YOU GUYS HE MADE ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE OUR GREY GIRL ROXY 💀

Mr Beet and I have taken up crafting to help get through The Horrors. Being away from socials keeps my mental health from getting shredded. Currently, our table is littered with hummingbirds, koi, roses, and foxes, all made of paper. And here's some veggies I drew. Persist, beloveds.

Folks, some incredible news: A couple of weeks ago, a national theatre chain axed our release of Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile because it mentioned Donald Trump. Now, because of you, Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile will now run on over 25 screens throughout the world. theonion.com/badpedophile

Good riddance. Teachers and students in Oklahoma deserve better than this clown show.

Clipboard at the ready! I'm doing my part!

"The volume on that kind of care turned up, not just because the need was greater, but because folks felt deeply recommitted to sustaining each other. And that was part of the resistance. It was the community’s way of saying, “They’re trying to kill us. We want us living. That’s the battle." 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

WHOO HOO Bodewamdi Conferedation here we come!

Emergency ask. It is always so humbling and not in good way to constantly be in financial crisis, especially when I look at all the work that I do. We are at risk of losing our housing and need to come up with 3 months rent by the 1st, which is an impossible ask. ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Meet Rachel Beaulieu, an Anishinaabekwe filmmaker from Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation and the creative force behind Can Dream Productions! From Red River Roots to her thriller Ojichaag, Rachel tells stories rooted in community, culture, and Indigenous resilience. redpopnews.com/the-power-of...

🎵We're bringing it, we're bringing it, we're bringing it back! 🎶 All Spokane voters over the age of 21 are invited to join us on Oct 10 for our second annual PolitiCrawl: Politics (& Pints) for the People, coming soon to a bar near you! If you're unfamiliar with the PolitiCrawl, here's the gist:

Fredrick Douglass rules! Also IWW #SolidarityForever

The general submissions portal is now open for all writers. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under, and our preference is for something that is, more or less, fun.

"This lie is what allows systems to offload the weight of their own dysfunction into the bodies of children, into the minds of the disabled, into the breath of the poor, and into the silence of the culturally erased. The system hurts the same people over and over."

True in specific and also in general

Thanks @mudede.bsky.social for keeping it real and surreal this morning

This little one hit my window, and it rang their bell pretty hard. Living amongst The Horrors has made me fragile; just moving them to recover safely made me want to cry. They're sitting up and looking around now, which is a good sign. Godspeed, little golden-crowned comrade.

All we have is each other. (Also moar dot gif)

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

BIG NEW YORKERS AGAINST ICE rally at 6 pm, Thursday, 9/25 at Foley Square in NYC, friends! Please do come through! If you've never been to a rally, why not start here? It's 2025 and it's time. We all gotta stand up for all of us.

Cree lesson time!! Let's examine two words: Soniyaw - money, silver, gold Moniyaw - white people

Indigenous Peoples' Day (10/13) is approaching quickly, and the Indigenous Alliance on Twitch is coming together for an Indigenous Peoples' Day Raid Train and raising money! During my slot, my stream will focus on discussing Indigenous horror with Shane Hawk and playing games!

OH SHIT EVERYBODY

J pod is traveling to places they haven't been in 50 years, like Penn Cove and Vashon Island. They lost a baby, and now have a new one. They're so small, yet so mighty.

Feds just fired a tremendous amount of pepper balls at Reverend David Black, a regular protester here. A number of them hit him in the face and head.

📣 Less than two weeks to submit! #TheMagazine is still seeking pitches from #Indigenous storytellers for our next edition about Indigenous changemakers in 2025. 📆 Deadline: Sept 30 Read the thread for the details. 🔗 Find the guide for submissions here: crushingcolonialism.org/call-for-sub...

If you're mad about the changes made to the live action Lilo & Stitch movie, read Sisters In The Wind by Angeline Boulley. Keep Native families together. Protect ICWA. Uphold Tribal Sovereignty.

Campus solidarity alert: Unions representing more than 100,000 UC employees file lawsuit charging that federal government's demands for money and policy changes violate workers' free speech rights and the separation of federal and state powers. www.latimes.com/california/s...

♥️💞 Fri, Sep 19 New J baby, likely Echo's (per @seadocsociety.bsky.social ). J pod spent yesterday in Saratoga Passage which is where the new calf was 1st seen. Early this morning Js were audible on the Sunset Bay, Edmonds hydrophone. 📸 J pod member - Pt Robinson - 9/17 by Jami Cantrell #psws

they pretend us saying “joy as an act of resistance” is a lie, then they try to silence comedians whose job it is to literally bring us joy don’t let the bastards get you down so get louder, get funnier, get more joyful

In light of the increasing prevalence of pepper balls and tear gas at the Broadview site, I just want to reshare this toolkit from Vision Change Win, which includes best practices for treating tear gas and pepper spray exposure. You can also find this info in the appendix of Let This Radicalize You.

Lolsob

Find what marginalized people in your community need that you can provide, and just...do that. You don't have to save the world. You don't have to lead the revolution. Just help one person. And then...do it again.

"blam blam blam! die nazis, die! blam blam!"

Protester Found Not Guilty of Assault Despite Top Border Patrol Official’s Testimony Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino...who led a phalanx of military personnel into MacArthur Park this summer...flew in to testify from Chicago. After a little over an hour, the jury came back with the acquittal.

Hey good job, Norman High! Go Tigers

Curated by Brian Eno, this ‘Together For Palestine’ charity concert is streaming now from OVO Wembley Arena togetherforpalestine.org www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv... @dark-shark.bsky.social

Look can we just get on with paying people to do things again and not draining Lake Superior to have the machines lie to us, this shit is so tedious

Creative production is one of the few arenas that generative AI systems can actually approach meaningful levels of full automation, if only because the quality of such content is subjective, human. Spend some time with these stories, I urge you. Understand what's happening, so we can fight back.

**JOB ALERT** The University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) is hiring a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Indigenous Health. They've got an expansive definition, which includes Inuit and northern Indigenous communities. Link to ad: www.unbc.ca/sites/defaul...

If you have opportunities to get out and do things with others, jump at the opportunity: meetings, classes, social events, etc... Get out and be with other people. It's essential. If virtual is more convenient, then take advantage of those opportunities to be with other people.

COMRADE BESTIE

NEW WRITING: "We are living through the worst time of my lifetime, and astrophotography has helped me remember that, as my mom Margaret Prescod once reminded me, the universe is bigger than the bad things that are happening to us." 🔭 As promised, with a prettier image of Andromeda! 🎉

We love libraries, from tiny neighborhood branches to sprawling, dangerous, otherworldly labyrinths that threaten your life and sanity! Here are seven strange, possibly haunted fictional libraries...what are your favorites? 📖 reactormag.com/seven-haunte...

This is an amazing story. I heard about it on the now-shuttered Futility Closet podcast. Its still available on their website. www.futilitycloset.com/2019/01/21/p...

For some reason this reminded me of the time I saw a little kid at circus camp get handed a Capri Sun without a straw and the look on that young man's face was straight up Shakespearian tragedy

1. UCLA is in negotiations with Trump. Now we know the demands. Trump wants a statement that UCLA does not recognize trans student identities, a ban on youth care at UCLA clinics, bathroom bans, and more. Students are fighting back. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Jay gets it.