Gail Drakes
@gaildrakes.bsky.social
Bad at bios, but I’m not a bot. 💁🏽♀️ 🏳️🌈
Trained as a historian, surviving late-stage capitalism by giving away Other People’s Money.
Trained as a historian, surviving late-stage capitalism by giving away Other People’s Money.
I’m told that the road to our dazzling future is through out local communities, in person.
But I know that’s not the whole story.
I want to work w/all the folks who can’t go to the meetups. And I believe the internet is a wondrous gift from nerds to the world.
Who do I need to connect to with?
But I know that’s not the whole story.
I want to work w/all the folks who can’t go to the meetups. And I believe the internet is a wondrous gift from nerds to the world.
Who do I need to connect to with?
December 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I’m told that the road to our dazzling future is through out local communities, in person.
But I know that’s not the whole story.
I want to work w/all the folks who can’t go to the meetups. And I believe the internet is a wondrous gift from nerds to the world.
Who do I need to connect to with?
But I know that’s not the whole story.
I want to work w/all the folks who can’t go to the meetups. And I believe the internet is a wondrous gift from nerds to the world.
Who do I need to connect to with?
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donate, share, anything helps. Clarkisha Kent and her sister deserve love, respect, safety, and more. cash.app/$ClarkishaKent
December 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
donate, share, anything helps. Clarkisha Kent and her sister deserve love, respect, safety, and more. cash.app/$ClarkishaKent
I don’t want to offend people who enjoyed Invasion on Apple TV, but wow, it is frustrating how bad this is.
Like, it sounds like it should be good, and yet…no.
Part of me wants to liveskeet it. But that would encourage me to continue watching it! 😏
Like, it sounds like it should be good, and yet…no.
Part of me wants to liveskeet it. But that would encourage me to continue watching it! 😏
December 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I don’t want to offend people who enjoyed Invasion on Apple TV, but wow, it is frustrating how bad this is.
Like, it sounds like it should be good, and yet…no.
Part of me wants to liveskeet it. But that would encourage me to continue watching it! 😏
Like, it sounds like it should be good, and yet…no.
Part of me wants to liveskeet it. But that would encourage me to continue watching it! 😏
@matthewcort.land Thanks for the follow! I know and really respect your work.
December 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
@matthewcort.land Thanks for the follow! I know and really respect your work.
Okay, this time, it’s personal!
I haven’t had a word to say about Olivia Nuzzi but I just learned that she is a January-born Capricorn and I am even MORE disgusted!!
A disgrace to the tribe! ♑️ Someone find her birth chart and explain this to me!
Can @smashfizzle.bsky.social and fellow Caps help?
I haven’t had a word to say about Olivia Nuzzi but I just learned that she is a January-born Capricorn and I am even MORE disgusted!!
A disgrace to the tribe! ♑️ Someone find her birth chart and explain this to me!
Can @smashfizzle.bsky.social and fellow Caps help?
There’s a sentence on page 2 that is longer than Bluesky’s character limit.
And the sole knowledge that sentence conveys is “Olivia was born on January 6th.”
And the sole knowledge that sentence conveys is “Olivia was born on January 6th.”
December 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Okay, this time, it’s personal!
I haven’t had a word to say about Olivia Nuzzi but I just learned that she is a January-born Capricorn and I am even MORE disgusted!!
A disgrace to the tribe! ♑️ Someone find her birth chart and explain this to me!
Can @smashfizzle.bsky.social and fellow Caps help?
I haven’t had a word to say about Olivia Nuzzi but I just learned that she is a January-born Capricorn and I am even MORE disgusted!!
A disgrace to the tribe! ♑️ Someone find her birth chart and explain this to me!
Can @smashfizzle.bsky.social and fellow Caps help?
I have no proof, but a strong suspicion that the folks who wrote/created “Invasion” on Apple TV never had a meaningful conversation with a Black person.
And I think these characters are intended to be Black, this isn’t cross-racial/open casting…
NEVER have I been so uninvested in Black characters!
And I think these characters are intended to be Black, this isn’t cross-racial/open casting…
NEVER have I been so uninvested in Black characters!
Finishing Season One on “Invasion” on Apple TV, and for all its flaws and annoying features…
…I really am appreciating Aneesha’s “mom of color defending her kids against the apocalypse” energy. It is also why I should NOT be watching!
A lesbian dies in the first episode? Why am I even here?! 😩
…I really am appreciating Aneesha’s “mom of color defending her kids against the apocalypse” energy. It is also why I should NOT be watching!
A lesbian dies in the first episode? Why am I even here?! 😩
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I have no proof, but a strong suspicion that the folks who wrote/created “Invasion” on Apple TV never had a meaningful conversation with a Black person.
And I think these characters are intended to be Black, this isn’t cross-racial/open casting…
NEVER have I been so uninvested in Black characters!
And I think these characters are intended to be Black, this isn’t cross-racial/open casting…
NEVER have I been so uninvested in Black characters!
Finishing Season One on “Invasion” on Apple TV, and for all its flaws and annoying features…
…I really am appreciating Aneesha’s “mom of color defending her kids against the apocalypse” energy. It is also why I should NOT be watching!
A lesbian dies in the first episode? Why am I even here?! 😩
…I really am appreciating Aneesha’s “mom of color defending her kids against the apocalypse” energy. It is also why I should NOT be watching!
A lesbian dies in the first episode? Why am I even here?! 😩
December 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Finishing Season One on “Invasion” on Apple TV, and for all its flaws and annoying features…
…I really am appreciating Aneesha’s “mom of color defending her kids against the apocalypse” energy. It is also why I should NOT be watching!
A lesbian dies in the first episode? Why am I even here?! 😩
…I really am appreciating Aneesha’s “mom of color defending her kids against the apocalypse” energy. It is also why I should NOT be watching!
A lesbian dies in the first episode? Why am I even here?! 😩
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Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish there was some kind of international nerd credential that would allow me basic access to any university. I need to be with my people!
This would be so dreamy for me.🥰
This would be so dreamy for me.🥰
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I wish there was some kind of international nerd credential that would allow me basic access to any university. I need to be with my people!
This would be so dreamy for me.🥰
This would be so dreamy for me.🥰
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DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
What the hell?! Promises were made!! AppleCare told me there was gonna be BOGO deals on luxury condos and I’ve excited about it ever since Election Day!
AT LEAST confirm that the Cuomos are still leaving! Right?! RIGHT?!?
AT LEAST confirm that the Cuomos are still leaving! Right?! RIGHT?!?
I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What the hell?! Promises were made!! AppleCare told me there was gonna be BOGO deals on luxury condos and I’ve excited about it ever since Election Day!
AT LEAST confirm that the Cuomos are still leaving! Right?! RIGHT?!?
AT LEAST confirm that the Cuomos are still leaving! Right?! RIGHT?!?
If you were born before the Hepatitis B vaccine was added to the childhood immunization schedule in 1991, get the shot.
It’s a small move towards the community immunity that might save a child’s life.
Get another MMR & TDaP shot as well! (I found out my measles immunity had waned! 😱)
It’s a small move towards the community immunity that might save a child’s life.
Get another MMR & TDaP shot as well! (I found out my measles immunity had waned! 😱)
Today is the start of 2 days of meetings of RFK Jr.'s ACIP, where vaccines skeptics outnumber actual scientists and medial experts. Their target: the Hep B vaccine, which has a ~90-98% (after 3 doses) effectiveness rate in preventing infection for up to 30 yrs.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Doctors warn delaying hepatitis B shot for newborns could revive a deadly threat
As RFK Jr.'s new vaccine panel ponders changing the hepatitis B vaccination schedule, some doctors recall past patients, including children, who died painful deaths before there was a vaccine.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If you were born before the Hepatitis B vaccine was added to the childhood immunization schedule in 1991, get the shot.
It’s a small move towards the community immunity that might save a child’s life.
Get another MMR & TDaP shot as well! (I found out my measles immunity had waned! 😱)
It’s a small move towards the community immunity that might save a child’s life.
Get another MMR & TDaP shot as well! (I found out my measles immunity had waned! 😱)
I’m noticing that part of this is needing to respect my night owl nature.
So many years trying to live like a lark, instead of the Queen of the Night that I was born to be! 💁🏽♀️😊
I probably should let myself relax all day and kick into gear around 2 pm. I need a remote job in a far away time zone…
So many years trying to live like a lark, instead of the Queen of the Night that I was born to be! 💁🏽♀️😊
I probably should let myself relax all day and kick into gear around 2 pm. I need a remote job in a far away time zone…
I have so much to do 😩😩 but apparently I am taking a break. Like, I am not doing the things and not feeling extra awful about it. So weird.
I thinking of making cookies for National Cookie Day.
I don’t know whether to be proud or concerned. 🤔
I thinking of making cookies for National Cookie Day.
I don’t know whether to be proud or concerned. 🤔
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I’m noticing that part of this is needing to respect my night owl nature.
So many years trying to live like a lark, instead of the Queen of the Night that I was born to be! 💁🏽♀️😊
I probably should let myself relax all day and kick into gear around 2 pm. I need a remote job in a far away time zone…
So many years trying to live like a lark, instead of the Queen of the Night that I was born to be! 💁🏽♀️😊
I probably should let myself relax all day and kick into gear around 2 pm. I need a remote job in a far away time zone…
I have so much to do 😩😩 but apparently I am taking a break. Like, I am not doing the things and not feeling extra awful about it. So weird.
I thinking of making cookies for National Cookie Day.
I don’t know whether to be proud or concerned. 🤔
I thinking of making cookies for National Cookie Day.
I don’t know whether to be proud or concerned. 🤔
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I have so much to do 😩😩 but apparently I am taking a break. Like, I am not doing the things and not feeling extra awful about it. So weird.
I thinking of making cookies for National Cookie Day.
I don’t know whether to be proud or concerned. 🤔
I thinking of making cookies for National Cookie Day.
I don’t know whether to be proud or concerned. 🤔
Got me out here drug- seeking…trying to score some vaccines for my kids. 🙄
I hate the players AND the damn game. 🤬
I hate the players AND the damn game. 🤬
December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Got me out here drug- seeking…trying to score some vaccines for my kids. 🙄
I hate the players AND the damn game. 🤬
I hate the players AND the damn game. 🤬
Okay, first up, this picture. They didn’t need to do the brotha dirty like that!
Next up, I think getting forced out/fired by Pete Hegseth should qualify you for some sort of ethics award. Like, put that on your resume!
It is a good sign when the white boys uninvite you from their war criming…💁🏽♀️
Next up, I think getting forced out/fired by Pete Hegseth should qualify you for some sort of ethics award. Like, put that on your resume!
It is a good sign when the white boys uninvite you from their war criming…💁🏽♀️
surprised about the discord. i thought Hegseth was a Signal guy
Exclusive | Hegseth Asked Top Admiral to Resign After Months of Discord
The relationship between the Pentagon chief and Adm. Alvin Holsey had been rocky since Trump’s inauguration.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Okay, first up, this picture. They didn’t need to do the brotha dirty like that!
Next up, I think getting forced out/fired by Pete Hegseth should qualify you for some sort of ethics award. Like, put that on your resume!
It is a good sign when the white boys uninvite you from their war criming…💁🏽♀️
Next up, I think getting forced out/fired by Pete Hegseth should qualify you for some sort of ethics award. Like, put that on your resume!
It is a good sign when the white boys uninvite you from their war criming…💁🏽♀️
I love Black folks loving “The Wiz” much more than I love “The Wiz.” It brings so much joy to folks…and I do love Lena Horne and the skybabies. 🤷🏽♀️
That said, if someone disrespects the Original Broadway Cast of “The Wiz” including Miss Stephanie Mills, we are gonna fight.
It’s simple really. 😏💁🏽♀️😊
That said, if someone disrespects the Original Broadway Cast of “The Wiz” including Miss Stephanie Mills, we are gonna fight.
It’s simple really. 😏💁🏽♀️😊
The Wizard Of Oz > The Wiz
The Wiz is also a horror film to me 😅
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I love Black folks loving “The Wiz” much more than I love “The Wiz.” It brings so much joy to folks…and I do love Lena Horne and the skybabies. 🤷🏽♀️
That said, if someone disrespects the Original Broadway Cast of “The Wiz” including Miss Stephanie Mills, we are gonna fight.
It’s simple really. 😏💁🏽♀️😊
That said, if someone disrespects the Original Broadway Cast of “The Wiz” including Miss Stephanie Mills, we are gonna fight.
It’s simple really. 😏💁🏽♀️😊
This is a dangerous and classic authoritarian move. One I’ve been fearing.
The post replies mocking Leavitt as unintelligent miss the point. 🫤
Misogyny* got folks joking about her blonde hair - and calling Kristi Noem “Barbie” - while underestimating the role of white women in racial atrocities.
The post replies mocking Leavitt as unintelligent miss the point. 🫤
Misogyny* got folks joking about her blonde hair - and calling Kristi Noem “Barbie” - while underestimating the role of white women in racial atrocities.
December 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is a dangerous and classic authoritarian move. One I’ve been fearing.
The post replies mocking Leavitt as unintelligent miss the point. 🫤
Misogyny* got folks joking about her blonde hair - and calling Kristi Noem “Barbie” - while underestimating the role of white women in racial atrocities.
The post replies mocking Leavitt as unintelligent miss the point. 🫤
Misogyny* got folks joking about her blonde hair - and calling Kristi Noem “Barbie” - while underestimating the role of white women in racial atrocities.
Yup…cable news is trying to show me pics of the Epstein island.
I feel strongly this all has next to nothing to do with justice or ending child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation more generally…
…and that for many folks - this is a tricked-out “true crime” podcast. 😔🤬
It’s painful to watch.
I feel strongly this all has next to nothing to do with justice or ending child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation more generally…
…and that for many folks - this is a tricked-out “true crime” podcast. 😔🤬
It’s painful to watch.
December 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Yup…cable news is trying to show me pics of the Epstein island.
I feel strongly this all has next to nothing to do with justice or ending child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation more generally…
…and that for many folks - this is a tricked-out “true crime” podcast. 😔🤬
It’s painful to watch.
I feel strongly this all has next to nothing to do with justice or ending child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation more generally…
…and that for many folks - this is a tricked-out “true crime” podcast. 😔🤬
It’s painful to watch.
I know he ain’t perfect, but DAMN…
Imagine having a President that can unequivocally speak out against genocide AND speak on behalf of the beauty and power of human sexuality!
(And I read “Así que no te equivoques conmigo,” as “Don’t get it twisted!” which adds to the charm. 😊)
Imagine having a President that can unequivocally speak out against genocide AND speak on behalf of the beauty and power of human sexuality!
(And I read “Así que no te equivoques conmigo,” as “Don’t get it twisted!” which adds to the charm. 😊)
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I know he ain’t perfect, but DAMN…
Imagine having a President that can unequivocally speak out against genocide AND speak on behalf of the beauty and power of human sexuality!
(And I read “Así que no te equivoques conmigo,” as “Don’t get it twisted!” which adds to the charm. 😊)
Imagine having a President that can unequivocally speak out against genocide AND speak on behalf of the beauty and power of human sexuality!
(And I read “Así que no te equivoques conmigo,” as “Don’t get it twisted!” which adds to the charm. 😊)
@geauxgabrielle.bsky.social Yay! So cool to see you on my skyline again! And DAMN, you’ve been making moves!
Congrats on all your successes - you got me motivated and inspired over here! ✨🙌🏾
Congrats on all your successes - you got me motivated and inspired over here! ✨🙌🏾
December 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
@geauxgabrielle.bsky.social Yay! So cool to see you on my skyline again! And DAMN, you’ve been making moves!
Congrats on all your successes - you got me motivated and inspired over here! ✨🙌🏾
Congrats on all your successes - you got me motivated and inspired over here! ✨🙌🏾
Admiral Alvin Holsey (a Black man) resigned before these awful people could pin war crimes on him or pimp him out to defend them.
He should have a drink w/ Mehtab Syed (the Pakistani-American woman who fired from the FBI office in Salt Lake City and didn’t have to deal w/the Charlie Kirk murder)!
He should have a drink w/ Mehtab Syed (the Pakistani-American woman who fired from the FBI office in Salt Lake City and didn’t have to deal w/the Charlie Kirk murder)!
December 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Admiral Alvin Holsey (a Black man) resigned before these awful people could pin war crimes on him or pimp him out to defend them.
He should have a drink w/ Mehtab Syed (the Pakistani-American woman who fired from the FBI office in Salt Lake City and didn’t have to deal w/the Charlie Kirk murder)!
He should have a drink w/ Mehtab Syed (the Pakistani-American woman who fired from the FBI office in Salt Lake City and didn’t have to deal w/the Charlie Kirk murder)!
My nightmares are literally popping up in my skyline…
Bernie Moreno has introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship, in the latest attempt by the right to attack immigrants and tighten the rules around citizenship. The bill makes the sweeping assertion that people with foreign citizenships may have “divided loyalties.”
Republican Files Bill to Eliminate Dual Citizenship, Force Renunciations
The legislation directs the Secretary of State to create a database on those with multiple citizenships.
truthout.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
My nightmares are literally popping up in my skyline…
I need to do a reboot of my neglected skin and I don’t want to just buy a lot of random stuff just because it’s popular. 👎🏾
Where can a Gen X Black lady nerd in NYC get a skin evaluation that can help me with my glow up? 🤔💃🏽
(Looking for facts, not a hard sell of pricey serums…)
Where can a Gen X Black lady nerd in NYC get a skin evaluation that can help me with my glow up? 🤔💃🏽
(Looking for facts, not a hard sell of pricey serums…)
December 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I need to do a reboot of my neglected skin and I don’t want to just buy a lot of random stuff just because it’s popular. 👎🏾
Where can a Gen X Black lady nerd in NYC get a skin evaluation that can help me with my glow up? 🤔💃🏽
(Looking for facts, not a hard sell of pricey serums…)
Where can a Gen X Black lady nerd in NYC get a skin evaluation that can help me with my glow up? 🤔💃🏽
(Looking for facts, not a hard sell of pricey serums…)
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For whoever needs to see this 💗
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
For whoever needs to see this 💗