This is why wearing a mask still matters to me. The impact of this is going to be seen for generations.

Black people had no choice but to be the vanguard for social change for all this country’s history. No I won’t qualify that. We’re still fighting for liberation, never stopped. The wheels are stuck because the country thinks it can keep hating us & get better. Do your work because Black people do.

I do not care what how much propaganda Silicon Valley tries to spread saying otherwise, a machine vomiting up slop is never ever going to be art to me the way an human being sitting and making something with their soul, knowledge and skill set is.

Our collective task is not to save tech but to save us, our world. The resonant computing manifesto is too focused on means and not on ends. And that's basically the core issue. The belief in technological determinism.

Told my mom this a while back. Even those so called yt allies when all else fails they have their ytness. Do they want to help you sure but if that means finally getting rid of that privilege. They will choose being yt over equal every single time. Even if it's no real benefit.. still yt lol

The Chinese government’s repression of journalists at home is well-known. Less visible is how that machinery now reaches far beyond its borders. Read the accounts from Journalists who faced intimidation for reporting on human rights abuses tied to China’s ventures in African countries.

AI ruins everything.

My pet peeve with horror or thriller shows is how loud someone breathes or screams while running from a killer. I want to see a real runner with the will to live, these shows are too predictable

Across the gun forums I'm in, men are being denied permits and licenses for firearms due to police reports for DV or intimate violence. The police do so little to protect survivors but a report can and does prevent men from legally buying firearms.

This. Past generations of women had to tolerate men to have access to most financial instruments and not face social alienation. We are witnessing the first generations of women who are applauded even for their choice to remain unpartnered. I wish the elder women in my family had this freedom.

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies. Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market. This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

2/? These communities are liabilities. We cannot afford to waste precious time/energy on their problems, which they created. They need to do massive in-house work. And we cannot allow them to try to guilt trip us into helping them no matter how eloquently they quote our elders & ancestors.

And all you have to do is, look at the entire history of everything.

And mfs voted for them because the Black people were worse in their minds. Not directed at OP. Black people been trying to tell yall that this country won’t accept you if your aren’t straight, cis, white, and Christian, but everyone thinks they know more than the people who have been living

When the AI bubble bursts, all we will be left with is hundreds of meme accounts peddling in Black digital minstrelsy, thousands of SaaS companies tanking, clunky AI bloatware on millions of devices without updates, less potable water on earth, and billions lost from the working class.

My AXS account got hacked right after I sold some tickets, even though I have 2fa enabled, and customer support was like we have no idea how they did it. Ok well I do, yall need to submit a ticket asap and fix it. Do consumer protections even exist anymore

I have issue with the framing of this title - schools have been failing girls since its inception in this country. Abuse, assault, and paedophilia primarily impact young girls in educational environments. Girls and women thrive more when they don't have to do schooling with boys. Simple.

This country does not do well with collective mourning or acknowledging death by contagious illness. You probably never heard of the pandemic of 1918, if you're under 35 you probably never seen the AIDS quilt and the fact that we've never had a national acknowledgment of the people who died of COVID

December mood:

It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers

The only reason I'd ever want to be a politician is to create bills or laws to stop cross racial adoption of Black children by nonblack parents. I'm so tired of the news revealing that yet another white foster parent has murdered a Black child.

Everything 🥰

Can someone please send the stud budz a bell hooks lecture? An audio book for the road? An Audre Lorde anthology? I'm tired of the internalized misogynoir etc

I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.

You'll be able to see the flames reflected in my pupils when this AI paper mache tower finally burns to the ground

I normally don't care for white gay tv shows but Heated Rivalry was absolutely nuts. They put that intimacy coordinator to work chile

Watching Hal & Harper lesbian scenes

spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful

I've learned why there aren't more political firearms groups in certain states. Apparently, that's just a militia. It's extremely hard to join a group of people under the age of 60 and just shoot around, actually lolol turns out shooting ranges are mandated to report that type of thing

Just know that when the Michael Jackson movie drops, I'll have to see it at least 2x because I will be crying the first time.

I just found out that a group of Black diasporic restaurants across Brooklyn prepare food on Thanksgiving for the children of incarcerated parents in nyc. This is one of the more heartwarming initiatives I've heard of.

AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!

A nonblack man tried to buy up the last of the cornbread today at my local soul food spot, and the worker's looked right at me standing behind him and asked if I wanted it first lmfaooooo exactly thank ya! Social media might've made them popular but they didn't lose their heart

I Love LA is way funnier than I expected it to be and also, True Whitaker.

Rest in Power to Mother Viola Ford Fletcher. 111 years, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre. She never got the justice she deserved www.fox23.com/news/mother-...

Yes. And its literally so weirdly funny for Eric to end his term this way. Congrats Jumaane 😂

It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?

Some vaccines like COVID and flu don’t stop completely stop infection. But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk. They are still worth getting. Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.

what we should ban from women’s sports is male coaches. it’s so jarring to watch a match, especially on mute, and they cut to some dude glowering on the sidelines

I'm old enough to remember when the established Dems thought DeBlasio would be a radical because he had a pansexual Black wife and biracial kids lmfaooo

Texas women, yall 😚

BEYONCÉ DOING A HOT LAP WITH LEWIS HAMILTON I REPEAT BEYONCÉ DOING A HOT LAP WITH LEWIS HAMILTON

Don’t bring me no Mac and cheese from the Jamaican spot…

I went to a West African spiritual shop and they are selling an oil that has a photo that sneakily looks like Steven A Smith

I just found out that in Philly, you don't need a permit to shoot a pistol as an adult at the range or buy ammo. In NYC, you need to be able to perform cardiac surgery while humming a classical concerto under a full moon. The nyc application procedure is prohibitory at best! Its exhausting.

You don't have to choose sides. You can dislike everybody. A true hater knows this.

Was waiting to drop this. Exactly 💯

Mmmhm. One of the things that annoys me abt YT Liberals/Progressives -- thinking they can just show the fuk up and demand that Black folk FOLLOW 'their' lead [all the while -- they're ignorant, uninformed, ZERO emotional intelligence, NO Leadership abilities, don't give a fuk abt Blk folk, etc.]

White people get obsessed with being the legendary John Brown because they see it as how they can center themselves as white people to save Black people, they don't see being down with or in community with or following the lead of Black people as part of it, because they don't do those things.