An active season it has been indeed & I expect hurricane season to be as well
#BlackBirdersWeek may be over, but we continue sharing love for our community. June is Pride Month, a time to uplift, honor, and celebrate our Black LGBTQIA+ sisters, brothers, trans, queer, and non-binary family. This space is yours. You belong here. We love you. We see you. We stand with you.
I must be in Twitter jail bc I cannot tweet or comment. Guess the elongated muskrat got tired of me yapping about yt supremacy, capitalism, colonilialism, & climate change
To save runaways from slavery who were trying to make lives in the North “illegally,” local Vigilance Committees formed. They kept watch for slave catchers, secreted away those in danger, and posted placards that outed slave catchers, sometimes hounding them till they left town.
Finished this painting earlier today. Titled “Cosmic typus” #art #BlackArt #procreate #whaleshark #cosmic
In honor of #NationalBlackAuthorsDay, here are the #Books that have influenced me most 📚🧵
#BlackBooksky #DiverseBooksky #Reader
If you voted for the raging pumpkin, no Cinco de Mayo & if you voted for Kamala no Cinco de Mayo for you either. Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of revolutionary action against the yt supremacist empire. If you not 10 toes down for revolutionary warfare, this holiday not for you
These two pots are coming along nicely! It’s fun to learn a new surface design technique!
#pottery #ceramic #art #artist #Blackwoman #Blackwomansrtist #glaze #combination #pot #planter #vase #vessel #lizard #scientist #reptile #sciart
This is outstanding! My Lententide's looking up 💜🇨🇩🇨🇬
Have you ever stopped to appreciate worm iridescence?! Red wiggler earthworm (Eisenia fetida). Part of my clean up crew in my Mantella tanks
i feel compelled to remind everyone that chatgpt/LLMs are functionally the *opposite* of an actual expert.
the more your problems are unusual or novel, the more likely LLMS are to be wrong. they are least helpful when it's most important
Extreme Texas winds flip semis like toys on Interstate 40 in Amarillo! 💨🚛 Gusts reached up to 83 mph, creating dangerous travel conditions.
poweroutage.us
Over 200k ppl without power rn across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, & California
My recording of the blood moon 3/14/2025
“FBI tracked Aretha Franklin’s civil rights activism, declassified file shows” www.theguardian.com/music/2022/s...
We are devastated to see 20% of our beloved colleagues laid off by the same leadership who have yet to recognize our union.
We demand that leadership at Sesame Workshop bargain with us over the terms of these massive layoffs. Consider letting them know that you expect the same.
As we enter March in Amerikkka, esp if you live in the central plains through the Southeast, we need to be especially vigilant for Tornado season. This first system will be a good litmus test but I suspect a pretty active season
I’d read a deep dive oral history on how they fumbled this bag.
NEW:
“CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” nor publish papers on work "funded by WHO."
From an interim guidance shared yesterday with the Influenza Division of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...
One annoying thing about the "run the government like a business" guys is that they also are terrible at running businesses. I run my podcast "like a business" in the sense that things are made to a high quality and shipped on time, but it seems their only version of "good business" is "layoffs"
We are witnessing the collapse of a “civilization” in real time! And we’re in for a doozy of a time: climate change[☑️], white supremascist dictator[☑️], pandemic(?), famine(?), civil war(?), world war 3(?)
There’s something so dated about writing that explains Blackness to yt ppl and doing that is not the same thing as actual art criticism of Black art.
The former is so…magazine popularity era thru 2010s bird app. The latter is timeless—before & after aforementioned era too—and not zoo exhibitesque.
With the advancements that China is making & has already made in infrastructure, technology, AI, & quantum computing, China will soon become the global economic hub, ESPECIALLY when the US economy collapses
Every Black person with the sense god gave.A gnat in America predicted this an
Every moment between 2016 and now had somebody Black child talking about how the ire, the silencing, the mockery, the visible disdain
Would come to this
They hate us more than they love safety
youtu.be/mqKoYWEYZ3A?...
This is by far the most similar experience to what we experience that we’ve come across thus far. Pretty much everything she’s experienced minus being assessed
My favorite autistic catch-phrase that I’ve now noticed I use A LOT is “so to be clear” 🤣🤣 bc I need the clarification
Oh.
I talked to developers about Microsoft's newly announced generative AI model, Muse, and its role in video games: "When we rely on this stuff we are implicitly empowering a class of people who own these tools and don’t give a fuck about how they reshape our lives."
www.wired.com/story/xbox-m...
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