Tomi Choyce

You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.

Full solidarity with the flotilla, which represents the very best of humanity.

And eternal shame to the European states who refused to protect it from Israeli assault and establish a corridor for aid to Gaza.

The Indomitable Jane Goodall The Indomitable Jane Goodall: Reflections and memories from those who knew the trailblazing primatologist best

The passing of Jane Goodall, the primatologist who changed the the way science views non-human animals, has unleashed a flood of remembrances. Here are stories of Goodall's lasting legacy told by the people who knew her best. nautil.us/the-indomita...

“You stayed free. You saw life’s sunset, & got to go gray. Your life was a literal revolution they could not cage.
As you rest in power & peace, may your words light the path to our continued resistance. May you soar in the cosmos, cuz you surely left stardust. FREE 🕊”
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#OrikibyLuvvie

Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile The Cuban government has announced Assata Shakur died in Havana on Thursday at the age of 78. Shakur was a legendary figure within the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army.

BREAKING: Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile

The Financial Transparency Meeting (but I yell instead of show graphs). Listen to this essay right here! The financial transparency meeting but i yell instead of show graphs0:00/1788.83333333333331× I have not been enraged enough to weep since I started working for fre...

“I remind us that powerful revolutionary systems incur powerful enemies! Success actually makes me WAY LESS SAFE than failure does!” —Ismatu Gwendolyn

A MUST READ by @ismatu.bsky.social

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Israel has bombed Qatar in an attempt to murder Gaza negotiators gathered for ceasefire talks, just days after bombing Yemen to murder the Prime Minister and cabinet in Sanaa, all while conducting a genocide.

Obscene levels of violence. A terrorist regime in the fullest sense.

“There are some things in our society and some things in our world which I am proud to be maladjusted. And I call upon all men of goodwill to be maladjusted to these things until the good society is realized.” —Dr. Martin Luther King (1967)

#MLK #psychology

Screenshot from Yolanda King's (an American activist and campaigner for African-American rights and first-born child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King) Wikipedia page. Maya Angelou wrote a tribute to her, which was read during the memorial service. She wrote "Yolanda proved daily that it was possible to smile while wreathed in sadness. In fact, she proved that the smile was more powerful and sweeter because it had to press itself through mournfulness to be seen, force itself through cruelty to show that the light of survival shines for us all."

Yolanda proved daily that it was possible to smile while wreathed in sadness. In fact, she proved that the smile was more powerful & sweeter because it had to press itself through mournfulness to be seen, force itself through cruelty to show that the light of survival shines for us all. #MayaAngelou

Joy Donnell ‪@doitinpublic.bsky.social‬ Self-compassion makes you unashamed. It clears the shame that never belonged to you. Without shame shaping your self-love, you walk grounded in full self-regard. You finally understand that your presence is your alignment.

Unashamed. ❤️

@doitinpublic.bsky.social

Choose your intuition over being polite, every time.

Threadings. essays, stories, and interviews (by ismatu gwendolyn) for the collective good.

If you do not know me, my name is ismatu and I am a publicly-funded scholar. I write essays at threadings.io | I am using bluesky to talk about current events that are interesting enough to write about but not meaty enough to warrant an essay on. Thanks for having me!

“Doctors are to Black women what police are to Black men.” This statement hits hard because it reflects an often painful truth: Black women are too often dismissed, ignored, and endangered in healthcare. Medical racism is real — and it’s costing lives.

Repost from modestly.fly_

If you’re chronically ill and struggling to rest or pace… you’re not alone.

Resting is hard. It’s frustrating to admit that you can’t just play through the pain the way you used to.

It’s also necessary.

I try to view rest as a form of radical self care and resistance.

It’s needed for survival.

Glad you're back!! 🎉This was a great conversation!

I Think It's Bad to Shoot at Starving Kids @charlotteclymer.bsky.social

Incredible footage of Saturn rising from behind the Moon during a lunar occultation captured from a ground based telescope by astronomer Jan Koet.

Zora Neale Hurston died in 1960, yet her experiences as a Black woman parallel this very moment in time (2025). Six and a half decades later, very little has changed. 2/2

www.carlakaplan.com/zora-neale-h...

When I finished reading Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, I wept in a way that I can't explain. The enduring pattern in the way Black women, especially those who are intelligent, independent, and outspoken, are treated by society and its institutions is by design. 1/2

“Anything other than ‘I love you’ is small talk.”

—Andrea Gibson, poet

“One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.”

—Charles M. Blow

“Never let anyone tell you a traumatic event is one day. That day is a wrecking ball to your entire life. Sometimes you don’t get all the bricks back in place.” @NikkiBrinksCo

Gotta not die because me dying is literally what they want.

“Con men profit from the credulous, after all, and once they succeed, carry on, right to the top.”

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RT dated 1/10/2023 @RobertGreene says, “When people lose the connection between their actions and their consequences, they lose their hold on reality, and the further this goes the more it looks like madness.”