I have a bug in my ass about the way in which WNBA commentators talk about trans people in sports because they are failing the Kirby test. The point is not that there are no trans women athletes in the W, nor that trans women do not have a competitive advantage when looking at the data.

I was fortunate to learn this early on in life as my parents were very conservative and religious. Learning how many Black folks will fight and die for the hope of being a part of the empire was a hard lesson. But it prepared me for a lot of difficult situations in this life.

Afro Thunder@thesuburbanthug.blacksky.app · 14h ago

Im trying not to get despondent but overall, my people are simply not getting it. They “assimilated” (lol you can’t be Black and assimilate in a white supremacist country but baby do niggas LOVE trying) and think that everything is just gonna magically get better for us. Lololololololololololol

I haven't used Backmarket personally, but I did end up ordering a refurbished replacement. That was my first time in an Apple store in who knows how long - and only in an attempt to get a repair. None of these companies are getting new phone money out of me again.

Your fave's fave@actually.roiskinda.cool · 22h ago

Just buy refurbished and side step this whole charade. I'm an Apple person and I haven't bought anything direct from them in over a decade. www.backmarket.com/en-us

I spend the majority of my day working on my two open source projects, but I do have some space for some small to medium sized projects. My expertise covers a lot of ground, so if you need some help with your online presence, hit me up. Let build something cool. workingwith.roiskinda.cool

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Works, tinkerings and efforts by Ro.

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There are white folk out there gleefully saying they use ai in research but not in prose and they don’t get pushback But let a new black writer write anything… This is about white folks thinking Black people aren’t intelligent, i need you to understand this

I get a kick out of allegedly non-white people who don't show their face, boost all white writers, adopt the political views of white people and are consistently antagonistic with Black folks, being 'offended' when we call them white. Ha, it's not your skin color that makes us say that, champ.

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Barbie Devyndarbė@katchin05.blacksky.app · 22h ago

Oh right. The tech at the Apple Store offered me this 'brand new option' when I came in for a repair attempt. I was genuinely gobsmacked. The goal is that you'll own nothing and thank them for it. (paywall removed) archive.is/202607292349...

Ha, we could get into a convo about how many of those adults are cosplaying as parents, but I'm gonna choose peace today.

PURE/HONEY 💚@letrice718.bsky.social · 22h ago

Yall really been out here raising children the last 20+ years… that is wild to me! Yall are real responsible adults & then there’s me cosplaying out here

And just as a reminder, these concentration camps are allowed to exist b/c this horror is exactly why white people voted for Trump. They collectively do not care about their own dwindling population as long as they can use their political influence to make Black and Brown people suffer and die

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 23h ago

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo’s death in ICE custody “is a terrible reminder of the lethality of the United States’ rapidly expanding immigration detention system and should not be treated as an isolated tragedy,” says @p4hr.bsky.social: phr.org/news/deaths-...

I know people dismiss it as fluff, but after watching both M3gan films, I gotta say there is some real body to what they are trying to say about our relationship with technology. Yes, it's over the top with how it expresses those points, but salient points were being made.

Too many of y'all slept or even threw shade on Terminator: Dark Fate, so you missed the perfect successor to this: Gabriel Luna portraying a Terminator model deftly code switching from a Mexican factory worker to a Texan CPB Agent, and all of what that feels like and intends.

Craig 'VI' Slee: Wednesday Consultant@mrvi.cold-albion.net · last yr.

James Cameron is on record that he made the T-1000 a cop DELIBERATELY. Just saying.

The phrase that comes to mind whenever I think about how the #wnba treats Kelsey Mitchell is “twice as hard, half as far”.

WNBA@wnba.com · 23h ago

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One thing I've come to realize in the last few years is that my curiosity about things and my need to know has made me a better journalist than most people in the US who claim that profession. People are literally getting paid for straight up lying all the time.

The writer of the Atlantic piece, Will Oremus, has a history of specifically going after non-white writers and boosting completely unsubstantiated stories of AI use when their work is celebrated. Confirming, again, the Atlantic is the spot for racists who think they are intellectuals.

Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · 24h ago

❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

The United States: A Brief History

Common Dreams@commondreams.org · yesterday

Trump's Board of Peace is "betraying the very agreement they just made," says Gazan analyst Muhammad Shehada, after it declared that Hamas must fully disarm before Israel begins withdrawing troops in Gaza, contradicting a deal reached last week.

I love your work but I'm not boosting your substack.

I have built a mental barrier that identifies and dismisses white political thought because it only has two goals. The first is to keep us, like them, enslaved to whiteness and the second is absolving themselves of perpetuating the first. It is ideological cancer.

It wouldn’t be difficult at all to point out the multiple ways white people are committed to their own demise on a daily basis. The only thing holding them together is their collective desire to take us with them. They have made it clear they do not want to live in a world w/o hate at its center

The road to fascism was paved with "Reddit atheist" and "shrill feminist" and "blue hair and pronouns". The vanguard wasn't the rabid reactionaries. It was the "normals", "apoliticals", who tolerate occasional sexist comments but mock the "cringe" of well-meaning and earnest but awkward people.

Another example of how a lot of white people would rather be dead than not racist. These people do not want to live.

Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · yesterday

One patient made jokes about a radiographer’s headscarf and complained they couldn’t understand her; she speaks with a mild Yorkshire accent. Another patient waiting to be X-rayed refused to accept a black radiographer and said: “Black people frighten me.” Wow.

#WhitenessIsADeathCult

Lauren Dobson-Hughes@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · yesterday

This is the inevitable result of politicians and the media licensing gutter racism as ‘reasonable opinions’ Relatedly, if you cannot be treated by a non-white medical professional, then you should be deemed to have refused treatment news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...

A point economists & wannabe capitalists still miss: racism trumps making money in the USA. As this and many other nonsensical but deadly polices demonstrate.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · yesterday

Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

TargetingHaitians is a centuries old American playbook And yes that includes folks who refuse to have a memory longer than ten minutes outside of writing . Because when people ask how are you going to make protecting Black people a part of all platforms We get lectures and avoidance

www.politico.com/2024-electio...

Akeiisa Coleman@acinthedc.bsky.social · yesterday

“It’s like you’re in fight mode...The stress is high. The anxiety is high. And then all of a sudden, ‘Oh, it’s magically better.’ But then you’re trying to come down off of it … and you’re like, ‘Well, what’s going to happen the next time?’” indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/08/04/p... #Medicaid

My overdraft is only $2500, so I have never seen my account do this before, but sharing on the off chance that folx in a position to help might be more inclined to do so with evidence of how financial precarity is currently at a breaking point, despite my best efforts as a disabled trauma survivor!🙏🏾

Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️@equitableforall.com · 2d ago

With financial abuse, there is no end to my ex's violations, but even if that cost me paid work since '24, I know I tried everything humanly possible to warn others about how he drained me of $183,364+ over 6.5 years, so if able to help me stay housed, please donate/share!🥹 ko-fi.com/equitablefor...

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Crazy • Scary • Spooky • Hilarious@spookycoochiegawd.blacksky.app · 2d ago

Harper needed his ass whooped for alot of the shit he said and did

Hard agree. This is the exact reason so many bigots on here get so upset about who is allowed to comment on posts and who isn’t.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾@blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bingo. What most abusers want ( most do tech should be filtered through that lens ) Is control . Pundits hate the control being had by anyone but them . Even honoring that framing pisses me off Because you can’t build from entitlement

Angel Reese on why she created her Barbie: “I didn’t have a lot of dolls because I didn’t have dolls that looked like me much, and that’s why I kind of wanna really wanted to make sure this was super intentional …” (Q:?)