Chima Simone Benson

Chima Simone Benson

@chimasimone.bsky.social

Perpetual momming. Eventual writing. Respirator on. Prayers up. In my preservation of self — and family — era. Forever survivor. Never complier. (Can you do it?) I'm not gonna be able to do it! (8x) M.A., USC Annenberg ••• 💖💚

908 Followers 1,201 Following 875 Posts Joined Oct 2023
5 hours ago

it makes it even more striking how there still has only been one Black woman best actress winner, ever. in 98 years.

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Javier has BEEN THAT MAN. In 2003 he wore the same badge to protest the war in Iraq.

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So happy for Autumn Arkapaw! She’s so talented.

A quick fact: Ryan Coogler has only ever worked with female cinematographers. His team represents the best of us.

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Michael B. Jordan played two separate characters to such great effect that many viewers did not realize it was one actor.

The only person I've ever seen do it better is Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black.

Timothee Chalamet couldn't nail a proper mid-century NYC accent despite being from NYC

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Probably the closest I’ll get to giving Michael B. Jordan his flowers.

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Yessssssssssssssssssss!

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8 hours ago

The Black Panther section took my breath away too!!

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7 hours ago

I stand by my assertion that Sinners on Broadway would do looooooong-run numbers. A fixture, a steady on the street, like Book of Mormon, Hamilton, Chicago

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I met Ryan Coogler at TED in 2016(?) (and I said "you got something right in Black Panther" and he was all "excuse me?" and I said "I map and ancient sites from space+ there are dozens of unmapped ancient civilizations beneath African rainforests. So core premise of BP was 100% right.... cont

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Oop.

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6 hours ago

finally a white man getting credit for black music

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As he should. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Storytelling extraordinaire.
USC alumnus, Ryan Coogler, MFA ’11

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Trump can speak to the dead?

Oops, my apologies.
Bibi is (Al)legedly) alive.

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I’m watching this on repeat. #OscarsonBlacksky

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Y’all. 🎪

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/u...

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8 hours ago

Dapper.

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11 hours ago

Good point! Leave no evidence.

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18 hours ago

Yes, little queen. This is the way.

Mom cut the camera too soon. I wanted to see that lollipop hit the ground and shatter.

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1 day ago

Know her. Learn from her.

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His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

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3 days ago
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman.

The text in the Tweet says:
SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

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California, in particular, because Newsom. Retaliation for mocking Trump relentlessly and deservedly.

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Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt

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4 days ago

Liquid courage.

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Drone strikes in Haiti.
Drone strikes. In Haiti.
By private contractors.
They’re killing Haitians for private profit & the world barely pays attention.
The story of Haiti is the story America likes to tell about itself. Except there, it’s true. And the west has never stopped punishing Haiti for it

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4 days ago

He’s not even playing checkers.

His dumb, demented ass is chewing on the pieces while the board bursts into flames.

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Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

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