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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 29d

reading less, comprehending little, expecting more: illiteracy and the movies.

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reading less, comprehending little, expecting more: illiteracy and the movies. — maxine aya writes...

scroll on any social media platform after a new movie release and you will get a firsthand look at the media illiteracy crisis – failure to grasp plot, failure to grasp story, failure to grasp perspec...

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 8m

lmaooooooooo!

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 9m

(correct. even unemployed, many of us are priced out of dating, lmfao.)

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1h

This is important because women who are higher educated and higher income have more difficulty dating

Grillmatic @cousinofdef.bsky.social · 1h

My lady makes a lot more than I do and she should. She has a PhD. I went to the school of hard knocks. I ain't bothered bout it not 1 but.

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 48m

🤲🏾🤲🏾🤲🏾🤲🏾

Abo jameel @abojamel1999.bsky.social · 4h

Donations have stopped, and everything is broken for me. After losing my job, all I have is the stares of my hungry kids. Hunger is eating away at their hearts before their bodies. If you don't donate, I won't be able to buy anything. Every day I need $100.
@mommunism.bsky.social
shorturl.at/hcCSb

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 1h

people who were purposely brought here to be hated. no conversation necessary. NONE.

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 1h

DID IT SO WELL WE BELIEVED IT. do you know how insane that is?! there is no other man. there is only one man.

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 1h

and the idea that it could have ever been just one group in modern times is RUBBISH.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

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

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 1h

a big little bear! 🥹

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 1h

michael b jordan created two separate people. still blowing my mind.

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 4h

Oct 15th - Twin brothers Elijah “Smoke” and Elias “Stack” buy a rundown sawmill, and start transforming it into one hell of a juke joint

📽️📅 Sinners (2025)

4 Screenshots from the movie "Sinners" (2025): First, a black screen with the text "Clarksdale, Mississippi October 16, 1932." Second, an interior of a church with attendees in white clothing, a man stands silhouetted in the doorway with a cross visible above. Third, a black screen with the text "one day earlier." Fourth, two men in suits and hats stand beside a vintage car against a rustic building backdrop.

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 1h

got my ticket for next week! CANNOT WAIT.

Kelechi Ehenulo @ #LFF @kehenulo.bsky.social · 3d

Another early start. Film 9 of #LFF: Nia DaCosta’s #Hedda

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 1h

this is honestly one of the best parts of doing stuff early, lmao.

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Angela Vasquez-Giroux @ayeveegee.bsky.social · 1h

Here goes @solomonmissouri.bsky.social, nailing the power dynamics of hetero relationships again: men who get big sad about their wives’ success are interpreting the imbalance of income as an imbalance of power BECAUSE men are socialized to use money to create and enforce power.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2h

apple.news/A5hb-fXeDQci...

The plight of the trophy husbands — Business Insider

Kim Dhatt, a 34-year-old recruitment specialist, was in a relationship with her ex-partner for four years. When they first got together, he earned slightly more than she did, and the difference didn't...

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 1h

First i stare, and then i ooop.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2h

and i'll do you one better ... men become uncomfortable when their partners make more than they do because they believe that their partners will financially and emotionally manipulate them ....

as they .... manipulate their partners.

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 2h

she's not wrong, lmao. we'll survive. it's YOUR birthday. 🤣

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 2h

LOVE IN ACTION! 🥹🥹🥹🦞🦞🦞

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 2h

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 2h

it's very funny -- we really are. and don't forget the lobster! you know we love us some lobster.

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 2h

israhell buying birthright trip ad space on linkedin?! *screams outernally*

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 3h

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my recruiting and yapping partner in crime, @bostonjerry.bsky.social!!!!!

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 3h

1) the phenomenon is fascinating.
2) it’s also just standard white nationalism, racism, internalized misogyny, and an inferiority complex from the group responsible for bearing and rearing white children. 🤷🏾‍♀️🤣

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 3h

HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 21h

even the smartest folks whose takes i otherwise appreciate, who otherwise want to resist fascism themselves & encourage others to, find wearing a mask in, at least, public indoor spaces—to prevent the harms of this administration from impacting others—to be a bridge too far; it’s shameful, frankly.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 4h

my lack of confusion confounds me.

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 4h

the fact that i’m not at all confused or surprised by how we got here as a country or a globe. we’ve been walking in a straight line towards where we are now, over and over again.

Chief Skeet 👑🖤✊🏾🌱 @longlivethechief.bsky.social · 6h

What’s the one thing you cannot wrap your head around?

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 4h

supporting actor is STACKED. might be the category of the year, tbh.