Last night at Salon Hecate | Noordhoek Art Point – a celebration of Short Story Day Africa, its fabulous founder, Rachel Zadok, and our latest SSDA anthology, CAPTIVE: New Short Fiction from Africa, and @heckitty.bsky.social's Beatles birthday.
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My name for Blue Sky :)
You forgot the most important thing: if you follow her on the Skyline, she posts the BEST animal companion pics. You'll thank me.
And I missed you as well, Matt! Damn, I want to simplify my life, but the connections we make are astonishingly real.
I left the socials. Cut out everything barring Fibbie. The Skyline was starting to look like Twitter/X. I had HUGE stuff going on. And here I am, dropping back in for this guy.
When medicine is reduced to data, protocols, apps, diagnostics or treatments something vital is lost
The art of medicine is understanding the humanity, the whole person & that people are all different
Respect for humanity can be restored by those who understand the art involved
Ohhhh she be gorgeous!
I enjoy following @scalzi.com, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, @chuckwendig.bsky.social, @garethlpowell.bsky.social, @jendiagammon.bsky.social and @cmpriest.bsky.social - and I don't even read horror/space opera. Tbh, it's often their pet/nature posts I'm here for. And: hello!
The bankers are going to be the end of us all.
Tax the Rich. Tax the Super-Rich. Tax the Ultra-Rich. But MOST of all, Tax the Going-To-Space-Is My-Quirky-Hobby Rich
Lovely piece, lovely message.
Plus it was cool to wake up and discover that My People (the CCLs) were suddenly a hot THING, with T-shirts and buttons and fun memes.
After a long period of abstaining from consuming news of US politics aka soap opera-shit show (because mental health), I cannot tell you how nice it is to be giggling at reports from over the pond again.
aaaaaaaaarggghhhhhhh
Really interesting - in SA, cops are often described as armed social workers.
Non-US citizen here, reflecting more-or-less the response of the world outside North America: WTAF???? Is this a joke? Photoshop?
In the interests of morale-boosting.
Awwwww.
Refugee Olympic Team waving flags in a boat at the Paris Olympic Games Opening Ceremony
Extremely symbolic seeing the Refugee Olympic Team enter the Games in a boat
Libraries are awesome.
My toxic trait is I want every human to be sheltered, fed, clothed and provided healthcare at no direct cost to themselves. I DO NOT CARE if some people then do nothing for the rest of their lives. Mazletov, god bless. I don't care if a few people figure out ways to game the system. People need help
a fox news graphic with two bullet point lists: ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ'S PLATFORM ■ MEDICARE FOR ALL ■ HOUSING AS A HUMAN RIGHT ■ A FEDERAL JOBS GUARANTEE ■ GUN CONTROL / ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN ■CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM, END PRIVATE PRISONS ■ IMMIGRATION JUSTICE / ABOLISH ICE ■ SOLIDARITY WITH PUERTO RICO ■ MOBILIZING AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE ■ CLEAN CAMPAIGN FINANCE ■ HIGHER EDUCATION FOR ALL ■ WOMEN'S RIGHTS ■ SUPPORT LGBTQIA+ ■ SUPPORT SENIORS ■ CURB WALL STREET GAMBLING: RESTORE GLASS STEAGALL
whenever these big gop oppo lists come out it always looks like this, like god please give us the scary candidate you made up
I've been checking in here less and less. Genocide justifications. Mansplaining. Casual misogyny. Wilful ignorance. Sometimes I can't even tell whether I'm on Twitter or Bluesky (no worse indictment). Bring back the invite codes!
This cat has the correct response to *waves hands around*
Dante is wise.
In all the ongoing devastation around us, this piece is its own quiet statement of devastation.
