenovy.bsky.social · 3d

Y’all @buttonpoetry.bsky.social added 10 more signed preorders of my book since the first 25 sold out!!! 🥹🥹🥹

buttonpoetry.com/product/good...

good luck in the real world - Button Poetry

Adrienne Novy. Forthcoming Spring 2026. Runner Up of the 2024 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. 25 signed copies are available while supplies last!

buttonpoetry.com

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 2d

A private challenge over the years has been trying to convince people that "poetry workshops" can also be useful for people who don't think of themselves as poets.

This kind of work is about approaching the issues we care about with creativity and intentionality. Here's my new asynchronous class:

Meeting the Moment: Political Poetry and the Anthemic Impulse (New Workshop!)

Some information on KTM's new asynchronous writing workshop exploring political poetry and the anthemic impulse.

guante.info

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 1d

Use the platform and resources you have, whatever they are, to do good things:

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like some of our politics nowadays:

...He had written the neighbor a letter telling her that he would continue to kill his pet peacocks if she kept feeding them “to prove a point,”

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Florida man killed and ate his pet peacocks, authorities say

A man from Florida's Gulf Coast has been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing, cooking, and eating two of his pet peacocks

abcnews.go.com

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JusticeWithJean @jeantrounstine.com · 2d

Poem to bring you joy

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 17d

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 1d

Dune has provided a good foundation for this discourse (not to be confused with a Foundation).
Not to mention the imminent Butlerian Jihad.
Thinking we might want to start prepping for Shai-Hulud next 😅

Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 1d

"The Human Centipede of content." Clearly genius runs in the family. Also, every time I see AI content, already nauseating, I'll have a new imaginal disaster in progress 😫

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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From Create Mode
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 2d

We're firmly into autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, so it's once again time to share one of my favourite chemistry infographics on the kaleidoscope of chemical colours found in autumn leaves! 🍂
www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/11/a...

#ChemSky 🧪

Infographic on the chemistry of the colours of autumn leaves. Green is caused by chlorophyll, carotenoids and flavonoids give yellows, and oranges come from carotenoids, which also contribute to reds along with anthocyanins.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Kathryn Kysar @darklake.bsky.social · 3d

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 5d

Prince Nuada is sexy af but I'm pretty sure it's bad sexy... fascist-elf vibes. Gotta go with Abe 🤤

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 5d

I *so* wanted BeOS to make it. There were some brilliant bits.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5d

Rest in Peace and Power, Mr. Cain.

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 5d

Bobby Cain, who led a group of 12 Black students in desegregating the high school in Clinton, Tennessee in 1956, has passed away at age 85.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Bobby Cain, Barrier Breaker in School Desegregation, Dies at 85

www.nytimes.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 5d

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 5d

This is a good 20ish-minute watch.

www.newyorker.com/culture/scre...

A Woman Wonders if She’s Human in “I’m Not a Robot”

In Victoria Warmerdam’s short film, a series of failed CAPTCHA tests plunges a woman into a strange new reality.

www.newyorker.com

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 5d

"it's a marathon, not a sprint / it's 92 degrees in October, in Minnesota / they cancelled that marathon yesterday..."

Sharing partly because it is again too hot out, and partly because it's Bandcamp Friday, the best day to support underground music: guanteandbigcats.bandcamp.com/album/all-dr...

"Look On My Despair, Ye Mighty, and Work!" by Guante & Big Cats

YouTube video by KTM aka GUANTE

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-datab...

Meditations in an Emergency
By Cameron Awkward-Rich
I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits. The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass, the huddled mass, old women hawking roses, & children all of them, break my heart. There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind. Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 6d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 6d

Also, demanding gender-binary pronouns for robots? You know they're thinking about sexbots ALL THE TIME 😅

Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 6d

This is proof that conservative parents don't spend actual time with their kids (well, we know Graham doesn't). If they did, they'd know that there have been queer characters on Netflix (and Disney, Nickelodeon etc.) for decades. Like, they're only just discovering Dead End Paranormal Park.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 6d

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 6d

Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 6d

“It’s a scary moment, but it’s also a moment that bears no equivocation. At this point you are either on the side of protecting our neighbors and protecting our community, or you’re on the side of this administration. There is no neutral ground. There is no center left.“
- @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

truthout.org

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