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KikiCharles

@kikicharles.bsky.social

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Random Thoughts of a Yocto Influencer Through the lens of a middle-aged woman, I share insights, humor, and reflections on life’s in-betweens. A “yocto influencer” (think micro, but smaller), I embrace the journey and the joy in little things.

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KikiCharles @kikicharles.bsky.social · Jan 25

Yoga in the mountains.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

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thenuttybroker1.bsky.social @thenuttybroker1.bsky.social · 1d

My husband sent me an excel spreadsheet of our vacation. I'm not joking. We have train apps. We have museum apps. We have reservations. I have 5 hrs allocated for alone time so that we stay married (according to ol boy). Type triple A husband.

a woman is wearing a white shirt with brooches on it and a microphone in her neck .

ALT: a woman is wearing a white shirt with brooches on it and a microphone in her neck .

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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KikiCharles @kikicharles.bsky.social · 1d

She’s 80 years old, and she just completed the famed Ironman World Championship www.nytimes.com/athletic/672...

She’s 80 years old, and she just completed the famed Ironman World Championship

"The important thing is that people see from my story that they can maybe push themselves a little bit," Natalie Grabow says.

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Annastasia @annastasia77.bsky.social · 14d

Cartoonists are more on point and have more spine these days, then some of the MSM! 🙄

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.

I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 19d

I wish the politics of education was a bigger subfield so I would have more people to chat with about the political economy of higher education

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KikiCharles @kikicharles.bsky.social · 19d

Stop putting these things online. Study how they did it in the earlier years.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20d

Pay close attention to who wants you to do The Reading and who only wants you to read their interpretation

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20d

Just five media companies control 90% of our media market.

But it’s not just media. In 75% of U.S. industries, fewer companies now control more of their markets than they did 20 years ago – leaving us vulnerable to higher prices and lower wages.

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.

The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)

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KikiCharles @kikicharles.bsky.social · 20d

This was awesome. Because Hartford?!! 😂😂😂😂

KikiCharles @kikicharles.bsky.social · 20d

I am team Black until you show me why not. He has showed more than why not. I am a lesser of two evils unless there is a better plan. There is better plan than Hakeem. I am a greater good person. Whoever primary’s him is the greater good. I pray his Frat Brothers stand down.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20d

Hakeem Jeffries is acting like he *wants* to draw a strong primary challenger in 2026 and, honestly, I wish him all the luck in the world there.

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Author Kimolisa Mings @kimolisamings.bsky.social · 20d

Reading isn’t a hobby, it’s a lifestyle.

#BookTherapy #CaribbeanReaders #booksky #blackbooksky #blackskybooks #CaribbeanVibes #Romancelandia #CaribbeanSky #readersky

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KikiCharles @kikicharles.bsky.social · 20d

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Eric Adams Abandons Re-election Bid for Mayor of New York City

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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 21d

Very soon they will be too big and heavy for this, but for now our juvenile turkeys love exploring the tree in our barnyard!

Photo of a juvenile bronze turkey standing on a low tree branch, dappled with sunlight.

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Melina Edition @melinaedition.bsky.social · 21d

Happy Weekend 🍂 #Photography
Photo by Kelsey A. Pexels

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 22d

If my mouth doesn't say it, my face will. #QOTD

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KikiCharles @kikicharles.bsky.social · 27d

Never. It means your heart is tender. I cry about David Bowie and Whitney every so often.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27d

Wow.

After being fired from @washingtonpost.com, my Substack, The Golden Hour, has been #1 rising bestseller in Culture for three days.

Thank you all for the support!!

Please subscribe! substack.com/@karenattiah...

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Anna @downmydirtroad.bsky.social · 27d

I have discovered a new variety of zinnia,,The Viceroy Zinnia 😁
#Butterflies
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A Viceroy butterfly on a zinnia, which is totally hidden by the butterfly. The green stem and a couple of leaves is underneath and angled to the bottom right corner, green grass and the bottom of a chicken watering can is in the corner also, concrete sidewalk and part of a mat , flower bed edging with a little bit of stringy stonecrop is visible.

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KikiCharles @kikicharles.bsky.social · 29d

John and I spent the day at the farm 🐑🐄🐐
You know I have a palatial estate in Brooklyn that I share with the rest of the population… it’s called Prospect Park 🌳😂 But here’s my palatial estate in Queens: the Queen’s Farm 👑🌾

#QueensFarm #QueensNewYork #FarmLife #brooklyngirlqueenslife

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Portia @portianoir.com · Sep 18

I was frustrated that white people are too apathetic about what’s going on, but what I’m really frustrated is the way in which they respond to anyone other than another white person.

Some of y’all will put the collective at risk if it means you can “put a Black woman in her place.” 😒

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · Sep 18

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:
He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group.

There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi.

He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 17

Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · Sep 16

I'm really concerned that white people are just not up to the task. A lot of y'all are well meaning but you're just not up to the task because you've never been systematically oppressed and you refuse to listen to people who have been

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