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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 52m

Ayyye! My people!

Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 59m

My family mostly likes cheese empanadas... I'm here making meat ones to sell every week & they sound like Steve Urkle, "Got any cheeeese?".

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social media enjoyer @8bitblunder.bsky.social · 4h

They booed Hulk Hogan ffs. He deserved it but half the audience probably had some fond memories of hulkamania and they still booed him.

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you! I have another one with the same issue but only where it rubs up against other stalks. I thought it was the friction but it's otherwise in great shape and growing taller.

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 4h

Why does this happen to my zz plant stems?

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 9h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 9h

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 10h

Today in the lobby of the pediatrician's office we caught the end of the Princess & the Frog & the beginning of the Little Mermaid. Great start to the day!

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.bsky.social · 1d

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.bsky.social · 1d

They put up chainlink fences underneath the biggest bridges
They pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all their children
They say that Jesus is the way but then they gave him a white face
So they don't have to pray to someone they deem lesser than them
The South will not rise again
Til it's paid for every sin
Strange fruit, hard bargain
Till the roots, Southern Gotham
I'm the one who still loves your ghost
I reanimate your bones
With my belief
And I'm the one who still loves your ghost
I reanimate your bones
Cause I'm a true believer

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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨PROTECT JHORDIN🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 10h

and that we feel less pain! our medical system hasnt evolved since slavery days and got the nerve to get mad when we say they're racist

Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 11h

I remember how rough they could be when poking my Pops. They're taught that Black skin is harder to penetrate.

MrsBundrige @mrsbundrige.bsky.social · 12h

My dad is having a procedure done this morning. The nurse anesthetist is having difficulty placing his IV. I ask my dad “are you in any pain”? The nurse “no it doesn’t hurt”….

Bitch….

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Corpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 16h

If Mary (the mother of Jesus in the biblical myth) were to show up pregnant and about to give birth at a modern Christian's door, would they be more likely to shoot her and use the "stand your ground" defense or would they call ICE?

Thoughts?

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Keebler. @inayamchele.bsky.social · 12h

and another thing! stop coming to meetings at the school smelling like weed. it’s wildly inconsiderate! we’re here because your child doesn’t know how to act and we gotta deal with that everyday, the least you could do is share!

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 11h

I remember how rough they could be when poking my Pops. They're taught that Black skin is harder to penetrate.

MrsBundrige @mrsbundrige.bsky.social · 12h

My dad is having a procedure done this morning. The nurse anesthetist is having difficulty placing his IV. I ask my dad “are you in any pain”? The nurse “no it doesn’t hurt”….

Bitch….

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 12h

SO PRETTY! I'm going to be honest... I think I have ww blindness 🤣🤣🤣

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 12h

See, if you're not going to bathe regularly, at least use deodorant, but NOOOOO these ppl have to do the absolute most by doing the least.

🫘👻 A Spooky Lil Bean 👻🫘 @haughtybynature.blacksky.app · 22h

Y’all. Y’ALL…

The Cut/ NYMag article title: “Why I’m Leaving Perfume Behind — For My Own BO” by Molly Rosen

“We’re sold the idea that beauty is protection — that enough scent and smoothness will shield us from loneliness, heartbreak, odor, and even harm. By the time I realized it was all an illusion that bottles of fruit and flowers are full of nothing but false promises, both my marriage and fashion career had collapsed and I was left to stare down single motherhood and middle age with a body I barely recognized.” — Molly Rosen

“I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many more 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.”

— Molly Rosen

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VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 13h

Every creature on earth grooms itself except Homo sapiens sapiens of Caucasian descent, who are the universe’s special favorites. If the media is supposedly required to present both sides of an issue, where are the op-eds extolling the joys & benefits of bathing?

🫘👻 A Spooky Lil Bean 👻🫘 @haughtybynature.blacksky.app · 22h

Y’all. Y’ALL…

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 12h

Maybe it's my astigmatism but Mandy doesn't look unrecognizable to me. Just a regular skinny ww.

kristy yummy coochie 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social · 23h

i am too poor to ever look like this and thank g*d for that

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SoloChills @solochills.blacksky.app · 14h

One morning we're gonna wake up to the news we're waiting on and that keeps me going

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 12h

Artist Michelle Browder’s 'Mothers of Gynecology' project is an act of resistance, challenging the silences around the ugly history of medical apartheid's impact on Black women. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

Artist Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology project is an act of resistance.

www.motherjones.com

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 21h

Simone & this damn haircut. I know it's only supposed to be the next day but can't we ... do something better???

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 1d

Angel Reese is only 23 years old but continues to make waves on and off the court.

The Chicago Sky star will walk in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on October 15th — making history as the first ever pro athlete model to walk the famous runway.

🔗: http://dlvr.it/TNZNC1

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Antifascist Carebear (she/her/ela) @essadms.bsky.social · 23h

Time for that vasectomy, gents 🌹

Tifa | Sacred Ho🧘🏾‍♀️ @chicmojo.blacksky.app · 23h

Sperm from men older than 35 is linked to increased birth defects.

I know men like to think they’re exempt from that 🙂

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 22h

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 22h

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