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Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · Jul 18

It's Friday, it's been a week.

But it's summatime and you look FINE.

I hope you 🫵🏽 embrace any and all joy, happiness, and bliss than you can this weekend.

It's time, lemme see your shine! ✨

Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Psst. Psssst. PSSSST.

Yeah, you. 🫵🏽

You look fantastic, you're beyond amazing, and it's summertime.

Show people how a bad bitch moves, mmmkay? 💅🏽

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ʜᴀᴄᴋᴀʀʏ ʙɪɴx @chaclo.blacksky.app · 5h

Chris Christie did it first.

Chris Christie wearing a NYPD baseball uniform with his moose knuckle on display

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Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · 4h

💀⚰️💀⚰️

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 6h

Nicki Minaj:

MSO T.J. @iycecoldqdp.bsky.social · 6h

I prefer Coke.

SWIIRL @thatonegirlkendra.blacksky.app · 24d

I really only care about Black opinions. Are you a Pepsi or Coke drinker?

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Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · 10h

Other than non-fiction, it's been years for me. I intentionally read books by Black women and other WOC for the most part.

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♡ Kate's haunted emporium 👻 🎃 🇬🇹~ FREE 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @katespeace.bsky.social · 10h

Happy Indigenous People's Day! Solidarity, love, and support from me with the beautiful Guatemalan resplendent quetzal! 🪶

The Guatemalan resplendent quetzal flying off a branch or plants. It has brilliant, vibrant green, red, white, and black colors on its plumage.

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Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · 10h

I had this textbook! 🤣

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

this marc jacobs suit looks like a spanish textbook

The cover of a Spanish textbook. The colors are purple, red, teal, black, and brown. Two people are talking to each other on the cover. The book is titled "En español!"

Zendaya in a Marc Jacobs double-breasted suit. The colors are purple, red, teal, black, and brown.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 16h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · 16h

"A People's History of the United States" should be required reading. Meeting Howard Zinn and hearing him speak was a highlight of my undergrad years.

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 17h

These are all sourced from “A People’s History of the United States,” and I struggle to think of a more prescient page from a history book that I have read than this one:

useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiro-shima and Vietnam, to save Western civiliza-tion; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save social-ism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all-that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth.
We have learned to give them exactly the same proportion of attention that teachers and writers often give them in the most respectable of classrooms and textbooks. This learned sense of moral proportion, coming from the apparent objectivity of the scholar, is accepted more easily than when it comes from politicians at press conferences. It is therefore more deadly.
The treatment of heroes (Columbus) and their victims (the Arawaks)-the quiet acceptance of conquest and murder in the name of progress—is only one aspect of a certain approach to history, in which the past is told from the point of view of governments, conquerors, diplomats, leaders. It is as it they, like Columbus, deserve universal acceptance, as if they—the Founding Fathers, Jackson, Lin-

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Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · 16h

Yup! That's why the leaves can taste a little bitter if the plant bolts (starts to flower and turns to seed).

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quaithe of the shadow asshai @clarkconquers.bsky.social · 16h

Andrea Bocelli

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 17h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · 19h

Another great thread from Derek.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · 19h

Gotta work on my new #NYCMarathon sign soon!

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social · 21h

Obligatory post in honor of Indigenous Peoples Day. Have a blessed one (unless you're a racist, then you can go to hell).

Bad Place characters in two panels
Top panel: Fun fact: Columbus is in the bad place
Bottom panel: because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · 20h

Sending support and positive affirmations!

I've been there, and it's not an easy place to get out of. Don't forget to give yourself grace and extra care and love; it's so crucial to inner healing as well as getting your shine back. 🫶🏽

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Soundz Of Blackness @soundzofblackness.bsky.social · 21h

Good morning! ⏰️

...Also f*ck Christopher Columbus!

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angela davis’ baby daddy @treynation.bsky.social · 21h

Hope everyone has a good day and remember

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Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · 20h

Leaves = cilantro.
Seeds = coriander.

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Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · 20h

Not the same plant, same family (brassica)!

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ʜᴀᴄᴋᴀʀʏ ʙɪɴx @chaclo.blacksky.app · 20h

Columbus really showed up and started calling folk Indians like he was where he was supposed to be

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Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much, you're the best! 🫶🏽🤩

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Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · 1d

That magnesium chaser is a game changer!! 🙂‍↕️
#ADHD

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

I might mess around, take a medication for my executive functioning with a magnesium chaser and make 45 decisions in a row.

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x @slightwright.bsky.social · 1d

Hearing two agents say “idek why I’m here anymore” would have set me tf off.

Because you don’t have to do this!!

it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 1d

Rev. David Black who was shot multiple times by ICE with rubber bullets speaks.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Indigenous American engineering innovations created crops like corn & the tomato & potato that have become global staples.

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

The cultures of Indigenous people here were not less advanced than Europe & neither were the African cultures slaves were taken from even though someone's going on about that in my mentions. Indigenous Americans' intentional agricultural stewardship produced a paradise as Europeans admitted.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 1d

Alexandra Jones, the column’s author, makes a really important point at the end: the fact that people are *hiding* their LLM use really makes it clear that they know this is ultimately a bad move.

Not to mention the number of “they/I were basically dating the AI” from folks on both sides of it.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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