aspookyrose.bsky.social
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RIP José "Cha Cha" Jiménez

Born in Puerto Rico — he co-founded the Young Lords in Chicago in ‘68.

The Young Lords inspired young community leaders, professionals, & artists, forming part of a Puerto Rican cultural renaissance in the 1970s. In NYC the renaissance was called the Nuyorican Movement
January 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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December 22, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Volunteering at a district band thing and the way these people are talking about their kids [high] schools offer trips to Kenya and to go skiing to their student body is wild. Best I had was a 15 minute trip up the road to Ft. Monroe.
January 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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To me the cool thing about this image is that the sprinkling of blue stars are in the foreground, some 5 million light years away, while all those gorgeous colorful swirly galaxies are almost unimaginably more distant, out in the far depths of the cosmos. More info: www.stsci.edu/contents/med...
Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING.

I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it.

NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)
January 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Hello new followers! Here's one of my favorite older comics.
January 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Someone called my WIP their Roman Empire and I just
January 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Burning fossil fuels causes climate change, which makes fires and other disasters worse. The folks in California need disaster relief now. The only "conditions" that should be on any kind of assistance is that we build communities that are resilient to climate impacts & have zero-emissions buildings
January 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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JUST IN: Another team of Mexican firefighters has landed in LA to help combat the wildfires.

Thank you, Mexico 🇲🇽🇺🇸
January 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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This week's daily 5 minute drawings were sea spiders.

#SciArt #TradArt #Invertebrates
January 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Put new bookshelves into our spare room and it made a world of difference. This is all of our graphic novels, zines, fiction and nonfiction. My home office also has multiple bookcases of film books.
January 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mmmmm yes. Somewhere else to give people my unsolicited opinions.
January 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM