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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another great @americanwritersmuseum.org OnWord Gala 9/29 in #Chicago! As a member of the board of trustees, I’m grateful to all involved in this joyous celebration & defense of the written word/writers, incl. AWM leadership, & my table guests, like @angelanissel.bsky.social 🧵👇🏾 #BookSky ❤️📚🙏🏾📝✍🏾📓👩🏾‍💻

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

That’s all for now! Please come visit & become a member of the @americanwritersmuseum.org in Chicago (and online!), and please help support this wonderful institution. Our annual OnWord fundraising gala is this coming Monday, Sept 8, 2025, right here in #SweetHomeChicago. 🥰 #ChicagoSky #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚✍🏾

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

#ThrowbackThursday: Reflecting on what a great time I had at the @americanwritersmuseum.org OnWord gala last year and looking forward to this year’s gala, coming up on Monday, September 8! As a member of the board of trustees, this is one of my favorite events. Join us! #ChicagoSky #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚✍🏾📑🧑🏾‍💻📝

Collage of photos from my phone from the American Writers Museum annual OnWord Gala last year on 9 September 2024

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Another wonderful @americanwritersmuseum.org annual OnWord Gala is in the books! As a member of the board of trustees, I am grateful to all involved in this joyous celebration & defense of the written word & writers, including AWM leadership, & the guests who joined me at my table. #BookSky ❤️📚🙏🏾📝✍🏾📓👩🏾‍💻

Collage of photos I took at the American Writers Museum’s annual OnWord Gala on the evening of 8 September 2025 at the Four Seasons Hotel in my Sweet Home Chicago

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Gala #1 of 6 from Fall 2025: @americanwritersmuseum.org OnWord Gala in September in Chicago (I am a member of the board of trustees). #BookSky ❤️📚

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

As a member of the board of trustees of the American Writers Museum, I encourage you to please join us at our OnWord Annual Benefit on the evening of 29 September 2026 in #Chicago 💃🏾✍🏾 cc: @pronounced-ing.bsky.social 👋🏾 Your support of @americanwritersmuseum.org means so much! #AWFest2026 #BookSky

Linda Dunlavy, Director of Development at the American Writers Museum, and me (a board member) at this year’s American Writers Festival

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

My podcast is only a year old. I'm so geeked to be nominated for this particular episode because it's an episode ERRRRYBODY needs to listen to.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

I got nominated for a Signal Award for B*tch, Listen! My interview w/ Elie Mystal—The Constitution: A Scam by Rich White Men, for Rich White Men—has been nominated for best individual episode in the Activism, Public Service, and Social Impact category! But now I need YOUR help. 1/2

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The Constitution: A Scam by Rich White Men, for Rich White Men

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Please vote for B*tch, Listen to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award for the episode in which @elienyc.bsky.social and I talk about how the Constitution is trash but it's working exactly the way the white slaver founders intended. You can vote here. You have to sign up. Do it! Do it now! Please?

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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU

I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a Michigan fan, I guess I can empathize with Eric Schmitt. The Iowa Hawkeyes are exposing a lot of people as gigantic frauds these days.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.

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12 DAYS 'TIL ULTRON'S BYKE @rochardscott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are not many albums I'd call "perfect." But this is one of them. And it has arguably the greatest opening track in music history.

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Albumism @albumism.com · 29/09/2026

Stevie Wonder released ‘Hotter Than July’ 46 years ago on September 29, 1980 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/SWonderHTJ

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Albumism @albumism.com · 29/09/2026

Billy Joel released 'The Stranger' 49 years ago on September 29, 1977 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/BillyJoelTS

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Albumism @albumism.com · 29/09/2026

Do you remember hearing this album for the first time? album.ink/Bjork-Post

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Albumism @albumism.com · 30/09/2026

Rewind your mind back to the 1970s and rediscover this classic album | Explore our retrospective tribute here: album.ink/CKchaka

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Albumism @albumism.com · 30/09/2026

Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" from 'Fever' hit #1 on the UK singles chart 25 years ago on September 29, 2001 album.ink/KMFever

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Albumism @albumism.com · 30/09/2026

What are your favorite songs from Solange’s third studio album ‘A Seat At The Table’ (2016), originally released 10 years ago this week? Listen to the album + read our tribute by @beyondtheencore.bsky.social here: album.ink/solangeASATT

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Albumism @albumism.com · 30/09/2026

Madonna released "True Blue" as the third single from her third studio album of the same name 40 years ago on September 29, 1986 album.ink/MadonnaTB

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Albumism @albumism.com · 30/09/2026

The Cranberries released "Dreams" as the first single from their debut album 'Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?' 34 years ago on September 29, 1992 album.ink/CranberriesEE

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

52-54% of welfare recipients in Arkansas are white, which is why the ad should have featured a black woman

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

It turns out you can’t actually base an entire economy on skull measuring

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here were the top songs on the Billboard Hot 100 on this day in 1984: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 1. "Let's Go Crazy" - Prince & The Revolution 2. "Missing You" - John Waite 3. "Drive" - The Cars 4. "She Bop" - Cyndi Lauper 5. "I Just Called To Say I Love You" - Stevie Wonder musicchartsarchive.com/singles-chart/…

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Albumism @albumism.com · 29/09/2026

Prince & The New Power Generation released "My Name Is Prince" as the second single from The 'Love Symbol' Album 34 years ago on September 29, 1992 | Watch the official video, listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/PrinceNPGls

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Dr. Seuss Bot @dr-seuss-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Look close! In my hand I have Little Cat V. On his head are Cats W, X, Y, and Z”

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They're calling layoffs "corporate streamlining" now.

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"we're hurting people by not destroying humanity" ok thanos

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Debuted on ABC 41yrs ago today. MacGYVER (1985-92)

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Lol

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Tiricohairline @trejames.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

The youth will never know the joy of frisbeeing a terrible CD out ya car window mid traffic.

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50+ Music @fiftymusic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Walkin' My Baby Back Home 🏘 #NatKingCole

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amen 🙏🏾

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This..

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La Bodega Baddie 🇵🇷 @zeenthecity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jasmine Guy is a living legend.

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ᴾᵃᵖⁱ ᴄʜɪᴄʜᴏꜱ 🥷⃤ @igotyoedges.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

AirPods don’t ever fall out the case and land next to each other. One be here the other be in Istanbul

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 28/09/2026

ED WOOD hit theaters on this day in 1994. On its 30th anniversary, I got its origin story from @larrythek.bsky.social for @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/p...

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Pull the String: Larry Karaszewski Remembers “Ed Wood” at 30

A look back at one of the best movies of the '90s by one of its writers.

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We Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy National Coffee Day! ☕

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We Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'MacGyver' premiered on this day 41 years ago! (September 29, 1985) Created by Lee David Zlotoff. Executive producers: Henry Winkler, John Rich, and Stephen Downing. Starring Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Bruce McGill, and more. #OTD #OnThisDay #TVHistory #80sTV