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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 11m

Ppl are laughing because it's a mistake little kids mostly make because they have no control over where they're going or how they get there.

It begs the question of how you managed to GET to a city without actually knowing where it was.

A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 19m

I mean, I've eaten chitlins for FREE...

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 1h

We have been warning y’all about cops for god knows how long.

Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18d

When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

www.notus.org

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 6h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 8h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 2h

I woulda played the shit out of that game and also been mad the whole time about all the ways it sucked.

"Hell yes!" I shout, double-killing two klanners with a repeating rifle, "Aw this is bullshit" I grumble aa the game crashes for the 8th time after one of the trees doesn't load correctly.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 2h

"Willis Tower."

It's pronounced "Sears."

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 6h

I can imagine...

a close up of a turtle with a blue mask

Alt: Eric Adams trying to be cute

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 10h

MARK MY WORDS:

“Trump 2028” is going to be him running his daughter Ivanka Trump.

She would be a puppet president with Kushner as her handler. It’s why you see them cozying up to celebs and donors.

He beat 2 women & wants his daughter as the 1st female president

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 6h

The usual way.

Just move as the spirit wills you.

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 6h

Chicago too.

You get the occasional "I'm from Chicago, I can tell you, this city is dangerous and crime is out of control."

Bruh, you're from Evanston. You never set foot in the city except for Cubs games and Lollapalooza. GTFOH.

𝚜𝚗𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚋𝚒𝚗𝚡. @thehighendtheori.com · 7h

this happens LA & Baltimore.
very city vs county with both.

don’t tell people you’re from LA when you live in downey. don’t tell people you’re from Baltimore when you live in owings mills.

princehak33m.bsky.social @princehak33m.bsky.social · 10h

The way Atlanta people argue about what areas are considered “real Atlanta” and what isn’t is so funny to me. I don’t notice it with any other city.

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 7h

Sometimes I feel like the only person on the planet who really likes this song.

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 7h

But it's how they all DO.

A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 7h

FOP is basically a mafia for people with qualified immunity.

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 8h

I mean, it could end up being a good thing if it lights a fire under Pritzker's ass to do something more than just "Film them and peacefully protest and we will sue them at a later date" performances.

Actually standing up to MAGA would sap ALOT of their momentum in other states.

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 8h

"Flour Ranger"

a drawing of a skeleton wearing a hooded jacket with the words heh written below it

Alt: Heh

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MrJohnBusiness @mrjohnbusiness.bsky.social · 9h

Langston Hughes was all over that:

Negroes,
Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble and kind:
Beware the day
They change their mind!
Wind
In the cotton fields,
Gentle Breeze:
Beware the hour
It uproots trees!

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 9h

"I hear tell of a new social media network!"

A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 9h

Imagine a choir where 70% the people in it are off key, off beat, singing the wrong lyrics, and trying really hard to be heard over everyone else.

Removing some of the voices can turn it into harmony.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 10h

"May we come in" Lookin asses.

a group of people are standing in a dark room with a lantern .

Alt: "We heard tale of a new social media platform!"

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HERbron James 🐐 @meekayelah.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re able, please support Rudy and his team as they continue to build a separate community for us on #blacksky! They deserve all the support for how they’ve handled things from day 1 for our community.

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 10h

"Uncolored"

Sometimes "wight walkers"

a black and white photo of a man with white face and horns

Alt: a black and white photo of a man with white man in Wisconsin winter

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 11h

We all have that one uncle.

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 11h

So we just gonna rehash this same argument every generation, huh?

"It seems to me," said Booker T.,
"It shows a mighty lot of cheek To study chemistry and Greek
When Mister Charlie needs a hand
To hoe the cotton on his land, And when Miss Ann looks for a cook, Why stick your nose inside a book?"
"I don't agree," said W.E.B.
"If I should have the drive to seek Knowledge of chemistry or Greek, I'II do it. Charles and Miss can look Another place for hand or cook, Some men rejoice in skill of hand, And some in cultivating land,
But there are others who maintain The right to cultivate the brain."
"It seems to me," said Booker T.,
"That all you folks have missed the boat
Who shout about the right to vote, And spend vain days and sleepless nights
In uproar over civil rights.
Just keep your mouths shut, do not grouse, But work, and save, and buy a house."
"I don't agree," said W.E.B.
"For what can property avail
If dignity and justice fail?
Unless you help to make the laws,
They'll steal your house with trumped-up clause.
A rope's as tight, a fire as hot,
No matter how much cash you've got.
Speak soft, and try your little plan, But as for me, I'lI be a man."
"It seems to me," said Booker T.--
"I don't agree,"
Said W.E.B.

A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 17h

Ever talked to a Mormon from Wyoming?