Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️🌈
🇺🇦 Writer, artist, PhD candidate | C19 US, New Orleans, immigration, religion, death | Disabled Jewish queer trans | Husband and cavalier of @thelionmachine.bsky.social 🪬
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- Parade days in the Quarter make me so anxious this Carnival. I'm just constantly waiting for something to pop off. I know it's trauma from the New Year's attack last year, but it's also difficult to ignore, especially today as we blundered into a walking parade that wasn't on the tracking app.
- Bless RNS for good reporting on Catholic issues. If stuff goes down with the Vatican, trust these folks to get it the most correct.
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- No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
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- Weencycat resents the fact that the tile floors in the bathroom are making her paws cold, and so she registers her complaint by banging cupboard doors, then coming to me to put her cold toes on my hand. Such injustice. Her life is full of torments.
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- If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders. Our call to action is simple: 📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp bit.ly/deletetheapp
- Reposted by Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️🌈One of the best examples of ancient #polychromy that I know of is this terracotta thymiaterion - incense burner - in the form of a group of colorfully dressed women sitting around a wellhead. The iconography reflects a local cult, perhaps of Demeter and Kore. 🏺 1/ 4th c. CE. #MetMuseum 📸 me
- The motivation is willing, but the joints are weak and achy.
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- Why is the most difficult part of this lit review to write the part I know the best? I know all of the literature on New Orleans history that's even remotely relevant, but formulating what it's all doing and why I'm doing it differently is so dang difficult today.
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- Reposted by Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️🌈The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports. Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
- Le voyagement est aussi affecté → www.danslescoulisses.com/ice-le-canad...
- I somehow doubt that this will have an iota of impact on her TERF brigades, no matter how much they've screamed about protecting girls. Epstein's victims weren't the right kind of white, middle class, good girl to count. I bet they never even came in fifth in a varsity swim meet.
- JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
- Our neighbour popped over to trade contact info because his doggo was upset last night when he was out and we wanted to be able to help out if it happened again. Weency immediately Loved Him, and is now mournfully pawing and crying at the door, waiting for him to return.
- Reposted by Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️🌈liam and his dad are home! and someone please get rep. castro a coat!
- Describe your Bluesky in a single image;
- Help, I've fallen down a rabbit hole of 40s "Knit For Victory" patterns and can't get up.
- Reposted by Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️🌈The Cortylorhynchus considers my problems, nods sagely, and says, "have you tried basking in the sun about it? While being as spherical as possible?"
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- Today's useless fact: Dental floss was invented by Levi Spear Parmly, a New Orleans dentist, in 1819.
- A vibe check, please? I went into the corner store earlier and my kippah was visible. The young Arab guy at the counter looked at my head, asked if I was Jewish, and when I agreed, he kept repeating, "I don't fuck with no Jews." Do I need to go to another corner store? Or am I misinterpreting?
