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Debra Renée Byrd

@debreneebyrd.bsky.social

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Indie fantasy author and creator of @BlackAcesGroup. 💜🖤🩶🤍🖤🤍💚 Https://linktr.ee/debreneebyrd

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Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · Nov 20

I've barely been here a day. Did y'all introduce yourselves?

If so, lol, hi, I'm Deb! I'm an indie author, casual gamer, foodie, and lazy blerd. My fantasy novel Fractured Princess is on Amazon (for now).

I'm also aceflux and here for Black asexuals.

Also, free all the Black and Brown peoples. ✊🏾

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Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 2h

It BAFFLES me. Writing is supposed to come from the heart and head. It's supposed to take training and learning. If you are using AI or ChatGPT to write your story, YOU. ARE. NOT. A. WRITER.

AsexualElfGal @myancestorsaidme.bsky.social · 2h

Hearing about people using AI to write books is indescribable as a writer. Like it's actually insane. Stories are supposed to be told by humans, audibly and through written words. I'd rather take audiobooks over anything that's AI.

Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 3d

NUMBERS!! #ApexLegends #gamersky

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 6d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 6d

I need #Blogger to be more user friendly, because I should be able to block people, especially when I've expressed that they no can longer talk to me, but the ability to Reply directly to people is also hard to find, so they haven't seen it.

Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 6d

2025 is looking very 1935.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 7d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 7d

lol anyway "Mothering" is my favorite chapter in #TheDoubleTax. I hope you read it soon!

AGOA

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is an award-winning researcher, writer, entrepreneur, and the editor of The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System.

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Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 8d

Posted this about toxic dudebros on #ApexLegends . When I say the games aren't the same, this is what I mean. The game where that guy was a tool, our scores were similar to this, except I had the 1K. I bet he's silent when he's the weaker link.

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Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 10d

I...Okay. lol

a man wearing a yellow jacket and scarf is standing in a crowd of people .

ALT: a man wearing a yellow jacket and scarf is standing in a crowd of people .

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Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 10d

So what year did we make it a verb, because I'm still...???

a black cat with a loading icon on its face

Alt: a black cat with a loading icon on its face

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Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 10d

My writing career (loosely used) summed up in one image:

A molting male cardinal standing at a bowl of sunflower seeds and peanuts on a porch railing

Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 10d

Everyone is worried about "encumber," but ..... "excepted?" Am I dumb, or is it not "accepted?"

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Aug 1

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jul 31

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work

Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments

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Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 12d

My first foray into the #PS5:

*unplugging my headset at the end of a match, in my best Future voice*: I need love and affection, luh-uh-uh-uh--Oh wow, the sound is coming through the controller.

Teammate repeats what I said to someone, and we say GG.

Me, realizing they heard me: 😳💀

#gamersky

Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 15d

Everyone awake yet?

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15d

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 16d

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Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you to the media outlets calling Assata Shakur a political activist and none of the negative connotations.

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 16d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 16d

Everything is just so stupid.

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Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you! I was flying by the seat of my pants lol.

Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 18d

***New Website Alert***

#blackauthorsky #authorsky #booksky #indieauthor

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Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 18d

I am doing my very first book giveaway on #Storygraph! Of your looking for an adventurous, tense read with a bold female MC, sign up!

#authorsky #blackauthorsky #booksky

Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you!

Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 21d

I need to create a real website anyway, but I also might move away from Blogger. How is substack, and can people subscribe for free?

#writersky #blogger #authorsky

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22d

Ooop!

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Debra Renée Byrd @debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 22d

If you're seeing this, drop an old pic you still love.