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Community experience designer / geek dad / whiteboard artist / author / accomplice-in-training / he/him / Kmakice@fosstodon.org https://zestdelights.substack.com/

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Screenshot of news article photo showing Trump holding up a signed document with a title above the photo referencing “Board of Peace”

Screenshot of news article photo showing Trump holding up a signed document with a title above the photo referencing “Board of Peace”

He spelled “Bored” wrong.

22.01.2026 21:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

They are magical creatures!

15.11.2025 22:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Power Fantasy of Superman is you still have a staff job on a newspaper.

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I have a very bad feeling about this...

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Jonathan captured Colin in mid yodel!

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Look at this graph.

The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.

This is why we must build back union power.

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BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

31.08.2025 12:07 — 👍 24712    🔁 4656    💬 199    📌 116
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Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

31.08.2025 14:39 — 👍 16661    🔁 4501    💬 757    📌 290
Drawing of a strong flexed arm with text: This is your brain on therapy. Tearaway tags below each say: Text ‘therapy’ to 812-669-2227

Drawing of a strong flexed arm with text: This is your brain on therapy. Tearaway tags below each say: Text ‘therapy’ to 812-669-2227

Guerrilla art from my kid for my wife’s group practice.

22.08.2025 19:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

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a small dog wearing a black and orange bandana, collar, and leash sits on a leafy dirt path and looks up at us with large brown eyes. she's white with brown spots on her ears and eyes. she has brown speckles on her left paw, and her right paw is actually a bright orange webbed duck foot. she likes to have fun with her prosthetics.

a small dog wearing a black and orange bandana, collar, and leash sits on a leafy dirt path and looks up at us with large brown eyes. she's white with brown spots on her ears and eyes. she has brown speckles on her left paw, and her right paw is actually a bright orange webbed duck foot. she likes to have fun with her prosthetics.

This is Autumn. She was born without one paw. Gets along just fine with three, but still sometimes uses a prosthetic leg when she wants to blend in. 13/10

10.04.2025 17:41 — 👍 35871    🔁 2808    💬 924    📌 252

Remember Cory Booker's marathon speech? If you want to read the whole thing, or extract golden nuggets, it's available through the Congressional Record. It starts on page 52 of pt 1 for March 31 www.congress.gov/119/crec/202... and goes through page 124 of pt 2 www.congress.gov/119/crec/202...

07.04.2025 01:16 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) has a bill to return tariff authority to Congress. If it were to pass, the purposeless tariffs would end. Speaker Johnson is blocking it. Call your member of Congress, R or D, & urge a discharge petition on the bill, which forces a vote.
U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

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Remember that "I'd like to teach the world to sing" Coke commercial? I think that's what alot of people think a protest looks/feels like. I have some footage from 2014 I'd like to show them.

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Navigating Trans Day of Visibility in Trump's America What it means to be seen when your government is actively trying to erase you

open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

31.03.2025 17:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

22.03.2025 21:10 — 👍 167258    🔁 27162    💬 4304    📌 2164
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CARE-ing for your mental health Explore the impact of relationships on your mental health using the CARE Assessment framework to assess your connections.

The Bloomington Center for Connection is doing a free CARE workshop (2 sessions) that is worth your time.

www.bloomingtoncenterforconnection.org/2025/03/care...

17.03.2025 18:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Five years ago, I was waking up to my first day of remote work, which was meant to be a beta test with just some of the organization but ended up being a thing that lasted a long, long time.

Still valuing my hybrid schedule today.

13.03.2025 10:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Have You No Decency?": Republican Calls Sarah McBride "Mister," Dems Erupt And End Hearing During a meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a Republican representative, Rep. Keith Self, called transgender congresswoman the "gentleman from Delaware." Dems pushed back.

Always speak up.

open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

11.03.2025 20:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MARCH 11 2020 (Re-air) Podcast Episode · 30 for 30 Podcasts · 03/11/2025 · 1h 9m

Five years.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...

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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.

1. Major news in transgender care.

Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.

They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.

Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

09.03.2025 16:10 — 👍 16531    🔁 4854    💬 94    📌 240
Make Theatre Playable | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core Make Theatre Playable - Volume 1

Anyway, I strongly believe in the power of play to revitalize our high-cultural spaces, re-engage with the rest of humanity, and rehearse different possible forms of being.

My 2-minute scholarly manifesto:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

03.03.2025 09:19 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Cowboy I never knew he had a name

Trusted toys kept me safe at night. Cowboy is probably still on duty somewhere.

open.substack.com/pub/zestdeli...

28.02.2025 12:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man with a beard is sitting in a room with a harp in the background ALT: a man with a beard is sitting in a room with a harp in the background

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

22.02.2025 18:57 — 👍 6851    🔁 2770    💬 92    📌 161
Wild rock garden in the Beartooth Range 
Flowers in the foreground, rocks behind them with some pine trees behind that and a just the right amount of clouds to defuse the light for a nice shot.

Wild rock garden in the Beartooth Range Flowers in the foreground, rocks behind them with some pine trees behind that and a just the right amount of clouds to defuse the light for a nice shot.

Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers today

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Alternate History Asking What If is a way to critique our present

Trip #3 through "For All Mankind", an alternate history TV show on Apple.

open.substack.com/pub/zestdeli...

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Brilliant front page

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I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

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