I forgot to buy a powerball ticket. I really don't want the life I deserve.

Cascade has clearly made a play for “main character” in Beyond the Gates, and it is hilariously unhinged. Did they even reference Febreze in any scenes?

Sigh www.news9.com/ou-essay-rem...

“It’s going to get harder and harder to trust evidence and the volume of lawsuits is going to increase a tremendous amount,” he said. wjla.com/features/i-t...

Sometimes I don’t think my mama realizes just how much I don’t play about her. Like ma’am, have you met me?

"Most people don't know shit about boxing."-Roger Mayweather

This is the institutionalization of Turning Point's professor watchlist. It invites mass harassment and declares war on independent ideas. If unlearned sociopaths can influence your teaching through threats, academic freedom is essentially dead.

I was today-years-old when I learned Clifton Davis wrote "Never Can Say Goodbye." As Sen. Vernon Dupree, Rev. Dr. Ruben Gregory, and Clifton Curtis from every episode of "That's My Mama." #BeyondTheGates

"The six area studies centers have operated at UNC since the early '90s and 2000s. " dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

Has anyone found where we can stream In the Long Run in the U.S.? I have been LIVID that Starz removed it and have talked about how much I loved it for several years now.

“I can sleep at night now. I really wasn’t sleeping well with what I knew,” he said. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

OK. So I finished Welcome to Derry. This show took me through EVERY emotion possible. The way I gasped, screamed, and cried (in that order) at the final climactic reveal!!! I cannot. 😭

I’m halfway through ep 7 of Welcome to Derry, and RICHIE!!!!!

Started watching IT: Welcome to Derry this week. I’m on episode 6, and my scary ass has not slept without the tv on since Saturday.

What a wild choice to take a "who gon' check me boo?" approach to "community" (which supports my argument that too many folks in CS/tech lack any clue what "community" really means). www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

Today was my first time seeing that Medieval Times-style E-TRADE commercial...the whole jousting thing. Have folks already noted the music playing in the background is the melody of The Ruff Ryders Anthem? I hope X's estate is getting some coins for that.

I just typed “across my 20-year career” and literally gasped and clutched my pearls like I was describing someone else. Cause what do you mean 20 years professionally, when I’m still 28 in my head?

My God. Folks just trying to get through finals, and now absolutely terrified. Kudos to the student journalists for bravery they shouldn't have to perform and keeping news updated. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

The World Health Organization declared measles FULLY eradicated in the U.S. in 2000. Twenty-five years later, and we've literally chosen to just say fuck science. www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...

Turned to The Wiz just in time to catch Lena Horne putting the cast and crew on her back with “Believe in Yourself.” Also, I am BEGGING for a “Where Are They Now” on the baby fairies!

“People said, what is a whistle gonna do?” Baltazar Enriquez proved what I’ve argued for the longest: It only has to make sense to YOU. Gracias.

Watching Rachel Maddow’s We the People townhall, and realizing just how much Time magazine dropped the ball with their Person of the Year. The guy who started the whistle brigade in 2025 *clearly* did a TON to influence the year.

Just caught up on last night’s Abbott. Couple of things: 1. I am so grateful to not have been raised by a mother who resented and was jealous of me. 2. Taraji deserves all of the things. Give her another Emmy, or Golden Globe, Oscar, Soul Train, Image, and Stellar Award.

There’s a lot of talk about the Hitler youth types who are turning in their professors and not enough discussion about the ones who are feeling intense despair because they're going to school with the Hitler youth types and immigrants are being kidnapped and trans people are facing genocide &etc

Indiana?? Wow.

Quite the unhinged choice here. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...

Still hard to believe I’m not even 50, and we exist in a world without Stuart Scott, D’Angelo, Malcom-Jamal Warner, Chadwick, and Kobe (and X, and Big, and Pac, and Aaliyah, and every other Black Gen X’er we’ve lost along the way).

The Boo-Yah: A Portrait of Stuart Scott was the 30 for 30 Black Gen X has been waiting for. Absolutely amazing, and the perfect inclusion of hip hop. Necessary. ESPN is what it is today because of him. He’s the patriarch in a family tree of Black sports journalists that is absolutely elite. Legacy 💔

Black Gen X and elder millennials, are we all watching Booyah tonight and holding each other's hands through it?

Talk to me nice...

Not only did the Democrat win, it wasn't even close. She got nearly 60% of the vote!

Miami electing a Democrat mayor is huge. HUGE! Not sure folks understand that, but seriously, stay focused.

Year ago today I finally faced my fears and got my vibranium knee installed. What a wild sequence events that was. Also, it's absolutely fascinating how the body can heal itself. One of the best decisions of my adult life, highly recommend. Super proud of myself for doing a thing while scared!

Was talking to my mama about something at work and she laughed and said, “I *just* told folks that you were kind in bible study.” Me: “I am…I’m just not always nice." Then I thought, my mama told her bible study group (which spans ages and races) that her child was kind, and I….Black mamas >>>

Now that I’ve finished the entire episode, the pettiness of the Elsbeth writers room is unmatched. The concealer was the extra, unexpected sprinkles on top. 🤌🏾

Last week’s episode of Elsbeth was inspired by Belichick, wasn’t it? Also, the fact that I only know Coach as Marco from Living Single...

"Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like" is on PBS. I’m gonna stop and watch every single time. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

When you hear Black folks talk about the beauty of growing up in Durham, this is what we mean. An entire community of elders and peers pouring into and rooting for you from the day you’re born. What’s not included in this video is VJ finished his degree in THREE YEARS! Alexa, play “Put On."

Still flabbergasted that I literally remember the first time I saw the “I Get Around” and “Juicy” videos, and never ONCE in the past 30+ years did I comprehend that Puffy completely lifted the concept from Pac. Diabolical.

Oh. My. GOODNESS! THIS ACC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IS *WILD*!! Also, me spotting my student STRESSED on camera.

This is in fact the material point: “The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.

Yes it’s prolly not safe.. But she’s a dark skin Black woman in 2025, who’s old enough to remember every promise to do better and how little anybody followed through. Black women are people too and people have limits of how much they can put up with

Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’ @aishadown.bsky.social for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Question for those who completed any form of postsecondary education: Were you required to learn about the history of your discipline as part of the curricula? If so, what was your major?

Just learned about Operation Santa today. Kids can submit a letter to Santa via the post office website, and people can review letters and purchase gifts through Santa’s Work Shoppe. Asking folks to purchase by Dec 13 to ensure Dec 25 delivery! www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Booker T. & the M.G.'s is one of the most criminally overlooked bands of all time.

*In the key of Marlena Shaw*: How can I explain the joy I feel…walking to my car on the last day of class.

Pac told us. Mase told us. The Lox told us. Suge told us (problem was, it was Suge tellin us). Danyel Smith told us. Aubrey told us without tellin us. And still, with all we now know, it barely scratched the surface of his depravity.

Ngl, this is taking "drunk as a skunk" to elite heights. Who among us has never been passed out drunk in a bathroom? WHO? (The way its spread out face down is RUINING ME)

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