excellent news 📌 water and earth

“Of course, writing novels about the future doesn’t give me any special ability to foretell the future. But it does encourage me to use our past and present behaviors as guides to the kind of world we seem to be creating” — Octavia Butler

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

About time. 🔆 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

this is so fucking gross i don’t even have words to process how fucking gross it is

Accurate

lol all of the gatekeepers are actually not so bright but also they're cruel and powerful which is why we have to care

“There’s no hope in fixing a public agency that can ‘show up while you’re asleep and execute you.’” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

peace

people who built bsky: -trans women (bsky protects jesse singal) -Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism) -SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK) -organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse) -artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

right! and the play on ignoramuses' emotions by saying "we can't even get it but they're giving it to 'illegal' immigrants!" is unreal. people prone to xenophobia and bigotry are so gullible

You think undocumented immigrants get healthcare?? Bitch Americans don’t even get that

yep.

Amazed at the number of guys who are willing to give interviews about how since they didn’t find love with women they found love with the computer that’s poisoning people in black neighborhoods

The systems that support & build AI do not care about harming this planet The people rooting for such systems don’t live next to data centers The people praising such systems care only about future possibilities & wealth, not the dirty air & 24/7 rumbling noises Prove me wrong.

Researchers found POTS occurs in abt a third of patients w/ severe long COVID, making it far more common than in the general population...middle-aged women were most affected, w/ symptoms including dizziness, rapid heart rate, fatigue,& difficulty concentrating neurosciencenews.com/long-covid-p...

Grieve, then plan. Rest, then fight. Take some action, no matter how small, every single day. This is our call for the foreseeable future. Rather than lament this, we should feel honored to do it at a time when there is a genuine chance at liberation beyond the struggle. It is darkest before dawn.

His name is Atlas Talos, by the way.

I've been back for 5 minutes and I find out that an artist I commissioned a work from is a sexual predator. Lord have mercy. Men must be stopped. My sympathies and condolences to his MANY victims.

Definitely do NOT look like that anymore.

thread of Memory Pics Circa 1987. Found the family cat laying like this on the couch, and ran for my Pentax camera. RIP sweet Comet-kitty

REQUEST: People who would be willing to mail me old seed packets of theirs for my garden shop. I am ramping up my propagation to feed my community here. I have been preparing infrastructure to give away edible plant starts to community members who want that option for slight food independence.

‘Movie Night with Mi Madre’ is now working our way through all three seasons of His Dark Materials, 2 episodes per eve 🖤

Great thread. This post especially useful for artists trying to reach more eyes here in Bluesky: #art #TraditionalArt

A brief thread on alt-text. Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7

Excellent tips for keeping ICE out of your phone now featuring alt text

Decided to send Reiki to whoever & whenever needs it especially to the ones who clean and care.

So many shootings

RIGHT. It's like every smear campaign run by an ex.. WHATEVER "yeah I know I had all the power and make the money and that I am bad.... BUT YOU DIDN"T LISTEN TO ME TELL YOU HOW YOU NEED TO DO MORE FOR ME FOR THE 80371020 time"

Seasonal PSA: the activated charcoal often used to dye Halloween treats black (and taken as a supplement) interferes with many medications. This includes birth control pills and some blood/heart meds, HIV meds, pain meds, antipsychotics, and antidepressants. Be spooky AND safe! 🩺 ♿️ #NEISvoid

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula

And you can also head over to Eighth Generation and purchase the Silk Scarf that I designed to help raise Lupus Awareness eighthgeneration.com/collections/... and it would also be cool if you could sign up to be notified for the restock of my Legacy blanket. eighthgeneration.com/collections/...

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Hermína Týrlová was a stop-motion legend -- and she used wool to create pure magic. Her wool animation was part of her career rebound in her 60s. We're exploring these wonderful films and what makes them so special: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/a-legends-...

Btw some cities in Michigan have elections coming up! Remember to order your absentee ballot if you need it 🗳️ mvic.sos.state.mi.us/AVApplicatio...

Folks gotta be more careful with the we and the us nowadays. It's a real giveaway in terms of who those folks might listen to or count as people, really.

r.i.p.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but there are military reports going back to at least Bush 2 about climate risks for this reason. They're pragmatic people.

The military cares about climate change because they understand it's setting the ground for more conflicts, and because their bases are underwater. Seems like having your bases underwater might affect military readiness.

Thirty days hath September April, June and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the Month of Absent Sun. ('Tis the month we dare not name; Be wary, lest it come again.)

Wounded Knee is not just a story about the past. It is a mirror that reflects how this nation continues to treat Native peoples and how easily it excuses violence when it is convenient to its own myths. truthout.org/articles/wit...

Works on paper by self-taught Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, 1940s-90s, whose work was exhibited in Paris in the 40s, inspiring artists like Breton and Picasso.

The late disability justice activist Stacey Park Milbern is honored w an image in her likeness on newly minted quarters, becoming the first woman in a wheelchair–and the 1st wheelchair user to actually have their chair depicted in full–to be featured on U.S. currency. 19thnews.org/2025/08/stac...

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UPDATE: Huffpo is reporting the Trump administration "plans to evacuate" the Broadview facility in the wake of recent protests. If you have info about where ICE's processing operations will be happening in the Chicagoland area after this move, I am KMHChi.01 on Signal.

I see some white people are up in arms about being lumped with The Bad Racists. Well. Maybe like Dr. Oto Kano said about one’s art style, you have to let other people offer descriptive labels based on your actions & deeds.

It's really that simple. And if a Black person posting about what you could be doing but aren't makes you feel unfairly targeted to the point that you're making a dramatic exit from solidarity you were never aligned with it in the first place.