I am so excited that we are 30% funded after just one day!! 😭 This is only my second fundraiser and I'm just astonished what we can achieve together. Thank you to everyone who's donated or shared!

Violet Fox 🦊@violetbfox.bsky.social · 2d ago

A friend moved to a new state for a job and was laid off after just three months. He's had a hard time of things for the last few years—please help me raise funds to help him through an extremely bad time. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

I wish people liked to uplift and encourage as much as they like to discard and condemn.

I'm going to teach my Black Feminist (Insurgent) Politics course this fall online for the public. There will be tuition costs on a sliding scale. We will work on core concepts, writing, and reading. Stay tuned as I plan the course and release more info.

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

can’t believe our current all-ages literacy crisis is making me a little nostalgic for the pretentious “we publish experimental poetry chapbooks and have strong opinions on Melville and the 1800s fur trade” Literature Boys of my college years in the late 2000s/early 2010s.

You know what I miss about Obama? He was unapologetically smart.

The trope of workforce readiness is taking over universities in a million ways, but the trope is much more useful as a disciplinary tactic of staff, faculty and students than it is for actual workplace readiness.

I keep thinking about the public pools during desegregation ex Isabel Wilkerson brought up in Caste. Rather than have integrated public pools, communities closed them after fed govt intervention req desegregation. Rather than benefit from a shared public good white supremacy says fuck everyone.

The medical guidance on dealing with Covid has never changed for immunocompromised or high-risk people. It has always been to wear a mask in crowded and indoor spaces. People will literally yell at kids with cancer and the rest of polite society goes “oh well, personal responsibility…”

People are complaining that for two hours in the early morning on one single day, the Exploratorium in San Francisco will require respirator masks. Never mind that this allows disabled and immune compromised kids to safely share in something they’re otherwise excluded from. Fuck them kids.

YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

The artist and his work.

Chicago, IL: Archives Associate, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

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Space Force Commander Bone Spurs@sfcaptbonespurs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

OBAMA’S DEAL WITH IRAN WAS AN ACTUAL DEAL AND DIDN’T COST ANYTHING

My point is, as we have been saying it is going to take white people, WM in particular, to fix this. Stop looking to us. These are your kids. They are growing in your houses.

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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧@quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 4d ago

You are at a murder mystery dinner party when the power suddenly goes off and comes back on. Someone is dead for real and the murder weapon is in your hand. What do you do?

heard a news guy musing about how to avoid shark bites and my dude the sharks are not leaping out from the shadows in parking garages, stay the fuck outta the water

It turns out I'm of an age where a song can spend 19 weeks at Number One without me hearing it.

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Age verification = show us your ID to use a website That’s what people aren’t hearing or thinking about.

It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates

I was just thinking about how "you need to become an influencer to sell books" is ruining everything

Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 5d ago

I hate how what I need to do is write books, and yet I keep thinking, "Maybe if I wore increasingly weird glasses and sat in front of my taxidermy with a bubble pipe and did unhinged houseplant reviews I could go viral and sell some books." Doing the work doesn't feel like enough, some days.

damage to my community that they WILLINGLY facilitated by helping the orange demon & republicans gain power…TWICE. Stop telling us it’s about class when the folks always taking the most heat are BLACK. IDGAF about PAC money until it’s rolled back everywhere because we can’t keep being outspent.

My brother, by the free sea we will embrace, and know no pain again @oftentimesjackback.bsky.social flower power tiny.cc/mena

the hasta la vista subtitle here is killing me

And other places. This regime has been targeting millions of people for death across Africa + Asia. It's 100% fair to point out how quiet the left has been about prior genocides outside of Gaza AND ALSO how certain folks refuse to take accountability for voting decisions that have launched new ones.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last wk.

Just wondering, where all the “say it’s a genocide” folks have been when it comes to Sudan and Myanmar?

HUGE congrats to my comrade @horbinski.bsky.social for her EISNER AWARD for her fantastic book, Manga's First Century!

Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989

2026 Eisner Award Nominee--Best Academic/Scholarly WorkA comprehensive English-language history of a beloved medium, Manga's First Century tells the story of the artists and fans who built a cultural ...

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