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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
@ebonyteach.blacksky.app
45K followers 3.8K following 11K posts
Professor and Chair of University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. ΔΣΘ ❤️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 9d
A bit frazzled this afternoon, but taking a quick moment out of my busy schedule to remind myself that every day is a gift.

"That's why they call it the present." 🎁

10/1/2025. Let's go!
Ebonyteach in her campus office. Wednesday, October 1, 2025.
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ebonyteach.blacksky.app
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 1h
Update: My profile still looks like this on my desktop; iPhone view is normal.

Perhaps this is a sign to log off all social media for the weekend!
ebonyteach.blacksky.app
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 5h
Here's what my profile looks like on Blacksky and Bluesky... what's happening?!
ebonyteach's profile imagine from desktop... no profile pic, header or pinned image available
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h
Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.
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rude1.blacksky.team
Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1h
Cooking up an app-view 🧑🏾‍🍳
ASCII art at the Blacksky App View homepage 2421 evts/sec throughput Fetching my own profile from the blacksky app view 123 MiB/s inbound bandwidth
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ebonyteach.blacksky.app
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 5h
Here's what my profile looks like on Blacksky and Bluesky... what's happening?!
ebonyteach's profile imagine from desktop... no profile pic, header or pinned image available
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ebonyteach.blacksky.app
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 5h
What's going on with images for Blacksky users on the Bluesky app? I don't see a profile pic at all...
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ceej @ceej.online · 17h
damn. hoping it at least signifies something
shakespeare.lol
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 17h
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 13h
One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books
A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023
www.theguardian.com
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 9h
Who Link was here & how he formed site culture, insisting on alt text & accessibility & disability justice, insisting on standing with trans people, mutual aid, irreverent shitposting, shows exactly that this culture of early bluesky that forged the platform is the opposite of what the team wants.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h
I love this poem. It was the last poem from Carver's last book written while he was dying of cancer. It is the inscription on his tombstone apparently too.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h
And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. by Raymond Carver
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 8h
Love after Love. Derek Walcott.
Love after Love Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread, Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21h
the quotes proving once again that bluesky dot com is where the neurodivergents with procrastination issues hang out
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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you. You people couldn't hang with real slackers. finn wokeupchic • 4d It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes
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Reagan Gomez @reagangomez.bsky.social · 19h
My Congress person just called me (a constituent) to join a live call with reps from Covered California Health, to explain why our insurance is about to go up and why. They’re taking questions. This is very good. Lots of information.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 23h
Upload your scanned ID they said. It will be fine they said.
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404 Media @404media.co · 1d
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23h
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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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23h
When in doubt, dumplings for dinner is never the wrong choice
Chengdu style dumplings from The Dumpling Lady's stand in Charlotte. Half of them have already been eaten.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 23h
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 23h
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). 🎉
AmbitioUS logo
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 1d
Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d
It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.
Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration
www.nytimes.com
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d
When I see this, I wonder if people realize that Jim Crow racism in the American south was a type home-grown fascism. It was not (just) a superficially genteel system of social deference. Refusing to defer was often met with incredible violence designed to terrorize the entire Black community.
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The RAD Seed @theradseed.blacksky.app · 1d
Twittwer reaction to mid summer replacement show Scandal CHANGED how tv was marketed and produced forever. This is factual. Not hyperbole.
chelsisright.bsky.social
Oh hey Chels! @chelsisright.bsky.social · 1d
Black Twitter Watch Party favorites: Catfish, TCAP, Scandal and #DemThrones
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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 1d
Shoutout to them days when if you weren't in front of your tv for Scandal's cold open, you basically had to put your phone down until you watched the show, cause it was the whole timeline.

I'd be so mad when I was in LA on Thursdays.
chelsisright.bsky.social
Oh hey Chels! @chelsisright.bsky.social · 1d
Black Twitter Watch Party favorites: Catfish, TCAP, Scandal and #DemThrones
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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 2d
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
~ L. M. Montgomery

A joyful #RoseWednesday to you all 🌱 #FlowerReport 💮 #BloomScrolling🌹
Light yellow 'Peace' rose bloom, green leaves in the background
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toxicofriendron radicans @toxicoradica.bsky.social · 1d
🌸 glade bluecurls 🌿
Trichostema coeruleum

aka false pennyroyal

#nativeplants #ecoregion71 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #bloomsky
a light purple flower with five deep, rounded lobes and four stamens with dark purple anthers in a bunch at the center. the green calyx in which the corolla is set has long, pointed lobes and is covered in white hairs. a light purple flower with a tubular corolla, five rounded, spreading lobes, and four stamens. the hairy green calyx is larger than the corolla itself. next to the flower there are three green nutlets tucked within a persistent calyx. this glade bluecurls has long stems, but they're lying along the ground. opposite green leaves run along the stems, with occasional tiny, light purple flowers growing from leaf axils. the ground around the bluecurls is covered in gravel and sparse grass: a limestone cedar glade.
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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 1d
I went out back in the rain this morning to take a few pictures to get me through the week. 🌱 #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling
Young hydrangea bloom on a plant that’s winding down for the year. Pink dahlia with raindrops. Kelsey Dwarf, a nice compact little plant. Bumble Rumble dahlia, pink and white petals with white collarette petals around a golden center. Bee Happy dahlia, magenta petals that are burgundy toward the center.
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