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Bibliophile. Traveler. Movie enthusiast. Public health. Yogi. Polyglot. Retired humanitarian. Detroiter. Black is beautiful. Engagement ≠ endorsement
Being a trumpet is officially a mental illness that gets you outta charges now? 'K.
The Detroit News@detroitnews.com · 43m agoThe accuser has a history of alcohol abuse, hallucinations and delusional thinking, according to an Indiana prosecutor who determined she was not able to form criminal intent.
Elephants were present but rare in my Peace Corps country. One showed up and casually wrecked a field one day, but the eldest son had never seen one in person. He told his dad someone had left their bushtaxi parked in their field. Dad came and looked and was like "Uh...just wait til it leaves 🤷🏿♂️"
Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · yesterdayreading a book on African economics. Amazing how racists contort themselves to create narratives of racial inferiority, when one of the basic explanations for lagging African development is that fucking elephants will destroy crops
The Detroit Labor Day parade is LOADED with people carrying Canadian flags. People here not with the bullshit.
Because tens of millions of equally sick-minded people decided this is what they want 🤷🏾♀️
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3d agoIt’s not funny. It’s not clever. It’s covering up a very sick-minded man who is running this country into the ground.
Extracting gold and timber by the truckload, no money for the roads.
RFI@rfi.fr · 2d agoOuest de la Centrafrique: des habitants «coupés du monde» à Zamboï, théâtre d'un éboulement meurtrier
A couple of nights ago at the Socialism Conference (was watching online), Dr. Angela Davis mentioned Mexico City Utopias. I'd never heard of the project before. mexicosolidarity.com/mexico-citys...
Mexico City's Utopias
Community centers in Mexico City’s most populous and poorest borough demonstrates their transformative power and presents a model for other cities throughout the world.
mexicosolidarity.com
Driving to work I saw entire brick walls reduced to rubble. Trees uprooted and askew. A building at Mack and Gratiot had all its windows blown out. Detroit is looking very Miami-post-hurricane today 😬
Glen M. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@zenhero.blacksky.app · 5d agoMy neighborhood in Detroit got smacked incredibly hard by a tornado yesterday. The power is out & considering DTEs track record & the extent of the damage no telling how long it’ll take to restore.
🇳🇵 Survivors cling to zipline after Nepal floods destroy bridges Flood survivors in Nepal are using a roughly 250-metre makeshift cable to cross over the swollen Trishuli River, a week after one of the country's worst disasters.
I still say it was a fumble skipping Detroit for the World Cup. In another lifetime we'da fed everybody GOOD, shown the people a nice time, had a friendly lil' bridge opening, quick shuttles to Toronto.
Too Tired of bullsh*t to be clever 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🫶🏿@znerd49.bsky.social · 6d agoI love my city. MY FAT ASS WILL BE HERE TOMORROW
I once had a housemate from Peru and she got me boiling fresh rosemary to purify the air
Mr. Stefan@revizion.me · 6d agoIf you're going to boil something, let it be cinnamon & orange peels. Or vanilla beans. Great smell + no loss of IQ
I try to read Their Eyes Were Watching God every year.
SWIIRL (Sativa Diva 💅🏿)@thatonegirlkendra.blacksky.app · 6d agoIn honor of Black Reading Month, drop a book by a Black author you enjoy. Preferably fiction. But do whatever 📖📚
We have had tornado warnings across the tri-county area pretty much all day 😬
Hummingbirds are the tiniest, cutest, most violent thugs in the animal kingdom. All they do is be adorable and fight.
I had to stop reading after paragraph 2 🙄
Philadelphia Inquirer@inquirer.com · 6d agoThree University of Pennsylvania nurses and professors are overwhelmed by the constant barrage of toxic messages and distressing events that shape our sense of who we are as a society and negatively affect our physical and mental health. 👉 www.inquirer.com/opinion/co...
How 'Murcans vote: www.fashiontimes.co.uk/reese-wither...
Reese Witherspoon Chosen as Jury Foreman After Jurors Thought She Went to Law School Because of Legally Blonde
Reese Witherspoon shares a humorous jury duty story where fellow jurors mistook her for a law graduate due to her role as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, highlighting misconceptions about the legal syst...
fashiontimes.co.uk
His own crew calls his wife and kids "street-shitters" and she stands there like 😶
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.JD Vance told El-Sayed to stop invoking Usha after AES said: "Do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no." But it turns out AES offered this *in response* to something vile that JD previously said about how Papaw would have viewed AES: newrepublic.com/article/2149...
I have a friend who retired and lives on his boat, just sailing all over. He is usually at sea and has major news gaps. He found out about these while he arrived somewhere around RepDom and messaged me in abject horror like "What the actual FUCK?! Am I gonna die??!?"
ACLU@aclu.org · last wk.Enough is enough. Tell Congress to put a stop to these illegal and immoral strikes at aclu.org/stop-boat-strikes-
Laat week my neighbor helpfully informed me, *unsolicited*, that he only poops every 15 days for as long as he can remember. Now it's all I can think about when I see him.
