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callipsofacto.bsky.social
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cruisinsoozan.bsky.social
I dunked a cookie in my tea this morning. Held it under until the bubbles stopped. Thought of you.
November 17, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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buitengebieden.bsky.social
Massage time.. 😂
November 12, 2024 at 6:35 AM
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buitengebieden.bsky.social
The supervisor.. 😅
November 12, 2024 at 6:36 AM
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nerdjpg.com
(Thinking about how to slowly break in my new followers to the fact that I’m a communist) do you guys like sharing
November 11, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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swordsjew.bsky.social
consider making yourself or obtaining a grilled cheese sandwich today

all grilled cheeses are equally pleasing before god's sight, they are the angels of small joy
November 11, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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iainrb.bsky.social
SF WRITER: I wrote "All Glory To The Pansexual Socialist Space Republic" to explore radical alternatives to capitalism in a science fiction setting

SF FANS, years later: We need more non-political science fiction, like the classic "All Glory To The Pansexual Socialist Space Republic"
mikedrucker.bsky.social Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · Jan 17
(me reading 1984)
god it’s so relaxing to finally have sci-fi with no agenda or message
January 18, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
men must retvrn to singing about appalachian unions and how cops don’t go to heaven
January 11, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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sjjphd.bsky.social
Because they learn history as if it was SO long ago I remind my students that the only reason MLK lived before them is b/c he was murdered. When most undergrads were born he’d have been around 75. When I was born, he would have been in his early 50s. We all should have gotten to exist together.
January 15, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
in honor of the day, my favorite Star Trek story is the one about how Dr. King was the reason Nichelle Nichols didn’t quit after the first season because he told her how important it was for TV audiences to see a future where a Black woman engineer was right there on the bridge of that starship
MARTIN: Now, in hindsight, of course, you know, everybody recognizes that this was a groundbreaking role. An African-American woman fourth in command on a spaceship in the 23rd century, you know, an officer, a leader. But you had actually planned to quit after your first season. Why? Ms. NICHOLS: Well, I grew up in musical theater. To me, the highlight and the epitome of my life as a singer and actor and a dancer/choreographer was to star on Broadway. And as my popularity grew once the show was on the air, I was beginning to get all kinds of offers. And I decided I was going to leave, go to New York and make my way on the Broadway stage. And a funny thing happened. MARTIN: Well, tell us about that funny thing that happened. (Soundbite of laughter) Ms. NICHOLS: I went in to tell Gene Roddenberry that I was leaving after the first season, and he was very upset about it. And he said, take the weekend and think about what I am trying to achieve here in this show. You're an integral part and very important to it. And so I said, yes, I would. And that - on Saturday night, I went to an NAACP fundraiser, I believe it was, in Beverly Hills. And one of the promoters came over to me and said, Ms. Nichols, there's someone who would like to meet you. He says he is your greatest fan. And I'm thinking a Trekker, you know. And I turn, and before I could get up, I looked across the way and there was the face of Dr. Martin Luther King smiling at me and walking toward me. And he started laughing. By the time he reached me, he said, yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan. I am that Trekkie. Ms. NICHOLS: And I was speechless. He complimented me on the manner in which I'd created the character. I thanked him, and I think I said something like, Dr. King, I wish I could be out there marching with you. He said, no, no, no. No, you don't understand. We don't need you on the - to march. You are marching. You are reflecting what we are fighting for. So, I said to him, thank you so much. And I'm going to miss my co-stars. And his face got very, very serious. And he said, what are you talking about? And I said, well, I told Gene just yesterday that I'm going to leave the show after the first year because I've been offered - and he stopped me and said: You cannot do that. And I was stunned. He said, don't you understand what this man has achieved? For the first time, we are being seen the world over as we should be seen. He says, do you understand that this is the only show that my wife Coretta and I will allow our little children to stay up and watch. I was speechless. MARTIN: But that's kind of a heavy responsibility, though. I do have to ask you about that. I mean the fact is you did put a side some of your own personal dreams to stay in that role. Ms. NICHOLS: Yes. Yes. Well, you know... MARTIN: And then you did three movies. And how does that sit with you now? Ms. NICHOLS: Well, it's interesting that you said, you know, you would run through the house and look. I met Whoopi Goldberg when Gene was doing The Next Generation and she had told me when Star Trek came on she was nine years old and she said she turned the TV on and saw me and ran through the house screaming: Come quick, come quick. Theres a black lady on TV and she ain't no maid. (Soundbite of laughter) Ms. NICHOLS: And that did something to my heart, so I knew that I had made the right decision, because as Dr. King said, you have been chosen.
January 15, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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mommunism.bsky.social
Only quote I ever feel like sharing on MLK Day is this one
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; Martin Luther King Jr Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963
January 15, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
America did a lot of terrible stuff to Dr. King, like jailing and abusing him and trying to get him to kill himself and killing him, but probably nothing so obscene as reinventing him in popular memory as some milquetoast whose primary concern was not hurting white people’s feelings.
January 15, 2024 at 11:57 PM
callipsofacto.bsky.social
I spent a few days mulling over a clever first skeet. I don't know why; I'm probably not going to do much of my own writing here, just reskeeting things that I like into the void. Whoever is reading this, I love you.
January 16, 2024 at 2:30 AM