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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 9h

Just 24 hours and just 192 left! Student Ahmed relies on this link for now, but our goal in raising these funds is to actually help him be independent. Genocide doesn’t stop at a border. 58/250. chuffed.org/project/ahmedf

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Help survivor Ahmed get back on his feet

Ahmed is my best friend and colleague, and I am running this campaign on his behalf. Ahmed F is an art therapist, educator, and student. Since being displaced from Gaza in 2024, he's been striving to ...

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 17h

Already feeling inspired by the 2027 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! The story critiques on offer by incredible authors--so many cool eBooks available--the Support Your Local Punks merch is 🖤💗🖤

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

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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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For nearly two months, Palestinians in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood had access to water at any time — a welcome sense of stability in the depths of a genocidal war. On Aug. 24, that stability was disrupted by an Israeli airstrike that destroyed the newly built water desalination plant.

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you appreciate our frontline coverage from Gaza, please consider supporting UR contributor Mohamed el Saife to get his family out of Gaza >> tinyurl.com/supportmo <<

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Help Get Journalist's Family Out of Gaza

Help Mohamed get his family out of Gaza! Mohamed el Saife is a journalist who's risked his life for many years covering the Israeli occupation of Palestine and siege on Gaza. His family and him have b...

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The students of New York have never stopped supporting Palestine even if everyone stopped paying attention

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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For those of us living through genocide, there is no such thing as silence being a neutral choice. Every day of silence means Palestinian suffering is treated as though it matters less. Extermination,starvation,forcible transfer,torture,imprisonment,and sexual violence are not distant issues to us.

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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I want a theory of suffering that says: you are witnessing a genocide and it wounded you because it SHOULD wound you. the answer cannot always be to create enough distance that you can live normally again. sometimes the answer is to let that wound bind you to an obligation to act

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 20/09/2026

A community center in Gaza City <— something you'd imagine would get sustainable funding. Loads of NGOs, companies, and the Wikimedia Foundation said no. But donors automatically give every week to keep it open. Join them with a recurring five. 33/300 by Sunday. chuffed.org/project/spar...

An artistic banner with an illustration of yellow cactus pears on a pink background. Title: Sparks for Spark Space. Text: Spark Space is a youth-led humanitarian project serving the community with internet, electricity, and resilience. Pledge a 5 to keep it open. linktr.ee/sparkworkspace

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 16/09/2026

We've raised £4 this week for Ahmed, of 250 needed per week for his survival + legal costs. For all of everyone's nonsense about verification: I've met Ahmed twice. I've seen every document he has to his name. We are partnered on projects together. What more do you want? chuffed.org/project/ahmedf

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27

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Sahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Palestinian legal scholar Noura Erakat was arrested after residents packed a Palm Beach County budget hearing to demand an end to the county’s investments in “Israel” bonds. Organizers say around 100 residents were forced from the chambers as officers cleared the room

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A hundred people in Gaza were forced to live inside a bombed-out building, which suddenly collapsed. The urgent demand in this press release is for Israel to allow construction machinery into Gaza so that Civil Defense can work to rescue people trapped under rubble

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 16/09/2026

please read this

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Those feeling inspired by, and giving attention and support to artists protesting settler colonialism--let's share that attention and support with these families too! 🇵🇸🤝

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Aaron Rowe just debuted with an EP in 2025 and is dropping out of this giant mainstream tour with "I stand with my ancestors, I stand with Palestine"

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sama'a and her girls need food, clean water, medicine, and shelter, and they rely on our help to get it. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...

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Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d

Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 14/09/2026

Promoters have pulled Macklemore from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he called for a “Free Palestine” on stage: “We have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup” (www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...)

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WRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s @carnegro.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

I missed FAMU honoring Dolly Parton at Miami Friday night.

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Big Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 13/09/2026

look how easy this is

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"What if the soul isn't a *thing*? What if it's an act, seeking expression in our thoughts, our decisions, in how we move through the world?" I have a folder in my email labeled 'How to live' and immediately saved this essay there

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

hello, today the final story in my collection, "How to Be a Black Writer" is in @literaryhub.bsky.social: lithub.com/how-to-be-a-... the story is in stylistic conversation with Lorrie Moore's "how to become a writer" and Kiese Laymon's "you are the second person"

From the screenshotted excerpt: "You chose this program based on money and because you never had a Black person of any gender teach you anything about writing or reading. You learned math and Black Studies and the safest way to blow and push life into another person from other Black people, but none of them had taught you how to tell a story.

There is a family legend about how you learned how to read, that one day you were sitting at a kitchen table, four years old, beads in your hair because you were fresh back from a visit to your Mom-Mom’s, and you said something like, “Good morning. I hate Mondays. Lasagna,” and your parents realized you were reading a comic aloud to yourself. Reading came to you like a sudden burst into fruit brought forth by unseen winds.

You wanted a lineage. Sometimes, creating one doesn’t take generations upon generations. It can be established, at least in the arts, with the right, thoughtful conversation or idea passed around a table in two hours and forty-five minutes on a rainy Tuesday afternoon.

I want to tell you that you’ll make it through this year. But did you?

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hi! So our eSims are keeping a whole hospital going in Gaza, and countless of students who are studying for exams right now. Our funds are about to run out because the usage of those eSims are especially high. <3 #ConnectingGaza

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

REBUILD is now in its 5th year and despite the essential work being done, the program REMAINS even more precarious than in the past. www.darknessrisingproject.org/help-me-find... REBUILD connects justice-involved and formerly incarcerated individuals of color with culturally competent therapists.

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REBUILD - Darkness Rising Project

Need help finding a Black therapist? We can help.

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joanna @nutsandgum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Mothers are always motivated by concern for their children” is a load-bearing assumption here. Are mothers angels? Did we forget about bad faith? A person can be motivated by an irrational desire for supremacy, or bodily purity, or to feel special and different.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 05/09/2026

Become the elders you needed

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 02/09/2026

Why is help slightly up this week for Spark? Because a handful of folks clicked "weekly/monthly" on spare change. For this community center, that's RELIABLE help to stay open for displaced youth working & studying to support their families. 244/300 by Sunday: chuffed.org/project/spar...

An artistic banner with an illustration of a yellow sunset over water with low black hills and the silhouettes of birds in the sky. The background is pink. Title: Sparks for Spark Space. Text: Spark Space is a youth-led humanitarian project serving the community with internet, electricity, and resilience. Pledge a 5 to keep it open. linktr.ee/sparkworkspace

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 29/08/2026

the rest of us can only do what we always do: make our own decisions on who to trust and how to best spend what money we can spare in this one lifetime we spend in this hell world. for instance, you could set up a recurring monthly donation to the Sameer Project today. chuffed.org/project/help...

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Food & Water x The Sameer Project

Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide food & water...

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 29/08/2026

this entire bullshit global economy runs on actual scams—from health insurance, financialization, stonks, bubbles, crypto, AI, and prediction market gambling to structural adjustments, neoliberalization, wage theft, wealth extraction—but somehow desperate calls for aid are the suspicious thing

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/08/2026

I'm not going to ask for money, but I will admit things are going to be really tight right now for us with Mercy's surgery and there is something you can do: Please, if you have five minutes, read one of @mistymotors.net's articles for @theautopian.bsky.social every day. The clicks really do help.

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rivers solomon @riverssolomon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sweet, strange uncitizens: ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment. archiveofourown.org/works/91618061

The painting "The Moment" by James Warden, with the text "Once I Was Made of Earth" on it by Rivers Solomon. The painting is in the romantic style, quite dramatic and dark in tone if not colour, with a horse rearing with fear in its eyes as a snake launches to bite it, against a back drop of pink and blue mountains.

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 28/08/2026

OK, folks, let's make a difference for 25 families whose camp was bombed!!!! I'm not exaggerating when I say that every ounce helps. My friend on the ground who's helping to coordinate help said that truly, ANY relief makes a difference. These families lost everything! chuffed.org/project/erc

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Emergency campaign for those affected by a Zionist bombing in the Gaza Strip

This is a rapid and emergency appeal on behalf of my dear friend in Gaza, whose family has lost their displacement camp in Gaza. On 23 August, 2026, a bombing in the central region of Gaza completely…

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 27/08/2026

ICYMI, a whole displacement camp was destroyed on Sunday and the families need help ASAP 🙏🏾 I'm working with a volunteer on the ground, a very dear friend who was wounded in that bombing. The families need essential supplies for shelter, water, and hygiene. chuffed.org/project/erc

Colorful graphic. Title: Emergency relief campaign. Text: 25 displaced families lost their camp. Help them recover with dignity. To the side are four icons of a tent, a shirt, a water droplet, and a soap bottle, labeled shelter, supplies, water, hygiene. chuffed.org/project/erc

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/08/2026

If you like my content, I'd appreciate if you would consider subscribing to my Patreon. As you probably know, my day job is a name-your-own-price law practice that loses money on most of its cases, and given the current economy, demand for a pay-whatever-you-can lawyer is only going up.

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Sheryl Weikal, the Name Your Own Price Lawyer — BECAUSE REPRESENTATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Every hour there's a story of like a Norwegian death metal guy saying hey I never met Dolly Parton but she sent me a handwritten note saying she loved our song Corpse in the Copse and to keep speaking our truth

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

no amnesty

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I loved and admired Dolly Parton for her good works as well as her talent and it is amazing as the tributes roll in to realize the breadth of it all. That as much as I admired her for, there was so much I never knew.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In the essay, I quote @profkori.bsky.social and her theor of “know your place aggression”— Jason died of such aggression "Dare to step into these spaces," they warn, "dare to take some of the resources we've been hoarding, and this could happen to you, too." lithub.com/steven-thras...

"Dare to step into these spaces," they warn, "dare to take some of the resources we've been hoarding, and this could
happen to you, too."

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Nothing Jason was accused of doing justified what he was subjected to lithub.com/steven-thras...

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"The real transgression which triggered the investigations of both of these scholars was being a star in a PWI, and having a crossover book by a major trade publisher. This was their true sin. This is what brought a level of scrutiny... which cost them their careers (and, in one case, their life)."

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