JoTo
@joantome.blacksky.app
Variety streamer, book reader, pro-Black. TTRPG and SFF and anime lover. (they/any)
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You have to know that there is no suitable reality in which we just Go Back To Living Among These People.
There is no going back. It can’t just be All Good.
Whatever implications you glean from this statement; yes.
There is no going back. It can’t just be All Good.
Whatever implications you glean from this statement; yes.
There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
January 22, 2026 at 8:29 PM
You have to know that there is no suitable reality in which we just Go Back To Living Among These People.
There is no going back. It can’t just be All Good.
Whatever implications you glean from this statement; yes.
There is no going back. It can’t just be All Good.
Whatever implications you glean from this statement; yes.
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As always, fuck cancer
January 22, 2026 at 9:06 PM
As always, fuck cancer
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Part of the issue is that those most actively protesting and leading mutual aid are women and gender non-conforming people. Both groups are illegible to many as protesters. This helps explain the invisibilization of current protests and resistance.
January 21, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Part of the issue is that those most actively protesting and leading mutual aid are women and gender non-conforming people. Both groups are illegible to many as protesters. This helps explain the invisibilization of current protests and resistance.
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It's not for me to say what exact thing you as an individual should be doing, but if you consider that regular inflation/shrinkflation/wealth transfer is all deliberate?
Keeping us rundown and impoverished so we're worried about our hustles more than anything is THEE distraction.
Keeping us rundown and impoverished so we're worried about our hustles more than anything is THEE distraction.
January 22, 2026 at 2:20 AM
It's not for me to say what exact thing you as an individual should be doing, but if you consider that regular inflation/shrinkflation/wealth transfer is all deliberate?
Keeping us rundown and impoverished so we're worried about our hustles more than anything is THEE distraction.
Keeping us rundown and impoverished so we're worried about our hustles more than anything is THEE distraction.
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January 21, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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Sometimes the most radical thing you can do is educate normal people on complex subjects in ways that are engaging and digestible.
January 20, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Sometimes the most radical thing you can do is educate normal people on complex subjects in ways that are engaging and digestible.
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They’ve raised over 6K. They are aiming for 100k. Let’s get them there. These are neighbors supporting neighbors under siege.
They’ve raised almost 4K to help their neighbors under siege in the Bryant neighborhood in Minneapolis. We can raise much more, together. Please share. Donate. Share again. Donate again.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-br...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-br...
Donate to Support Bryant Families in Urgent Need, organized by Bryant Neighborhood
This fundraiser is organized by a group of neighbors, community organizers,… Bryant Neighborhood needs your support for Support Bryant Families in Urgent Need
www.gofundme.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:52 PM
They’ve raised over 6K. They are aiming for 100k. Let’s get them there. These are neighbors supporting neighbors under siege.
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ONLY white people think that being in a red or blue state matters in any way to any thing at all.
January 20, 2026 at 11:57 PM
ONLY white people think that being in a red or blue state matters in any way to any thing at all.
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“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."
Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
January 20, 2026 at 3:40 AM
“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."
Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
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People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
January 17, 2026 at 6:02 PM
People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
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I encountered Black people and Black culture throughout Japan.. We saw Black tourists, Black workers.. Black people in advertisements. A Japanese busker in Ginza who did a knockout version of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”. Met an African American jazz pianist who’s performed in Tokyo for 14 years..
January 20, 2026 at 11:58 PM
I encountered Black people and Black culture throughout Japan.. We saw Black tourists, Black workers.. Black people in advertisements. A Japanese busker in Ginza who did a knockout version of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”. Met an African American jazz pianist who’s performed in Tokyo for 14 years..
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I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.
I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
January 20, 2026 at 11:16 PM
I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.
I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
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True confession: I am a bookanizer. I read six, sometimes eight books at a time. Sometimes I won’t read one for years before picking it back up again
January 16, 2026 at 9:07 PM
True confession: I am a bookanizer. I read six, sometimes eight books at a time. Sometimes I won’t read one for years before picking it back up again
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in general, a lot of doomerism on this website boils down to, "they are going to start treating us like black people, and i believe the marginalization of black people is immutable destiny"
January 15, 2026 at 6:38 PM
in general, a lot of doomerism on this website boils down to, "they are going to start treating us like black people, and i believe the marginalization of black people is immutable destiny"
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A ban on sending books and magazines to prisoners in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcerated
Arkansas set to impose nation’s strictest ban on sending books, magazines to prisons | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
A ban on sending books and magazines to inmates in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcer...
www.arkansasonline.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:02 PM
A ban on sending books and magazines to prisoners in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcerated
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What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
![[COVID zine front cover]
[bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
[Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)]
[word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant
[COVID zine back cover]
[handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom]
“Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23.
Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code]
[drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler]
[Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Citations:
[QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine
[bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twccexjsbh6y2tyhysjrhc2v/bafkreicg6f3tsxzbhi6hesaqppsfaaidnee33exrrwoalyxyaihaxxdk3a@jpeg)
January 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
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Your little poems are important in serious times. And your little stories & drawings & your little tunes you’re making. Don’t stop creating!
January 16, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Your little poems are important in serious times. And your little stories & drawings & your little tunes you’re making. Don’t stop creating!
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Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.
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Harris County, Texas, is the deadliest place in the United States for Black mothers to give birth
This Texas County Is the Deadliest Place in the U.S. for Black Mothers to Give Birth
Health care advocates struggle to figure out why this Texas county has some of the nation’s highest rates of maternal and infant mortality.
capitalbnews.org
January 16, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Harris County, Texas, is the deadliest place in the United States for Black mothers to give birth
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I'll start, comic artists of color I think that you should check out!!! Feel free to reply and tag your faves!!! 🎨✏️🗯️
@gigimurakami.bsky.social
@vincentisvintage.bsky.social
@salylockheart.bsky.social
@opallines.bsky.social
@deltahead.bsky.social
@ngoziu.com
@gigimurakami.bsky.social
@vincentisvintage.bsky.social
@salylockheart.bsky.social
@opallines.bsky.social
@deltahead.bsky.social
@ngoziu.com
great that we're dunking on the dilbert guy but can have some of this energy to spotlight some cool black comics creators pls
January 13, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I'll start, comic artists of color I think that you should check out!!! Feel free to reply and tag your faves!!! 🎨✏️🗯️
@gigimurakami.bsky.social
@vincentisvintage.bsky.social
@salylockheart.bsky.social
@opallines.bsky.social
@deltahead.bsky.social
@ngoziu.com
@gigimurakami.bsky.social
@vincentisvintage.bsky.social
@salylockheart.bsky.social
@opallines.bsky.social
@deltahead.bsky.social
@ngoziu.com
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Black folks have sooooo far to go when it comes to gender and sexuality
Keith Lee does a video with Bretman Rock & now there's folks talking about he's down low & this & that. Straight men can hangout & be around gay men like they're normal fucking people.
January 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Black folks have sooooo far to go when it comes to gender and sexuality
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There are too many people in this world who can match your energy and love you with the same intention you give. The right connections won’t leave you feeling overlooked or questioning your value. Love should feel mutual, not forced.
January 14, 2026 at 3:36 AM
There are too many people in this world who can match your energy and love you with the same intention you give. The right connections won’t leave you feeling overlooked or questioning your value. Love should feel mutual, not forced.
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If you know of any remote work please post it under this thread. Black women are losing jobs at alarming rates and it would be nice to pass along.
January 13, 2026 at 10:16 PM
If you know of any remote work please post it under this thread. Black women are losing jobs at alarming rates and it would be nice to pass along.
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Thread. [the shorthand about her that is often uplifted on social media always does her a disservice and also does Rosa Parks one too. Glad for this thread]
Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
January 14, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Thread. [the shorthand about her that is often uplifted on social media always does her a disservice and also does Rosa Parks one too. Glad for this thread]