alysha naples

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Cover image of "Death of the Author" by Nnedi Okorafor. It features a red, orange, and cyan Ankara pattern in the background with the head and shoulders of a Black woman with long, braided hair on top of it. The title information is contained within her head. The tagline reads: The future of storytelling is here.

If you're looking for a good read, check out "Death of the Author" by Nnedi Okorafor @nnedi.bsky.social — it's africanfuturism and contemporary literary fiction all rolled into a compulsively readable story. I devoured it in 3 days, but I think it's going to stay with me for a while.

No, thank YOU.

Oh, already done.

I read all four of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social’s books this year, and they’re all very worth your time. She connects dots and brings receipts. Thank you, Sarah.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Hilma af Klint, Altarbild, nr 1, grupp X, Altarbilder, 1915 one of first Western abstract artists whose work predates Kandinsky's #womensart

The “male loneliness epidemic” becoming a bigger deal than FEMICIDE tells you everything you need to know about how the world feels about women and patriarchy.

I’ve seen 🦪 or 🍑 used, though the peach feels more like a butt to me.

It’s so so good, and it only gets better as it goes. I’m so glad you gave it a try.

call to action for the June 14th event

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

At least 12 million people ( 3.7% of US pop) took a stand against the Trump regime and fascism on Saturday.

The next step is a national general strike and boycotts. When 3.5% of the whole population of a nation has begun to participate in resistance, success is inevitable. #3E #NoKings #StopICE

Trump’s provocations have turned Angelenos into pedestrians

Parappa the Rapper!

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." Stephen Jay Gould evolutionary biologist and author, died May 20, 2002

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

Stephen Jay Gould, 1941 - 2002

All-butter flapjacks, (Scottish) shortbreads, and crumpets.

(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.

See RuPaul and Cory Booker react to finding out they’re cousins | CNN Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and “Drag Race” star RuPaul Charles found out they’re cousins after they each participated in PBS’ “Finding Your Roots.”

It’s true!!!
edition.cnn.com/videos/us/20...

And he’s also RuPaul’s cousin!

And Paul Robeson and Josephine Baker. Robeson has a street names after him in Berlin.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Lift weights. Don’t neglect mobility and flexibility (I like yoga and qigong). Floss. Sunscreen every day. Treat your neck and chest as if they were your face. Wear earplugs at loud shows and clubs.

This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

Oh, Jenka, I’m so sorry to hear it. 🖤

Billionaires Should Not Exist Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

Read our op-ed here ⤵️

I’ve been using @librofm.bsky.social for years and can recommend them as an audiobook alternative to Audible.

this genuinely, without exaggeration, healed a little fracture inside of me that has been broken my whole adult life

TikTok was never going anywhere. The TikTok creator gave millions to Trump and they orchestrated this whole PR stunt just so Trump will be seen as a 'hero' to young people.
It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...