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JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 14h

Boosting in light of the discourse surrounding Cornell University.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Who is draining Africa? This figure shows net-appropriation of resources from Africa's CFA zone, illustrating two key facts. 1) Eurozone countries are the biggest appropriators, benefitting from the Francafrique system. 2) Contrary to conventional Western narratives, China's appropriation is tiny.

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 9h

I did the math based on Treasury figures and if this is correct, that's more than 3x the deficit accumulated since 2001. 😑 fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-fin...

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 12h

Y'all are truly going to have to tell me how it is. That trailer looked DREADFUL. 🫤

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DaVaun Sanders @davaun.bsky.social · 22h

Release day is here!!! Help us celebrate all of the incredible authors who contributed to the Forged in FIYAH anthology! Snatch a copy or five for yourself wherever books are sold. Shout out to Matt and the @tordotcompub.bsky.social team for seeing this project through.

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 13h

Never mind artificial intelligence -- let's recognize the intelligence of fellow living creatures. "Accounts described elephants selecting particular plants when they seemed unwell, and mothers reportedly giving medicinal plant material to their calves." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Elephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses say

African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.

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✨No✨ @fabriqueen89.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

I fear I’m never beating the cutie patootie allegations

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

From France, James Baldwin sent a message to be read at Lorraine Hansberry's funeral in Harlem in 1965, including these words: "I think we must resolve not to fail her, for she certainly did not fail us."

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 29/09/2026

A For the Gworlz tip-thru would cure me.

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 29/09/2026

"Police would love nothing more than a world without jazz... Jazz is not just the sound of a dirge, but... exploration, escape, experimentation, ecstasy, and exodus... Like jazz, we must resist any categorization that would confine us to a blues scale." sojo.net/articles/opi...

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Black Like Jazz: Imagining a World Without Police

How jazz taught me to resist videos of memed violence where Black pain is only spectacle.

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 29/09/2026

Today was not my best or most productive day, but I did take steps to secure my mental wellness for the rest of the week. That's something.

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Yolo Akili Robinson @yoloakili.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Therapists are burned out. Doctors are dying. Children and families are scared and lost. Mental health distress is rising. This is not the time to divest from care.

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 28/09/2026

If this country cared about and prioritized lightening its residents' mental loads we would be in a VASTLY different society. - A Black queer neurodivergent baddie

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wish more people understood the level of hyper-awareness and vigilance it takes to ride a bike (or walk!) in so many places across the United States.

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 28/09/2026

It's always the youth. Every. Fucking. Time. I trust them with my life. Do you?

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.

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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 28/09/2026

"Lioness operates with a core team of [five formerly incarcerated] employees [and] has grown into a network of ~500 members [working] to advance the health, safety and well-being of ~20,000 women and transgender people inside Texas prisons and jails [and] those navigating life outside." Incredible.

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 28/09/2026

I try to bring clarity and care to every interaction. I don't always succeed in bringing them out of other people, but I do my best for me. I hope people see that, but I'm not obsessed with them seeing it. There is, after all, only so much we can control. 🧘🏾‍♂️

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...

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Every Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)

“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Planning dinner is, for many many many people, about what they have on hand, what they can afford, how work schedules change day-to-day, kids’ complicated schedules, individual preferences. The idea that this just a series of tasks is a huge cultural blindspot — which was my original point.

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 28/09/2026

"If you have a heart and you’re a human being, you can see what’s going on in the world and you check yourself real quick... I have to check myself when I’m sitting here crying about football... There’s people dying every single day."

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Beneath the Weeping Canopy By Jeff Stanford

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 28/09/2026

The big thing on the horizon

Ja'mal green campaign bus stuck in the mud

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 28/09/2026

Hardest thing reading this is deciding whether to mute just his first name or the whole thing. 🤔

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 28/09/2026

This is me but with life, lol.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

To summarize: there's nothing wrong with fighting when you're fighting fascist fuckers.

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 27/09/2026

Borrowing the phrase 'asymmetric constraint.' That's a good chestnut.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

"Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake." 🎯

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 27/09/2026

Since Sunday's typically a day of contemplation for me and this is the last weekend before a new month I feel folks should know that I'll be engaging in a silent spiritual retreat and withdrawing from verbal communication for the month of October. I've been toying with the idea for a few weeks...

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 27/09/2026

It's so important to be nude with the right people. And it's annoying that identifying the right people is such an effort.

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Sailor Jupiter @telavision.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

"British food allows you the space to fill in the gaps with your imagination of what it could taste like." "And that's art."

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026

“The thing we don't hear about enough, in my opinion, is the lives and humanity of pregnant people.” These kinds of challenges not only seek to overturn state bans, but could be used as part of a larger argument that Dobbs is unworkable and should be reversed: www.autonomynews.co/new-lawsuits...

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Anti-abortion advocates have claimed for decades that fetuses and even embryos are people with legal rights. No one can stop them from making that argument, Duane said, but reproductive rights and justice advocates can and should highlight the people without whom that potential life wouldn’t exist.

“The thing we don't hear about enough, in my opinion, is the lives and humanity of pregnant people,” she said. “We cede that ground to them when we don't plant our feet firmly on the ground and say what our values are, which is that pregnant people should not lose their rights just because they're pregnant.”

Amplify Legal is making a similar right to life claim in a case it filed against Arkansas' abortion ban. The first hearing in the lawsuit is on Monday. These kinds of challenges not only seek to overturn state-level bans, but could be used as part of a larger argument that the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade is itself unworkable and should be reversed.

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