Zodi of the Pines
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⚔️Go read Baby Suggs’ Sermon in the Clearing.⚔️
⚔️Go read Baby Suggs’ Sermon in the Clearing.⚔️
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Zodi of the Pines
@zodi777.blacksky.app
· Nov 14
These 3 books have been revelatory for me this year, as far as thinking about how to address the current state of things using the blueprints provided by our ancestors.
None of this is new. We don’t have to panic & build everything from scratch.
You picking up what I’m putting down?
None of this is new. We don’t have to panic & build everything from scratch.
You picking up what I’m putting down?
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Okay so now my fear that bridges and overpasses will collapse while I’m driving over them makes sense. I always thought I just had bad driving anxiety
The average age of major U.S. bridges is around
44 to 47 years old, nearing or exceeding their original 50-year design life, with about 42% of all U.S. bridges now 50 or older.
44 to 47 years old, nearing or exceeding their original 50-year design life, with about 42% of all U.S. bridges now 50 or older.
Am I the only who worries how long all the bridges around the US are gonna last? Most of them joints were built in the 50s and 60s. No one thinks updates, replacements, reinforcements are necessary?
December 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Okay so now my fear that bridges and overpasses will collapse while I’m driving over them makes sense. I always thought I just had bad driving anxiety
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With the Moon high in the sky and Orion rising in the east I was able to get a well-lit foreground and nice stars above Wukoki Pueblo and Sunset Crater Volcano.
•Wupatki National Monument
•Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
#landscape 📷 #astrophotography
•Wupatki National Monument
•Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
#landscape 📷 #astrophotography
December 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
With the Moon high in the sky and Orion rising in the east I was able to get a well-lit foreground and nice stars above Wukoki Pueblo and Sunset Crater Volcano.
•Wupatki National Monument
•Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
#landscape 📷 #astrophotography
•Wupatki National Monument
•Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
#landscape 📷 #astrophotography
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I understand a lot of people are invested in the idea of culture as ancillary to our material conditions but it’s quite central to the question.
December 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I understand a lot of people are invested in the idea of culture as ancillary to our material conditions but it’s quite central to the question.
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and this is why I love me a good “old head” hole in the wall type spot.
December 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
and this is why I love me a good “old head” hole in the wall type spot.
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Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience.
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
The FBI Faked an Entire Field of Forensic Science
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December 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience.
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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hey y'all, so my job (a non-profit) is building a library--of rare, unique, & banned books--which will be housed in anacostia (SE!!)
we're hosting a film screening & panel discussion/fundraiser on MLK weekend, 1/18/26
come support a great cause!
www.eventbrite.com/e/unbanned-f...
we're hosting a film screening & panel discussion/fundraiser on MLK weekend, 1/18/26
come support a great cause!
www.eventbrite.com/e/unbanned-f...
December 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
hey y'all, so my job (a non-profit) is building a library--of rare, unique, & banned books--which will be housed in anacostia (SE!!)
we're hosting a film screening & panel discussion/fundraiser on MLK weekend, 1/18/26
come support a great cause!
www.eventbrite.com/e/unbanned-f...
we're hosting a film screening & panel discussion/fundraiser on MLK weekend, 1/18/26
come support a great cause!
www.eventbrite.com/e/unbanned-f...
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Like in a world that isn’t built on scarcity & doesn’t require ppl to work to survive
A world that isn’t incessantly pushing work & productivity & resource accumulation
In this case, yes, I want AI to take on certain jobs. As long as the AI isn’t sentient & the job isn’t creative
Let people rest
A world that isn’t incessantly pushing work & productivity & resource accumulation
In this case, yes, I want AI to take on certain jobs. As long as the AI isn’t sentient & the job isn’t creative
Let people rest
I think if *ethically* implemented & used AI could be a key to ending capitalism, but humanity is still too corrupt, data centres are killing people & we should ALL be very concerned about the centralization of information.
In a world without capitalism & w free energy it could be amazing tho.
In a world without capitalism & w free energy it could be amazing tho.
December 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Like in a world that isn’t built on scarcity & doesn’t require ppl to work to survive
A world that isn’t incessantly pushing work & productivity & resource accumulation
In this case, yes, I want AI to take on certain jobs. As long as the AI isn’t sentient & the job isn’t creative
Let people rest
A world that isn’t incessantly pushing work & productivity & resource accumulation
In this case, yes, I want AI to take on certain jobs. As long as the AI isn’t sentient & the job isn’t creative
Let people rest
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"I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless robots who protect them and their property," - Assata Shakur
September 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless robots who protect them and their property," - Assata Shakur
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Me thanking her for Virgo’s Groove right before we eat the rich
December 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Me thanking her for Virgo’s Groove right before we eat the rich
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Like what’s the point of doing all that to be a billionaire but still gotta answer to people?
December 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Like what’s the point of doing all that to be a billionaire but still gotta answer to people?
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She can't speak up about those things b/c of where she and Jay have positioned themselves. They are beholden to someone or something but it is not the people.
And like COMPLETE silence. Not even a nod, a like on a post, a comment,
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
She is currently uncancellable. So her silence on Sudan, the Congo, Palestine?
Yeah. We know what she is.
Yeah. We know what she is.
December 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
She can't speak up about those things b/c of where she and Jay have positioned themselves. They are beholden to someone or something but it is not the people.
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that nail salon used to be a burger joint with a gambling spot in the back
that gourmet restaurant used to be a bodega
that yoga studio used to be a Black owned vintage store
that bookstore used to be a hardware shop
that grocery store used to be a church
that seafood spot used to be a bike shop
that gourmet restaurant used to be a bodega
that yoga studio used to be a Black owned vintage store
that bookstore used to be a hardware shop
that grocery store used to be a church
that seafood spot used to be a bike shop
December 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
that nail salon used to be a burger joint with a gambling spot in the back
that gourmet restaurant used to be a bodega
that yoga studio used to be a Black owned vintage store
that bookstore used to be a hardware shop
that grocery store used to be a church
that seafood spot used to be a bike shop
that gourmet restaurant used to be a bodega
that yoga studio used to be a Black owned vintage store
that bookstore used to be a hardware shop
that grocery store used to be a church
that seafood spot used to be a bike shop
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Hubble brings you a scene from the N159 star-forming complex, with thick hydrogen clouds forming ridges, bubbles, and filaments.
Baby stars are beginning to shine within these clouds 👶
Read more 👉 https://esahubble.org/images/potw2552a/
🔭
Baby stars are beginning to shine within these clouds 👶
Read more 👉 https://esahubble.org/images/potw2552a/
🔭
December 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Hubble brings you a scene from the N159 star-forming complex, with thick hydrogen clouds forming ridges, bubbles, and filaments.
Baby stars are beginning to shine within these clouds 👶
Read more 👉 https://esahubble.org/images/potw2552a/
🔭
Baby stars are beginning to shine within these clouds 👶
Read more 👉 https://esahubble.org/images/potw2552a/
🔭
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Angélique-Marguerite du Coudray, 18thc French midwife who designed various innovative textile models to teach midwife trainees about delivering babies, saving the lives of thousands of mothers & infants #Womensart Find out more re women's weird/wonderful textile arts in bookshop.org/beta-search?...
December 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Angélique-Marguerite du Coudray, 18thc French midwife who designed various innovative textile models to teach midwife trainees about delivering babies, saving the lives of thousands of mothers & infants #Womensart Find out more re women's weird/wonderful textile arts in bookshop.org/beta-search?...
The wind sounds quite aggressive. What is going on out there? If we have a storm coming, it wasn’t mentioned at all in the forecast.
December 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The wind sounds quite aggressive. What is going on out there? If we have a storm coming, it wasn’t mentioned at all in the forecast.
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Hey … if your kids have a niche interest and hobbies PLEASE do your best to support them and get them in community with other like minded kids.
A lot of the wonder leaves the kids in our community because there’s no place to nurture it.
A lot of the wonder leaves the kids in our community because there’s no place to nurture it.
December 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hey … if your kids have a niche interest and hobbies PLEASE do your best to support them and get them in community with other like minded kids.
A lot of the wonder leaves the kids in our community because there’s no place to nurture it.
A lot of the wonder leaves the kids in our community because there’s no place to nurture it.
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Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 - July 30, 2022)
December 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 - July 30, 2022)
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🖖 Nichelle Nichols
December 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
🖖 Nichelle Nichols
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The Crypt of Anagni
The so-called Sistine Chapel of the Middle Ages, built between 1072 and 1104
The so-called Sistine Chapel of the Middle Ages, built between 1072 and 1104
December 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The Crypt of Anagni
The so-called Sistine Chapel of the Middle Ages, built between 1072 and 1104
The so-called Sistine Chapel of the Middle Ages, built between 1072 and 1104
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Yall remember when the inside of cars used to look like this
December 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Yall remember when the inside of cars used to look like this
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me hitting like on this with my greasy taco bell fingers, slurping my baja blast zero
December 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
me hitting like on this with my greasy taco bell fingers, slurping my baja blast zero
I need new music from my Beaumont baby Teezo Touchdown. If he tours in 2026 I aim to go see him.
#ZodiJams
open.spotify.com/track/5iONkk...
#ZodiJams
open.spotify.com/track/5iONkk...
Prized Possession (feat. Teezo Touchdown)
open.spotify.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I need new music from my Beaumont baby Teezo Touchdown. If he tours in 2026 I aim to go see him.
#ZodiJams
open.spotify.com/track/5iONkk...
#ZodiJams
open.spotify.com/track/5iONkk...
It has been so hot the last week or two that the mosquitoes, geckos, lizards, & songbirds around the house think it is springtime.
All the critters are extra active when they should be resting!
The weather patterns of the last few years are not normal. IDC about recency bias. This mess is weird!
All the critters are extra active when they should be resting!
The weather patterns of the last few years are not normal. IDC about recency bias. This mess is weird!
December 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It has been so hot the last week or two that the mosquitoes, geckos, lizards, & songbirds around the house think it is springtime.
All the critters are extra active when they should be resting!
The weather patterns of the last few years are not normal. IDC about recency bias. This mess is weird!
All the critters are extra active when they should be resting!
The weather patterns of the last few years are not normal. IDC about recency bias. This mess is weird!