Tedra Osell

@tedos.bsky.social

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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin, “Notes on the House of Bondage”

Screenshot of a Bluesky exchange: ME: This whole thread has been reminding me of my parallel experience, 40 years ago, reading this same book for the same reason and having the same reactions. I went on to earn a phd in 18th c brit lit with a focus on novels. JANE ESPENSON: WOW!
Screenshot of a Bsky post reading, “Warren comes out looking the worst in this I think. Sanders and the pod save guys having terrible judgement with people is a known quantity”
Photo of the top of a friends chat labelled “bitches” with an avatar of two leopards, one with its pay over the shoulder of the other and its mouth open, making it look like they are chatting. Above the cute leopards is the black bar at the top of an iPhone screen, in which there is a little Canadian flag on the left with the number 0 and a little Moroccan flag on the right with the number 1
Fannie Lou Hamer at the National Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on August 25, 1964. She is wearing a black dress and smiling broadly. Behind her is a wall that reads, “HUMAN RIGHTS No American can rest while any American is denied his rights…”
A light green/blue Prius loaded to the gills with personal goods and small furniture, including a very large bag of stuff lashed to the roof. It is riding verrrrry low, with maybe 4 inches of clearance to the ground.
Screen shot of text messages. The first says, “Bitch get a flight to MD and join me for Jill Scott on Tuesday June 23. I’m hoping you can get a cheap last Minute flight. I’ll pay for the tickets to Jill and obv you can stay here. Let’s try to keep it to max 5 days because I’m still juggling work shit but let’s make this happen.” The reply says “Call me.” Followed immediately by a screenshot of a ticket from LA to DC at the end of the week.
Screenshot of the Watch Duty app, showing Eagle Pass Flash flooding in Eagle Pass TX on a map. Below the map are options the app offers to “turn on notifications for this incident,” “share incident”, follow updates, find shelters, and access more information about the event.
Black and white photo of John Amos and Esther Rolle as James and Florida Evans in Good Times.
An single orange California poppy with a fluff of yellow-green leaves, growing in a crack on the edge of a concrete curb
In the upper right quadrant of the image is the face of a gray cat with yellow eyes and a white muzzle gazing down and to the left. Behind her is an automatic feeder, with the silver colored bowl in the lower left quadrant of the photo. It contains a small serving of cat kibble.
Close up photo of a monarch butterfly, wings spread, perched on the wide yellow-green leaves of hummingbird sage.
Gray cat with relaxed ears and almost closed eyes leans against a bright pink Mexican blanket.
Photo from the viewpoint of a person sitting on a couch looking down at their lap. Resting against the person’s black clad legs on the left is a gray cat facing away from the camera. Extending from the left of the photo, on the other side of the cat, are a pair of legs wearing green pants and blue socks. The feet in blue socks are resting on top of the black clad shins. Just beyond the blue socks you can see a bare white foot with painted red toenails, the foot of the person taking the picture.
Photo of a living room crowded with furniture including a fridge, a microwave on a sideboard, a shelf containing food, and a small round occasional table covered with a towel that is being used as a dining table. In the background the doors to the kitchen and dining room are covered with plastic sheeting.
A gray cat with cream colored belly, cheeks, and inner ears is sleeping on a yellow sofa, resting against a colorful pillow embroidered with birds, nests, and branches.
Skeleton of a stegosaurus, a dinosaur with a small head and a large body with an arched back and a long tail. The back has big bony plates that stick up along the spine and the tail has long spikes on the end.
A gray cat with a white muzzle and long ears is cuddled up against a colorful pink, green, black and white serape-style blanket. Her expression looks sleepy.
Screen shot of UCLA’s Lauren Betts on a basketball court shouting in victory with Charlisse-Leger Walker, braid flying, smiling with happiness during the final game of the NCAA women’s basketball national championship.
Construction scene: Narrow framed space with three steps at the bottom leading out to what is now a solid wall. Above them is empty space with a floor at the top hiding them. In front of them the narrow framed space that the photographer is standing in was once a deep narrow closet. To the left, on the other side of the now opened closet wall, are concrete steps leading towards the viewer. These connect the back of the kitchen to the current back door. The original kitchen door was at the side not the back of the house! A back entrance was added on presumably so that the basement could be accessed from inside the house rather than having to go outside.
Close up photo of a gray cat with white muzzle And chin, looking either smug, relaxed, or sleepy, depending on your interpretation.
Closeup of a pudgy gray cat with a white muzzle and chin, a pink nose, and yellow eyes squinting into the camera as a person with glasses softly noms the cats right ear with their teeth covered by their lips. The cat has a long-suffering expression.
A very pretty gray cat in 3/4 profile, facing right. She has a white muzzle and whiskers and white/cream chest. She does not look at all sorry for anything, ever.
Video showing photos and names of many (not all) of the people who have died at the hands of ICE, CBP, DHS, etc. since the trump administration began its fascist kidnappings: Alex Pretti, Victor Manuel Diaz, Heber Sanchez Dominguez, Paraday La, Renee Nicole Good, Luis Gustavo Caceres Nunez, Keith Porter, Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, Silverio Villegas González, Jaime Alanis Garcia, Luis Beltran Yáñez-Cruz, Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, Pete Súmalo Montero, Hassan Ali Moh’D Saleh, Leo Cruz-Silva, Huaning Xie, Oscar Rascon-Duarte, Tien Xuan Phan, Marie Ange Blaise, Jesus Molina-Veya, Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez, Nenko Stanev Gantchev, Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, Jean Wilson Brutus, Francisco Gaspar-Andrés, Gabriel Garcia Aviles, Josué Castro Rivera, Miguel Ángel Garcia Medina, Norman Guzman-Fuentes, Ismael Ayala-Uribe, Santos Banegas Reyes, Lorenzo Antonio Batrez-Vargas.
A gray cat with a white muzzle, a pink nose, and yellow eyes, sitting up on a yellow couch and gazing to the right of the viewer, extends a paw, claws unsheathed, into the foreground of the shot. She is pawing at the photographer (me) in order to communicate that she is HUNGRY NOW.
A gray cat with white cheeks and muzzle, and white marks over her eyes, sleeps on a yellow couch. Her head is tipped halfway upside down so only one ear is showing. She also has a paw curled under her cheek.
Cooper’s hawk (I think) perched in a eucalyptus tree glaring down at the photographer against a cloudless blue sky
A gray cat lying on a walkway in front of a bed of California fuchsia and sage, grooming herself and then trying to roll over. She has to try twice before she makes it.
An elderly gray cat walks towards the photographer across a path of mulch. Behind her are poppies and white sage in bloom. She looks grumpy but that’s just her relaxed expression.
An old wood floor covered in black goo. There is a large industrial machine in the middle and the walls and ceiling are covered with white plastic.
Photo of a text thread. Person A: “dear god another Monday. How does this keep happening, who should I write to.” Person B: “this is bullshit! Demand a refund.” Person A, in quotes as if citing actual dialogue: “I definitely asked for the Saturday multipack”
A slightly overexposed photo of a ruffled looking gray cat resting queenlike on a yellow sofa against a colorfully embroidered pillow.
Tight face shot of a gray Abyssinian cat with a white muzzle and whiskers, white around her yellow eyes, a pink nose, and a relaxed expression that communicates that she will not put up with your bullshit.
nna is not alone in this revelation. In the Trump era, many young women - like the giddily foulmouthed MAGA influencers and inauguration attendees depicted in this magazine at the start of Trump's second term (see: "The Cruel Kids Table") - were attracted to the New Right because it felt less constrained, stufly, and dogmatic than the left. Perhaps it was. A little sexism was a small price to pay for entry to a party without woke scolds policing the playlist. For women especially, contempt for feminist pieties, if deftly channeled, could be one's ticket to stardom. And what had feminism done for them recently, except tell them to work harder and feel bad for wanting to be skinny? Or worse: trick them into waiting too long to have babies? Now, a growing group of right-wing women - both prominent personalities and loyal foot soldiers — are waking up to find their inclusion in the MAGA movement was contingent. Sexism wasn't merely the price of entry; it was the theme of the party.
A gray cat has its front paws on a glass topped side table in front of a yellow couch. The cat’s head is on the left side of the photo, deep inside an aluminum tumbler with only its pinned-back ears showing. In her attempt to drink from it she is tipping it towards the sofa. To the right of the photo is a clear glass tumbler with water almost up to its rim, which she is ignoring.
A gray cat with relaxed ears and half closed eyes leans up against someone’s leg that is covered with a fringy blanket.
Very close up video of the muzzle of a sleeping cat with a white chin, pink nose, and gray face sleeping on a deep yellow cushion. She is snoring like a small breathy trumpet.
A big soaking tub with jets surrounded by tile with large feature panels of a kinda Mediterranean “lady wearing toga sitting demurely in front of random pillars meant to indicate ruins, plus a few spindly looking trees that are presumably intended as olive trees”
We slowly walk through a small living room. Behind one corner are boxes of kitchen items and a dishwasher rack. Next to a china cabinet is a bookshelf full of kitchen items. Behind a chair is a drawer full of pots and pans. Next to the fireplace is a trash can. As we move into a small living room there is a large fridge, a dining table covered with more kitchen things, two metal racks also filled with food and cooking tools, and the pièce de résistance: a braid of garlic hanging from the light fixture above the dining room table.
Closeup profile shot of a gray cat’s face. She has a yellow eye with darker spots in the iris, lighter gray fur on her nose, cheek and chin, and a pink nose.
A black cat wearing a bird collar—a colorful, rainbow striped cloth tube that slips over a regular breakaway collar and looks like a clown’s ruff—is sleeping on several layers of soft things.
A silver tip fir (the kind with widely spaced branches) decorated for Xmas with burning candles attached to the tips of the branches.
Close up photo of a sleeping cat’s face nestled against its belly and feet because it is curled in a ball
A gray cat with yellow eyes and a long-suffering expression peers out to the right of the viewer, past a present wrapped in tan paper with simple holiday motifs on it: a gingerbread heart, a green branch with a few red berries. The cat is nestled under the branches of a Christmas tree and at her feet is a pile of shiny ribbons.
An adorable gray cat sitting on a yellow sofa gazes up towards the camera. Her face is really big bc of foreshortening, while her toes at the bottom of the pic appear very far away. She is wearing a festive collar with two inch long red, green, and white ribbons of tulle radiating out from the collar with jingle bells and shiny confetti style cutouts of trees tied to the ends of the ribbons.
Photo of a door with a full length glass panel inset. On the other side of the glass panel is a mountain lion sitting on its haunches. It is sitting sideways to the camera and its face is turned looking in with a squinty uncomfortable expression. The caption reads “if you’re cold they’re cold. Bring them inside.”
Screenshot of a Vox Bluesky post linking to a recent article titled “We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.” with text reading “America you have spoken loud and clear: you do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?”
A gray cat curled up against a brightly colored pillow has a red Santa hat perched on its head behind its ears. Its expression is patient and somewhat exasperated.
An imperious looking gray cat stretches her paw towards the camera, grabbing the photographer’s hand to demand she stop taking a pic and return to petting. The cat is wearing a colorful ruff style collar and is sitting on a yellow couch with colorful blankets behind her.
A gray cat is curled up sleeping on a yellow couch, resting its back against a colorful throw pillow. Its tail snakes towards the foreground making a nice S curve with its curled back.
Zohran Mamdami standing in the Oval Office, looking straight at the camera, smiling pleasantly. To his right is president t, sitting below him and turned to gaze up at him with a beaming grin.
A bed with a dark green patchwork quilt and a white pillow. Against the pillow is the small head of an orange cat, emerging from under the quilt as if it is a person tucked in for the night.
A gray cat with cream to white underside looks proudly at the camera. In front of her is a pile of shredded paper that’s recognizable as a roll of toilet paper.
Photo of two sinkholes opening up in saturated earth. The smaller is about a square foot and about two feet deep. The larger is about six square feet and over two feet deep (so far).
A gray cat is curled in a ball leaning up against someone’s blanketed legs. She has big ears.
A gray cat on a yellow couch, with its back to the camera.
A gray Abyssinian cat is sprawled on its back on a hardwood floor, sleeping.
Two cats, one black with a colorful collar and one a brown tabby, sitting next to each other on an unadorned floor looking up to the left as if waiting for food.
A sign in two columns. The left hand column has a drawing of a crown, crossed out, with the word “never” next to it; below is a drawing of the US flag with “for ever” written next to it. The right hand column reads “reasonable republicans US cities are not military training grounds WTF!!!”