Siyanda 🐼
@siyandawrites.bsky.social
Woefully ungovernable and pathologically optimistic. Writer, Satirist & Sociologist. I used to be big on Twitter but I refuse to tango with the devil so here I am! Let’s dance 💃🏾
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Siyanda 🐼
@siyandawrites.bsky.social
· Aug 20
I genuinely think this is what bothers them the most. The fight in America right now is not between Black and White. But between White people who think racism is bad and their wild ass cousins
Pop quiz! Who wrote this book?
Is it
a) a random guy
b) the current minister of finance in Brazil
Is it
a) a random guy
b) the current minister of finance in Brazil
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Pop quiz! Who wrote this book?
Is it
a) a random guy
b) the current minister of finance in Brazil
Is it
a) a random guy
b) the current minister of finance in Brazil
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Watched The Blackening last night for the first time... it was SO good.
I'm very much a comedy over horror girlie, so it was right up my alley.
It's not just your typical parody. Incredibly well done 🙂↕️
I'm very much a comedy over horror girlie, so it was right up my alley.
It's not just your typical parody. Incredibly well done 🙂↕️
October 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Watched The Blackening last night for the first time... it was SO good.
I'm very much a comedy over horror girlie, so it was right up my alley.
It's not just your typical parody. Incredibly well done 🙂↕️
I'm very much a comedy over horror girlie, so it was right up my alley.
It's not just your typical parody. Incredibly well done 🙂↕️
Recession indicato?
Keynesian economics emerged as a response to the Great Depression. The 20th-century economist advocated state intervention in a managed capitalist economy. We explore his stance
John Maynard Keynes
People should be free to choose. It was their freedom not to choose that troubled him
econ.st
October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Recession indicato?
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im sorry you cant have food but we gave all our money to one guy who “invented” 2 day shipping and another thats promising robot butlers so you can see how our hands are tied
October 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
im sorry you cant have food but we gave all our money to one guy who “invented” 2 day shipping and another thats promising robot butlers so you can see how our hands are tied
Do you ever think about how weird it is that one of your adult friends is randomly a person in whose body you once lived?
October 27, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Do you ever think about how weird it is that one of your adult friends is randomly a person in whose body you once lived?
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it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby
October 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby
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We actually need more corruption. If everyone is doing corruption then according to free market principles the best corruption will rise to the top
October 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
We actually need more corruption. If everyone is doing corruption then according to free market principles the best corruption will rise to the top
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
October 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
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dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
No need for gloom and doom. There’s more of us (humans who aren’t monsters) than them (demons).
I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.
Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
October 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
No need for gloom and doom. There’s more of us (humans who aren’t monsters) than them (demons).
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"Median rent behaved like a toxic chemical, eliciting defined patterns of public health degradation.
The mix of responses to median rent mimic public health responses to the heavy metal lead: some without and some with a threshold.
Toxic chemicals are regulated. Rent should be also."
The mix of responses to median rent mimic public health responses to the heavy metal lead: some without and some with a threshold.
Toxic chemicals are regulated. Rent should be also."
Rent as a toxic exposure: The Bronx and Manhattan
New York City, like many global cities, suffers from an ever-intensifying housing famine, especially of low-cost rental units, which has led to steepl…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Median rent behaved like a toxic chemical, eliciting defined patterns of public health degradation.
The mix of responses to median rent mimic public health responses to the heavy metal lead: some without and some with a threshold.
Toxic chemicals are regulated. Rent should be also."
The mix of responses to median rent mimic public health responses to the heavy metal lead: some without and some with a threshold.
Toxic chemicals are regulated. Rent should be also."
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The poor, disenfranchised people who fought history’s biggest empires believed they would win. What excuse have you for pessimism and despair? I am not impressed by your “what’s the point of millions of people giving a shit that’s lame” energy
October 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The poor, disenfranchised people who fought history’s biggest empires believed they would win. What excuse have you for pessimism and despair? I am not impressed by your “what’s the point of millions of people giving a shit that’s lame” energy
The poor, disenfranchised people who fought history’s biggest empires believed they would win. What excuse have you for pessimism and despair? I am not impressed by your “what’s the point of millions of people giving a shit that’s lame” energy
October 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The poor, disenfranchised people who fought history’s biggest empires believed they would win. What excuse have you for pessimism and despair? I am not impressed by your “what’s the point of millions of people giving a shit that’s lame” energy
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“You have ADHD”
Me: where
Me: where
October 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
“You have ADHD”
Me: where
Me: where
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Idk how to say this. The US taxpayer does not bail out other countries. They bail out the American investors who invested in those other countries.
October 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Idk how to say this. The US taxpayer does not bail out other countries. They bail out the American investors who invested in those other countries.
Idk how to say this. The US taxpayer does not bail out other countries. They bail out the American investors who invested in those other countries.
October 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Idk how to say this. The US taxpayer does not bail out other countries. They bail out the American investors who invested in those other countries.
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The bailouts aren’t really for the farmers, they’re for the banks they owe. The farms are still going to go out of business
October 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The bailouts aren’t really for the farmers, they’re for the banks they owe. The farms are still going to go out of business
The rich are celebrating the opportunity to hoard highly discounted assets while the poor are being real cry babies about NoT HaVinG anY MoNEy for “rent”
October 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The rich are celebrating the opportunity to hoard highly discounted assets while the poor are being real cry babies about NoT HaVinG anY MoNEy for “rent”
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my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
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Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1
October 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1