Jonathan W. Gray
@elmcitytree.blacksky.app
Professor @CUNY, scholar of Blackness, books & popular culture, leftist & left handed. 🇰🇳 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️
Not THAT Jonathan Gray
I maintain the Blackademics feed, the scholarly side of #Blacksky
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Not THAT Jonathan Gray
I maintain the Blackademics feed, the scholarly side of #Blacksky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7
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Updated the Blackademics starter pack again (!) to include Vincent Brown, Imani Perry, the Harare Review of Books and others. Stay tuned for more developments coming soon....
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Calling "sterilized" fat from human cadavers a product is gross.
"AlloClae is most popular for modest breast enhancement, filling hip dips, increasing gluteal or butt projection, or correcting irregularities from liposuction and breast implants such as rippling."
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"AlloClae is most popular for modest breast enhancement, filling hip dips, increasing gluteal or butt projection, or correcting irregularities from liposuction and breast implants such as rippling."
Free: archive.ph/2025.12.26-1...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Calling "sterilized" fat from human cadavers a product is gross.
"AlloClae is most popular for modest breast enhancement, filling hip dips, increasing gluteal or butt projection, or correcting irregularities from liposuction and breast implants such as rippling."
Free: archive.ph/2025.12.26-1...
🤢
"AlloClae is most popular for modest breast enhancement, filling hip dips, increasing gluteal or butt projection, or correcting irregularities from liposuction and breast implants such as rippling."
Free: archive.ph/2025.12.26-1...
🤢
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Brainwashing your family members and destroying what connections they still hold about their real memories is deeply sick.
There is a deep fear and anxiety when you can't trust your memories and mind and this will only accelerate it.
There is a deep fear and anxiety when you can't trust your memories and mind and this will only accelerate it.
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Brainwashing your family members and destroying what connections they still hold about their real memories is deeply sick.
There is a deep fear and anxiety when you can't trust your memories and mind and this will only accelerate it.
There is a deep fear and anxiety when you can't trust your memories and mind and this will only accelerate it.
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Abed. Abed is a dentist who managed a practice. It was destroyed as well as his home. He has been displaced 13 times along with his children Sabreen, 8, Salah, 7 and Ahmed, 5. Sabreen and Salah both have facial injuries that need treatment.
December 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Abed. Abed is a dentist who managed a practice. It was destroyed as well as his home. He has been displaced 13 times along with his children Sabreen, 8, Salah, 7 and Ahmed, 5. Sabreen and Salah both have facial injuries that need treatment.
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Article: Against Mestizaje: Articulations Towards a Black/Indigenous Sense of Place in Mexico onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Against Mestizaje: Articulations Towards a Black/Indigenous Sense of Place in Mexico
In this paper, I sit with the different modes of relation that Black, Indigenous, and Black/Indigenous/Afro-Indigenous women have to community, to each other, and to land and sea. In particular, I de...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Article: Against Mestizaje: Articulations Towards a Black/Indigenous Sense of Place in Mexico onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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There is, for all intents and purposes, no academic freedom anymore for anyone teaching at a red state public university.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
There is, for all intents and purposes, no academic freedom anymore for anyone teaching at a red state public university.
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Actually, I NEED yall to be the January New Year Gym people because well chat.......
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December 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Actually, I NEED yall to be the January New Year Gym people because well chat.......
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As a token of my appreciation I am giving yall 7 days FREE in the Ladder App!!!!
Body Science is OUT 01.10.2026!
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As a token of my appreciation I am giving yall 7 days FREE in the Ladder App!!!!
Body Science is OUT 01.10.2026!
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Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
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Great assembling of info and reactions to the strikes in Sokoto state on the @aljazeera.com homepage feed:
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
LIVE: Nigeria confirms US strikes on ISIL targets in its northwest
Nigeria says US claims that Christians face persecution do not represent a complex security situation.
www.aljazeera.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Great assembling of info and reactions to the strikes in Sokoto state on the @aljazeera.com homepage feed:
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: “We have to get better as a group. You don’t lose to a team three times in a row in a short span without them being better than you. We have to get better. Look in the mirror, and that’s everybody from top to bottom, if we want to reach our ultimate goal”
December 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: “We have to get better as a group. You don’t lose to a team three times in a row in a short span without them being better than you. We have to get better. Look in the mirror, and that’s everybody from top to bottom, if we want to reach our ultimate goal”
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A sop to American evangelicals. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Trump Announces Strike Against ISIS in Nigeria
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
A sop to American evangelicals. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
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This is bad. Also, if he worried about Nigerian Christians being persecuted, why is he blocking asylum? Everything he does is bigoted and nonsensical.
Merry Christmas!
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
December 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This is bad. Also, if he worried about Nigerian Christians being persecuted, why is he blocking asylum? Everything he does is bigoted and nonsensical.
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Also, Happy “Meet me in Temecula” Day to all the real ones that celebrate. 🥹
December 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Also, Happy “Meet me in Temecula” Day to all the real ones that celebrate. 🥹
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christmas on bluesky
December 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
christmas on bluesky
Trump bombed Nigeria!?!? On Christmas?!?!? WTF.
Trump says US hit Islamic State targets in Nigeria
President Trump said "numerous perfect strikes" had hit Islamic State militants in the West African nation of Nigeria.
www.usatoday.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Trump bombed Nigeria!?!? On Christmas?!?!? WTF.
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Trump, after bombing Nigeria on Christmas: “MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists [sic].”
These are the words of an evil man whom Christ does not know.
These are the words of an evil man whom Christ does not know.
December 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Trump, after bombing Nigeria on Christmas: “MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists [sic].”
These are the words of an evil man whom Christ does not know.
These are the words of an evil man whom Christ does not know.
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White folks on here…
What are you doing with all the extra time you have now that you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.
What are you doing with all the extra time you have now that you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.
December 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
White folks on here…
What are you doing with all the extra time you have now that you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.
What are you doing with all the extra time you have now that you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.
That was Sally Jenkins sticking up for her fellow girl boss Bari Weiss. But I don’t know what editors were thinking letting that characterization slip by.
The @theatlantic.com claims that Canadians will use "treachery" to make America and its media look "silly".
No, we are a democratic people who hate thugs and their pusillanimous enablers.
Deal with it.
No, we are a democratic people who hate thugs and their pusillanimous enablers.
Deal with it.
December 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
That was Sally Jenkins sticking up for her fellow girl boss Bari Weiss. But I don’t know what editors were thinking letting that characterization slip by.
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It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
June 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
Brunson needs to stop forcing. Too many no pass possessions down the stretch.
December 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Brunson needs to stop forcing. Too many no pass possessions down the stretch.
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Catholics represent fewer than 20% of U.S. adults, however, they make up 61% of the population at risk of deportation. Trump’s immigration crackdown is disproportionately hitting Catholic communities.
chico.newsreview.com/2025/12/24/t...
chico.newsreview.com/2025/12/24/t...
Trump’s War on ICE-Fearing Catholics • Chico News & Review
We are a group of award-winning free alternative weekly newspapers published by Chico Community Publishing, Inc. We publish the Chico News & Review in Chico, California, the Sacramento News & Review…
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December 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Catholics represent fewer than 20% of U.S. adults, however, they make up 61% of the population at risk of deportation. Trump’s immigration crackdown is disproportionately hitting Catholic communities.
chico.newsreview.com/2025/12/24/t...
chico.newsreview.com/2025/12/24/t...
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Mele Kalikimaka from the city slicker in Brooklyn. The photo was taken in summer 2025 and is what I imagine Kauai looks like today.
December 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Mele Kalikimaka from the city slicker in Brooklyn. The photo was taken in summer 2025 and is what I imagine Kauai looks like today.
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Great 2018 piece from @hofrench.bsky.social on the various rationalizations made regarding the Middle Passage, including the now in fashion claims that the Arab slave trade somehow absolves European nations of any responsibility www.nybooks.com/articles/201...
A History of Denial | Howard W. French
All too many publications about the history of Europe’s relationship with Africa fail to sufficiently convey the damage that was done to the African economy, peoples, and political development by the ...
www.nybooks.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Great 2018 piece from @hofrench.bsky.social on the various rationalizations made regarding the Middle Passage, including the now in fashion claims that the Arab slave trade somehow absolves European nations of any responsibility www.nybooks.com/articles/201...
Yo @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social if there's a canonical writer who is also perhaps the most famous anarchist in the 🌍, is it fair to describe that writer as utopian given the philosophical underpinnings of anarchism?
Asking for a me!
Asking for a me!
December 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Yo @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social if there's a canonical writer who is also perhaps the most famous anarchist in the 🌍, is it fair to describe that writer as utopian given the philosophical underpinnings of anarchism?
Asking for a me!
Asking for a me!