Barbie Devyndarbė
@katchin05.blacksky.app
brown glass bottle full of shavings from the sun🌅 Black magic in a cheetah print coat. I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
practitioner of radical hospitality 🍞🌹 avid traveler. cat lady 🐈⬛🐈⬛, DINK & #childfree fun auntie. general enthusiast. #AuDHD. 🍉🇵🇸🇸🇩
practitioner of radical hospitality 🍞🌹 avid traveler. cat lady 🐈⬛🐈⬛, DINK & #childfree fun auntie. general enthusiast. #AuDHD. 🍉🇵🇸🇸🇩
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I really just wanna talk about the Sims and where to get lunch on my next trip. I’m tired.
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“We don’t just want ICE out. We want our city back & all of the people who call it home.”
In Minneapolis, community care is the model for resistance, Anna Simonton reports. Locals from all walks of life are using whatever skills & resources we have to stand up to Trump’s deportation forces.
In Minneapolis, community care is the model for resistance, Anna Simonton reports. Locals from all walks of life are using whatever skills & resources we have to stand up to Trump’s deportation forces.
In Minneapolis, community care is the model for resistance
Locals from all walks of life are using whatever skills and resources we have to stand up to Trump’s deportation forces
prismreports.org
February 16, 2026 at 4:25 PM
“We don’t just want ICE out. We want our city back & all of the people who call it home.”
In Minneapolis, community care is the model for resistance, Anna Simonton reports. Locals from all walks of life are using whatever skills & resources we have to stand up to Trump’s deportation forces.
In Minneapolis, community care is the model for resistance, Anna Simonton reports. Locals from all walks of life are using whatever skills & resources we have to stand up to Trump’s deportation forces.
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I adore the abrupt tonal shift in this from idealistic desires to the difficult path to get there...
February 1, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I adore the abrupt tonal shift in this from idealistic desires to the difficult path to get there...
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Langston Hughes (1943)
February 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Langston Hughes (1943)
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I love when yall (Black women) use blush. It always looks amazing.
February 15, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I love when yall (Black women) use blush. It always looks amazing.
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Today is a good day to follow news outlets that explicitly disallow Generative AI slop:
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
February 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Today is a good day to follow news outlets that explicitly disallow Generative AI slop:
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
February 16, 2026 at 12:16 PM
A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
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“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.”
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
February 16, 2026 at 12:13 PM
“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.”
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
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"...and not rely on santa court daddy to sort everything out for us. It hasn't so far and it will continue not to."
i wish those solely/mainly concerned with voting learn this, too
i wish those solely/mainly concerned with voting learn this, too
What does this mean we should do? Everything.
We just have to do everything we can to protect people, pressure the other 2 branches of govt, and build society and community differently - and not rely on santa court daddy to sort everything out for us. It hasn't so far and it will continue not to.
We just have to do everything we can to protect people, pressure the other 2 branches of govt, and build society and community differently - and not rely on santa court daddy to sort everything out for us. It hasn't so far and it will continue not to.
February 16, 2026 at 4:01 PM
"...and not rely on santa court daddy to sort everything out for us. It hasn't so far and it will continue not to."
i wish those solely/mainly concerned with voting learn this, too
i wish those solely/mainly concerned with voting learn this, too
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it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters
My god do we need UBI
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet
Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.
www.nbcnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:56 AM
it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters
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Absolutely right. Like Chris, I resent the framing that European governments are learning this from the US. It’s totally routine for hundreds of black African people to drown in the Mediterranean when trying to reach Europe. The EU, and its homegrown structural racism, enabled that all by itself.
Rather obviously so. European governments are closer to the Trumpists in practice than people would like to think.
EU’s deportations plan risks ICE-style enforcement, rights groups warn
Crackdown on undocumented people could lead to home raids, surveillance and racial profiling, 75 organisations say
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Absolutely right. Like Chris, I resent the framing that European governments are learning this from the US. It’s totally routine for hundreds of black African people to drown in the Mediterranean when trying to reach Europe. The EU, and its homegrown structural racism, enabled that all by itself.
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Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
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Finally, my account has been reopened.
Thank you to everyone who showed support and took the time to speak up and write. You can follow me here.
Thank you to everyone who showed support and took the time to speak up and write. You can follow me here.
palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.
![Tamer Nahed 𓂆🇵🇸
@Tamer_Alnoaizy
BlueSky is one of the worst platforms I have ever dealt with. Within seconds of creating a second account, after my first one was shut down just two days after it was created, my account was closed again. This happened despite the fact that I hadn’t posted anything or followed anyone. I was only in the process of adding a profile photo, yet I received an email claiming that my account was “spam” and that it was “causing harm.” What kind of logic is this?
The painful truth is that the account was shut down the moment it became clear it was created from inside Gaza. It seems we are no longer allowed to write or speak about what is happening to us here. They are not afraid of content itself, but of our voices and the reality we carry with us.
Millions are spent to silence these voices and to erase the truth. I am exhausted by this platform and by how our photos and videos, which document real suffering, are treated as “violations of community standards,” as if pain itself has become a crime.
What is happening is not simple moderation or policy enforcement. It is an attempt to erase our existence and bury the truth. And honestly, this is shameful and unbearably painful.
[the original poster has included two screenshots showing the email from bluesky admin informing him that his account has been taken down for being 'spammy, inauthentic or disruptive to users'. it's the standard boilerplate you get when they take moderation action.]
2:45 PM · Feb 10, 2026
https://twitter.com/Tamer_Alnoaizy/status/2021234178461704409](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2l6seozmjsqc4kfukjejat77/bafkreiga45xjdal6lfcqt2zmambaymeoelxafbrlt7fi2nmoahpbqj3cja@jpeg)
February 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Finally, my account has been reopened.
Thank you to everyone who showed support and took the time to speak up and write. You can follow me here.
Thank you to everyone who showed support and took the time to speak up and write. You can follow me here.
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I'm not trying to add snark. I keep hearing versions of this and think it's useful to consider.
Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is true that the lower courts are working. That forcing lawyers for immigrants to prove 4,400 times that the .gov breaking the law is the system working. +
Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is true that the lower courts are working. That forcing lawyers for immigrants to prove 4,400 times that the .gov breaking the law is the system working. +
February 16, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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This was Stephen Miller's platform when he ran in his high school's student body election.
youtu.be/lcMydq6vGW8?...
youtu.be/lcMydq6vGW8?...
October 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This was Stephen Miller's platform when he ran in his high school's student body election.
youtu.be/lcMydq6vGW8?...
youtu.be/lcMydq6vGW8?...
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this is me when I forget da brat and lisaraye are sisters.
I totally forgot that Nia Long and Sommore are related. They’re sisters and share the same dad, but they don’t have that close sisterly bond.
February 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
this is me when I forget da brat and lisaraye are sisters.
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Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana
Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the...
www.propublica.org
February 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
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liberal walking into the car dealership: i want the second shittiest car you have. i will buy it for literally any price
February 16, 2026 at 2:39 AM
liberal walking into the car dealership: i want the second shittiest car you have. i will buy it for literally any price
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Per usual, read the whole thread. And like pay attention to the care to separate out various aspects of how the Epstein orbit affected *her* (and the structural factors Epstein exploited). It’s not instead of Epstein’s most horrific crimes but it’s in addition to.
I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had
It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis
It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis
Lee Smolin pauses working relationship with Perimeter Institute after being named in Epstein files
Lee Smolin has been asked to “pause” his work by the Perimeter Institute as they review ties to Jeffrey Epstein
www.therecord.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Per usual, read the whole thread. And like pay attention to the care to separate out various aspects of how the Epstein orbit affected *her* (and the structural factors Epstein exploited). It’s not instead of Epstein’s most horrific crimes but it’s in addition to.
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To my colleagues in science, especially those who like me enjoy multiple directions of privilege: read this whole thread.
Read it several times.
Keep thinking of it.
Let this specific sentence change your behaviour: say something.
Read it several times.
Keep thinking of it.
Let this specific sentence change your behaviour: say something.
So we can condemn the individuals involved but we should notice all the individuals who join them in not saying something when they hear and see racist, sexist, transphobic etc comments
My professional memories are full of them, and most aren’t in the Epstein files
My professional memories are full of them, and most aren’t in the Epstein files
February 16, 2026 at 2:44 PM
To my colleagues in science, especially those who like me enjoy multiple directions of privilege: read this whole thread.
Read it several times.
Keep thinking of it.
Let this specific sentence change your behaviour: say something.
Read it several times.
Keep thinking of it.
Let this specific sentence change your behaviour: say something.
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My friend Hiba needs your help. Please support her in any way you can. She's living a difficult life and is pregnant; she needs care.
In Gaza we are living through difficult times and lacking even the most basic necessities.
We need just 100 euros each day to provide food, water and other essentials for our family.
Your support, however small, gives us a chance to survive another day.🤍🇵🇸
To donate ⬇️🕊️🫂
gofund.me/c3bf6fb78
We need just 100 euros each day to provide food, water and other essentials for our family.
Your support, however small, gives us a chance to survive another day.🤍🇵🇸
To donate ⬇️🕊️🫂
gofund.me/c3bf6fb78
February 16, 2026 at 11:46 AM
My friend Hiba needs your help. Please support her in any way you can. She's living a difficult life and is pregnant; she needs care.
Open the app up and this is the first thing I see? Getting called out?
Black women spending money like drug dealers and eating seafood.....we never beating the allegations
February 16, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Open the app up and this is the first thing I see? Getting called out?
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I only even felt the need to address this because the guy in Maine who just got his Nazi tattoo covered, which means It’s Fine Now was perpetuating this stereotype online after allegedly doing totally normal stuff like conducting field studies on Black people back when he used to bartend.
The ‘Black people don’t tip’ thing isn’t even true. What’s happening is that you’re getting Read. We see you. Our inklings are survival mechanisms. Why the fuck would I throw an extra bone to a racist?
It’s like how if everybody you meet is an asshole eventually you gotta start doing the math.
It’s like how if everybody you meet is an asshole eventually you gotta start doing the math.
October 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I only even felt the need to address this because the guy in Maine who just got his Nazi tattoo covered, which means It’s Fine Now was perpetuating this stereotype online after allegedly doing totally normal stuff like conducting field studies on Black people back when he used to bartend.
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This information never needed to be uncovered if people just had some fucking conviction. All I have ever needed to know is this man has a Nazi tattoo and never saw fit to get rid of it until called out and then he covered it up with Nazi dog whistle Norse mythology. NAZI.
I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community
February 15, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This information never needed to be uncovered if people just had some fucking conviction. All I have ever needed to know is this man has a Nazi tattoo and never saw fit to get rid of it until called out and then he covered it up with Nazi dog whistle Norse mythology. NAZI.
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You see, they're sending them to a camp in TX, where abortion is illegal, because "pro-life."
"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape... Their pregnancies are considered high risk by definition, particularly for the youngest girls."
"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape... Their pregnancies are considered high risk by definition, particularly for the youngest girls."
The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.
Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate
Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
www.kut.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:33 PM
You see, they're sending them to a camp in TX, where abortion is illegal, because "pro-life."
"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape... Their pregnancies are considered high risk by definition, particularly for the youngest girls."
"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape... Their pregnancies are considered high risk by definition, particularly for the youngest girls."