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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 7h

Shawn. Jason. Phillip.

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 7h

Recently just broke up with a "soul mate" that after 4 years and my serious growth, he told me he wanted to separate while we still liked each other bc "i just don't think we mix right"

4 years ago "we were born on opposite sides of the planet, worlds apart and somehow we became the same person."

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 7h

I've met a few soul mates in my life.

They're always not exactly soulmates for life but for the moment. We grow and change and as we change so do those ppl.

Sad reality is that it's not the same person depending on your stage of life. Commitment & Consideration is the real soulmate secret sauce.

Luck @luckbynature.bsky.social · 14h

If you could take a test and find your soulmate with 99.9% accuracy, would you do it?

Would you get married immediately?

If you were already involved, would you leave them for the soulmate?

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 7h

I miss France. I convinced my homie to move to France before everything went up. He and his wife are loving it. Wish I had done it too

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 7h

Saying that full government name 😂

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 11h

As an aside...

Yes. They are using disinformation campaigns.

That's literally the whole reason white conservatives have gone pro russia and white leftists are so heavily pushing to ignore Black voices with "U sUppOrT gEnOcIdE" ignoring genocides right here. Ignoring we need power to do anything.

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 11h

Forgot how the "weather balloon" created such a stir and that was slow.

2023 Chinese balloon incident - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 11h

Are... Are you not aware war campaigns still require ground force?

We sure we understand the defense capabilities of the United States military's surveillance apparatus?? Like that right there is bonkers that you'd assume an unidentified fast object could fly into US airspace from outside and bomb

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 12h

Its a 25 minute video. Not sure how you made it through it already 🤔

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 12h

I don't read comment sections on YouTube ever since watching a Black man enjoying his modified Honda Civic got ransacked with racist comments about Chrome wheels and "I didn't know Blacks drove X"

The video itself is a logistical overview of what it takes to invade the USA.

Tré @kingtreiii.bsky.social · 12h

That video (and its comment section) reads like propaganda, man…

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 12h

I am actually convinced that white leftists white centrists and white conservatives all exist in a space that demands they don't value black and brown voices.

The true enemy IS whiteness as a concept. Until white ppl confront WHITENESS it's done.

USA is impossible to invade & nobody is coming.

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 12h

I am actually convinced that white leftists white centrists and white conservatives all exist in a space that demands they don't value black and brown voices.

The true enemy IS whiteness as a concept. Until white ppl confront WHITENESS it's done.

USA is impossible to invade & nobody is coming.

US States IMPOSSIBLE To Invade

YouTube video by Map Pack

youtu.be

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 12h

I’m not going to tell y’all how many times I watched this.

Sinner Representative @irepresentsinners.bsky.social · 21h

“Pro-pal” protestors at MVP’s 9:30 Washington, DC book tour stop last night.

Ms. Devi is absolutely done with their bullshit and held her own 👏🏼

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MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social · 21h

I have discovered that women are more than capable of undertaking any task which requires physical strength or of learning any discipline which requires discernment and intelligence. Books which say otherwise were definitely not written by women.

- Christine de Pizan, b. 1365

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 12h

This is exactly why I have now actively encourage Black trans and queer ppl to protect themselves. These white folks are INCREDIBLY dangerous to our well-being bc they're ineffective and self-indulgent to the point of actual physical harm.

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 12h

Yet again white people not actually learning from their hubris.

What are you going to physically do to stop someone w no checks on their power? Law is dead w/o ways to enforce them. Period.

Idealism isn't fighting back. Y'all still not listening 2 Blk ppp is why USA is here & we're sitting back.🤷🏿‍♂️

Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 20h

It’s precisely because of how serious it is that I believe it is important to continue to try and assert the power of the law (deeply flawed and broken though it is).

Trump and Miller say the law is dead. Agreeing with them only helps them make it so.

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 12h

Yet again white people not actually learning from their hubris.

What are you going to physically do to stop someone w no checks on their power? Law is dead w/o ways to enforce them. Period.

Idealism isn't fighting back. Y'all still not listening 2 Blk ppp is why USA is here & we're sitting back.🤷🏿‍♂️

Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 20h

It’s precisely because of how serious it is that I believe it is important to continue to try and assert the power of the law (deeply flawed and broken though it is).

Trump and Miller say the law is dead. Agreeing with them only helps them make it so.

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 1d

White people still not understanding how serious this and STILL not listening to black people should be a humanities study...

What's wrong with y'all... For real?

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 12h

Law enforcement will take accountability for errors...

Once again I'm asking you all to LISTEN TO BLACK PEOPLE

LE will never take accountability. The sooner you learn that, the sooner you all will be able to mount an adequate response to Felon In Chief.

📎 Leo Woke 🧷 @kerrlr.bsky.social · 19h

2 things too keep in mind here
1: Law enforcement will take accountability for errors
2: Impersonating Law Enforcement is a Felony
#Abolshice

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 13h

Gonna have have to learn that what MLK said in his letter from a Birmingham jail regarding peace.😉

You assume "peace" means "Absense of conflict"... He said that's actually a "negative peace. A "POSTIVE peace" is "the presence of Justice"

You can be peaceful and meter out justice in like kind.

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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 1d

I'm gonna need white people to stop telling Hakeem Jeffries to do something when you all couldn't even confront your family and friends about not wanting to vote for MVP.

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 19h

For sure. I'm an instructor too. While training for my qualification shooting I was dry firing super often. What I noticed is that flinch response will send a perfectly aimed shot off target super easy.

Lmao@suddenly in hand. I just gotta try to find cover bc I'm never gonna be that fast 😂

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 20h

I know good-and-hell-well that doesn't say what I think it says.

Give it up Deelishis you look like a man..🧍🏾‍♂️ @blackranga.blacksky.app · 20h

Are black people not teaching their kids self respect anymore? I personally believe in corporal punishment but..

I’d actually assault my adult child over this. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 21h

Zooming in, I'm like wait... That's 10 holes in the red! Damn then 13 of 20 right there centralized.

With 5.7x28mm those holes are tiny! I'm still shook how many were drilled at 50 feet with one hand in the red. Had one flyer. 13 of 20 in a 4 inch group one-hande @ 50ft is wild to me 😳

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 21h

I gotta start doing my "oh shit they shooting" training again.

No aim just busting. Make sure I instinctively can point at what I'm trying to hit.

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · Jun 12

Partner dragged me to the range today bc dysphoria was getting me. Decided I'm gonna start "oh shit they shootin" training (shooting with no sights and sudden looking).

Anyway, I decided to see what I could do with one hand at 50 feet (17 yards) to warm up

1✋🏿 20 rounds, 50ft on a 1/4 scale target🫢

Black small target with 7 8 and 9 rings circling a red "bullseye" in the image, there are 19 holes scattered within the number 8 circle. 20th round zinged on a flinch. This grouping was had with one hand from 50 feet away, or 17 yards. This 17 yard accuracy is fairly impressive with one hand. Derain Collier

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 21h

This right here!!

I was telling my homie the other night "I STAYS with it on me...and I WON'T miss"

Practicing my draw is the hard part so I don't have to fumble with my holster if I do have to. Getting that muscle memory down.

Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 22h

One thing that helps me deal with it is visiting my local gun range.

Focusing on the fundamentals of shooting accurately tends to be ultimately *relaxing.*

And of course, there’s the serendipitous: Bubba and Cletus, in the lanes next to me, get to see a Black man shoot better than them. 😉

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 22h

Hate that this admin turned me into a hardcore 2A person bc they are fucking lawless and lawlessness plus firepower equal extinction level events.

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