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Kindra Cotton
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Digital Marketing & Cybersecurity Specialist. Information Marketer. Content Creation Muse/Adrift Federal Employee with too much knowledge of USAJOBs.

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CHICAGO: Get a FREE CHEESE SAUCE with purchase of Fries at Portillos today! 😋
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December 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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The manicured hand of a Black woman coming out of a mobile phone holding a plate. Ready to eat something good! 😋
December 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Several brands of Grated Pecorino Romano is being recalled over listeria concerns. Recalled products are sold in plastic containers and in pound-size plastic bags under the brand names Ambriola, Locatelli, Pinna, Boar's Head and Member's Mark. They have expiration dates ranging February to May 2026.
The Pecorino Romano recall: One of several brands of grated Pecorino Romano being recalled over listeria concerns. The recalled products are sold — both in plastic containers and in pound-size plastic bags — under the brand names Ambriola, Locatelli, Pinna, Boar's Head and Member's Mark. They have expiration dates ranging from February to May 2026.
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Several brands of Grated Pecorino Romano is being recalled over listeria concerns. Recalled products are sold in plastic containers and in pound-size plastic bags under the brand names Ambriola, Locatelli, Pinna, Boar's Head and Member's Mark. They have expiration dates ranging February to May 2026.
The Pecorino Romano recall: One of several brands of grated Pecorino Romano being recalled over listeria concerns. The recalled products are sold — both in plastic containers and in pound-size plastic bags — under the brand names Ambriola, Locatelli, Pinna, Boar's Head and Member's Mark. They have expiration dates ranging from February to May 2026.
December 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Wow! In reading up on the history of Smurfette, it appears she may have been intended to be A FLOOZY! 😳
A screenshot of a description of the Comics version of Smurfette that reads: Smurfette (French: La Schtroumpfette) is one of the main protagonists from the comic strip The Smurfs. Smurfette was created by the evil wizard Gargamel, the Smurfs' archenemy, in order to spy on them and sow jealousy. However, she decides that she wants to be a real Smurf and Papa Smurf casts a spell that changes her hair from black to blonde as a sign of her transformation.1 She was the only female Smurf until the creation of Sassette. A Granny Smurf was also later introduced, although it is unclear how she was created Thierry Culliford, the son of the comics' creator, Peyo, and current head of the Studio Peyo, announced in 2008 that more female Smurfs would be introduced in the stories, i2] Smurfette has stereotypical feminine features, with long blonde wavy hair, long eyelashes, and wears a white dress and white high heels. She is the love interest of almost every Smurf.[1] Smurfette Comics version of Smurfette
December 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Thanks. You may want to consider using the Accessibility feature on here that prompts you to add ALT TEXT TO IMAGES by default. You can do so by: SETTINGS - ACCESSIBILITY - ALT TEXT: Require alt text before posting

(Just a suggestion) 😊
A screenshot of Bluesky Accessibility Settings Showing the Alt text option enabled to: Require alt text before posting [an image].
December 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Jobs are growing where women are paid the least:
The only meaningful job gains for Black women came in health care
food services, and social assistance (i.e. the sector where Black women are concentrated and also among the lowest-paying in the economy).
Jobs are growing where women are paid the least The only meaningful job gains for Black women came in health care food services, and social assistance: +10,700 positions in September. This is the sector where Black women are concentrated and also among the lowest-paying in the economy Average weekly pay in these sectors hovers around $530 to $1,200-far below wages in manufacturing, finance, or professional services. Even within health care, Black women face some of the largest racial and gender pay gaps. Meanwhile, Black women lost 1,500 jobs in government, a more stable and higher-paying sector, and saw zero gains in finance transportation, or professional services. In short, they are gaining jobs where wages are lowest and losing them where wages are better
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The economy cannot remain resilient while sidelining its most educated women and breadwinners. It cannot grow while concentrating Black women in the lowest-paid jobs and locking them out of higher-wage industries.
Structural, not cyclical: This is not a cyclical slowdown. It is a structural divide. The labor market is being carved up with precision: Women, and especially Black women, are being cut out. Men's gains are being supercharged. This divide threatens the very foundation of America's economic stability. An economy cannot remain resilient while sidelining its most educated women and breadwinner mothers. It cannot sustain Medicare and Social Security if over one million women are missing from the workforce. It cannot grow while concentrating Black women in the lowest-paid jobs and locking them out of higher-wage industries.
December 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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The labor market is being carved up with
precision: Women, and especially Black
women, are being cut out! Men's gains are being supercharged! This divide threatens the very foundation of America's economic stability.
Structural, not cyclical: This is not a cyclical slowdown. It is a structural divide. The labor market is being carved up with precision: Women, and especially Black women, are being cut out. Men's gains are being supercharged. This divide threatens the very foundation of America's economic stability. An economy cannot remain resilient while sidelining its most educated women and breadwinner mothers. It cannot sustain Medicare and Social Security if over one million women are missing from the workforce. It cannot grow while concentrating Black women in the lowest-paid jobs and locking them out of higher-wage industries.
December 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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The Exit Economy is here and Black Women are paying the highest price: The Exit Economy is holding many Black women back as we are being sidelined at scale: fortune.com/2025/11/22/t...
The employment gap is widening fast: On August 31, when I last published an analysis of these figures, Black women were down 319,000 jobs while white men had gained 365,000. Expanding the analysis to reflect men overall, the gap has only grown more lopsided: Black women are down 297,000, but men's gains have surged to +621,000. That's a 324,000 widening of the gender gap in two months--a 34% jump. Since February, the swing between black women's losses and men's gains approaches 1 million jobs. Put differently, the labor market added the population of Boston in male workers, while subtracting the equivalent of Greensboro [North Carolina] in female workers. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity. Structural, not cyclical: This is not a cyclical slowdown. It is a structural divide. The labor market is being carved up with precision. According to an analysis of the most recent labor statistics by Katica Roy, a gender economist. Excerpt from: The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price: https://fortune.com/2025/11/22/the-exit-economy-black-women-labor-force-participation-inequality/
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Today is "GIVING TUESDAY": PLEASE GIVE THIS YOUR ATTENTION:

The exit economy is here and Black Women are paying the highest price! Since February, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. It is clear this isn’t a blip: It’s a structural crisis! fortune.com/2025/11/22/t...
The employment gap is widening fast: On August 31, when I last published an analysis of these figures, Black women were down 319,000 jobs while white men had gained 365,000. Expanding the analysis to reflect men overall, the gap has only grown more lopsided: Black women are down 297,000, but men's gains have surged to +621,000. That's a 324,000 widening of the gender gap in two months--a 34% jump. Since February, the swing between black women's losses and men's gains approaches 1 million jobs. Put differently, the labor market added the population of Boston in male workers, while subtracting the equivalent of Greensboro [North Carolina] in female workers. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity. Structural, not cyclical: This is not a cyclical slowdown. It is a structural divide. The labor market is being carved up with precision. According to an analysis of the most recent labor statistics by Katica Roy, a gender economist. Excerpt from: The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price: https://fortune.com/2025/11/22/the-exit-economy-black-women-labor-force-participation-inequality/
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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SMH 😠
A screenshot of the Google Home Page with Christmas lights strewn throughout the name, and a noticeably missing red ribbon to commemorate World AIDS Day on December 1, 2025.
December 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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What's the ideal date to put up Christmas lights 🎄?
A screenshot of the Google Home Page with Christmas lights strewn throughout the name, and a noticeably missing red ribbon to commemorate World AIDS Day on December 1, 2025.
December 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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This is the problem with Al: Someone wants to claim "Architects are cooked", but look at this design! It's poor and it doesn't make any sense! And the architect who uses it and knows what they're doing will spend more time fixing the mistakes, than the time it 'saves'! 🙄
A screenshot from someone that claims "Architects are cooked. Al is coming for you. Prepare accordingly.", to a very poorly designed house with multiple illogical bathrooms and other design flaws that fixing will waste a considerable amount of human effort and environmental resources.
December 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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I'm pulling this kindness to the front KICKING AND SCREAMING! It is A CHALLENGE! 😮‍💨
A woman sits on a bench in a Popeyes uniform and she is visibly TIRED and DEFEATED!
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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IF YOU'RE CURIOUS ABOUT THE BLOCKED POST: This is what I responded to. It was supposed to be 'light-hearted', but I felt it tipping into "mean-girl territory", so I removed myself from this discussion! 🫡✌🏾

I hate coming up on blocked posts, so I'm BEING THE CHANGE I WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD! 😆
A Blacksky user ask: "Y'all lying in court for your husband to beat a murder case???" on December 1, 2025
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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It was also 274 days AFTER Claudette Colvin did the same thing, but respectability politics dictated that she couldn't be the public catalyst for change.

She's also still alive today (she just turned 86 in September)! Anyone who can afford it should find a way to financially Bless this woman!
Claudette Colvin (at age 13): On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred ~9 months (274 Days) before the similar event that Rosa Parks is known for.
December 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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How y'all holding out on The Blackout? 🤔

Only TWO DAYS LEFT (including today)!
WE'RE NOT ASKING. WE'RE SHUTTING IT DOWN. MASS BLACKOUT NOVEMBER 25TH - DECEMBER 2ND The largest economic blackout protest in U.S. history begins November 25th! No Work - No Projects - No Spending- No Events No Restaurants - No Restaurants NO BACKING OUT!!! Prepare for the IMPACT! To prevent "spike spending" before and after the BLACKOUT. we ask that all participants purchase goods needed from community-owned stores and markets leading up to and after the dates. This helps with sustained impact and keeps our mo- ney out of the mega businesses' pocckets. COORDINATED NATIONAL PUSHBACK. MAXIMUM LOCAL IMPACT
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I haven't bought anything in FIVE DAYS! Nor have I had any fried chicken in over a week!
I'm not gonna make it! 😭 LOL. 😆

Also, I just noticed, after all these years: SHE'S WEARING A POPEYES UNIFORM! 🤭😂
A woman in a Popeyes uniform if sitting on a bench, defeated.
November 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Is Green Acres the place to be? 🤭

And this is Harold (from 'back in the day' 🤭)
Part of the Harold's Chicken Logo (from Chicago, Illinois).
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Here's a picture of him from 'back in the day'! 🤭
Part of the Harold's Chicken Logo (from Chicago, Illinois).
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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😳

With the state of healthcare in this country, Dr. Pepper is going to be the only doctor people can afford! SHOW SOME RESPECT! 😂
An angry flork holds a plate with Jesus on it under the caption: "Really? Right in front of my Lord and Savior?".
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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An angry flork holding a plate under the caption "well give me some"!
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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They really had him OUT THERE! LOL 😆

But what are those outfits on his handlers? 🤭
Poppin' Fresh poppin' fresh at the Macy's 2025 Thanksgiving Day Parade!
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Did I miss this year's "I didn't know Bobby Caldwell wasn't Black" convo? LOL. 😆

Look at the trickery on this album cover! 🤭
BOBBY CALDWELL What You Won't Do For Love Love Won't Wait T.K. Records
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM