Marcel

Marcel

@marcelbetrue.bsky.social

Unearthing a new version of myself. Here, queer, not going nowhere. 🌱✊🏾

285 Followers 162 Following 97 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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Flu vaccines didn’t work that well in the US, officials find As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade.

Flu vaccines didn’t work that well in the US, officials find

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A sandstorm hit Gaza on Saturday, slamming tents and other makeshift shelters with forceful gusts in an enclave where most of the population was displaced during the Israel-Hamas war. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...

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This is why THEY can never be the ones to teach us about ourselves when they see us as lesser

Our traditional practices are not demonic and evil

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4 days ago

Speaking as someone who personally struggles with it (debilitatingly so). It’s challenging to go through life wanting to connect to your community, it’s kind of what we do. And then when you try and your style of communication is a little different you get labeled as the “weird” one.

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There needs to be a think-piece documentary of some sort highlighting Black folks with social anxiety. There’s so much pressure to mask it because our culture has such a history of community engagement.

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ROSALÍA e Björk no #BRITs 🤍🤍✨️

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In South Korea, supermarket chain E-Mart came up with a smart idea called the “Haru Hana Banana.” Each pack holds six bananas, all at different stages of ripeness, so you can enjoy one perfectly ripe banana every day instead of dealing with a whole bunch that go bad at once.

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Happy Women’s History Month! Here’s to the Texas women who refused to be sidelined and made history anyway.

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2 weeks ago
Image of a surprised Rei Ayanami from the Evangelion Rebuild films

#BREAKING: New Evangelion Anime Series in Production

✨ MORE: got.cr/NewEva-bsky

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You doing the Lord’s work 🙌🏾🙂‍↕️

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Right now, with all the chaos going on in the world, I’m finding it’s important for me to reign in on my own values instead of letting politics, religion, media, and talking heads influence me to death or dictate how I feel about shit. Period!

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even though black history month is over

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A team of midlife cheerleaders in Ukraine refuses to let war defeat them Ukrainian women in their 50s and 60s say they've embraced cheerleading as a way to cope with the extreme stress and anxiety of four years of Russia's full-scale invasion.

Ukrainian women in their 50s and 60s say they've embraced cheerleading as a way to cope with the extreme stress and anxiety of four years of Russia's full-scale invasion.

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2nd Gundam Hathaway Film Tops 1st Film's Box Office After 29 Days: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe sold 1․34 million tickets as #4 Gundam film in Japan

The Gundam Hathaway trilogy's middle chapter is now the #4 Gundam film of all time in Japan!

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2 weeks ago

Ayee thank you! 🙏🏾

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3 weeks ago
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a stuffed white cat is sitting on a box with its hands outstretched . ALT: a stuffed white cat is sitting on a box with its hands outstretched .

Do we truly know if it is tea if one does not see those two fingers touching???
Do we????

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This should be the biggest scandal in American history?

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Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and...

Justice sure took a long while…

apnews.com/article/henr...

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Civil rights leaders say the racial progress Jesse Jackson fought for is under threat Activists say racial progress won by the Rev. Jesse Jackson is under threat, as a new generation of leaders works to preserve hard-fought civil rights gains.

Activists say racial progress won by the Rev. Jesse Jackson is under threat, as a new generation of leaders works to preserve hard-fought civil rights gains. n.pr/4kTqZva

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2 weeks ago

I love this

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Fairfax Falls #fairfaxfalls #lomaaltafalls #waterfall #waterfallwednesday #landscapephotography

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3 weeks ago
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Potomac River E-coli levels skyrocket after 240 million gallons of sewage pour into waterway The EPA called it an ecological crisis of "historic proportion" after a massive sewer pipe collapsed north of Washington, D.C.

An ecological crisis of "historic proportion" is underway in the Potomac River after a massive sewer pipe collapse north of Washington, D.C., the Environmental Protection Agency said. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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3 weeks ago

This is an interesting story @nytimes.com

It was even more interesting when I broke it a week and a day ago in The Intercept which you did not cite or mention.

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3 weeks ago

I loved this story when I reported it first on February 12 for The Intercept!

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Been on injury recovery from about four injuries for weeks. I’m so ready to get back into this gym 😭

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Grandson of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup inventor accuses Hershey of "quietly replacing" ingredients Brad Reese claims Hershey is cutting costs by relying on cheaper ingredients, risking the Reese's brand.

The grandson of the inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is calling out Hershey for "quietly replacing" the candy's chocolate and peanut butter ingredients

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Trump administration freezes new FEMA disaster deployments during DHS shutdown | CNN Politics The Trump administration has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to suspend the deployment of hundreds of aid workers to disaster-torn areas around the US while the Department of Homeland ...

The Trump administration has ordered FEMA to suspend the deployment of hundreds of aid workers to disaster-torn areas around the US while the Department of Homeland Security is shut down, according to sources and internal messages obtained by CNN.

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a man wearing a white shirt and a red hat is kneeling down in a dark room . ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and a red hat is kneeling down in a dark room .
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America’s hottest grocery store is also its priciest Erewhon is testing just how much wealthy shoppers will pay for chicken soup

As inflation has pushed up grocery bills, splurging on healthy food has become a way to signal affluence. Erewhon’s shelves meet the moment

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The defense of 'not all Black women' falls apart when you realize it's the same flawed logic used to generalize about any group. Don't use isolated examples to dismiss an entire community...

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