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poet & artist. check out The Second Stop Is Jupiter, nominated for an Elgin Award in poetry.

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love the way the sun is sunning through the curtains this morning...

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"rough and tough" DOES take shit off... as well as a few layers of skin, tbh. 😑

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ive heard about that and seen it used in jest and as propaganda in the media as a kid in the late 70s/early 80s.

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*false alarm. no donuts. someone come collect her now. 😩*

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my favorite song over errthing. this version, the original "i'll wait" version by george clinton's doowopping group, the parliaments, d'angelo's version on *roy hargrove's album, the rh factor — alla'em. *rest in peace, brother hargrove.

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i'll stay. funkadelic.

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she just said: LET'S GET DONUTS. "she's mine. and imma stick beside her."

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wc & the maad circle OUT ON A FURLOUGH

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if you see this you have to post a photo from your device without explaining it

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Tade Thompson's avatar Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social
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Sweet Galactus, I hate this picture. Anyway, Rosewater is the New Scientist Book Club pick. I carry on about it here.

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Tobias S. Buckell's avatar Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social
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Hello social medias...

You may not be aware a major Cat 5 hurricane struck an area that normally doesn't get them. The eye passed directly over Carriacou and Petit Martinique.

The devastation is tremendous. The need is great.

You can help and make a difference:

www.gofundme.com/f/the-people...

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Alina Stefanescu 's avatar Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social
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Hell yes Kornbluh has arrived

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Richelle K (she/they) 's avatar Richelle K (she/they) @richelle.work
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Anything helps. I have shingles & experiencing intense sciatica pain. Can't walk or cook "rikotacheese" on Venmo, Cash app and Paypal.

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my sis was a fiber artist and im sure she would agree...

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my partner was raised by her grandparents on their farm. with an outhouse. my mother left farm life when she was 14 for the city — blue-collar af, but my parents taught us to rejoice in the small pleasures. that we've lasted 17 yrs is a testimony to Love because single-ply is a red flag. 😑

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ive held in my guts FOR TWO WHOLE DAYS because the other resident in this household GREW UP ON SOME SINGLE-PLY NONSENSE.

this is not the the dust bowl.

life is good (at times).

it's ok for us to be soft & tender.

#TwoPlyTP4Life

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listen. ive lived a fairly spartan life. im not demanding. only an older sister claims i was spoiled. im austere af by nature, but i was taught that if you work hard it's okay to treat yourself — self-care. im ok being conservative on rare occasions... TOILET PAPER ISNT ONE OF THOSE OCCASIONS!

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the person rated your professional abilities or your physical appearance?

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happy that youre hear... but dont be fooled — many *MANY* black folk have experienced that same energy here and have returned to twitter because bluesky doesnt yet have that level of community to keep them here.

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only when im online. our foolishness actually matches up in person. but she's been teaching for 30 yrs and has experience with "decorum" in public. i just hold my tongue and sit seething in silence.

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thank you. & 100% MUTUAL. and the absolute fool i WOULD BE, if not for my partner — she does not need to be on interviews having to disavow my statements! 😂

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for the record, im NOT a journalist. im not a reliable source for news. im a fuckin poet — i lie & exaggerate & distort language to support my outlooks on life: my people are historically oppressed. i dont know who my people were before that. & i am jaded af. so ask yourself: why tf are you here?

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at this rate CNN will finally report it in 2045...

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it's been a decade since it was reported that america was no longer a democracy but an oligarchy, so what were we expecting to happen? that the wealthy would ever correct themselves?!?

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)'s avatar Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.bsky.social
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

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Apoorva Mandavilli's avatar Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
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Breaking: All Americans ages 6 months and older should receive one of the new Covid-19 vaccines when they become available this fall, scientific advisers to the CDC said on Thursday.

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/h...

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Liam Hogan's avatar Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social
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Frederick Douglass: "America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future." (1852)

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clarence thomas has absolute legal authority over the Federal Aviation Administration now... so... we walkin' now or nah?

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Becker's is basically horror flash for me, it's a detailed account of the wheels coming off the healthcare wagon. The body count of this SCOTUS is going to reach foreign land war proportions, and it's all in service to fascism.

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amd a bonus bonus... why not... Fayre Gabbro, The Girl With The Heather In Her Hair

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a couple poems in honor of the ninth month anniversary for perhaps one of the greatest poetry collection this century (have you read it?!? then you don't know, shut up!) as the universe yawns brer rabbit spins a yarn (a kwanzaa carol) from the second stop is jupiter.

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crinkle cut fries are my third favorite comfort food (behind chicken & dumplings and a pot of northern beans) — they are the dish, not a side, like some of yall treat macaroni & cheese... but i'll smother them in hot sauce, ketchup, and grated parmesan. — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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theyre so good they mustabeen created by a black person — like, some diabolical slaver wouldnt allow stolen people to use knives, but they had a saw and used it to chop with? idk. but thats my story and im sticking with it. 😑

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yes! i removed an entire section of my reply saying this exact thing! (i just did it again!)

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but still, i imagine myself as a practioner... at least in my poetry. "gawlo" is a west african word for "griot" along with "djeli," "gewel," and several others.

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we've been called out by elders for avoiding our calling... and now i think we're too fast & loose with our rituals to properly be of service to anyone but ourselves.

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but... did i?! maybe not "love"... but... ...not ...bad?

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