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Igniting the torch of unity, diversity, and freedom🔥 Our differences are our strength. Our cultures speak beauty into humanity. ✊🏽 💍 Joyfully Married 🪐🌕🔭 Astronomy ✍️📝⌨️ Writing 🎭🎨🖌️ Art

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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 2h
Coast to coast
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay have fun with your life.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/soul...
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
To answer your q - someone may call another "mother" who did not birth them: adoption, step-parentage, etc But in this case, William Boyd Allison Davis (father) married Alice Elizabeth Stubbs (mother) & had two sons: Allison Stubbs Davis and Gordon Jamison Davis, NYC parks commissioner & attorney.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That's intriguing - a child inherits their ancestry split between both parents. Suppose a mixed race child with one black and one white parent. That child being mixed-race-black doesn't make their white parent black, nor does it make their black parent white.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This response only warrants a follow-up question: Do you think someone's offspring determines the ancestry of their parents?
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do you consider one's mother to be a long, distant relative? bsky.app/profile/hist... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison...
en.wikipedia.org
Allison Davis (anthropologist) - Wikipedia
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With Cassiopeia shining beautiful overhead
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So three major egg producers settled with the USA's DOJ and 17 states to pay $3.3 mil in fines and to donate over 53 million eggs as a consequence for **not** price gouging? apnews.com/article/egg-...
apnews.com
Egg producers will pay $3.3M and donate 53 million eggs to settle price-fixing claims
The U.S. Justice Department and 17 states have reached settlement agreements with three major egg producers over allegations of that the companies illegally colluded in a multiyear scheme to raises pr...
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But the price gouging was massively overinflated even though the crisis was real. apnews.com/article/egg-...
apnews.com
Egg producers will pay $3.3M and donate 53 million eggs to settle price-fixing claims
The U.S. Justice Department and 17 states have reached settlement agreements with three major egg producers over allegations of that the companies illegally colluded in a multiyear scheme to raises pr...
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In the vid, Mamdani states that all press would be permitted where this presser was taking place, so most likely all major outlets+. T's ban is from the WH, not from all things he does. And the media solidarity seems to extend only to the places CNN, MSNow, and Politico have been banned from.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For most of these topics, "better" is a highly opinionated determination. How did this poll normalize for such an opinion-based data set? For example, one might opine, "better on immigration is more open borders, less red tape" while another might opine, "the best immigration is zero immigration"
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Absolutely stunning! What type of refractor telescope are you looking through!?
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Controlling movement and behavior based on one's ancestry through inhumane and draconian laws, tiered ID systems, military/police checkpoints, and beyond - where have I heard this before? Oh right... riiiiight.
An African American woman and her daughter stand in front of a neon "Colored Entrance" shop sign. The photo is from Jim Crow era USA (1956)A sign on a beach in Durban, South Africa reading, "Under section 37 of the Druban Beach by-laws, this bathing area is reserved for the sole use of members of the white race group," presented in two additional languages. A white boy can be seen playing on the beach behind the sign.A chart showing the classification of Jewish people and marriage restrictions in Nazi Germany after the Nuremberg Laws were passed in September 1935.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Then sorry to say, but those are bad apologies. That apology is like being sorry that you got caught, not that you wronged someone. "I'm sorry *that* I scared you," claims ownership, but it doesn't apologize for the harmful behavior. "I'm sorry that I poured vinegar on you." That's an apology.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Spent waaaaay too many days this year watching the months-long volcanic eruption of #mayon to *not* vote #Vesuvianite in #MinCup26
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Okay wait this is a grand idea. Who out here wanna learn about some minerals?‽
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Righ though‽!! This *gotta* be my next read after "I Am Maroon" by Russell Shoatz
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
First time seeing a lunar eclipse through a telescope. What a jaw-dropping experience. A floating chunk of rock in the sky getting obscured by the chunk of rock we're standing on.
A photo of the moon during a partial lunar eclipse. The bottom-left half is obscured by the Earth's shadow.
This photo was taken during the partial lunar eclipse on 28-Aug-2026
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
For real!! It's *stunning* seeing it in such clarity. ~9,375 km avg distance from Phobos <> Mars ~384,400 km avg distance Moon <> Earth That makes Phobos ~41x closer to Mars than our moon is to Earth. Incredible.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/08/2026
So... what's up with #DarkEnergy? 🤔 I wrote up a summary of the current status of possibly-weirdly-changing dark energy for @perimeterinstitute.bsky.social's shiny new researcher-focused newsletter; you can read the piece here:
perimeterinstitute.ca
Dynamical dark energy and the week that broke cosmology | PI News
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Ah, so I wager anyone with a BofA loan or credit card can pay down their debt with feelings instead of currency! BofA will adjust.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Word. Yeah, I can dig it.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Well sure, but this isn't only about game preservation. It's absolutely a huge part of the issue, but it doesn't really address ownership vs licensing and the rapidly ballooning power of the tech elite to do whatever they want despite mass protest.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Btw, I'm very on your side - I loathe the forced extinction of physical media and the unnecessary increased difficulty of playing older titles. But I see buying any PS6, even to jailbreak it, as that buyer telling Sony that they are ultimately okay without physical media - even if they complain
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Hope you're right too, but jailbreaking a PS6 isn't gonna suddenly create a disc drive nor create new physical media. It'll help with backwards compatibility... for games a player already owns digitally... It may be easy to connect an external disc drive, but that still won't create PS6 game discs
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Important matters like calling out genocide and criticizing the group of people who have been culling the lives of a Semitic peoples?
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Yeahhhhh exactly that. Relearning the game's nuances around mid-game is a *rough* way to try to transition back into playing. So many partially-completed saves....
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Tangentially, this is me with nearly every Story-Based RPG I play now. Even when the game blows my mind, adult+parent life leaves me with so many sustained game breaks that I return 2-6 weeks later having forgotten what I was doing, why I was doing it, and what the game-specific controls are.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
What a fantastically strange and wonderful way to depict the passage of time through a single (composite) still image. I would have never fathomed that I might see Psyche approaching Mars like this. Thank you for sharing!
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Yeah, exactly. We use devices that require typing passwords in public *all the time*. And since most apps and sites have a "reveal password" toggle, I really can't imagine any good, substantive arguments for removing privacy as the default.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
But if the user is not logged in, how could the website/app determine the user's settings? Doesn't the "Click 👁️ to make the field visible" button provide the result you're after with even less hassle than digging through user settings? I'm genuinely curious - not trying to be sassy or anything.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I mean - hidden password fields were intended to protect against people who are near you (or watching your screen on screen share) when you have to type a password in. (Though it does help if the hacker also hacked CCTV with view to your screen) Way easier to always have password fields hidden.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
🫂🕊️
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I hope your tomorrow can bring you renewed joy, or perhaps a way address today's sadness. It's Gemini Season - we got that new flavor in the year, but sometimes the twin we didn't expect is the one who shows up. Idk where I been going with this, but I feel you ms v - and I'm sending you vibes.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
But at the same time - yo, I so feel you. I'm so sorry life today hit you with so much sadness. At least you *know* you still overflowing with empathy. Alas, the human world is so tough for an empath.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
If you want a little joy to help offset the sadness, in my African Disaspora book club today, we spanned 3 generations, half of the members had attended Assata Shakur's memorial service last weekend, and we dialogued from "ways to improve our community" to subatomic particle physics.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The research surely may be bad, and if so, we'll certainly see published peer review papers that contest their analysis. That said, anything that generates heat increases the temperature of its surroundings, even if the heat is absorbed into the air via the water used for cooling and not the ground
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Honestly, I don't personally know - I only found the research paper a day or so ago, but idk how reporters/social media have been representing or misrepresenting the authors' analysis, nor have I seen any peer responses to their research.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"AI infrastructure is significantly warming surrounding areas, creating a “data heat island effect” with the potential to impact hundreds of millions of people living nearby." - Research: www.researchgate.net/publication/... Articles: www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/c... fortune.com/2026/04/01/a...
cnn.com
Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Yo whoa WHAT?!?! YOOOOOOO!!!! That's maaad legit!!! Brilliant work.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Yoo Campaign arc: Town being invaded by undead Pokemon The PCs discover a pair of Necro Wizards, Misgmagius and Duskull, creating an army of undead But then, they realize the pair wanted to heal like Pokemon Center Chanseys, but being ghosts - used Nerco Magic hoping it would be close enough.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Surely you're already considering the Kalos starters too, as their designs are seemingly based on a common D&D party: Chesnaught (paladin) Delphox (mage) Greninja (rogue)
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Yes! Meat thermometer is essential - there's no other *effective* way for a home cook to ensure meat is neither under- nor over-cooked.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Sous vide or Reverse Sear to 140°F / 60°C, then searing quick in a pan or grill are both great methods to keep it tender and juicy.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Seems like you're right. I looked through the past two years and didn't see this photo anywhere. Bees *are* in 2025's, but CERTAINLY not this photo. 2025: www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/... 2024: www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/...
nationalgeographic.com
2025: The Pictures of the Year
From the thousands of images made by our photographers all around the world this year, we present the ones that moved and inspired us most.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🤜🏽🤛🏻 We so here for it. *walks away whistling...* 🎼 I am the stone that the builder refused... 🎶
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Hearing a call between the only two groups of humans who are not within Earth's atmosphere right now is unbelievable The heart and passion in the voices of the heroes onboard the Artemis II and the ISS is revitalizing.
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SoulKit @soulkit.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Both can be true too. But even if individual votes were not manipulated, the Electoral College and Gerrymandering are forms of legalized vote manipulation.
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