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Nyasha Junior

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Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · Oct 29

Things are terrible.
You may feel that there's little you can do.
Consider wearing a mask.
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 21h

1. I've had a surprising number of conversations about Covid-19 over the past week or so, all sparked by the fact that I was, as always, wearing an FFP2 respirator. People in healthcare facilities, taxi drivers, people on trains and buses.

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Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 14h

Great convo on Jephthah's Daughter today in Women & the Hebrew Bible!
Check out "Alternate Ending: The Escape of Jephthah's Daughter"
onbeing.org/poetry/alter...

Alternate Ending: The Escape of Jephthah’s Daughter

A poem by J. Estanislao Lopez.

onbeing.org

Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 1d

Katt Williams energy

Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 1d

Senior pastor, youth pastor, minister of music

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 2d

Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...

“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Tomisin Fasosi interviews Kim F. Hall on her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire

bcrw.barnard.edu

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Andrew Young 🇨🇦 @young.me · 3d

#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with September 21 data
- Kingston, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: BC, MB, SK, YT

wwater.ca

Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

Wastewater Virus Signals graph for Ontario

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

livestreamed fact checking. good use of real-time fire data and camera feeds.

Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Laughs in Palestinian

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 1d

Look like a card dealer on Boardwalk Empire.

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 2d

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

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Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 2d

Have you been reading my file?

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The Life of a No-Show Girl

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

Hundreds of thousands protest in Amsterdam against Gaza war reut.rs/4mMidyj

Hundreds of thousands protest in Amsterdam against Gaza war

Protesters of all ages weathered the rain to join a 6-kilometre march through the Dutch capital.

reut.rs

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 3d

Begging everyone to think just a little bit about the explicit goals of tech companies before buying the lastest 'innovative' product

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

I think often about the Amazon engineer who wrote in an open letter to the company that Ring was “incompatible” with a free society.

Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door

For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 4d

Good morning & happy Saturday, y'all. I hate to be a wet blanket, but there's been yet another death in my family. My sister is already dealing with being furloughed, but amidst that, her Mama has now suddenly died. Now I'm short, she can't help, *and* she's short. Need at least:

$0/$1200 💕💸

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 4d

I heard this skeet.

Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 4d

On the couch in a caftan.

Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 5d

Classic.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 5d

this. and people keep referring to Black people and immigrants as two distinct populations when they are NOT

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5d

ICE was always detaining Black people.

Black immigrants are some of the most deported

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Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 5d

Psst!
Want to make sure that you stay up past your bedtime all week?

Read/Listen to The Garden of Evening Mists
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?E...

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Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 5d

Abbott Elementary actor

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 5d

"NO CASH ACCEPTED" is a global crisis. I have seen this on three continents now. It's anti-poor, anti-youth, anti-immigrant and pro-surveillance. I had thought it was an American problem, then a Western one, but surveillance capitalism is taking over even the smallest transactions globally.

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Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 6d

The girls are gonna tear up the talent shows with "Where Is My Husband!" this year.

Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 6d

The pound cake will be fantastic!