Shona Black
@shonablack.bsky.social
Art, design, football. Anti-fascist. 85% feral, 100% for trans rights. Unreasonably pleased with myself. 🏳️🌈
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Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency
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Solange made a zine and it's sold out. But the Schomburg Library in NYC will have few that folks can borrow on December 2 apparently.
"Azurest Blue: The Life & Legacy of Amaza Lee Meredith, from Saint Heron, is a marriage between archive & narrative, filled w/ personal correspondence, annotated documents, blueprints, photographs, & commissioned essays from contemporary voices of design" www.architecturaldigest.com/story/solang...
Solange and Saint Heron’s Book About Pioneering Black Architect Amaza Lee Meredith Is Here
“Her spirit is demanding to be resurrected in the nowness,” the multi-hyphenate tells AD
www.architecturaldigest.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Solange made a zine and it's sold out. But the Schomburg Library in NYC will have few that folks can borrow on December 2 apparently.
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Lazy, ideology-driven austerity budgets are a highly effective way to make bad economies worse while weakening cities, provinces/states and nations.
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Lazy, ideology-driven austerity budgets are a highly effective way to make bad economies worse while weakening cities, provinces/states and nations.
(Also, btw, Kieran Tierney's goal!)
a soccer player with the name tierney on the back of his shirt
Alt: a soccer player with the name tierney on the back of his shirt
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
(Also, btw, Kieran Tierney's goal!)
The interesting thing to me is, 'AI' is just as much a scam as nfts; but the difference is, huge, huge 'too big to fail' companies have very publicly gone in on it. We're about to see an epic crash.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The interesting thing to me is, 'AI' is just as much a scam as nfts; but the difference is, huge, huge 'too big to fail' companies have very publicly gone in on it. We're about to see an epic crash.
I mean, it's like me 'giving' a $20 bill to my other pants pocket
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I mean, it's like me 'giving' a $20 bill to my other pants pocket
Scott McTominay bicycle kick. Football, bloody hell. 🫶😅🏴
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Scott McTominay bicycle kick. Football, bloody hell. 🫶😅🏴
Doing simple, effective things flies in the face of capitalism. Capitalism thrives on and requires inefficiency.
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Doing simple, effective things flies in the face of capitalism. Capitalism thrives on and requires inefficiency.
bcc: like, everyone?!
“Migrant workers who travelled to Saudi Arabia to work on the Riyadh Metro project were forced to pay exorbitant recruitment fees, worked in dangerous heat and earned pitiful wages during a decade of serious abuse, Amnesty International revealed in a new report.”
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Saudi Arabia: Migrant workers behind the Riyadh Metro system subjected to decade of devastating abuse
Migrant workers who travelled to Saudi Arabia to work on the Riyadh Metro project were forced to pay exorbitant recruitment fees, worked in dangerous heat and earned pitiful wages during a decade of s...
www.amnesty.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
bcc: like, everyone?!
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make bad art!!! it's better than making no art!!!
November 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
make bad art!!! it's better than making no art!!!
A great inaugural champioship game capped off a great inaugural season overall. Amazing the #NSL was just cooked from scratch. Diana Matheson, what a ledge. 🌟
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A great inaugural champioship game capped off a great inaugural season overall. Amazing the #NSL was just cooked from scratch. Diana Matheson, what a ledge. 🌟
Wow, Vancouver Rise! Honestly outplayed for much of that match, but just made of such stern stuff to pull it out. Congrats, and so looking forward to my season ticket next year! #NSL
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Wow, Vancouver Rise! Honestly outplayed for much of that match, but just made of such stern stuff to pull it out. Congrats, and so looking forward to my season ticket next year! #NSL
I'm pretty sure Mary Shelly's Frankenstein was not primarily about the sadness of boys. Jeeeeez 🙄
November 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I'm pretty sure Mary Shelly's Frankenstein was not primarily about the sadness of boys. Jeeeeez 🙄
Hard disagree re portmanteaux. And also, 'slopaganda' is perfect.
I hate portmanteau words but “slopaganda” is magnificent
Gone down a weird rabbithole with far-right Facebook slopaganda* about celebrities cancelling things as a result of the New York election result.
*I just invented this word: AI-generated disinformation content pumped onto social media by right-wing think tanks, and "slopaganda" was right there.
*I just invented this word: AI-generated disinformation content pumped onto social media by right-wing think tanks, and "slopaganda" was right there.
November 15, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Hard disagree re portmanteaux. And also, 'slopaganda' is perfect.
Ah, but you see, the British, once they learned their empire was lost, long only for self-flaggelation.
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Ah, but you see, the British, once they learned their empire was lost, long only for self-flaggelation.
Ahem, @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social
Israel must be expelled.
Israel must be expelled.
Gaza resembles "something out of a Mad Max movie", with lawlessness on the streets and amputations carried out on children daily, an Irish surgeon who left Palestinian territory this week has said
Gaza now resembles 'Mad Max movie', says Irish surgeon
Gaza resembles "something out of a Mad Max movie", with lawlessness on the streets and amputations carried out on children daily, an Irish surgeon who left Palestinian territory this week has said.
www.rte.ie
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Ahem, @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social
Israel must be expelled.
Israel must be expelled.
Also, a thing this video does't really address is that *cyclists* like Forest are exactly the kind of riders that drivers, pedestrians and indeed other cyclists all hate..giving more fodder to anti-bike sentiment.
Just watched this, and it is absolutely jaw-dropping!
WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.
November 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Also, a thing this video does't really address is that *cyclists* like Forest are exactly the kind of riders that drivers, pedestrians and indeed other cyclists all hate..giving more fodder to anti-bike sentiment.
This absolute loser asshole.
Wow, what a cynical thing for our mayor to say after all the Vancouverites came together to voice concerns over his budget
November 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
This absolute loser asshole.
Just watched this, and it is absolutely jaw-dropping!
WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.
This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Just watched this, and it is absolutely jaw-dropping!
Just want to make it known that Joyce Carol Oates once admired my glasses.
That is all.
That is all.
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Just want to make it known that Joyce Carol Oates once admired my glasses.
That is all.
That is all.
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if LOTS of people sign up to speak and go to city hall starting Wednesday, that will prevent council from making decisions on the budget
since they are required to hear all the registered speakers first
Sign up here
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/spe...
since they are required to hear all the registered speakers first
Sign up here
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/spe...
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
if LOTS of people sign up to speak and go to city hall starting Wednesday, that will prevent council from making decisions on the budget
since they are required to hear all the registered speakers first
Sign up here
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/spe...
since they are required to hear all the registered speakers first
Sign up here
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/spe...
I dunno, I don't believe Piers Morgan's lil cat's arse mouth pronouncing the death of 'woke' is going to change the course of history.
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I dunno, I don't believe Piers Morgan's lil cat's arse mouth pronouncing the death of 'woke' is going to change the course of history.
The overt reading of this is capitalism is cooked. (And that's true.)
But the more salient is, capitalism is crooked.
But the more salient is, capitalism is crooked.
Shareholders of an epically overvalued company that’s epically taxpayer-subsidized overpay an epically overrated & unengaged CEO who epically underpays taxes while the U.S. faces an epic economic disparity, affordability & hunger crisis fuelled by that CEO’s epically evil actions.
“USA, USA, USA…”
“USA, USA, USA…”
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The overt reading of this is capitalism is cooked. (And that's true.)
But the more salient is, capitalism is crooked.
But the more salient is, capitalism is crooked.