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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 25d

In case y'all wanna take things further the app 'No Thanks!' is a great resource for businesses globally to boycott due to their funding of the genocide in Palestine. I've used this app for a little over a year I think, and Disney been on the list.

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Relooted by Nyamakop @nyamakop.co.za · 2h

We’re a couple of days into Steam Next Fest! Gameplay of Relooted is being broadcasted on our store page 🥳

#indiegame #SteamNextFest

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 6h

This may explain the low chum Salmon runs we've had the last couple of years. "The team’s analyses show the Salmon River is chock-full of metals—including aluminum, cadmium, copper, iron, nickel & zinc—at concentrations above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s safe limits for aquatic life."

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 1d

Alaska’s once-clear Salmon River has turned orange and toxic, linked to sulfide mineral weathering from thawing permafrost. The study suggests metal pollution may be contributing to salmon declines.

In Smithsonian Magazine: https://ow.ly/4ShQ50Xb9x2

In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Ii3E50Xb9w4

The Salmon River in northwest Alaska.
Image credit: Ray Koleser

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 4h

Happy birthday!!!💖

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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 2d

Black Speculative Fiction Month Day 13. I missed some days bc of #NYCC so here’s a Black speculative fiction bookstack. #blackbooksky #bookrecs

A Black speculative fiction bookstack featuring the following titles:
Icon: A Hero's Welcome graphic novel
Dawn by Octavia Butler
This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings
Parable of the Sower graphic novel by John Jennings
Leon: The Extraordinary by Jamar Nicholas
Grand Slam Romance graphic novel by Ollie Hicks
Devour graphic novel
Bitter Root graphic novel by David Walker

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Zodi Mamuwalde @zodi777.blacksky.app · 3d

Y’all! This brightened my weekend so much. I haven’t had time to scout books for my #LittleFreeLibrary lately. But some kind soul from Jack & Jill left a stack with adorable bookmarks for me. This was incredibly sweet. I know the neighborhood kids will appreciate it. #LFL #BookLove #BlackBookSky

A few books and bookmarks that a local Jack and Jill chapter donated to OP’s Little Free Library

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, hello

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 3d

Yayayayayaayy!!!

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION

2025 Winner Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works - THYME TRAVELLERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Sonia Sulaiman

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Suyi @suyidavies.com · 3d

Holy shit, what????

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 4d

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com

2025 Winner Outstanding Novella: LOST ARK DREAMING by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

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Claire Linney Author @clairelinney.bsky.social · 4d

Day 12 of my month of Black kids books. This is The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild Palmer. A wonderful, slightly surreal fantasy adventure set in a hidden world beneath London. Cecilia finds herself working to save her new friends from a tyrannical overlord. Original and brilliant.

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Cookie Lyon @lesslee24.blacksky.app · 4d

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 4d

This is so cute!!! 💖🥹

Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 4d

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 4d

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Joi ❤️🔱🖤 @joialexandra.bsky.social · 4d

✨Black bookish brands ✨ #BlackBookSky

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Cheyenne Ewulu @cheyennethegeek.bsky.social · 4d

Hello Bluesky! We have 12 days to help fund my indie comic book and could use a little push! It’s funny and QUEER! If you have anything to give, please consider backing our kickstarter! We need a little over $18k!! Sharing is also caring! 🙇🏾‍♀️

www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

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Markayla W. @mkwhess.bsky.social · 4d

🌸 Inventory Update 🌸
Canada Post is now on a rotating strike, so I will be able to send packages off again! Orders placed before and during the strike will get tracking whether it was paid for or not 😊
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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 4d

As you should! 👏🏾

Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 4d

Absolutely love this 👏🏾👏🏾

hello kitty is singing into a microphone while wearing a red bow .

Alt: hello kitty is singing into a microphone

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 5d

When they said Black women don’t buy books… yes we do!!!! This is the line to get into the book event…the event is in two hours #Blackbooksky

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 5d

Omg I hope it gets to you soon! 👏🏾

Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 5d

Wtf!? Not surprised of course but still...what the actual fuck

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 5d

They called the police on us…it is just a book event..white man pissed that we just want to get books and be around other Black women…he literally took across the street and call the people…

a man with a beard is wearing a green jacket and white shirt

ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a green jacket and white shirt

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 5d

Finished The Possession of Alba Díaz earlier this week! Loved it! 👏🏾 I really liked the lore and povs we got in this story. It felt slow at times but it didn't bother me, made certain elements sink in. #BookSky #HispanicHeritageMonth

My hand holding a library hardcover copy of The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas. The cover has a woman in a red dress leaned against a wall looking distressed. Behind the book you can see a green journal and my kindle which displays the cover for The Yeild by Tara June Winch.

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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 6d

It’s October 10th and the only people I still see posting Latinx Heritage Month posts are…Latinx creators.

FYI—Latinx Heritage Month doesn’t end until October 15th.

This wasn’t just a fizzle, it was a fall off a cliff for support of Latinx authors this LHM 1/2

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 5d

Full moon has me feeling refreshed!! Shoutout out to my brother for being like "you got any crystals you need to charge up" haha.

A selfie of me, I have longish locs. I'm a light skinned Black woman. I have large bright blue glasses on and am wearing a green and creme headscarf. Being me is a large body of water and a sandy beachy area.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #WorldMentalHealthDay 💚
Really thankful you decided to stay, my friend! You are enough ✨

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Taking a Page From ‘Reading Rainbow’: How Mychal ‘The Librarian’ Threets Turned His Pain Into Purpose

Viral star Threets gets honest about his new role hosting the iconic children’s series, surviving dark days, and finding purpose in the new ‘Reading Rainbow.’

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