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Please help Kait if you can.

Not only will the SNAP cutoff hit her, she is going to need a place to stay in 3 days.

Links to help on profile.
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Donate to Disabled Native family with tiny home hopes, organized by Alexandra Watson My name is Ali Watson. I am in my 50s, a single parent to two amazing yo… Alexandra Watson needs your support for Disabled Native family with tiny home hopes

Please help a wonderful family survive a harsh winter
www.gofundme.com/f/disabled-n...

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finally sitting down to reading! Starting the brand new Far: A Tale of Longing for Home and How far Neuroscience has come from @saveelati.bsky.social. proceeds go to support water distribution in Gaza! As a former neuroscience student, i'm very excited to read & see the illustrations by the author

“Be his peace”, when we are asking them to simply not be our chaos. 🙄

Highly Recommended: THE CHEROKEE: PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND HISTORY by Twila M. Barnes Designed to help readers develop a critical eye about representations of American Indians in children's and young adult books

Teachers/librarians write to me looking for accurate non-fiction bks. They know that authorship matters! Today I'm pleased as can be to share my review of THE CHEROKEE: PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND HISTORY by @pollysgdaughter.bsky.social. americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/07/high...

Natural talent discourse is happening and while I'm late to the party, I have some things to say so Imma do a thread

First: no artistic career is built entirely on talent. It takes a fucking lot of hard work, to develop your craft & get people to take you seriously 1/?

In other words, time and tenacity are what really makes you an artist. Natural talent, if you have it, is like 10% of what makes an artist... If that

And while that 10% is worth noting - it's often why creatives choose the specific art they do - the 90% that's tenacity is more important
5/?

If you want it to be easier to become an artist, here are some things to demand instead of generative AI:

Flexible work hours
Four day work weeks
Universal basic income
Living wages for artists
Free arts education

Those things will give you time, and with it, you can become an artist

7/7

When Donald Trump announced himself as the "law and order" candidate, he was echoing Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and using a dog whistle meant to invoke the mythology of America's Old West culture. This is a culture that celebrates racism, imperialism and the genocide of the Native American.

That tie is Everything🤩!

The one and only Weyodi OldBear at her Indigenous Futurist Society booth at World Con 2025 in Seattle

If you're at #WorldCon2025 make sure to check out the Indigenous Futurist Society & say hello to our founder Weyodi OldBear/ weyodi.bsky.social

Weyodi has great books & cool merch available there & at weyodi.com so check her out!

I don't have to endorse it or support it, but I will refuse to condemn it and if your analysis of crime and criminology does not include power inequities then you have nothing to say to me.

For people living in poverty because colonialism has stolen everything from them, theft is an act of resistance.

For people living beneath the boot of a colonial state intent on denying their humanity, violence is an act of resistance.

They don't even have to understand it that way. It just is.

How to look up your favorite sci-fi artist at this year's WorldCon with @weyodi.bsky.social

Check out her books too at weyodi.com/!

RICH Ppl who WENT to college ( Ivy leagues, no less) + desire nothing less than complete CONTROL, telling POOR ppl NOT to go to college is one of the reasons I recommend GOING TO COLLEGE.

AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water With the rise of generative AI, companies have significantly raised their water usage, sparking concerns about the sustainability of such practices.

Chasing farm workers away & ending programs that help farmers plant crops every year sure did free up a lot of water for AI

www.forbes.com/sites/cindyg...

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#OctaviaButler

LITΞRΛRY HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday to Black American writer and one of the first female and Black science fiction writers, Octavia Butler June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006

❝Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.❞

to get a park pass and camp for one month ($80 nationally- as low as $20 in state)
4- Plant some herbs & quick-grow veggies
5- Freelance online for small businesses & independant creators
6- Add your own ideas/advice, we all know so much more collectively- share your knowledge & ideas with everyone!

your money- Costco is a co-op not a corporation, get a free trail or day-pass or get a member to buy you a gift card & them bulk buy dry goods to feed all of you, taking turns cooking & cleaning up
3- don't pay rent- get the cheapest storage size your stuff fits into & use the rest of your rent..

How to Take August Off from corporate consumption
1- move jobs to a small business or,
2- gather 30 people, assign each 1 day from 8/2-8/30 & each buy enough shelf stable food to feed 30 people (yes you will eat a lot of oatmeal, beans & rice, etc-your cholesteral will thank you) or pool..

Comic with two panels. Top panel shows a mouse holding a sign that says “Defund the Police”. Another mouse is shouting “Defund the police?! How is he supposed to carry all that!?!”. A mouse in a police uniform is carrying several heavy stones on his back labeled gang violence, drug dealers, drug possession, school security, prostitution, homelessness, theft, domestic violence, every unexpected crisis, and keep the peace. The bottom panel shows the first mouse saying “He’s not supposed to”. The police mouse is now carrying just one stone for “Keep the peace” while the other stones are being moved into other buildings labeled Universal Health Care, Drug Treatment Programs, Mental Health Services, Social Workers, Education, Job Placement, Affordable Housing, and two stones labeled Sex Work and Pot are going into a van labeled Decriminalize & Regulate.

This one?

Maybe this one?
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I'm selfish
I just want our people to be safe
& for what I've been through to be for something that helps our most vulnerable

I lived where so many died, I have stabbing scars all over my back, neck & head
I need them to stand for people I help save themselves
Is 1 life for each scar too much?

Activist pastor who has criticized Trump arrested while praying inside Capitol William Barber, leader of ‘Moral Monday’ progressive movement, was arrested Monday by Capitol Police officers along with two others

Activist pastor who has criticized Trump arrested while praying inside Capitol

A NC pastor famous for decades of activism for progressive causes was arrested in the Capitol less than a week after the formation of the Trump administration’s task force on anti-Christian bias

#News #News&Politics

Every op-ed editor should have historians in their inbox by, let’s say, ten am tomorrow local time.