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Belinda ♿️

@ninjapoodles.bsky.social
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Disabled, ally, artist, voracious reader, gamer, proud parent of an amazing young adult, striving intersectional feminist. Never perfect, always listening. She/Her

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's not about "fairness in women's sports" any more than it was about "ethics in gaming journalism."
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thanks to my incredible audiobook narrator, Soneela Nankani, whom a childhood friend helped me pick, DATA EMPIRE won an Earphone Award from Kirkus Reviews!
Cover of the book with the little headphone image indicating the award Utterly fascinating.
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arrator Soneela Nankani ushers
listeners around the globe and
through time in this sweeping survey of how humans use information to understand, interpret, and control.
Author Risam begins her exploration 43,000 years ago and ends it with tantalizing peeks into possible futures.
Ranging back and forth both geographically and temporally, she examines data collection and its use (or misuse) in the 23rd-century B.C.E.
Akkadian Empire, Han-era China, 14th-century C.E. Mali, and elsewhere. Giventhis mammoth scope, the account could easily lose listeners along the way, but Nankani's understated delivery is its perfect vessel. Voice rising and falling naturally, with emotion applied sparingly and skillfully, Nankani allows listeners full access to the argument Risam builds from the data she has so meticulously researched.
Utterly fascinating.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m not trying to scare people about infectious diseases. (RFKJ) I’m just letting you know that they aren’t a supplement for your immune system to build some fantasy immune muscles. Infectious diseases confer immunity sometimes, imperfectly, and with damage to the individual and the community.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
American novelist & short story writer Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the #Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1921. She won for her satirical novel set in 1870s high-society New York, The Age of Innocence. She died #OTD in 1937. #literature #fiction #BookSky #LitSky
A black-and-wite histocial photograph of American author Edith Wharton (1862–1937), celebrated historically as the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Seated in a relaxed, aristocratic pose, she leans her left elbow on a draped surface, resting her head against her hand while her right hand rests in her lap. She wears an elegant, dark Gilded Age gown featuring white off-the-shoulder lace sleeves, a ruffled white neckline, a thick pearl choker, and a long, delicate necklace. Her dark hair is styled into an elaborate, voluminous updo. Her expression is calm, intelligent, and poised. In the bottom right corner, an inset image displays a modern book cover for her famous novel, The Age of Innocence. The cover features a stark black, white, and red stylized damask pattern surrounding a vintage portrait of a woman looking over her shoulder. Bold white text reads "THE AGE OF INNOCENCE" with "Edith Wharton" written beneath it. The overall composition balances classic historical portraiture with a modern literary reference, evoking a sophisticated and intellectual mood that underscores Wharton's enduring literary legacy and sharp critique of high society.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I don't want to be judgy or mean but seriously, fuck transphobes forever, they are awful.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
JUST IN: Convicted Felon Donald Trump is scrambling on an emergency basis to try to convince a federal judge to block production to the BBC of financial documents for more than 400 of his business entities
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“Sandwich guy case” “Harvard clawed frog embryo smuggling case” “Olympic canoeist reflecting pool vandalism case” “James Comey seashells Instagram post case” New rule: If the case sounds like a Mad Libs story, it’s probably about to implode.
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Belinda ♿️ @ninjapoodles.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Me: "OMG I AM SO READY TO READ INKPOT GODS AND RECONECT WITH BELOVED CHARACTERS AND AND -- @seananmcguire.bsky.social , a while later:
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Wow You Are Not Prepared
Alt: Wow You Are Not Prepared. Gif of Illidan Stormrage, Demon Hunter, from World of Warcraft, swooping down with glaives drawn, delivering his iconic "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED" line.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/04/2026
Hi Ben, since you post about me every day and email me unsolicited even after I told you to stop, lets play a game. Every time you tweet about me, I donate $10 to a trans org. Let's call it the Benjamin Ryan youth transition fund. southernequality.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/fo...
A screenshot of a mobile webpage showing a donation confirmation. At the top is the logo for the "Trans Youth Emergency Project," an initiative by the Campaign for Southern Equality. Below it is a green checkmark, the amount "$10.69", and the message "Thank you for making a donation!" followed by text explaining the gift will support life-saving care for trans youth.A screenshot of a nested social media thread. At the top, user Benjamin Ryan comments that FIRE CEO Greg Lukianoff's observation about trans issues being "immediately radioactive" and a kind of "secular blasphemy" caused Harvard Law clinical instructor Alejandra Caraballo to attack him as "extremely transphobic."
​Attached is a screenshot of Caraballo's post, which reads: "Here's the CEO of [FIRE] being extremely transphobic. Which side is the one criminalizing care and research? Which side is the one defunding all research? Which side is purging dissent? It ain't trans people."
​Caraballo's post quotes Lukianoff's original statement, where he writes: "In my career defending academic freedom and free speech, I never saw anything become as immediately radioactive as views that ran counter to the narrative on trans issues. Papers were retracted, compelled speech was treated as normal, and people were canceled for saying things that would have sounded like common sense just a few years earlier. It seemed to become a kind of secular blasphemy overnight."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/04/2026
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“Happy Easter, New York! 

Today, millions of New Yorkers celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the victory of hope over despair and faith over fear. 
As the air warms and cherry blossoms begin to bloom, this holy day is a sacred time to pause and reflect on a season of rebirth.
Whether you spend this day singing in pews, parading on Fifth Avenue, joining a processional guided by the bamboo trumpets of Haitian Rara music, or hunting for painted eggs amidst the spring grass, I wish every New Yorker celebrating a joyous day. 

Let us all embrace this holiday's spirit of hope and renewal as we build the City — and the world — that we deserve.”
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 05/04/2026
weh
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American Woodcock Shine
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
To everyone celebrating Easter, Michelle and I wish you a joyful holiday filled with reminders of the enduring power of faith and hope.
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Belinda ♿️ @ninjapoodles.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Sometimes your zoomies go so hard that your legs melt and all you have left is your little peets. #cat #catsky
Grey and white shorthaired tabby cat with huge eyes and ears staring at the camera while loafed on a thick blanket in such a way that his front feet peek out.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/03/2026
1012 words (45361 total) on “The Post-American Internet,” a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America #DailyWords
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/03/2026
All of our living presidents who still have a sense of decency gathered to honor Rev. Jesse Jackson. Respect recognizes respect.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.
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Chris @topquark59.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 14/01/2026
Kristi Noem has been a complete and total failure at her job. She has violated her oath and has allowed ICE agents to terrorize our communities. That’s why I’m joining @robinkelly.house.gov in calling for her impeachment. We deserve better, she’s gotta go.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Is the right wing still pissed at The Boys for being Woke after they self inserted as the villain? Anyway The Boys just named a goat Elon Musk and had a black woman explode it with her mind
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
In Nineteen Eighty Four all art for the "proles" is created without human intervention at all because they just feed a set number of scenarios and words into fiction machines and songwriting machines, which then create them and disperse them widely to keep the proles happy and FOR FUCK'S SAKE ORWELL
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
“Power is just an asshole stuffed with money.” -Mr. Robot
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 29/09/2025
I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 28/09/2025
"the fossil fuel industry has a real interest in funding panic over transgender people: It distracts the public from the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.” 🤬
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah
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Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first
QNews LGBTIQA+ News
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 23/09/2025
I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 21/09/2025
This gets a paragraph, if that, in high school US history.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/09/2025
I support the right of readers to give books they don't like low ratings but I honestly don't understand the "this is the fifth book I've read by [author] and I haven't liked any of them," sort of review, my sibling in Christ, stop reading that author, they're just not for you and will never be
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
In short, force them to try to rule by naked force because they *do not* have enough force and the very nakedness of it will mean they have less and less. The Civil Rights movement overcame far more with far less, if we had a fraction of their courage, we'll win.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Oh this explains why people are all up in my rabies thread again. This is a PSA: DO NOT TOUCH WILDLIFE. THAT MEANS YOU SHOULD NOT BREASTFEED INJURED BATS. JUST STOP. YOU DON'T WANT RABIES. RABIES IS BAD. WE HAVE MADE GREAT STRIDES WITH MANY OTHER DISEASES BUT NOT THAT ONE SO LEAVE THE BATS ALONE.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 14/09/2025
Every pundit article: BLUESKY IS A HOTBED OF RADICALIZATION Majority of posts in my feed: Check out this cool bug/bird/random historical personage I found! Small but vivid minority of posts: Do you think Gritty and Alf are in a polycule or nah?
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Belinda ♿️ @ninjapoodles.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Made this tonight, and it was delicious, and pretty low-effort if you have a food processor. I am not about chopping very often. Not sure it's better than regular hobak buchim, but it's higher protein and you get to eat adorable little triangle packages. #homecooking youtu.be/mYzhn2SeDmE?...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them. And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/09/2025
Fuck this actual piece of shit human and administration
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 12/09/2025
I'm so glad this quote spoke to you!!! It's close to my heart.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2025
JUST IN: Brazil’s top court sentences former President Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and 3 months in prison over his attempted coup
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DumpSite OPEN(3)SLOTS @nsfwdumpsite.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I think it's underappreciated that this site goes "we know you all came up with your own solution to things we don't have, and now that we have an official version we're working with your solution to combine the two"
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/09/2025
GOOD NEWS: Despite RFK Jr saying he would cancel $500 million in mRNA research, the House Committee on Appropriations has passed a spending package, that includes $1.1 billion for “advanced research and development” at BARDA, which includes research on mRNA vaccines.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
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A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story
A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 09/09/2025
This afternoon in TIME MAGAZINE, @mariannecooper.bsky.social and I discuss why 300,000 Black women leaving the workforce is bad for the economy, bad for society, and bad for you. In the piece, we argue that Black women are the canaries in the coalmine and why ignoring #TheDoubleTax harms us all.
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Rising Unemployment Among Black Women Is a Bad Economic Sign
"Black women are the canary in the coal mine on the health of the economy," write Cooper and Opoku-Agyeman.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/09/2025
I shit you not whoever runs on this nationally is doing Reagan numbers when it comes election time.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
writing crime haikus to my crime partner which i decorate with a crime drawing for his birthday card
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Eileen Curley Hammond @curleyhammcozy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
He brushed lint from his cream silk pants. “…people like us with money and innate class have all the #power.” She smiled and lifted the Limoges tea cup. “You’ve got a clog, all right.” The plumber wiped his hands. “Can’t get to it till next Wednesday.” #vss365
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