brothadirt
@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
poet & nyeusiphile.
poetry collections: Deifying A Total Darkness; To Emit Teal; The Second Stop Is Jupiter; & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife
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poetry collections: Deifying A Total Darkness; To Emit Teal; The Second Stop Is Jupiter; & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife
👠👠 + 🎣👨🏿🦳 + 👰🏿♂️
*snorts lisinopril off a copy of beloved*
February 13, 2026 at 12:21 PM
*snorts lisinopril off a copy of beloved*
Milt Jackson - What are you doing the rest of your life
YouTube video by TheCosmiCInterlude
youtu.be
February 13, 2026 at 11:41 AM
thirst trap poem for my Pillow... @crystalwilki.bsky.social
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solemn in this solstice / somber for your solace
the Sun in our Hearts and me begging you & all
your Creators to raise their tines & eat of me
our candescent mercies transmogrifying
in this gullet of night / glancing from
your singing lap in call to worship / my clarion
throat in full flower, shouting from every garden
knee-deep at the base of towers that keep you:
Assata! Mercurial Assata!
Let Down Your Nappy Hair!
[titty to tongue; all of me wherever you want
whenever you need / all of us / whatever this is,
whoever we are / day or night / ears to loins]
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let us prick our hands
with spindled oath & merge
interwoven with morn
towards tumbled dream.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yk73yccoyregpa5a4l4ij35t/bafkreifb6l3qml5yeccyihlcd6rdoceyxdomkqpif6z225uwkyntbcfrwi@jpeg)
February 13, 2026 at 11:25 AM
thirst trap poem for my Pillow... @crystalwilki.bsky.social
The incomparable Assata Shakur #assatashakur #revolution
YouTube video by Art Tribe NY
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February 13, 2026 at 11:17 AM
my granddaughter is a living, breathing rube goldberg machine...
a granddaughter will be 10 soon and she has been the clumsiest child since birth — she's the only person i know who can sit still and still knock over a bottle of water, salt & pepper shakers, & table ornament all in one small motion.
her gracelessness is a wonder to behold... a true work of art. ❤️
her gracelessness is a wonder to behold... a true work of art. ❤️
February 13, 2026 at 11:02 AM
my granddaughter is a living, breathing rube goldberg machine...
a granddaughter will be 10 soon and she has been the clumsiest child since birth — she's the only person i know who can sit still and still knock over a bottle of water, salt & pepper shakers, & table ornament all in one small motion.
her gracelessness is a wonder to behold... a true work of art. ❤️
her gracelessness is a wonder to behold... a true work of art. ❤️
February 13, 2026 at 11:00 AM
a granddaughter will be 10 soon and she has been the clumsiest child since birth — she's the only person i know who can sit still and still knock over a bottle of water, salt & pepper shakers, & table ornament all in one small motion.
her gracelessness is a wonder to behold... a true work of art. ❤️
her gracelessness is a wonder to behold... a true work of art. ❤️
i dated a bi sista yrs ago & she asked if i would mind if she had a girlfriend & i was like "cool, i'll get an extra one too!" & she got so mad: "you knew i was bi!"; i said "im not denying that, but i did think you were monogamous. but if you want 2 partners then so do i." she was not amused.
“She got divorced and started dating women”
She was never straight… just loyal
She was never straight… just loyal
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 AM
i dated a bi sista yrs ago & she asked if i would mind if she had a girlfriend & i was like "cool, i'll get an extra one too!" & she got so mad: "you knew i was bi!"; i said "im not denying that, but i did think you were monogamous. but if you want 2 partners then so do i." she was not amused.
eartha s̶n̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶ kitt
February 13, 2026 at 1:10 AM
eartha s̶n̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶ kitt
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#OTD in 1960, the Greensboro Four began sit-ins at a segregated lunch counter in North Carolina. Their actions sparked a nationwide student movement that helped dismantle segregation. #TheMarchContinues
February 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
#OTD in 1960, the Greensboro Four began sit-ins at a segregated lunch counter in North Carolina. Their actions sparked a nationwide student movement that helped dismantle segregation. #TheMarchContinues
only 2 eps in but how to get to heaven from belfast is a delight...
February 12, 2026 at 9:49 PM
only 2 eps in but how to get to heaven from belfast is a delight...
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Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was.
For example
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For example
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February 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was.
For example
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For example
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One of the reasons for condoning slavery and jim crow was that Black people had no history or cultural contributions to the world. Ever.
That's why people like Arturo Schomburg, Alain Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, and Carter G Woodson are so important.
They spent their lives disproving that lie
That's why people like Arturo Schomburg, Alain Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, and Carter G Woodson are so important.
They spent their lives disproving that lie
Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.
February 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
One of the reasons for condoning slavery and jim crow was that Black people had no history or cultural contributions to the world. Ever.
That's why people like Arturo Schomburg, Alain Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, and Carter G Woodson are so important.
They spent their lives disproving that lie
That's why people like Arturo Schomburg, Alain Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, and Carter G Woodson are so important.
They spent their lives disproving that lie
"is a blue colored collard
worker / is a black hollerer / a barking hyacinth and because my butterflies are prone to bite my fabulism warrants a fine print"
- when all is ready, i throw this switch
worker / is a black hollerer / a barking hyacinth and because my butterflies are prone to bite my fabulism warrants a fine print"
- when all is ready, i throw this switch
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
"is a blue colored collard
worker / is a black hollerer / a barking hyacinth and because my butterflies are prone to bite my fabulism warrants a fine print"
- when all is ready, i throw this switch
worker / is a black hollerer / a barking hyacinth and because my butterflies are prone to bite my fabulism warrants a fine print"
- when all is ready, i throw this switch
ha! apple music think they slick, but here it is...
February 12, 2026 at 4:39 PM
ha! apple music think they slick, but here it is...
February 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Dorothy Dandridge (Cow Cow Boogie) restored & uncut 1942 film
YouTube video by Chris Clem
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
THIS is the dystopian film i wanna see... sentient ai is less a threat to me than the billionaires sacrificing our children to preserve it.
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
February 12, 2026 at 2:04 PM
THIS is the dystopian film i wanna see... sentient ai is less a threat to me than the billionaires sacrificing our children to preserve it.
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The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch are the first group of legally licensed sex workers to unionize in U.S. history (!!!). Their new union website states their demands as “safety on the job, better working conditions, and control over their own futures.” unitedbworkers.com
United B Workers
United B Workers
unitedbworkers.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:35 AM
The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch are the first group of legally licensed sex workers to unionize in U.S. history (!!!). Their new union website states their demands as “safety on the job, better working conditions, and control over their own futures.” unitedbworkers.com
i need chris berman to narrate this...
"whoop! whoop! ...he could ...go ...all ...the ...way!"
"whoop! whoop! ...he could ...go ...all ...the ...way!"
Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
February 12, 2026 at 1:55 PM
i need chris berman to narrate this...
"whoop! whoop! ...he could ...go ...all ...the ...way!"
"whoop! whoop! ...he could ...go ...all ...the ...way!"
if gobs & globs of cream cheese arent falling off your bagel with each bite then what even are you doing with life?!?
stop being stengy* with joy!
stop being stengy* with joy!
February 12, 2026 at 1:25 PM
if gobs & globs of cream cheese arent falling off your bagel with each bite then what even are you doing with life?!?
stop being stengy* with joy!
stop being stengy* with joy!
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I’m constantly thinking about that time a coworker said his martial arts instructor told him a knife was a better weapon in a fight than a gun and I was like, bro, what? I’m shooting at you from 20 feet away with a gun. And he was like, but, cuts hurt. And I was like, see, now I’m 100 feet away.
If you can’t flee to avoid danger, the next best thing you can do is totally disable someone from great range, meaning a gun is more ideal. But that requires training, intent, and more importantly, space to use it.
February 12, 2026 at 4:46 AM
I’m constantly thinking about that time a coworker said his martial arts instructor told him a knife was a better weapon in a fight than a gun and I was like, bro, what? I’m shooting at you from 20 feet away with a gun. And he was like, but, cuts hurt. And I was like, see, now I’m 100 feet away.
i love original albums, but compilations are cool, too, and this one by aretha is may just be THE best in the category...
February 12, 2026 at 12:42 PM
i love original albums, but compilations are cool, too, and this one by aretha is may just be THE best in the category...
i dont get many reviews online, but thank you, "Hannah Kelly" for your glowing 5-star review for The Second Stop Is Jupiter... i needed that. 😔
February 12, 2026 at 6:08 AM
i dont get many reviews online, but thank you, "Hannah Kelly" for your glowing 5-star review for The Second Stop Is Jupiter... i needed that. 😔
goodnight fam...
one of my all-time favorite songs —
the ikettes
I'M BLUE
in which there is not now nor has there even been the mention of a "gong"... i hate that... they are saying GONE, but ran together in a string sounds like gong, but that just shows ppl aint lissening & have no respect for the black tongue.
the ikettes
I'M BLUE
in which there is not now nor has there even been the mention of a "gong"... i hate that... they are saying GONE, but ran together in a string sounds like gong, but that just shows ppl aint lissening & have no respect for the black tongue.
THE IKETTES - I'M BLUE (THE GONG GONG SONG) RARE CLIP 1965
YouTube video by ILMJXXX
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 3:13 AM
goodnight fam...