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Ur fav' chronically ill unfriendly black hottie. Black, Queer, Nerdy, Poly Elected Disability Councelor of the #SkityCouncil. #BlackSkityCouncil #WeTheSkeeple 💙📚 She/Her/Elle | 32 y.o. | Picrew by Naylisa

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MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 29d

Dear white people,

As autumn is unfurling its colours, I regret to announce you that I fully will appropriate your culture for the coming months.

If you see me and wonder why my house and me are so Pinterest-Utah-Mum coded, worry about yourself. And pass me the Pumpkin Spice.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 9h

Dropping a quiet reminder and sturdy hug for anyone in the trenches. 💜💜💜

October Is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month: Honoring the Babies We Remember and the Families Who Carry Them — The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality

Every October, we pause to recognize Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month—a time to remember the babies who are no longer here and to honor the thousands of families who experience loss each year...

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 11h

I know my alt text is far from perfect but c'mon, if you are going to use it at least type in something more than "A car" "A portrait" "A funny little extra joke that is funny but also not what alt text is for"

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 1d

On my way home I find myself briefly behind a woman with the same hair, way of dressing, shape and even walk of someone I loved hugely who died a long time ago. She crosses the street and I wish we were going the same way to give me more time in a world where I have not lost her.

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SWIIRL @thatonegirlkendra.blacksky.app · 21h

Please, you deserve to grow old, it is your birthright

🎃🕸️Deadly Siete 🔪 @bigmamageneral.blacksky.app · 22h

Black men, we love you and we want you to grow old. Please go get checked out regularly!

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MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 21h

This is heartbreaking!

MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you ♡
It was a rough day. I definitely wouldn't recommend Athenes, even off season, for solo disabled travelers.

But luckily, it's not the same everywhere.

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MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, Athens is already super chaotic by itself. Now adding the fact that the city is widely inaccessible and so hard to navigate on crutches, & the museum didn't have audioguides I could use while walking, I was very much on edge and at my limit.
That woman was the last drop & made me break down 😅

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MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 21h

Your little sister had great taste!
I actually got to "adopt" (aka sponsor) one when I was a child in Kinshasa. I was under the impression it would come back home with us and live in my grandma's garden. You can imagine my sadness when I realised they were just visiting and would leave the city 😭

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 1d

4 days left for any artists looking to apply to We've Always Been Here! 💕

Here's a more detailed post on our mission and the book's theme:

Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 3d

We're tired of LGBTQ+ content being censored.

Tired of people pretending that being queer or trans is a new "fad", and not something that’s existed, perfectly naturally, for as long as people have been around.

Check out our mission, and join us in fighting censorship. 🏳️‍🌈
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Rainbow stripes with a white text box over it, and an image below of a person holding the intersectional pride flag over their back. The text box reads: "As a team of two trans (Sapling is nonbinary and Felix is two-spirit!) husbands, we’ve felt exhausted online lately, with censorship closing in on us all. Queer content is being banned, restricted, under fire, and we’re sick of it. So we’re creating something offline, a physical art book, a collaborative community project. Something to give us all hope. Something to connect us through our many cultures, all across the world. With our first zine, “We’ve Always Been Here,” we aim to show just this: that we’ve always been a part of history, and we’ll always be a part of the future too."

Rainbow stripes with a white text box, and an image below of two Black men getting close, with one kissing the other on the cheek. The text box reads: "'We’ve Always Been Here' focuses on the 'unseen' queer history of the world. There’s plenty of names we all know of real people who have made their mark: Marsha P. Johnson, Alan Turing, Audre Lorde, Oscar Wilde, Frida Kahlo, and many, many more. But what about those that didn’t ‘go down in history’? What about the woman down the street from your great grandmother, who lived with her ‘best friend’ for decades until she passed? What about the medieval king who kept his lover secret his whole life? What about the cowboys who used the wide, open ranges with no one else around to keep their relationships a secret?"

Rainbow stripes with a white textbox, and below are three circular images of two Korean women walking together, two African men laughing as they talk, and two Indian women chatting and laughing. The text box reads: "Our zine focuses on this, on the everyday people that no one knew about, that no one wrote about. The people that modern society wants to pretend never existed. LGBTQ+ people just living their lives, throughout all of history and all of the world. We want to show one simple thing to the world with this collaborative zine: We’ve always been here. And we always will be."

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CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinians from its jails as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal, prompting emotional scenes of families reunited with loved ones, some of whom had spent decades behind bars.

Tears and cheers in West Bank and Gaza as nearly 2,000 Palestinians are released from Israeli prisons | CNN

Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinians from its jails on Monday as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal, prompting emotional scenes of families reunited with loved ones, some of whom had spent decades behind...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

going viral here is worse than it used to be on twitter because half of the replies will just be pure pedantry

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · Sep 16

the long 19th century was a time when racism was an adventure. in that age when yt ppl were at their most tricknological, quirked up kkkrackas were launching new expeditions in caucasity at unprecedented levels. this is

the yakubian years: episode i
the dreadnought hoax

the national portrait gallery photograph of the dreadnought hoaxers. the portrait is labeled "the princes of abyssinia" and is surrounded by notes identifying the titular "princes". the phrase "bunga bunga gedelika" is written at the bottom of the portrait.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Rest in peace, Miss Major.

We will carry the bricks forward.

ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 1d

I know I'm technically a day late in posting this now, but for Indigenous People's Day I recommend everyone read "The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America" by Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz. Absolute eye-opener on things like blood quantum, tribal registry, belonging, etc.

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

The cover for "The Indian Card: Who Gets to be Native in America" by Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz. The background is a faded, old historical record of some identity document, with a bright central graphic over it that looks like a lightly abstract mix between a flower motif and a burning flame.

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MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 1d

In today's episode of "Why people are ableist dickheads?": a woman loudly complaining and making fun of my crutches and the noise they're making. We were in a museum in Greece, so her doing so in French was hella stupid given that I understood it all, and so did the kind man that scolded her.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 1d

Also, World #Okapi day is on the 18th of October.

Show love to the Okapis, show love to the D.R.Congo 🇨🇩

6480 ☜ @6480.bsky.social · 2d

monochrome ink drawing of a person and an okapi sitting at the edge of the ocean. They are resting with a rusted, barnacled broadsword on the sand beside them.

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MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 1d

Do you know how uncommon it is to see art with okapis?! Omg! I'm so so so so in love with this!

6480 ☜ @6480.bsky.social · 2d

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MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand.

Cinnamon Rolls

Seeking Justice

Bohemian Rhapsody (No, I didn't copy @aielcakes.bsky.social but I very much agree)

Cakes de los muertos 💀, ETQ @aielcakes.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand.

Yogurt.

Neverending Story

Bohemian Rhapsody. (I like Queen, don't fucking go there. But that song makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.)

The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Peppers that aren't hidden.

Not a movie, but it'll be a long time before I'm able to rewatch Andor s2e8 (complimentary)

While we're on Star Wars: that iconic opening theme 😅

MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 2d

Some things are beyond your control. And others are one plane ticket away!
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MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 2d

As you should!!! Unless you have kids. In which case you have to save up for extracurricular activities or only God knows what...
But also, being a parent looks fun? Like you'll be broke but enjoying yourself mainly?
Idk, it's so hard to fathom😅

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d

Don't forget that your homeless neighbors, the people living in the streets & out of their cars around you that you see every day, are part of your real world community.

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MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 2d

Sending you a DM :)

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MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 2d

On the one hand, I've always wanted to be a mum. On the other hand, the D.I.N.K lifestyle currently has me in a bubble bath in Greece with the Acropolis in the background.

Choices choices...

Low quality photo of the Acropolis illuminated at night.

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MyaPocalypse @myaia.bsky.social · 2d

hey there!
Digital marketing is also the job that pays me, if you'd like me to take a look with a fresh pair of eyes or help brainstorm other CRM avenues, I'm more than happy to lend a hand

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