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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them)

@melanatedmagus.blacksky.app

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36. Chicago. Sociology Master’s Student interested in how Nerd Culture and also Queer Culture works, but also their intersection. Also other stuff. Not angry enough to be a socialist, too 🫳🏾 to be a liberal. Gender is a scam.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · Nov 13

I’ve been thinking about how to best explain myself to y’all who are new to me, and I think I’m going to do a thing from Twitter where I repost 20 books that have had a big influence on me, but without any commentary. So here we go!

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Eelaware @eelaware.bsky.social · 12h

good night and have a pleasant tomorrow

this is a blessing slug and you don't have to do anything for it to work. once u see it you are blessed forever

picture of a slug that is pleased to see you

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · Sep 26

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An abstract line art illustration of Drew Barrymore in Scream, a woman with short blonde hair wearing a cream sweater. She is holding a phone in one hand and a knife in the other. The background is white with a pink block of colour. Red text is written across the illustration, “he's big aNd he Plays FOOTBALL aNd hE’Ll bEaT thE Shit OUT of you”

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 11h

Real ones will know that at my big age I yearn for the return of WNUA.

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 11h

The YouTube algorithm also fed me George Benson and now Anita Baker. I am truly in my element.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 12h

I refuse to let the Texans invading deter me from enjoying my night meats and a little Lisa Stansfield.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 13h

We used to be a proper country.

Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · Dec 6

CON AIR and FACE/OFF were released 3 weeks apart in June of 1997.

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Tana 🍂 @justmostlymemes.bsky.social · 15h

My toxic trait is

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 13h

Our neighbors need Justice, and I worry that it’s going to take so much to get it for them that we won’t collectively try to get it for them.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 13h

Again, every additional detail about this situation is So Much, and we can’t look away from it.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 17h

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.

southsideweekly.com

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 13h

Oh trust that I deleted before I posted that. I’m not too good for a selective edit.

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 14h

And I would argue that if you care about Black people in Alabama or Chicanx people in Arizona having substantive civil rights, you should care about that.

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 14h

This feels like a pretty solid state of play right now, which should be like a 5-alarm fire situation for those of us who care about the existence of the United States.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17h

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 14h

lol you ever read your posts back and see so many typos that you get high key embarrassed?

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 15h

I’m not just saying that Rudy is the GOAT; I’m saying that he is the ideal-type “leader” of a tech platform.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 19h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

I feel like people in the replies are so fixated on #1 that they’re skipping over Will saying,essentially, that to get people to live in denser neighborhoods, they need more class and racial segregation.

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

As much as downtown wears a sunny day really well, I love the vibe when it’s raining more.

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

Can I just say? 60 degrees and drizzling is putting so much fuel back in my tank.

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

Forever more referring to a late evening snack of salami as “my night meats”

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𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.social · 1d

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so gl

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Teacoa R. A. Rushton @teacoarushton.com · 5d

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

Thank you for giving us so much! Love you back!

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

Wow that’s shockingly racist. Like it’s not a surprise that Bari Weiss is this way, but it’s still so much.

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

Please listen to Diane, even if you’re already in (or past) your 30s.

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 1d

My advice to people entering their 30s: don’t assume something will die forever just because it appears to be encountering a massive setback/reversal. Wait, plan, breathe, but don’t give up at the first sign of trouble. Courses correct. New information comes out. Shit changes constantly

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s not give up just yet.

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