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Wagatwe Wanjuki
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antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
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lmao 🤌🏾

'An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.'
People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column that I’ve all but committed to memory, “and develop an alienated view of the world.” God, did I love this. An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.
November 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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last harvest of the season 🌱
a basket among fallen autumn leaves. it's full of green tomatoes and some peppers and string beans.
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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the Sims 4 made a free update...and it's West African themed?!
a Sims 4 screenshot of a Sims family around the dinner table in the new West African-inspired outfits
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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lol
AI signs next to each other that misspell "Lafayette/Centre" differently
October 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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the idea that a bunch of public writing and interviews are enough to create a virtual facsimile of your dead spouse is appalling. that's a very curated and edited version of someone. a small piece of a larger, complex picture.
To get the likeness and speech just right, the AI has been trained with "all of Suzanne's 27 books and a lot of interviews that she has done, hundreds of interviews, so that she's really ready to be able to be asked any question at all and be able to answer it, because the answer will be within her."
October 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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imagine your partner of 55 years saying he can't tell the difference between you and your clanker imposter
Hamel shared a demo of the AI at a conference earlier this year. To Hamel, the project is "perfect." "It was Suzanne. And I asked her a few questions and she answered them, and it blew me and everybody else away," he says. "When you look at the finished one next to the real Suzanne, you can't tell the difference. It's amazing. And I mean, I've been with Suzanne for 55 years, so I know what her face looks like, and when I just look at the two of them side by side, I really can't tell which one is the real and which one is the AI."
October 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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department of state tweeting a link to their bluesky account to say, We heard Bluesky is a great place to research visa revocations 00 Give us a follow: it's a quote post of the White House post "We realized everyone over at Bluesky probably wasn't seeing our content. So we decided to fix that."
October 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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hell yeah
Aziz envisions a renewed pan-African and anti-imperialist front grounded in what he calls the “Great South:” a collective of emancipatory forces reclaiming political and epistemic agency from the global periphery. Through his concepts of transinternationalism and a revived “Bandung 2” internationalism, he calls for a 21st-century alliance that transcends the nation-state, uniting peoples of the South and North in a shared struggle against imperialism and capitalist domination.
October 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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definitely a troll
'Fact' is a nasty, four-letter word. We must create a world where Truth wins over facts Can you believe that the are actually people who 2 + 2 is 4? That the Earth is roughly round? Some of these people work at the New York Times.
October 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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if you look like this DM me
close up of the face of a Black bodybuilder. he has a chiseled face and a short afro.
October 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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yeah sounds like they are accused of faking the whole thing. wow. m.facebook.com/p/Carroll-Co...
Carroll County Sheriff's Office - Maryland posted 3h ago "Two arrested after fraudulently reporting a burglary and theft" Finksburg, Carroll County, Maryland; October 10, 2025 On April 7th, 2024, Carroll County Sheriff's Office Deputies responded to a residence in the 1900 block of Turnberry Court, Finksburg, for the report of a burglary and theft. Upon arrival, they met with the homeowners who stated they returned from vacation to find that their home had been entered and numerous items had been stolen. They reported approximately 80 items of jewelry, luxury goods, clothing, and shoes were stolen, worth a total of more than $200,000. During the investigation, Detectives found that over $20,000 of the items reported stolen had been returned by the owners to the locations the items were purchased. Further, Detectives found images of a homeowner wearing jewelry that had been reported stolen after the burglary took place. On October 9th, 2025, the investigation was presented to a Grand Jury and the homeowners were indicted. A search warrant was issued for the residence, and arrest warrants were issued for the homeowners, who are identified as Edward Osefo, a 41 year old male living at the Turnberry Court address, and Wendy Osefo, a 41 year old female, also living at the Turnberry Court address. They were both taken into custody and transported to Carroll County Central Booking, where they were formally charged with multiple counts related to fraud. (All individuals are presumed innocent of the pending charges until proven guilty in a court of law) On October 10, 2025, both Edward and Wendy Osefo posted bond and were released. ** Wendy Osefo's correct age is 41, which has been updated in the narrative of this release***
October 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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yeah it looks like JHU may have been her first teaching job? I have no idea what providing "academic leadership" means exactly
education.jhu.edu/news/wendy-o...
Before joining Johns Hopkins, she was the director of the Master of Arts in Management program at Goucher College, where she provided academic and administrative leadership. In addition, she was the director of family and community engagement for the Obama Administration’s anti-poverty D.C. Promise Neighborhood Initiative. During her tenure, she designed and implemented culturally competent, parent-centered engagement strategies, and created and launched an adult learning academy that served low-income residents in northeast D.C.
October 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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niece drew a picture of me.

"this is your curly hair and long arms"
a pen drawing of a heart and a stick figure with long legs and arms
October 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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wild to see the US referred to as "unstable" — not that it's inaccurate. it just really hits how much Trumpism has taken us backward so quickly.

the US has always been evil, but at least other countries saw us as *stable*
Three sources told Game File that word filtered through the company last July that management in Paris had stopped development of the game for two reasons: 1) online backlash that spring to the reveal of Yasuke, a historically-inspired Black samurai, as a protagonist in the company’s then-upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows; and 2) concern that the political climate in the United States was becoming increasingly tense. “Too political in a country too unstable, to make it short,” one source familiar with the game and its cancellation told Game File.
October 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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maybe Jack was right about bluesky repeating the same mistakes as Twitter
Worst Person You Know Made a Great Point meme guy
October 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Republicans taking notes
Cameroon's 92-year-old President, Paul Biya, reportedly sent statues of himself and his wife to a campaign event as he was unable to attend due to old age
October 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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this literally just popped up on my YouTube. the Kirk image is a just meme!
Thinkpiece Tribe 1 day ago Just stepped outside to smoke and it immediately started raining [image of Charlie Kirk in white t-shirt that says FREEDOM. he looks tired.]
October 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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now my 47 has a new outfit
47 from Hitman (a bald white man in dark sunglasses) wearing a yellow hoodie with an orange duck on the front
October 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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the people who've been in charge leading up to this moment will not be the ones to get us out of it.
@brianschatz Why do we need snipers in our cities? Why are six masked men slamming a guy in a wheelchair to the ground? Why would an agent tackle a scared wife? Add the rhetoric of the Presidents increasingly manic and angry Senior Advisor, and we are at a fork in the road. @adamjohnsonCHI replied Brian you supported doubling ICE's budget last year, backing what you described as a Republican "border security" bill. Given ICE's lawlessness, do you think, in retrospect, this was a wise idea? Quote tweeted: @brianschatz. 2/5/24 Just gobsmacked. I've never seen anything like it. They literally demanded specific policy, got it, and then killed it. @brianschatz replied Do you think this is a good use of your platform right now? @adamjohnsonCHI Do you think meaningfully combatting the forces of fascism require a coherent and consistent counter-politics and not nonstop triangulation and stupid gotchas that reinforce every racist MAGA premise? I think it does, and I think it will continue to do so moving forward. @brianschatz replied, The border was a mess. Things are way worse now, and part of what I was doing was trying to prevent us from landing here.
October 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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mohammed told me his uncle died a few days ago 😭💔

please share and donate if you can to support him and his family at this time.
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texts with mohamed him: Hi my friend How areyou I have some updates I will provide you with. me: I'm doing OK. how are you doing? would love to hear your updayss him: During displacement, my uncle was bombed, and I have shrapnel in my neck in a semi-stable condition next to my spine. me: I am so so sorry mohamed Mohammed in the medical tent
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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I hate the Internet. I just wanted to watch some jokes about the rapture
tiktok comment: hi white guy here I just think black women are beautiful.
September 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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sigh. blaming woke I see.
When we ran into them again, a few minutes later, they were in a different stage: sprawled out on a hot boulder next to a frothy waterfall with a clear and cool pool at its bottom, naked as the day they were born. Their age, their expressions, her head shaven at the temples, his unruly mane, the earring in his nose – everything screamed "woke." Squinting and looking as if they were snarling, they surveyed their surroundings and conspicuously ignored us.
September 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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if a conservative country like Kenya can understand that trans people deserve basic rights and protections, other countries REALLY have no excuse.
gayemagazine IG post: Kenyan Judge Orders Government to Recognize Transgender People in Landmark Ruling
September 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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this one specifically
250g tin of Dormans granulated instant coffee
September 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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my magic bullet tomatoes looking nice and juicy this year 🌱
5 cherry tomatoes in a clipped vibe. they're still wet from the morning dew. the tomatoes are green and dark purple
September 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM