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She, if you must. Muslim, parent, Chaos personified, my favorite hobby is collecting way too many hobbies!🖤🩶🤍💜FREE🍉📚🐉🧶🪡🎨🇺🇸🇵🇰💚🤍🩶🖤
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Please put sound on for this quick visual and audio representation of reading @niadavenport.bsky.social ‘s amazingly delicious romantasy Our Vicious Oaths! 🌶️ 🌶️
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
joas-mon.bsky.social
Cry, VoidBringer releases TOMORROW & today is the last day for pre-orders which are so important in helping make sure that books do well & that we are able to get more amazing reads like this! This is an action packed feminist fantasy of oppressive government and what resistance looks like! #booksky
A book shelf featuring books from Black, Brown, and indie authors, placed prominently with cover facing outward is the book “Cry, Voidbringer” by Elaine Ho.
October 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
joas-mon.bsky.social
My library hold finally came in this morning, and I know this is going to be especially useful at this moment in time. Take care of your friends, neighbors, and your wider community! 💜 #booksky #MutualAid
A book titled “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)” by author Dean Spade sits on the background of a crochet granny square blanket.
October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
joas-mon.bsky.social
This is literally one of the most ridiculously immature things I’ve ever seen on a US government website. Are there any rational adults left in our government or is it being run by toddlers that missed nap time? #GovernmentShutdown #TrumpsShutdown
A screen shot of the USDA website showing an alert text at the top of the page that reads “Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, this government website will not be updated during the funding lapse. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.” Using the mark up feature, the text has been circled and an arrow points at it with the letters WTF
October 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
joas-mon.bsky.social
Watercolor work in progress, we visited Bancroft Castle recently and it is a lovely location. An excellent place for a picnic or a cosplay photo shoot, with beautiful views and interesting ruins. #BancroftCastle #Artsky #Watercolor
An unfinished watercolor painting featuring a castle turret ruin, with vegetation to the sides and base, and blue sky above.
September 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
joas-mon.bsky.social
More mushroom doodles🙃 #MushroomCore #Cottagecore #ImTiredofThisGranpa #FDJT
A set of three small papers on a back drop of distressed wood. Each with a small colorful mushroom person holding a sign. One says Fuck DJT, the next says Fungus against Fascists, and the last says 86 47.
September 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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aljazeera.com
BREAKING: At least 59 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn today, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/kz2du2
September 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
joas-mon.bsky.social
Morning mushroom doodles! #Mushroomcore #cottagecore #artsky
Top: a four by six inch card with a watercolor doodle of a mushroom house with red top Bottom: four two by seven inch book marks with watercolor doodles of a couple different styles of cartoon mushrooms with red tops. Some have white spots, some have black spots, some have thick stems, some have thin stems.
September 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.
September 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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aljazeera.com
A Palestinian boy in Gaza rescued his birds from under the rubble after Israeli forces destroyed Al-Ruya Tower in Gaza City.
September 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
joas-mon.bsky.social
Experimenting with different sets of paint markers for some mushroom themed bookmarks! #MushroomCore #CozyCore #Booksky
A set of three hand painted bookmarks, each featuring five mushrooms in various sizes and shapes, some have white spots, some have black spots, some have striations, or skirts. Each set of five is in a different shade of pink for the mushroom caps.
August 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
joas-mon.bsky.social
My next read is Deja Brew by Celestine Martin! I’ve got a cute bookmark to color, so I can match it to the book! #Booksky #DejaBrew #CozyReads
Flat lay arrangement of a book, a book mark, and some markers. The Book is “Deja Brew” by Celestine Martin, and features a fall theme with orange/red/yellow/browns and a cute couple looking into each other’s eyes, the book mark has a picture of plants on shelves with a resting cat underneath.
August 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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aljazeera.com
Conditions are expected to worsen by September, IPC global initiative says, in a ‘race against time’.
Famine confirmed in northern Gaza, global hunger monitor says
Conditions are expected to worsen by September, IPC global initiative says, in a ‘race against time’.
bit.ly
August 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
‘Deaths from starvation in Gaza may amount to war crime’, UN rights chief says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/deaths-starvation-gaza-may-amount-war-crime-un-rights-chief-says
‘Deaths from starvation in Gaza may amount to war crime’, UN rights chief says
<article data-history-node-id="427536" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/deaths-starvation-gaza-may-amount-war-crime-un-rights-chief-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/deaths-starvation-gaza-may-amount-war-crime-un-rights-chief-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">‘Deaths from starvation in Gaza may amount to war crime’, UN rights chief says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">The UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday that the officially declared famine in Gaza is the “direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government”.</p> <p>He added that the deaths from starvation might amount to a war crime.</p> <p>“The famine declared today in Gaza Governorate by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is the direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government,” Turk said in a statement to reporters.</p> <p>“It is a war crime to use starvation as a method of warfare, and the resulting deaths may also amount to the war crime of willful killing,” he added.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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August 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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aljazeera.com
Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.
Israeli data shows 83 percent of Gaza war dead are civilians: Report
Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.
bit.ly
August 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
joas-mon.bsky.social
Walking at the beach today and saw this little one’s shell. Amazing creatures even though the underside freaks me out when they are alive. #HorseshoeCrabs
The left hand of an adult poses with thumb extended to the left side of the shell of a horseshoe crab. The horseshoe crab shell is approximately the same size as the hand from the front to the end of the pointed tail.
August 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
joas-mon.bsky.social
I received an ARC copy of Grace Walker’s debut novel The Merge, all opinions expressed are my own. An excellent if slightly creepy premise, what would you do if you could merge your consciousness with another person & share a body? review on IG(link ⬇️)
tinyurl.com/f67468nw
#TheMerge #booksky
Cover of an ARC copy of Grace Walker’s debut novel “The Merge” the cover features the face of a woman with eyes closed, but the features are smeared as if it is a painting and someone ran a brush through portions of the wet paint.
August 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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artofelaineho.bsky.social
I've donated three prints of CRY,
VOIDBRINGER to @novamali.bsky.social's auction for Gaza.

Please consider bidding, if not for my work, but on the
other talented artists that have donated their time and effort to help in the little ways we can.

Head over to www.32auctions.com/novaandmali2...
August 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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rosepetals1984.bsky.social
I hold on to my MMPBs like lifelines, so I appreciate this post.
August 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
joas-mon.bsky.social
You know what’s super fun? When you wake up to a flooded basement because the washer’s drain hose popped out of its pipe. SO MUCH FUN! 😐😐😐 #LifeIsLife-ingAgain
August 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
joas-mon.bsky.social
I picked up my library holds today and started this one IMMEDIATELY. If you enjoyed the unhinged, unnerving, and weirdness that was Tender is the Flesh, you will most likely enjoy this too. So odd, in a fascinatingly creepy sort of way. #booksky
A left hand holds a copy of the book “The Unworthy” by Augustina Bazterrica. The cover is mainly black with a woman in dressed similarly to a nun with arms raised in a reverential manner, in shades of white and red.
August 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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artofelaineho.bsky.social
3 more months until the release of Cry, Voidbringer! Here's a fun little trope list and some book comps!

Cry, Voidbringer releases 28 October 2025 in the US with @binderybooks.bsky.social, and 6 Nov 2025 in the UK with @solarisbooks.bsky.social. We're almost there!
trope graphic with the following captions: "dark, political fantasy", "should we fix broken systems from within, or burn it from without?", "accidental acquisition of a magical child", "toxic lesbians (the bisexual is also toxic)", "weird POVs", "exploring how identity is reshaped under empire", "grump x sunshine", "why do postcolonial societies perpetuate the same crimes of their oppressors: a thesis", "your found family sucks, actually" graphic of book comps with the following books: the fifth season by NK Jemisin with the caption "unusual POV and political worldbuilding", the traitor baru cormorant by Seth Dickinson and the unbroken by C.L. Clark with the caption "intersectionality of identity and empire", and the jasmine throne by Tasha Suri, with the caption "morally grey characters". the bottom graphic is a quote from cry, voidbringer: "tyranny doesn't happen in the blink of an eye. it is a slow descent, helped by the complicity of those who think they have no power."
August 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
joas-mon.bsky.social
There is an author trying to defend Nnedi Okorafor on Threads by harass tagging an Indigenous creator in MULTIPLE random pictures/posts about the bird that is an ill omen in many Indigenous tribes. She’s on the never read list, but looking at her work, there is a LOT of 😬 that explains her actions.
August 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
joas-mon.bsky.social
Possibly bc no one protested Nnedi’s post? One Indigenous person made a polite request and in return got a culturally insensitive response followed by Nnedi liking and laugh reacting to anti-Indigenous comments some of which contained an actual slur. People we admired can still be bigots
ogaines.com Olivia Gaines, Author @ogaines.com · Aug 12
I don't see anyone protesting this owl posting like they did with Nnedi Okorafor or ask “Can we get a content warning on owl stuff?”
instascience.bsky.social Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · Aug 12
An owl with some attitude.
August 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social
And I don’t even think this one was added in my original post
joas-mon.bsky.social JOAS/T @joas-mon.bsky.social · Aug 12
The worst one I saw was her laugh react on the comment with a slur.
List of laugh reacts on a comment that made a “joke” that contains a slur commonly used against mixed Indigenous people. The author Nnedi Okorafor is one of those who reacted with a laugh.
August 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM