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Cee The Alchemist

@akofenabk.bsky.social

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🌹. I wax poetic. Tamagotchi mom & fluent in Simlish (sul sul). Master of the shadow clone jitsu, from legendary Leaf village of Brooklyn #marxmami #substackjunkie #frissonfreak #discorddiva

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Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · Nov 11

I'll say it again. Hip-Hop did not disappoint us this year.

Ab-Soul
Freddie Gibbs
Griselda
Glorilla
School Boy Q
Lupe Fiasco
Doechii
Tyler the Creator
Tierra Whack
Pete Rock/Common
Larry June
Rapsody
Megan thee Stallion
Vince Staples
JPEGMAFIA

#AddtoBlackSky #HipHop

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Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 20d

This deeply rooted trauma of keeping family business in-house is not only unhelpful, but speaks volumes to how connected and dependent we still are on "the gaze".

Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 20d

It would be -- cultureless. Critique helps to define culture. Critique can be healthy & is necessary. How well you handle and engage with it speaks to your character.

Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 20d

Black people, I'ma say this with love, kill your ego. We are not above public critique. Imagine a world in which James Baldwin, bell hooks, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the likes & more, engaged in an art or expanded in a space of thought expertise, where they did not, in fact, critique.

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Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 20d

I am both stunned at the parallels and ways in which some parts of that story have become my own.

Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 20d

The character Mudear stuck out to me so much that I'd read it 2x more before heading to college at 17yo. In a few weeks, I'll be close to the age my mother was when she first bought and read the book, and it's starting to all make sense.

Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 20d

A core memory of the book, Ugly Ways by Tina McElry Ansa has popped up and rested on my mind for months. I first read my mother's copy when I was 9/10yo.

Book cover "Ugly Ways" by Tina McElry Ansa

Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 22d

#ISO

Used 32"x48" portrait frame in the NYC area. Will pick up.

Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 24d

I'm a new reader of your work and now a forever-fan!

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4:13 🌒 @lunarbreeclipse.blacksky.app · 25d

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Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 25d

Listen, "...in da kitchen, wrist twistin..." wit it! *pun intended*

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Written by Uju ✍🏽 @writtenbyuju.bsky.social · 25d

Amen 🙏🏽

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Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 25d

False equivalency of manhood ≠ possession of a woman's body via children yet its detachment from fatherhood got many males in a chokehold. 2/2

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Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 25d

Let's have an honest & unfortunate chat about when children are the byproduct of a man's attempt to claim ownership over a woman's body. You see quick he bucks when there's another man around his ex but lies quiet when his children are being publicly disrespected. 1/2

Zay The 5’6 Giant @xaviersmith.blacksky.app · 26d

Wait…. Where the fuck is Offset at? Nigga them YO kids too???????

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 26d

Step 1: Acknowledge you're all out of comfortable or convenient options

Step 2: Consider their alternatives w/ protecting the most vulnerable and achieving the goal of saving the greatest number of people the most harm as 1st priority

Step 3: Collaborate w/ people doing Step 2 or get out the way

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Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 25d

Just when I thought dying with all my God given jibbs intact was an achievement, here comes #JT talmbout she on her third set. Every damn day capitalism tries to find new ways to call me poor! SMH

Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 26d

I can't imagine Harriet Tubman thinking this...tuh!

God @thegodpodcast.com · 26d

When are all the terrified people who know this is wrong but think they can just wait out the next three years going to wake up and take their heads out of the sand?

Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 26d

Yes! This must be acknowledged and remembered when we work towards building organized power and the pathways to achieving it.

Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 26d

*deep sigh* Years from now Nicki finna get her jibbs knocked out by a rando, in an untraceable incident. I know it's bad when I'm seeing barbz starting to cringe and call out her behavior.

Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 26d

America has BEEN this, truth be told. That's why it leans so heavily on the 2nd Amendment.

bmazing.bsky.social @bmazing.bsky.social · 27d

mood:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Kam @kam7stunna.bsky.social · 27d

Saw this and… facts

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Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 26d

Dear NYC: I will continue to exit through the gates and hold it open while I search for imaginary gum at the bottom of my bag until the platform empties, EVERY SINGLE TIME.

- a Native

THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 26d

The cost of a single subway, bus or paratransit ride will hit $3 for the first time come January, after the MTA board on Tuesday approved the latest in a series of every-other-year increases.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/m...

MTA Locks in $3 Subway Fare to Start in January

The 2% price hike stands in contrast to double-digit increases in other public transit systems.

www.thecity.nyc

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 27d

In a rare move, members of the press have organized a rally in protest against rising repression following the arrest of *yet another* NY-based photojournalist for documenting the aftermath of a protest event.

3pm - Foley Square - 10/1

#JournalismIsNotACrime

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Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 26d

My concern is that we're TOO LATE. We are being *let* into the AI game whose plan has already been set in motion & is far too advanced for our presence to influence for our benefit. For our liberation! Look at the harm to the environment! Have we forgotten the Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal?!

Cee The Alchemist @akofenabk.bsky.social · 26d

Shared in the comments of the OG post:
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 26d

E.g.,

Arrested by AI: Police ignore standards after facial recognition matches

Confident in unproven facial recognition technology, sometimes investigators skip steps; at least eight Americans have been wrongfully arrested.

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