Sophia Babai
@swingingstorm.bsky.social
Author | Activist | Cultural consultant | Somatic creativity coach | Sufi mystic
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Posts about books, human rights, chaos baking, history/poetry/folklore, and other nerd stuff
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🇮🇷 🇹🇿 🇮🇳 🇦🇫 🇵🇸 🇦🇿 (my ancestors really got around)
Posts about books, human rights, chaos baking, history/poetry/folklore, and other nerd stuff
Rep Seth Fishman
I baked macaron and they came out so well and I’m so happy and so excited to share with my loved ones! They have the feet!
Tell me about the last thing you baked? Or if you don’t bake, the last dessert you enjoyed? #FoodJoyCampaign
Tell me about the last thing you baked? Or if you don’t bake, the last dessert you enjoyed? #FoodJoyCampaign
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I baked macaron and they came out so well and I’m so happy and so excited to share with my loved ones! They have the feet!
Tell me about the last thing you baked? Or if you don’t bake, the last dessert you enjoyed? #FoodJoyCampaign
Tell me about the last thing you baked? Or if you don’t bake, the last dessert you enjoyed? #FoodJoyCampaign
Y’all look at my HAIR
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Y’all look at my HAIR
Happy Halloween, y’all 🐍 🐍 🐍
November 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Happy Halloween, y’all 🐍 🐍 🐍
This post is at least 10x as old as Bluesky and yet so relevant.
October 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This post is at least 10x as old as Bluesky and yet so relevant.
Same! Also reading interviews is bringing me so much joy
October 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Same! Also reading interviews is bringing me so much joy
Writing is hilarious because I finished an entire chapter before breakfast and then in the past two hours I have written only this.
September 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Writing is hilarious because I finished an entire chapter before breakfast and then in the past two hours I have written only this.
My mommy bought me pretty notebooks 🥹
September 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
My mommy bought me pretty notebooks 🥹
Respectfully, I wasn't saying "bigotry is not limited to white people" (though that's also true!) I was saying "being hated by racists is not limited to people with dark skin." Here is an example of a pale-skinned person who racists still hate:
September 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Respectfully, I wasn't saying "bigotry is not limited to white people" (though that's also true!) I was saying "being hated by racists is not limited to people with dark skin." Here is an example of a pale-skinned person who racists still hate:
Bluesky has banned my friend @hanispeaking45.bsky.social.
No one should ever be banned just for the crime of trying to feed their family in a genocide, but Hani never even asked me for donations — he simply offered his kindness.
They banned him anyway, because the real crime is being Palestinian.
No one should ever be banned just for the crime of trying to feed their family in a genocide, but Hani never even asked me for donations — he simply offered his kindness.
They banned him anyway, because the real crime is being Palestinian.
September 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Bluesky has banned my friend @hanispeaking45.bsky.social.
No one should ever be banned just for the crime of trying to feed their family in a genocide, but Hani never even asked me for donations — he simply offered his kindness.
They banned him anyway, because the real crime is being Palestinian.
No one should ever be banned just for the crime of trying to feed their family in a genocide, but Hani never even asked me for donations — he simply offered his kindness.
They banned him anyway, because the real crime is being Palestinian.
Lol apparently saying that a real thing that really happened is weird is a violation of policy? If anyone feels like emailing Bluesky about this that would be neat (but honestly I don't care that much and I'd rather you emailed them about banning Palestinians)
September 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Lol apparently saying that a real thing that really happened is weird is a violation of policy? If anyone feels like emailing Bluesky about this that would be neat (but honestly I don't care that much and I'd rather you emailed them about banning Palestinians)
Here, this gives you SO MUCH INFORMATION on my terrible children.
September 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Here, this gives you SO MUCH INFORMATION on my terrible children.
Omg the out-of-service buses in Canada literally say “sorry,“ I cannot handle this 😂😂
September 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Omg the out-of-service buses in Canada literally say “sorry,“ I cannot handle this 😂😂
Continuing my #FoodJoyCampaign (thank you @rhigarthjones.bsky.social for the hashtag idea) — I found mangosteen and I’m so excited! It’s one of my favorite fruits and so hard to find in North America. Tell me about some fruits you love and/or a food discovery that excited you recently? :)
August 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Continuing my #FoodJoyCampaign (thank you @rhigarthjones.bsky.social for the hashtag idea) — I found mangosteen and I’m so excited! It’s one of my favorite fruits and so hard to find in North America. Tell me about some fruits you love and/or a food discovery that excited you recently? :)
And Sophia’s hair grew three sizes that night
August 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
And Sophia’s hair grew three sizes that night
Snuck away from WorldCon to visit my beloved
August 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Snuck away from WorldCon to visit my beloved
Can you imagine the kind of courage that takes. To speak out day after day as you are bombed and starved, knowing you will be killed for it, knowing the ones who killed you will tell a thousand lies.
And meanwhile this is the kind of propaganda the occupation calls journalism:
And meanwhile this is the kind of propaganda the occupation calls journalism:
August 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Can you imagine the kind of courage that takes. To speak out day after day as you are bombed and starved, knowing you will be killed for it, knowing the ones who killed you will tell a thousand lies.
And meanwhile this is the kind of propaganda the occupation calls journalism:
And meanwhile this is the kind of propaganda the occupation calls journalism:
God. God. God. Anas al-Sharif was one of the best humans this world has ever produced. So kind, so brave, so relentless. The occupation has killed so many of his relatives and tried so hard to kill him, and they finally fucking did it, and he kept reporting right up until his last breath.
August 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
God. God. God. Anas al-Sharif was one of the best humans this world has ever produced. So kind, so brave, so relentless. The occupation has killed so many of his relatives and tried so hard to kill him, and they finally fucking did it, and he kept reporting right up until his last breath.
These are not the most aesthetic cookies but they are the second most delicious cookies I've ever baked, and I am thoroughly triumphant (especially because the first batch wasn't half as good)
August 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
These are not the most aesthetic cookies but they are the second most delicious cookies I've ever baked, and I am thoroughly triumphant (especially because the first batch wasn't half as good)
Idk I just think I look nice in this lighting
July 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Idk I just think I look nice in this lighting
We did it! Go team!
July 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
We did it! Go team!
Oh did I mention I'm speaking at Readercon next week because I'm speaking at Readercon next week! They're letting me talk about vampires! And Egypt! And other cool things!
July 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Oh did I mention I'm speaking at Readercon next week because I'm speaking at Readercon next week! They're letting me talk about vampires! And Egypt! And other cool things!
I am famous among my friends for my hatred of unnecessary potato. I am so famous that my best friend sent me this literally as I was typing this message to you.
July 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I am famous among my friends for my hatred of unnecessary potato. I am so famous that my best friend sent me this literally as I was typing this message to you.
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE, someone has won the “whitesplaining my ethnicity” to me award, everyone else can go home ⭐️
July 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE, someone has won the “whitesplaining my ethnicity” to me award, everyone else can go home ⭐️
Btw, while we're screenshotting 😉
![ntifada (Arabic: انتفاضة, romanized: intifāḍah) is an Arabic word for a rebellion or uprising, or a resistance movement. It can also be used to refer to a civilian uprising against oppression.[1][2]
In the 20th century, the word intifada has been used in to describe various uprisings. In the Iraqi Intifada in 1952, Iraqi parties took to the streets to protest their monarchy.[3] Other later examples include the Western Sahara's Zemla Intifada, the First Sahrawi Intifada, and the Second Sahrawi Intifada.[4] In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict context, it refers to uprising by Palestinian people against Israeli occupation or Israel, involving both violent and nonviolent methods of resistance, including the First Intifada (1987–1993) and the Second Intifada (2000–2005).[5][6][7]
In usage outside of the Arab World, the word primarily refers to the two Palestinian uprisings against Israeli occupation.[8][9][10][11] In Arabic-language usage, any uprising can be referred to as an intifada, including the 1916 Easter Rising,[12] the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,[13] and the 1949 Jeju uprising.[14]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:acxaxpjo6md5st5ufvraqcob/bafkreihk3d4k4g7cuagedmvevt6sltqy6hzw6y3d3licdn5evvdbwnxygq@jpeg)
June 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Btw, while we're screenshotting 😉