White men starting to approach with interest, time to say farewell to these braids 😪

Frank Ocean and hotdog water are the same name if you really think about it

Huge pleasure to meet members of the DISCO network (Aaron, Jeff, Kevin and Rianna) in London last night to celebrate their really important book Technoskepticism!!!

✨ book launch ✨ – join us to celebrate "Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal" by @disconetwork.bsky.social on 21st May, 5:30pm 🎊📖 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn... with @riannawalcott.bsky.social @drdavidadelman.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social & more

📚 Join us at King’s College London on 21 May for the launch of Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal, a book by @disconetwork.bsky.social exploring the possibilities that technoskepticism can create. 📍 Strand Campus and online, 17:30 🔗 Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...

UPCOMING: A panel discussion of Technoskepticism coming soon to a King's College London near you! This is a hybrid event, to be held on Wednesday, May 21st from 5:30-7 PM (BST). View details below, thank you to @kingsdh.bsky.social & @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social for hosting 7 of our co-authors.

Link to event page & registration below: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn... Co-authors in attendance: @riannawalcott.bsky.social, A. Joseph Dial, Kevin C. Winstead, Jeff Nagy, @drdavidadelman.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, & @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social

Join us one week from today in celebrating the publication of Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal! We'll be hosting a panel and AI workshop with seven out of fourteen brilliant co-authors on February 14th from 1:30-4:30 PM (EST). For more info and link to register: myumi.ch/W5m4R

Co-authors in attendance: @lnakamura.bsky.social, Jeff Nagy, @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, @riannawalcott.bsky.social, Rayvon Fouché, and @huandirection.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social

In a world of increasingly polarised online spaces, what are the challenges when building communities online? 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 Join us at Digital Culture Talks 2025 - our panel will discuss this - and provide timely advice: @rowiek.bsky.social @riannawalcott.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3Cw7kzR

Hyping myself to meet my new class by mumbling ‘they’re more scared of you than you are of them’ doesn’t work as well on public speaking as it does on spiders, but they seem very nice 🫶🏾

Updated my Macbook and seeing the Apple Intelligence integration, wanted to know what I'm up against so I can 'AI proof' my Spring teaching where possible and all I can say is this is all getting impossibly more annoying.

“A meditative, lyrical work – Owusu encourages us to be and think outside our current possibilities in favor of a belief in, and commitment to, making the intentions & dreams of the marginalized tangible.” @riannawalcott.bsky.social on Melz Owusu’s powerful new book ↓‬‬‬ tinyurl.com/57parbc4

It’s lonely at the top of your game. 😮‍💨🙏🏾

I’ve perfected my naan. 😮‍💨 It’s over for the hoes, I fear. All I do is win 😔

It's always a good day when I can introduce students to the dope work happening through the www.bcatlab.org! Also hyped to be reading/discussing Jessica Liu's and @steelecat717.bsky.social crucial article "Joy Is Resistance: Cross Platform Resilience and (re)Invention of Black Oral Culture Online.

A gentle reminder that new year resolutions don’t have to be about positive changes. You can commit to be more petty, seek revenge, and disrespect your enemies.

how much egg you fry?? EIGHT BOMBARASSCLAAT EGGS??? YU NYAM EIGHT EGG??

Everyone is so lucky I’m getting such a warm family welcome in Jamaica (first visit since 2008) because I tell you I would have worked up such an unbearable poetry chapbook about diaspora, identity and the price of ackee You’re LUCKY I’m not trying to rhyme ‘hurricane beryl’ right now

Asynchronous winter course for 3 credits - COMM498A/AASP498Q Black Discourse in Digital Communication, open to undergrad and grad students, syllabus link in alt-text, and feel free to email with any questions! (pls reskeetskeet) @bcatlab.bsky.social

My own work focuses on counterpublics, and yes, at every point in history folks excluded from the so-called public sphere created their own spaces for political deliberation and influence. It's why the abolitionist press existed in the 1800s, the Black press, the feminist press, etc, etc.

And here is where, again, we need to stop talking about "the public sphere" as if it ever existed. There were always multiple publics - some w/ more power & access to mainstream spaces like media where political deliberation happens - there are dominant publics, counterpublics, and more.

While new media extended the boundaries of the public sphere to some extent, old problems have always persisted. Elite capture, anti-democratic radicalization, marginalization, access, etc were never not issues on the old Twitter even when more and more groups were using it to insist on being heard

I likely missed the discourse around this. There are some sentiments I agree w/ here, but since my own work is the critical study of the all too often lauded concept of "the public sphere" I'd like to say a few things about the opening claim here that people fleeing X are "giving up" on that ideal

Nerdy girls stand up! Haven’t taken a picture at the white house since I moved here but the PEW RESEARCH CENTER!!! Now that’s what I call a landmark

Fighting for my life in my emails this week, everybody trying to take me fi eediat Sorry if you get hit by a stray hyper-formal, cold email - can’t switch off ‘you move mad I’ll move madder’ energy for another five business days.

‘rough day?’

How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this we’re launching a call for screenshots. Further details can be found at: troubling-ai.glitch.me

songbird 🎤🕊️

Celebrating victory! I’ll shut up about my pizza now I’m sorry x

Oh my god look upon my midnight meal and TREMBLE with awe and envy -sourdough pizza (accidentally deep dish, but whatever) -Chorizo, mushroom, jalapeño, spinach, goats cheese -Garlic chilli honey drizzle (that I FERMENTED MYSELF not today but again, whatever)

Forgot to set a timer FUCK we really winging it lads 🫡 this will only add to my sense of victory I love holidays this is so nice

Can already tell this sourdough pizza I decided to make from SCRATCH a few hours ago is going to change my life in unimaginable ways

My weirdest most useless skill is that I cook really elaborate meals when drunk that I can’t recreate sober 😪

pausing my constant existential crisis about researching social media to skim these 🫶🏾

Left my house to go teach, devastating epiphany that I am dressed like a minion from despicable me (denim dungarees, near-yellow jumper). Do I a - ignore, maybe they haven’t seen the film b - address head on, of course they’ve seen it, they were all born in like 2004 c - teach wearing my coat

Kiwi Farms is trying to get a toxic foothold on bsky to target trans accts. Their one move: copy/create blocklists w/actual trashbags & Nazis then add (innocent, unsuspecting, non-trashbag) trans accts. DO not use blocklists unless well-sourced! Ask around; ask list mgrs; confirm reliability

Cottage Core Coloreds lemme hear y'all 🗣

It’s all pics of bread, plants, and jazz club gig footage from here on folks fair warning Think cottagecore and crafts but without the white supremacist overtones

A bit ugly but SO SO TASTY - got the sourdough fermentation time down but presentation… needs work

Yayyyy light of my life @francescasobande.bsky.social has arrived! all hail, hear her name and tremble

Seriously though: since all these thinkpieces are being written about bluesky, hi editors and journalists, I wrote a whole book about Twitter (among other research on social media) and am tracking the migration here from a cultural/political perspective so if you want to talk to me I’m here 😇

cookout invitations already eh

Here we fuckin gooooooo (add me back or I’m going on a rampage)

Hello! I’m Paula, I’m a historian & my first book will be out next April! WHEN WE RULED: THE RISE & FALL OF 12 AFRICAN QUEENS & WARRIORS was shaped by my research trip across 10 countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Bénin, Madag., SA, Rwanda +), meeting local historians & storytellers. #blacksky #skystorians

Feels like we’ve all arrived at a house party trying to find our mates who’ve been about for an hour or two

I have no way of/no interest in verifying this because it’s funnier if it just stays as family lore

That’s enough self promo and being a #blackademic for now, from here on it’s pictures of my plants, homemade sourdough and thirst traps. It’s about BALANCE BABY I contain MULTITUDES

Hello! I’m Rianna, an assistant professor of communication at university of Maryland. I research Black (British) identity, community, and communication practices on social media and our relationship to the broader Black diaspora! I wrote this in April 🔮 just-tech.ssrc.org/field-review...