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OKSOTHICK. @sayitaintsoph.bsky.social · 24m

I think black people should have hair care approached in a community bartering way anyway. But yknow. Capitalism.

sdy292.bsky.social @sdy292.bsky.social · 5h

$70 for a haircut is unsustainable.
And I don’t believe barbers are getting more business. They’re just doing less volume at a higher rate. Basically working less for the same bread. No hate. It’s a free market. But a working man can’t run $70/wk for a cut

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 27m

This is exactly what I just witnessed. I watched this lady ask her questions and my mom just giving the most yes or no or I guess answers, and I’m like EXCUSE ME LET ME TELL YOU WHATS GOING ON NURSE lol

I’m gonna have a breakdown

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 29m

Girl I can’t even believe it. This is exactly what is going on. The last time I went with her I was like maybe she’s just aggravated. But nah she really is not telling them ANYTHING they need to know and I’m having to give them the rundown.

I’m honestly shocked by this rn.

Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 31m

Yep the way people think ChatGPT is the AI that we need to be most worried about eliminating blows my mind lol I’m like that’s the least of our damn worries (not including the very real environmental harm to communities in this).

The convo is too focused on the least interesting AI

Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 32m

I think this is a wake up call that my mother cannot be allowed to go to medical appointments by herself.

I tried to go for certain things like medical procedures, but I think I now need to go to every single appointment with her.

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 34m

I’m so glad I told my mom I was bringing her here because the way she explains shit to the medical people pisses off. She doesn’t tell them anything that would help them understand wtf going on. I’m like girl you have a whole ass medial diagnosis, tell them!!!!!!!!

a woman with curly hair is praying with her eyes closed .

Alt: a woman with curly hair is praying with her eyes closed .

media.tenor.com

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 36m

I agree but the conversation doesn’t seem to be advancing at all. Just stuck.

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 47m

There’s a big ass sign in the waiting area that says no food or beverages and they have two vending machines in the waiting area. What kinda sense do that make?

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 51m

And people thought they were teaching Kamala a lesson. But it’s black children who are suffering.

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 55m

Sudan’s famine is the biggest and most intractable in the world.

Man-Made Famine & Malnutrition in Sudan, Exacerbated by U.S. Aid Cuts

Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who jus...

www.democracynow.org

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 57m

None of these people ever thought about black children when they decided to fuck around with that election.

We already knew the MAGAs didn’t. But look at how many people on “our side” never bothered to think of the black children in their own back yards.

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 59m

Thanks! I think things will be fine. I just want to stick around to advocate for my mom.

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 1h

I want people to understand what they contributed to when they were busy not “rewarding” Kamala or whatever tf they thought they were doing.

WIC literally kept me fed. And now Black children in AMERICA, RIGHT HERE, are going to have to do with less than what I got?!

Fuck these people.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1h

WIC’s application limitations could be especially harmful for Black women living in food deserts like the Mississippi Delta, Cassandra Welchlin said.

She worries about children going hungry because they have difficulties learning and paying attention in school if they do not have access to food.

WIC Stops Accepting Some Applicants Amid Government Shutdown

The WIC program will only accept applications from pregnant women, breastfeeding women and high-risk infants during the federal government shutdown.

buff.ly

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1h

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you!

Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you

Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 1h

It’s amazing to me that even after what we went through during the pandemic that people would sit in emergency room and not want a mask on.

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 2h

I think ppl
Should be concerned about the very real negative things that are happening as a result of AI usage but I don’t think most people understand what AI is or it’s uses and that needs to be a starting point for all of us. It’s way bigger than the internet clownery we see.

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 2h

It’s wild as hell lol

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 2h

Listen. That’s when the real madness unfolds lmaoooooooo

I had this exact convo with my personal training who was parroting some bullshit and when I asked him to show me where he saw this…it was some nut on YouTube 💀💀💀💀

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Mwangangi, RN @mwangangi.blacksky.app · 2h

Watch the discombobulation unfold if you successfully get them to try to figure out where they got their opinion on anything from -- and why listening to / believing that source is different than whatever source is the target of their current mistrust

Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 2h

I’m glad to be part of the last group of people that gladly learned how to research, vet sources, and uses facts to form a position about something.

The rest of these folks is just outrage and vibes.

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 2h

That’s why you can’t really take a lot of online warrior to seriously. Not online, not in politics, not in the streets.

Because at the first sign of unemotional pushback, when they’re confronted with how out their depth they are, they crumble and hide.

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 2h

Then of course they block you out of embarrassment.

Bc think of how fragile your ego has to be to have a loud and wrong position on something and when faced with that, you don’t know how to use it as an opportunity to learn and strengthen your position. 😆

Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 2h

Someone telling me what generative AI is & isn’t doing & when I told them they’re wrong & to go educate themselves they come and admit they’re not really knowledgeable on the issue.

So what did you base your position on?

If you don’t know what you’re talking about, how do you have a position?!!

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 2h

I’m glad to be part of the last group of people that gladly learned how to research, vet sources, and uses facts to form a position about something.

The rest of these folks is just outrage and vibes.

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 2h

I’m not sure why you’re sharing these articles with me and I’m not going to read them.

I’m simply pointing out your statement that you are not well-versed in the tech and encouraging you to go learn more about it rather than having a position that is…not well-versed.

Happy to engage then.

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 2h

Posting again because evergreen.

Mwangangi, RN @mwangangi.blacksky.app · 3h

A bunch of stupid muthafuckas too stupid to realize that

"anti-" isn't a complete thought

Tiffany @webinista.com · 3h

At some point people started conflating “contrarian” with “smart.”