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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

@ebonyteach.blacksky.app
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I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1h
I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h
Well, good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace. Tomorrow is the start of my birthday month so you will be reminded DAILY to please support REBUILD's work throughout October. Please feel free to mute or unfollow 🤣 www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause
REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.
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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 1h
End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h
This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h
You have a better chance of going bankrupt than of becoming a millionaire. Wake up!
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 12h
My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 11h
It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shoutout to the 🐐GOAT🐐, respect greatness www.macfound.org/videos/2026-...
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Ellora Derenoncourt - 2026 MacArthur Fellow
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes the circle of life
• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms. redpopnews.com/beyond-the-g...
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Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms Receives 2026 American Book Award
Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthol...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is nothing you can do to convince me to put my unpublished work into this. My biggest worry is reviewers or editors disrespecting my intellectual property. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I teach in an interdisciplinary department in Canada; almost all my students end up in healthcare adjacent fields. You can bet they need history. It’s not some kind of pollution of their training, but a necessary part of their foundation
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So you can learn about engineering disasters
image of Bent Pyramid of Dashur Egypt against a blue sky with some clouds
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this signage is so compelling to me. I want more things to look like this please
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
I have got to start playing the lottery so that I can quit academia and open my Detroit stationery, journal, and fancy pen shop... These people are going to swallow academia whole, aren't they? Talk about capture!
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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I urge all my social scientist friends to apply, for the LOLs. "Brave" is most people teaching social science (& humanities) in Florida now, not knowing if students are secretly and yet legally recording them after the Legislature made students recording teachers an exception to two-party consent.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
I suspect that Nathan Cofnas is going to win one of these awards, along with some TERF and a 20 year old who wrote their thesis on effective altruism
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I haven’t trusted carob since my stepmom’s macrobiotic phase.
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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘Social scientists who tell controversial truths at great professional cost’ — how many of those dollars are going to #academicmetoo advocates, you think?
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s funny but very sad. The worst people you know will get rich, and after they win, media outlets will quote their ass opinions and then after their name write “winner of the 1M carob trust prize, awarded to brave academics”. Just another avenue for billionaires to launder influence
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh. My. God.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From the article: “The thing we don't hear about enough, in my opinion, is the lives and humanity of pregnant people.” 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 In Judaism, the fetus is regarded as a part of the pregnant person's body until birth. Because whose life matters most is the one already born.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 27/09/2026
You've got to be fucking kidding me. For all the claims by progressives that The Establishment is doing everything possible to tank their candidates, it turns out that it's PROGRESSIVE groups who are holding back on helping Abdul here in Michigan??? www.axios.com/2026/09/22/s...
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Democrats prod progressives to spend for El-Sayed
"I made an appeal to all of my colleagues in caucus to give," Sen. Elissa Slotkin told Axios.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 27/09/2026
Apparently Bernie--who supposedly sees Abdul as his progressive heir apparent on M4A--hasn't given a dime of his $23 million war chest to help. 👀
El-Sayed was vastly outspent during a contentious Democratic primary. However, he emerged victorious after prominent progressives, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), campaigned with him.

After his victory, progressive allies pledged to support El-Sayed in the general election, casting the race as a test of whether their brand of economic populism can win in a swing state.
"I'm going to do my best in every way to see that he's elected to the U.S. Senate," Sanders told Semafor last month. "We're going to do everything we can."
Between the lines: Sanders, who has $23 million in his campaign account, has not transferred money to El-Sayed's campaign.

Read more on smry.ai: https://smry.ai/https://www.axios.com/2026/09/22/senate-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-progressives#:~:text=El%2DSayed%20was%20vastly%20outspent,money%20to%20El%2DSayed's%20campaign.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 27/09/2026
Meanwhile, Mehdi Hasan, a multi-millionaire who's OBSESSED with the idea that Neera Tanden & Shannon Watts are trying to tank Abdul, has donated a *combined* total of NOTHING to any federal candidates so far this cycle according to the FEC. (He might have donated since Q2, of course)
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 27/09/2026
Ironically, I've raised over $15,000 for Abdul & have pledged to vote for him even though I strongly opposed him in the primary and still have serious reservations about him.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Every three weeks it’s like but white supremacists who mostly care about testosterone and killing minorities were supposed to fix the economy
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Author Simulator 

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto  a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
 Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have some really harsh feelings because these are the same people who were okay with the racism even when it was being pointed out AND They did it because despite being women ? They think other women are acceptable currency
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Yadayada baba @729xhappier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How do you remove women from the workplace? Make sexual availability to men in the workplace the cost of admission for women in the workplace.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/09/2026
There have been a lot of jokey jokey about this but it is actually not funny. EA and AI bros are scummy and trying to destroy the world and coercing people into sex is very much a core part of their ethos.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
SE Michigan was SO segregated in the early 1990s that I was shocked to learn white kids my age listened to hip hop. 😆 We kinda assumed they listened to rock, especially grunge... First time I went to a NYE party in Royal Oak & folks started doing the Humpty dance, I was thrown off, but recovered 💃🏾🕺🏿
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Think my students will notice?
A pair of shoes in the pattern of the classical composition notebook.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
so a total of 500-600 parents were cut off? And that is an "epidemic?" Prove to me that this is in fact an epidemic, and not abusive selfish parents being very loud and angry about boundaries. Prove to me why parents who...consume their children deserve to continue to have access to their children.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
happy Jim Henson’s birthday from the museum of the moving image
A display case with the Statler and Waldorf puppets above one of Henson’s sketches
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 26/09/2026
But seriously: Gifted Kid Syndrome will have you thinking that being The Smartest Person In The Room is your whole worth as a human. If AGI were real (it's not!), rationalists would have to accept that they are not The Smartest. This is why they consider it an existential threat.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Did I remind all of you in NYC to make sure to take yourselves and your children to see "He Built This City" at the Museum of the City of New York yet? The exhibit closes October 12: www.mcny.org/exhibition/h... - I cannot say enough about this exhibit and I think that you will be amazed. GO!
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He Built This City
Explore Joe Macken’s monumental model and discover the extraordinary vision behind one of the most ambitious handmade representations of New York City ever created.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026
I think constantly about how Ruby Bridges is younger than my mother.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy 9 to 5 Day
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
Wait, the whole iced coffee interview thing has been the Internet's Main Character all week?
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And if you're on instagram, you should go to your settings and uncheck these two boxes
In your menu under sharing and reuse there is a button to click whether or not people can create with your contentThere is a button to check on that says allow your reels and posts to be featured with products
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ
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Pressure Drop
YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026
🧐 www.axios.com/2024/10/25/m...
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Scoop: Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters
It's the first news deal Meta has made in the AI era.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
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mhkmhk.bsky.social @mhkmhk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not joking when I say knowing phone number and address is a kindergarten skill
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