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Chantal James

@chantalalive.blacksky.app

Check your vernacular & then I’ll get back to ya. Essayist poet philosopher & writer of the novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS & the forthcoming FES IS A MIRROR. She/her https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676226/none-but-the-righteous-by-chantal-james/

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Latest posts by chantalalive.blacksky.app on Bluesky

End the genocide now!

Freedom for the prisoners!

Glory to the martyrs!

Victory to the Resistance!

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

07.10.2025 18:51 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

In these grim times, while social media is plagued with doom- I LOVE filling my following list with artists who inspire me. Please, follow more artists. Flood your phone with beautiful, handmade work. There’s so much beauty to witness if you surround yourself with it. Repost so others can see too!

07.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 24    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0

So HEADS UP. I did more digging, because I don't like taking things at face value, and I do not AT THIS TIME see any evidence that Hive is training their own AI gen. They list a model, but it's one created by a third party, not in house. They seem to use images to train their moderation service.

07.10.2025 19:23 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

So, what's the truth?

Where are folks getting the news that Bluesky is using Hive?

07.10.2025 19:22 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

The Link banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality.

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative, Blacksky, has been able to become independent plus.flux.community/p/banning-co...

07.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 130    🔁 63    💬 0    📌 12

Good afternoon beautiful black folks ❤️😌

07.10.2025 18:55 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Residents of apartments surrounding the ICE facility say they can't get vehicles in or out and got no warning that the streets would be closed off.

07.10.2025 18:32 — 👍 50    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 2
A notification from NYT reading Elmo Plays Therapist
now
The fuzzy red Sesame Street character asked an innocent question. He didn't expect it to open a yawning chasm of despair.

A notification from NYT reading Elmo Plays Therapist now The fuzzy red Sesame Street character asked an innocent question. He didn't expect it to open a yawning chasm of despair.

Well, Elmo. You had my interest, but now you have my attention

03.02.2024 02:43 — 👍 210    🔁 36    💬 3    📌 2

many of you are not bad parents, you're just too poor for the supports you need

07.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 43    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be The curated feed, now run by a team of six moderators, is the meeting ground for hundreds of thousands of Black users on Bluesky. Is it ready to meet the moment?

“Blacksky is an app Fraser built into Bluesky that uses tailored algorithms and bots to weed out anti-Black harassment and misogynoir”

www.wired.com/story/blacks...

07.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 55    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1

It’s been 730 days and 78 years.

07.10.2025 13:46 — 👍 26    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0
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#OtD 7 Oct 1922 Italian anarchist Lidio Ettorre was assaulted by fascists in Giulianova, Central Italy, who then burned down his house stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1261...

07.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 39    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0
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On Parenthood and Genocide A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world.

Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

07.10.2025 11:07 — 👍 186    🔁 88    💬 5    📌 1

You know Ginuwine has a hotmail address! Don't fall for it.

07.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 6    📌 0

Same ol g?!!!!

07.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 8    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
07.10.2025 13:35 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
07.10.2025 14:04 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 10    📌 4
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Hello everyone, an innocent child was playing like any other child. His joy was shattered and he was bombed while playing. His fingers were amputated yesterday. Please, we need you more than ever. The child needs medicine 💊 and lunch.
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1388...

07.10.2025 10:09 — 👍 16    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 11

Psychiatry has a lot of issues, but a lot of people need their meds, & they were looking like punks against RFK for a hot minute there. Glad they took a stand to call for his resignation.

07.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 32    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0
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I am Nour Faraj. Iam ten years old. I lost both legs above the knee and my right arm in an instant. My brother, Moaz,who is 4 years old, lost his life, and my brother, Yahya, who is 3 years old, may lose his foot at any moment.My mother,has fractures and deep burns.please help me
gofund.me/982fcaf79

07.10.2025 13:40 — 👍 36    🔁 52    💬 0    📌 5

private jets >>> inhalers

07.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Print of Cab Calloway dancing at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba

Print of Cab Calloway dancing at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba

Print of Cab Calloway dancing at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.237.7

07.10.2025 13:43 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I’m really glad to see this from psychiatrists. He was coming for psychiatry. He was coming for everybody’s meds.

07.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 71    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 0

It’s just eugenics frankly

07.10.2025 12:11 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Today is October 7th.

Two years have passed here in Gaza, and we are still living under bombardment and hunger, bearing the pain of loss, suffering&displacement.

On this day,I ask anyone who wants to bring a glimmer of hope into this darkness to help me and my family:👇🏼🙏🏼
tinyurl.com/HelpAdhamsFa...

07.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 47    🔁 69    💬 5    📌 0
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Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

07.10.2025 13:14 — 👍 47    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 3

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

07.10.2025 09:32 — 👍 4750    🔁 1740    💬 74    📌 65

"your inhaler has a terrible environmental impact" oh sure, I can't breathe your smog soup and it's a ME problem

07.10.2025 12:24 — 👍 26    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

Wild for them to say that with a data center in Memphis polluting so much that more people may need inhalers. Like, the ain'tshitness levels are off the charts.

07.10.2025 12:01 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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