Mekka Okereke
@mekka.mekka-tech.com
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Building Digital Ecosystems at Google.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke
He/him.
๐ช๐ธ: "This beef has nothing to do with me. Don't ask me to pick a side after you set it off for no reason. Y'all wanted to battle? So battle. I opt out."
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Glass half full! โฅ๏ธ๐ค
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40 miles!
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This is true, but in some cases it's because the different framing is asking two different things. Means the same thing: Do you support: a) Obamacare? b) The Affordable Care act? Mean very different things: For undocumented people, do you support: a) Amnesty? b) A path to citizenship?
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"Good luck with that!" - People that care about Black people
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I said what I said. Are war and tariffs the best ways to accomplish any goals in 2026? That's the approach the waning superpowers are taking. How's that working out for Russia and the USA? How's that war fighting and tough talk working out for us? Are we winning yet? China is *removing* tariffs ๐๐
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China to implement zero tariffs on imports from 53 African countries
China will implement zeroโtariff treatment for imports from the 53 African countries with which it has diplomatic relations, starting May 1, 2026, state media reported on Saturday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-implement-zero-tariffs-imports-53-african-countries-2026-02-14/
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The Cocky One
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That's the reason why on this app when black people point out that we warned the far left about Fetterman, about attacking Kamala Harris, about how ineffective Bernie Sanders has been and a few other things and they get furious.
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๐คWhite people that can acknowledge that Black folk in the US saw the danger coming from Trump before everyone else... And Reagan and Nixon... And that knew how best to fight them... Still can't accept that 87% of Black voters prefer Crockett for any reason other than "She's Black!๐คก"
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Juliana Stratton
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Illinois, letโs do this.
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AskAubry ๐ฆ ๐
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The same energy of dudes who say they are "babysitting" their own kids.
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OK, the NFL combine is now over, and none of the athletes did more than 42 reps of 225 lbs. The closest was David Gusta with 37 reps. I am genuinely surprised that Kadyn Proctor didn't get more than 42 reps. I thought he would get closer to 45. He got significantly less than that at 25 reps.
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So the F-15 is the most successful combat aircraft in modern history. 104 air combat engagements with enemy aircraft. 104 victories. Zero losses. A perfect record. Only 6 F-15s have been lost to ground based fire in all history. 3 of those 6 were friendly fire under this Operation Epstein Fury.๐คก
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Oh they must *hate* Mamdani! The man started a fire. This is how you win elections in New York now.๐๐ฟ Related: Lindsay Boylan took her power back, but is not content just to get back to even. No. She wants more, so that she can make sure that what happened to her doesn't happen to others. Respect
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๐คI'm not disagreeing. I'm just trying to follow the logic: If Iran's nuclear capability was "completely obliterated" a few months ago, and needed to be obliterated again today, either: 1) It wasn't obliterated a few months ago 2) It was obliterated, but they rebuilt from scratch *in only months*.
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Oh, we're talking about the New York Times' opinion column again? Well my opinion, is that the New York Times' opinion column, is trash. Literally anti civil rights.
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"s/^Was Donald Trump right to.*/Yes/s" I just saved hundreds of millions of dollars in compute. Where's my prize?๐คก
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๐จ๐ปโ๐ผSir, we recommend a daytime strike. 9:40 am to be precise. ๐ด๐ปI thought we strike at night? Aren't all the high priority targets in the bunker? ๐จ๐ปโ๐ผHigh priority ones, yes sir. But this target moves around. We know where he will be at 9:40 am. ๐ด๐ปHow do we know? ๐จ๐ปโ๐ผHe... drops his daughter off at school
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Lots of correct answers in the comments. ๐๐ฟ Related: Many of those super high quality, smaller Indie band records, are pressed by Gold Rush Vinyl.โฅ๏ธ I got to be the 1st investor in Gold Rush Vinyl. Vinyl helps indie musicians and live music acts afford to keep making great music.
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Yup. Every word. Jayme Lawson says what all these Black people have been telling you. Including Black people with disabilities. Including Black people with Tourette syndrome. Including Black people with coprolalia. But people still don't want to hear it.
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#JaymeLawson Calls Out the #BAFTAs Slip Up at the #NAACPImageAwards #shorts
YouTube video by The Hollywood Reporter
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/MNsG0KXtEYg
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๐คท๐ฟโโ๏ธOne of the weirdest takes I see online, is by white people that think that China restricts itself to some magical line of only being able to do what the US does. China does what it wants. The US and Russia are the superpowers that start wars all over the place. China is winning without wars.
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Dawn Xiana Moon
3 days ago
I just looked up survival floating. (I'm pretty good at floating, but hadn't heard of that specific technique.) Thank you!
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Gene Locicero (he/they)
3 days ago
Lesbians also got the black triangle along with certain trans people that weren't put under the pink. It's part of reclaimed queer iconography. Campbell's Queer X Design book explains origins of queer symbols and also covers this it's a good read I recommend it:
bookshop.org/p/books/quee...
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Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ
50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ
https://bookshop.org/p/books/queer-x-design-50-years-of-signs-symbols-banners-logos-and-graphic-art-of-lgbtq-andy-campbell/0a196aee02e85c19?ean=9780762467853&next=t
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Andrew D Thaler
3 days ago
I'm researching a book on the misuse of the deep sea and pulled as many transcripts as I could from the first trans-atlantic telegraph cables and yup, it was never the medium.
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Jeff Byrnes ๐ฐ ๐๏ธ
3 days ago
The inability for some folks to comprehend that multiple things are true remains one of the more astonishing elements of humanity to me.
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I can't believe they really called this illegal war "Operation Epstein Fury"
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Brad Lander
3 days ago
Donald Trump is gaslighting us and distracting us from his many failures. This is how authoritarians use war. Congress must vote immediately to stop this illegal war with Iran.
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Oggie
3 days ago
I actually had to explain to someone in the US, in his 30s, that the pink triangle was related to Nazis. He thought it was silly that it was being referenced because it was such a gay trope and do lighthearted/silly. And I mean, I am glad we claimed it to that degree, but historical roots ...
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aki ๐ป๐
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I think itโs great that youโre doing this! Iโm in Europe and Iโd dare claim this isnโt common knowledge at all, even among some trans ppl here. Given my countryโs history, Iโve watched countless documentaries about WWII since I was a kid, but e.g. the persecution of esp. gay men 1/4
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Every year, I remind y'all that I'm stronger than almost every NFL player that has ever lived, that track athletes are faster than almost every player, and that basketball players are more athletic. And that the strongest, fastest, most athletic NFL players, trained in other sports. Why? Racism.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
4 days ago
highly recommend coming to Kenya during mango season. they're so yummy and cheap. I've been eating so many, I might turn into a mango. ๐ฅญ
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Ryan Mims
4 days ago
Photo of a meeting I organized with Senator Harris. We missed out big time by not electing her to the presidency.
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Some days I can get on BlueSky and see white Dems hate on Kamala Harris. Other days I can get on BlueSky and see white Dems hate on Jasmine Crockett. But today is a special day! I get both! I am such a lucky boy! ๐คก
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weekend, so you know what time it is. Time to flex on these young lions and show em that unc strength is still different! I'm old but I still have that fire in me!๐ด๐ฟ The strength test at the NFL combine is "How many times can you bench 225 lbs?" For me the answer is 42 times.
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Bench 225 lbs x 42 reps
YouTube video by Big Mekka Tube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0VYP29Y97UE
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Booklegger
5 days ago
This Rush fact felt obviously wrong to me, so I looked it up. Price of living in Sacramento in the 80s, I guess.
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Joe Beda
4 days ago
We all have internalized racism. Some of us embrace it and some work to understand and mitigate it. And we ALL have relatives in the former camp.
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Guillotine Hunger Force
5 days ago
the way people talk about fascism its like they believe it emerged spontaneously on the republican side because of the messenger. untrue! the messenger was part of it but what he did was seize on a groundswell that was boiling beneath the surface for some time
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It used to irritate the shit out of me when I would be at big liberal blogs a decade ago, and most of my fellow white folks there would blame their white parents "suddenly" being racist on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. THAT'S NOT HOW THAT WORKS
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If this were true, the percent of white voters that choose the most racist candidate on the ballot would be different before and after drive-time talk radio. It wasn't. Also no real effect: *Price of eggs *Cambridge Analytica *Fox News *Social media *Economic anxiety What changes, is the excuses.
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This is so good! Again, every city could have a mayor like this. There is nothing stopping us but ourselves.
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รฆva black
6 days ago
The timeline from gender-awakening-to-fascism is truly, shockingly, similar. I believe Weimar libertine parties peaked in the early 1920's ... barely 10 years later, and *that* happened. When was the great trans awakening of our time? A little over 10 years ago. ๐ฌ
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A LOT of women (๐๐พโโ๏ธ) have the experience of attending a public event, going to the restroom, seeing the line at the ladies' room, and waltzing right over to the no-line, waaay cleaner men's room and pee like ain't nobody standing at them urinals. Stop letting them people get you mad over dumb stuff.
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Does Kyle Rayner is gay?
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๐โโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ๐ I dream someday regular plain queer history, just another part of human history, is taught in public schools. No need for special classes, just another narrative braided into all the others. It's as simple as acknowledging WHICH books were burned first.
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CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.๐ซค This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.
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Periodic reminder: Kansas is one of the whitest states in America, and is one of the biggest welfare states in the nation, meaning that over 23% of their states budget comes from federal bailouts from productive states like New York and California. That's OK! We don't mind paying for welfare!
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๐คท๐ฟโโ๏ธThe backflips white people go through to try to justify police killing unarmed Black people for no reason while opposing ICE killing unarmed white people for no reason, is something quite amazing to observe. Cops have killed 141 people so far this year. It's not even March yet.
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Evan Urquhart
6 days ago
It is very hard not to have a safe choice to use the bathroom in public. It may be impossible to continue living, working, eating, etc without a valid driver's license if your life was built around driving and the assumption that your license wouldn't be invalidated overnight by the legislature.
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Doghouse Reilly
6 days ago
*stares in the War on Drugs and segregation.*
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Mikki Kendall
6 days ago
Because racism and misogyny don't have political limits
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This sad tale is the most American story ever. You have a non-violent refugee, in need of help. You have racist neighbors, calling the cops on him. You have violent cops, beating him for "not complying" by not dropping his "weapon" (walking stick) then claiming they were hurt. Then abuse by ICE.
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Embarrassing. Zero chance that Newsome's Digital Director came up with this one. None. The brilliant and quick-witted social media mastermind behind Newsome's good posts, is Camille Harper Zapata, a queer Chicana-Boricua from Stockton California. You might even say she's "Not socially normal.๐คก"
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