Reposted by GabalaIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I had no idea about this aspect of Hughes' life and work. 12633282
Reposted by GabalaAnne-Marie W. Clark 👩👧👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 24/03/2026[further down thread] "Sponsoring a spouse costs US citizens up to $2,675 in fees alone, $675 to petition, $1,440 to adjust status, $560 for a work permit. The government is cashing those checks and then doing nothing. That's fraud not delay." 1246111
Gabala @pickleddreams.bsky.social · 23/03/2026I love short stories for a trip so my vote is for the first one 111
Reposted by GabalaAaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare. 5640071251
Reposted by GabalaMom @milph.mom · 23/03/2026This led me down a hole of “I wonder if there’s references to them in Dorohedoro” and finding out, Yeah, no shit, there’s a whole graphic for it. 213342
Reposted by GabalaAna Hein @anahein.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Hey! I wrote about how the Nancy Drew point-and-click-adventure games function as Gothic texts and how Nancy is a textbook Gothic heroine. If you like spooky adventure games, you should check it out! Up now on @mothership.blog! Many thanks to @zoehhannah.com for her amazing edits on this! 27425
Reposted by GabalaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Waffles for lunch, & some beer. And a small mountain of butter! Fine menu selection from Georg Flegel, d. OTD 1638. 1244973
Reposted by GabalaIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Arthur Wesley Dow was a painter, printmaker, teacher, and photographer. However, he's best known for the quote "realism was the death of art." I think about that quote every time y'all put a video game NPC close-up with individual eyelashes or the latest live-action Disney thing in my skyline. 1435112
Reposted by Gabaladerek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Me now that Brent crude oil is up 50% 1165282512
Reposted by GabalaDan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 22/03/2026It's weird being older. The obvious solution to the TSA lines is to abolish it. We did without that security theater for ages. It's been demonstrated OVER AND OVER to do nothing. It just funnels more money to bullshit. ICE and TSA were created wholecloth in 2003 and 2001 respectively. 7451154
Reposted by GabalaZach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 15/03/2026"Bunch of guys obsessed with Ancient Sparta can't beat the Persians at sea" was probably one of the known-knowns, come to think of it. 1239271030
Reposted by GabalaPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/03/2026"I have an electric car, hur hur" The cost of fresh produce is already up 49% versus last year. When the cost of transportation spikes, you're *fucked* unless you only eat locally grown food. 636885
Reposted by GabalaKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22/03/2026I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic. 2556201241
Reposted by GabalaChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 14/12/2025There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵 1832441184
Reposted by Gabalafrankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 21/03/2026happy first day of spring 1272
Reposted by GabalaA Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 20/03/2026The USPS IS NOT LOSING MONEY. THE USPS IS SPENDING TAX DOLLARS ALLOCATED TO IT BY THE BUDGET. THE USPS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO ZERO OUT ITS BALANCE SHEET IT IS NOT A BUSINESS IT DOES NOT HAVE SHAREHOLDERS. IF THE USPS IS OUTSPENDING ITS BUDGET IT SHOULD BE ALLOCATED MORE BUDGET. 344971533
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Reposted by GabalaBrutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 20/03/2026Trellick Tower, London - Ernő Goldfinger. r/brutalism 211020
Reposted by GabalaMonica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Point Break (1991) 🎬🖤 Directed by Kathryn Bigelow 417727
Reposted by Gabalacolumbo out of touch thursday @ootcolumbo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026friends, romans, countrymen… happy out of touch thursday 1238136
Reposted by GabalaIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/03/2026This is why you don't feed wild animals, or otherwise make food you have easy for them to get at. Once they start viewing people as snack dispensers, they can get dangerous. 115840
Reposted by GabalaJ.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Susan Tyrrell in "Forbidden Zone" - BOTD 0298
Reposted by Gabalascissor cut paper @dummypublic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026brick wall in free fall 28316
Reposted by GabalaGaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Ghanian poster for ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) Directed and co-written by John Carpenter Starring Kurt Russell - BOTD in 1951 13010
Reposted by GabalaBig Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 01/02/2024"self care involves doing things that are hard but necessary, like cleaning your bathroom and ending toxic relationships" 6889
Reposted by GabalaMuscle Distribution @muscledistribution.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Henry Hanson’s PUPPYGIRL, the M. Sisters’ DIVINE HAMMER, and @weard.moe’s CASTRATION MOVIE CHAPTER III. will all have their Irish premieres next month as part of the second edition of TITE (Trans Image / Trans Experience). More festival dates for all three films to come. More info: tite.ie 16019
Reposted by GabalaRachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Look up. 🖼️ Toni Demuro 012124
Reposted by GabalaA l i c e @astoehr.bsky.social · 15/03/2026i swear if i could have any artist's work on the cover of a book i wrote it would be phobia's— 1212
Reposted by GabalaMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026how is he good at everything 762410224
Reposted by Gabalacola @colamander.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I'm feeling like live action chuchu tonight 14813
Reposted by GabalaVictoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 27/09/2025Day 27 of #septempera - the connoisseur. 3042541150
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Reposted by GabalaMatthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Surveillance is not a purely philosophical issue with purely esoteric harms. Surveillance is a sensitive and often faulty trigger that summons armed agents of the state with impunity that can take away a person's freedom. 26337
Reposted by GabalaMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Finished the first three lessons in The Big Book of Watercolor 9955
Reposted by GabalaWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/03/2026They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175 Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...inquirer.comAI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will BunchA debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime. 12455721960
Reposted by GabalaThomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 08/03/2026nothing wrong with trade school if your goal is a “this person is employable” endorsement; but if that’s what you want out of college you should not waste your time, your professors time, or your parents money fighting against a system designed for people who intrinsically enjoy learning 0132
Reposted by GabalaLena (they/them) 🩷💛🩵 @petalsketch.bsky.social · 07/03/2026“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein 413246695
Reposted by GabalaMother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/03/2026New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.motherjones.comNew York is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah AlamAG Letitia James will head an "independent assessment" of what happened to the Blind Rohingya refugee who Border Patrol dumped in Buffalo. 12765601936
Reposted by GabalaJustin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I love this video, will always rt it 311723
![In late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a leading voice of literary Black America, traveled to Mexico City, where he stayed for more than five months and began translating short fiction by prominent Mexican and Cuban writers. These stories, as he wrote to a friend, explore “the revolutions and uprisings, sugar cane, Negroes, Indians, corrupt generals, [and] American imperialists,” and are “mostly all left stories, because practically all the writers down here are left these days.” But when Hughes proposed publishing the stories as a book, to be titled Troubled Lands, his agent discouraged him from further pursuing the project and it remained unpublished, until now, with only a handful of the translations making their way into contemporary magazines. This volume presents Hughes’s translations of these stories together for the first time as he originally envisioned. Edited by Ricardo Wilson, the book also features an introduction and brief biographies of the included writers.
Troubled Lands features thirty-three stories by eighteen writers, including Rafael Felipe Muñoz, Nellie Campobello, Lino Novás Calvo, Luis Felipe Rodríguez, Germán List Arzubide, Pablo de la Torriente-Brau, and Juan de la Cabada. The collection depicts Mexico in the wake of its revolution and Cuba in the years between the brutal regimes of Machado and Batista](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wlamchyb2ae65fgx75sfaqsq/bafkreiabxdfrb2572rx2ljk6uqrs7rv3krxgs675zbq6n6ykrnysls47yi)
![“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein
[an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2n2dejikiq3y3rrg45gtw6si/bafkreig4hk7n6hp3po67f6lqhxdout4edflushs6tmriyvumsfosb2524m)