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Nadine Mondestin

@proteanintl.bsky.social

πŸ‡­πŸ‡Ή. Translator/Interpreter of the Black Atlantic. Haitian Creole, Jumiekan, AAVE, Spanish, English, French...

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Turn that thang off 😭😭

07.08.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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it's called throwback because if you recognize the songs you're likely to throw out your back. not many people know this

10.03.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 13370    πŸ” 1085    πŸ’¬ 257    πŸ“Œ 78

This is absolutely out of spite. 🀣

05.03.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Black folks still prefer Twitter. It's that simple, really.

05.03.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

no the three staffers left at yosemite aren't yosemite sam, foghorn leghorn, and tasmanian devil. that isn't true

24.02.2025 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8245    πŸ” 665    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 14

It's also systems that shaped them and their whole ancestral line, so it's fundamentally about refusal to know oneself.

Which is the most extreme form of self-loathing and alienation I can imagine.

22.02.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education

Like you’re literally a tool without it

09.02.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2862    πŸ” 777    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 47

It's nearly the platonic ideal of the genre.

22.02.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
a screenshot of the bluesky landing page where the title reads "Receive sixteen copies of the same joke reply" with two buttons "Create account" and "Sign in" beneath

a screenshot of the bluesky landing page where the title reads "Receive sixteen copies of the same joke reply" with two buttons "Create account" and "Sign in" beneath

updated tagline is looking a little too honest tbh

20.02.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1286    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 3

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State.

H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladderβ€”affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

21.02.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 21131    πŸ” 7603    πŸ’¬ 574    πŸ“Œ 569

It's actually impressive.

21.02.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good Morning Yall let’s show love to Granville T. Woods, the inventor of the third rail which allowed electricity to power trains and he also invented the first roller coaster powered by electricity. His work with electricity was so amazing Thomas Edison tried and failed to steal his patents twice.

21.02.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 352    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 9
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Happy 44th birthday to Kelendria Trene Rowland 🎈

11.02.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 878    πŸ” 239    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 95
The Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps, correctly identified as The Gulf of Mexico and absolutely nothing else

The Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps, correctly identified as The Gulf of Mexico and absolutely nothing else

My VPN works

11.02.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 52129    πŸ” 3200    πŸ’¬ 1099    πŸ“Œ 180
imtiredthatisall posts: "ugh i forgot little bagels and cream cheese"

my reply reads: "better go get them before they grow into regular-sized bagels"

imtiredthatisall posts: "ugh i forgot little bagels and cream cheese" my reply reads: "better go get them before they grow into regular-sized bagels"

never forgetting my roots as the world's worst reply guy

11.02.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2106    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 3
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I’m too sexy for my body.
🎢🎢🎢🎢🎢🎢🎢🎢🎢 🎢

11.02.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 17700    πŸ” 1293    πŸ’¬ 345    πŸ“Œ 85
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Monday thought:

10.02.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 44856    πŸ” 8123    πŸ’¬ 613    πŸ“Œ 382
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one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

22.01.2025 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2310    πŸ” 891    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 29
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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...

18.01.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 22787    πŸ” 5682    πŸ’¬ 666    πŸ“Œ 383

Cutting off TikTok before meta is certainly a choice

19.01.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 975    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 9

LA mayor stole $17,000,000 from the fire department and gave it to the cops, guess she expected them to shoot the annual wildfires?

08.01.2025 06:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1865    πŸ” 372    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 10

I'm always of two minds: you might want to make a quick retreat! So maybe propped open to a slit?

10.01.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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In an effort to ignore the hideous reality we are all facing, here's a picture of me as a cowboy for no apparent reason. 🀠

10.01.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 77885    πŸ” 3891    πŸ’¬ 3110    πŸ“Œ 284

If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments.

The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.

Jump back into it.

04.01.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6639    πŸ” 835    πŸ’¬ 360    πŸ“Œ 228

A friend was faux-panicking about AI once and I had to ask: "When have you seen white men create anything that Black people can't outsmart?" #BlackSky

06.01.2025 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(cautiously at the farmer's market) and would you say your cow is... you know... a friend of Louis Pasteur...?

21.12.2024 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4354    πŸ” 592    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 10

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