Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

My fav thing to grasp onto in movies & books right now is characters researching in libraries (Blood in the Water), relying on reputable books & reliable data for info (San Andreas, 2015), & the like. It notice it more because of where we are & because of ::gestures wildly:: all the things.

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” -Assata

“Pastor i feel like im losing my faith” Lose it…. Allow yourself to be transformed and begin again

Fuck Tinder. Fuck Bumble. Fuck all them dating apps. Let’s get straight to it.

@authormsbev.bsky.social would be so proud ☺️☺️☺️

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

But WAIT this poem by Jacqueline Woodson is so beautiful! #PoetryPeople @thevogelman.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Post a movie you *LOVE* with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

Jurassic Park 2 Ever After Fifth Element

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia

Excited and proud. wapo.st/4p89Xes

Four Georgia Southern faculty members publish books taking historical research beyond the library: www.griceconnect.com/education/fo... check out this spotlight on @howard2home.bsky.social and her recent book, Understanding Octavia E. Butler!

Write members of Congress and demand tha COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall to all who need them

F*ck‼️ Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.

Get your copy of Understanding Octavia E. Butler at 40% off through August 31! 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

So excited about this new book! All of the new Butler books published this year—mine included 😉 —are timely and worth your attention!

So excited about this new book! All of the new Butler books published this year—mine included 😉 —are timely and worth your attention!

Declaring a fake emergency as an excuse to deploy the military to police civilians is one of the most canonical examples of authoritarian takeovers. Overseas, people see clearly what Trump is doing. Here in America most people — especially those with power or influence — are in denial.

WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.

More of us might just admit we don’t have a political plan to deal with this level of repression. And that doesn’t have to be defeat but just a more honest starting point for trying to figure out what to do.

First day of class! I’m teaching 3 sections of #BlackVampires. It’s a Lit & Humanities class. Major texts? This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings & Dark Corner by Brandon Massey. Movies: Blacula & Sinners; they’ll debate whether Sinners is a Black vampire movie or just a Black Horror movie.

📚✨ Happy National Book Lovers Day! ✨📚 Today we celebrate the stories that shaped us, saved us, and sparked something sacred within us. Tag us with what you’re reading today! 🖤 #sistahscifi #NationalBookLoversDay

Everything about this is wrong. www.axios.com/2025/07/30/t...

This week we will be fundraising to help the #SnackSociety

You've helped us come so far! Only $8500 stands between us and making history. We want to publish the first All-Black Women Fantasy graphic novel anthology on Kickstarter. We have 50 hours left to raise the final stretch #sdcc #graphicnovels #romantasy #bvm www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

The Senate voted early Thursday to strip $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a severe blow to 1,500 local public stations, as well as PBS and NPR

A wonderful essay! @howard2home.bsky.social

All That You Touch, You Change: @hramsaroop.bsky.social reflects on three recent studies of Octavia Butler's life and work (Angel City Press, @uscpress.bsky.social, & @oxfordunipress.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/07/08/a...

Oooh…the first (?) review of Understanding Octavia E. Butler, aka my new book?! 😅👀☺️

- Octavia E. Butler - The entire Hunger Games franchise—books & movies - Black historical romance by @authormsbev.bsky.social - Black vampires - Jurassic Park 1 & 2 (movies only) - Disney Princess movies—animated & live action - why Albanese Ultimate gummy bears (gold foil @ the top) are the best

Happy #JenkinsJuly 🎉 I just re-read Captured. Next up? Midnight.

Celebrate Jenkins July with Night Song on sale for a buck and change. www.amazon.com/Night-Song-B...

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

Keith David reacting to the announcement that he will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Imma just say this. There are more survivors you interact with on a regular basis. Choose your words wisely today because that shit sticks with folks more than you’ll ever know.

Warnock: A budget is not just a fiscal document. A budget is a moral document. Show me your budget and I'll show you who you think matters and who doesn't. And if this awful budget were an EKG, it would suggest that our nation has a heart problem and is in need of moral surgery

Happy 78th Birthday to Octavia E. Butler! Butler’s legacy is full speed ahead, thanks to so many groups, businesses, schools, scholars, artists, writers, and more. Whether you’re new to Butler or just getting started, there’s something for everyone—even our four legged friends! #octaviabutler

Hello, Chicago! Got Saturday plans? Join me and others as we honor the legacy of Octavia E. Butler on the solstice and the day before her actual birthday! Register here! www.eventbrite.com/e/octavia-bu...

Tools don’t care if you’re a girl. Can you use them is all they ask.

In honor of #FathersDay here is my annual love letter to Black men. Because I need y'all to stick around longer. open.substack.com/pub/drchaneq...

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

Silence is violence. Speak up, even when your voice shakes.

Mask ban legislation is popping up all over the U.S. and this is exactly why you should oppose it, even when lawmakers add in “exceptions” for medical masks. You know who gets to decide whether your mask qualifies as medical? Cops. And I promise you they don’t give a shit