Jen Ray

Looks so good!

Hand carved whistle from apple wood.

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. 🌱

raindrops on a window. Some grey and other brighter colours blurred. It's not clear what is behind the window. Maybe some kind of concreted path.

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

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. Coined by Alexei Yurchak for late Soviet society, it was popularized by Adam Curtis's documentary, applying it to modern Western cultures where complex problems are met with fabricated, anesthetic narratives by those in power, leading to collective cognitive dissonance where everyone pretends a dysfunctional system is working.

“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.”

I'll be thinking of you & your PROBLEMS.

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.

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

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

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

Light Needs review – a blooming lovely meditation on plants and their people Houseplants appear to make conversation and yearn for lost friends in a witty yet luminous documentary from Jesse McLean

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

Dick Van Dyke in a suit and bowler hat stands beside dance instructor Maria Karnilova in a striped dress during a 1960 television comedy sketch.

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

SO cool and pretty. I've always been jealous of this look and wish my hair would do that

This definitely resonated 🫣 and was really interesting!

Books Shop the complete Warrior Cats book series. Discover all clans, adventures, and stories. Official books for fans and new readers alike.

My son the same age also loved all of those, and he's really into Warriors www.shopwarriorcats.com/collections/...

Gorgeous!

a copse of trees at night. dark with a hint of sky behind. quiet. still.

a bramble or briar, long arms with spikes against a night sky

single drop of water hangs from a twig at dusk

Night sky over the sea and land. This is a quiet peaceful place.

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

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.

☀️🧪 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-...

Outdoor scene with a bright golden spider with delicate black marbling on her large, rounded body. Her legs go from deep orange to black-and-white-stripes at the tips. She is building a web in the garden. She is a marbled orb weaver spider, also known as a pumpkin spider.

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!

Agreed, SongShift is what worked for me. Again, occasionally there'd be a song that Apple didn't have so it couldn't transfer, but mostly it was great.

💯

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

YES this is great!! ♡

This is a good sign!! 😉

Yes! (Also you gotta hear Cubs if you haven't- Joe Chang's project that Chris is playing in with Jess and Evan. Similarly Springsteenesque and great!)

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

🎹🌱 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/...

YouTube video by owen reiser LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

Can’t recommend this documentary on extreme birdwatching enough: absolutely wild stuff! 🦅 You won’t regret it! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The True Story Behind the Origins of Pepe the Frog | Artnet News We spoke with the creators of "Feels Good Man," a documentary about Pepe and his creator's battle to win back his image.

Would just like to remind everyone that Pepe was originally very unchaotic and good, and was ALSO kidnapped by Nazis! Created by the awesome Matt Furie. You can read more here. (I haven't seen the doc but have always been mad about the way it went down) news.artnet.com/buyers-guide...

This record is great!!

I will just say, that there are a lot of us who had to learn early in life to LISTEN TO THE SKEEVE, listen to your body. Don’t talk yourself into getting over it. You will never be sorry you got away from the things that immediately skeeved you out.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It really does. Got mine two Fridays ago. It knocked me out for the entire weekend with fever, chills, aches, so tired, arm so sore.. and would do it again in a heartbeat. Just overwhelming gratitude for everyone who worked so hard to make it happen.

I have no idea ?? but I'm going to draw what I think they all look like without looking at the articles