Astra Lee (The Time-Weaver)
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The learned all of that about invading Haiti and learned nothing about Haitians. Can I just say as a Haitian that this reads as comedy. Have they ever heard of "koupé tèt boulé kay"???
I don’t even know where to start with this…
Texans indicted in plot to invade island, kill the men, use women & children as sex slaves
Two Texas men are charged in a plot that included invading an island off Haiti, murdering the men on the island, and using the women and children as sex slaves,
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November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The learned all of that about invading Haiti and learned nothing about Haitians. Can I just say as a Haitian that this reads as comedy. Have they ever heard of "koupé tèt boulé kay"???
I'm excited!!!
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I'm excited!!!
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I'm so excited to share that my novel, THESE HEATHENS, has been longlisted for the 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize. This book is so close to my heart and I'm so very proud of it.
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I'm so excited to share that my novel, THESE HEATHENS, has been longlisted for the 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize. This book is so close to my heart and I'm so very proud of it.
While I'm on my AI soapbox, let me add AI is not the beginning of the end. it’s the end made visible.
It’s the final stage of stolen archives, stolen/ erased languages, stolen art, stolen musical traditions, stolen land
stolen fucking futures.
It’s the final stage of stolen archives, stolen/ erased languages, stolen art, stolen musical traditions, stolen land
stolen fucking futures.
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
While I'm on my AI soapbox, let me add AI is not the beginning of the end. it’s the end made visible.
It’s the final stage of stolen archives, stolen/ erased languages, stolen art, stolen musical traditions, stolen land
stolen fucking futures.
It’s the final stage of stolen archives, stolen/ erased languages, stolen art, stolen musical traditions, stolen land
stolen fucking futures.
AI is not the crisis. The crisis is the system that made AI inevitable.
People keep acting like AI arrived as some rogue meteor. But AI is the predictable endgame of: Colonial extraction, capitalist optimization, Anti-Blackness and racialized labor avoidance,
People keep acting like AI arrived as some rogue meteor. But AI is the predictable endgame of: Colonial extraction, capitalist optimization, Anti-Blackness and racialized labor avoidance,
If you follow AI, you've heard a number of cognitive scientists weigh in with valuable insights and concerns. You may not have heard from one quite like Hagen Blix, however, who describes generative AI as "class warfare through enshittification."
My interview with @hagenblix.bsky.social:
My interview with @hagenblix.bsky.social:
"AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix
The author of 'Why We Fear AI' on why he sees generative AI as "class warfare through enshittification."
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
AI is not the crisis. The crisis is the system that made AI inevitable.
People keep acting like AI arrived as some rogue meteor. But AI is the predictable endgame of: Colonial extraction, capitalist optimization, Anti-Blackness and racialized labor avoidance,
People keep acting like AI arrived as some rogue meteor. But AI is the predictable endgame of: Colonial extraction, capitalist optimization, Anti-Blackness and racialized labor avoidance,
The Detectorist
18. What is the last TV show you watched?
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The Detectorist
13. Hoping to finish two more by the end of November.
Could have done better but behold the landscape is 🦆 up!
Could have done better but behold the landscape is 🦆 up!
9. How many books have you read this year?
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
13. Hoping to finish two more by the end of November.
Could have done better but behold the landscape is 🦆 up!
Could have done better but behold the landscape is 🦆 up!
Katabasis by R.F.Kuang
16. What is the last book you've read?
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Katabasis by R.F.Kuang
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POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈
Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
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Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
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October 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈
Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared
Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared
🦆 Bernie today and tomorrow!!! Probably one of his biggest haters.
Bernie omits race/racism from his analysis—so he isn’t “nailing down trends factually.”
Economics isn’t “tied to” race. Racism informs and ultimately controls economics.
Sanders can’t possibly be ignorant of this. Yet, he avoids mention of race and racism, partly bc he’s very bad at discussing it.
Economics isn’t “tied to” race. Racism informs and ultimately controls economics.
Sanders can’t possibly be ignorant of this. Yet, he avoids mention of race and racism, partly bc he’s very bad at discussing it.
When Bernie nails down trends factually, why should he back off? Yes, economics is tied to race. The table of competition has many levels of barriers against those with increasingly darker skin. Your "Snake in the grass" label might satisfy you emotionally, but facts and reality are more useful.
October 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🦆 Bernie today and tomorrow!!! Probably one of his biggest haters.
Don't bottle it all up!!!
11. What would you tell the child version of you if you could?
October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Don't bottle it all up!!!
The greatest literary tool known to man. I used before AI and I will use them after.
Do not let them take em dashes away from you, yall. Do not.
“AI wrote it cus, see, it has em dashes in it” is LAZY thinking. Shame that laziness. Shame them. Fuck people being that fucking lazy!!
“AI wrote it cus, see, it has em dashes in it” is LAZY thinking. Shame that laziness. Shame them. Fuck people being that fucking lazy!!
I’ve been using em dashes since high school. I refuse to stop.
Kinda ironic that the people accusing other people of not actually writing something are scanning for the usage of a character instead of…actually reading the something and assessing from there whether it seems artificial or weird.
Kinda ironic that the people accusing other people of not actually writing something are scanning for the usage of a character instead of…actually reading the something and assessing from there whether it seems artificial or weird.
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The greatest literary tool known to man. I used before AI and I will use them after.
When people say Harvard graduate like it's a flex. Behold all the assholes that crawled out of its rotted entrails. They are numerous and they run everything!
Inside every 70-year-old anti-democracy Supreme Court justice is a 26-year-old Harvard dweeb wearing ill-fitting suits to work who wants more than anything in the world for Ronald Reagan to notice him ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When people say Harvard graduate like it's a flex. Behold all the assholes that crawled out of its rotted entrails. They are numerous and they run everything!
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2016 got rid of Facebook
2023 got rid of Twitter
2023 got rid of Insta
2025 got rid of TikTok.
The Sky better stay Blue cause I'm not going anywhere else. This is the last frontier for me. I'm tired 😩
2023 got rid of Twitter
2023 got rid of Insta
2025 got rid of TikTok.
The Sky better stay Blue cause I'm not going anywhere else. This is the last frontier for me. I'm tired 😩
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
2016 got rid of Facebook
2023 got rid of Twitter
2023 got rid of Insta
2025 got rid of TikTok.
The Sky better stay Blue cause I'm not going anywhere else. This is the last frontier for me. I'm tired 😩
2023 got rid of Twitter
2023 got rid of Insta
2025 got rid of TikTok.
The Sky better stay Blue cause I'm not going anywhere else. This is the last frontier for me. I'm tired 😩
Rowed 13.1 miles. It was a mother but I did it!!!!
20. What was the highlight of your week?
This is the end of today's episode of QuestionSky. As always, I love you all and I'll see you in the next thread, cousins 🥰
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October 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Rowed 13.1 miles. It was a mother but I did it!!!!
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and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body
💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖
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WE ARE OPEN
for BIPOC subs for issue 100!
and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body
💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖
find out more here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
Fantasy Magazine Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
updated September 2, 2025
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September 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
are you ready for some big news?
WE ARE OPEN
for BIPOC subs for issue 100!
and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body
💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖
find out more here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
WE ARE OPEN
for BIPOC subs for issue 100!
and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body
💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖
find out more here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
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My play uncle LeVar just said he was blessed to portray the Black experience in America from our enslavement to the stars and I just do not have the emotional capacity to process this today www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8B2FjxC/
LeVar Burton has three roles he'll forever be known for: Kunta Kinte on the TV series "Roots," Geordi La Forge on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and host of "Reading Rainbow." Those roles have had p...
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August 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
My play uncle LeVar just said he was blessed to portray the Black experience in America from our enslavement to the stars and I just do not have the emotional capacity to process this today www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8B2FjxC/
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I'm a strong believer that Black people should be able to write whatever the fuck we want, anything from potato chip novels to gooey romance to fun, sloppy horror, yet I find myself nervous to work on anything that isn't dissertation-ready. I just read a dust cover for a new novel that deals with--
August 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I'm a strong believer that Black people should be able to write whatever the fuck we want, anything from potato chip novels to gooey romance to fun, sloppy horror, yet I find myself nervous to work on anything that isn't dissertation-ready. I just read a dust cover for a new novel that deals with--
Been trying to intentionally build community since 2015, and I can say now with a kind of exhausted honesty that I’ve failed. Not for lack of effort, but because nothing can take root in soil this corrosive. feels like trying to plant something on a No Man’s Sky–irradiated planet without protection.
August 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Been trying to intentionally build community since 2015, and I can say now with a kind of exhausted honesty that I’ve failed. Not for lack of effort, but because nothing can take root in soil this corrosive. feels like trying to plant something on a No Man’s Sky–irradiated planet without protection.
Over five million + Congolese died so smartphones could exist. Still, we line up for upgrades, scroll without pause. Was their annihilation not enough to elicit shame from users? Or is technology only a threat when it endangers American lives? Don't answer, answer your phone.
July 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Over five million + Congolese died so smartphones could exist. Still, we line up for upgrades, scroll without pause. Was their annihilation not enough to elicit shame from users? Or is technology only a threat when it endangers American lives? Don't answer, answer your phone.
Where's Mr O'Malley???
July 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Where's Mr O'Malley???
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We're on our way to being funded - but we're not there yet!
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June 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
We're on our way to being funded - but we're not there yet!
Tell your friends, signal boost, share awesome reads with folks who love to read💞
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Behold! The TOC and cover reveal for FIYAH #35: Black Isekai is officially LIVE:
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FIYAH #35: BLACK ISEKAI ToC & Cover Art
FIYAH Literary Magazine is happy to present the Table of Contents for Issue #35: BLACK ISEKAI. Cover art illustrated by Josh Awol. Short stories include: “Heavenly Harpoon” by Erin Brow…
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June 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Behold! The TOC and cover reveal for FIYAH #35: Black Isekai is officially LIVE:
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