Reposted by Star Emoji ✨c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust) 8748811483
Star Emoji ✨ @star-emoji.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Honestly the hardest part of writing OPLA fic while also being a long-time one piece fan is that the characters keep slipping into their anime versions. But I love the OPLA versions! I have to keep rewatching the show to remember what they’re like 😭 011
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨ゆう @primalmxy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026#OPLA Turnabout Big Top 🎪🤡🧑⚖️ (Buggy the Clown is the lawyer) 6462215
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Lydia/Lee @lydiajoypalmer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026September Frogs - join my patreon anytime this month for a 5x7 print or frog sticker mailed to you! #frogs #gouache #art #stickerclub #printclub 25222
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Vesper @vesperby.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My piece to go with the incredible @renofdragons.bsky.social's fic with @viktorsbuttmole.bsky.social as beta 🖤 Working together has been a wonderful experience, I am so in love with Ren's story, go read it: archiveofourown.org/works/907213... #jayvik #jayvikrbb2026 @jayvikbigbang.bsky.social #T4T 12405130
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Kiana Mai @kianamai.bsky.social · 04/09/2026FULLY ANIMATED EPISODE 1 IS OUT NOWWWW 🌟 youtu.be/6_7L80WaIuU?...youtu.bePretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl (EP.01 ANIMATED)YouTube video by Kiana Khansmith 190108335331
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 04/09/2026For the love of god pick this movie up. theplaylist.net/john-francis...theplaylist.net‘Dungeons & Dragons 2’: John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein Optimistic Their Sequel Will Find New Studio After Paramount PassedJohn Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein say Hasbro remains committed to ‘Dungeons & Dragons 2’ and hopes to secure a new studio partner. 681415281
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP 64120413685
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨🩸𝕯𝖆𝖗𝖐 𝕿𝖆𝖗𝖔𝖚🩸 @darktarou.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A small tribute to the one and only Dolly Parton! 💕 18117163942
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Happy Birthday Mr Curry thank you for awakening my interest in beautiful evil men 2274362261
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨mondayzc @mondayzc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026digital painting study from like ~15 seconds of the RHPC movie i did last year RIP Tim Curry what a guy 41134784148
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 45121535979
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I don’t like to make this about me, but it certainly doesn’t escape me that I’m heading to LA shortly to probably lose a Hugo for a story containing all my love for #DollyParton specifically. I guess always secretly hoped somehow she’d read it. But all my feelings are there. 917641
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Hey guys, we talk big about promoting animation from other countries & ive been following this project since its concept trailers. Please please help share it & keep it seen & going. South American animation DESERVES to be seen too. I want this project to live so badly.youtu.beAPUKUNAPA KUTIMUYNIN PV2 - El Despertar de la EnsoñaciónYouTube video by Ninakami Estudio de Animación 3622398
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 22/08/2026New trailer for "The Lovers", an indie Filipino short film by Studio Heartbreak, coming to Youtube in a week. www.youtube.com/@studioheart... 1427201313
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Murderbot adds Tramell Tillman, Patton Oswalt, Steve Buscemi, Wanda Sykes, Michael Sheen, and more for season two!!!reactormag.comMurderbot Season 2 Has an Incredible New Cast - ReactorMurderbot's favorite show might get some new stars, too. 1327631
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 16/08/2026Was having a conversation on this topic just recently. A book (or story or painting or movie or whatever) is not a puzzle with a Correct Solution. It's an experience to think about and with, to chew over and then bring to other experiences. 4446106
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Lux @brunchcorpse.bsky.social · 02/12/2024metal husband [ #jayvik #arcane #art ] 162758520
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Chequered Ink @chequered.ink · 25/07/2026We have literally just gone on image flip and made like 7 of these because we A) need money B) want you to have 1200 fonts for commercial use for just $19 ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack 3934951553
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 22/07/2026CATSUKA PLAYER, a free animation video platform with more than 25,000 videos (since 2008). I never promote it, but I'm glad to see that more and more people are using it ❤️ ➔ catsuka.tv 6596243
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 14/03/2026💥😎✨ #re9 2365211375
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Marion ✏️ @galaxyspeaking.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Why can’t we just stay right here? 2144141218
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Micah @rincewind.run · 11/07/2026what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time” 2657042530
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 12/07/2026"Mob Psycho 100" 10th Anniversary Special Movie (with subs) www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWSf... 31129499
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨ʎǝupʎs 🌙 @sydneyjones.bsky.social · 08/07/2025HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY JAYCE!!!!! much like jayvik i am extremely busy with work but wanted to get a little doodle out there 130092
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:bona-books.comHoney, We Bought an AI Story — Bona BooksThe Queer Torments of the AI-sphere 371287595
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Today is the 250th anniversary of Boston’s mass inoculation against smallpox on July 3, 1776. The city was effectively closed to commerce from July through September 1776. The mass immunization effort was cheered as evidence of true independence. Here's how I described it in my book: 8966459
Star Emoji ✨ @star-emoji.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I can’t believe hunter x hunter actually updated 010
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.medium.comTo the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years AgoA letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday 3269052364
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Raccoon0ncaf @pearlsw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The #Labru Comic (48/n) CW//partial nudity, fangs (I am just about now getting out of my cold) 725831
Reposted by Star Emoji ✨derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ 3854111491
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Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Mozz🐐 @mozzgoat.bsky.social · 27/06/2026#Bugtorweek Day 6: Locust bzzzzzzzz 🦗 #viktorarcane #arcaneherald 016064
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Reposted by Star Emoji ✨Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026World Central Kitchen is en route to Venezuela to provide hot meals for those affected by the devastating twin earthquakes as well as first responders, a vital, life-saving service if you are able and funds allow, you can donate at the link below donate.wck.org/campaign/815...donate.wck.orgDonate to World Central KitchenWorld Central Kitchen https://donate.wck.org/campaign/815521/donate 10968482726
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![Still, most freed Blacks resisted the pressure to self-deport. Instead, many started organizing toward the creation of the kind of Nation the colonizationists opposed—one that guaranteed liberty and justice for all. In the decades leading up to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, Black Americans organized and gathered at more than 600 local and national conventions across the country. There, delegates erected the political and intellectual scaffolding for the Fourteenth Amendment and, later, for the Black Civil Rights Movement more generally.
Critically for present purposes, these visionaries already understood themselves to be American citizens. “The refrains ‘we are Americans’ and ‘we are citizens’ echoed in conferences throughout the North.” Moreover, “[b]irthright figured importantly” as “delegates frequently characterized their status as that of native-born citizens.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreieuwdbxpjo22e7fg26a65dobwofwaytq6ilqp4cy7bcicw5fsk63a)
![The delegates argued that, as such, they had the requisite allegiance, so, at a minimum, the Federal Government owed them the duty of protection.
The famed orator Frederick Douglass was one of these delegates. Capturing the spirit of the moment, Douglass proclaimed that Chief Justice Taney—the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393 (1857)—“[could] do many things, but he [could not] … change the essential nature of things.” In the absence of the artificial evils of slavery and racial subordination, Douglass explained, “the glorious birthright of our common humanity, will become the inheritance of all the inhabitants of this highly favored country.”
Do note this: The citizenship thesis of the Colored Conventions was thus not that some new status should be created and conferred on freed Blacks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreidxenf7ggfe5sghdwpe5v7pwn3kfh4mqkxiccusnrknq7zfr7qhtm)
![It was instead that freed Blacks already had a rightful claim to citizenship because they had been born on American soil. After all, the Nation, from its founding, had “boldly proclaim[ed] that all men are born free and equal, and that consequently life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are inherent in every individual, vested inalienably by natural birthright.” No ideal was more inherently American. Now, “rest[ing their] cause on the republican standard of the revolutionary Fathers,” freed Blacks were “knock[ing] at the doors of the constitution and demand[ing] an entrance.” And “[i]f … asked what evidence [they] bring to sustain [their] qualifications for citizenship, [they would] offer them certificates of … BIRTH and NATIVITY.” Would the Nation live up to its promise?
Such universalist appeals were a conscious choice. Yes, Black Americans had suffered a singular wrong. And yes, they had “fought and bled” for the Union, paying a steep price for their freedom. But the delegates did not rest on these laurels. Rather, they drew upon the moral and political force of the universal principles that were already core to the Nation’s identity.
That bears repeating: Freed Blacks did not advocate for a unique set of rules that catered only to their situation. Nor did they seek to advance their own position relative to, or at the expense and exclusion of, other marginalized groups.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreig7o5wpfpkbjt7zcvghbco4zafj6m64etq7blz7r542gh7b3gn3oa)
![Instead, those whose gatherings helped galvanize the push for full equality understood that “[a] diverse origin does not disprove a common nature, nor does it disprove a united destiny.” The firmest foundation for freedom would require an anticaste reset—“both for his sake and for ours”—and would benefit all.
During his U. S. Senate candidacy, Abraham Lincoln developed a similar vision. In the lead-up to the now-famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln explained that the promise of liberty and equality in the Declaration of Independence “was held sacred by all, and thought to include all.” Lincoln expressly and intentionally linked the fate of Black Americans and immigrant groups (“among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all” of the Founders), and noted that the Nation’s future hinged on a universal definition of citizenship that excluded neither. He explained that the Declaration’s promise that “all men are created equal” was the “electric cord … that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together,” regardless of race or descent.
The case was made. First, there was war. And then, the delegates’ (and Lincoln’s) universalist view of citizenship made its mark on the Constitution.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreigucpltb6mmwuwxswipazl56ki3v4dmsr7fx4lkmf5jncrsuvwp4a)
