Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

@definitelyvita.bsky.social

21K followers 2K following 5.4K posts

afro-🇵🇷. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ bard class brawler. writer. work @ Abrams, Black Mask Studios, DC comics, Dynamite, IDW, Image, Macmillan, Marvel comics, Realm, Valiant, Vault. Repped by Susan Graham. Pro-Danny. Free Palestine ✊🏾🍉 https://linktr.ee/definitelyvita

linktr.ee

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · Jan 29

Hello, all. In a time where everything is so much for so many people, I feel guilty asking but my family and I are in need of help.

Even if it is a signal boost, any help is appreciated.

I love you all, and I hope you are all safe.

gofund.me/980022e5

Donate to Support Vita Ayala After Fire Displacement, organized by Tini Howard

Hi everyone, I'm Tini Howard, and this is for my friend, and your favorite comi… Tini Howard needs your support for Support Vita Ayala After Fire Displacement

gofund.me

75 1.2K 1K

Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you friend 🥹🥹🥹🫂🫂🫂💜💜💜

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello new followers! I’m Elise and I’m a Minnesotan based comic artist and cryptid! Welcome and prepare for puns and shenanigans.

Patreon: www.patreon.com/troubledminn...

Stickers: troubledminnesotan.bigcartel.com

Zines: eliseschuenke.itch.io

Tip Jar: ko-fi.com/troubledminn...

First panel: a young woman suggests making soup to her girlfriend in bed

Second panel: the two girlfriends walk to the grocery store holding hands

Third panel: they are grabbing ingredients from the vegetable aisle

Fourth panel: their groceries which consists of vegetable stock, two cans of coconut milk, a bag of various goods and a set of chicken thighs

Two young siblings talk and play video games while the grown up versions of them stand facing away. They are surrounded by various video game related tech and games. The title: Near You Beside You

First panel: A person gets out of bed looking stressed.

Second panel: the person is starting to put on a sweatshirt with a dark cloud of swirling thoughts around their head.

Third panel: it turns out the person has put the sweater on backwards and the hood flops over their head with the appropriate sound effect saying FLOP

Fourth panel: the person stands confused with the hood still over their face

Fifth panel: the person starts shaking with laughter saying “…pfft.”

Sixth panel: the person leaves the bedroom laughing to themselves

First panel: Link from Legend of Zelda stands at a triforce altar with the master sword sitting in stone.

Second panel: Link stares nervously at the master sword before him with the floating text, “deep down, you know”

Third panel: his hand reaches out to the sword’s handle

In between the third and fourth panel, the text says: “you weren’t built for fighting”

Fourth panel: at the last second, his hand clenches away, shaking as it hesitates to grab the sword

4 52 340

Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 10h

I can't find the icon that @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social drew of me as a vampire, and my Halloween Name is not as funny without it 😂😩😭

1 8

Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 10h

Bangers.

Go Go Juice is an earworm

1 1

Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 10h

This new Sabrina Carpenter album is great, man

1 1 17

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Joseph Knoop @josephknoop.bsky.social · 10h

Extra funny when you think about how Sinners, which features Michael B. Jordan gunning down Klansmen in broad daylight in slow-mo, is the 10th highest-grossing R-rated film of all time - higher than The Hangover, 300, Logan, John Wick 4, etc....

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

8 140 500

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Brian @bm1970.bsky.social · 1d

We also have this guy the Portland unipiper a dude riding a unicycle playing bagpipes wearing a Darth Vader mask with flame stacks we are holding him in reserve in case situation gets totally weird he's Portland famous beat that ice goons

28 80 650

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.

These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.

AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.

72 630 1.4K

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10h

Remember when the head of the cop union in Chicago promised "800-1000" cops would quit if Brandon Johnson won and it was actually six, all of whom were "quitting" by taking a lucrative early retirement.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h

The essence of Bari Weiss: not reporting, but crude partisan propaganda presented in the form of reporting—and usually pronounced from the mouths of anonymous sources which likely don't exist. Expect this sort of prolefeed at CBS News soon.

14 48 180

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 10h

Hating the Klan is not anti-white. Large swaths couldn't even join the Klan until they had to open up to avoid dying off. The Irish, Greeks, Italians, French, etc.? No dice. You could be 100% Nordic and if your ass was Mormon? Bye.

Hating fascists is righteous and pure American brotherhood.

1 14 120

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 10h

Look, I'm not the type of person to pretend that antiblackness doesn't have an impact on sales. But this would have sold. Like gangbusters. Because I assure you that most people would enjoy killing the Klan (in a video game) just as much as they enjoy killing Nazis (in a video game).

9 11 140

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 11h

Life would have been better never knowing what I'd lost because of these racists. Because this might kill me.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 11h

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

13 110 530

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Democracy lover @spottie999.bsky.social · 13h

Protest dinosaurs of the world unite

4 20

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 14h

Weirdly enough, I think this works. No one is more insecure than a new ICE agent. They want to be the blonde guy in DHS’s AI Nazi posting so badly. Instead, they’ll be guarding indistinguishable suburban warehouse #16361 while inflated frogs and dinosaurs thrust in their face all day every day.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

14 170 650

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 19h

Your Bubbe and Zayde are now Hamas

Blame the grandparents: Why young Jews align with antisemites - opinion
Parents and grandparents denied their offspring the necessary tools that would make being a proud Jew a priority in their lives.

13 38 210

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2d

have been desperately looking for this old erotic Spanish comic I stumbled on almost 10 years ago called "El secreto de Frankenstein" and I'm so happy to report I finally found it

black & white comic panel depicting a sexy, thicc Frankenstein's monster disrobing in 3 different poses - pulling his shirt of his shoulder, seen at an angle; from the front, shirtless, beginning to take his pants off; then almost totally nude as seen from behind. the words at the top read "Strip-tease de Frankenstein..."

29 770 2.4K

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

The acting CDC director has finally signed off on the vaccine advisory panel's recommendations for the COVID vaccines.

While the CDC is trying to sell this as a win for antivaxxers, in reality this means that COVID vaccines will be more accessible than they have been in recent weeks.

CDC Immunization Schedule Adopts Individual-Based Decision-Making for COVID-19 and Standalone Vaccination for Chickenpox in Toddlers

ATLANTA—October 6, 2025— The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today updated its adult and child immunization schedules to apply individual-based decision-making to COVID-19 vaccination and recommend that toddlers receive protection from varicella (chickenpox) as a standalone immunization rather than in combination with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination.The immunization schedules adopt recent recommendations by the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which were approved last week by Acting Director of the CDC and Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill. The schedules will be updated on CDC.gov by October 7, 2025.

7 290 820

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

There is no evidence that breaking up the MMR shot would make the immunization safer or more effective.

The reason why the acting CDC director wants to separate the MMR shot is to discourage people from getting vaccinated by creating larger hurdles.

@HHS_Jim
Thank you
@POTUS
for your leadership.

I call on vaccine manufacturers to develop safe monovalent vaccines to replace the combined MMR and “break up the MMR shot into three totally separate shots.”

18 140 470

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

Bad news: Anti-vaxxers have been given leadership positions at US health agencies and are doing everything they can to take away vaccines.

Good news: Despite all their spin, in reality they have been too incompetent to do anything effective to restrict vaccine access in any meaningful way so far.

27 210 960

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. This is bigger than politics. It’s about putting the health of Americans first."

- Six former U.S. surgeons general, who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

3 99 300

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

cunt eastwitch 🦇 @childlessgambino.bsky.social · 1d

if someone is defending zip-tying babies and shooting priests with pepper balls, they aren't just doing mental gymnastics; they're doing the mental version of this

Catherine Zeta Jones in Entrapment doing the laser room routine

8 33

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 1d

“If we view feminism as the struggle of gender-marginalized people for bodily autonomy, rather than just calling these things “women's issues,” then we make room for all trans people within feminism.”

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

"As much as our enemies are louder and crueler, and in many cases more powerful than ever, we have more allies than ever too."

Assigned Media interviews transmasc feminist @judedoyle.bsky.social

Jude Doyle On Manhood After Patriarchy — Assigned

Assigned Media interviews transmasc feminist author Jude Doyle.

www.assignedmedia.org

1 63 210

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Aleksi Remes @aleksiremesart.bsky.social · Nov 11

Juste Belmont / Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (2021)

4 230 590

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

The TESCREAL Bundle

The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.

www.dair-institute.org

2 110 350

Reposted by Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

13 310 1.1K