Shamana
@shamana58.bsky.social
Writer, singer, photographer, carbon-based life form. I write poetry, magical reality fiction, and blues songs. Sensitivity consultant. Occasional juggler, and vexillologist, aspiring lamp shade.
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Shamana
@shamana58.bsky.social
· Oct 20
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Shamana (Sabrina), poet, aspiring novelist, blues singer. Random acts of artistry. Prefer quantum physics to macro. Currently crafting a 5 novel superhero magical reality series. #writingcommunity
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Shamana (Sabrina), poet, aspiring novelist, blues singer. Random acts of artistry. Prefer quantum physics to macro. Currently crafting a 5 novel superhero magical reality series. #writingcommunity
#writersky
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ALA celebrates today's ruling in federal court in RI permanently blocking the Administration's actions to dismantle IMLS.
ALA Pres. Sam Helmick: "This victory belongs to all of us, and we build the future of our libraries together." Read our full statement & take action: www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
ALA Pres. Sam Helmick: "This victory belongs to all of us, and we build the future of our libraries together." Read our full statement & take action: www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
ALA celebrates today's ruling in federal court in RI permanently blocking the Administration's actions to dismantle IMLS.
ALA Pres. Sam Helmick: "This victory belongs to all of us, and we build the future of our libraries together." Read our full statement & take action: www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
ALA Pres. Sam Helmick: "This victory belongs to all of us, and we build the future of our libraries together." Read our full statement & take action: www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
Without downloading any new pics, what is it like dating you?
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Without downloading any new pics, what is it like dating you?
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I just want yall to know, that when I go on my nature walks THIS is always my experience.
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I just want yall to know, that when I go on my nature walks THIS is always my experience.
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Google's AI is now snooping on your emails - here's how to opt out. (It’s in settings/super quick!)
A new change quietly rolling out allows Google to access your private messages & attachments to train its AI models - without your knowledge.
flip.it/4a2Im9 opt-in as a default should be illegal!!!
A new change quietly rolling out allows Google to access your private messages & attachments to train its AI models - without your knowledge.
flip.it/4a2Im9 opt-in as a default should be illegal!!!
Google's AI is now snooping on your emails - here's how to opt out
A new change quietly rolling out allows Google to access your private messages and attachments to train its AI models - likely without your knowledge. Opting out takes just moments.
flip.it
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Google's AI is now snooping on your emails - here's how to opt out. (It’s in settings/super quick!)
A new change quietly rolling out allows Google to access your private messages & attachments to train its AI models - without your knowledge.
flip.it/4a2Im9 opt-in as a default should be illegal!!!
A new change quietly rolling out allows Google to access your private messages & attachments to train its AI models - without your knowledge.
flip.it/4a2Im9 opt-in as a default should be illegal!!!
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Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.
Missouri GOP Now Siccing ICE on Gerrymander Referendum Signature Gatherers
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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1/2: Know your rights when approached by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE):
✅ You have the right to be silent.
✅ You can ask the officer if you are free to leave. If the officer answers “no,” you can say you’d like to talk with an attorney.
✅ You have the right to be silent.
✅ You can ask the officer if you are free to leave. If the officer answers “no,” you can say you’d like to talk with an attorney.
November 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
1/2: Know your rights when approached by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE):
✅ You have the right to be silent.
✅ You can ask the officer if you are free to leave. If the officer answers “no,” you can say you’d like to talk with an attorney.
✅ You have the right to be silent.
✅ You can ask the officer if you are free to leave. If the officer answers “no,” you can say you’d like to talk with an attorney.
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Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Doesn’t this look grand.
Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers
Publishing and launching at Hebden Bridge Library on Wednesday 26th November at 7 pm.
Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers
Publishing and launching at Hebden Bridge Library on Wednesday 26th November at 7 pm.
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Doesn’t this look grand.
Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers
Publishing and launching at Hebden Bridge Library on Wednesday 26th November at 7 pm.
Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers
Publishing and launching at Hebden Bridge Library on Wednesday 26th November at 7 pm.
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As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a mild, almost ineffective charm that will help you find something cool in your jacket pocket you forgot was there.
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a mild, almost ineffective charm that will help you find something cool in your jacket pocket you forgot was there.
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Speechless and deeply grateful: There Is No Place for Us has been named one of three finalists for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Speechless and deeply grateful: There Is No Place for Us has been named one of three finalists for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
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PRO TIP: Instead of using Adobe Reader or Edge or a web browser to read PDFs on your Windows machine, use a comic book reader app. There are many free ones which launch instantly and come with zero bullshit
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
PRO TIP: Instead of using Adobe Reader or Edge or a web browser to read PDFs on your Windows machine, use a comic book reader app. There are many free ones which launch instantly and come with zero bullshit
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"The goal is to keep Gitanmaax kids safe and, whenever possible, have them grow up within their own community, not the provincial system."
indiginews.com/features/git...
indiginews.com/features/git...
Gitanmaax charts a tough course ahead to keep kids in community
How a First Nation’s visionaries are rebuilding sovereignty over child welfare on their own terms
indiginews.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
"The goal is to keep Gitanmaax kids safe and, whenever possible, have them grow up within their own community, not the provincial system."
indiginews.com/features/git...
indiginews.com/features/git...
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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This is the audio of ABC's interview with the Aussie doctor, who says, "This is a genocide pretending to be a ceasefire."
CW's: amputees, drones targeting civilians, starvation preventing healing etc.
CW's: amputees, drones targeting civilians, starvation preventing healing etc.
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This is the audio of ABC's interview with the Aussie doctor, who says, "This is a genocide pretending to be a ceasefire."
CW's: amputees, drones targeting civilians, starvation preventing healing etc.
CW's: amputees, drones targeting civilians, starvation preventing healing etc.
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Any journalist who has reached out to the federal government for a statement this year can attest to the unhinged responses they always get. I picked a couple of examples www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...
![When HuffPost journalist S.V. Dáte reached out to the White House to ask who had picked Budapest for the location of the president’s recent meeting with Putin, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt replied “your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also responded with “your mom.” Leavitt further elaborated:
It’s funny to me that you actually consider yourself a journal [sic]. You are a far left hack who nobody takes seriously, including your colleagues in the media, they just don’t tell you that to your face. Stop texting me your disingenuous, biased, and bullshit questions.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r75unbj372lvbim6syioaueo/bafkreidlmkzabjg5k4fxzi6ofg4356i77ftr7d7nfsamqqchwgou6h7jcq@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Any journalist who has reached out to the federal government for a statement this year can attest to the unhinged responses they always get. I picked a couple of examples www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Finally started this series today, because obviously I did — very much enjoying and wondering kind of idly (and I suppose rhetorically) why these books aren't in the genre-awards conversation, as they're unequivocally speculative!
Most stories in the time-loop genre build to a moment of escape. “On the Calculation of Volume” imagines a woman making a life inside an infinitely repeating November 18th. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/on-the-calculation-of-volume-solvej-balle-book-review
Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Most stories in the genre build to a moment of escape. “On the Calculation of Volume” imagines a woman making a life inside an infinitely repeating November 18th.
www.newyorker.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Finally started this series today, because obviously I did — very much enjoying and wondering kind of idly (and I suppose rhetorically) why these books aren't in the genre-awards conversation, as they're unequivocally speculative!
Random things I like:
1. Sleeping naked
2. Chocolate anything
3. Reading books with a good cuppa
4. Shiny things
4. Attention to detail
6. A world of peace
7. Blues music
8. Indigo in my hair
9. Random acts of kindness
10. Hummingbirds
1. Sleeping naked
2. Chocolate anything
3. Reading books with a good cuppa
4. Shiny things
4. Attention to detail
6. A world of peace
7. Blues music
8. Indigo in my hair
9. Random acts of kindness
10. Hummingbirds
Random things I like:
1. jammies after dinner
2. chocolate cake with a glass of milk
3. everything *almost* in its proper place
4. serendipity
5. fried egg and beans on a pan-fried tortilla
6. petrichor
7. punk music for cleaning
8. ridiculous slippers
9. autumn
10. little pockets of random beauty
1. jammies after dinner
2. chocolate cake with a glass of milk
3. everything *almost* in its proper place
4. serendipity
5. fried egg and beans on a pan-fried tortilla
6. petrichor
7. punk music for cleaning
8. ridiculous slippers
9. autumn
10. little pockets of random beauty
Thanks for asking @archivewhisperer.bsky.social !
Getting know my followers, what are 10 random things you like?
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Getting know my followers, what are 10 random things you like?
@msamios.bsky.social
@elgringofeo.bsky.social
@manwithpez.bsky.social
@corwijt48.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Random things I like:
1. Sleeping naked
2. Chocolate anything
3. Reading books with a good cuppa
4. Shiny things
4. Attention to detail
6. A world of peace
7. Blues music
8. Indigo in my hair
9. Random acts of kindness
10. Hummingbirds
1. Sleeping naked
2. Chocolate anything
3. Reading books with a good cuppa
4. Shiny things
4. Attention to detail
6. A world of peace
7. Blues music
8. Indigo in my hair
9. Random acts of kindness
10. Hummingbirds
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42 million will have to reapply for SNAP.
This is on brand with their toxic mindset.
Allege fraud. Make everyone suffer.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
This is on brand with their toxic mindset.
Allege fraud. Make everyone suffer.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
USDA head says ‘everyone’ on SNAP will now have to reapply
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday said the Trump administration is planning to have all Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries reapply for the program due t…
thehill.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
42 million will have to reapply for SNAP.
This is on brand with their toxic mindset.
Allege fraud. Make everyone suffer.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
This is on brand with their toxic mindset.
Allege fraud. Make everyone suffer.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...