It is #BlackHistoryMonth regardless of who tries to say it’s not.

Here is our book of the day, which actually began as a poem. The author Kwame Alexander wrote it the same year @barackobama1961.bsky.social become President.

A powerful message, yet easy to understand for kids of all ages.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

instead of writing “sorry for the delayed response” say “darkness took me and I strayed out of thought and time,” it’s more exciting and suggests that you recently had a rumble with a Balrog of Morgoth.

the word of the day is “kuebiko,” a feeling of being overcome with exhaustion at all the world’s horrors and a sense of resignation at your own inability to fix things.

I guess this is the year I finally understand what Marmee in Little Women meant when she said “I have been angry nearly every day of my life.”

Somebody yelled at me for posting about Ganymede instead of /the state of things/ last night.

I know we’re (almost) all on the same page here, but a Bluesky without cute cats, science facts, and dumb jokes would be bad for everyone.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

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I love winter, but I’m dreaming of spring this cold sunny morning! Can’t wait to see how all the new natives I planted last year grow in when the seasons turn.