Don’t want to eat, my emotions are numb most of the time, very little energy to do anything. I had a whole week off last week for spring break and I could barely do anything because I was/am just mentally/emotionally exhausted. Unfortunately I’ve been this way all my life and can just keep pushing.
it sucks when people think I’m better too whole time I’m just experiencing a whole different symptom on any given day
hi lovely!
sending love 🫂
This game deserves all of its nominations
as it always should have been!
Chicago has turned all public school IDs into library cards to boost student access. blockclubchi.co/3NTWvNM
d20 might not be for everyone but it is for *me* so pls be normal in the replies ty
oh my god i've been so depressed i didn't even realize dimension 20 was playing vampire the masquerade this year??
🫂
today is hard
So, again. . .
The U.S. nuked Japan, and not only did NOBODY step in to take the nukes from the U.S., other nations (allies) got nukes, too. . .
that didn't signal we'd eventually find ourselves right here?
"People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave." - Assata Shakur
BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites.
This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran
(🎥 i24 News)
What kills me is that high political officials are seeing this and doing nothing to stop him
An anime character crying while eating gyōza.
A bright spot on the moon got named after one of the astronaut's late wife and you expect me to just sit here and be normal about it??? 😭😭😭
Shouldn't be damn near impossible to live at this point. Idk what's about to happen but folks gotta tear all of this down.
I lied to you. I LOVE THE BLUES!
JAXA, the Japanese space program, runs a whole poetry program with their astronauts they send to the ISS!
iss.jaxa.jp/utiliz/rensh...
Info about an account sharing viral video of the moon saying it’s Artemis 2 but it’s not, and that account is blocking people who point it out
Just in case folks miss this due to the block
I had one mild covid and now am practically bedbound.
Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.
Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.
ht @astrokatie.com
Ra’il is a longtime offline friend of mine. His work has value, and his story must be told.
![A recent academic article covering the movement also makes scarce mention of Kiam, and still uses his dead last name. An account from a Canadian nonprofit neglects to mention them at all, as does Inside Radio. The podcast There Are No Girls On The Internet, hosted by Bridget Todd, also failed to mention him.
"A very bizarre experience where, for example, Joan Donovan [who is also in the above podcast], who was this big name in misinfo and disinfo, right?,” Kiam said. “[She wrote] this big article in 2016, I think, about people pretending to be Black online to sway public opinion. Then there was just no mention of any of our work.”
While Kiam claims that Donovan later sent him an apology email, “I never read it in full, at least until more recently, because I was like, ‘I just don't believe you.’”
“She gets this whole six figure institute [the Critical Internet Studies Institute], you know.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gm2gj4v7isgrlsww3ya7hpy2/bafkreignjsparb2dd33e3kgmqqs5q2jax3xwquck7nphhmuit724fgcsqa)
A recent academic article covering the movement also makes scarce mention of Kiam, and still uses his dead last name. An account from a Canadian nonprofit neglects to mention them at all, as does Inside Radio. The podcast There Are No Girls On The Internet, hosted by Bridget Todd, also failed to mention him. "A very bizarre experience where, for example, Joan Donovan [who is also in the above podcast], who was this big name in misinfo and disinfo, right?,” Kiam said. “[She wrote] this big article in 2016, I think, about people pretending to be Black online to sway public opinion. Then there was just no mention of any of our work.” While Kiam claims that Donovan later sent him an apology email, “I never read it in full, at least until more recently, because I was like, ‘I just don't believe you.’” “She gets this whole six figure institute [the Critical Internet Studies Institute], you know.”
After dealing with continued bigotry that prevented them from being hired in tech spaces, he had enough and decided to lean more into his artwork, photography, and pursuing intellectual work outside of academia. Much of his photography, which focuses on nature and still lives, has been posted to Instagram and Mastodon. He also runs a separate Instagram page which curates Black art and aesthetics. Kiam also provided a Linktree showcasing numerous writings of his, in addition to photography and artwork. A key throughline for his efforts has been self-actualization, something so many marginalized people are routinely denied. “I feel like the past few years have just been me really learning how to be a person and myself, which I don't know if that's like an achievement on the same type that most people are looking at,” he said. “But it's like, the pandemic happened and I finally figured out exactly what was that nagging thing in the back of my mind when it was just like, oh, why doesn't this word just feel right to describe me? Yeah, I don't know, just figuring out my gender shit, figuring out that like, oh yeah, I'm still a writer, still an artist, even after all the sort of ups and downs of the industry and the political landscape.”
This does real, deep damage, leaving those who powered key movements struggling to survive.
Kiam is also "still a writer, still an artist, even after all the sort of ups and downs of the industry and the political landscape."
Article by @thefreeradical.org
Edited by @davidforbes.bsky.social
Kiam has an ongoing gofundme here: www.gofundme.com/f/railresurg...
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Ra'il I'Nasah Kiam co-founded YourSlipisShowing, which played a key role in anti-racist and antifascist organizing online.
But his work, like that of so many Black trans organizers, was thoroughly erased — when the movement he helped found was even mentioned at all.
This is his story:
