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Conjure. Hoodoo. Public Health. Policy. History. Astrology. Books & Black culture. Lady D. Emerald 💚💜🤎 K. Howell, PhD (c), MPH, MPhil 💙🕊✨️

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writing & reading all 2025 @drladydemerald.bsky.social · Nov 17

Introduction:

Hi I'm Khadesia (ka-dee-jah) or Lady D. Emerald.

I am a weaver of black spirituality, history, culture, public health, policy, & ethics/bioethics for Black & Indigenous liberation.

I'm a medium, 2-head, astrologer, candle maker and so much more!

A multifaceted Black woman 💁🏽‍♀️

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writing & reading all 2025 @drladydemerald.bsky.social · 14h

Which goes back to her stepping up because she felt like it was her duty. Who else did they have 4real?

Disaster was happening.

The democratic party has always been sh*t show (really all of the parties). They just crumbled all the way this go around.

writing & reading all 2025 @drladydemerald.bsky.social · 14h

& Remember she never really wanted to do it in the first place but did it b/c she felt it was her duty. Never wanted her to run b/c I knew it was gonna be some mess!

Do I agree with all of her stances? No. Was she still a Black woman they were gonna make play savior or blame for everything? Yes. 👎🏽

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 14h

If that’s true (and it probably is) then that ALSO MEANS she nor the party had enough political will nor backbone to contest and acknowledge his OPEN GUARANTEES that he would steal the election

Interstellar @interstel1ar.bsky.social · 15h

She did win.

Trump cheated.

writing & reading all 2025 @drladydemerald.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Scooby Doo Zombie Island and I keep thinking: Velma and the Gardener shouldve ended up together.

Maybe that's just my romance brain rot but yeah...

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Author DL White @booksbydlwhite.com · 2d

Calculated Risk is a #blackromance about a man rebuilding his life, a woman reclaiming her confidence, and the love that meets them in the middle.

Read it now in Kindle Unlimited, or grab your copy in print and author-narrated audio wherever you read or listen-

booksbydlwhite.com/calculatedrisk

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writing & reading all 2025 @drladydemerald.bsky.social · 3d

FYI for people wanting an Adobe alternative

KammyVania 🇵🇷💥 COMMS OPEN - 5/7 done @cammiluna.bsky.social · 3d

Affinity Photo, Designer, etc, is temporarily(?) completely free on the ipad (download. start trial, hit "buy", and it's "$0" according to Reddit).

Perpetual licenses and downloads for desktops are no longer obtainable. Affinity will have more info on Oct 30th.

affinity.serif.com/en-us/?utm_s...

Apple app store listings of affinity creative software being free

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Victoria @mysticastrology.bsky.social · 3d

Lacking the ability to critically think puts the power into the wrong hands.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3d

AI has a lot of issues but a big one is the way it’s used to :

- demonize basic real emotional desires and needs
- the inability to just straight up and say

“ there is something maladaptive and ill intentioned about wanting to have a digital slave “

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

“The more ways that a student reports that their school uses AI, the more likely they are to report things like 'I know someone who considers AI to be a friend,' 'I know someone who considers AI to be a romantic partner.'"

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

www.npr.org

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 3d

One of three Tennessee lawmakers who drew national attention in 2023 when Republicans in the Tennessee Legislature moved to expel them following a gun control protest is running for Congress, he announced Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3IEravT

'Tennessee Three' Democrat announces bid for Congress against longtime Memphis representative

Democratic state Rep. Justin Pearson went to a Memphis park near the neighborhood where he grew up to announce that he will challenge longtime Democratic congressman Steve Cohen to represent the major...

www.pbs.org

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CNN @cnn.com · 3d

TV host and painter Bob Ross has 30 original paintings going up for auction. All profits will go to US public TV and radio stations.

This comes after Congress cut funding in support of public broadcasting.

Read more: https://cnn.it/4q2EfzS

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writing & reading all 2025 @drladydemerald.bsky.social · 3d

I really haven't been on here lately...

I've started rewatching the beginning seasons of Supernatural to eventually finish it finally.

Reading for Blackoweenathon but paused it to finish second book in a fantasy series.

Um, doing a Hoodoo Heritage Month Memphis edition on IG...

Yeah, that's all.

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✨La Bodega Tophie✨ @itsniamya.bsky.social · 4d

Hi frensss, this week is Banned Books Week if you didn’t know and the theme for this years campaign is: Censorship is so 1984 👆🏽

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writing & reading all 2025 @drladydemerald.bsky.social · 6d

For my own record:

3.73 is my average star reads for this year.

Not surprised. Only 4 five-stars out of 48 new books read. I don't count rereads.

SO MANY 4 STAR READS.

writing & reading all 2025 @drladydemerald.bsky.social · 7d

You know, one thing a mosquito is gonna do is ruin a good time outside.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s a dissertation topic for an ed policy / higher ed student: right-wing tech and finance plutocrats as ‘policy entrepreneurs’

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King Honey @honeycelestial.bsky.social · 7d

mhoney.substack.com/p/for-nat-wi...

For Nat, With Love

A Hoodoo Heritage Month Mega Post

mhoney.substack.com

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 8d

Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire

Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.

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writing & reading all 2025 @drladydemerald.bsky.social · 7d

And random people on FB tbh.

Where are they sharing it on reddit?

writing & reading all 2025 @drladydemerald.bsky.social · 8d

Hi.

WB Kids is streaming all Scooby Doo episodes on YouTube.

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perpetualpages @perpetualpages.bsky.social · 8d

🔔 NEW VIDEO! Since we're in the middle of #LatineHeritageMonth, I thought I'd recommend 30 books by Latine authors for your TBR 📚📚📚 Picture Books! Horror! Romance! Short stories! You can find all that and more in my LHM reading guide 📖

📷 youtu.be/MONw0NJlvtU

Thumbnail from Adri's latest YouTube video. In the photo, Adri is smiling and holding up three books by Latine authors in either hand. The titles shown from left to right are: "The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar", "Iveliz Explains It All", "A Sunny Place for Shady People", "Flawless Girls", "The Devil Takes You Home", and "The Air You Breathe". Adri is wearing a dark grey heathered t-shirt that says "Decolonize Your Shelves," a silver chain necklace, a silver hoop earring in their left ear, a silver wire cuff on their right ear, and a silver barbell studded with a flower-shaped gem in their right eyebrow. At the top of the thumbnail in bold white text is the word "Latine", which has been edited to appear behind Adri's head and shoulders. End description.

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writing & reading all 2025 @drladydemerald.bsky.social · 10d

You do know there were millions people on broadband internet and AOL ended it after 30 years yesterday, correct?

Which means even more people have access to information, accurate or not...

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FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING THAT'S GOOD JUST TELL ME IN ENGLISH NOT NUMBERS

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Veena's Booksky @mswocreader.bsky.social · 14d

If anyone is feeling especially giving, I've created a wish list for my 8 yr old niece. She's reading on an advanced level so to help foster her love of reading we're trying to get more diverse chapter books and middle grade for her home library.
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Check out my list on Amazon

www.amazon.com

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writing & reading all 2025 @drladydemerald.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Hoodoo Heritage Month (HHM)!

Here's some things to do:
- release your inhibitions, feel the rain on your skin
- shake ya 🍑 2x, but watch yaself, & show the ancestors what ya working with.
- relisten to Mama Rue's podcast. The founder/originator HHM!

open.spotify.com/show/3I6EC1k...

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 10d

Anyways, happy October 1st.

Happy Creole Heritage Month.

Happy Hoodoo Heritage Month.

Shanah tovah to all those who observe Yom Kippur.

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