@ktravisballie.bsky.social
Ran through a cemetery today in Raleigh, NC. I felt guilty about that until I realized it was a Confederate cemetery. No better way to honor our nation’s biggest losers than a free, queer, middle class person of color with voting rights running through their place of eternal rest for fun.
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October 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Ran through a cemetery today in Raleigh, NC. I felt guilty about that until I realized it was a Confederate cemetery. No better way to honor our nation’s biggest losers than a free, queer, middle class person of color with voting rights running through their place of eternal rest for fun.
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Hiking through the New River Gorge in one of our country’s most beautiful states, West Virginia. ❤️
June 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Hiking through the New River Gorge in one of our country’s most beautiful states, West Virginia. ❤️
I have never been more on top of my health, finances and relationships as I am at this very moment. First half marathon of 2025 complete, tomorrow I begin training for the next.
April 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I have never been more on top of my health, finances and relationships as I am at this very moment. First half marathon of 2025 complete, tomorrow I begin training for the next.
For the 1st time since my college years, I have weighed in today under 200 pounds. This morning’s weigh in was 197.6 pounds. A week from today will be the eve of my first half marathon since 2021. Your 20s are overrated, your late 30s is truly where your goals begin to feel more achievable.
April 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
For the 1st time since my college years, I have weighed in today under 200 pounds. This morning’s weigh in was 197.6 pounds. A week from today will be the eve of my first half marathon since 2021. Your 20s are overrated, your late 30s is truly where your goals begin to feel more achievable.
Head Start gives young children a strong start through safe, nurturing early learning environments, healthy meals & family services. No surprise that Trump wants to defund it, kids be damned. We can stop this, Congress must speak out. Contact your Rep now: www.ffyf.org/actions/2025...
Protect Head Start - Message your Member - First Five Years Fund
Funding for Head Start may be on the chopping block. Eliminating Head Start would be catastrophic for the millions of children and families who rely on it. We need to …
www.ffyf.org
April 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Head Start gives young children a strong start through safe, nurturing early learning environments, healthy meals & family services. No surprise that Trump wants to defund it, kids be damned. We can stop this, Congress must speak out. Contact your Rep now: www.ffyf.org/actions/2025...
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Thank you for everything, school librarians & library workers!
At a loss for words thinking of how you somehow find a way to continue doing your unnecessarily stressful jobs. I have to think your library kids are a big part of why.
Whatever the reason… thank you. We love you, we support you 💛
At a loss for words thinking of how you somehow find a way to continue doing your unnecessarily stressful jobs. I have to think your library kids are a big part of why.
Whatever the reason… thank you. We love you, we support you 💛
April 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Thank you for everything, school librarians & library workers!
At a loss for words thinking of how you somehow find a way to continue doing your unnecessarily stressful jobs. I have to think your library kids are a big part of why.
Whatever the reason… thank you. We love you, we support you 💛
At a loss for words thinking of how you somehow find a way to continue doing your unnecessarily stressful jobs. I have to think your library kids are a big part of why.
Whatever the reason… thank you. We love you, we support you 💛
I’m proud that my partner & I bought tickets to see this critical documentary tonight. Let us all lift up this story of Palestinian and Israeli voices against illegal settlement expansion in the land that will one day be the home of the Palestinian state.
www.indiewire.com/news/box-off...
www.indiewire.com/news/box-off...
‘No Other Land’ Doesn’t Have a U.S. Distributor, but Is Still the Year’s Highest-Grossing Oscar-Nominated Documentary
'No Other Land' about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the highest grossing documentary of the five features nominated for an Oscar in 2025.
www.indiewire.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I’m proud that my partner & I bought tickets to see this critical documentary tonight. Let us all lift up this story of Palestinian and Israeli voices against illegal settlement expansion in the land that will one day be the home of the Palestinian state.
www.indiewire.com/news/box-off...
www.indiewire.com/news/box-off...
I’ve never wanted to be a lesbian so bad then after starting to read “The Locked Tomb” novels. Who knew necromancy was so queer?!
The Locked Tomb is the only set of books I've ever reread immediately after reading them the first time. They were great the first time, and utterly astounding the second.
everyone who told us to read the lesbian necromancy book was right
March 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I’ve never wanted to be a lesbian so bad then after starting to read “The Locked Tomb” novels. Who knew necromancy was so queer?!
My weekend reading is dedicating to learning from those who put everything on the line to fight fascists. I never imagined I would ever live in an authoritarian state, but here we are.
March 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
My weekend reading is dedicating to learning from those who put everything on the line to fight fascists. I never imagined I would ever live in an authoritarian state, but here we are.
Me seeing tourists flooding the streets of DC for cherry blossoms as we simultaneously face a decline in the District’s tax revenue and looming local budget cuts.
a man in a suit and tie says take the money you save , and spend it .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says take the money you save , and spend it .
media.tenor.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Me seeing tourists flooding the streets of DC for cherry blossoms as we simultaneously face a decline in the District’s tax revenue and looming local budget cuts.
Since the October 7 terrorist attack in Israel, I have been reconciling how I can support my Jewish friends and family and my firm anti-Zionism. I just subscribed to the leftist maagzine, @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, to further my education.
March 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Since the October 7 terrorist attack in Israel, I have been reconciling how I can support my Jewish friends and family and my firm anti-Zionism. I just subscribed to the leftist maagzine, @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, to further my education.
I’m shook by this prediction.
December 18, 2024 at 3:24 PM
I’m shook by this prediction.
I ordered a Kindle and then cancelled that order this morning. It felt like cheating on my local, independent bookstore and I just could not have that!
December 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM
I ordered a Kindle and then cancelled that order this morning. It felt like cheating on my local, independent bookstore and I just could not have that!
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Building movement is only possible when we all are ready to invest in ourselves and our communities.
Invest in D.C. and fight for a budget process that prioritizes affordable housing, accessible childcare, and ends food insecurity.
fairbudget.org/give/
Invest in D.C. and fight for a budget process that prioritizes affordable housing, accessible childcare, and ends food insecurity.
fairbudget.org/give/
Give - Fair Budget Coalition
We are so grateful for your support Please consider making a contribution to the Fair Budget cause. A gift of...
fairbudget.org
December 10, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Building movement is only possible when we all are ready to invest in ourselves and our communities.
Invest in D.C. and fight for a budget process that prioritizes affordable housing, accessible childcare, and ends food insecurity.
fairbudget.org/give/
Invest in D.C. and fight for a budget process that prioritizes affordable housing, accessible childcare, and ends food insecurity.
fairbudget.org/give/
I am channeling my grief, anger and frustration to support the local organizations who I know will get us through the next four years. That starts with supporting one such organization tonight in the DC Metro area, Jews United for Justice. Honored to be in the fight with them! 💪🏾
December 8, 2024 at 10:42 PM
I am channeling my grief, anger and frustration to support the local organizations who I know will get us through the next four years. That starts with supporting one such organization tonight in the DC Metro area, Jews United for Justice. Honored to be in the fight with them! 💪🏾
The autocratic regimes that are seemingly reaching new heights right now will one day crumble. It is up to us to determine how soon this occurs.
December 8, 2024 at 7:49 PM
The autocratic regimes that are seemingly reaching new heights right now will one day crumble. It is up to us to determine how soon this occurs.
This is the first recommendation from Blue Sky which will result in an offline book purchase by me. I am excited to support a Caribbean author!
Caribbean mythology meets The Witcher in @rsagarcia.bsky.social's The Nightward, out now!
Expect badass women warrior-magicians, a child propelled into a dangerous world of courtly politics after an assassination, big ideas, and a fresh fantasy world in this first book of a new duology.
#Booksky
Expect badass women warrior-magicians, a child propelled into a dangerous world of courtly politics after an assassination, big ideas, and a fresh fantasy world in this first book of a new duology.
#Booksky
December 7, 2024 at 3:43 PM
This is the first recommendation from Blue Sky which will result in an offline book purchase by me. I am excited to support a Caribbean author!
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FWIW: I genuinely & firmly believe that Palestine is one of very few instances where Posting About It actually makes a material difference (because of Palestine Exception bullshit, ironclad media silencing of Palestinian voices, & the COST of speaking up), so if you haven't? Maybe consider it?
Just one of several moments in the last 14 months where I wonder whether this is when ostensibly progressive people in my life confront their indoctrination & experience the soul-shaking horror of their own mealy-mouthed complicity
Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
www.amnesty.org
December 5, 2024 at 4:45 PM
FWIW: I genuinely & firmly believe that Palestine is one of very few instances where Posting About It actually makes a material difference (because of Palestine Exception bullshit, ironclad media silencing of Palestinian voices, & the COST of speaking up), so if you haven't? Maybe consider it?
I've been in a depressive state most of today. The world feels especially hard right now, but I am so thankful of the many, many things I have going in my favor. Hanging in there to fight alongside those that are so much more exposed to the cold political winds about to bluster through our lives.
December 6, 2024 at 8:07 PM
I've been in a depressive state most of today. The world feels especially hard right now, but I am so thankful of the many, many things I have going in my favor. Hanging in there to fight alongside those that are so much more exposed to the cold political winds about to bluster through our lives.
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Tell your children to seek out the Librarian instead of the police...
December 4, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Tell your children to seek out the Librarian instead of the police...
I am SO grateful to have discovered #BrowkSky, a curated list of South Asian writers and creators on this here app. I mass followed everyone on the list. SO READY FOR THIS! bsky.app/profile/jasm...
So pleased to say that this list is now FULL!
This is an amazing list of #southasian writers and creators.
Thanks everyone for the follows, suggestions and shares 💕
#Brownsky #writers #storytellers #scriptsky
go.bsky.app/TTefBKP
This is an amazing list of #southasian writers and creators.
Thanks everyone for the follows, suggestions and shares 💕
#Brownsky #writers #storytellers #scriptsky
go.bsky.app/TTefBKP
December 4, 2024 at 11:24 PM
I am SO grateful to have discovered #BrowkSky, a curated list of South Asian writers and creators on this here app. I mass followed everyone on the list. SO READY FOR THIS! bsky.app/profile/jasm...
I spend every working day fighting for the racially equitable District that I know Washington DC can be. There is no better leader in this fight than @fairbudgetdc.bsky.social! If you live in DC and care about a racially just District, give them a follow, like I did after their mtg last night!
December 4, 2024 at 1:07 PM
I spend every working day fighting for the racially equitable District that I know Washington DC can be. There is no better leader in this fight than @fairbudgetdc.bsky.social! If you live in DC and care about a racially just District, give them a follow, like I did after their mtg last night!
I look at this video & I am asking myself if I will be up to do this when we need to in the United States. I lack faith in my fellow Americans, but am also unsure if I am ready to put my body on the line. I think I can get there, I think we all need to start getting ready: bsky.app/profile/popb...
A Woman fights off a soldier in front of the parliament building in South Korea.
December 4, 2024 at 12:11 AM
I look at this video & I am asking myself if I will be up to do this when we need to in the United States. I lack faith in my fellow Americans, but am also unsure if I am ready to put my body on the line. I think I can get there, I think we all need to start getting ready: bsky.app/profile/popb...
Really appreciate that @empowereddc.bsky.social has brought together many supporters of education in the District virtually tonight to strategize on how we can fight back against Federal attacks against our schools! Lots of energized District neighbors present tonight to defend our communities. ❤️
December 4, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Really appreciate that @empowereddc.bsky.social has brought together many supporters of education in the District virtually tonight to strategize on how we can fight back against Federal attacks against our schools! Lots of energized District neighbors present tonight to defend our communities. ❤️