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30. Blk/Af-Am. AuDHD. AroAce. Dyke. LC. Gluten-free. Somewhere between conscious & feminist. She/her, but not a woman. Interested in: patterns; disability; gender; music; astrology; sustainability; art(s & crafts); nature.

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ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 20d

I know y'all have been waiting. I'm launching a virtual crafting group, starting next month (for Black MaGes). I'm so excited and I hope you are too! The signup form is below.
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Handcrafted.

A crafting space for Black people of marginalized genders (non-binary folks, trans folks, women), where queer folks and neurodivergent folks will be centered. Date(s): First Thursday of the month (Oc...

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MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 7h

A disability that is not apparent in the person’s appearance is no less intrusive, no less painful, no less disturbing than one that can be spotted across the room. And, yet, many people fail to respect the tremendous impact that the invisible disability has on the human enduring it.

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LMJ @elleemmejaye.bsky.social · 10h

•Hibiscus
•Gomphrena
•Cosmos
•Zinnia

The temps are dropping and the flowers are still blooming.

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ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 12h

I did just buy a water bottle sling…

ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 12h

Then, I went to get a kombucha. Yeah, the alcohol content did its big one. God really said, DRINK WATER.

ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 12h

I forgot to order oat milk and I almost gagged on my chai latte 🙄

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ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 15h

yeah, I’m not tryna get pissed off. ty for the heads up!

ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 16h

but is it a good watch? 👀 I have this in my queue

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babygirl in the challey @quemini.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not joking when I say this belongs in a Feminist Theory text

Bad Bitches Love Nujabes @play-on-verbs.blacksky.app · 1d

this was 140 characters that changed PERSPECTIVES

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 1d

It is raining gold on the San Juans. Probably peak color for the season as rain moves in this weekend.

Golden aspen and Engelmann spruce surround a dirt road.

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ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 1d

Just kidding, I’m not getting rid of tiktok.

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toxicofriendron radicans @toxicoradica.bsky.social · 3d

🌸 aromatic aster 🌿
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium

#nativeplants #flowerreport
#bloomscrolling #bloomsky

a medium-sized composite flower with light purple rays and yellow disks. the petal-like ray florets are long, very thin, and numerous-- over four dozen of em. the florets in the flower's disk are least mature at the very center, where they have not yet opened. surrounding those immature florets is a ring of open florets, appearing slightly darker due to their stamen + style. the final ring of disk florets have faded and turned reddish purple. encircling the disk, there is a short fringe formed by the split styles of the ray florets.

two aromatic aster flowerheads side-by-side, seen from the side. their stems are thick with spreading hairs, and bear many oblong green leaves also covered in spreading hairs. long, hairy, green phyllaries line the base of the flowers, spreading out to the side or recurving back towards their base. above the phyllaries there are many long, thin, light purple ray florets which are held out mostly straight, though many curve down a little towards their tip. the nearer flower seems to have had most of its ray florets chewn off. the rays' straw yellow split styles are clear to see here, running around the red withering disk florets in the top center of each flowerhead. a few disks in the very center are still holding their styles erect, however.

a bushy, mound-like aromatic aster growing under thin branches of shrubs and small trees at the edge of a glade. its obscured stems are hidden within many light green oblong leaves, studded with spiky-looking flowerbuds and a couple light purple flowers with yellow centers.

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🥀your ghoulfriend gore-igan.⚰️ @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 3d

This has to be the MOST cynical attempt to pretend individuals hold equal responsibility for climate change as corporations I've ever seen. I mean, who can say who's worse: tech billionaires draining earth's water and electricity for AI data centers or selfish people trying to breathe?

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 3d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

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ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 1d

Do you still have it? I just hit 200k

ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 1d

I feel the same about my 07 Nissan Altima. I just hit 200k

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ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 1d

A little compilation album of the best ones would be super cute

ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 1d

Oh shit! Lemme go listen

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s not technically polite, but I love having a conversation with other people who are comfortable with short interjecting interruptions. To me it makes the conversation feel more like something we’re weaving together rather than alternating individual presentations. It feels more alive.

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Shintaro Melodrama @roiskinda.cool · 1d

If you’re white, there’s just nothing to talk about if you’re not showing up in material ways right now.

I don’t care who you voted for, what books you’ve read, or what podcasts you like.

Are you making a tangible difference in the lives of people you say you support.

That’s all there is to it

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ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 1d

I am nobody’s auntie and this is devastating

ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 1d

I maybe have new answers after I get a stimulant lol, but rn dishwasher. If I were to hand wash, rack dry.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

All Black Americans have ever wanted is our full freedom.

That’s it.

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ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 1d

tysm 🫶🏾

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 1d

if I may? (a reply from a stranger in fall)

It is time to hold close
To find shelter from a multitude of storms
Both natural & imposed disasters
which rage on

We must also rage on
& wait out storms if we cannot fight them

Survival can be lonely

I am glad that you are here 🫶🏻

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ogracemay.blacksky.app @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 1d

(a poem from the summer)

Emotionally I feel terrible
I feel trapped in this house by vengeful gods,
gods that hate that I choose myself
Unapologetically.
Just like I choose myself,
I choose freedom.

aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 17d

more seriously, Autistic poetry is a beautiful act of rebellion and resiliency building

be they silly or serious

I would love to hear all of them

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