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South Seattle Emerald @soseaemerald.bsky.social · 4h

Tasveer’s 20th annual Film Festival kicks off Oct. 8–12, now at its new Columbia City home. With 109 films from 22 countries, a film market, and South Asian snacks on deck, the space marks a new era for community storytelling in #Seattle.

Jas Keimig reports: soseaem.org/4o3qzmq #Tasveer

Now in Columbia City, the Tasveer Film Festival Brings Movies, Masala Popcorn, and a 'Monumental' Experience

Columbia City's old Ark Lodge Cinemas has a new life as the Tasveer Film Center, home to this year's Tasveer Film Festival — and a vibrant hub for South Asian storytelling.

southseattleemerald.org

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 4h

In 1990, a group of Black women took on one of America's largest corporations in a battle for a historic Black school. 25 years later, the've reshaped how we fund, teach, and preserve Black history

The Auntie Fascists: How a Group of Black Women Defeated Walmart, Lost Cause and the Erasure of Black History

When a group of retirees hatched a plan to save their historic Black school, they had no idea that they were creating a blueprint for legislators, museums and historic sites across America.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 14h

This reminds me of the fragments in the archives I have encountered of slaveowners, overseers, and colonial officials working themselves into paranoia and panic about colonized and/or enslaved people playing music or dancing.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 8h

I had an early model Tablet PC that was about the size of a legal pad of paper & it had the best vertical layout for reading that's ever existed.

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 11h

Somalia to introduce Swahili to its national curriculum

The president says it will speed up integration into East Africa, seen as crucial for boosting trade.

www.bbc.com

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 11h

I'm intrigued

Shaya Lin Susan @shayalinsusan.bsky.social · 13h

STEPFORD WIVES x BUNNY

When feminist podcaster Max infiltrates a tradwife influencer cult in rural Utah to save her sister, she expects to fight barefoot farm girls with ring lights…

Instead, she comes face-to-face with an ancient god that eats women.

#DVpit #A #H #POC #LGBT

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 13h

Oh hey, it's #WorldOctopusDay? 😉 🐙

This is what I call my nearly-hard desi SF meets cephalopod-love short story. It got an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois's last Year's Best anthology.

CW for somewhat spicy and norty scenes; bigotry and prejudice.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/harris_08_17

Reversion by Nin Harris

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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Sarah Manvel with a🪝for a 🖐️ @cairdiul.bsky.social · 20h

Finally TWO PROSECUTORS #LFF2025 📽️ is about the importance of moral courage even in a time of terror and it's such an essential movie it's probably not going to get its due for another fifty years. See it now instead movieswetextedabout.com/two-prosecut...

'Two Prosecutors' Review: A Powerful Film on Stalinist Terror

The influence of The Zone of Interest is heavy on Two Prosecutors, a story about Stalinist terror that works as well as it does thanks to its discretion. It’s less about the sound design and more the ...

movieswetextedabout.com

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Sarah Manvel with a🪝for a 🖐️ @cairdiul.bsky.social · 20h

Oh! ONE WOMAN ONE BRA #LFF2025 📽️ which almost no one covered out of Venice but me is a Kenyan banger about community, solidarity and the damage done when such things are unfairly denied intheirownleague.com/2025/09/26/v...

Venice Film Festival 2025 Review: One Woman One Bra

Year: 2025 Runtime: 80 Minutes Written and directed by: Vincho Nchogu Starring: Sarah Karei, Amos Leuka, Boniface Saitabau, Norng’aruani Kipuker By Sarah Manvel The noisy title One Woman One B…

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 1d

FYI

bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, federalista friends, if you have already been furloughed, look into your state unemployment plan

Most states require you to be out of work 2 weeks +/- to qualify, but will backpay you to your first day of not working. There are some variations state to state

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 1d

Spouse got his COVID + flu shots yesterday & they had lollipops. He picked out one with the colors of the Irish flag (or Côte d’Ivoire when flipped) to give to me.

Photo of a tri-color lollipop with the colors of the Irish flag— green, white, orange

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 1d

I loved how we could get jewel tone colors in the 90s. Now everything is different shades of brown that I have a visceral loathing of.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 1d

Interacting with people is difficult & confusing.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 1d

Apologies.

Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you past me for remembering to ask Spouse to get me a frozen Hawaiian pizza on the last grocery store trip! It was just what present me wanted tonight, especially once I added fresh cherry tomatoes before baking.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 1d

That’s how we know The Last of Us is an alternate reality— Seattle has a subway system.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 1d

Library vendor Baker & Taylor laid off most of their staff as the 1st steps toward shutting down the company completely.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 1d

Guys I think Edgar Allen Poe might not be all that great at poetry

“EULALIE — A SONG.
I DWELT alone
In a world of moan,
And my soul was a stagnant tide,
Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride -
Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride.”

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 1d

I can tell the caffeine/ADHD meds have worn off by the number of things I’ve started doing only to stop when I remember something else I need to do.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t tell because all the alt-text says is “Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association “ 😡

Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 2d

Completely unsurprised to read B&T was bought by a “private investment group” in 2021 before folding.

Also, fuck.

Momence’s Baker & Taylor to close

The book is being closed on a Momence employment fixture as book publisher Baker & Taylor informed workers Monday the site is being closed.

www.shawlocal.com

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 2d

When I see 1 post from a friend for every 10 posts that are ads or “engagement farming” accounts, it’s not worth my time.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

you constantly see the extraction class go on media acquisition sprees confidently thinking they're making a discourse domination play (see: AT&T) only to have the whole debt-addled venture implode in a sad, soggy whimper

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sureva varis @crowgirl42.bsky.social · 2d

#gloamingpictures

Reflection of trees in the still water of a pool surrounded by mossy rocks.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 2d

I miss blogs.

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