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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Walking around the house like Joan Crawford screaming NO! MORE! LITERARY! PANELS!

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ᴍɪᴋᴀʏᴇʟ ᴍʏᴇʀs @chaclo.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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AV; Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis have a right to Joy @apveng.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Please 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...

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Donate to Help Sudanese Families escape from war, organized by Maurice Wenig

Urgent help needed!! This campaign was originally meant for 4 families as you… Maurice Wenig needs your support for Help Sudanese Families escape from war

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The 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...

“KINDLING”
Somto Ihezue

"Forest knew not this stranger whose skin was fleeting embered diamonds. Her mother had said, Be wary of strangers. Where was her mother now?
So, Forest took the stranger’s hand, and the stranger walked through fire."

PREORDER ECO25: THE YEAR’S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION TODAY AT www.apexbookcompany.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Housecleaning by Nikki Giovanni

TEXT: Housecleaning
i always liked house cleaning
even as a child
i dug straightening
the cabinets
posting new paper on
the shelves
washing the refrigerator
inside out
and unfortunately this habit
has carried over and i find
i must remove you
from my life

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026

that's what the microaggressions are for. It gets the people going! /hj

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026

Loved this! Come for the fun animation and stay for the adorable end credits 🥺

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026

It is *excessively* talky talky, I've fallen asleep twice watching it and each time it was the dialogue that got me

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026

Watching the English Premier League hasn't been the same since they stopped using the instrumental for Kasabian's Fire

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This 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.

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Sang As It Ever Will Be @sanguinarynovel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This 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."

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

Congratulations 🥳🥳🥳 also that's a fantastic AI policy!

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026

Those "AI can be used for farming in the global South" scammers approached my mother on her farm and she ran them off her property

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Flag of Victory flies over Rio de Janeiro as the Drug Trade has been decisively defeated

Two police officers, one holding a rifle, raise the banner of Rio de Janeiro's military police over 7 very small marijuana plants. #DrugBust

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026

never shoulda smoked that shit now I'm on the never-ending road

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin.

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Joshua 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.

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Supernova Momma @supernovaparenting.org · 03/09/2026

I encourage anyone who identifies with this tweet to do some type of somatic regulation after each drive.

Somatic regulation graphic with pictures

Somatic Regulation Strategies
Somatic movement is mind-body movement that
Superave Parenting
focuses on the internal experience of the movement rather than the appearance or outcome.

Progressive muscular
Tensing and releasing different parts of the body, usually in a systematic way. Tensing on the in-breath and
relaxation (PMR)
releasing on the out breath.
Research shows that the muscles are less tense following
PMR and the proprioceptive sites in the body give feedback to the brain that the body is calmer. It is also useful as it is tangible (the physical nature of tensing and releasing).

Jumping on a
Vestibular movement and proprioception rhymthm
trampoline

Throwing a yoga /
Proprioception movement and rhymthm
therapy ball against a wall

Kicking or bouncing
Proprioception movement and rhymthm
a ball

Shaking or
A natural discharge during fight, flight, freeze, fawn is the
stomping out
use of energy. Exercise reduces adrenaline and cortisol (stress hormones) and increases the feel-good
excess energy
endorphins.

Brisk walking /
Vestibular and proprioception movement
marching on the spot

Somatic Regulation graphic with pictures pt2

Somatic Regulation Strategies
Playing instruments

Heavy work
Working out or chores, utting pulling crab walking.
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Opposite sides
Clickint the finter of one hand whitst simultaneousty blinking the eye on the other side of the body and then alternating

Bilateral scribbling to beat of music -
Having a crayon in both hands (2 different colours) and
scribbling to music

Dance to the music
Vestibular and propioception movement

Small progressive movements
Small movements gradually getting bigger: wickung toes- breathe through your nose- withie the feet-breathe through your nose- wiggle leg

Rocking Chair
Vestibular movement

Gently sitting and bouncing on trampoline or yoga / therapy ball
Vestibular movement

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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?"

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

Thank you! I'm very proud of myself 😁

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fantastic piece, this: “Confessions of an AI Editor” — www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Confessions of an AI Editor

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AffordableArtShowke @affordableartke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Coming 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

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026

Regardless of plot, MY Lucia is going to betray her boyfriend, there's no question about that

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

English is one thing but I've been doing pure guesswork with French because of my fragrances... I gave up on Blanche Bete and just call it Chebet

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

thought 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

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In 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.”

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Yayoi Kusama apologizes for historic racism

A 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

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Kevin Rigathi @formerlykevin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh 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...

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

Not 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.be

The Life & Times of Herkemer Homolka

YouTube video by Karch Coon

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Kevin Rigathi @formerlykevin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My 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.com

Beneath the flower’s gaze | Kevin Rigathi - omenana.com

The 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

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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in 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.

An excerpt of the oral history of Three 6 Mafia winning an Oscar in 2005 as told to Variety.

DJ Paul: I woke up in my hotel room the next morning with my housecoat on and a bottle of champagne in my hand, and the phone ringing because the Hollywood Reporter or somebody was calling for an interview and taking pictures of us. Then we did some interviews and flew back home.

When we landed there was so many people in the airport waiting for us, there was applause, the minute we stepped off the airplane people started going crazy, it was almost like a little parade at the airport for us. It was crazy.

Juicy J: When we got back to Memphis, Dolly Parton actually sent us a letter congratulating us and signed it, saying she was just happy [the award] came back to Tennessee.

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"I'm sure of my talent and I'm sure of my love for life."

do you ever feel that you're a joke

all these years, the people thought the joke was on me, but the joke's actually been on the public

i'm sure of myself as a person, I'm sure of my talent and I'm sure of my love for life. I like the person I am, so I can afford to around with makeup and clothes because i'm secure with myself.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/08/2026

it's possible to live a life where everyone grieves its end

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

My 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)

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

Still 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

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Steve Senski's Watching @stevensenski.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Remembering 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.

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026

I hate what genAI has done to the word 'quiet'

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026

We are in the Beggars in Spain timeline

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026

I'm actually re-watching the Iron Man trilogy because of your posts lol

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Xodanix3 @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."

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026

Oop I misread the post I thought she said the FIRST lmaoo I read this book at 13

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