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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3h

the web is already decentralized.

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 11h

It’s the least technical of all the solutions in the market now, with an intuitive workflow and built in distribution. Also, most writers are not tinkerers, and don’t want to be.

Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 15h

Why do seemingly well-intentioned people keep using Substack?

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 12h

We need to float some fake aave term just to see this clowns do what clowns do best.

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow is women's R&B day from 7am - 7pm PST. Send suggestions.

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 1d

Real Dubai chocolate is not as sweet as the ones sold in America, and in general, American chocolate is subpar compared to the rest of the world. But that won't stop the swindle!

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 1d

They were a call to action, to build a community grounded in justice and mutual care. In that way, his vision was deeply protosocialist, confronting the hierarchies of his time with a love that demanded liberation.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus stood with the poor, allegedly healed the sick, and spoke against those who hoarded wealth and power. His teachings weren’t about passive faith;

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 2d

Making Trump the central figure in all this, instead of the conditions that created his ascent is a mistake.

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Gaal Dornick @onthecountof3.bsky.social · 4d

Brooklyn. Have you seen this lady? Her family fears that she may have been picked up by ICE.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely never.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

Igbo men are my kryptonite, unfortunately.

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

It's not the apps. It's the raw ingredients, which are all anti-black. If you do not do the work to address as much of it going in, you will not get anything that is not anti-black. Even the AT protocol is anti-black.

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skylerb97.bsky.social @skylerb97.bsky.social · 3d

Part of why I rarely posted before the election even though I had an account since the rate limit thing with Twitter in 2023 is I felt like on some level this app would repeat Jack's mistakes of not taking bigotry seriously

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 3d

I think a lot lately about how so many Black folks were hesitant to come to this site because many of us figured this is where it would go and I have never seen one person so utterly committed to single handedly burning any and all good will their site has accumulated like a five alarm gas fire.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 3d

It’d be nice to have a single place on the internet where black people or trans people or indigenous people or any queer people can simply exist free from tech doofuses and power-mad Karens with nothing on the ball but heads full of air but thats too much like right, I guess

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

As long as we live in an antiblack world, where the raw ingredients of this reality are conscripted to form this world's order, the finished goods will also be antiblack. EVEN IF you are a Black person forming those goods.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 3d

Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite.

To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.

race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 3d

so now link is suspended with no email

link pointing out that jay now follows jonathan chait and suggesting that it may be for transphobic reasons

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

Fortification for the week.

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

It's e wa jeun Sunday. I'm making greens, two kinds of cornbread, banana bread, tofu, egg bite casserole, maybe moin moin, baked spicy-sweet chicken, and jollof rice.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

You must not forget the thing our ancients evolved to understand: we are not all merely connected, we are one. You must speak life, not just because empire hates when you demand to live in dignity and honor, but because you are worthy of your life.

Speak. Life.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

The rulers of this world are counting on us to be as bloodthirsty as they are, to participate in the violence. They have enlisted young men, descendants of slavery, straight women, forgotten parts of our societies, and more to do the work of bigotry so they can clean up in profit.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

For every post of death and violence, speak life over the people and communities involved. Remind yourself of their worthiness, of their holiness, of their dignity, of their honor. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. SPEAK. LIFE.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

The rulers of this world are counting on us forgetting this, and you can see how Black Africans have been conscripted to this work, too. But when we remember, we are formidable, and empires hate when you demand life for yourself and for others. So remember. Speak life.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

Human life is worthy, and no more or less worthy than the rest of life on this earth not merely because we are all connected, but because we are one.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

This is what the rulers of this world's order counts on: the disposibility of humans. And they got us in on the con by thinking if we dispose other humans we're going to get a piece of the pie. We will not.

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