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Crystal Fleming クリスタル
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Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology. Posts represent the views of my cats. One of my books has a 2 second cameo in an Oscar winning film.日本語を勉強します. I’m my ancestors’ wildest dreams and/or worst nightmare. I have a lot of ancestors.
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Oh yes I do love this for me 😍
They could have had a "fast forward" to middle age and it would have worked.
January 2, 2026 at 2:05 AM
The strangest thing about stranger things is (still) that them kids were about 40 years old by the end of it
January 2, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, will read an original poem at Zohran Mamdani’s swearing-in as mayor of New York City on Thursday. Read an excerpt from “Proof,” the poem he wrote for the ceremony. trib.al/i0Uhwxr
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
When they said Smith College in the Stranger Things finale…..
January 1, 2026 at 6:01 AM
For those who have been to Japan:

What are your best food memories/experiences?
January 1, 2026 at 1:26 AM
(It's my first rodeo with Novavax)
January 1, 2026 at 1:22 AM
So I did that thing where you get the covid booster and the flu shot on the same day, but in different arms.
January 1, 2026 at 1:19 AM
I've been thinking about the fact that societies characterized by evil, brutality, cruelty and violence can and do change.. that nothing is set in stone and a horrific past and present can't fully delimit the horizon. Perhaps the myth of inevitability is as dangerous as it is misleading.
January 1, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!

Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
December 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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They've started replacing the "welcome to the borough" signs so they say Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani instead of Mayor Adams.
December 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing
December 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is very, very good — and rings horrifyingly true.
December 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT

"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality

"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening

START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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cmon
December 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
First time making okonomiyake.. served with kaffir lime butternut squash soup and arugula, avocado grapefruit salad in tahini dressing 🥰
December 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I still can’t get over the fact that I can just be like, making dinner while robots autonomously and expertly clean our floors.. or sipping a glass of wine.. or doing nothing at all..
December 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I told my significant other this same thing!

I was like, I know the cultural reference!!!!!!
Me in the middle of Stranger Things: “BABE! THIS IS THE KITCHEN SCENE FROM JURASSIC PARK!!!!”
December 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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I locked in immediately 🤭🤭
December 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Not the demo making a scoobie doo noise right before the explosion! 😂
December 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Me in the middle of Stranger Things: “BABE! THIS IS THE KITCHEN SCENE FROM JURASSIC PARK!!!!”
December 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
December 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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There are even more trans people in the future.

You will meet them & marvel at the beauty of gender alchemy in an age of liberation.

We will arrive there together by loving each other & destroying fascism.
just got bounced from a cocktail bar on Christmas because i apparently don’t resemble my driver’s license enough anymore.

San Diego continues to be the Miami of California.
cishet ex-bestie bailed on our plans so i’m going to a goth night instead.

San Diego continues to be the Miami of California.
December 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM