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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 29d

reading less, comprehending little, expecting more: illiteracy and the movies.

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reading less, comprehending little, expecting more: illiteracy and the movies. — maxine aya writes...

scroll on any social media platform after a new movie release and you will get a firsthand look at the media illiteracy crisis – failure to grasp plot, failure to grasp story, failure to grasp perspec...

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 9h

CONGRATS!!!!!!!

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 17h

D’Angelo & Questlove at Brooklyn Bowl on March 4, 2013. on.soundcloud.com/KIgBoovzswqJ...

D'Angelo & Questlove at Brooklyn Bowl, 3/4/13 | Complete

SETLIST: 01) Go Back To The Thing / Let Me Have It All (Sly & The Family Stone) 02) Cosmic Slop (Funkadelic) 03) Woman’s Gotta Have It (Bobby Womack) 04) The Line 05) You Caught Me Smilin’ / Af

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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 17h

He deserved to grow old. He deserved the space to be more creative and share more art w/ the world. He deserved to be adorned in praise while he was still able to receive it in the physical. Luckily, music and spirit is eternal.

RIP Michael Eugene Archer aka D'ANGELO. 🕊️

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 17h

nothing even matters. 🤎

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ʜᴀᴄᴋᴀʀʏ ʙɪɴx @chaclo.blacksky.app · 17h

Hey Death, I need you to lock in, bro.

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 18h

EXCUSE ME?!?!?!?!??!?

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 21h

if you’re using the dates in SINNERS to decide when to watch or rewatch, the main events take place tomorrow: october 15th.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 1d

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

ACTUALLY, I have a theory that most books enter a cultural "uncanny valley" 20-25 years after release, where the culture has shifted just enough they're not contemporary anymore, so new readers can't directly relate, and they stay in the valley for about 50 years until they're clearly historical

madoccassia @madoccassia.bsky.social · 1d

Is there, like, an interregnum during which a book should be gracefully retired, until such time as it becomes "a classic, an artifact of its times"?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

It's every bit of culture. Movies, TV, plays, music, theater, painting, dance. Everything ages and context is lost and new audiences don't attach to the work the way then-contemporary audiences did. It doesn't make the work bad or suggests it can't endure. But times change.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 1d

I don't even think it's just books. Almost nobody understands the Looney tunes references anymore and my children were completely gobsmacked trying to watch the original Aladdin.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

Not very unhinged, but: Stop reading a book if you're bouncing off of it. Stop "powering through." You're just wasting your time. You don't get a gold star for finishing books you're not enjoying reading.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 1d

more birthday wishes all around!

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 2d

If Gen AI has million haters, then I am one of them.

If Gen AI has 10 haters, then I am one of them.

If Gen AI has one hater, then I am THAT ONE.

If Gen AI has no haters, that means I'm dead.

If the world is pro Gen AI, then I am against the world

Until my last breath, I’ll always hate Gen AI

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A.🌻 @alexxaye.bsky.social · 1d

I’m thankful to have friends and to be the kind of friend that can spare the effort. And sometimes effort requires creativity.

I don’t fault the ppl who can’t spare the effort; they’re fighting for their lives and I get it. I do however hold on tight to the friends who can and do show up.

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A.🌻 @alexxaye.bsky.social · 1d

We all may be tired, broke, depressed & everything else. But we still make an effort. I may not have a dollar to spend but I’ll run errands with my friends or go help them clean or meet up in the park with food I already had at home so we can be together.

Effort is the cost of friendship.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

May she rest in power, emphasis on the rest.

Matthew S. Bajko @politicalnotes.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13. She was 78....
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