scott topics™️
@scottpb.bsky.social
writer of books • founder of magazines • professor of University of Michigan students • learner of things • listener of tracks • viewer of flicks • tired of everything
Yup, pretty much sums it up
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yup, pretty much sums it up
The November 17 cover of The New Yorker ✊🏾💜✊🏾
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The November 17 cover of The New Yorker ✊🏾💜✊🏾
As a professor of African American Studies, I endorse this message ✊🏾🤭✊🏾
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
As a professor of African American Studies, I endorse this message ✊🏾🤭✊🏾
all very good questions (plus it’s a bop)
November 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
all very good questions (plus it’s a bop)
Stop talking about me! 🤣🤣
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Stop talking about me! 🤣🤣
“The Tea: Spilled by @MorningJoe”
damn, don’t white folks ever get tired of being culture vultures?
🙄😒😐
damn, don’t white folks ever get tired of being culture vultures?
🙄😒😐
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“The Tea: Spilled by @MorningJoe”
damn, don’t white folks ever get tired of being culture vultures?
🙄😒😐
damn, don’t white folks ever get tired of being culture vultures?
🙄😒😐
This a real account?
October 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This a real account?
Perkins Hall Smith...
yup, that sounds about white 😆
yup, that sounds about white 😆
October 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Perkins Hall Smith...
yup, that sounds about white 😆
yup, that sounds about white 😆
Mary Astor playing me in a movie. She was so good playing me she won an Oscar for it 🤣
October 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Mary Astor playing me in a movie. She was so good playing me she won an Oscar for it 🤣
wild to think that it was twenty years ago this month that Doubleday published my little book called HUNG. So grateful to and appreciative of all the folks who bought it, read it, and (even now still!) teach it.
the paperback came out a year later…with a new, less provocative cover haha
the paperback came out a year later…with a new, less provocative cover haha
October 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
wild to think that it was twenty years ago this month that Doubleday published my little book called HUNG. So grateful to and appreciative of all the folks who bought it, read it, and (even now still!) teach it.
the paperback came out a year later…with a new, less provocative cover haha
the paperback came out a year later…with a new, less provocative cover haha
Vibe Magazine, June/July 1995.
He told me, “I just want to make some real black music.”
And he did.
RIP sir and thank you for being, as Roberta and Donny said, real black for us.
He told me, “I just want to make some real black music.”
And he did.
RIP sir and thank you for being, as Roberta and Donny said, real black for us.
October 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Vibe Magazine, June/July 1995.
He told me, “I just want to make some real black music.”
And he did.
RIP sir and thank you for being, as Roberta and Donny said, real black for us.
He told me, “I just want to make some real black music.”
And he did.
RIP sir and thank you for being, as Roberta and Donny said, real black for us.
“But I still doesn’t have no champagne!”
— Florence, pretending to be Helen Willis, on The Jeffersons [s3e17 “A Case of Black and White” 1977]
#blacksky
📺
— Florence, pretending to be Helen Willis, on The Jeffersons [s3e17 “A Case of Black and White” 1977]
#blacksky
📺
October 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“But I still doesn’t have no champagne!”
— Florence, pretending to be Helen Willis, on The Jeffersons [s3e17 “A Case of Black and White” 1977]
#blacksky
📺
— Florence, pretending to be Helen Willis, on The Jeffersons [s3e17 “A Case of Black and White” 1977]
#blacksky
📺
Join ICE today!! 🤡🎯
October 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Join ICE today!! 🤡🎯
The MAGA theme song.
October 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The MAGA theme song.
The generals and admirals listening to the speeches today.
September 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The generals and admirals listening to the speeches today.
Say it louder for those in the back, Tom Hardy ✊🏾💜
September 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Say it louder for those in the back, Tom Hardy ✊🏾💜
Even a fictional journalist like Murphy Brown knew how to handle MAGA in its earlier iteration in the 90s lol
September 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Even a fictional journalist like Murphy Brown knew how to handle MAGA in its earlier iteration in the 90s lol