If you have a Ring camera, take a hammer to it. If your neighbor has one, give them a hammer as a gift.

Ring has done this before. They partner with cops, get backlash, withdraw a bit, wait for it to calm down, and then go right back to working with cops. Don't believe this spin. www.theverge.com/news/878447/...

10 years later y’all are just now catching up. Maybe, just maybe Instead of trying to son @ mansplain based on your limited range, LISTEN TO SEX WORKERS when we talk about how we have not only innovated TECHNOLOGY but have been unceremoniously cut off from the very tech we built.

AND we lost 6 bank accounts before reaching MVP FOR A LEGAL ADULT INDUSTRY PRODUCT. I didn’t go to Congress to take listening sessions on all sides of the political spectrum on banking discrimination… Or talk about why Crypto was not the future of sex work at SXSW for shits and giggles.

Oh, and for full clarity, I was a partner in a sex tech startup from 2020-2021 that did exactly what the OP suggests, building off the tech of our colonizers. You know what happened? The anti-VC funding clause in federal banking regulations prevented us from raising money.

Hi friends 👋🏾 if you can, PLS consider contributing to this Sudanese refugee mother of 2 struggling to raise funds for her daughters’ schooling. I beg you, even the smallest contribution can help 😭 gofund.me/cca54bb5b #KeepEyesOnSudan #mutualaid

Okay this is wild but I posted about my three year bedbound anniversary on LinkedIn and talked about LC. And it has over 500 reactions and soooo many comments. Ive had at least ten women of color message me saying they have LC. There are so many people suffering.

Haven’t had to fight since my early 20s… if I’m legitimately in a fight at this age, I’m probably going to shoot or stab.

palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.

🎯🎯🎯

It hurts my heart to see how many people think (demonstrated in their use of generative AI) the only value in writing is producing an end product. I write foremost because the process of writing teaches me a great deal, much of which is never represented in a single word of the final piece.

Tracie Spencer: Tender Kisses youtu.be/W1mIku1kAHI?...

"By the 1930s, Woodson complained about the intellectual charlatans, Black and white, popping up everywhere seeking to take advantage of the public interest in Black history." blackpast.org/african-amer...

If I can spell hierarchy but not that other word, what does that mean about my politics?

I have published 2 digital zines in my Ko-Fi shop in the spirit of Valentine's Day coming up! ❤️🌹 The 1st I discuss & critique the movie Waiting to Exhale and benevolent patriarchy & the other one is about my admiration for Morticia and Gomez Addams as a couple. ko-fi.com/lostfoundbla...

I’m tired of working. Who tryna Set It Off?

In honor of D’Angelo’s birthday here’s a video of me practicing a lil rollerskating dance routine to When We Get By. It’s been one of my favorite songs to roller skate to. Btw I am still a beginner skater so don’t judge my moves lol 💕✨

Day 7 from @/rianphin's list is another LA Rebellion film, Daydream Therapy by Bernard Nicolas. A short film set to Nina Simone's "Pirate Jenny". It's available to watch in full on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eotx...

we just hoping to pass away into the afterlife before the current circumstances completely crumble on top of our heads...

Probably.

That “evaporating people” headline has been fuckin me up since reading it.

You are so gaslit as a black person. People will try to convince you it’s all in your head.

Took the ring camera off my door today. Community over Corporation’s forever.

Since when is Will Stancil in need of defending?

Important to note that ProPublica Guild is preparing to strike and raising funds to take care of Guild members if it comes to that www.propublicaguild.org/updates/the-...

All my hobbies

I keep being like why are people so willing to fight for their own demise but these are the same people who filled in pools rather than just let Black people have shared access to them so

They would've started with the Black journalists but they weren't hiring them in the first place.

Soon as someone asked a messy question, I would hang up and call them back.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

White people rage bait when they can’t afford to go skinny dipping piranha or whatever whites do.

"During the next year, Sostre repeatedly emphasized that 'the same oppressive and repressive forces exist outside as well as in,' calling the world on the outside 'minimum security' and connecting it with the 'maximum security' of incarceration." (2/2)

Been feeling off today. I didn't have my walk and I'm just now drinking some tea - ginger. The tea is helping. I'll have to wait until tomorrow for the walk.

If she wanted to say what y’all think she was saying, she would’ve said that exactly! But she didn’t! She chose to say some ignorant ass shit!

Join us for a free webinar! The Sick Times editors @mileswgriffis.bsky.social and @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social — plus special guest speakers — will demystify the process of writing and pitching op-eds and essays on Long COVID. Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"Just a heads up." 🤭

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Only 36 Palestinians in need of medical treatment were allowed to leave Gaza during the first four days of the crossing’s reopening. Thousands more are trapped with dire need of medical attention.

"I felt immersed in a pattern, and I thought of Jenoah Donald, an autistic Black man killed by police during a traffic stop in 2021. I remembered Mr. Silverio Villegas González, who was killed by ICE in his vehicle last year." I'm watching Aliya Rahman's interview on @democracynow.org.

RIP, Ebo Taylor 💐 Ebo Taylor, "Heaven" (1977) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YEK...

Last night I heard a Merengue song that made me think of some early Highlife, a truly Diasporan genre Ebo Taylor - Love & Death www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkHz...

drake coulda gave me a million dollars if he wanted to throw it away, wtf???

I'm taking down names of everyone talking about super bowl ads. You will all be sent to re-education camps

Anyways, free Puerto Rico

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch CANE RIVER (1982) in our Celebrate Black History collection! ❤️ Written, produced, and directed by the late, trailblazing director Horace B. Jenkins and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew

There should be a label for food pics the way there is for adult content. Like I'm too hungry to see all that right now.

This is how you can really tell 180rae is a dweeb. Even #Blancsky is packing him out 😂🤣😭

It's me 😔

To fight AI we must support culture and the culture makers.

You know, Black ppl can SEE you reverting back to that overseer behavior you claim none of YOUR ancestors were part of. Your discomfort at not knowing what Black ppl are talking about is your fear of justified retribution for the ongoing violence of anti-Blackness, from which you derive benefits.