"We are not our ancestors" is not gonna yet us through this moment. You better wish you were your ancestors who survived the middle passage, chattel slavery, who consistently revolted, who made ways as maroons. We definitely need to connect with Black legacies of survival for now.

Robin Smith

Please take note that #DVpit is NOT affiliated with anything providing loans or financial services! As of 2025, it is ONLY a bluesky pitch event for unpublished marginalized authors & artists! #booksky #writersky

Happening right now: youtu.be/l-ZHEqGwG-0?...

Happy Saturday friends. #BlueSkyArtShow has given us the #ArtChallenge of sharing art that depicts the concept of #alternating This image demonstrates alternating through its repetition of light and shadow across architectural elements. #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #ArtistsOfBluesky

Been listening to this Black Sabbath cover for a while now. Seems like a good time to share it.

These criminals are raiding the garden and eating all the cherry tomatoes #vulture #birdwatching #ByWhichIMeanTheBirdsWatchUs

When I say black vultures are curious and friendly birds, I mean it. Our resident flock visits the house and garden daily just to chill. We don't feed them or anything, they lived here before we moved in. Here's Tim (named after the Sorcerer) and this year's fledglings visiting Potatoes.

Morgan’s Ash Digital painting

this is an absolutely beautiful thread.

I'm rezzing the Planettes art series! Planettes was/is a series of 13 ladies designed off real planet facts, with one for each planet + Pluto, the Sun, Earth's moon, and Milky Way. First up is Mars! Fun fact: Mars has two wobbly lil moons that were probably captured asteroids

Also, if by any chance--is there anyone either on my feed or feed adjacent who's done media production office work (2nd AD, Line Producer, etc), who would be willing to do a 15 to 30 min interview about it? It's a NJ Film Academy assignment; we're trying to prep folks for Netflix studios opening

I may experience an actual day off in June. In the meantime, let me go move some flowers

I know how spring/summer vending season is. So why did I think jumping back into film industry classes on top of my 11 hr days and running this household was a plan? I am half convinced I will never have a free moment again, lol Otoh, if I ever needed confirmation that adhd meds work, here it is

This is the way. Enjoy what I create or don't (If I ever stop hoarding it, lol). I'm happy to discuss the work, but I don't crave fame or parasocial relationships. I had a little taste of that already and I didn't enjoy the flavor 😭

Haven't painted digitally in a few years, but @tobyfoxart.bsky.social 's tutorial was a good excuse to take Rebelle 7 on a test drive (my rolling hills became distant mountains along the way 😅). This background art is begging for some figures, I'll have to brush the dust off some OCs eventually!

It has begun \o/

Fuck AI, learn how to paint it yourself.

“…Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end. And the speaking will get easier and easier…

On the Subway - Elizabeth Catlett, 1986

I love how familiar this is! Thousands of years of tradition tied up in the tools as well as techniques used to make art

Feeling very grumpy about the void here so l've channeled that into a list of weird or weird-ish or weird-adjacent or theoretically-weird collections by Black authors (some of which I’ve read and too many of which I have not)

Let them choke on our joy and power ❤️‍🔥

Happy Saturday. A quick test of a new workflow using Vegas Pro video editor, some random sfx from my freshly organized library, and a bit of video shot of an amulet consecration from a while back. I think I can work with this.

Chaos is an equal opportunity employer

COINTELPRO was exposed by some locals who understood the power of "some white guy" but y'all would have to be able to keep a secret

The r0 for pertussis is around 14, and the Tdap booster drops below 50% vaccine efficacy at 4.5 years. If it's been more than 4-5 years since your last Tdap booster, get one of those too. Get them now while they are still available.

Repeating the standard message: if you were born before 1989, there's a good chance you didn't get both doses of MMR vaccine as a child, and there are people who lose immunity over time. If your insurance will pay for a titer test to check immunity, get one done. If not, get a booster.

The time is ripe for crowdfunding an art project wherein elon is drowned in a glass tank filled entirely with donated urine test samples Title: Transition (Piss Elon) 2025

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Never seen a horse love the camera and its owner so much

People always bring up starting a studio and then Kickstarter when you talk about animation but listen to me. I have bills. Can you imagine your reaction if you contributed to my successfully funded Kickstarter and I used the money to pay my bills? A Kickstarter campaign is not a job.

But when first daring to act in ways that help create a new reality, we rarely ever feel completely ready. And yet... the actions we take—doing what we can, when we can, with what we've got—often do make a difference. And that absolutely holds true outside of witchcraft.

This story never gets old. Had an ancestor who *cough* allegedly did something like this.

Hello musicians! Whether you fill stadiums or play for two people on Twitch. Whether you sing opera or make techno. Join the music community on Blue Sky! No tricks, no obligations. Only an opportunity to connect with and get supported by your peers. Have a look at these lists and consider it. 👇👇👇

Gorgeous.

....So today's Black History Month fact is that I'm taller than Angela Bassett and Tina Turner. WELL OKAY THEN

They shifted the meaning of "woke," and our institutions (the press, the academy, etc.) marveled at this colonization as if it were magic. We've been signifyin for 400 years. And while the Trickster exists in many cultures around the world, the Trickster is for the powerless, NOT the powerful.

...damn, the sudden pressure drop I just felt. That snow is coming for us.

This ramen shop is so good. They know I like mine spicy, and they took care of me. I was cold af and they got me over here breaking a sweat. This is true love, right here

In this ancient Assyrian letter, astronomers complain that they can’t do their jobs or teach astronomy “because of the ilku-duty”, a type of taxation in the form of labour. “we cannot keep the watch of the king, and the pupils do not learn the scribal craft” cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/33...

Happy to have accidentally tripped over Alanna Airitam's account here; she's an amazing artist. Check out her work here: www.alannaairitam.com/about

Folks are right that the K Dot. discourse exposes a need for critical thinking & art literacy but those skills don’t have to be developed in academic spaces. You can practice critical thinking, engaging with nuance, & adapting your position daily if you make it your intention. We know b/c we do.

Media literacy be beating some people tf up.

Nobody is telling me nothing this Black History Month, you hear?

🦅 2025 SUPERBOWL CHAMPIONS 🦅 "It ain't about what everybody else does, it's about what we do." - J Hurts

I love me some punk and metal, the fast guitars and the blast beats, but Sundays are for the ancestor songs, the family songs, the childhood sounds. Have a little Marvin Gaye mixed with a slice of life, cir 1973. (Go Birds)

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