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Langston Blues

@dradambanks.bsky.social

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Committed teacher, midnight believer, solo soul. Still a Slow Jam in a Hip Hop world. Here for all things Deep Space Nine, Donny Hathaway, Patrice Rushen and Futurama. And for general smart stuff, foolishness and irreverence. Cleveland + Bay Area

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 37m

One thing that’s probably getting overlooked here is: these folks are serious about this stuff.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 9h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 3h

Definitely. I lingered long on this one when the album dropped. Ran it several times today too.

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 3h

I really appreciate this 🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 3h

Higher, the last track on Brown Sugar

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 4h

School lunch "mystery meat" from back in the day looked better than those pieces of wood Arby's selling

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in open rebellion. @down2marsgirl.bsky.social · 5h

How could they be doing that? The techbros are obviously the smartest people in the room right now.

Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 5h

These AI companies are doing one of the frauds Enron got caught doing

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 6h

The collective delulu of these companies and markets thinking they're going to ride this AI wave. Mmmmmmm mmmm! This snake oil good!

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 6h

Jesus the crash is going to CRASH when it crashes.

Also, I'm guessing this means wally world is going to move into the scourge they call "dynamic pricing"

TAT360 💕💚 @tat360.bsky.social · 6h

finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart...

Walmart stock hits all-time high after announcing partnership with OpenAI

Walmart is the latest company to announce a partnership with OpenAI.

finance.yahoo.com

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 6h

I settled on a clip from the (incredible) doc Sly Lives! (watch it now on Hulu if you haven't.) I think it's the most transparent commentary I ever heard from D'Angelo; it's about Sly, but it's really about him.

My plan was to grab a whole different clip, but this one felt right.

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 6h

I got the call around 10am, then spent the next hour and change texting with the folks I knew who also got word, and the thing that kept circling in my mind was that I couldn't think of a single comparable artist loss for Black Gen X.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 7h

and they're not even near addressing the mental health problem

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 8h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 8h

There's a project that has me thinking hard about this route too

Feyd-Author @theboywhowrote.bsky.social · 8h

Complete self-publishing might be the way to go going forward.

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Winnie Madikizela’s boo @dre-withwithout.blacksky.app · 8h

Blue Lives Matter origin argument:

Pixie Thinks🧚🏽‍♀️ @pixiethinkss.bsky.social · 11h

"We cant defund the slave patrols because who's gonna catch the bad slaves?!"

K (Any prns) ♿ @halakal.bsky.social · 13h

Every day people prove to me that they would've demonized slaves for revolting against their oppressors

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 9h

The lies start right at the top! "To make sure we were being careful with mental health issues."

Bruh.

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Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 9h

do these people realize how stupid they sound when they speak/type out loud? “Less enjoyable for people with no mental health issues…”
If you don’t GTFOHWTBS

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 9h

These tech bros out here ruthless, reckless, and regardless.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 9h

Samuel Please

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 9h

IKYFL..."now that we have been able to mitigate..." Ol boy out here just lying without ruth, reck, or regard.

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 10h

This. I couldn't have said it any better. Yes, and thank you.

Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 11h

The ground shifted when that album dropped. Impact crazy, then and ongoing.

pbsimpulse9.bsky.social @pbsimpulse9.bsky.social · 11h

I put Voodoo up there as one of the greatest R&B albums in the 21st Century.

It’s fabulous how well that album has aged. Then coming back with the Black Messiah almost 15 years later. We lost a timeless artist, man.

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 11h

Truly.

Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 11h

Damn. We losing so many people, but this one hits hard. Fly on home and take your rest, D'Angelo.

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 12h

Yes!!! 😭

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 13h

They tore it down, it was a tall apartment building on Terrace, right past Euclid and Superior. Terrace Rd is brutal now

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