Ras Mengesha
@rasmengesha.bsky.social
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writer. teacher. zine maker.
(“Eduardo, I love your books because you write like a woman. - sandra cisneros to eduardo galeano)
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Charlotte the Host Origami
14 days ago
heavy is the head that wears the cake
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Charlotte the Host Origami
14 days ago
her hat looks made of fondant
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The Questionable Authority
16 days ago
Wow. So...having been denied entry to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, it appears that the Latin Patriarch held services outdoors. At Gethsemane. 10/10 use of symbolism, no notes.
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Meditation for Palm Sunday at Gethesmane
Meditation for Palm Sunday at Gethesmane Jerusalem, March 29, 2026 Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, may the Lord give you peace. We are here at Gethesamne
https://www.lpj.org/en/news/meditation-for-palm-sunday-at-getsemani
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Benjamin Balthaser
22 days ago
Never forget an anti-slavery English professor saved the Republic
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aaron boothby
over 1 year ago
"Which flowers are speech? which flowers are silence?" Ghassan Zaqtan, trans. Fady Joudah
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Wear The Peace
27 days ago
Palestinians in Gaza go visit the graves of their families and find that the cemetery has bloomed with flowers.
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404 Media
about 1 month ago
“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/
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k’eguro
about 1 month ago
When I'm not thinking nonsense, here's other stuff I'm thinking.
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notes from fallow
on lying as method
https://keguro.substack.com/p/notes-from-fallow-c40
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(“was it, she wondered, as hard to watch suffering as it was to bear it?”)
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Deborah McDowell
about 1 month ago
“What are we pretending not to know today?” —Toni Cade Bambara
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Stella Sacco
4 months ago
Marx failed to consider beautiful transsexual women
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George
about 1 month ago
move slow and repair things
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stoned at the pokémon center
about 1 month ago
Good morning! Yes, this is he
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Ceri Houlbrook
about 1 month ago
From now on it won't be a birthday unless my book is turned into a cake 😍🥲 Thank you family!
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sam
about 2 months ago
(reading ngwatilo’s rituals at the lake to my lover across the distance)
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(“and it was comforting to find that what was common could also be a flower.”)
about 2 months ago
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(“but the coloured daughters of brewster, spread over the canvas of time, still wake up with their dreams misted on the edge of a yawn.”)
about 2 months ago
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Katie C
about 2 months ago
Instead of whatever this discourse is I humbly request you tell me which fruit you think is the worst. My vote is for blueberries
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Marcus
about 2 months ago
Some of my original Power Lines Drawings are now for sale at my store:
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T. K. Rex
2 months ago
Once again if you are not currently following
@shingai-be-like.bsky.social
, do so now
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Udont Sei
about 2 months ago
i want what i want
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k’eguro
about 2 months ago
Pisces Slander Simply Increases Our Power
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k’eguro
about 2 months ago
Pisces! We Arise!
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫
about 2 months ago
with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
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Black Diaspora News
about 2 months ago
Happy Heavenly Birthday to author Audre Lorde 📚🕊️🕊️
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over 1 year ago
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(my father brought coffee-flavoured vodka so i made a white russian.)
over 2 years ago
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kipusa wa kukumbatiana
over 2 years ago
so why are we beat like this? or, one brief history of prison and abolition in kenya
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