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New song demo, ‘Ancestress.’ Thank you for listening and supporting. ❤️🌹

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@bertsbooks.bsky.social on Bluesky Wednesday is with us again, so grab your family and friends and drag them out to buy a book! - Michael

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Power to the People: A path forward out of the climate crisis - The Weather Network The Weather Network is showcasing this documentary series exploring the renewable energy revolution empowering Indigenous communities across Canada.

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_An Exaltation of Parks_ by Steve Kemp tells how America’s wonderlands were saved, not by government alone, but by a man with vision and means. More timely now than before.

#AnExaltationOfParks #Conservation #Philanthropy #NationalParks #UofUPress

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Beloved Mementos Handmade artisanal art and jewellery, crafted with blessings and passed down from lineages, brought to you to the art and classic, cherished inspiration you see here today. ❤️🌹

I am excited to announce I will soon be adding plants to my storefront! 🌱✨More on that soon. In the meantime feel free to explore more here at the shop, 10% discount off all items! ❤️🌹📿

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Fundraiser by Norris Estel : Help a Transmasculine Artist Find Safety Hello, I am a transmasculine artist and musician. I am needing emergency fun… Norris Estel needs your support for Help a Transmasculine Artist Find Safety

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Share and support and I do! For context, I have written over 200 songs, published 6 albums and collaborative works and have been composing music for 10 years. I have published 14 major gallery works and two books arriving, with an art grant to do art full-time.

Take Action We are experts and everyday people, fighting for change together.

Join me in taking action with @ucsusa on global warming, our broken food system, and more: www.ucsusa.org/action-cente...

Oppose Slashing Funding for Endangered Species Recovery On July 1, 2025, the Senate narrowly passed H.R. 1, a massive budget bill that cancels millions of dollars for endangered species recovery while adding $18 billion in tax benefits for the oil and gas industry. Right now, the House of Representatives is reviewing this consequential bill. The Senate made significant changes to the original version, and many Representatives are still undecided. In recent weeks, you may have heard about Senator Lee’s proposal to sell off public lands. Thanks to incredible grassroots backlash, that proposal was removed from the bill. This is a huge relief—it means special wild places won’t be sold to the highest bidder and turned into sprawling suburbs. But there’s still a serious problem. The budget bill continues to sell out our public lands and oceans by promoting more drilling and mining—with less oversight. It also eliminates millions of dollars in funding to recover endangered freshwater mussels, butterflies, desert fish, and tropical island plants. These are some of the most vulnerable species in need of protection. They’re also deeply connected to clean water and food security for people. Recovering endangered species takes expertise and coordination. It requires scientists in labs, restoration crews in the field, and meaningful federal investment to make it all work. So why are some Senators slashing funding for endangered species? Perhaps because the same bill adds $18 billion in new tax breaks for oil and gas companies. Your Representative is reviewing the Senate’s version right now and needs to hear from you. This bill is harmful—and the time to speak up is now. Tell your Representative to vote NO on H.R. 1.

Share and Protect Endangered Species and Health for All

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Beloved Mementos Discover the beauty of Memento Mori at our Beloved Mementos boutique. ❤️🌹📿

Enjoy 15% off in my store all month long.

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I am also looking for affiliates to share what it means to celebrate the beauty of mementos. I would love to see more unsung voices to have lifelong heirlooms. ❤️🌹

Wishing you all a beautiful New Moon. I am now accepting commissions for hairwork and keepsake jewellery. Thanks for allowing me to craft these handmade items into the blessings you see here.

New items in my shop:

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Collections – Beloved Mementos Beloved Mementos

Excited to announce an upcoming collection, the Signature Memento Mori Collection, where I am expanding to commissions for mourning jewellery, traditional art and timeless modern heirlooms to adore and cherish. ❤️🌹✨

Read more here!

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Beloved Mementos Elevate your beauty at our haunting boutique. ❤️🌹📿

Currently offering an automatic 15% discount on all products all month long! So be sure to snag a discount!

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I am also looking for queer affiliates to show how anyone can adorn beautiful gothic jewellery. 🌹📿✨

Apply here for more:

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Beloved Mementos Where elegance meets haunting art ‘boo’tique. Elevate your beauty with these exquisite, handcrafted designs and Memento Mori gift store. 🌹📿

My art ‘boo’tique is officially up and running, view more hauntingly beautiful creations here. ❤️🌹📿

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Beloved Mementos Where elegance meets boutique, rosary couture and statement piece necklaces are created with great artistic integrity and expression. Elevate your beauty with these exquisite, handcrafted designs.

A quick update, here is my store officially migrated on Shopify! In the meantime there are 40% discounts for 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC community. Looking forward to sharing more. Thanks you all. ❤️🌹

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Get to a comic book store now to pick up the latest issue of “Hello Darkness” featuring our original horror short - The Granny Hags From Hell! (Thanks for having us @boom-studios.com)

“It’s a vulgar display. It’s the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong-un, you see it with Putin, you see it with dictators around the world that are weak. Weakness masquerading as strength. That’s about as small as it gets. That’s Donald Trump.” — Newsom on Trump’s military parade.

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A store update: I am excited to say I am also migrating to Shopify! All 2SLGBTIA+ and BIPOC members receive a 40% discount on all items in my store, including free shipping with code ROSEBUD. 🌹
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Resist Trump's militarized attacks on the public! Trump’s deployment of the military to intimidate and quell local protests—without a request from the governor—is the first incident of its kind in sixty years. And the conditions that would warrant su...

This cause is close to all, decision whether or not to defund public broadcasting is tomorrow - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...

Empire weaponizes perfectionism
to stoke fear and condition people into inaction.

We then take those messages and internalize them to think it is we who are not enough.

There is no such thing as a perfect way to show up. There is no one way to show up.

The ethics of AI value chains - Blair Attard-Frost, David Gray Widder, 2025 Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers with an interest in the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) need more integrative approaches for studying and in...

What resources are distributed across the AI value chain, and to whom? Who benefits in the AI value chain, and who is harmed?

In "The Ethics of AI Value Chains", @davidthewid.bsky.social & I address these fundamental questions, now out in Big Data & Society!

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Abstract for a paper entitled "Transfeminist AI Governance". The abstract reads: "This paper re-imagines the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) through a transfeminist lens, focusing on challenges of power, participation, and injustice, and on opportunities for advancing equity, community-based resistance, and transformative change. AI governance is a field of research and practice seeking to maximize benefits and minimize harms caused by AI systems. Unfortunately, AI governance practices are frequently ineffective at preventing AI systems from harming people and the environment, with historically marginalized groups such as trans people being particularly vulnerable to harm. Building upon trans and feminist theories of ethics, I introduce an approach to transfeminist AI governance. Applying a transfeminist lens in combination with a critical self-reflexivity methodology, I retroactively reinterpret findings from three empirical studies of AI governance practices in Canada and globally. In three reflections on my findings, I show that large-scale AI governance systems structurally prioritize the needs of industry over marginalized communities. As a result, AI governance is limited by power imbalances and exclusionary norms. My reflections reveal that re-grounding AI governance in transfeminist ethical principles can support AI governance researchers, practitioners, and organizers in addressing those limitations."

Why is AI governance so often ineffective at preventing AI from harming people and the planet? My new paper Transfeminist AI Governance addresses this question, now out in this month's issue of First Monday: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Black-and-white photo of a light skinned young woman sitting up in a chair. She is looking down at a short haired, white and gray cat. She’s also holding out one finger as if playfully teasing the cat with it.

Photo from a glass negative in my collection. No documented date/info.

Happy pride to me and to you and to the bisexual bats and the gay giraffes and the lesbian albatrosses, and the trans fish and everybody else. Happy pride.

Orb weaver tattoo on fake skin

My first Vendor table at the local Oddities store today 🖤 Went well

I refuse to do an obligatory Pride Month post because I support my LGBTQIA+ DOOMBOTS 24/7 365.25 DAYS A YEAR.

Change of plans- Cambio de planes! Model Kit club

guardian of the golden kingdom #dungeonmeshi

This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner.

Colorful clouds of gas and dust crowd the image. Deep red and orange clouds surround the image's edges, with some violet in the upper left portion. Near the left middle, a region of teal and yellow shines.

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. This translucent cloud of gas holds wispy and thin filaments with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red, and yellow colors mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Scattered across the colorful nebula are bright and point-like foreground and background stars. The background is black.

the universe wishes you a very happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🌌

PETITION: Don't Ban Books in the United States Proposed censorship measures in several states could deny your right to read some books in our Nation's libraries and lead to librarians facing criminal charges for the books on the shelves.

Join the fight against government regulations on the books that you and your family are allowed to read in the United States by signing the petition today.

action.everylibrary.org/bannedbooks via @everylibrary.bsky.social‬