Cassie aka Lamia

I've been dying to tell you anything you wanna hear

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

Non-Black folks are far too comfortable taking space and centering themselves in Black spaces.

I really need folks to interrogate their feelings of entitlement and refusal to respect and protect Black life, space, and epistemes.

Yup and no idea is perfect nor static.

I am not Christian. I believe that even dieties can change, learn, and make mistakes. No being is infallible regardless of power level.

Unprofessional and illegal are two different spheres & I will need people serious about creating an *industry* to be able to cleanly distinguish and respond to them

Someone can do no legal wrong and still create a toxic space to work by failing to communicate. Someone can be kind and break the law.

a man and a woman are sitting next to each other and the woman says we 're going to destroy the world want to come Alt: a man and a woman are sitting next to each other and the woman says we 're going to destroy the world want to come

We really would.
This should happen.

I would be so down!!

Real friends hold their friends accountable and snatch edges if a friend is getting defensive and showing their ass.

Yup!
At every level we need to deprogram this shit. The false good/bad binary is how we got here. Like people contain multitudes and your super dope favorite person who does charity and says the right things, may also be harming people and dodging accountability behind the scenes.

We will never have the communities of care and accountability we want until we tackle rampant pedestalling and celebrity culture.

Everyone fucks up. But the ability to discern mistake vs malice and to act accordingly requires us to have spectrums.

Your fav is still a person. Treat them as such.

Three geniuses gaining and using their platforms without compromising their humanity or their artistic visions, and showing us just why art matters. They are changing the conversation, each one of them.

LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them

Gonna continue this train and talk about another black creator that means a lot to me.

Dwayne McDuffie.

One of the founders of Milestone comics which was the first comic book universe that featured black and POC characters and of course Static Shock.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_...

This is what happens when people start just inviting anybody and everyone including corporations to the cookout.

a man wearing a jersey with the number 34 on it is holding a trash can Alt: a man wearing a jersey with the number 34 on it is holding a trash can

👀
I need people to stop.

Black scientists’ contributions to research throughout history This Black History Month, we’re recognizing Black scientists’ contributions to science throughout history.

STEM Black History Fact 6/28

Dr. Ernest Everett Just showed that egg cells play an active role in fertilization, reshaping early embryology and modern cell biology.

Iron Man meme, edited, Obadiah Stane yelling, "Your ancestors made timeless art in a cave! With berries and ash!"

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

Neither. Unless the specific type of rice or broth is culturally significant.
It may however betray being more broke. lol. 💚

When your representative says "Don't talk to me about my own morality," I suggest talking to them about their own morality INCESSANTLY.

generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023

people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip

Brother if reading the Epstein files and seeing the world’s richest white men OPENLY PLAN how to kill off the poor and non-white of the world doesn’t convince you to:

- get vaccinated
- wear a mask
- take care of your fellow man and neighbor
- look out for children

You’re lost.

Something that I think is important to note is that this is the Canadian broadcast. Here in the US NBC muted the boos like some WWE shit.

Fellow USians we are one of the most propagandized and lied to populations in the world. We always need to look outside of our media sources at this point.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

Perfection

WHAT?! Why?!
I refuse

Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.

This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.

Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

Hope you heal quickly and everything else goes smoothly.

That mask is also popular with neo-Nazi accelerationist groups, which I think is really important to mention. Just like it's important to mention that ICE agents in Denver have been dropping Ace of Spades cards where they've kidnapped people. The white nationalist culture at work is clear.