Nisi Shawl
@nisishawl.bsky.social
Writer editor singer songer. I'm just another part of you.
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Nisi Shawl
@nisishawl.bsky.social
· Apr 6
HT make Bluesky better than Xwitter--PERMANENTLY. Choose your account's "Settings" (gear icon) from menu; pick "Accessibility" from next choices; check "Require alt text before posting" from next choices. Presto! Instant DEI! Your photo posts can now be read by lowsight/blind people like me FOREVER!
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I can’t force white people to offer black people kindness. Even if it’s as small as seeing their pain and acknowledging it whether you can alleviate it or not. It is a form of empathic violence many of us are conditioned to perpetuate in order to allow the systems we live in to function.
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I can’t force white people to offer black people kindness. Even if it’s as small as seeing their pain and acknowledging it whether you can alleviate it or not. It is a form of empathic violence many of us are conditioned to perpetuate in order to allow the systems we live in to function.
Is that glee I smell?
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Is that glee I smell?
Help for hoping: Le Guin's anarchist-inspired novel The Dispossessed set to music: thebushwickbookclubseattle.com/event/origin...
Original music inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed | NOV 15 | Hugo House – The Bushwick Book Club Seattle
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November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Help for hoping: Le Guin's anarchist-inspired novel The Dispossessed set to music: thebushwickbookclubseattle.com/event/origin...
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no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it!
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
info.kingcounty.gov
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it!
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
New word definition proposal: to trump meaning to grift, to cheat, to commit fraud upon someone. Used in sentences: "I am not about to let you trump me out of inheriting my uncle's library." "What kinda trump are you pullin?"
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
New word definition proposal: to trump meaning to grift, to cheat, to commit fraud upon someone. Used in sentences: "I am not about to let you trump me out of inheriting my uncle's library." "What kinda trump are you pullin?"
There's no need to fear--@medievalpoc.bsky.social is here!
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
There's no need to fear--@medievalpoc.bsky.social is here!
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Am reading this at the moment and absolutely DEVOURING the DELICIOUSNESS of THE DEVOURERS by @indrapramitdas.bsky.social !!! It’s SOOOOO GOOOD🙌🏾
Oh, look at @indrapramitdas.bsky.social up there with a top pick by The Mary Sue! For his novel The Devourers: www.msn.com/en-us/travel...
MSN
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November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Am reading this at the moment and absolutely DEVOURING the DELICIOUSNESS of THE DEVOURERS by @indrapramitdas.bsky.social !!! It’s SOOOOO GOOOD🙌🏾
Oh, look at @indrapramitdas.bsky.social up there with a top pick by The Mary Sue! For his novel The Devourers: www.msn.com/en-us/travel...
MSN
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November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Oh, look at @indrapramitdas.bsky.social up there with a top pick by The Mary Sue! For his novel The Devourers: www.msn.com/en-us/travel...
Well the master's tools had better be able to tear down his house because them's the tools we got to hand rn tbh. And where he get them from anyway?
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Well the master's tools had better be able to tear down his house because them's the tools we got to hand rn tbh. And where he get them from anyway?
Maybe there will be a secret industrial spy working for the airplane companies who gets sent on a mission to end the shutdown and relieve pressure on the official economy's flight sector? Or maybe I am just a really imaginative author?
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Maybe there will be a secret industrial spy working for the airplane companies who gets sent on a mission to end the shutdown and relieve pressure on the official economy's flight sector? Or maybe I am just a really imaginative author?
Me? Just headbangin to my new fave groove: www.youtube.com/shorts/4gRey...
this my mayor #mamdani #zohranmamdani #newyorkmayor #gwenstefani #hollabackgirl #edit #foryou
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November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Me? Just headbangin to my new fave groove: www.youtube.com/shorts/4gRey...
Someone needs to complain to teacher that Russell Vought and Stephen Miller are playing too hard.
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Someone needs to complain to teacher that Russell Vought and Stephen Miller are playing too hard.
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We lost our SNAP benefits and are struggling to get by on just my disability, let alone with food costs. I'm selling handmade cards to help make ends meet, $4.00 each, take your pick, first come first serve. All designs in the comments. Msg me and we can make it happen. Pls share & thnx!
North Pole
North Pole
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM
We lost our SNAP benefits and are struggling to get by on just my disability, let alone with food costs. I'm selling handmade cards to help make ends meet, $4.00 each, take your pick, first come first serve. All designs in the comments. Msg me and we can make it happen. Pls share & thnx!
North Pole
North Pole
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“If NOT WHAT I INTENDED is any indication, that series is still in good hands.” @garykwolfe reviews new work from @nancykress
Not What I Intended by Nancy Kress: Review by Gary K. Wolfe
Not What I Intended, Nancy Kress (PM Press 978-8-88744-120-7, $16.00, 126pp, tp) October 2025. As I’ve mentioned in these pages before, PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series has, for more than 15 yea…
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November 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“If NOT WHAT I INTENDED is any indication, that series is still in good hands.” @garykwolfe reviews new work from @nancykress
I feel like the shade on a porcelain nightlight. My ancestors shine through me.
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I feel like the shade on a porcelain nightlight. My ancestors shine through me.
Who has Dinesh D'Souza on suicide watch?
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Who has Dinesh D'Souza on suicide watch?
Help from UK followers?
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Help from UK followers?
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I didn't hear the Pilgrim story until I was older (I went to a Black elementary school) and when I asked my grandmother told me that was white people's bullshit. I have never looked back
i have been black for an incredibly long time. my family has never thanked a pilgrim for a damn thing. we are thankful to have a day off work and gather with family. no one is celebrating genocide with a side of candied yams. lower your weapon, le'activist.
November 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I didn't hear the Pilgrim story until I was older (I went to a Black elementary school) and when I asked my grandmother told me that was white people's bullshit. I have never looked back
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Shutting the government down AND cutting off funds for food stamps, right before an election was a masturful move. Compliments to the chef.
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Shutting the government down AND cutting off funds for food stamps, right before an election was a masturful move. Compliments to the chef.
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this day keeps getting better and better
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
this day keeps getting better and better
One more reason to keep civilization going: music by Locatelli.
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
One more reason to keep civilization going: music by Locatelli.
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Who here thinks this talented culture builder deserves whatever she wants?
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Who here thinks this talented culture builder deserves whatever she wants?
Celtic astrology says I was born in the Month of the Reed and my color is that of the curving wave. The whisper of riverbeds is my tongue; the whitegreygreenbluebrown changeability of water is visible to you in me. My letter is "ng" and I am in charge of bringing souls from one realm to the next.
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Celtic astrology says I was born in the Month of the Reed and my color is that of the curving wave. The whisper of riverbeds is my tongue; the whitegreygreenbluebrown changeability of water is visible to you in me. My letter is "ng" and I am in charge of bringing souls from one realm to the next.
"That is how our forebears met: via transreal biofilm merge." #amwriting
November 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"That is how our forebears met: via transreal biofilm merge." #amwriting
So many old people at No Kings and to those ageists asking “Why?” I reply we have been doing this all along, right along, and you’re just now noticing I guess. One of my earliest memories is being carried alongside a sign on a picket line, protesting racist hiring practices. And ain’t I a Boomer?
November 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
So many old people at No Kings and to those ageists asking “Why?” I reply we have been doing this all along, right along, and you’re just now noticing I guess. One of my earliest memories is being carried alongside a sign on a picket line, protesting racist hiring practices. And ain’t I a Boomer?