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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1h

In a world where we all circle the fiery sun
With a need for love
What have we become?

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D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Till It's Done (Tutu) (Audio)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 1h

: to field a knowing across
this nigh-impossible,

, instability, , like a prelude,

made finally , stable

Epithalamium, a consortium — @robmclennan.bsky.social

Epithalamium, a consortium — rob mclennan

Never in our selves, but beyond. Rosmarie Waldrop, Blindsight (1998) Marriage: a portin the storm or the storm, enough to…

minorliteratures.com

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2h

better than Smokey [sorry gramps]

Cruisin'

YouTube video by D'Angelo - Topic

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2h

😭
🫶

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2h

some of the songs from brown sugar and voodoo are externalisations of musical grace, flowing without any strain into absolute deceptive ease. the naturalness of the mastery of split second sense of rhythm and tone coloration has been inimitable, haven't really heard anything like it since

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2h

Summer of '95, when Brown Sugar dropped, I must've listened to Cruisin' a million times as I drove around LA, happy as a clam, feeling sexy af

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 2h

3 classic albums. No skips. Love songs. Liberation songs. Sensual songs. Fun songs. Black ass music. 51 is too young. D'Angelo can't be gone.

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2h

'bout ready to hit this gritty pretty bitty

ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2h

i can't fucking believe it

ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2h

D'Angelo's Africa, one of my favorite of his

D'Angelo Africa

YouTube video by Yeah Nah

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2h

D’Angelo?!? Noooooooooooo

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 11h

Epithalamium, a consortium — @robmclennan.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/14/e...

Epithalamium, a consortium — rob mclennan

Never in our selves, but beyond. Rosmarie Waldrop, Blindsight (1998) Marriage: a portin the storm or the storm, enough to…

minorliteratures.com

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 15h

🔥
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

Looks like the news is out. May her memory be a blessing. Miss Major, Presente!

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 19h

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 23h

Doing beef related research, as one does.

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Cristopher Columbus. And fuck ICE too.

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

Jaccottet felt it too, “the radiance that shines from some of Joseph Joubert’s thoughts…”

*basking in the glow of it*

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

When you want transparency, the finite, the smooth and the beautiful, you must polish for a long time.

—Joubert

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

We have philosophized badly.

—Joubert

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

what a lovely word, I want to eat it

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

🐽💕

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2d

I want to chew the pages of Joubert’s notebooks. Jaccottet’s too. Reading as ingestion.

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2d

Open call:

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2d

This.
🎥💀🍿

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2d

haha

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