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Author of Speculative Blackness, editor of The Black Fantastic andrecarringtonphd.com insta: audio.futurism

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 7d

Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama & the Black Fantastic Imagination will be available for pre-order in December.

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Audiofuturism - andré carrington

A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the presentAudiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before ma...

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 46m

Or just, like, read a book

(NGL "slapped to sleep" made me cackle! lol)

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 10h

survivors of traumas including child abuse, incarceration & state violence may be having an especially difficult time with the words, actions & demeanor of those in power at this moment. i know i am, though i do not say much about it (for a great many reasons).

there are so very many of us. ✊

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 58m

Thank you for acknowledging that it's about social cost.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 1h

This mf is so dizzy he can't think of the evil of chattel slavery except by invoking fantasy monsters. Real historical political evil is much worse than anything in a novel or a game.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 8h

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 2h

They booed her so hard the camera fogged up!

andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 2h

Have you considered that his heart was removed from a younger, healthier Republican follower?

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Helluva Bottom Carter @nicju.blacksky.app · 2h

Get out the brooms.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 2h

Good on you Vegas 🏆♠️ #WNBA and good on Alyssa Thomas with the triple double

andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 3h

Your cousin tolerates anchovies as an ingredient in Caesar dressing because it's undeniably essential.
(Trader Joe's makes a really good vegan Caesar, though)

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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 11h

www.huffpost.com/entry/mit-pr...

MIT Rejects White House Deal To Unlock Funds In Exchange For Adopting Trump’s Political Agenda

In a letter to Trump administration officials, MIT President Sally Kornbluth said MIT disagrees with provisions of the proposal.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 4h

✊🏾

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Adrian 🔥🧠🔥 @quueervergent.bsky.social · 4h

I went #birding for over 8 HOURS today! 🪽

And I STILL got work done in between checklists! 🤳🏽

I'm calling today a WIN! 💪🏽

Check out my #GlobalBirdWeekend Trip Report to see where I'm starting before birding and doing my first group #BigSit for #OctoberBigDay tomorrow!

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 4h

non euclidean ass cat

Bampy contorting herself and looking at the camera while Pishi minds her business behind her

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 4h

Analysis from bae: Not likely the Mercury can come back without Sabally. Probably about to have a new WNBA championship winner, same as the old WNBA championship winner #WNBA

andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 5h

Marshawn Lynch is cool. Birds are cool 🪶 youtu.be/u5-X76803A0?...

Marshawn Lynch Goes Bird-Watching in Central Park | Prime Video

YouTube video by Sports On Prime

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 12h

So yesterday was Autechre and standing in one place surrounded by sound and wearing earplugs and in a few minutes (as one of many participants in a medical study) I’m getting a brain MRI while lying prone in one place and wearing earplugs and quite honestly, lateral move.

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Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 12h

while it’s true that both motorists and cyclists can compromise the other’s safety for the sake of their own convenience, there is one form of cruelty that belongs exclusively to motorists: using the vehicle to threaten harm against a cyclist purely for the sake of instilling fear.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 11h

Alex & Shane have got needs and you can meet them --> gofund.me/50126dc4d

Donate to Support Shane & Alex's Artistic Journey, organized by Alex Smith

Friends and family– hi! It’s Alex and Shane! The best libra couple in the known omn… Alex Smith needs your support for Support Shane & Alex's Artistic Journey

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 22h

I'm honored, but your humility is just gratitude & the feeling is mutual

andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, no, that's a chalet.

A beret is that thing attached to your toilet, in Europe

MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · 1d

No your that's a beret.

A duvet it one of those cottages in the Alpines, like a snow lodge.

Phat Bottom Betty @the-cigar-girl.blacksky.app · 1d

That’s a valet

A duvet is those felt type hats tilted to the side that french people be wearing

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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