off the sky till September imagine freedom practice freedom as Essex used to say, take care of your blessings
Promiscuous follow up: Promiscuity Not Production indigiqueerconfidential.ghost.io/promiscuity-...
Promiscuity Not Production
I was thinking about the essay I shared yesterday, and how it resonated with a few people--actually people in very different fields. And I was thinking that academia is just where I am located, but of...
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here's a poem I wrote that was published in @ampoetryreview.bsky.social a few years ago called "If They Wanted To" dedicated to Tina Turner. I was also on the cover of the issue, a first for me! aprweb.org/poems/if-the...
American Poetry Review - Nikki Wallschlaeger - "If They Wanted To"
Published in American Poetry Review - Volume 53 | No. 01
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Video from southern Lebanon shows widespread destruction after Israel repeatedly bombed the city of Tyre. Multiple strikes, including one on a residential building, hit densely populated neighbourhoods largely emptied after Israeli displacement orders.
Somehow mansplainers never get exhausted from/with mansplaining
Has there been a more divisive consumer product feature? DuckDuckGo installs rising because Google announced more AI features in Search is wild.
DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search
Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.
tech.yahoo.com
Among the many lost opportunities I observed — repeatedly — across decades in the academy: how infrequently universities recognize or tap into resident experts and local knowledge. Faculty expertise is valued mostly as a funding magnet or PR opportunity; it's rarely seen as locally applicable.
Ilana Horn@ilanahorn.bsky.social · 2mo agowhat is wild to me is how few universities with schools of education are turning to us for our expertise in pedagogy. most seem to just be hopping on the AI train and largely ignoring the downstream consequences for our teaching
Don’t date a Nigerian man. Date a Jamaican man. Make your therapist earn that fee.
Date both of them. Add a Haitian man and have your therapist on speed dial
Chaos Cherub 😇@biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 2mo agoDon’t date a Nigerian man. Date a Jamaican man. Make your therapist earn that fee.
⚽ 🏆 🇿🇦 World Cup-bound South Africa has delayed its departure for the global showpiece after visa problems disrupted the team's travel plans, the national football association said on Sunday ➡️ u.afp.com/SDgp
Romantic love is different based on your life stage. We all know how emo & tragic teenagers are about love. People in their 20s are pretty emo & tragic about it too. They're filled with all these raging emotions of youth. With age, comes stability in the way you deal with romance.
South Africa made to look like fools after World Cup visa issues, says minister
South Africa made to look like fools after World Cup visa issues, says minister
According to media reports, the team's departure for Mexico on Sunday has been delayed due to an "administrative bungle".
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Not my mission, because I don’t think about whiteness, but I think there’s something useful to be written about what white people will *endure* to uphold white supremacy. Trumpism is an excellent moment to see this enduring. People who voted for him and are suffering would *still* vote for him.
I had planted ferns somewhere and they did VERY well. Too well. Taking over everything. Now removing them. Not sure if I’ll leave a few; if I do, I’ll need to sink them into a pot so they don’t take over again. It was a good experiment.
(A Vidalia onion cooked down to jam, some garlic and turkey bacon, with a handful of arugula in a carbonara of a couple of raw eggs and plenty of cheese.)
Imagine a marketplace that has ideas but no potatoes? What use is it? I reject it.
My beginning position is that everyone is androgynous (to me), lol KISS ME IN THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS
Nothing has changed, the manosphere is just crying, screaming, throwing up like this is what it's like to be a man now
Paul Tobin@paultobin.bsky.social · 2mo agoLiving a man's life in the 1950's just fucking sucked.
I lost it for a while but found the one video that makes the internet worth having again
Stevie Nicks - Wild Heart - Live Demo - 1981
YouTube video by Songery
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manure is very nice I always feel virtuous—that’s a lie: I never feel virtuous—when I add it to the soil while planting or as a top dress
This old tale inspired aspects of my novel The New Moon's Arms. In the versions I found, the children at first discarded the bean pods and attempted to eat the stems. They appeared surprised to find them inedible. boingboing.net/2026/05/29/t...
Two green-skinned children appeared in a 12th-century English village
The girl said she came from a place called Saint Martin's Land, where the sun never rose, and everything sat in permanent twilight. She and a younger boy had been…
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This article is saying upwards of $970 million was paid out for Kenyans to take on the dangerous ground operations and that officers were using Google Translate to bridge communication gaps. 😮 #Haiti #publictheft #MultinationalSecuritySupport www.kenyans.co.ke/news/123485-...
Inside Struggles of Kenyan Officers in Haiti Despite Ksh127 Billion U.S. Backing
The Kenya-led MSS mission in Haiti has faced mounting criticism over legal, operational, financial, and geopolitical flaws, plus logistical and human rights issues.
kenyans.co.ke
I'm curious how much Kenya received to support Ayiti's occupation by the US. Seems an important number to keep on the ledger/in context.
k’eguro@keguro.blacksky.app · 2mo agoThe U.S. will give Kenya $13.5 million. To ebola us. We are so fucking cheap. Our lives are so incredibly disposable. And I will keep using ebola as a verb.
"France ran the third-largest slave trade, shipping ~1.4 million Africans to plantations whose sugar wealth built... Nantes and Bordeaux. Eliminating [the Code Noir] is the easy part [but] ~1.9 million people [still live in its former slave colonies which are] among its poorest territories."
k’eguro@keguro.blacksky.app · 2mo agoThat the Code Noir was officially repealed THIS YEAR should give us all a lot of pause. A lot of pause. www.france24.com/en/france/20... Do not say shit about slavery being in the past when its codes were STILL not yet legally repealed.
