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Illustration. Retro futuristic spaceship with the three botanists floating inside. One is a young woman in coveralls, a raccoon with an apron, and a dirt covered bot holding sprouts. Drawn by gdbeeart in August 2025

The Botanists
Had a lot of fun making this one

Death by idiocy & ignorance is coming.

Uganda has an Ebola outbreak. 12 Americans were exposed to it.

Uganda tried informing the US but its staff had gone.

There was no-one to answer the phone. No-one to set up border screening. No-one to liaise with WHO.

Madness.

Excited to meet with the PJO writers' room today to discuss potential plans for season three. This does NOT mean the third season is green-lighted yet, but we have been cleared to start a room and begin planning scripts, because assuming the show DOES go forward, we have to start now. Optimistic.🤞

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors.

I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

Book bans impact public libraries & bookstores, but it’s school libraries where they are rampant ❤️‍🩹

Many kids are unable to make it to the public library. They can’t drive, often times the library isn’t in walking distance. It’s not that their grown-ups don’t want them to be library kids.

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Fellow artists, what do y’all do with used canvases with incomplete art, that you don’t think you’ll ever get back to & finish?

Toss em? Paint over & reuse?

#blackartsky #artsky

Boys are being radicalized online. It’s not that boys are easier it’s that boys get left completely alone.

Here are some “boy books” that affirm Black self image but are good for any boy.

“He’s not a reader” is not a valid excuse. Find a way or Candice Owens & Nick Fuentes will.

like it's always the trump supporters, who cheer as rights and discrimination laws gets stripped away, who then turn around and are like "but we can put politics aside and be friends! and respect one another!" LIKE NO WE CANT?

Smoked him lmao

White and other non-Black women benefit the most from DEI initiatives and these mofos STILL voted majority in favor of #thatguy.

Awful times can and will look like normal days. It’s easy to believe that nothing’s changed from your usual when the shift isn’t dramatic and when the worst hasn’t come. It’s coming, don’t fall for the illusion of normalcy.

Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats' Meta says it is working quickly to resolve the problem, which has prompted accusations of bias on social media.

Twitter, Meta, and Tiktok are all state media now. They will suppress and censor narratives, beliefs, and views opposed by the administration.

Act accordingly. www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you’re coming from TikTok, I created a Black BookTok starter pack. I created it awhile ago and needs to be updated but it’s still thorough

go.bsky.app/A6micpn

THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO READ

I AM BEGGING YOU TO READ

THERE IS A REASON THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO READ!!

DON’T DO THEIR WORK FOR THEM BY REFUSING TO READ

i started watching yona of the dawn recently... what do you mean there's no season 2...

I hope everybody doesn’t have short term memory loss, cuz this definitely started with agent orange

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🚨 We are the only abortion fund open right now in the Southeast outside of Florida & we need help! We are being slammed w/requests &our budget just isn’t big enough to handle it. Anything you can contribute will help these callers get the abortion care they need.

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Illustration of a brown skinned woman in a festive red dress. She holds gift bags in one hand and boxed presents up in the other in a stack. Her dark hair is pulled up in the shape of a Christmas tree with lights and baubles. She has green bauble dangly earrings.

she’s making a list, she’s checking it twice

The “No to AI generated images” logo - the letters “AI” in a red circle with a red line through them.

‘tis the season for self-promotion. If you’re an artist, illustrator, maker, writer, publisher, creator of any kind who DOES NOT and WILL NOT use generative AI, drop your shop links below so people can support real artists this Christmas.

something that is especially clear if you have studied colonialism a bit: a load bearing aspect of maintaining even a semblance of democracy (or defending a sitting autocracy from democracy) is having a military that is unwilling to kill its own citizens

This Supreme Court case could change everything for trans rights US v. Skrmetti could slow the wave of anti-trans laws—or tell policymakers it's "open season."

I don't think a lot of cis people, queer or not, realize that this SCOTUS case on healthcare this week affects us all, not just our trans siblings. Because at the core of this is a severe question: Can you ban healthcare?

@msjpauly.bsky.social has an amazing legal breakdown to read on this 👇

Not enough of you read this essay for my liking. Go read it. It is not just complaining. It is not race baiting. I am talking about something important. Something that you need to think about as you engage with this genre.
leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com/item/SU2NZHV...

White people, it’s not enough to not be racist. Y’all need to HATE racism like Kendrick Lamar hates Drake. Commit to the goddamned bit.

So I'm lowkey a Darlene Ortiz STAN. STANNNN.,

I had to pause the damn #SquabbleUp video.

Standing ovation to Kendrick for this homage right here.

My plan for the next 4 years 📚 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

seriously, please stop.

nobody wants to see that, we came to here to get away from that rage farming nonsense.

This is actually urgent. Prioritize the intentional capture and archival of those recipes we keep saying we're losing.

Also figure out what you haven't passed on yet that you need to gon' head and do.

165 Black-Owned Bookstores in the US | Find Independent Bookstores Near You Explore 165 Black-owned independent bookstores across the U.S. Find your nearest store and support local businesses today!

Hey y’all! Here’s a big mega list of 160+ Black Owned Bookstores all over the U.S. + a few other countries as well! U can filter it by state. I posted about this on the clock app today, but figured I’d share here too! aalbc.com/bookstores/l... Happy Reading! 📚💙 #Booksky #BlackBookSky #BlackSky

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky