We're hosting "Writing and Resistance" a workshop and conversation with KIESE LAYMON, ROBERT JONES, JR. and DEESHA PHILYAW on Dec. 14! All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project. Join us! Register: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

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#tdih 1841, Madison Washington & 18 other enslaved people aboard "Creole" (en route Richmond to NOLA) rebelled & sailed ship to Bahamas where most secured freedom, one of largest US slave revolts. Via @blackpastonline.bsky.social, "The Creole Mutiny," more. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/th...

@merbroussard.bsky.social FYI https://www.cc.gatech.edu/bharat-endowed-faculty-professorships

The Only Time Vincent Price Did the 'Thriller' Monologue Live on Joan Rivers “Tonight show” in 1987 #Halloween 🎃

if you feel sad ... just go listen to these currently middle aged men rap till things got better

4) Bun B is suggesting to this lady why she should become his courtesan because he has the ability to provide her with a lifestyle of extravagance ... but makes sure to clarify... you are in a relationship with me... but EYE am not in a relationship with you

My favorite things about “international players anthem”

Bernie Mac?

Some people be far more stupid than you give them credit for

POC funerals be like...

There's so much being recalled and there's no newsletter coming out due to the shutdown. Check this and see if you have any of these in your kitchen. If so, throw them out or see if you can get a refund if you can.

We are all grieving something right now. We are tapped out.

This is crazy! Culturally most ppl of color refer to older relatives and friends of family as "Auntie or Uncle".

Social media killed un performative romance. Performative romantic gestures thrive on social media. If you didn’t post it, it never happened.

I am cackling “I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more like masculine men in the conservative movement,” Housley says, “and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.” wapo.st/49nAEGw

This was back when they had that rewards program where after 3 purchases you won a free Food Poisoning

if i’m not disrespecting you on this mf dont disrespect me period. idc wtf going on, this is not that. i talk shit too well. and you don’t have to talk to me on this hoe at all actually. get right

Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.

i don’t know what would give a man the impression that i need someone to “talk to”, when i can clearly talk to myself just fine. 😂

Hold on, lemme check my IG DMs, LinkedIn mail, gmail, multiple discord servers, Discourse, slack workspaces, WhatsApp, Messenger, iMessage, Germ, Session, Matrix, signal, IRC, GitHub issues and PRs, Clickup, and bsky DMs and get back to you

me: the AT website refresh doesn't have to look amazing team: yeah but it be at least as cool as the blacksky website me: shit

Did a presentation at Brown University demoing Blacksky and this was the top post on the trending feed.

“Who you getting fine for?” Me. I’m the occasion. Always.

Rudy Fraser created an online space for people not looking to have their social media presence obliterated by the whims of Bluesky mods. That’s not “racial segregation.” We’ve been invited to his house and told to help ourselves to what’s in the fridge, but we’re objecting to our handles?

This paper shows how data visualizations were used to promote anti-immigrant messaging in the lead up to the 2024 U.S. election. Tracing dataviz lineages, we reveal how participatory propaganda took shape both thru initially misleading visualizations of publicly available data & annotating/remixing.

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]

Two people can like each other and not be aligned and that’s ok.

"How did people survive before______" friend ... people used to starve to death... i hope that helps

300 million for a ballroom….? girl……. it rhymes with hunny schmaundering

"Hell hath no fury like I do." — Louise Belcher #Blacktober #BobsBurgers #art

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP. A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify. I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

'try Copilot in Teams today!' I hope you choke

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow 'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

It annoys me when people say “they’re on SNAP but their hair and nails are done and they’ve got tattoos”. It’s extremely normal to do your own hair and buy press on nails, and tattoos literally last forever. What do tattoos someone got 10 years ago have to do with them needing to eat now

Also, poor people get to have nice things too. Poverty is not a punishment.

I wrote a column about Andrew Cuomo: www.elizabethspiers.com/andrew-cuomo...

From now on, when anyone asks how we’re going to pay for it, the answer should be we’ll take it out of the teargas budget.

"What I need you to understand is that nobody is letting them go quietly. The Feds' every movement is announced by a chorus of whistles, by a parade of cars honking in their wake, neighbors rushing outside to yell to film to witness.... Neighbors running towards trouble."

First the administration cut food assistance for Americans in need. Now they’re refusing to use emergency funds for food assistance—even though their now-deleted shutdown plan said they could. They have the funding to keep families from going hungry. There’s no excuse.

I wrote about Ed Zitron using words to mean the opposite of what they normally do because it makes things sound more dire for the LLM industry. this is not a good method if you want to think clearly and understand things crespo.business/posts/cost-o...

!!! “There’s a lot of really great reasons to be in the ‘fuck AI’ tribe. I just think it should be led by somebody who’s not an AI publicist.””

Who the fuck is this dude who rolled in saying what women researchers have been saying for years? He came on my thread here once to tell me I was wrong about something — I wasn’t. I responded, he said nothing, and disappeared. @alexhanna.bsky.social @safiyanoble.bsky.social