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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton

@authorwinifred.blacksky.app

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Writes lots of Magical Black Girls Burning Shit Down. Midwife to Be. Voodoonauts Fellow '22. Hurston/Wright Speculative Fellow '23. She/Her. AuthorWinifred, no matter where you are, no matter how far. winifredburton.com I block AI/NFT/Crypto accounts

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

My in-bio site is functional in a static business card kind of way. I know newsletters are what all the cool authors have, the way my neurology is set up newsletters are hell. But Ko-fi is a great place to catch up with me, and if we're accustomed to interacting my DMs can get you my Signal.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · 1d

📈 Dream Foundry is seeking fundraising volunteers! Help us connect with donors and find the money to keep our awesome programs running.
Give us a shout in ⁠our Discord under #volunteering or send an email to [email protected]

Dream Foundry is looking for Fundraising Volunteers

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 12h

what if we kissed by the Lady in the Tree

Lady in the Tree, an art installation in nature combining real tree roots and moss to appear as though a woman was either subsumed or birthed from a large tree.

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Winnie Madikizela’s boo @dre-withwithout.blacksky.app · 33m

If you could, share, repost, boost and donate.

I’d truly appreciate it, thank you.

Winnie Madikizela’s boo @dre-withwithout.blacksky.app · 8d

I have to go to the Hematologist Oncologist tomorrow (Tuesday) since they may have found something but they don’t know what.

So, I’m restless, but I’m kind of at the point of acceptance of whatever at this point.

Ideally I just want to lay my brother to rest, all else I’m cool with:

Donate to Help me receive my little brother Dravin Matiste, organized by Andre Small

It’s taking me a lot to do this and I was just here asking for help ma… Andre Small needs your support for Help me receive my little brother Dravin Matiste

gofund.me

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 33m

Think they my boss, 🤣

Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 37m

There's something about finding a half eaten pickle on my doorstep that screams "Miss Winifred where you been?" in the form of Tiny Lego Buddy wellness check.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 2h

Willful inability, more like.

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Toni Bradfield @tonibradfield.bsky.social · 2h

This info that the US shook off authoritarianism in the 1920s will come as a surprise to my relatives who grew up under Jim Crow in the 1950s

Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 1d

Gifting this one: interesting, important read on how the USA shook off authoritarianism of 1920s. Yes cataclysm is part of it.
But bolstering the WEB Duboises & Sidney Hillmans of today?
Pushing Grand Experiments for democracy?
BRING IT ON.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Opinion | How to Save the American Experiment

www.nytimes.com

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 2h

It is as stunningly disgusting as it is predictable.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 2h

Y'all's incredulity and inability to focus on root problems (I guess before a SCOTUS ruling Black people in South Shore were safe from life altering racial profiling) amounts to "Be re-enslaved without much fuss please, or else they'll start a war (on us too). Then we'll never see The Files!"

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 12h

This wasn’t done in secret. They wanted the whole world to see this.

In video footage from NewsNation, whose camera crew was invited to join the raid, masked agents are shown surrounding the building wearing green uniforms, with vests and yellow lettering spelling out "U.S.
Customs and Border Patrol".
Some officers pointed handguns equipped with tactical lights at the building; others held long rifles and wore helmets equipped with cameras and lights. Helicopters hovered in the sky, and agents on the ground threw flashbang grenades. Hastily awakened residents were only given a few seconds to open before agents broke doors down and forced their way inside, according to recordings by residents witnessing the raid.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 7h

You cannot have "discourse" with people bent on your destruction.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

Additionally depending on how this Chicago deployment unfurls closing out this fundraiser will give me the space to not go to a gig if it means passing through multiple troop checkpoints that are not safe for me.

Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 20d

Oh Hai 👋🏿

If I can keep these gig contracts steady, the last 15% of this campaign (that I started in October 2022) will go to the bigger ticket items that I still need like neonate appropriate pulse oximeters, for ex., and my licensure exam fees.

This is what I came for.

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 7h

Kinda like watching all the people cheering about the announcement for the Indigenous no-tariff traderoutes, thinking that meant we were going to open a kind of NDN Costco for white people to shop at was...something else.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 5h

I've wished (outloud) for people on the outside to get a more realistic account from local trans people of the systemic problems of being trans in 🇳🇴. Maybe more people will listen now.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 6h

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 9h

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 6h

This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly

Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 1d

- put down the damn AI.

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Girl, That’s Scary @girlthatsscary.blacksky.app · 17h

Argue with the government the way you argue with Black ppl in their mentions.

Maybe we’ll get some shit done✨

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 6h

If Blacksky moderation is working for you, please report JR Tomlin for anti-Black harassment.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 9h

I can't even imagine how disconcerting the mechanical soulless slop machines must be if you're an organic soulless slop machine.

MrBeast: AI means it's 'scary times' for YouTube creators

He says he's worried about what will happen to millions of creators when AI videos are as good as normal ones.

www.bbc.com

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RevMelanieNOLA @revmelanienola.bsky.social · 9h

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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KC Butterfly🦋 @kc-butterfly.bsky.social · 8h

Stop arguing with white people.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 7h

Gotta be.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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the lady from Bluesky @beigewunder.blacksky.app · 10h

I say all the things. I will loudly say I like your nose. Your eyebrows. Your lashes. The back of your knee. Whatever.

🦋 @delaniaesq.bsky.social · 11h

If you like someone’s nose, would you say it? lol It’s such an odd thing to say unlike a smile.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 7h

Realizing I had a thing for noses was a moment.

I have my reasons.

🦋 @delaniaesq.bsky.social · 11h

If you like someone’s nose, would you say it? lol It’s such an odd thing to say unlike a smile.

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