Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

wee boss

@weeboss.bsky.social

350 followers 880 following 1.7K posts

books, beats, bread, justice (not in that order) oh! and pencils! BLM🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ADHD JFT97 YNWA🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 “nobody’s free until everybody’s free” (she/her) #LandBack #CovidIsAirborne

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · Aug 5

i don’t see mohammed here -
one of the reasons i still visit the other place

pls pls give if you can 🙏🏼

marybethbass.bsky.social @marybethbass.bsky.social · Aug 4

Safe Life for Rafif — Help Give Her the Childhood She Deserves chuffed.org/project/1330...

Safe Life for Rafif — Help Give Her the Childhood She Deserves

My name is Abdulaziz Al-Jabour, and I am organizing this campaign on behalf of my brother, Mohammad Al-Jabour, to help save the lives of his baby daughter, Rafif, and his wife.

chuffed.org

3 3

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 2h

oh HELL yes

and a gift to future-me in march, a tough month?

bonus 🤩

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 2h

are ya still watching?

i just finally started s3 today 😂

really enjoyed my rewatch of s2 so crossing my fingers s3 can keep up 🤞🏼

Reposted by wee boss

Shelby Strong 💗💜💙 @sneffleupagus.bsky.social · 2h

This week I heard two different people ask two different 'get to know you' questions that I like so much more than "What do you do for a living?"

What do you spend your time doing?

What are you thinking about these days?

The responses were so much more beautiful than just a job or a role.

2 4 16

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 3h

DO YOU MEAN BOMBS?

I THINK YOU MEAN BOMBS

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 3h

CO2 emissions from human activities and and wildfires rose by an unprecedented amount last year

Global Carbon Emissions Rose By Record Amount in 2024, WMO Says

The surge was likely due to more severe wildfires and less carbon being absorbed by land and oceans.

bloom.bg

Reposted by wee boss

Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 3h

“Orlando had become a woman… Their change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity… but in future we must, for convention’s sake, say ‘her’ for ‘his’ and ‘she’ for ‘he’.”

Virginia Woolf having no problems with pronouns in 1928.

#InternationalPronounsDay

a woman with red hair leans against a tree with the word iworm below her

Alt: Tilda Swinton as Orlando - a woman with red hair leans against a tree.

media.tenor.com

5 27 96

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 3h

sometimes i feel like i’m living
in the borderland,
playing fucked up games,
just trying to find my way home

Reposted by wee boss

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

Blue Butterflies and Star Burst Navajo Basket, by Native American master weaver Elsie Holiday #WomensArt

Photo looking down on a circular woven basket with a cental blue and white star motif with a circular border of repeated stylised angular blue butterflies

56 340

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 4h

so hard to wake up/get out of bed/work out while it’s still dark but i *need* it for both mental+physical health and it’s the only way i can be somewhat efficient during the day

but i miss the light 😩

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 4h

BEING TRANS IS
NOT AN OPINION

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 20h

The thing that gets me about actors responding like this whenever they’re asking about JKR is that they always say “we need to learn to agree to disagree ^_^” as if trans people are the ones leading the campaign, when we’re just trying to live our lives while JKR posts about trans hate 24/7

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 4h

this…is not it

there are pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic cases so you cannot just go by if you feel sick

and capitalistic power thru culture has trained ppl to ignore how they honestly feel anyway so….

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

3 5

Reposted by wee boss

Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social · 5h

1 1 2

Reposted by wee boss

Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 7h

Japan is reporting a flu epidemic much earlier than is usual. This early season could have implications for other countries via international travel so do get your flu vaccines (if you can) soon! 🧪 #HealthPolicy

Japan declares a flu epidemic — what this means for other nations

Researchers say that the number of infections for this time of year is unusual.

www.nature.com

7 71 120

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 5h

take some time to go thru these

more than one moment of zen 🫶🏼

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 5h

Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards – in pictures

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year is an annual competition hosted by the Natural History Museum in London, which awards top honours in various categories for outstanding photography

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by wee boss

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Oct 7

I’m going to make individual posts for the Palestinian accounts I’m boosting today so they don’t get lost in a thread but if you are looking for them all in one place I’ll link them here 🔽

120 1.5K 2.4K

Reposted by wee boss

Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 14d

Dawn in Pennsylvania - 1942
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104246

19 120

Reposted by wee boss

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 6h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

100 1K 4.4K

Reposted by wee boss

Encyclopedia Brown @laconicicon.bsky.social · 22h

D’Angelo was only 51. That’s why I don’t trip about being called old. Each year we get is a blessing. No telling how many we get.

7 110 470

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 14h

omg leland palmer is a proto-vulcan

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 15h

he sure thinks so 😂

a man with a beard is wearing a red uniform with a star trek logo on his chest

Alt: a white man with a beard, riker on the next generation, is wearing a red uniform with a star trek logo on his chest the camera zooms in as he breaks into a smile

media.tenor.com

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 15h

jc penny photo shoot could never

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 15h

ngl, i live for riker’s leans

he finds a new way every scene!

sends me each time 😂😂😂

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 17h

just saw a ? on reddit: do i still need to mask if i got the vax

to be clear: you need *both* to protect yourself+others

vax makes it less likely for severe acute infection/developing long covid

the high quality mask filters the air so you will not breathe in viruses [cvd+others] in the 1st place

1 5

Reposted by wee boss

BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 23h

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

58 610 3.5K

Reposted by wee boss

Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 1d

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

24 540 1.2K

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 18h

and that’s the end of vogmask

thx tariffs! 👍🏼

🫠🫠🫠