Mars
@marsxstars.blacksky.app
Reader. TV watcher. Anti-all of the isms that plague us. Fan of blueberry muffins & general badassery. Happily married recovered undercover overlover. She/Her. Pan. Book curator. Wanna talk about sci-fi tv, speculative fiction, music, art & corny jokes?
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Mars
@marsxstars.blacksky.app
· Jan 28
It's also a (negative) testament to the way we can all end up replicating the harmful, deadly actions and systems our people experienced if we aren’t constantly interrogating ourselves, our intentions, our impact, our systems, our leaders, our power, our values, and integrity.
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See there's people who need to believe Chris Brown is our greatest entertaining genius when all the evidence says he's a mediocre woman beater & there's other people out there. Why do you need to believe in his genius? What is this urge beyond cheering misogyny?
oprah winfrey is sitting in front of a window with her hand on her chin and making a funny face .
Alt: oprah winfrey is sitting in front of a window with her hand on her chin and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
See there's people who need to believe Chris Brown is our greatest entertaining genius when all the evidence says he's a mediocre woman beater & there's other people out there. Why do you need to believe in his genius? What is this urge beyond cheering misogyny?
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$100 covers rent for one month for a family.
$70 covers infant formula for one month.
$70 coovers food for a family for one month.
$25 covers diapers for one month.
$70 covers infant formula for one month.
$70 coovers food for a family for one month.
$25 covers diapers for one month.
A young person who facilitated a session at Communiversity today alerted me to a situation happening in Tunisia with West African migrants. They are from there and will be heading home in a week & is fundraising for mutual aid to support the migrants - linktr.ee/tnmutualaid - I donated.
tnmutualaid | Instagram | Linktree
Linktree. Make your link do more.
linktr.ee
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
$100 covers rent for one month for a family.
$70 covers infant formula for one month.
$70 coovers food for a family for one month.
$25 covers diapers for one month.
$70 covers infant formula for one month.
$70 coovers food for a family for one month.
$25 covers diapers for one month.
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Please repost and donate if you can. I'm in desperate need.
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Please repost and donate if you can. I'm in desperate need.
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Hey yall. I'm still in desperate need of help. If you have any job leads or places that are hiring please DM me. My GoFundMe has been largely unsuccessful and I'm trying to prevent homelessness before my savings run out.
November 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Hey yall. I'm still in desperate need of help. If you have any job leads or places that are hiring please DM me. My GoFundMe has been largely unsuccessful and I'm trying to prevent homelessness before my savings run out.
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
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Chris Brown ain't even the greatest entertainer cosplaying 1987 Michael Jackson. Fuck that half an octave struggling nigga
November 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Chris Brown ain't even the greatest entertainer cosplaying 1987 Michael Jackson. Fuck that half an octave struggling nigga
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New entries to my ZineBakery.com online catalog of free tech+culture+justice zines: DH (free maker software; bodies+datafied city; queering feminist geography; edtech surveillance; digipress); Fritton's Day-Glo Ink "Primer"; @prisonculture.bsky.social's Arrested at the Library; & Virginia Trans Joy+
I'm attending #DH2025 virtually*, but I designed my conference poster on my ZineBakery.com research to be as Visually Extra as possible (🎵rainbow leopard print🎶) to give me (& hopefully you?) joy, so please enjoy! (*bc of fascism vs. trans passports, & recently getting sick from people not masking)
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
New entries to my ZineBakery.com online catalog of free tech+culture+justice zines: DH (free maker software; bodies+datafied city; queering feminist geography; edtech surveillance; digipress); Fritton's Day-Glo Ink "Primer"; @prisonculture.bsky.social's Arrested at the Library; & Virginia Trans Joy+
I don't listen to nor defend the creole lady anymore but Christopher Brownopher as the greatest living entertainer is too much
November 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I don't listen to nor defend the creole lady anymore but Christopher Brownopher as the greatest living entertainer is too much
What hold does this man have on the R&B girlies??? They keep glazing his abusive, mid singing ass. There are better writers. Better dancers. Better singers.
Monica: “Chris Brown is the Greatest Entertainer That is Left Here on Earth with Us”
Monica is a big supporter of Chris Brown, and she is being candid about how high her appreciation towers. Full story below...
Monica is a big supporter of Chris Brown, and she is being candid about how high her appreciation towers. Full story below...
Monica: “Chris Brown is the Greatest Entertainer That is Left Here on Earth with Us”
Monica is a big supporter of Chris Brown, and she is being candid about how high her appreciation towers. Full story below...
thatgrapejuice.net
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
What hold does this man have on the R&B girlies??? They keep glazing his abusive, mid singing ass. There are better writers. Better dancers. Better singers.
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collective memory is something you have to work at constantly, and the persistent drumbeat of land acknowledgements is an extremely valuable way to produce widespread consciousness of basic material fact of dispossession and genocide
my wokest opinion is that land acknowledgements are fine. people knowing a little bit about the land you're on, even if one isn't invested in a land back project, is not particularly worse than the status quo, even if one comes by this info in a way that is somewhat cringe and forced
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
collective memory is something you have to work at constantly, and the persistent drumbeat of land acknowledgements is an extremely valuable way to produce widespread consciousness of basic material fact of dispossession and genocide
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
They truly aren’t lonely enough 😭 It’s (part of) why I don’t want to hear shit about the “male loneliness epidemic”. The shittiest, most entitled men still have access to women/femmes (and our labor).
Cuz those stories? Of men eating food wives froze in anticipation of CHILDBIRTH? Of bedrest due to surgery? Of food they cooked to suit their allergies?
And you wanna complain she wants to eat a few of your FRIES?????
Men are not lonely enough
And you wanna complain she wants to eat a few of your FRIES?????
Men are not lonely enough
November 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
They truly aren’t lonely enough 😭 It’s (part of) why I don’t want to hear shit about the “male loneliness epidemic”. The shittiest, most entitled men still have access to women/femmes (and our labor).
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it made me realize im not mean enough about how men dominate dating discourse with their annoyance about "sharing plates'.
This is all linked. Privilege, equality, oppression and all that
This is all linked. Privilege, equality, oppression and all that
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
it made me realize im not mean enough about how men dominate dating discourse with their annoyance about "sharing plates'.
This is all linked. Privilege, equality, oppression and all that
This is all linked. Privilege, equality, oppression and all that
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Im joking but the current topic du jour on the Tickytok to Tweeter pipeline is men weaponizing food, purposely eating food meant for others.
And women chiming in about their parents allowing their brothers to do this as they starved when they were kids was disheartening
And women chiming in about their parents allowing their brothers to do this as they starved when they were kids was disheartening
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Im joking but the current topic du jour on the Tickytok to Tweeter pipeline is men weaponizing food, purposely eating food meant for others.
And women chiming in about their parents allowing their brothers to do this as they starved when they were kids was disheartening
And women chiming in about their parents allowing their brothers to do this as they starved when they were kids was disheartening
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Counterpoint, Aaron: if a journalist known for incendiary rhetoric goes on the teevee and advocates/normalizes child sexual abuse, why does Bluesky believe it's their duty to white knight that journalist by banning people who rightfully express disgust and contempt? Why is that Bluesky's priority?
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Counterpoint, Aaron: if a journalist known for incendiary rhetoric goes on the teevee and advocates/normalizes child sexual abuse, why does Bluesky believe it's their duty to white knight that journalist by banning people who rightfully express disgust and contempt? Why is that Bluesky's priority?
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we are actually in big trouble if we don't learn everything they did and then some, because we have to adapt what they had to do TO THESE TIMES. they were not ducking hypersurveillance. there was no project in place by white supremacists who had studied their freedom fighters' EVERY MOVE & SUCCESS
"We are not our ancestors" is not gonna yet us through this moment. You better wish you were your ancestors who survived the middle passage, chattel slavery, who consistently revolted, who made ways as maroons. We definitely need to connect with Black legacies of survival for now.
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
we are actually in big trouble if we don't learn everything they did and then some, because we have to adapt what they had to do TO THESE TIMES. they were not ducking hypersurveillance. there was no project in place by white supremacists who had studied their freedom fighters' EVERY MOVE & SUCCESS
!!!!
Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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When someone points out our silence on a justice issue, we can choose to give our reason or keep it to ourselves or accept and contemplate the critique.
If the critiques riles us to the point of emotional defensiveness, well.
That in and of itself is a tell, and worthy of examination.
If the critiques riles us to the point of emotional defensiveness, well.
That in and of itself is a tell, and worthy of examination.
November 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
When someone points out our silence on a justice issue, we can choose to give our reason or keep it to ourselves or accept and contemplate the critique.
If the critiques riles us to the point of emotional defensiveness, well.
That in and of itself is a tell, and worthy of examination.
If the critiques riles us to the point of emotional defensiveness, well.
That in and of itself is a tell, and worthy of examination.
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This is just not true.
Those of us with platforms and privilege owe the world our best effort to use those assets to advocate for justice.
There may be moments where we have meaningful or strategic reasons for silence on an issue, but silence should never be our default.
Those of us with platforms and privilege owe the world our best effort to use those assets to advocate for justice.
There may be moments where we have meaningful or strategic reasons for silence on an issue, but silence should never be our default.
I got an actual "Your silence on this subject is deafening" message this AM, so, super-quick: Nobody here owes anyone commentary about anything. This is a public park. It's full of interesting people. We hang out here, make friends, and chat, and then we leave to do whatever it is we do. That's it!
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is just not true.
Those of us with platforms and privilege owe the world our best effort to use those assets to advocate for justice.
There may be moments where we have meaningful or strategic reasons for silence on an issue, but silence should never be our default.
Those of us with platforms and privilege owe the world our best effort to use those assets to advocate for justice.
There may be moments where we have meaningful or strategic reasons for silence on an issue, but silence should never be our default.
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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That's enough internet for today
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
That's enough internet for today
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Hey BlueSky. I really could use some help to continue to stay afloat since I'll be off for the Thanksgiving holiday without pay due to working a temp job.
I need at least $230. Thank you.💕✨
CA: cash.app/$kweenkashtag
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/lostfoundbla...
V: venmo.com/u/thekutekween
#BIPOCMA
I need at least $230. Thank you.💕✨
CA: cash.app/$kweenkashtag
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/lostfoundbla...
V: venmo.com/u/thekutekween
#BIPOCMA
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Hey BlueSky. I really could use some help to continue to stay afloat since I'll be off for the Thanksgiving holiday without pay due to working a temp job.
I need at least $230. Thank you.💕✨
CA: cash.app/$kweenkashtag
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/lostfoundbla...
V: venmo.com/u/thekutekween
#BIPOCMA
I need at least $230. Thank you.💕✨
CA: cash.app/$kweenkashtag
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/lostfoundbla...
V: venmo.com/u/thekutekween
#BIPOCMA
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Such a fun comm!
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Such a fun comm!
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November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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