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R Afubera Fox

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NonBinary | Maverique | Queer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Bear 🐻🧡💛🐼🐨🖤 Married 👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏾@anthonyf.bsky.social | Kent, WA Black Lives Matter || Trans Lives Matter || ACAB Poet, Writer, Artist. Singer. Witch. Outspoken Ambivert. MamaBear. Bitch.

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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 3h

I got Genius!

How many words can you make with 7 letters?

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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 4h

Connections
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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 4h

e.g., Angelica kept telling her friends that they should vote for one candidate over the other in the Democratic Primary because he was the best candidate for Black people. "How you figure? I wanna hear this..." Shelly asked, not having made her decision about who to vote for yet.

R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 4h

[HISTORICALLY BLACK PHRASES]
HOW YOU FIGURE? ("HOW YOU FIGGA?") : explain your reasoning to me. || Usage: an appeal for clarity. often said in response to a perplexing or confusing stance in an effort to gain further understanding about a situation or circumstance.

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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 4h

Antonym: BAWCOCK: a fine fellow. || from Old French "baud" (bold, brave) + "cock" (rooster), from Old English "cocc", from Old French "coc".

💛 grandiloquence lovingly borrowed from @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social

R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 4h

...perhaps from Pennsylvania German "schnelle geeschter", from German "schnell" (quick), from Old High German "snel" (brave, quick) + German "geister" (spirits), from Old High German "geist" (ghost).

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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 4h

[GRANDILOQUENT WORDS]
SNOLLYGOSTER: a shrewd person unguided by principles, particularly a politician. || regional: America. || perhaps from "Snallygaster"(a beast that preys on chickens & children)...

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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 4h

[THE DICTIONARY OF OBSCURE SORROWS]
SKIDDING: the practice of making off-hand comments that sound sarcastic but are actually sincere & deeply felt. || From SKIDDING, going farther than intended out of inertia + KIDDING, joking around.

R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 4h

Black Grandiloquence, Sarcasm, & Sorrow || 3

[THE OFFICIAL DICTIONARY OF SARCASM]
EARTH: 3rd planet from the Sun inhabited by millions of complex & interesting life-forms, & humans.

R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 9h

I am *not hungry* ~ aka I just had some food 3½ hours ago

yet...

I know there's more food to be had, because I ordered extra food, so that there would be more/extra food.

...and now, despite the *not hungry*, I want the extra/more food.

not all of it... just some of it. 🙂‍↕️

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Rico, house father of WAWG & salt shaker CEO 🧂🤸🏾‍♂️✨ @epereza22.blacksky.app · 23h

The queers been getting exposed to slander, death threats, homophobia, violence (and more) for decades. And still are.

A lil bit of straight people slander?

Y’all will be okay.

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LoLo Vonz @lolovonz.bsky.social · 23h

Don’t piss me off Snoop Dogg

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 23h

‘Vowel’ comes from the Latin ‘vocalis,’ which originally meant “vocal.”

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 23h

@EM_RESUS - Hit me with a shocking medical fact

responded:
@cindypinkceo : Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston is older than the first policy requiring women and minorities to be included in medical trials

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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 9h

Nick Offerman on the art of satisfaction, being 'terrified' of love, and his brand as a carnivore : Wild Card with Rachel Martin

Nick Offerman is an Emmy-winning actor, but that’s a small part of his identity. He’s also a woodworker, an author, and a devoted acolyte of the naturalist writer Wendell Berry. He talks with Rachel a...

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SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social · 1d

In case you missed it - SUGAR is back and here are the details for the shows in May 2026

May 2 and May 3: Webster Hall, New York City
May 23 and May 24: O2 Forum Kentish Town, London

Head to sugarcopperblue.com and register for everything SUGAR, which includes presale ticketing and new song.

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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 9h

sending warm hugs & safe, speedy, healing wishes, my Friend!!

R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 12h

Posted @withregram • @artists.pages.daily Meet artist Leo Mortem, who creates hand-held art trinkets like zines and fortunetellers. In her pieces, she folds paper in the most intricate patterns, adorned with illlustrations in ink.

@leo.mortem

#artist #inkdrawing #zine #illustration #handmade

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LIBRA KING @libraking.bsky.social · 1d

Bruh lmfaoooooooooooooooooo

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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 1d

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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 1d

Strands #593
“Gait keeping”
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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 1d

the way I just called NYT Connections a pønk-åss bïsch
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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 1d

Connections
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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 1d

Pop Culture Moment: the '93 jam "Keep Ya Head Up" was Tupac's love letter to Black women, speaking about issues often caused by Black men. featuring a sample from Crooklyn's "Ooh, Child (Things Are Gonna Get Easier)," the song is encouraging, aiming to help Black women feel seen, heard, & respected.

R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 1d

example: Serah was disappointed after yet another rejection letter came from a college they'd applied to. "keep your head up," their grandfather said in response.

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