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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ

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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · Jul 2

I'll be explaining Sundown Ohio like this until further notice:

(here's where to read it
ko-fi.com/sundownohio)

alignment chart with various states. Ohio sits in the Chaotic Evil placement

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 12h

Indigenous folks: Columbus was a rapist and a criminal who was brought back across the Atlantic in chains because even the Spanish didn’t support what he got up to in the New World. We should not celebrate him with a holiday.

MAGA:

two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` it 's anti italian discrimination ''

ALT: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` it 's anti italian discrimination ''

media.tenor.com

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Bangii Gekek @bangiigekek.bsky.social · 12h

"Never had we so just cause to exclaim in the words of the Prophet Jeremiah; O that our heads were waters, and our eyes fountains of tears, that we might weep for the effusion
of so much Innocent blood. These are enormities to make the Angels mourn and bewail the loss of so many departed souls"

Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 23h

Quick reminder that Christopher Columbus was considered a vile, repulsive, evil man even in his own time. His actions as governor of Spain's New World colonies landed him in prison for his cruelty and violence.

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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · 12h

love him for that 😂

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Get fucked, Jay 🖕🏾 #FreeLink @qatapult.bsky.social · 3d

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

I’m so tired of empathy that essentially just means

“ I get to pretend that allowing all sorts of atrocities is okay because eventually white paternalism will win out”

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HARMED IN THE MEANTIME

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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · 12h

agreed.
using other people as pavement on your life journey is actually not cool.
life is not a sandbox full of NPCs.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

Believing other people are your “practice/ learning experiences” is the essence of abuse .

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 12h

Yep.

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Dec 17

Imagine a human man given the choice to be host to an alien child. On the one hand the "pregnancy" provides immunity, longetivity gains. On the other hand, he would be risking death.

Bloodchild is so full of ideas and provocations.

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Dec 17

Someone was just saying that science fiction was all xyz, and Octavia Butler is one of many Black sci-fi writers whose storied don't fit that mold. "Bloodchild" pushes the animal-human, male-female, parasite-symbiont divides. It speaks of colonialism.. Aliens resembling insects use humans to breed.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 12h

Yep. And the family unit is a throuple.

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Oct 24

This is the only cover of Octavia E. Butler's "Dawn" that I recognize and acknowledge. That one doesn't even make sense in the story.
Lilith, the main character, is Black.

Cover of Octavia E Butler's Dawn with Blavk woman, Lilith, on the front

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

If you've been thinking "How are they gonna run their farms after Trump arrests their workers?"

don't worry, they planned ahead for that 💀

youtu.be/zdWrHb8b-c0

ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

youtu.be

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 12h

It would SEEM LIKE being for anti-slavery measures in US farmworker regulations would be an easy choice. AND YET...

There are so many people who are walking around thinking they would've been helping runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad. What are they doing right now?

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♡ Kate's haunted emporium 👻 🎃 🇬🇹~ FREE 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @katespeace.bsky.social · 12h

do not forget how clear the zionists' aims were for the further colonization of Palestine and the complete annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza. Here's one such tweet I took a screenshot from in December 2023. This is a genocide.

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לוחמינו בעזה, רק התיישבות תיחשב ניצחון

Translated from Hebrew by Google

Our fighters in Gaza, only settlement will be considered a victory

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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · 12h

Faulkner's "Sound & Fury" does an extremely good job of explaining the mindsets and self victimhood of plantation/ people owning white people a few generations post Emancipation.
it's uncomfortable to read bc of the level of violence and delusion the central family held onto..but its real

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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 12h

Y'all.

For Indigenous Peoples Day pick up this amazing book about Chahta plant medicine coauthored by Summer Wesley

microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...

Chahta Alikchi: The Choctaw Herbal

Plant medicine is real medicine and it always has been. Chahta imaiyvhohmi (It’s the way of the Chahta). This is the first modern exploration of the plant...

microcosmpublishing.com

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 12h

The ongoing ICE raids in cities like Chicago have reminded of slave catchers kidnapping Black people in free states to bring them back to slave states. This illuminating video from Sarah Taber situates the raids as part of a larger rightwing attack on free labor.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWr...

ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

www.youtube.com

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 14h

Very cool special guy right on the trail at Oak Openings today!!

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Indige Tea 🦬🧡 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · 14h

Me: *exists Indigenously*
Some asshole: *posts a stereotypically racist ai picture on Indigenous Peoples' Day*
Me: *breaks the 7th wall to ask if the universe can smite people*

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 14h

Really terrible news which is that little Masa died from her illness 💔

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 10d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Baraa. Baraa is the mother of 3 children Masa, 6, Ibrahim, 4 and Maha, 7 months. Tragically Maha was killed after a nearby bombing caused gasses to overwhelm her little lungs. Masa is in the hospital because of kidney issues from malnutrition.

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Solarpumpkin Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.bsky.social · 13h

Hunks of all genders welcome

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Frybread Riot @napeskanskan.bsky.social · 13h

An old split photo in black and white. The top, a photograph of Six Grandfathers mountain labeled "Mt. Rushmore before the monument was started." The bottom, a photograph of finished Mt. Rushmore - it's ugly.

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palsy 🧉 @hey-its-qalsy.bsky.social · 15h

“i need a bad bitch” wrong, my friend. you need a good bitch. a bitch most morally righteous. an esteemed member of the hoes templar. basically you need a really cunty paladin is what i’m saying

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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · 13h

exactly that's why reading books out loud to children is so crucial!
literacy increases with the combo

Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · 13h

RIGHT. now read Bloodchild the short story!!!

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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · 13h

Last One: some People hate audio books because they've always had pride in being able to read fast- but not well. Oral storytelling works better for our comprehension, which is why it matters.
it's also ableist to hate on making things accessible

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · 13h

the Xenogenesis Chronicles is Octavia Butler's best work but yall cant handle polyamorous alien fucking yet, and thats a damn shame cause her freaky alien stuff is soooooooo good

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · 13h

Zora Neale Hurston did more for literature and preservation of Black folk culture than anyone before or after her, and if you haven't read her work- yes you have you just don't recognize it

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat