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Official Torrie Shepard fan page 💩🥰🤡🤎views are mine and not my employer, duh. 🥴 Black woman | she/her/hers A little gifty gift if you’re feeling generous 🤭 https://www.myregistry.com/giftlist/tswizzygiftgift

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torrie @tswizzy.blacksky.app · Dec 29

“How could I have thought that I could speak truth to power and not be punished.” —bell hooks, “Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life”

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torrie @tswizzy.blacksky.app · 16m

I actually love the new trend of promoting new projects with iconography from the new on your old. Saw Kesha do it and now my girls. I’m into it

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Crazier by LE SSERAFIM on Apple Music

Song · 2024 · Duration 2:58

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Backroad Bill🌴 @primelikedeion.blacksky.app · 48m

They jumping you but you right

Arrogant Esquire @arrogantade.blacksky.app · Jul 25

Pickles one of the worst things ever created.

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Supernova Momma @supernovaparenting.org · 45m

HERE WE ARE

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 46m

"You don't look autistic ."
Cool. You don't look like someone who says dumb shit, but here we are 🥰💕

Phenomenally autistic in a pink breast cancer awareness shirt that says support squad with the pink breast cancer ribbon her hands on her hip curly hair with 2 small pink bows one on each side

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Take Me To The Bridge… @4everbowleggz83.me · 1h

Auntie Dolly said she ain’t going no where!

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torrie @tswizzy.blacksky.app · 1h

Tis time to finally spin this 🧡

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 3h

In the words of the old Black grandmothers “what kind of sense does it make to have a wet pussy and a dry pocketbook?”

Bitch I want some flowers TOO. A BILL PAID. I want my favorite candy. I want you to consider & take care of me. You want to use me mind, body, and soul but I cant ask for ANYTHING?

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Last Of The Elder Gods @4meshewill.bsky.social · 4h

Bleu Cheese is superior to ranch.

The Walking Punchline™️ @jaisonatalives.bsky.social · 4h

Oh I done wandered away from safety 😨 folks hyping up blue cheese over ranch...

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torrie @tswizzy.blacksky.app · 3h

I love her and beg AGAIN for Sabrina Carpenter to always stay true to her looks 🥹

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 9h

It's International Lesbian Day! 🧡🤍💗

As a reminder, you can get so many literary lesbians from me at riengray.shop and they are all unabashedly attuned with their sexuality 🔥

My one trad pub release is also available here: www.amazon.com/Her-Wolf-Wil...

Covers for Rien Gray's lesbian romance books: Valerin the Fair, The Scales of Seduction, Her Wolf in the Wild, and Martis the Brazen.

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Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 9h

From Oaxaca, one of the Mexican cities with the highest percentage of Afro-Mexicans. Their ancestors were brought as slaves by the Spaniards during the colonial period, and they later integrated with Mexican society.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6h

Al Jazeera Director General Sheikh Nasser bin Faisal Al Thani says 'protecting journalists is protection of the truth.'

Al Jazeera chief urges better protection for journalists in conflict zones

Al Jazeera Director General Sheikh Nasser bin Faisal Al Thani says 'protecting journalists is protection of the truth.'

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shrek is love, mugler is life ❤️‍🔥 @bleeker.bsky.social · 8h

Ayo Edebiri for Vogue US

📸 Tyler Mitchell
🛍️ Alex Jordan Harrington.
💄 Raoúl Alejandre
✂️ Cyndia Harvey

#fashionsky #filmsky

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Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com · 21h

It’s been quite amazing to watch people call on CPD (of all entities) to fight on behalf of the oppressed. There is a reason why we don’t see police leading revolutions. They are a function of the state and will give deference to the feds, as required by law. youtube.com/shorts/WDHFe...

Can local police arrest ICE?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 2d

Diana Ross in, Mahogany (1975).

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Witness Docs @ajwitness.bsky.social · 1d

Since the start of Israel's war on Gaza two years ago, Gaza’s Civil Defence has been under enormous pressure. The rescue workers know every mission could be their last.

Follow a civil defence worker as he saves people after Israeli airstrikes: aje.io/Rescue

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 13h

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims.”

Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 14h

no words

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

The Department of Agriculture expects the recall to grow.

HelloFresh Meals May Contain Listeria-Contaminated Spinach, USDA Says

The Department of Agriculture expects the recall to grow.

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 1d

- put down the damn AI.

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torrie @tswizzy.blacksky.app · 18h

Yeah I’m triggered by Edmond. I’m done here.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20h

US commentator Van Jones has apologised for making a joke about Palestinian babies killed by Israeli attacks, but he is not alone when it comes to dehumanising comments about Gaza aje.io/33pm5k

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 21h

The former LSU standout’s death is part of a troubling rise in suicides among young Black men. capitalbnews.org/black-men-me...

Kyren Lacy’s Death at 24 Sheds Light on Black Male Suicide Crisis

The former LSU standout's death is part of a troubling rise in suicides among young Black men.

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Andrea Plaid @ajplaid.bsky.social · 21h

🚨🚨 EMERGENCY🚨🚨

🚨🚨👉🏿Need $200 by tomorrow morning at 9AM👈🏿🚨🚨 so I can take Lyft to my jobs until I get my paycheck on Friday.

Whatever you can spare will be amazing, fam. If you can't give $$$, please give a boost. Everything helps!

Venmo: @TheJunctureX
CashApp: $TheJunctureX

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