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a woman is talking on a phone and says i 'm asking you netflix Alt: actress Uzo Aduba in her role on Orange Is the New Black, is talking on a phone and says: I'm asking you; text on screen: I'm asking you NETFLIX

#WhatImSayingIs
Who defines what is rude?

Thunderstorms are so annoying. Why are you making all that damn noise at 6 when I don't need to be up for another good while? Instead of sleeping I'm dealing with one dog hiding under the bed and another one itching to go play in the rain.

a woman wearing a tank top and a necklace that says lexi Alt: a young Black woman wearing a tank top and a necklace giggles and covers her mouth laughing

The alt text: comically oversized shoes

a woman in a grey shirt is standing with her hands on her hips in a living room Alt: a Black woman with a cute blond Bob and wearing a grey shirt is standing with a hand on one hip and smirks with irritation

Meanwhile, people are still mad that "Black lives matter" is being affirmed.

Clear glass mug with infuser with taupe cokored tea, tin of justea African chai, carton of Higher Harvest almond milk

Oops, too much milk in today's #TeaOfTheDay:
#justea African chai with
#HigherHarvest almond milk

Did you gasp?! I catch myself gasping 😂

The universe is something that I would study if I could, but the imensity of infinity and being unable to go somewhere and feel and touch a thing in order to understand it actually boggles my mind. I cannot compute it. I can only gape in awe.

Star parties are life altering and life affirming! I'm always so grateful to the observatory astronomers for sharing with the common folk the magic that they study.
(We unfortunately had one canceled this past Saturday; thunderstorms; and couldn't stay to attend on the next night.)

What if?
#Mm

a woman in a baseball cap is sitting on a couch and says amen baby . Alt: a Black woman in a baseball cap is sitting on a couch; text: amen baby .

"That’s the spirit of white supremacy that’s on them."

three men are standing next to each other on a red carpet at a bet awards event . ALT: three men are standing next to each other on a red carpet at a bet awards event .

Help! I just got here last week.

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

"Grammarly curated a list of real people, gave its models free rein to hallucinate plausible-sounding advice on their behalf, and put it all behind a subscription. That's a deliberate choice to monetize the identities of real people without involving them, and it sucks." @caseynewton.bsky.social

a man in a suit stands next to another man Alt: a Black man (Bryan Tyree Henry) in a suit stands next to a white man in a suit; each looks around; then both lean toward someone or something unseen

It's been a few months actually so...

Do USian men know that they're not obligated to make a mess in public restrooms?

"Citing the evil empire’s many negative effects on the publishing industry, the association also chided Book Fair leadership for facilitating an “irresponsible” collaboration."

group of booksellers, Amazon is pulling out of the Paris Book Fair.
lithub.com/thanks-to-a-...

Leave It To Beaver is probably the most common reference point for this and in the pilot they make it clear she's from Kentucky horse money. She has a trust fund. And in a time when the average white man earned 5K a year, he earned over 20K a year. That's around 200K in today's numbers.

Affirm a child today. Compliment the things that build their inner voice. Their curiosity. Their humor. Their effort. Their self-expression.

Poster screen printed in a single color (reddish brown). It shows a factory at the top with a line of people existing out the right side to the bottom of the poster where they are cared for by a conveyor belt of women, then the enter the left side of the factory.

See Red Women’s Workshop, Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labor screen print, London, 1975
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In 1974, a group of feminist artists founded the See Red Women’s Workshop to address gender issues such as capitalism’s reliance on unpaid homekeeping and childrearing.

#IWD #InternationalWomensDay

addressing yt supremacist interpretations of the proto-writing story #anthropology #archaeology YouTube video by Astrid Lundberg

White supremacists are so pathetic. Thanks to this person for the excellent call out.

youtube.com/shorts/YABJD...

We.
Did.
Not.
Know!

Do you ever, while watch some show/movie/thing, want to offer the actors lotion?

I like your kind of stringency, bwana.

Two envelopes of Bigelow Lemon Lift tea

Making do for today's #TeaOfTheDay:
Bigelow Lemon Lift tea

They're so boring. All I can think to explain that redundancy is the mindset of "introduce the same ole moneymakers to a new/younger audience in order to make more money."

You can't hide from the villain
in a bathroom with a door
that won't latch.

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