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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her)

@howard2home.bsky.social

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“What would you do, truly, if you were not afraid?” -Octavia E. Butler HU👩🏾‍🎓Fun Sized 🤗Lifelong learner💕 🆕 Understanding Octavia E. Butler (2025) 📚 Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler (2020) 🧛🏾‍♀️She Bites Back (2018) https://linktr.ee/drkrparker

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · Apr 20

Nope.

Wanna read some blood sucking #BlackVampires ?🧛🏾‍♀️Gomez’s The Gilda Stories🧛🏾‍♀️Butler’s Fledgling
🧛🏾‍♀️Banks’ Vampire Huntress Legend Series
🧛🏿‍♂️Johnson’s Image of Emeralds and Chocolate🧛🏿‍♂️Massey’s Dark Corner
🧛🏿‍♂️Girma’s Immortal Dark🧛🏾‍♀️Dennings’ This Ravenous Fate

Polygon @polygon.com · Apr 18

After you watch Sinners, you should read George R.R. Martin’s excellent and underrated vampire novel

The Game of Thrones author writes more than great fantasy stories

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 8d

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

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Candice Fortin @candicefortin.bsky.social · 8d

No accountability for the MOVE bombing in Philly was one of the stepping stones for what’s happening in DC, Chicago, LA, Memphis right now.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 10d

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · 10d

Lady of Poison Nightmares & Melancholy (because I couldn’t pick just one color; I love two!)

a cartoon of grinch with a very angry look on his face

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · 10d

🧐🧐🧐🧐

a new york yankees baseball player wearing a helmet

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 12d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · 13d

My fav thing to grasp onto in movies & books right now is characters researching in libraries (Blood in the Water), relying on reputable books & reliable data for info (San Andreas, 2015), & the like.

It notice it more because of where we are & because of
::gestures wildly:: all the things.

a picture of a cat with the words did somebody say " books "

Alt: a picture of a cat with the words did somebody say " books "?

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 15d

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.

We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

-Assata

Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 15d

Still have my copy from college, 30+ years later.

The cover of the memoir Assata, an Autobiography, by the legendary Black Liberation Army revolutionary, Assata Shakur.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 15d

“Pastor i feel like im losing my faith”

Lose it…. Allow yourself to be transformed and begin again

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · 15d

It would make a great movie! Safe travels & enjoy HU! (Wish I could be there!)

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Adrian C. Jackson @adriancjax.blacksky.app · 15d

Fuck Tinder.
Fuck Bumble.
Fuck all them dating apps.

Let’s get straight to it.

A dating questionnaire that reads:

Can I be your boyfriend and take you out and buy you stuff and feed you?
Yes
No
Maybe

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · 15d

Hi!!! All is well here! Just finished a re-read of the Edge of Dawn 👀😂 How are you doing?

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · 15d

@authormsbev.bsky.social would be so proud ☺️☺️☺️

Adrian C. Jackson @adriancjax.blacksky.app · 15d

I’m about to write a 1 to 2-page handwritten love letter in cursive.

Just for fun & to no one in particular…just to keep my skills sharpened.

Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready.

A sample of Adrian C. Jackson’s handwritten love letter; it reads:

To my favorite song to hear, my favorite story to read, my favorite art to admire…

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 18d

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.

I'm talking about something very different.

Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.

Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.

But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · 19d

Congrats!!!! 🍾🎉🎈🎊

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 19d

But WAIT

this poem by Jacqueline Woodson is so beautiful!

#PoetryPeople @thevogelman.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social

Dear Future Ones
oulder
Jacqueline Woodson
Dear Future Ones who do not understand an old woman puzzling over January crocuses
and the delicate shoots of tulips poking through winter leaves
Winter leaves us
questioning the absence of snow.
A headshake, a sigh, a mind turning inside the past:
Twenty years on this planet and my daughter can count snowstorms lived through on a single hand. Oh Dear
Future Ones, I apologize
for decades of Styrofoam lunches eaten happily because the world would always be the way
I knew it as a child. I apologize
from tin cans thrown into trashcans. For the many years I loved helium-filled mylar balloons. I apologize for the time I bought an expensive deodorant, desired because I could spray it instead ofFrolling it on. I apologize for the magical thinking that led me to believe this world as I knew it would always be here and bred you into with my mind on
other freedoms cuz

how many dreams of freedom can a single body hold now old, you see me back bent and frowning grateful for iceless sidewalks all winter long and terrified. Oh Dear Future
Ones. You do not know a world
that isn't already burning, a time when flowers bloomed in seasons we understood (Because once there were seasons here in New York). Once snow barricaded me into my childhood home. Brooklyn. Blizzard of 78.
We waited, my siblings and I, gleefully imagining a June thaw the four of us skeletons heartbreakingly remembered.
We're history, we said. As though we already knew what was coming.
As though, Future Ones, we already saw you out there reading about us and remembering snow.

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Sara Ghaleb @saraghaleb.bsky.social · 21d

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · 24d

Found it on Hoopla.

K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · 24d

Rude 😂 I’m still stuck on “Rocky Loves Emily” and now this?!

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · 24d

Well…now I’m on the hunt to find it on a streaming platform! 🙃😅😂

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Adrian C. Jackson @adriancjax.blacksky.app · 24d

Post a movie you *LOVE* with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · 24d

“Rocky loves Emily. Rocky loves Emily”

Used to watch this all the time with my cousins!

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · 25d

Jurassic Park 2
Ever After
Fifth Element

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 26d

Build a trilogy out of 3 unrelated Films.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 9

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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