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Rika⁷

@commanderrika.blacksky.app

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · Sep 1

Hi! I have a story out in Small Wonders today! This is a little horny gremlin of a tale and I hope you take a chance on it, if you're into words and whatnot.

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · Sep 1

What takes you out of time? And what is sweet enough to bring you back into it again? Read Marika Bailey's "Gifted and Talented" today and consider what moves you so that you could move others:

Gifted and Talented - Small Wonders

Being beyond time is a revolution against creation most bodies aren’t built to bear. It’ll kill you, that dark matter time.

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 1m

"Oh Mariah's acting crazy."

Mariah was the focus of a millionaire funded smear campaign to destroy her career and reputation! Because she wanted a divorce!

Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 4m

This was the entire point of Tommy Mottola's campaign against her, to discredit her and make her look insignificant.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 11m

People say they wanna talk singer songwriters and then don’t bring up Mariah Carey and i think that says something about our society

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 6m

There's good songs about dick. Yes, I'm talking about Jill Scott's Crown Royal.

(It came out in 2007, don't forget to take your medication today and schedule a doctor's appointment.)

Crown Royal

YouTube video by Jill Scott - Topic

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 1h

I'll get used to LLM ai just like i got used to NFTs

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23m

Social arsonist OpenAI.

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World

Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 49m

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 1h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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studiowanwan ❤️ shop open! @studiowanwan.bsky.social · 12h

daily reminder ✏️
#btsart
#minimoni

chibi minimoni inspired by their moment in mmm music exchange

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J. Marshall Smith @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 34m

It's little Alex Horne!

Reminder: I'm running a special on pencil portrait commissions to help pay for booktour travel, healthcare, and wedding costs. I've also opened up my weekly drawing giveaways to the general public at just $5! Wow! You can't afford NOT to keep food on my table.

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 32m

Some of the "radicals" out here firing their unions too, please don't get got.

Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 34m

Bobbles (pronounced like baubles, but less on the "ah" and more on the "uh", it's a Shibboleth fr fr)

BlackAmericanPrincess @tiviatavia.bsky.social · 1h

since we on the topic of what y’all call things what is this ?

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 36m

It’s also a strategy that has been failing. You’ve all been telling women for decades that we couldn’t do anything on reproductive rights until we got power and now we’re dying in emergency room parking lots so please do forgive me if I’m eyeing that football with some skepticism

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 1h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 4h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 37m

smokey robinson exists

exhibit A-- most of yalls faves, including most of my faves, could never

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of songs written by Smokey Robinson - Wikipedia

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 37m

A key metric for a progressive organization should be how it treats its staff. Can't destroy the master's house with the master's union busting. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 4h

get a COIN

get some PRINT MAGS

JOIN THE DEAD

okay not that last but you get a COIN 😇

The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 4h

things you can do to help a skeleton crew out:

support our fundraiser: psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

join our patreon: www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

spread the word 🖤💀🙏🙏🙏

Coins for the Ferryman: Fundraiser For 2026 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Another October has arrived, crispy around the edges with a coolness that sinks into your bones. One season folds into another we rarely see, the ground

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butchqueen of the damned @catharticus.blacksky.app · 42m

as if we* haven't spent the last year dragging drake thru the muck and mire for all of these things

*by "we" i mean social media collectively. i personally haven't been able to stand drake for much longer than that 🤭

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Yes when will someone comment on the artistic output of men

Exhausted by this narrative. I'll change my mind when male musicians are dragged for their lyrics, looks, and lifestyle with the same venom and intensity.
October 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 41m

If you can't be bothered to attend the meeting, send a fucking email. You have to show up to a meeting with a bot that records you (perhaps correctly but probably inserting errors and lies) but management can go to a "more important" meeting.

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1h

"The bots silently record everything, create transcripts, and summarize meetings for the humans who couldn't — or wouldn't — attend themselves. The trend has created bizarre new etiquette problems."

AI note-takers are flooding virtual meetings

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan envisions AI "digital twins" replacing humans in future meetings. But experts warn about information overload and the implications of perfect digital memory.

boingboing.net

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1h

The ebook of THE WITCH ROADS is still on sale on all US and Canadian platforms. You can read it this month and roll over right into the second half of the duology, THE NAMELESS LAND, which releases November 4. No waiting! Plus you'll understand the title of book two once you read book one.

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 2d

THE WITCH ROADS ebook is currently on sale (US) for $2.99, so if you're curious & want to read a grimsweet tale of a humble deputy courier & her annoyed nephew, a possessed prince, & a ravenous fungal ghost plague, now's the time.
Bk 2 of the duology arrives Nov 4!

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The Witch Roads

Book 1 in the Witch Roads duology, the latest epic novel by fan favorite Kate Elliott.. Status is hereditary, class is bestowed, trust must be earned.When an...

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 46m

Year of the Gentleman still on the rotation in my house!

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 48m

they are all such pathetic losers oh my god

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 5h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 48m

Yeah...it would be one of those sitting in a corner with the feelings moments. Because the music literally underlined a time in my life AND YET AND YET AND YET.

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Rickubus ☔️🖋️ @rickubus.bsky.social · 1h

This is what pure dedication to being yourself looks like.

Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 2h

Halloween! Nightmare King! Ghost! Ghost Pepper! Wednesday! And now the Jack-O-Lantern Whopper. I'm the only person in the world with a complete collection of Burger King's Halloween Whoppers, dating as far back as 2015. Can't believe I'm single.

Every Burger King Halloween Whopper, from 2015 to now. (Why though?)

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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 57m

If you live in Maryland, and you're a furloughed Federal worker, you may be entitled to utility bill and tenant protections. Go here for more information: econaction.org/tenant-advoc...

Utility Bill Information for Furloughed Federal Employees | Economic Action MD Fund

Because the federal shutdown has lasted longer than 7 days, protections for certain residential utility customers are now in effect.

econaction.org

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