Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Walking around the house like Joan Crawford screaming NO! MORE! LITERARY! PANELS! 000
Reposted by Olivia KidulaAV; Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis have a right to Joy @apveng.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Please help Abu Bakr @thomaserena.bsky.social support multiple families and a community kitchen in Sudan. The Sudanese are living through UAE-funded, West & the rest facilitated, RSF-operated genocide, famine and disease. Share. Thank you. #KeepEyesOnSudan www.gofundme.com/f/vwb99n-hel...gofundme.comDonate to Help Sudanese Families escape from war, organized by Maurice WenigUrgent help needed!! This campaign was originally meant for 4 families as you… Maurice Wenig needs your support for Help Sudanese Families escape from war 134
Reposted by Olivia KidulaApex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The fifth tale of ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION 🌎🌱🌕 Read "Kindling" by @somtoihezue.bsky.social 🔥 alongside 23 stellar tales of climate fiction, solarpunk, New Weird, and ecohorror 🌟 🌳🍎 Preorders for ECO25 are open now! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco... 0118
Reposted by Olivia KidulaPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Housecleaning by Nikki Giovanni 9576115
Reposted by Olivia KidulaKiana Mai @kianamai.bsky.social · 04/09/2026FULLY ANIMATED EPISODE 1 IS OUT NOWWWW 🌟 youtu.be/6_7L80WaIuU?...youtu.bePretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl (EP.01 ANIMATED)YouTube video by Kiana Khansmith 190107875320
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Loved this! Come for the fun animation and stay for the adorable end credits 🥺 011
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Watching the English Premier League hasn't been the same since they stopped using the instrumental for Kasabian's Fire 000
Reposted by Olivia KidulaMa$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This book traces Bugs Bunny’s lineage to Africa, specifically to tricksters Br'er Rabbit and Anansi, as one of many forms of the trickster figure in the African diaspora. 7671150
Reposted by Olivia KidulaSang As It Ever Will Be @sanguinarynovel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This post really gets into how, personally, even if genAI was completely free of it's many sins, I still wouldn't use it. "Because I stopped doing the hard work, I stopped learning, I stopped growing, I stopped being the one making the software." 0134
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026Those "AI can be used for farming in the global South" scammers approached my mother on her farm and she ran them off her property 060
Reposted by Olivia KidulaChristoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The Flag of Victory flies over Rio de Janeiro as the Drug Trade has been decisively defeated 1214828
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026never shoulda smoked that shit now I'm on the never-ending road 000
Reposted by Olivia KidulaChris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin. 06032953
Reposted by Olivia KidulaJoshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn. 6979581452
Reposted by Olivia KidulaSupernova Momma @supernovaparenting.org · 03/09/2026I encourage anyone who identifies with this tweet to do some type of somatic regulation after each drive. 16336
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026"is this vibe-coded or is this just an ugly website" with Outlier the answer was "why not both?" 010
Reposted by Olivia KidulaGautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Fantastic piece, this: “Confessions of an AI Editor” — www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comConfessions of an AI Editor 0199
Reposted by Olivia KidulaAffordableArtShowke @affordableartke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Coming very soon - the @MuseumSociety Affordable Book Sale and Artisan Market! 🗓️ 12 September 2026 📍 Nairobi National Museum 🕘 9-5pm 🆓 Free entry 🥳 Activities for all ages Full details at bit.ly/BMkt26 035
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026Regardless of plot, MY Lucia is going to betray her boyfriend, there's no question about that 000
Reposted by Olivia KidulaKevin Rigathi @formerlykevin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My sci fi story "If Memory Serves" is a Nommo award nominee in the best short story category! I couldn't be more excited. It's available to read here:willthisbeaproblem.co.keIf Memory Serves – Will This Be A Problem?No Memory For Sisyphus Human rights are constantly evolving. The more we learn, the clearer these rights become to us. Usually, our understanding of human right 065
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026thought about this post when I was playing Baldur's Gate 3 and heard 'timbre' said out loud for what felt like the first time lol that is NOT how I've been pronouncing it 130
Reposted by Olivia KidulaSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026In her 2002 autobiography, she “writes of the apparent ‘animalistic sex techniques’ of Black people, and what she describes as their ‘distinctive smell’. She describes working with a Black man in a past performance work, with lingering attention paid to her descriptions of his lips and genitals.”artreview.comYayoi Kusama apologizes for historic racismA history of racist comments and descriptions of Black people in the writing of Yayoi Kusama has drawn criticism on the eve of her exhibition at SFMOMA 32576233
Reposted by Olivia KidulaKevin Rigathi @formerlykevin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Oh and the art! Beneath The Flower's Gaze has 2 great interpretations. On the left, the official Omenana story art. This stunning piece by Sunny Efemena. Right, we have a variant piece by Peter Marco. I love how together they capture the story's day & night scenes omenana.com/2026/08/25/b... 033
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026Not at all surprised that nobody is bringing up Congo (as they shouldn't! Awful film!) but Tim Curry's role as Herkemer Homolka is the first that came to mind. RIP to a legend. "Travelling the worilds and doing goods!" youtu.be/-S8pryWP7mA?...youtu.beThe Life & Times of Herkemer HomolkaYouTube video by Karch Coon 000
Reposted by Olivia KidulaKevin Rigathi @formerlykevin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026My story "Beneath the Flower's Gaze" has published in Omenana Issue 35. I'm proud of this story, because it's so different from anything else I've written. It's an experimental, fantasy (horror-ish) story written to capture not just the image, but also a feeling that stuck with me since I was 8.omenana.comBeneath the flower’s gaze | Kevin Rigathi - omenana.comThe moon, bright and full, fought for her space against a cloudy night sky. Gusts of wind howled across the ocean, propelling waves with them in eruption 142
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026 Check out @formerlykevin.bsky.social's beautiful new story, Beneath The Flower's Gaze, out now in @omenanamag.bsky.social ! (And, a short thread on how it came to be ✨) omenana.com/2026/08/25/b...omenana.comBeneath the flower’s gaze | Kevin Rigathi - omenana.comThe moon, bright and full, fought for her space against a cloudy night sky. Gusts of wind howled across the ocean, propelling waves with them in eruption 033
Reposted by Olivia KidulaDee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026in 2005, Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar for Best Original Song for the film Hustle and Flow ("Hard Out Here For A Pimp"). Dolly Parton was nominated in the same category. After celebrating heavily, they had a nice personal note awaiting them when they arrived back home. 82068428
Reposted by Olivia Kidulajordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"I'm sure of my talent and I'm sure of my love for life." 174128789
Reposted by Olivia Kiduladan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/08/2026it's possible to live a life where everyone grieves its end 164844684
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026My laptop crashed a couple of months ago and I lost an incredible number of drafts, including two novellas... Which is sad in itself but really what's sadder is the creative freeze that's come after - I'm terrified of writing anything on my laptop (despite setting up three different backups) 020
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026Still not going to watch the Harry Potter show but casting Kit Harrington over the other wet-looking one is way better lmao Gilderoy Lockhart's whole thing was being HANDSOME 000
Reposted by Olivia KidulaSteve Senski's Watching @stevensenski.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Remembering Bolaji Badejo, the 7'2" Nigerian actor and artist who entered cinematic history by playing the Xenomorph in 1979's ALIEN. He was only 39 when sickle cell anemia claimed his life. 11144350
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026I hate what genAI has done to the word 'quiet' 010
Reposted by Olivia KidulaBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/08/2026I am becoming incredibly exhausted of this pattern: many people: "AI sucks!" Very Smart Person: ah but have you considered (distinct application of ML or statistical modeling that has no real relationship to what the tech industry is marketing as, and people broadly perceive as, "AI") 6438461145
Reposted by Olivia KidulaXodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"It might be something that is quite anthropomorphized, so it has a name, a character, a backstory...in addition to having full-on relationships with AI, where people perceive themselves to be best friends or even in an intimate relationship with an AI system." 021
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026Thinking of the time Kabza de Small played this gospel song at a concert and I had a spiritual experience... I was sweating like Delroy Lindo in Da 5 Bloods 010
Reposted by Olivia KidulaAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately. 542971825
Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026EVERY DAY writers come here and say how they put original works into AI checkers and the AI said it was AI... they act like it's some gotcha! moment but like... you are literally feeding the machine! I can only deduce that this is some sort of fetish 041
Reposted by Olivia KidulaHistory Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 18/08/2026During the Kenya Emergency, photography became a vital tool for psychological warfare. Lauren Brown explores how the colonial state used violent images to demonise African insurgents.historyworkshop.org.ukColonial Kenya and the Politics of VisibilityDuring the Kenya Emergency, photography became a vital tool for psychological warfare. Lauren Brown explores how the colonial state used violent images to demonise African insurgents. 33931
Reposted by Olivia KidulaNalo Hopkinson - Jamaica Ginger & Other Concoctions @nalohop.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I learned and still learn so much about writing by reading Locus reviews. And I gained knowledge about how this industry works. And it’s a treasure trove for finding out about new spec fic for reading. Just saying. 1358
Reposted by Olivia KidulaRoseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Abigail's post captures so well what the absolute delight of this series is - some of the best and most interesting SFF I've read in the last while, with some extremely thoughtful character work and exploration of an existing trope. 0177
Reposted by Olivia KidulaBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026the entire Chinese internet has embraced what's basically a work of outsider art; a terribly animated film about a cow's dream made by a mother-son team and distributed by a former interior decoration company. It's now made millions at the box office. 131988589
Reposted by Olivia KidulaOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 17/08/2026leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...leilacancode.github.ioEverything Good About Jason ArdayFirst-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students. 11360180