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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 1h

Not like a mango! Slice it up first. Ugh.

byepoleher.blacksky.app @byepoleher.blacksky.app · 1h

@lepetitereboot.bsky.social how do you eat avocados?

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Interview With The Vampire Fanpage @iwtvupdates.bsky.social · 4d

Bow down to our Queen! Sheila Atim has officially been cast as Akasha in #TheVampireLestat!

#InterviewWithTheVampire
#NYCC #NYCC2025 #iwtv

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 2h

& the time before that when she sat on his lap & stuck her tongue in his mouth 😩

Spooky Electric 🦀🌊 👻 @idabeware.blacksky.app · 7h

Omg at "Madonna walked over and told a woman sitting next to D, “I think you’re in my seat.” The woman got up. Madonna sat down and told him, “I’d like to know what you’re thinking.” To which D replied, “I’m thinking you’re rude.”

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo speaking out about the physical and emotional burden of maintaining a nearly unobtainable physique and sexy image as a Black male artist should be taught in labor studies. It absolutely impacted how I analyze pop culture.

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 4h

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Cocoa Chaos @seauxcocoa.bsky.social · 4h

"Yall"

SoloChills @solochills.blacksky.app · 5h

Y'all stay outta pocket it's wild

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Sassy "None More Black" Neighbor @sassyblackneighbor.bsky.social · 5h

Black folks in NYC were definitely catching strays because of all the increased surveillance that we still experience today

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Bad Bitches Love Nujabes @play-on-verbs.blacksky.app · 5h

the post 9/11 that included an expanded Stop-And-Frisk under Bloomberg?

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

So a couple people have now hinted at the idea that Black people didn’t have it so bad post-9/11 because Muslims had it bad. This ignores that there were and are a lot of Black Muslims. This also ignores that more than one group of people can be targeted for state violence. It’s never just one group

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Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 4h

This is such a facile claim right on its surface when we consider the vicious murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi on September 15th, 2001 as “revenge” for 9/11 despite him not being an Arab Muslim but a Punjabi-American Sikh and immigrant.

It was literally not just Muslims being punished *for* 9/11

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

So a couple people have now hinted at the idea that Black people didn’t have it so bad post-9/11 because Muslims had it bad. This ignores that there were and are a lot of Black Muslims. This also ignores that more than one group of people can be targeted for state violence. It’s never just one group

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

So a couple people have now hinted at the idea that Black people didn’t have it so bad post-9/11 because Muslims had it bad. This ignores that there were and are a lot of Black Muslims. This also ignores that more than one group of people can be targeted for state violence. It’s never just one group

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orynthia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 5h

Black people can be Black and only Black.

The way that our full identities are dismissed is exhausting. You see it when people try to separate Black ppl from the LGBTQIA+ community. Or when it’s time to discuss ICE. Everyone understands intersectionality until it comes to us.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

So a couple people have now hinted at the idea that Black people didn’t have it so bad post-9/11 because Muslims had it bad. This ignores that there were and are a lot of Black Muslims. This also ignores that more than one group of people can be targeted for state violence. It’s never just one group

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 4h

I wonder what people don't become conservative as they age. Hmmmm.....

trruhnke.bsky.social @trruhnke.bsky.social · 7h

They say one is supposed to get more conservative as they age. This seems at least anecdotally true. The opposite is true for me, or at least I think I better understand why I believe the things I believe. There are a lot of haughty, self-satisfied people online.

Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 4h

*deep sigh*
Racism does not begin or end at using the n word.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 9h

So when I say that when I was a young Republican, I didn't realize it was inherently racist, okay, disbelieve me. Pretend I used the n-word or whatever. I didn't, but whatever you need to feel superior.

But remember: when your rule is "born perfect or GTFO," you are limiting your coalition.

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 6h

Happy birthday to the Sultan of Sammiches @bostonjerry.bsky.social !

Helluva Bottom Carter @nicju.blacksky.app · 7h

Happy birthday @bostonjerry.bsky.social even though I recently learned the Boston and the Jerry aren’t real and my whole paradigm has shifted. Lol

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 6h

Did I tell u about the time we got lost in Boston & followed the car blasting bachata music & sure enough it took us to Roxbury where we needed to go? 🤣🤣

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Albanese Aficionado @cindasmommy.bsky.social · 6h

1) Velvet isn’t even a color so how does that make any sense?
2) WTF is wrong with you?!?!

Licker1 @add2minus2.bsky.social · 7h

Pink doesn't look good on you, let me see velvet on you. Sweet pinky

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Onus Probandi 2024 @onusprobandi2024.bsky.social · 1d

This makes me think of the struggles Luther Vandross, who passed at 54. So many yo-yo diets, so much speculation about his sexuality, and told he was too black and too fat.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 1d

We're going into orcas homes and refusing their food!! 😂

"What do you mean you don't eat meat??? That's okay, I make lamb." - Orcas probably

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Filthy Fox 🖤➿ @locgoody.bsky.social · 21h

Ahead of Holiday Season:

Don’t steal. They are anticipating mass retail theft, and will prosecute to the fullest. Do not steal.

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Temu Tisha Campbell @thatgirlbamz.bsky.social · 1d

Sandra is such a sweetheart and I hate that she’s struggling with this. Please share and hopefully we can hit her goal.

gofund.me/6af9bb097

Donate to Sandra's Road to Recovery: Your Help Needed, organized by Sandra Coronado

Hi, my name is Sandra I am 30 years old and I got into a motorcycle accide… Sandra Coronado needs your support for Sandra's Road to Recovery: Your Help Needed

gofund.me

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 22h

I remember seeing that sign heading into the Lincoln Tunnel!

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En Buen Ora - "Hell Çid" 😈 @enbuenora.bsky.social · 22h

"In the 1880s only a few textile mills existed in the South. But by the 1920s, the region had eclipsed New England in terms of yarn and cloth production...[By the late 1920s] more Southerners worked in textile mills than most other occupations..."

research.library.gsu.edu/c.php?g=1156...

GSU Library Research Guides: Southern Labor Archives: Work n' Progress - Lessons and Stories: Part III: The Southern Textile Industry

research.library.gsu.edu

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Tina @tinacjpd.bsky.social · 23h

Union City is the Embroidery Capital of the World!

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 23h

I didn't know that. Paterson NJ was known as Silk City because they were manufacturing almost half of the US' silk. They had the Great Falls to power the factories. We lived nearby for a time, the falls are actually a national historic site. !Las Cataratas!

En Buen Ora - "Hell Çid" 😈 @enbuenora.bsky.social · 1d

Northeastern industry made a big move to industrialized (and non-unionized) textile production in the South in the late 19th and early 20th century and I think for some people that's what they mentally associate with US textile and garment production--primarily white Southern millworkers.

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Squall @squallleonhart.gay · 1d

ALL THE WRONG PEOPLE KEEP DYING 😭😭😭

D’Angelo, Neo-Soul Pioneer and ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel)’ Singer, Dies at 51

Legendary R&B singer D'Angelo, who released three albums throughout his career, has died. He was 51.

variety.com

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