We spoke with four Black women who lost their jobs in the past year and have since landed new roles. Here’s what they had to say to other Black women about using their networks and building new skills to land their next roles.

After facing layoffs, Black women knew who to turn to for support: Black women

We talked to four women who lost their jobs in a wave of cuts last year. They have advice for other Black women navigating the bleak market.

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Do you feel like your employer is dystopian? It could be worse... www.heptagonbooks.co.uk/articles/12-... #severance #dystopia #dystopian #bookclub #booksky #bksybookclub #BookRecs #books

12 Books Like Severance for Your Work-Life Dread — Heptagon Books. Stories with many sides. From workplace rom coms to speculative thrillers.

Looking for books like Severance? These unsettling workplace dystopias, reality-bending thrillers and corporate nightmares keep the innie energy going.

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The U.S. economy saw an unexpected decline in jobs during July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday in a snapshot that showed a slowing employment picture. Read more: cnb.cx/4bCo6LY

lol hire young people for jobs 2026 challenge

Blacksky. Available now on iOS and Android.

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Joining the beta is easy. Download for iOS: testflight.apple.com/join/ST8N2Qda Download for Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d... If you run into any issues, you can follow the instructions here for help: docs.blacksky.community/info-about-b...

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Can you make a longer word with each new letter? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

Play Shuffalo: Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

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”No one is encouraging Black women to have more babies” AND I remember a time when there was a concern globally that Black women were having too many babies. The North remembers.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

lol if you replace all the entry-level workers with "AI agents," who is going to replace middle management? More AI agents?

Guy Berger@econberger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Underrated how much “young people you don’t hire because you’re using AI” will soon evolve into the future problem “slightly older people you didn’t hire, but now need to curate the output of AI”

I love @tressiemcphd.bsky.social brain. “Doing the job of the state is a threat to the state. […] If the people turn to each other, and self organize, that is seen as a threat.“

Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith@mewefree.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A very easily overlooked aspect of the Panthers. Hoover said the Free Breakfast Program was the biggest internal threat to the US.

Black women Black womening >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

19thnews@19thnews.org · 4mo ago

Spelman College is making history this commencement season with seven valedictorians, the most in the Atlanta institution's history. They have a wide range of majors and an even wider range of ambitions — and all of them achieved a perfect 4.0 GPA. https://bit.ly/4uRgIn9

TLDR: Work by Sara Bana and co-authors finds that a handful of AI hiring platforms can define the job market trajectory of thousands of candidates because they don't update resume scores. Let those platforms be biased, and guess who bears the brunt? Black and Asian people.

Raleigh Selene@presidentkelly.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

i did not know this

"Does your college need a Librarian for AI?" --> ...the most common response was an increased demand for AI literacy instruction (83 percent), followed closely by the integration of AI tools in discovery systems (74 percent). t.e2ma.net/click/lvcwwi...

I use a few Fossify apps, rather than the default. Free to download, no data collected or shared. (They provide apps for text messages, phone calls, contacts, a file manager, a gallery and a calender). play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Fossify Messages - Apps on Google Play

Open-source and Ad-free SMS/MMS messaging app

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What alternatives do we have to Samsung forcing us to use Google's awful Gemini product for texting aside from giving up texting?

Samsung is discontinuing its texting app, tells impacted users to switch to Google Messages

Samsung is saying goodbye its namesake texting app. According to an end of service announcement published on the tech giant’s U.S. support website, Samsung Messages will be discontinued in July.

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State of St. Louis@stateofstlouis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I woke up this morning to see Samsung trying to force me to use a Google product. Again. Then I posted good morning on Bluesky, after being timed out a dozen times, followed by long period unable to get back on. It's still not working properly. Don't know what real issue is, so have no solution 🤷‍♀️

Can you sort the items into the correct order? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

Play Catalogues: Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Can you sort the items into the correct order?

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Let us know if you want encrypted DMs for Blacksky that can't be read by anyone but you and the recipient. 🔐👀

Tessa Brown@tessa.germnetwork.com · 3mo ago

Blacksky <> Germ DM gonna be littyyyyy

Google Search as you know it is over "Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times."

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t...

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- Kagi: Paid but better experience than Google - Ecosia: Similar experience while supporting a good cause - Qwant: Increasingly unique results and building a EU-first index - DuckDuckGo: Privacy-focused search, but quality of results may vary purchasewithpurpose.io/category/sea...

Heavy on the “it depends on Bluesky-the-corporation for none of its operation.” 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Aaron Ross Powell@aaronrosspowell.com · 4mo ago

Is Bluesky dying? Is it the community's fault? Should people here refrain from criticizing journalists who think J. K. Rowling might have a point? The thing is, it doesn't matter. Because the answer isn't to make Bluesky change. It's to take advantage of Bluesky's tech to build something else.

This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

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Black people, we’ve been here before—so make a plan to register, to vote anyway—make them stop us and make it public.

They did it! ❤️ #booksky #blacksky #blackbooksky www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Viral campaign by reading community saves an award winning Black bookshop

Afrori Books has secured its immediate future after surpassing its urgent target of 1,000 book sales, following a viral month-long campaign driven by fears over rising costs and the threat of closure.

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Amara@bloomandfeast.com · 4mo ago

Award-winning Black bookshop faces "critical moment" to reach 1000 book sales goal. Afrori Books has just four days to reach its goal in order to keep its doors open. #booksky #blacksky #blackbooksky www.thecommunityreporter.co.uk/p/black-book...

Et tu, Sci-Hub?? 🧪

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sci-Hub, a pirate website that illegally hosts tens of millions of scientific papers, has launched an artificial intelligence–based chatbot that mines the database and answers questions based on what it retrieves. Read more: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #chemsky 🧪

I was very fortunate to get it via library loan because it is quite pricey. Some of the individual articles are available for free online, via academia.edu . This book is highly specific to one small region in Ukraine but there are a wealth of articles about the era in general on that site

Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers

Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.

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Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available Now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

There really should be a support group for brutalist academic libraries. All of my libraries would be founding members.

This graph shows how registration rates between Black and White voters varied in Louisiana since Reconstruction. In a single image, it tells the story of political power and discrimination. Black voters had power, briefly, then it was taken from them. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...

That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...