K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her)
@howard2home.bsky.social
“What would you do, truly, if you were not afraid?” -Octavia E. Butler
HU👩🏾🎓Fun Sized 🤗Lifelong learner💕
🆕 Understanding Octavia E. Butler (2025) 📚 Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler (2020) 🧛🏾♀️She Bites Back (2018)
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HU👩🏾🎓Fun Sized 🤗Lifelong learner💕
🆕 Understanding Octavia E. Butler (2025) 📚 Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler (2020) 🧛🏾♀️She Bites Back (2018)
https://linktr.ee/drkrparker
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After you watch Sinners, you should read George R.R. Martin’s excellent and underrated vampire novel
After you watch Sinners, you should read George R.R. Martin’s excellent and underrated vampire novel
The Game of Thrones author writes more than great fantasy stories
www.polygon.com
Nope.
Wanna read some blood sucking #BlackVampires ?🧛🏾♀️Gomez’s The Gilda Stories🧛🏾♀️Butler’s Fledgling
🧛🏾♀️Banks’ Vampire Huntress Legend Series
🧛🏿♂️Johnson’s Image of Emeralds and Chocolate🧛🏿♂️Massey’s Dark Corner
🧛🏿♂️Girma’s Immortal Dark🧛🏾♀️Dennings’ This Ravenous Fate
Wanna read some blood sucking #BlackVampires ?🧛🏾♀️Gomez’s The Gilda Stories🧛🏾♀️Butler’s Fledgling
🧛🏾♀️Banks’ Vampire Huntress Legend Series
🧛🏿♂️Johnson’s Image of Emeralds and Chocolate🧛🏿♂️Massey’s Dark Corner
🧛🏿♂️Girma’s Immortal Dark🧛🏾♀️Dennings’ This Ravenous Fate
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We do. But no one is listening.
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We do. But no one is listening.
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We're thankful for everyone keeping Butler's spirit alive.
Check out these 4 works, published this year, that are helping to do just that.
#OctaviaButler #GodIsChange #BlackSciFi #blackwriters #blackwomenwriters #Earthseed
Check out these 4 works, published this year, that are helping to do just that.
#OctaviaButler #GodIsChange #BlackSciFi #blackwriters #blackwomenwriters #Earthseed
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We're thankful for everyone keeping Butler's spirit alive.
Check out these 4 works, published this year, that are helping to do just that.
#OctaviaButler #GodIsChange #BlackSciFi #blackwriters #blackwomenwriters #Earthseed
Check out these 4 works, published this year, that are helping to do just that.
#OctaviaButler #GodIsChange #BlackSciFi #blackwriters #blackwomenwriters #Earthseed
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I once taught a whole lesson on the narratives of deservedness in the very strange concept of “stealing” books from something conspicuously branded as a “free” little library. The students struggled with it. A lot of internalized beliefs about poverty and worth. But I think it was a good lesson.
If you are concerned about people swiping books from your little free library and reselling those books, I ask you to go to your local used bookstore and sell a book
Okay?
Understand?
Alright, next question
Okay?
Understand?
Alright, next question
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I once taught a whole lesson on the narratives of deservedness in the very strange concept of “stealing” books from something conspicuously branded as a “free” little library. The students struggled with it. A lot of internalized beliefs about poverty and worth. But I think it was a good lesson.
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For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
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One, I had not heard this specific example but it’s aligned with the whole history of tech. Not surprised. Just grossed out.
Two, this should be illegal. We should all care that it isn’t.
Two, this should be illegal. We should all care that it isn’t.
This.
Note also that AI image generators are apparently being used to generate hardcore porn derived from images from high school yearbooks, which suggests the future of robotics and AI is allowing nerds to finally score with the cheerleader they lusted after as teens.
Creepy, yet totally expected.
Note also that AI image generators are apparently being used to generate hardcore porn derived from images from high school yearbooks, which suggests the future of robotics and AI is allowing nerds to finally score with the cheerleader they lusted after as teens.
Creepy, yet totally expected.
November 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
One, I had not heard this specific example but it’s aligned with the whole history of tech. Not surprised. Just grossed out.
Two, this should be illegal. We should all care that it isn’t.
Two, this should be illegal. We should all care that it isn’t.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
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Trump, who rushed to the Supreme Court on Friday, is hellbent in his refusal to bring much-needed aid to the country's neediest.
Trump's war on the hungry continues with Supreme Court win
The pause allows, for now, the president to keep using hungry Americans as a political weapon.
www.motherjones.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump, who rushed to the Supreme Court on Friday, is hellbent in his refusal to bring much-needed aid to the country's neediest.
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Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.
Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed
According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.
www.blackenterprise.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.
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I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls
Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...
people.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
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No accountability for the MOVE bombing in Philly was one of the stepping stones for what’s happening in DC, Chicago, LA, Memphis right now.
October 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
No accountability for the MOVE bombing in Philly was one of the stepping stones for what’s happening in DC, Chicago, LA, Memphis right now.
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Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
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🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
My fav thing to grasp onto in movies & books right now is characters researching in libraries (Blood in the Water), relying on reputable books & reliable data for info (San Andreas, 2015), & the like.
It notice it more because of where we are & because of
::gestures wildly:: all the things.
It notice it more because of where we are & because of
::gestures wildly:: all the things.
a picture of a cat with the words did somebody say " books "
Alt: a picture of a cat with the words did somebody say " books "?
media.tenor.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My fav thing to grasp onto in movies & books right now is characters researching in libraries (Blood in the Water), relying on reputable books & reliable data for info (San Andreas, 2015), & the like.
It notice it more because of where we are & because of
::gestures wildly:: all the things.
It notice it more because of where we are & because of
::gestures wildly:: all the things.
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“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
-Assata
We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
-Assata
September 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
-Assata
We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
-Assata
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“Pastor i feel like im losing my faith”
Lose it…. Allow yourself to be transformed and begin again
Lose it…. Allow yourself to be transformed and begin again
September 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“Pastor i feel like im losing my faith”
Lose it…. Allow yourself to be transformed and begin again
Lose it…. Allow yourself to be transformed and begin again
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Fuck Tinder.
Fuck Bumble.
Fuck all them dating apps.
Let’s get straight to it.
Fuck Bumble.
Fuck all them dating apps.
Let’s get straight to it.
September 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Fuck Tinder.
Fuck Bumble.
Fuck all them dating apps.
Let’s get straight to it.
Fuck Bumble.
Fuck all them dating apps.
Let’s get straight to it.
@authormsbev.bsky.social would be so proud ☺️☺️☺️
I’m about to write a 1 to 2-page handwritten love letter in cursive.
Just for fun & to no one in particular…just to keep my skills sharpened.
Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready.
Just for fun & to no one in particular…just to keep my skills sharpened.
Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready.
September 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
@authormsbev.bsky.social would be so proud ☺️☺️☺️
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I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
September 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
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But WAIT
this poem by Jacqueline Woodson is so beautiful!
#PoetryPeople @thevogelman.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social
this poem by Jacqueline Woodson is so beautiful!
#PoetryPeople @thevogelman.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
But WAIT
this poem by Jacqueline Woodson is so beautiful!
#PoetryPeople @thevogelman.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social
this poem by Jacqueline Woodson is so beautiful!
#PoetryPeople @thevogelman.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social
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It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
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Post a movie you *LOVE* with a terrible rotten tomatoes score
September 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Post a movie you *LOVE* with a terrible rotten tomatoes score
Jurassic Park 2
Ever After
Fifth Element
Ever After
Fifth Element
Build a trilogy out of 3 unrelated Films.
September 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Jurassic Park 2
Ever After
Fifth Element
Ever After
Fifth Element
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With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
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South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia
South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia
The raid has sparked an angry response from South Korea which called it an unjust infringement of people's rights.
www.bbc.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia