Reiss ✊🏾
@fluorescentbeige.blacksky.app
(I know I look mean but that’s just my face)
I love Black women, I love Black men.
I draw lines for a living and I mind my business.
Interests are: Black culture, politics, tech, cooking, art, and architecture, in no particular order.
I love Black women, I love Black men.
I draw lines for a living and I mind my business.
Interests are: Black culture, politics, tech, cooking, art, and architecture, in no particular order.
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The median annual income in Nigeria is about ~$1000 a year. Most populous country in Africa.
The median annual income in India is ~$2400 a year. Most populous country in Asia.
Worldwide, it's about $2750.
When we say "tech peaked in the 1990s," I think we omit "For rich Americans and Europeans."
The median annual income in India is ~$2400 a year. Most populous country in Asia.
Worldwide, it's about $2750.
When we say "tech peaked in the 1990s," I think we omit "For rich Americans and Europeans."
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The median annual income in Nigeria is about ~$1000 a year. Most populous country in Africa.
The median annual income in India is ~$2400 a year. Most populous country in Asia.
Worldwide, it's about $2750.
When we say "tech peaked in the 1990s," I think we omit "For rich Americans and Europeans."
The median annual income in India is ~$2400 a year. Most populous country in Asia.
Worldwide, it's about $2750.
When we say "tech peaked in the 1990s," I think we omit "For rich Americans and Europeans."
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Deep down I’m such a nerd bro and it’s hilarious to me.
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Deep down I’m such a nerd bro and it’s hilarious to me.
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No apologies necessary over here, getting older is a privilege. 😌
November 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
No apologies necessary over here, getting older is a privilege. 😌
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finally back in my sketchbook, working on a portrait
November 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
finally back in my sketchbook, working on a portrait
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If he ain’t like this about me, send him back.
November 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
If he ain’t like this about me, send him back.
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🤣🤣🤣When you actually visit DR for the first time:
WHY IS EVERYTHING BLACK
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🤣🤣🤣When you actually visit DR for the first time:
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I used to always say the 90s with ease, but with age I’ve come to realize it was the 80s all along.
Anita Baker, Luther Vandross, DeBarge, Freddie Jackson, Atlantic Starr, Chaka Khan, Lionel Richie, René and Angela, Teena Marie, Roberta Flack + Peebo Bryson, George Benson…
Anita Baker, Luther Vandross, DeBarge, Freddie Jackson, Atlantic Starr, Chaka Khan, Lionel Richie, René and Angela, Teena Marie, Roberta Flack + Peebo Bryson, George Benson…
Which do you think is better R&B from the 80s or 90s??
My choice is 90s but 80s was really good.
My choice is 90s but 80s was really good.
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I used to always say the 90s with ease, but with age I’ve come to realize it was the 80s all along.
Anita Baker, Luther Vandross, DeBarge, Freddie Jackson, Atlantic Starr, Chaka Khan, Lionel Richie, René and Angela, Teena Marie, Roberta Flack + Peebo Bryson, George Benson…
Anita Baker, Luther Vandross, DeBarge, Freddie Jackson, Atlantic Starr, Chaka Khan, Lionel Richie, René and Angela, Teena Marie, Roberta Flack + Peebo Bryson, George Benson…
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Remember when the Black Panthers fed the community & policed their own communities, reducing crime? Yeah Uncle Sam remembered, came in, and tore it all down. The government wants us to depend on them like an abusive husband and I'm the tired housewife, & so many of us are fed up.
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Remember when the Black Panthers fed the community & policed their own communities, reducing crime? Yeah Uncle Sam remembered, came in, and tore it all down. The government wants us to depend on them like an abusive husband and I'm the tired housewife, & so many of us are fed up.
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If the grocery store would have put oxtails on a black Friday sale, we would be having a different conversation.
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
If the grocery store would have put oxtails on a black Friday sale, we would be having a different conversation.
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And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
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When I ask them: "What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to?" Often, the answer is: nothing. Which has a direct effect on their over-use of prompts and AI, because they can't think of ideas, because they are literally not engaging with a single figurative thing.
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
When I ask them: "What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to?" Often, the answer is: nothing. Which has a direct effect on their over-use of prompts and AI, because they can't think of ideas, because they are literally not engaging with a single figurative thing.
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The more I look into that young man who wears sparkly cowboy outfits and said he would fuck himself, the more intrigued I am. I do not enjoy his music, but I really like his energy. Lmfao.
November 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The more I look into that young man who wears sparkly cowboy outfits and said he would fuck himself, the more intrigued I am. I do not enjoy his music, but I really like his energy. Lmfao.
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Also… put some money in tiara hand
Get her a spa gift certificate
Do something to let the cooks know you appreciate them
Bring them a bottle
Or Their favorite plants
Don’t just show up and eat
Get her a spa gift certificate
Do something to let the cooks know you appreciate them
Bring them a bottle
Or Their favorite plants
Don’t just show up and eat
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Also… put some money in tiara hand
Get her a spa gift certificate
Do something to let the cooks know you appreciate them
Bring them a bottle
Or Their favorite plants
Don’t just show up and eat
Get her a spa gift certificate
Do something to let the cooks know you appreciate them
Bring them a bottle
Or Their favorite plants
Don’t just show up and eat
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This is how Toni Morrison defines it:
“Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing” “the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears.” “so that we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries”
inthesetimes.com/article/toni...
“Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing” “the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears.” “so that we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries”
inthesetimes.com/article/toni...
![It [fascism] is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas. It is recognizable by its determination to convert all public services to private entrepreneurship; all nonprofit organizations to profit-making ones— so that the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears.
It changes citizens into taxpayers- so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good. It changes neighbors into consumers — so the measure of our value as humans is not our humanity or our compassion or our generosity but what we own. It changes parenting into panicking— so that we vote against the interests of our own children; against their health care, their education, their safety from weapons. And in effecting these changes it produces the perfect capitalist, one who is willing to kill a human being for a product (a pair of sneakers, a jacket, a car) or kill generations for control of products (oil, drugs, fruit, gold).
When our fears have all been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas "marketplaced," our rights sold, our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy auctioned; when the theatricality, the entertainment value, the marketing of life is complete, we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries, and wholl unintelligible to ourselves except for what we see as through a screen darkly.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gc4mqpfyskckxzss4n5bvuga/bafkreihjg5wwri22wjhcouhkzzbcmqcjcp2mhyjubpkjxrxrwoihsjslbu@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This is how Toni Morrison defines it:
“Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing” “the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears.” “so that we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries”
inthesetimes.com/article/toni...
“Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing” “the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears.” “so that we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries”
inthesetimes.com/article/toni...
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Fascism is the blanket term we are using to describe what is happening. And it DOES apply. But specific words are needed for this moment to teach people what is happening.
Ex. The US is not a democratic republic. It is a corporatocracy.
Ex. The US is not a democratic republic. It is a corporatocracy.
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Fascism is the blanket term we are using to describe what is happening. And it DOES apply. But specific words are needed for this moment to teach people what is happening.
Ex. The US is not a democratic republic. It is a corporatocracy.
Ex. The US is not a democratic republic. It is a corporatocracy.
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My girl right here was finna risk it ALL.
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
My girl right here was finna risk it ALL.
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pumpkin pie being abolitionist food and co-opted to consumerist slop is not what I was expecting him to say lol
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
pumpkin pie being abolitionist food and co-opted to consumerist slop is not what I was expecting him to say lol
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And personally, for us, I like both.
And personally, for us, I like dick.
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 AM
And personally, for us, I like both.
Got stuff prepped for tomorrow, got some food prepped for when I come home next week...them cakes gone have to get made tomorrow 😂
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Got stuff prepped for tomorrow, got some food prepped for when I come home next week...them cakes gone have to get made tomorrow 😂
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This is amazing lmao I finally done wrote a fuckin HIT 💕🫶🏽🌀🌴‼️
Decided to play this & mull it over while I prep this food for tomorrow and somewhere along the line I realized I'd been humming the chorus the whole time 😂
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This is amazing lmao I finally done wrote a fuckin HIT 💕🫶🏽🌀🌴‼️
Decided to play this & mull it over while I prep this food for tomorrow and somewhere along the line I realized I'd been humming the chorus the whole time 😂
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Decided to play this & mull it over while I prep this food for tomorrow and somewhere along the line I realized I'd been humming the chorus the whole time 😂
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I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
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It's like textually he's clearly our queer polyamorous anarchist whose comrades are sex workers. And then the white man happens to religion.
Jesus was smooching men on the lips in the bible!
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It's like textually he's clearly our queer polyamorous anarchist whose comrades are sex workers. And then the white man happens to religion.