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The book community is working together to fund an African small press to translate two novels. #BookSky
We need to close this. Very grateful for your help.
Still needed: $250 (USD)
Last donation/purchase: 11:00a EST / 18:00 SAST ($5)
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We need to close this. Very grateful for your help.
Still needed: $250 (USD)
Last donation/purchase: 11:00a EST / 18:00 SAST ($5)
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Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / We're overdue - let's rally this. / please see - please share / After nine months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn't Hu...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The book community is working together to fund an African small press to translate two novels. #BookSky
We need to close this. Very grateful for your help.
Still needed: $250 (USD)
Last donation/purchase: 11:00a EST / 18:00 SAST ($5)
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
We need to close this. Very grateful for your help.
Still needed: $250 (USD)
Last donation/purchase: 11:00a EST / 18:00 SAST ($5)
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
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a lot has been said about Jack Skellington as allegory for cultural appropriation (I definitely wasn't the first) but there's also a lot to be said about Jack Skellington as clueless tech billionaire
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
a lot has been said about Jack Skellington as allegory for cultural appropriation (I definitely wasn't the first) but there's also a lot to be said about Jack Skellington as clueless tech billionaire
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
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based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
August 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
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Today! I am so happy and proud that this is out in the world, and so grateful to my friends and co-editors @older.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social and all the amazing contributors to We Will Rise Again.
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Today! I am so happy and proud that this is out in the world, and so grateful to my friends and co-editors @older.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social and all the amazing contributors to We Will Rise Again.
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This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
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This is a wonderful, even spectacular, thread.
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
This is a wonderful, even spectacular, thread.
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I went to an "ojos" training tonight hosted by New Orleans DSA and Union Migrante and thought I'd pass on new things I learned:
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I went to an "ojos" training tonight hosted by New Orleans DSA and Union Migrante and thought I'd pass on new things I learned:
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
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Trazas estelares bajo la luna en ATCA - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/4xPUTB
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trazas estelares bajo la luna en ATCA - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/4xPUTB
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November 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
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Video - Deployment of Ingenuity Mars helicopter from Nasa’s Perseverance - 2021 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2kPYZWQ
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Video - Deployment of Ingenuity Mars helicopter from Nasa’s Perseverance - 2021 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2kPYZWQ
(always) got to be starting something
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
(always) got to be starting something
just checking that this GIF is Bsky-available <3
a baby yoda is holding a cup of coffee in his hands .
Alt: Grogu (also known as "baby yoda") is holding a cup in his hands; his clothes twinkle.
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
just checking that this GIF is Bsky-available <3
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This, on top of environmental collapse, is why you should refuse AI. Refuse it because it makes the world worse for everyone else except the oligarchy. Refuse it because it destroys your ability to think and make decisions, and refuse it because it creates mistrust in almost everything it touches.
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
This, on top of environmental collapse, is why you should refuse AI. Refuse it because it makes the world worse for everyone else except the oligarchy. Refuse it because it destroys your ability to think and make decisions, and refuse it because it creates mistrust in almost everything it touches.
i, a US-Canadian in Canada, keep seeing SM posts about the coast guard changing rules regarding certain tattoos, citing articles that all seem to he copying each other, but when i search for news, i find more articles about the Coast Guard saying this is false. misinformation campaign afoot?
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
i, a US-Canadian in Canada, keep seeing SM posts about the coast guard changing rules regarding certain tattoos, citing articles that all seem to he copying each other, but when i search for news, i find more articles about the Coast Guard saying this is false. misinformation campaign afoot?
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Not just because I'm writing a book on #BattlestarGalactica, but damn I wish this show was streaming right now (it's not! this is Not Good). Partly bec it's MORE relevant than ever, partly bec it fucking rules, mainly bec Laura Roslin shouting "I'M COMING FOR ALL OF YOU" is now my entire personality
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Not just because I'm writing a book on #BattlestarGalactica, but damn I wish this show was streaming right now (it's not! this is Not Good). Partly bec it's MORE relevant than ever, partly bec it fucking rules, mainly bec Laura Roslin shouting "I'M COMING FOR ALL OF YOU" is now my entire personality
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Newbie writers, when you make that all-important first sale, and you have the contract in your hands, please copy and paste the following for your response letter:
"No, you cannot have subsidiary rights."
You can thank me later.
"No, you cannot have subsidiary rights."
You can thank me later.
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Newbie writers, when you make that all-important first sale, and you have the contract in your hands, please copy and paste the following for your response letter:
"No, you cannot have subsidiary rights."
You can thank me later.
"No, you cannot have subsidiary rights."
You can thank me later.
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buckaroos know this classic way
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
buckaroos know this classic way
Zoe's Animal Rescue Society in Edmonton has emptied their funds taking in some animals who need expensive surgeries. They were slammed pretty hard this year, and [gestures wildly at the world] donations aren't meeting the demand.
Please share/help as you can.
www.zoesanimalrescue.org/donate/
Please share/help as you can.
www.zoesanimalrescue.org/donate/
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM