One of my favorite things about having a close personal Innit, is the draggings are so pointed, but gentle. Clearly a regional art form.

Even if I had a wig budget (which I do not) perimenopause would have me lookin like that James Brown meme ALL the gotdamn time and that hardly seems an improvement, 😭

Technically it already has. A couple of my platonic friends are pretty much soulmates and that counts just as much as any romantic love.

I loved having hair this long but it's been two months since my last cut and I don't think I have the patience for the poofiest, weirdest, most Mother of the Church stage between no hair and like 4 inches of curl.

There's no need to involve the general public in your raceplay. Your lack of shame should not be my problem.

Tis the season

It sometimes feels like people enjoyed the drugs of yore more.

As someone who openly claims Gen X we never get enough smoke for thinking of sarcasm as a personality, in and of itself. Not unique to us of course but we are collectively the worst about that.

FINALLY switching gears so that I can lay down and get no-alarm sleep. But first heart-openers, teeth brushing, and a wee bit of creepy melancholy.

😭😭😭😭😭

Deeply relatable.

Oh not at all. Love I want even, has found me a few times, however imperfect. For all that I am impossibly prickly and picky, I'm quite easy to love. It's been a matter of being willing to go outside OR be interested in what arrives on my doorstep.

Decided to stop saying things like this just last week. I decided to believe that whomever I love next will love me in return.

She has done so much harm but she DID tell us to think about heaven later.

I only met one of my deadlines for today, but the deeply chill evening I've had because I accepted the imperfection of one day late for the second deadline was worth the gizzards and wine.

If I say what I wanna say..... Anyway, there's an important chapter in "They Were Her Property" by Stephanie Jones-Rogers about the comfort white women in particular have violently policing the correctness of Black people existing in public. Either in location or presentation.

Easily my favorite usage of Apache.

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Sang that same verse and chorus 29 times 30 different ways 🤣

some art succeeds by knowing exactly what it is going for

What this song lacks in complexity it provides in persistance and volume and I *LOVE* that about it.

Music can be healthcare

Gizzards, wings, okra THEN fries is the PEMDAS btw

I demand reparations from the state of New Jersey!

See also why the midwifery I practice is Black AF and trans inclusive.

God gave me one pussy to manage. And trust me, that is more than enough.

Me, pulling up to the KFC drive through back home to order some gizzards and chicken livers. Fried hard… 🤣

Lemon pepper gizzards and hot sauce have greatly improved my quality of life on today.

My "I do witch shit" shirt is answering a lot of questions about my position on hexing.

I'm sorry 7 EARTH years old? Every day y'all find new ways to abuse the elderly 😭

@chucktownbabe.blacksky.app 😭

I need to create a playlist with this theme... Might make it a challenge for my friends as well...

My musical tastes can really be summed up by "Personal Knowledge of the Jheri-curl." You'll find me wherever the synth is nastiest.

I'm working to my Seasonal Affective Sauce playlist tonight. It's the equinox, gentle reminder that music can help you crawl through the darkness, so get to curatin.

Another BANGER from this era. I swear I heard this in my head any time I walked out my front door.

That choreo, her suit, THE TAP DANCE BREAK! mya was here to let you know, the triple threat is still a thing!

In a world that made even a lick of sense, anybody w/ a degree in anything like social implications of tech should be able to write their own ticket rn. …But if we lived in a world that recognized, let alone properly valued that expertise, a whole lot of shit would already necessarily be different.

It’s true!!

It amuses me that I'm more country than you are. "Yes, quite a bit more." Ask for gizzards for dinner and SUDDENLY I'm a bumpkin.

Just saw something that makes me wonder how much stan-poisoning drives misogyny/misogynoir.

This is an extremely low bar, and one more people should observe.

THIS PART

One of the bars I practically lived in during my 20s used its clearly meant for sports bar screens for good. If it had a video, it was also on when the dj played the track. And that is how I became obsessed with this song.

Something tells me that that person is PEAK, "I'm not racist, I'm just anti-Southern, and I will pretend I don't know the South is where the majority of Black USians live."

They hate us so much lol

Wine and R&B type of night

Who are your people that that's how you say chitlins? Let's start there.

I start my new job in two weeks on October 6. It’s a year-long contract (fully remote) for $180k, which works for me b/c it gets me exactly what I need & allows me to accomplish a helluva lot. Also, a reminder: if you’re a Black software engineer, DM me b/c they’re still recruiting to fill spots.

I'm not saying anyone else should block that "vibes" account, but baby if you don't know that's not Mariah Carey and you post other generated images I have to question your judgment AND your Blackness.