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✬Communiggty Centric✬

@urbanaudacity.blacksky.app

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I write speculative fiction short stories, novels, and comics. Don’t take what I say too seriously. Yes, I am neurodivergent. How could you tell?

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 4d

It’s Black Speculative Fiction month, so it’s only right that I have [finally] made issue #1 of my comic, UNDEAD DUO, available to read online for FREE.

Please, give it a read!

globalcomix.com/read/d501429...

The cover of Undead Duo #1.

It depicts a Black woman, ERA, in a tattered dress, holding a curved blade that resembles an Ethiopian Shotel. Directly behind her is the title, UNDEAD DUO, in all caps, with a red line that looks like a life plus running through the text. A little further behind Era is the wreckage of a red car.

At the top is the name of the contributors to this comic: BA Spann (me), Khalid Johnson (artist), Jamesia Bly (styling).

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Tifa | Sacred Ho🧘🏾‍♀️ @chicmojo.blacksky.app · 12h

If they can’t convince us that we need AI then those billions of dollars they spent on it will be for nothing.

Don’t use that shit. Let these companies lose that money. They should’ve used it to pay fair wages, instead of giving it to tech bro scammers for shitty, useless “innovation.”

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 11h

Also, if someone says social media does nothing but harm, I can literally point to this thread and say it saves lives.

I have only been doing this for a day, I can’t imagine the number of people Link helped over months. This makes his ban even MORE disgusting.

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 5h

For the long term, I think it’s very important if they’re a family person. If they aren’t, it doesn’t matter

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 5h

I always have to memorize and repeat the space where the fire won’t be to myself in order to beat him because getting hit by that will end you instantly 😭

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 7h

🔥🔥🔥 he’s tough!

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 9h

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 9h

And eventually it’s just, “The Nibblean rule of Portland was the chief factor in the President’s war on Portland, but Democratic lawmakers are pushing back, saying, ‘we don’t approve of skeleton rulers either, but focusing on healthcare is the most important thing for Americans right now.’”

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 9h

😂 what’d you choose?

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 9h

Pops

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 9h

Exactly! 🙂‍↕️

Also, extra thought: price-wise, it seems like TJ’s had the very best price to quality ratio 🤔

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 9h

Yes! With all the Epicurious videos, I’m always keen to find out what the experts use as quality markers for whatever the food is.

Whether that’s a smell, taste, or sound—it’s so fascinating to lean (and try to keep in mind for my own future purchases).

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 9h

Yeah, as someone who frequents stouts and other really strong/high ABV beers, I find the stronger cutwaters comparable to those (if not slightly weaker).

Probably took about 3 for me to start feeling em fr

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 9h

Truuue. I also know now that apparently the best chocolate comes from Madagascar? And other random facts.

Yeah, she was! I really enjoyed the black lady too. I thought she was so funny 😂

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 9h

(Personally, I feel folks overhyped how strong they are)

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 10h

Yes! I don’t even eat dark chocolate though, so I’m like, “what should I do with this knowledge?” 😂😭

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Angelia 🌺 @imangelia.blacksky.app · 12h

Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement > click toggle

Alex Mack 10 🇯🇲 @chillarybanks.com · 12h

Hey, go turn this off on LinkedIn.

I'm never on there and just peeped this.

Data for Generative AI Improvement
"Can LinkedIn and its affiliates use your personal data and content you create on LinkedIn to train generative AI models that create content?"

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Alex Mack 10 🇯🇲 @chillarybanks.com · 12h

Hey, go turn this off on LinkedIn.

I'm never on there and just peeped this.

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 12h

When you walking and you see you bout to bump into something, but your body is locked-in so you can’t stop<<<<<

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 12h

Related, but tangential—the reason why there’s a third name on Undead for “styling” is because there is some fashion history I want to explore in-narrative.

Though it’s not apparent in the first issue, fashion is a crucial interest of Margo and essential to her character in some ways.

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 12h

I like these types of videos because, although I’m not an artist, I do still think a lot about design elements on my characters. The historical lens of fashion trends is also super interesting.

youtu.be/3Ut28TSeIwk?...

Kingdom Hearts Fashion and Character Design Analysis

YouTube video by clovergirle

youtu.be

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 12h

These folks just be saying anything, and their colleagues and peers don’t press them, journalists and media folks don’t press them, their families and partners don’t press them…I’ma ask every time, but everybody should.

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 12h

Saw it said on the skyline earlier, but people really need to be pressed about exactly what they mean when they say things, constantly.

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 12h

Saw it said on the skyline earlier, but people really need to be pressed about exactly what they mean when they say things, constantly.

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 12h

“Demographic replacement of Western countries” is always hilarious to me bc they’re talking about Latinos, who also largely live in Western countries.

So the terminology is just the thinnest fucking veil possible.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves doing a happy dance as they receive a hot plate of fajitas. Then "Raw Egg Nationalist" on Twitter retweets them, writing: It's incredible that these people exist, but they really do. These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Western countries in terms of the variety of street food and how many different kinds of fried-meat-and-vegetables in flatbread they can buy.

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 8d

If you think TrumpRx (or even Mark Cuban’s whatever-it’s-called) is a good thing, you think that the current state of our healthcare system is acceptable.

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Pixie Thinks🧚🏽‍♀️ @pixiethinkss.bsky.social · 13h

500,000 gallons of water a day. I need people to read that over and over and over again. Read it before generating every AI photo, video, and response..read it after. Keep reading it.

A info-graphic reading AI Data Centers are wasteful. One Data center uses 500,000 gallons of water a day and as much electricity as a city.

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