Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Nicole Sune Sbitani

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 4h

An illustrator friend did a kid's book where one of the mums wore hijab. Not to make a point, just as part of a normal city school background. Took it to publisher and was asked to remove because it 'wasn't a book about inclusivity'

5 21 68

Reposted by Nicole Sune Sbitani

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 13h

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

21 660 3.1K

Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 2h

This beautiful story by @sarlynh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social hit me right in my emotional core. Highly recommend!

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 23h

Excited to share my newest piece in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Issue 36: "Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?"

Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for including my work alongside that of so many other remarkable writers!

gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...

Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash by Sarah Lynn Hurd You might be flat on your back, picking at loose fibers in a worn Turkish rug you inherited from your mother, who managed a Pier 1 I...

gooseberry-pie.com

Reposted by Nicole Sune Sbitani

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 3h

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

17 120 430

Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 17h

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep:
1. U.S. diplomacy
2. Mixed-race identity and cultural issues
3. Internal debates within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Mormon community

Morgan Hazelwood @morganhazelwood.bsky.social · 13d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep:
1. Beta reading/editing
2. RPG gaming systems and adventures
3. Weird family dynamics (I'm an identical twin and it just spirals from there)

Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 14d

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep:
1. The triangle era of Superman comics.
2. William Blake's approach to mysticism & illuminated printing.
3. Why Dark Souls is a Buddhist game.

1

Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 1d

Great new #scifi drabble from @amulderwrites.bsky.social at @100footcrow.bsky.social! This one will stick with me for a while.

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

It's up! My new sci-fi drabble, "Time Capsule from a Crumbling Earth" is now available to read at @100footcrow.bsky.social .

If you have a minute or two free, give it a look, and I hope you enjoy!

Time Capsule from a Crumbling Earth - 100-Foot Crow

By: Allison Mulder. Last. People keep commenting that on the Capsule goodbye forum, and for someone, it will be true. The last entry on the last server shoved in beside the records, the art, the every...

100footcrow.com

1 2 4

Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 3d

"I'm an author, too!"
"Cool! These cons are my only real chance to #associate with other writers. What do you write?"
"AI scifi."
"Oh, like scifi about AI? Dystopian stuff?"
"No, no... I use AI to write science fiction."
"..."
"First, I start with a #prompt like--wait! Where are you going?"

#vss365

1 2 10

Reposted by Nicole Sune Sbitani

Robin and Arlene Karpan @r-and-a-karpan.bsky.social · 5d

When photographing fall colours don't forget to look down as well as up. The forest floor can be just as colourful. This view is from the Height of Land viewing tower in #PrinceAlbertNationalPark #Saskatchewan #PrinceAlbertNP #ParksCanada #TMACtravel #satw #landscapephotography

3 25 250

Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 5d

I crushed the #pulp by hand.
He asked, "What's that?"
"Blender's broken," I replied.
"Someone should fix that," he mused, pulling out his phone to scroll.
"Someone should." I smashed the back of the spoon into the bowl, sending fruit flecks flying upward.
"...Well, I'll be on the couch!"

#vss365

1 6

Reposted by Nicole Sune Sbitani

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 6d

I was about to joke that my apartment must be a distant nebula because it's a Messier object, but then I realized I already made that joke

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Jul 16

Why do explorers always pack extra paper towels when they go to the Andromeda galaxy?

Because it's a Messier object.

9 9 170

Reposted by Nicole Sune Sbitani

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7d

I didn't know until we buried my mother, so probably most people here don't know: Jewish cemeteries strongly recommend that you get insurance for the headstone.

Because the cemeteries are so often desecrated, the gravestones smashed.

100 340 1.2K

Reposted by Nicole Sune Sbitani

Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 9d

Submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! 🎉

(general submission window 15-31 October)

Seeking speculative stories about our inner lives:

💙 500 - 2,500 words
💚 £0.02 per word, min £20
💛 Sim subs welcome!
🧡 Reprints welcome!

inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...

#SubmissionCall

Post text overlaid on a photo of a low, wide corridor or tunnel with red lighting.

61 60

Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 9d

I read the news from afar, but the moment my composure cracked was when in one police briefing they praised the courage of those churchgoers who shielded the children with their bodies. Our children. God's children. Nobody should ever have to make that sacrifice. I'm praying for them all. 2/2

Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 9d

It's hard to articulate the grief my community, the #LDS / #Mormon community, is experiencing right now. For that act of such hate-fueled violence in Michigan to follow so soon after the death of a prophet who urged all of us to be peacemakers... It's incomprehensible. We are scared and hurting. 1/2

1 1

Reposted by Nicole Sune Sbitani

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

520 2.2K 12K

Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 10d

"Final offer to #sublimate your sorrow! Transform your trauma! Alter your anger!"

"How?"

"It's a simple operation. Minimally invasive. Just a few zaps to the emotional centers of your brain!"

"...Can you remove joy?"

"What? Why?!"

"Joy feels wrong... without him."

"...Are you sure?"

#vss365

1 3 12

Reposted by Nicole Sune Sbitani

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 12d

I am obsessed with this guy on Instagram who makes ice cream using different kinds of trees, then he also makes a spoon and bowl out of the same kind of wood, and the whole time he teaches us about that specific kind of tree?? It’s so cool??

x: www.instagram.com/reel/DPHvnfR...

20 280 1.3K

Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 12d

Inspired by: My Husband Said God Wanted Him To Spank Me. Then He Made A Chilling Request That Had Me Gasping For Air. | HuffPost share.google/f7mOrNtS74gQ...

My Husband Said God Wanted Him To Spank Me. Then He Made A Chilling Request That Had Me Gasping For Air.

"If this sounds familiar to you, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is part of the same denomination.”

share.google

Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 12d

He told me #scrutiny would bring us closer. I was too afraid to ask why it only went one way. Pretty soon, he confiscated my credit and debit cards. "Can't risk overspending like last month," he said with a smile. (It was $2.) After a while, there was nothing left of me for him to take.

#vss365

2 2 10

Reposted by Nicole Sune Sbitani

Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 13d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

240 9K 21K

Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 13d

I kept checking my phone for a signal: nothing. All the trees started to look alike. Then, on the edge of a sunlit clearing, I saw a small cottage. Hope!

A tendril of smoke curled up from the chimney, and #sonorous chimes beckoned. But before I could knock, the door swung open with a bang.

#vss365

2 5

Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 16d

He leaned forward, face almost touching the bronze. "Yup!" he said. "That metal looks cloudy with a chance of rust."

"For the last time, that is NOT what #bellwether means!"

"Are you trying to tell me this bad boy is sunny?" He rapped his knuckles on the bell, which rang out like a gong.

#vss365

1 7

Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 17d

I collapse onto the couch and try to rally before the show. My fake lashes feel like weights on my lids. Then, suddenly, I hear the unmistakably crisp crinkle of foil. Could it be? I watch as a perfect roll of sesame oil-scented kimbap emerges, here to #reinvigorate me in my moment of need.

#vss365

a woman with black nails is eating a roll of food

Alt: Rumi from Kpop Demon Hunters smells a roll of kimbap and throws back her head in ecstasy

media.tenor.com

1 7

Reposted by Nicole Sune Sbitani

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 18d

Anyway do people who paint those tiny Warhammer miniatures make Polly Pocket houses for them or do the minis just kind of hang out in the regular-sized house as if they're regular-sized people

36 22 250

Reposted by Nicole Sune Sbitani

gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 21d

question: how much does it bother you in a book if you don’t quite understand what’s going on? what measures do you take to remedy this lack of understanding? what novels most rewarded your further investigation?

56 9 85