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A giant pale green zucchini growing from a garden box so large my hand can barely left it by its bottom.

My arm cradling the giant zucchini, which is at least as long as my forearm plus hand, against my chest like a baby.

I didn’t notice it growing behind the garden box so now please say hello to my giant zucchini son 👶🏻

AT ALL.

FAFO Still In Full Effect At Target As Foot Traffic Continues To Decline For Retail Giant Since Target decided to eliminate its DEI initiatives, Black people have been standing on business. The corporation continues to decline.

🧵 “Target is experiencing its 6th straight month of declining foot traffic, with store visits down nearly 8% and a $12 billion loss in market value following its rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.”

Heads up, anti-DEI investors

www.blackenterprise.com/target-decli...

I hope she takes all their homes and cars and retirement.

Have any prominent elected Dems committed to dismantling ICE if/when they reclaim power? Because that frankly seems like an absolute bare minimum at this point. You can't just have a massively funded armed gang of hard-right stormtroopers embedded across the country & return to normal.

I am sorry people are learning how violent this country is, but a switch was not just flipped this year.

I don't know how to tell people on Bluesky that yes, you actually *do* need Black people on board for all your political and social aims.

You literally can't go around us, cancel us, or ignore us. Every time y'all do, everyone suffers.

If you are suffering as a customer during a strike, that is because management is intentionally passing on the suffering to you, which means you have common cause with the workers. This is so whether the management is of an airline, a hospital, or a retail establishment.

A series of illustrations of cutie dinosaurs acting like dogs. Drawn by gdbeeart Aug 20205

Hear me out... Dinosaur, but if they were...dog.

Hey Bluesky! Meet our indie game, Usual June. It's an action adventure game about summer break, ghosts, dark secrets, and the end of the world.

Developed by @finjico.bsky.social 👑
Wishlist ➡️ bit.ly/3NjX3c1

#gamedev #indiegame #usualjune

A haphazard pile of stickers. The stickers are orange and feature illustrations of crows and the words "no one is illegal on stolen land."

We've got new stickers in-stock from @stickiemi.bsky.social 🤩

gentle puts an arm around Prodigy, who looks at him

prodigy & gentle sketch

I spent 17 years as a social worker. 17 years of watching colleagues try to do the most with & people try to survive on a social safety net that barely works & shrank annually. The funding has taken deeper cuts since. To watch the ruling class criminalize the poverty they knowingly create enrages me

I think a lot of these “perfect is the enemy of good so we’re ok with anti-trans candidates” are just privileged white people facing adversity for the first time in their entire lives and are so fucking fragile and terrified they’re willing to do anything and kill anyone to protect themselves.

Chris Smalls Speaks Out After His Journey to Gaza In an interview, the union organizer talks about joining the Freedom Flotilla, confronting Israeli forces, and solidarity between Palestine and the US labor movement.

In an interview, union organizer Chris Smalls talks about joining the Freedom Flotilla, confronting Israeli forces, and solidarity between Palestine and the US labor movement.

Portrait illustration of a young woman without a care in the world in her eyes. She has short coily hair with two twists, large glasses and a pink tank top. She's surrounded by pink florals, stars and green-white butterflies. Drawn by gdbeeart in Aug 2025

Cute short hair 🥹

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

Photo of a page from Omar El Akkad's ONE DAY EVERYONE WILL ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS that reads: The obvious charge of hypocrisy looms over this work, always. Refrain from engaging with one organization because of its ties to a genocide but not the uncountable number of other organizations who do as well? Call for divestment from fossil fuel companies and yet still use electricity? Agitate for a better world in any way and yet continue to exist within it? The purpose of this kind of accusation is never moral concern. To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn't care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet.

"To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn't care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet."

Omar El Akkad, ONE DAY EVERYONE WILL ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS

Dark blue graphic with white text that reads, "VICTORY! Court Affirms Ruling Finding Premera Blue Cross Discriminated Against Trans Adolescents"

Dark blue graphic with quote from caption of this post. 

👏WIN: Yesterday in our case against Premera Blue Cross over their policy to deny coverage for gender-affirming chest surgery for trans patients under 18, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington affirmed its April ruling that the policy unlawfully discriminated based on sex. 🧵

Be ready for apps and sites you visit regularly, particularly social media, music, video, and news sites, to suddenly lock you out unless you submit to their nefarious surveillance.

Download, screenshot, archive, and backup anything you want to save.

Protect your privacy.

The increasing spread of “age verification” laws to access websites, is leading to many sites blocking access unless users allow themselves to be doxed by giving up your biometrics and/or other personal information.

Up reading about data centers’ impact on our communities (as one is being proposed in my neighborhood) and…the short of it is if you use AI you’re going to hell. 😭😭😭

Legal Defense Funds Protect Nonprofits Under Political Attack by Trump Administration - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly New legal defense funds and nonprofit law firms are stepping in to provide critical support to nonprofits under politicalattack.

Nonprofit legal defense funds are rising up to fight the Trump administration. Dig into my newest @npquarterly.bsky.social article to learn how nonprofitquarterly.org/legal-defens...

Thanks to @afj.org's @keiththirion.bsky.social and @notesxnatalie.bsky.social for sharing insights. #NonprofitSky

More of us might just admit we don’t have a political plan to deal with this level of repression. And that doesn’t have to be defeat but just a more honest starting point for trying to figure out what to do.

The more early support you show for Black authors, the more Black authors there will be.