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Olivia 👾

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"Use this energy to write." 🇰🇪 SFFH Editor/Publisher. EIC: @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social

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Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · Aug 18

If you were attending #WorldCon virtually and missed the panel on Translation, Language Barriers and The Limits of The Canon, the replay is now available!

Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · Aug 8

Excited to announce I'll be at Seattle WorldCon (virtually!)

I'll be moderating the panel Translation, Language Barriers & The Limits of The Canon featuring @izom-chisom.bsky.social & @formerlykevin.bsky.social as the panelists.

Super excited as this is WTBAP's first WorldCon appearance!

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 16h

When parakeets cosplay

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Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 11h

Well yes!

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 14h

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Woman allegedly used dating apps to rob older men, say police

Adva Lavie has been accused of using dating apps to meet older men and burglarize their homes in LA, according to police.

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Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 1d

The Terrence Howard of SFF

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

This is what happens when you let war criminals get away with their crimes. They will come back and do it again. I feel a lot of guilt about this. My generation was there, we watched it all happen and at some point we just gave up and forgot about him. Big mistake.

Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 1d

👉NEW -- Why Tony Blair governing Gaza would result in more war crimes

by Irfan Chowdhury

Soldiers who served under his command in Iraq got away with sexually assaulting prisoners, in scenes similar to Israel’s torture of Palestinians.
www.declassifieduk.org/why-tony-bla...

Why Tony Blair governing Gaza would result in more war crimes

Soldiers who served under his command in Iraq got away with sexually assaulting prisoners, in scenes similar to Israel’s torture of Palestinians.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 1d

Denver needs like 40 years of PR to undo what this season of LIB has done for its reputation. How is it every single cast member 😭

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Big Art Thread @bigartthread.bsky.social · 4d

Works by Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop, 2010s-20s, whose performative photography practice engages with European colonialist history and cross-cultural experiences within the African diaspora.

Photo of a young Black man wearing a long dark tunic and orange head wrap, holding a dodo bird, with an assortment of fruits and gourds around his feet. A large gold circle floats behind him over a black background.

Photo of a young Black man repeated three times, all wearing a purple cloak and blue head wraps, posing in a cluster with brightly colored birds perched on their hands and flying around them, along with tropical flowers at their sides.

Photo depicting the same Black man repeated several times, all wearing different suits and hats, standing together with serious expressions and hands in their pockets amongst green grasses and loose papers, against a black background.

Photo of a young Black man wearing a pink tunic and colorful patterned over cloth and yellow head wrap, standing in a straight-backed pose with his hands up to his chest holding a yellow and orange running sneaker. He is set within a green oval, surrounded by an intricate floral pattern frame.

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Duncan's Lot @duncaccino.bsky.social · 14d

Together (2025)

Jucika @jucikadaily.bsky.social · 14d

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Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 6d

I didn't immediately get the twist in Peacemaker because in my experience it's not uncommon for the Western shows I watch to not have POC in the background lmaooo he could have been in the Succession universe for all I knew

Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 6d

just thinking about how the fatphobia & anti-immigration sentiments in Desperate Housewives walked so that Weeds could run

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 6d

Gaza fishermen able to fish for first time thanks to sumud flotilla distraction

they STILL FED MY PEOPLE. 🥹

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 7d

Kenya based, South African author Zukiswa Wanner is one of the people who was on the Global Sumud flotilla and who have been detained by the Israeli army.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 7d

I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.

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Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 7d

Fantastic 4/10

Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 7d

Great video!

Olayemi Olurin @msolurin.bsky.social · 9d

New banger just dropped on OlurinattiPOP! youtu.be/-p3pfNT7Rag?...

Desperate Housewives Was Conservative Propaganda

YouTube video by OlurinattiPOP!

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 8d

Haven Spec Magazine is now open to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only!

We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and other folks whose voices must be heard!

www.havenspec.com/submit/

Haven Spec Magazine, Submission Page

Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!

www.havenspec.com

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Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 9d

One year sober today 🥳

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Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 10d

Every three weeks or so there's a thread on here that's like "you have to be my bestie before you sell me your book"... Congratulations I see nothing but 419 scams in your future

Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 10d

Omg what is this from? I cannot for the life of me remember 😭

Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 10d

thinking of a casual way of saying "hello I recognize you from the cult we were most definitely in together"

Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 14d

Tosh Gitonga needs to be tried at the Hague for that Inside Job movie

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 14d

Barney as Krusty shambling onto the stage only it’s UNCERTAIN SONS and BART is saying “he’ll bring us food and water and smite our enemies.”

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Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 15d

super curious to know your thoughts on Pumzi!

Olivia 👾 @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 15d

This app feels very much like Sick Sad World but not funny at all

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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 20d

What if Colbert ended up being our Churchill? What if the South Park Guys end up like two white American Nelson Mandelas? What if AOC ends up being our own personal Margaret Thatcher? What if Zohran becomes Mugabe? What if Eric Adams stepped into his destiny as America’s Nikita Khrushchev???

Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 21d

Wouldn’t it be wild if Kimmel ended up becoming our Zelenskyy

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 16d

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like

"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."

fuck yeah

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

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