jenny o

@jennyo.bsky.social

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Editor and publications specialist for nonprofit and social impact. 🇳🇿 pākehā / 🇨🇦 white settler posting from Treaty 3 3/4. She/her.

Paperback cover: The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
2 wall shelves filled with books and other miscellaneous stuff. Painting of crabs in a frame above.
Stack of books: New Zealand's Best Short Stories; Seashells of New Zealand; Native Trees of New Zealand; The Ace of Diamonds Gang and Other Stories by Owen Marshall
Sandy beach, ocean, big sky, hills in the distance
The Deer by Dashiel Carrera
"See that’s what upsets me: the slow erosion of our humanity so that we don’t even know that we’re supposed to care about one another. That’s going on because these technocrats have almost convinced us that a machine can do anything better than a person."
Cover image of Black Women Writers at Work, edited by Claudia Tate
A bag of Covered Bridge brand potato chips
Three-level vince mcmahon reaction meme, with the following text: Unfollowing someone / For posting twitter screenshots / Of Jordan Peterson
A 454g "Platinum Jubilee Edition" tin of Lyle's Golden Syrup
Rilke's poem: You, darkness, of whom I am born-- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illuminates and excludes all the rest. But the dark embraces everything: shapes and shadows, creatures and me, people, nations--just as they are. It lets me imagine a great presence stirring beside me. I believe in the night.
OK Computer by Radiohead
Fall maples along a path in a public park. Grey sky.
Kids playing in a dark room, which is full of hanging pool-noodles covered with glowing painted dots
A can of grapefruit Bubly sitting on a kitchen counter
Mirrors show you the light from your face. Mirrors do not work in the dark.
A pair of yellow running shoes
Tweet from Rachel Fairburn showing a photo of a sign reading "Caution! Do not place hands". The tweet reads "Useful sign for when you've got Reef coming over."
Hardcover copy of The Best American Comics 2014, edited by Scott McCloud
Four hardcover books: Zadie Smith's N-W, Colson Whitehead's THE NICKEL BOYS, Lisa Moore's CAUGHT, and Drew Hayden Taylor's CHASING PAINTED HORSES
Cover of THE MARIGOLD by Andrew F. Sullivan
A flower bed full of flowering black-eyed susans
Front cover of book: TAUHOU, A Novel by Kotuku Titihuia Nuttall
A large vibrant image in traditional indigenous woodland style, in which a large moose is depicted as an AT-AT from Star Wars, surrounded by birds and human faces.
Scooby-Doo meme: Hooded figure labelled "Something I used to love sucks now" "Let's see who's behind this" Hood removed to reveal "Private Equity"
Arrangement consisting of yellow and white flowers with green leaves, in a clear glass on a table
"The fish took the line while he was resting. It did not seem the land was any closer. You know the boat is moving though. It has to be, he said quietly within himself. Every so often as he paddled he would look over his shoulder at the short reassuring wake. The wake that shows the calm water. It is moving. It is."