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Rika⁷

@commanderrika.blacksky.app

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Writer+Illustrator. She/Her. 💜 Blackness 💜 Books 💜 BTS 💜 Stories in Lightspeed, FIYAH, Strange Horizons, Fantasy, and Apparitions

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · Sep 1

Hi! I have a story out in Small Wonders today! This is a little horny gremlin of a tale and I hope you take a chance on it, if you're into words and whatnot.

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · Sep 1

What takes you out of time? And what is sweet enough to bring you back into it again? Read Marika Bailey's "Gifted and Talented" today and consider what moves you so that you could move others:

Gifted and Talented - Small Wonders

Being beyond time is a revolution against creation most bodies aren’t built to bear. It’ll kill you, that dark matter time.

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 20m

Thank God they're seven 😭

Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 36m

Obvious bald-faced lying is one of Seokjin's many love languages!

"Did you know hyung is a ping pong champion?!"

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 54m

Me every time someone is like "Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki so cutesie ootsy cozy wozy cottagecore"

First image: the little kid from Twilight Zone: The Movie, Joe Dante segment "It's a Good Life" saying "I'm wishing you into Cartoon Land"
Second image: the cursed boar god Nago from Studio Ghibli film Princess Mononoke, screaming in pain and fury as worms writhe from his flesh before he resumes trying to eviscerate every human he sees. This is one of the victim characters of the movie.

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Ashley Hankinstein Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 1h

Art friends: Here's a tip for getting rid of *a lot* of the AI slop in your Pinterest feed.

⭐Go into your account settings.
⭐Click the "Refine your recommendations" tab.
⭐Click the GenAI Interests subtab.
⭐TURN OFF EVERYTHING.

So far, my feed is *significantly* cleaner.

Screenshot of the Pinterest settings menu. The option "Refine your recommendations" is circled.

Screengrab of the Refine Your Recommendations tab in Pinterest's settings. The subtab GenAI Interests is circled.
Below, all options have been turned off.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1h

Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in urgent need of help right now--she lost her father recently, suffered damages to her home from the recent rains, & her mother's now in hospital. They have no insurance. She's a freelancer, & really needs help. Please share & donate.

Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives After Unforeseen Medical Expenses.

I'm a writer and editor, based out of Kolkata (India). Barely two months ago, my father passed away from cancer. My mother is presently very ill and hospitalized. The recent flooding and heavy rainfall also damaged a portion of our house. We don't have any insurance. I freelance full-time but sadly it doesn't pay enough, and I urgently need money for our healthcare, home repairs and to stay alive. Please circulate and donate if you can. No amount is too small. Thank you. UPI: archita.666-1@oksbi

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 16h

I mean, we could talk about who the founders considered human, and how we really are closer than ever to their idea of a perfect union...but then we have to talk about running a society based on a feel good set of platitudes and a carefully crafted mythos instead of dealing with reality...

The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 16h

Letter: How have we strayed so far from our Founders’ idea to provide “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” for every American?

Letter: Americans now live in a state of helplessness because of a few greedy men and women and a wanna-be king

Letter: How have we strayed so far from our Founders’ idea to provide “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” for every American?

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1h

But, you can’t tell normal people that the Republicans have gone so insane that they literally fly swastika flags in their offices, cause then they will think you’re the crazy one (and not entirely unwarranted given the press hides all the evidence of the above)

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14h

It’s basically an open secret in DC that most of the GOP staffer class is literal unabashed Nazis - everyone knows it - but you tell the average Joe that and they think you’re a lunatic because they just have ~~~~no experience with what’s going on in DC. The press actively hides it.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 1h

My phone doesn't want me to be sincere 😭

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 1h

It's the "at all times" that makes me want to lie in a shallow pool of my own tears.

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 1h

OMG HYUNG. IT SHOULD SAY HYUNG!

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 1h

Instead of "lying" it should say "hung" and I hate autocorrect so much!

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2h

One day y'all gon learn that trying to split hairs between aesthetic/ironic bigotry and bigotry-bigotry is a fool's errand.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 2h

These are the people that told us the racist jokes were dark humor. They said it was ironic racism. They literally are not going to accept anything anyone else says, because they still believe that white supremacy will protect them. So Marcotte is not alone and will never heed a single warning

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 2h

I see y'all arguing with Amanda Marcotte & let me crank up the wayback machine...she hung out with a bevy of white feminists who didn't think they were racist, they just thought BIPOC women should wait until all the other issues were solved. She's one of the reasons #solidarityisforwhitewomen exists

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 2h

They take such care of each other and care WITH each other. It drives me insane. And when I think of Seokjin being the foundation of caring as the way they interact with each other because he's lying and sets the mood...I will go entirely feral and start baying at the moon.

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 3h

You're never getting me back in a mass ever again (unless my grandma makes me go) but this pope guy has really good local parish priest energy.

"Today's mass will be quick so we can get home for the game."

"GO BIRDS!"

"Indeed, in Jesus's name we pray."

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 4h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Julia Lundman 🎃 @paintkatt.bsky.social · 3h

Coming up November 8th is the tenth annual Nucleus Portland Postcard Show! I have four postcards, an experiment in pink and green.

White moonflower with pink hawk moths and a beetle

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 3h

*tearing my office door off its hinges WITH MY TEETH*

Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 3h

He'd be really embarrassed and mopey about it and be like, "well we can just stay here together." 😭😭😭

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🫀輝 🔜 MCM London @daifei.bsky.social · 3h

#portfolioday hi im dahui let me draw you a crazy ass comic 🫡

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 4h

"republicans weren't racist in early aughts"

[laughs in post-9/11-brown-person]

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Truekook⁷ @truekook.blacksky.app · 3h

And even the trainings tiptoe around "racism" and "bigotry" with "unconscious bias" as a catch all, and don't address behavior, harm and accountability. Going around their knees to get to their elbows to make the worst people comfortable.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

To the point, a workplace training is an intolerable imposition upon their freedom, but they’re totally not like “y’know a Klansman or anything.”

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 3h

The look back to make sure the ducklings are following behind! Joonie, you never would've gotten Eurydice outta hell. 😭

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