TDr. Linda Maepa (born at 325ppm)
@lmaepa.blacksky.app
Sangoma, geobiologist, entrepreneur, inventor, investor, farmer (zone 10a), beader
Bapedi 🐊 & emaSwati 🙏🏾📿 Thokoza 👏🏾👏🏾
Non-Black or Non-Indigenous, don't follow & see me here instead: @gogopebetse.org
Healing & beadwork web: gogopebetse.org #pinksky
Bapedi 🐊 & emaSwati 🙏🏾📿 Thokoza 👏🏾👏🏾
Non-Black or Non-Indigenous, don't follow & see me here instead: @gogopebetse.org
Healing & beadwork web: gogopebetse.org #pinksky
Pinned
Hey, I'm trying to do a thing here. Introducing the Black Gardeners and Farmers starter pack. I *know* there are more of us. Let me know so I can add you!
Includes people who are looking to connect over gardening 🤝🏾🌱
go.bsky.app/VJwu7qc
Includes people who are looking to connect over gardening 🤝🏾🌱
go.bsky.app/VJwu7qc
ykw, it could be a coyote?
The kids:
The kids:
February 12, 2026 at 1:40 AM
ykw, it could be a coyote?
The kids:
The kids:
This morning a wolf mama* and her two rambunctious cubs came by 🐺🤎
Photo 1 of 2
*assumed
Photo 1 of 2
*assumed
February 12, 2026 at 1:32 AM
This morning a wolf mama* and her two rambunctious cubs came by 🐺🤎
Photo 1 of 2
*assumed
Photo 1 of 2
*assumed
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You don’t have to tell me about the negative things people say about me online.
February 11, 2026 at 1:29 PM
You don’t have to tell me about the negative things people say about me online.
🙏🏾✨🙌🏾
Please be sure to report these accounts y’all argue with if they are being anti-black. @moderation.blacksky.app
I really want yall to hit the report + block combo instead of even acknowledging them.
I really want yall to hit the report + block combo instead of even acknowledging them.
February 11, 2026 at 1:07 AM
🙏🏾✨🙌🏾
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An economist you all should be following yesterday is @trevondlogan.bsky.social: Economic historian, one of the smartest people I know, and a genuinely interesting researcher.
One of my favorite studies by him debunks the myth that white women were passive observers of slavery. #blackhistorymonth
One of my favorite studies by him debunks the myth that white women were passive observers of slavery. #blackhistorymonth
American slavery wasn’t just a white man’s business
Originally published in By Trevon LoganProfessor of Economics, The Ohio State University
news.osu.edu
February 9, 2026 at 10:08 PM
An economist you all should be following yesterday is @trevondlogan.bsky.social: Economic historian, one of the smartest people I know, and a genuinely interesting researcher.
One of my favorite studies by him debunks the myth that white women were passive observers of slavery. #blackhistorymonth
One of my favorite studies by him debunks the myth that white women were passive observers of slavery. #blackhistorymonth
February 10, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Still sitting with the fact that annual school photos was for pedophiles
February 10, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Still sitting with the fact that annual school photos was for pedophiles
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Did Bad Bunny make you want to learn Spanish? A great way to start is through your FEELINGS! Start everyday learning a feeling word and understanding it’s meaning. For all my Afro-Latinos, here is a great tool to use to connect with your feelings in real time and cultivate wellness.
February 10, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Did Bad Bunny make you want to learn Spanish? A great way to start is through your FEELINGS! Start everyday learning a feeling word and understanding it’s meaning. For all my Afro-Latinos, here is a great tool to use to connect with your feelings in real time and cultivate wellness.
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lol there are white people who are mad that this Black man found a Black doctor.
I finally found a Black Dermatologist in Ohio. This feels so good. 🥹
February 10, 2026 at 3:41 AM
lol there are white people who are mad that this Black man found a Black doctor.
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Tiktok permissions to know your sexual orientation and gender. Discord making you require personal identification. The attack on section 230 of the Communication Decency Act. It's all connected. It's all to identify us "degenerates" and "undesirables". IT'S ALL WHITE SUPREMACY.
February 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Tiktok permissions to know your sexual orientation and gender. Discord making you require personal identification. The attack on section 230 of the Communication Decency Act. It's all connected. It's all to identify us "degenerates" and "undesirables". IT'S ALL WHITE SUPREMACY.
Whew, can’t wait to really dig into this. Makes me think of roadschooling and its opportunities and limitations for h*meschoolers of color.
Very excited to share that my latest article, co-authored with Dr. Brittany Davis and Dr. Aida Guhlincozzi (University of Missouri), “Take me home country roads”: The limits of sanctuary on the American road trip, is published in Western Geography!
wdcag.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/wg...
wdcag.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/wg...
“Take me home country roads”: The limits of sanctuary on the American road trip
This paper synthesizes research on traversing the American landscape, and the authors’ three personal stories of moving through this space as members of minoritized communities. Land, property, and hu...
wdcag.journals.uvic.ca
February 9, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Whew, can’t wait to really dig into this. Makes me think of roadschooling and its opportunities and limitations for h*meschoolers of color.
Medio tiempoooooooooooo 💃🏾
February 9, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Medio tiempoooooooooooo 💃🏾
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When is the Benito Bowl? I oiled my joints for papi.
February 9, 2026 at 12:40 AM
When is the Benito Bowl? I oiled my joints for papi.
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Anyone literate in Arabic willing to volunteer some time doing basic transcription of images? I need to redo a bunch of graphics for Napata and I’m unfortunately illiterate and will not use a llm for this.
I’ve got a spreadsheet prepared with everything.
I’ve got a spreadsheet prepared with everything.
February 8, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Anyone literate in Arabic willing to volunteer some time doing basic transcription of images? I need to redo a bunch of graphics for Napata and I’m unfortunately illiterate and will not use a llm for this.
I’ve got a spreadsheet prepared with everything.
I’ve got a spreadsheet prepared with everything.
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Mom give you a 💎. I’ll be adding that one, so tell her I said thank you for this.
Mom taught me not to say 'please' because then you have to say 'thank you', and we don't say 'thank you', we say 'fuck you'
Imagine begging Bluesky for features, having your PRs sitting unmerged and ignored for months, and then turning around and saying that EYEEE am the centralizing influence around here.
February 8, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Mom give you a 💎. I’ll be adding that one, so tell her I said thank you for this.
Just had breakfast and it is so many food dreams coming true:
- pan-fried co-op beef brisket bacon 🥓
- fresh from the backyard eggs scrambled in farmer‘s market avocado oil & brisket fat
- creamy new potatoes dressed in black pepper & avocado oil
- fresh-squeezed oj from the backyard tree
1/2 🌱
- pan-fried co-op beef brisket bacon 🥓
- fresh from the backyard eggs scrambled in farmer‘s market avocado oil & brisket fat
- creamy new potatoes dressed in black pepper & avocado oil
- fresh-squeezed oj from the backyard tree
1/2 🌱
February 8, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Just had breakfast and it is so many food dreams coming true:
- pan-fried co-op beef brisket bacon 🥓
- fresh from the backyard eggs scrambled in farmer‘s market avocado oil & brisket fat
- creamy new potatoes dressed in black pepper & avocado oil
- fresh-squeezed oj from the backyard tree
1/2 🌱
- pan-fried co-op beef brisket bacon 🥓
- fresh from the backyard eggs scrambled in farmer‘s market avocado oil & brisket fat
- creamy new potatoes dressed in black pepper & avocado oil
- fresh-squeezed oj from the backyard tree
1/2 🌱
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I've mentioned it before, but when I volunteered for my local library's literacy program, one of the most commonly cited reasons older adults cited for participating was to "read my medication labels."
according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle
One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about.
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
February 8, 2026 at 4:38 PM
I've mentioned it before, but when I volunteered for my local library's literacy program, one of the most commonly cited reasons older adults cited for participating was to "read my medication labels."
‼️ The whole conversation people outside our community are having about Blacksky community business is giving The Delectable Negro
Whatever these ideas are just know it’s not a solution for Blacksky, b/c this was never a problem for us to begin with.
But “thanks” for attempting to resolve your issue with something that doesn’t involve you, I guess.
But “thanks” for attempting to resolve your issue with something that doesn’t involve you, I guess.
February 8, 2026 at 8:39 PM
‼️ The whole conversation people outside our community are having about Blacksky community business is giving The Delectable Negro
It’s a lessons from our mothers / fathers kinda day ✨
February 8, 2026 at 7:51 PM
It’s a lessons from our mothers / fathers kinda day ✨
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Distraught, enraged, and tired. An author cc’d @fiyahlitmag on an email to The Writing Atlas, a site dedicated to “cataloging short stories.” There are 130 FIYAH stories listed with (presumably) AI summaries. Some have LINKS to a Dropbox folder. Our issues aren’t publicly available for scraping.
February 7, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Distraught, enraged, and tired. An author cc’d @fiyahlitmag on an email to The Writing Atlas, a site dedicated to “cataloging short stories.” There are 130 FIYAH stories listed with (presumably) AI summaries. Some have LINKS to a Dropbox folder. Our issues aren’t publicly available for scraping.
To think I used to be shy to report such basic racism 💅🏾
Lots of secret hostility.
- Rudy is a hack
- Blacksky is a semi-proprietary ethnocentric social network just “popping up”
- Blacksky is masquerading as fully open source
would you all like me to still speak at #AtmosphereConf this year?
I don’t have to.
- Rudy is a hack
- Blacksky is a semi-proprietary ethnocentric social network just “popping up”
- Blacksky is masquerading as fully open source
would you all like me to still speak at #AtmosphereConf this year?
I don’t have to.
February 8, 2026 at 3:14 AM
To think I used to be shy to report such basic racism 💅🏾
When you start following children’s leadership 🙌🏾
Guide and be guided, it’s a beautiful thing. Children are born walking the paths of a beautiful present into a thriving future. Follow their lead, protect and guide them 🙏🏾✨
Guide and be guided, it’s a beautiful thing. Children are born walking the paths of a beautiful present into a thriving future. Follow their lead, protect and guide them 🙏🏾✨
I do not think the most significant cultural shifts will come from a World War, Class War, Race War, or whatever other battle people weirdly fantasize about. I think it’ll be an integration of the idea that children are people and not the property of their parents.
February 6, 2026 at 4:14 AM
When you start following children’s leadership 🙌🏾
Guide and be guided, it’s a beautiful thing. Children are born walking the paths of a beautiful present into a thriving future. Follow their lead, protect and guide them 🙏🏾✨
Guide and be guided, it’s a beautiful thing. Children are born walking the paths of a beautiful present into a thriving future. Follow their lead, protect and guide them 🙏🏾✨
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HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH! ✊🏾❤️🖤💚
February 6, 2026 at 1:57 AM
HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH! ✊🏾❤️🖤💚
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Here is an old article I did for girls united essence on harm reduction for Black women on social media! Bringing this back for those who haven’t read it and to help someone out who may need it!
girlsunited.essence.com/feedback/new...
girlsunited.essence.com/feedback/new...
How Black Women Are Creating Harm Reduction Tactics Online
As the internet continues to expand, Black women are utilizing harm reduction tactics to protect themselves from digital misogyny.
girlsunited.essence.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Here is an old article I did for girls united essence on harm reduction for Black women on social media! Bringing this back for those who haven’t read it and to help someone out who may need it!
girlsunited.essence.com/feedback/new...
girlsunited.essence.com/feedback/new...
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I can finally announce something that means so much to me. I've been doing this work for so long, so this feels like a warm embrace. So full of gratefulness for this opportunity to be seen and supported. Thank you to (m)otherboard for this!
m.otherboard.org
m.otherboard.org
February 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I can finally announce something that means so much to me. I've been doing this work for so long, so this feels like a warm embrace. So full of gratefulness for this opportunity to be seen and supported. Thank you to (m)otherboard for this!
m.otherboard.org
m.otherboard.org