River Blackearth
@riverblackearth.bsky.social
Waters that wash salt to the sea. Whispers of leaves unfolding. A planet awake and aware. Writer. Scholar. Ecowomanist killjoy. Alchemist. Owl. Dark as night. Black as pitch. MA English Literature. PhD candidate Environmental Studies.
Just to remind you fuckers who the fuck you’re dealing with in these skeets. 😎😉
The Trump flags are tattered now.
Kentucky Lantern@kentuckylantern.com · 2h agoThis is an important breaking story published through our collaboration with the Appalachian News Exchange, written by @justinhicks.lpm.org and Howard Berkes. Appalachia’s black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners’ protections stall kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/05/a...
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me.
We told you so. Trump deploying agents to voting stations in Detroit, Hamtramck, Lansing, & East Lansing. Keep these numbers on you in case you observe any interference, intimidation, or other bullshit. Election protection hotline (non-profit, non-partisan): 866-687-8683
Heads up: The Trump Justice Department says it's monitoring polling sites in four Michigan cities today: Detroit, Lansing, East Lansing, and Hamtramck.
Yesterday's temperature topped 105° in Fresno. "Carlos" and team were working in the watermelons. "Our team is paid piece rate. The more boxes we fill the more we make. The person closest to the truck has the hardest job so we switch off. This is exhausting work." #WeFeedYou
Goodnight, Hookland.
Ship in a Bottle: Sailing Miniature
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hookland.bsky.social@hookland.bsky.social · 2d agoGoodnight from the passengers of the glass-bottled SS Hookland Star, wondering why they never reach their intended port. Goodnight from Jemima Wooton, stretched full of wicked dreams of how to punish her brother for immolating her favourite Sindy doll. Goodnight from Hookland.
Goodnight from the passengers of the glass-bottled SS Hookland Star, wondering why they never reach their intended port. Goodnight from Jemima Wooton, stretched full of wicked dreams of how to punish her brother for immolating her favourite Sindy doll. Goodnight from Hookland.
The news story about Donald Trump being desperate for immunity for tax fraud & the news story about Donald Trump being kicked to the curb by Capital One for widespread money laundering are RELATED.
Tell me more about how Black people and immigrants are parasites, as white supremacy’s fattest white grub feasts on your coffers.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d agoI'm just going to keep screaming this until I'm hoarse, but until Trump the norm -- for 50 years -- was that sitting presidents had their taxes audited by the IRS and released to the public to show they were clean. But Trump refused repeatedly, and sued when his return was leaked, and now ... this
The secret to making the creamiest and umami-est vegetarian ramen is TAHINI
STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REFLECTING POOL INFIGHTING
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Not only do they make candy, and donate thousands of pounds of it to food banks, but they love doggos too?!? Time to order another box of See’s caramel lollipops!
15/10 Foundation@15outof10.org · 6d agoThroughout August, @seescandies.bsky.social is celebrating DOGust: a universal birthday for rescue dogs with unknown birthdays. To mark the occasion, they’re helping sponsor the care of dogs like Bernie. Visit their shop in August and you can donate to our foundation at checkout 🤗
Throughout August, @seescandies.bsky.social is celebrating DOGust: a universal birthday for rescue dogs with unknown birthdays. To mark the occasion, they’re helping sponsor the care of dogs like Bernie. Visit their shop in August and you can donate to our foundation at checkout 🤗
The great historian Robert A. Gross, author of the prize-winning, The Minutemen and Their World, has written a historically-informed, nuanced rejoinder to J.D. Vance’s use of U.S. history as a tool of blood-and-soil nationalism. theamericanscholar.org/gratitude-is...
Gratitude Isn’t Everything - The American Scholar
The revolutionary Patriots owed much to their forefathers, but their fight for universal rights embraced a wider mission
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This is exactly why they want us to believe their machines are sentient. First, because that implies its creators have godlike powers (and should be worshipped) and, second, so that it is the machine, and its “decisionmaking,” that caused a crisis, not those who built the machine or fed it prompts.
Moira Rose: It's A Scam
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vortex_egg@vortexegg.com · 4d agoThey are trying to use AI as an ‘agency tumbler’, like a cryptocurrency tumbler which is a mechanism that attempts to obscure the originator of crypto transactions by using a disguising function (typically transaction pooling) for purposes of money laundering. This is responsibility laundering.
Happy 150th Birthday Colorado! As a proud product of Douglas County public schools — who has called Colorado home since I was 6-years old — I can confidently say we live in the very best state in the country. Grateful to serve the people of our incredible state! 🏔️ 🏔️ 🏔️
just incredible to watch the US president take Iran's side when my state's water systems are under cyberattack
Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished.
Today’s hare was cooling her ears in the breeze 🌾
99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
Live Photo basically ruined most of my photos from the Kurt Vile concert the other night. I still managed some gems but WHY DO I HAVE TO FIGHT MY PHONE TO TAKE A BASIC PHOTOGRAPH?! “Here’s another purple blur, girl! Welcome to the future!”
Kimberly Guilfoyle: The Best Is Yet To Come
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 6d agoWhy does my phone repeatedly turn live photos back on? What is apple gaining from all this?