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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 11h

I'd like to thank the Center for Cultural Innovation - AmbitioUS!
Their support of Blacksky Algorithms with a $30K grant will help us further our development of infrastructure for online communities (moderation, deliberation, and peer-to-peer payment tools). 🎉

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

Picking on Black women who had to claw their way through NYC machine politics to get to their positions is just not going to work out for old white senile fascists. That's all I will say on that.

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Cyntee @cyntizzle.bsky.social · 1d

😭😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰🥰

BUY THAT BABY ALL THE DRUMS!!!

Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 1d

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Marian Dingle @dingleteach.bsky.social · 2d

Wasn’t pretty but I got that workout and steps in.
#BlackSkyFitness

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 2d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Marian Dingle @dingleteach.bsky.social · 2d

That laugh on the end…

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Raphael Deleghetto ✨🤴🏾✨ @blaqabstract.blacksky.app · 2d

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Marian Dingle @dingleteach.bsky.social · 3d

Got to 9800 steps and 90 min exercise min before 7pm.
Who even am I?
#BlackSkyFitness

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Marian Dingle @dingleteach.bsky.social · 3d

Oh wow. I need to carve out some time to migrate. Some of us are tech-challenged and need to concentrate 😂.

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 4d

Can we get the word around for more donations to go to BlackSky so there’s funding for the infrastructure that can bring Link back?

From my understanding:

Relays are costly and expensive. Anyone feel free to chime in. Bluesky relays is what has him banned.

opencollective.com/blacksky

Blacksky - Open Collective

Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

opencollective.com

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Marian Dingle @dingleteach.bsky.social · 4d

So much for catching up on work this weekend. That Covid vax knocked me out. Getting much needed rest, I guess. The work will get done…during work hours. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 4d

In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as “the greatest crime against humanity” and called for reparations.

Ghana’s President Calls Slave Trade ‘Greatest Crime,’ Pushes U.N. for Reparations

For Black Americans, the motion — backed by a coalition of world leaders — intensifies calls to confront slavery’s enduring costs.

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Marian Dingle @dingleteach.bsky.social · 4d

A year I made a decision that changed the course of my life. Grateful for the miracles.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

Bad Bunny responds to his Super Bowl critics in Spanish, and then English: “And, if you didn’t understand know what I just said, you have four months to learn!”

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Marian Dingle @dingleteach.bsky.social · 5d

Wonderful! I hope you both enjoy the city.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, Oregon.

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Marian Dingle @dingleteach.bsky.social · 5d

But why does any school cost 100K a year? 🤔

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 5d

Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing 🫥

Betting on the Creator Economy, Syracuse University Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers

The shift in course offerings follows a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.