Six years ago I got to speak to Astronaut Victor Glover about him being the first Black astronaut to be part of an extended crew on the International Space Station. Pretty cool to now see him a part of the #Artemis II crew 🧑🏾‍🚀 www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/s...

Victor Glover will be the first Black crew member on the space station. (Published 2020)

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A goal of mine this year is to be more active on my substack and share my creative writing. Today I published a piece of flash fiction I wrote a while back, I hope you’ll give it a read 🍎 (and also give me a follow 💁🏾‍♀️)

The Orchard

"I didn’t care how handsome he was, I wanted the damn apple."

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Omg I came back on Bluesky and see I have 1k followers?!? 😳 Hey y’all! 👋🏾 Gonna try to be more active on here, thanks for following ya girl! 💁🏾‍♀️

This is such great news. For so long Amazon has had a chokehold on ebooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books

Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.

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Hey Bluesky fam! 👋🏾 In case you didn’t know, I have a Substack! Make sure to subscribe to my newsletter, Swoon 💕 and check out my latest post about how I surpassed my 2024 reading goal! 📚 open.substack.com/pub/makemesw...

How I surpassed my 2024 reading goal 📚

In 2022, I only read 8 books. This year I read 35, increasing my reading consumption by more than 300%. Here’s how I did it.

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tbh I kinda (i.e. strongly) dislike how some economists talk about things like inflation and healthcare

“Where are all these people GOING?! OMG?!?!” - me, a person who is also going somewhere, stuck in traffic

I’m so confused on how all this is supposed to work out 😖

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court panel upholds a law requiring the sale or ban of TikTok in the US.

My neighbors are about to be sick(er) of me playing this soundtrack!!! A lil commotion for the vinyl pls 😋

I need Apple to stop it with the updates every 3-6 months 🫠 Now I know how my parents feel when they complain about tech changing too quickly

Seeing wicked for the second time this week, food for the soul 🙂‍↕️

Not me logging on to new followers 🤭 hey y’all hey 👋🏾

a woman is laughing while standing in front of a microphone on a stage .

Alt: Whitney Houston waving and having fun with a performer on a stage at an award show

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Is this an opportunity for a rebrand? Much to think about 🤔