This is great. I did some work with Friendship House a while back and they do wonderful work for the community.

Imagine crashing out over this goddess. Black is beautiful.

We really should study why so many highly educated men are so easily seduced into thinking Gen AI is sentient because it flatters them in some way. Men who should absolutely know better. Clearly, we need to make watching Ex Machina mandatory before allowing them to "converse" with these tools.

Whew, just watched that Independent Lens doc on #Natchez and it was 😬. The way I yelled at the TV! Natchez is where my paternal family is from and some are still there. Our literal blood is in that soil. I don't know how folks endure the racism some are still very vocally expressing.

Gratulerer med dagen, Norge!

Hello! It's always projection from the right. Always.

Few things drive home how badly USians are screwed by the government more than visiting western or northern Europe. Way ahead of us in tech, quality of life, urban planning, food quality, public art, architecture, walkable cities, transit, green space, museums, culture, historic preservation...

When I was a young adult, the realization that total strangers would have absolutely no problem killing me because I'm Black was a crushing experience. I'm not going anymore and it's still crushing.

Is it really that uncommon and confusing to have to call someone's apartment from a keypad to get into a building? Especially for deliveries? Why do so many delivery people struggle with this?

I am sharing to point out that AfroComicCon has been an Oakland institution for years now. Thus, it is and was the first in Oakland.

I'm sorry to say but Clevr Blends is gross. I will stan Meg anytime someone is racist but I can't defend this nasty drink powder.

Destany Pete researched an Indigenous chokecherry recipe and achieved promising “in vitro” results on cancer cells. Her science project gained international recognition for combining traditional knowledge with modern laboratory experimentation.

The older I get the more baffled I am at how people don't really listen to what you're saying/project meaning into things that aren't at all evident even when you preface a convo with a framework to be as clear as possible. No one has ever accused me of being subtle and this happens all the time.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

Someone should have told Marco Reek that this wasn't a white elephant gift exchange.

Gotta hand it to the president, he has fully broken the "Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?" people. They are fully crashing out with the wild, angry, conspiracy memes. Welcome to the club, babes!

Sol de Janeiro's Cheirosa 71 is my fave but I'm currently using EOS Vanilla Cashmere.

This type of nonsense completely divorced from what Californians actually want is why I can't stand Adam Schiff.

I watched the new "Lord of the Flies" adaptation and it does a great job of instilling the fear and absolute horror of childhood trauma. These kids did a great job. Completely gutting. I read the novel as a teen and I was beside myself. As someone well into adulthood it gave me nightmares.

May the 4th be with you! I made this Sarlacc Pit cake for a work potluck. Butter pecan cake with salted caramel butter cream, biscoff crumbs and slivered almonds.

It should be embarrassing to be so easily seduced by a flattery machine.

I once saw Alex Jones at Occupy LA when I took my son and niece to teach them about civic engagement and activism. We talked to a lot of people but I avoided him intentionally.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Remember when John Boehner was the most annoying legislative politician? I miss that guy.

Admittedly, it's been a long while since I read anything by Tom Robbins but I did not expect "Another Roadside Attraction" to be this problematic. Pretty racist and yikes on the depictions of women. I need something better to read. Racial stereotypes and hyper sexualization aren't clever.

Starting July 1 there will be new limits on student loans for MLS students under the limited understanding of what fits as a "professional" degree. This limit is going to further restrict access to the field. I haven't seen anywhere near enough discussion of this (truthfully, none) by pro orgs. 📚

I think Obama doing an event with Mamdani is a big deal and it gives me some hope.

I'm all for reducing traffic but don't think using BART parking for small units of housing is going 2 solve that or their budgetary woes long term. We don't have enough choices 4 transit in a lower density area 2 move away from cars en masse. What about disabled folks? Commutes will lengthen.

This OG Bomberman was such a Drum & Bass banger back in the day. Just popped into my head today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYQM...

People keep asking me if I watch The Pitt. My tv watching practice is this: if this is a show featuring people going to work and it's A) not funny or B) not foreign, I'm not interested. I already go to work in real life. I don't want to go to work with fictional characters.

I think we can all agree that astronauts are flippin amazing! Yay!

Out of the blue, I've started to really appreciate Kandinsky the past several months.

What was up with the ubiquity of saxophones in 80's music?

I can't recommend doing your taxes as soon as you get your documents enough. I used to wait until the beginning of April and it's so much less stress to just get it over with. If you're getting a return, you get your money faster as well. April 15th barely registers for me.

I work at a Jesuit school and this would never happen there. We get emails from church leadership but there is no indoctrination or public prayer. Proselytizing would get you a lovely meeting with HR.

On my list of all time favorites. About every two years, I make a big bowl of pasta, pour a glass of red wine and watch this. It's so good you forget it's actually a rom com. Olympia Dukakis is amazing. This solidified my love of Cher as an actor.

Trump Catholics can't possibly be the same group who called for the blacklisting of Sinead O' Connor, right?

It's pathetic that even now, schools are still banning "A Clockwork Orange." I read it in high school and it changed my life. I dove deeply into examining what it means to be a human being. Maybe that's what they are afraid of. pen.org/banned-books...

When 2 progressive WoC faced recalls in Oakland/AlCo, Swalwell felt just fine using racist dog whistles to malign Oakland. These women were recalled despite still not being charged with anything. Chickens coming home to roost. He would've done nothing for Oakland as Gov. Racists are also sexists.

Folks out here defending someone accused of SA like California doesn't have a glut of other Dems running for governor. I'm sorry if the woman, the other white man and the Latinos aren't good enough for you and women's bodily autonomy gets a pass. Thanks for letting me know to block you!

Never liked Sublime. One day maybe we will discuss the problematic phenomenon of white, male reggae fans. Pot smoking proto-fascists under the guise of libertarianism.

This week is over!

I just want to note that the strategy of using language to attract any demographic that isn't white men is considered divisive and DEI, so I find these conclusions EXTREMELY PROBLEMATIC.

You know, I don't want a shipping update until the package is moving. "Label created" is the most unsatisfying status ever.

I read my own poetry in front of an audience for the first time this evening and it wasn't the end of the world!