Sarah Jamila Stevenson
@aquafortis.bsky.social
I write things and draw things
Dw i’n siarad Cymraeg
She/her
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Webcomic with Josh Berk at https://www.instagram.com/bigyikescomic
Dw i’n siarad Cymraeg
She/her
https://linktr.ee/aquafortiswriter
Webcomic with Josh Berk at https://www.instagram.com/bigyikescomic
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Hey, I wrote books! 📚 Which you can buy! Signed, even! Link in bio or hit me up via DM or email. I even have a few copies left of my graphic novel because I magically found a small cache of them! Check out thread for more info
College student deported when flying home for Thanksgiving, despite court order - The Guardian
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College student deported when flying home for Thanksgiving, despite court order — Guardian US
Student ‘heartbroken’ after being sent to Honduras while trying to travel from Boston to Texas, attorney says
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November 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
College student deported when flying home for Thanksgiving, despite court order - The Guardian
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“If we're taught to cut through colonial rhetoric we'll be better positioned to cut through modern colonial and imperial rhetoric.”
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/than...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/than...
The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage They Imbue
In truth, massacres, disease and American Indian tribal politics are what shaped the Pilgrim-Indian alliance at the root of the holiday
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“If we're taught to cut through colonial rhetoric we'll be better positioned to cut through modern colonial and imperial rhetoric.”
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/than...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/than...
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
No turkey for this one
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
No turkey for this one
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Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.
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buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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If you’ve got the means, this couldn’t be easier to do and it feels great!
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If you’ve got the means, this couldn’t be easier to do and it feels great!
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
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Stevie Wonder releases “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” 60 yrs ago today.
At 15, the child star was in danger of being a has-been. His voice was changing. Motown execs “would give assignments to the various producers,” said songwriter Sylvia Moy. “No one wanted Stevie.”
The song saved his career.
At 15, the child star was in danger of being a has-been. His voice was changing. Motown execs “would give assignments to the various producers,” said songwriter Sylvia Moy. “No one wanted Stevie.”
The song saved his career.
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Stevie Wonder releases “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” 60 yrs ago today.
At 15, the child star was in danger of being a has-been. His voice was changing. Motown execs “would give assignments to the various producers,” said songwriter Sylvia Moy. “No one wanted Stevie.”
The song saved his career.
At 15, the child star was in danger of being a has-been. His voice was changing. Motown execs “would give assignments to the various producers,” said songwriter Sylvia Moy. “No one wanted Stevie.”
The song saved his career.
Pretty wild—we’re in Oakland at a Robert Plant concert and they just had to pause the show about 4 songs in due to technical problems. So…the band left the stage to take a break. In all of the many, many concerts we’ve seen over the years, I’m not sure I’ve ever been in quite this situation
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Pretty wild—we’re in Oakland at a Robert Plant concert and they just had to pause the show about 4 songs in due to technical problems. So…the band left the stage to take a break. In all of the many, many concerts we’ve seen over the years, I’m not sure I’ve ever been in quite this situation
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I have been mostly offline today but it feels like an entire “We Didn’t Start the Fire” worth of news happened while I was gone
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I have been mostly offline today but it feels like an entire “We Didn’t Start the Fire” worth of news happened while I was gone
“The dataset starts in 1971 because the term “Asian American” didn’t exist until 1968, when two UC Berkeley student activists coined it as a way to unite various ethnic groups while rejecting old, exoticizing terms.”
news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/16/w...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/16/w...
What counts as ‘Asian American literature,’ anyway? - Berkeley News
Long Le-Khac, an assistant professor of ethnic studies at UC Berkeley, just published a 1,900-entry dataset that he hopes will be used to investigate which works are discussed as “Asian American” in s...
news.berkeley.edu
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
“The dataset starts in 1971 because the term “Asian American” didn’t exist until 1968, when two UC Berkeley student activists coined it as a way to unite various ethnic groups while rejecting old, exoticizing terms.”
news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/16/w...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/16/w...
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Team R really gonna snatch defeat from the jaws of victory over cancer here.
We could be defeating cancer! Just imagine it!
We could be defeating cancer! Just imagine it!
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
www.scientificamerican.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Team R really gonna snatch defeat from the jaws of victory over cancer here.
We could be defeating cancer! Just imagine it!
We could be defeating cancer! Just imagine it!
big yikes #146
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November 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
big yikes #146
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“Rockwell’s family wrote he would have been devastated to see his paintings mustered in support of the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda. They described Rockwell as politically progressive, embracing an image of a multicultural and multiethnic America.”
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
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Inside the Norman Rockwell Museum — and the distortions of his art
The artist produced some of the most enduring images of the 20th century. A recent dustup over the use of his paintings by the Department of Homeland Security reveals that his work is still a potent s...
www.wbur.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 AM
“Rockwell’s family wrote he would have been devastated to see his paintings mustered in support of the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda. They described Rockwell as politically progressive, embracing an image of a multicultural and multiethnic America.”
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
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Is anybody regularly reading police blotter, attending every school board, town council meeting, developing sources with state agencies with local impact, regularly covering statehouse, for the newsletter? Because that’s what we lose when we lose local news .
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Is anybody regularly reading police blotter, attending every school board, town council meeting, developing sources with state agencies with local impact, regularly covering statehouse, for the newsletter? Because that’s what we lose when we lose local news .
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago spent nearly two months in ICE detention—despite having protection under DACA—until a federal judge ruled that the government had no reason to keep her in custody and ordered her release.
DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:
DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
www.motherjones.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago spent nearly two months in ICE detention—despite having protection under DACA—until a federal judge ruled that the government had no reason to keep her in custody and ordered her release.
DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:
DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:
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Here it is, my television guilty pleasure: WIPEOUT.
There you have it. Your turn
There you have it. Your turn
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Here it is, my television guilty pleasure: WIPEOUT.
There you have it. Your turn
There you have it. Your turn
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SCHUMER: Well, I—for one—am touched by this act of generosity. Perhaps one day, all of humanity will know the saying “Be welcoming of Greeks bearing gifts.”
Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
SCHUMER: Well, I—for one—am touched by this act of generosity. Perhaps one day, all of humanity will know the saying “Be welcoming of Greeks bearing gifts.”
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Who needs a Bureau of Labor Statistics when you have....
DoorDash?
DoorDash?
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Who needs a Bureau of Labor Statistics when you have....
DoorDash?
DoorDash?