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Derain Collier

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I am Derain Collier. Architect, Author, and all around car fanatic obsessed with engines. Write what you know, right🏳️‍🌈? Bi+, Polyam, Demi&Enby🏳️‍⚧️. He/They

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · Aug 31

Here's a running thread of my books since Amazon wants to add "sponsored" books to my author search. 😒

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 2h

Multiple zag lightning bolts would make it harder to connect. But that's a straight up copy of the SS lightning bolts... That white women are so susceptible to racism and REFUSE to listen is scary.

Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 3h

We been knew…

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 8h

Bf was really hurt today bc he wasn't able to get back home to see Miss Major before she passed way.

He was really close to her and she was a big influence on him. I want nothing but peace for him and I'm glad she is at peace now as well 🫶🏿

Folks were to not say anything yet, but it got out. 😑

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 10h

I'm so confused.

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 15h

I don't even remember this!!! Omg. Throw the whole MF away.

Give it up Deelishis you look like a man..🧍🏾‍♂️ @blackranga.blacksky.app · 1d

I was good on Ray J after this. 🤷🏽‍♂️✨

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Satan @s8n1.bsky.social · 15h

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 18h

Play too much AND cracked the code

I'm crying "farted in my hand"

Miss Jay @missjay.bsky.social · 18h

Bruh 😂

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 20h

HERE HERE

I burned a hole in the VHS watching this scene over and over again 😂

"It's a trick question!"

june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 23h

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1992).

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 23h

They literally could stop this TODAY if they actually cared. They don't care enough. So it continues on.

Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

See, ONLY a white man could do this.

If a Black man did this, he’d likely be tackled and kidnapped.

This is why we keep saying white people CAN FIX THIS if y’all want.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

See, ONLY a white man could do this.

If a Black man did this, he’d likely be tackled and kidnapped.

This is why we keep saying white people CAN FIX THIS if y’all want.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Father Vizy @vizylawrence.me · 1d

Depends. Is their mama white? And which parent did they grow up with?

B R A N D O N @sirbrandonthomas.com · 1d

Are zebras black with white stripes or white with black stripes?

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 23h

I don't really believe in sign stuff so of course I would. My deepest closest friends are same sign as me.

I have bad experiences with Aries and Taurus. Almost universally bad...

Sagittarius and borderline Sag/Scorpio are usually really compatible with me.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 1d

6. Would you date someone with the same sign as you?

Why or why not?

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 1d

Another one?! Ughhhhh man.

Making us look bad 😂 I wish folks would be up front about their intentions.

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 1d

Something to remember as you gear up to "protest"

"Power cedes nothing without demand. Never has and never will"
~Frederick Douglass.

Until you DEMAND change none will happen.

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 1d

This why my Mac is requested. Small details make the difference 😂

Snack Queen @auntiebaecc.blacksky.app · 1d

People who make mac - please grate your cheese. That's all.

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Ariella @ariella-monti.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately, if you want to make a living writing books you have to sell them 😒

Day 1 of me being more intentional about marketing my books.

So…ummm…I wrote this fantasy romance. It’s called ROOTS IN INK. It doesn’t have dragons but it does have helpful crows and dog and cat familiars.

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 1d

This right here. Nothing about something happening a world away can be done if we don't have the rights or power to do anything right here.

FOCUS ppl.

Reagan Gomez @reagangomez.bsky.social · 1d

At this point, if someone’s words & actions are not encouraging ppl to do everything they can to get the rights & services back that this admin & the Repub party have taken from us, I can’t take you seriously. Nothing is more important than getting these resources/rights back.

Oh hey Chels! @chelsisright.bsky.social · 1d

I will never forgive people for this. www.k12dive.com/news/special...

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Turtleberry 🐢🍓 @sweetturtleberry.com · 1d

i really enjoy my interactions with most people on social media...

i also enjoy seeing other people interact with their tribe on social media...

it reminds me that many of us understood the assignment...

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Candidly Tiff @tify330.bsky.social · 1d

The protestors at Kamala’s book tour should have spent $30 on her book vs $300 to disrupt her. They would have learned something instead of being anti black chaos agents hellbent on annoying her and her audience.

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Elphabussy Thropp @dayoftheweek.bsky.social · 1d

DO NOT RSVP TO A PROTEST!!!!

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

Please pitch in if you can to help make next Saturday the biggest day of protest in US history! We’re seeing a surge in RSVPs and we need to match that enthusiasm with the resources and support that our groups, hosts, and volunteers need: secure.actblue.com/donate/indiv...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

She didn't ask to be there but Kerry Washington was in my dream this morning confessing to having eaten 5 of my frozen très leches cakes from Trader Joe's. And when I asked her to pony up cash for them she said that's not how business is done.

Dream Kerry Washington sucks.

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 1d

Buddy tried to "man I'm genuwine!" Himself some free chicken from My homie in highschool at the Popeyes 😂

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 1d

Genuwine screaming 9 o'clock while gesturing 3 o'clock with his hands is so him-coded. Loud and wrong 😂

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 1d

You know what? Fuck it... White people doing wild shit might be what breaks the brain of other whites. 😂

How you in a warzone but ass naked on a bike? Maybe that goes in for them ... 🤷🏿‍♂️

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