📣 New Podcast! "16 January 2018: Benin public sector strikes" on @Spreaker #benin #black #history
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16-january-2018-benin-public-sector-strikes--69414698
Alexis Bushnell
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What’s unsettling about calling the #ICE killing of #RenéeGood “another #GeorgeFloyd moment” is how quickly #Black pain gets repackaged into a generic template for “state violence,” especially when the victim is #White. George Floyd’s murder was a specifically anti‑Black terror event in a long history of #racist policing; treating it as a floating metaphor for any shocking killing in Minneapolis feels like Black erasure even when the intent is solidarity.
#BLM #BlackMastodon
What’s unsettling about calling the #ICE killing of #RenéeGood “another #GeorgeFloyd moment” is how quickly #Black pain gets repackaged into a generic template for “state violence,” especially when the victim is #White. George Floyd’s murder was a specifically anti‑Black terror event in a long history of #racist policing; treating it as a floating metaphor for any shocking killing in Minneapolis feels like Black erasure even when the intent is solidarity.
#BLM #BlackMastodon
Robert W. Gehl
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Miiriya is an app where you can shop Black Owned Businesses on one app, like Amazon but all the businesses are Black Owned. It also has Bartering, a Mutual Aid section, and an Employment help section..
it's on iOS and Android
link below:
https://www.miiriya.com/download-app/
#Black #Business #Shop #App #MutualAid #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon
![A screenshot of a Blacksky post by @d-nauseam.blacksky.app, with text saying, "« Miiriya gathers people who believe in ideas, change, and come together as creatives and thinkers to make those ideas come true.[…] I want to prove that doing socialistic practices and working together as a community can work. Please let someone know this app exists. » App link 👉🏾 linktr.ee/miiriya"
there's an image of a black woman shopping and smiling.
Under that is a quote post by @miiriya.com, with text saying, "Miiriya is an app where you can shop Black Owned Businesses on one app, like Amazon but all the businesses are Black Owned. It also has Bartering, a Mutual Aid section, and an Employment help section. iOS/Android".](https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/857/131/680/947/394/original/b3c746075c5c52cf.png)
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
and 2 others
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So I guess it's time for an #introduction. Well, I'm a 30 something #Black #queer woman. I love to read #books. I love the #NYKnicks. I like #bicycles even though, it's not my primary mode of transportation. I like refurbishing and upgrading old electronics, specifically #iPods and #laptops. #TV and music have kept me going more than anything else. I'm branching into #Linux and getting more familiar with #FOSS. I am a #blogger and I have linked my blog in my bio.
So I guess it's time for an #introduction. Well, I'm a 30 something #Black #queer woman. I love to read #books. I love the #NYKnicks. I like #bicycles even though, it's not my primary mode of transportation. I like refurbishing and upgrading old electronics, specifically #iPods and #laptops. #TV and music have kept me going more than anything else. I'm branching into #Linux and getting more familiar with #FOSS. I am a #blogger and I have linked my blog in my bio.
Alexis Bushnell
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![Steven Saus [he/him]](https://faithcollapsing.com/system/accounts/avatars/000/000/001/original/c1ffff3b2b6152b0.png "Steven Saus [he/him]")
Embark on a visual voyage of art inspired by black holes
Art and science converge in Lynn Gamwell’s book, Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes...
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/embark-on-a-visual-voyage-of-art-inspired-by-black-holes/#art-and-science #black-holes #books #culture #science #science-history
Miiriya is an app where you can shop Black Owned Businesses on one app, like Amazon but all the businesses are Black Owned. It also has Bartering, a Mutual Aid section, and an Employment help section..
it's on iOS and Android
link below:
https://www.miiriya.com/download-app/
#Black #Business #Shop #App #MutualAid #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon
Embark on a visual voyage of art inspired by black holes
Art and science converge in Lynn Gamwell’s book, Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes...
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/embark-on-a-visual-voyage-of-art-inspired-by-black-holes/#art-and-science #black-holes #books #culture #science #science-history
📣 New Podcast! "3 January 2018: Togo hospital strike" on @Spreaker #black #history #togo
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/3-january-2018-togo-hospital-strike--69097882
📣 New Podcast! "25 December 1522: Santo Domingo enslaved revolt" on @Spreaker #black #christmas #history
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/25-december-1522-santo-domingo-enslaved-revolt--68813153
Neville Park
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#PSA: If you, like me, have a heck of a time seeing/finding something in a dark colour, empower yourself with some nail polish!
Nail polish works great on metal and plastic, wears well (and can be touched up) and comes in a zillion colours for either matching or contrast.
#MedicalDevices often seem to be #black by default, and this week I finally got so sick of my #CGM reader getting lost in my bedding and/or anywhere else if I set it down, I made it the equivalent of #SafetyYellow.
(This is colour 010 "Marigold Maven" Ultra HD Snap! by Revlon, in case you are seeking the same.)
Not my best work design-wise but as I still needed to use the CGM reader, time was of the essence!
(Also, the polish had dried out a bit and I dodn't know about #NailPolish #Thinners until yesterday).
A bit of painters tape over the touchscreen, charging port, and fine print on the back and the result is a NON-invisible device!
#hack
#disability
#diabetes
#vision
#LowVision
#HighContrast
#Usability
#Keet & #Holepunch @holepunch_to teams- following up from yesterday:
Pragmatically, I'll still use your software (though it makes trusting proprietary modules feel even more sketchy tbh). Yours is probably the one #TechnoFascist project I'm aware of that actually has good code & UX. And it's self sovereign, so.
If your response goes further into a downward spiral of innocense & virtue instead of some amends, accountability and recovery, I'll just do what we're doing for #Holochain. Authoring politically assertive #governance processes around my collective's & partnership's use of their software, explicitly calling out the harm and creating guardrails to prevent any upstream contributions (intellectual, social or otherwise). And then we'll open source those docs, surface them everywhere, and make them easily adoptable & forkable.
@holepunch_to in regard to characterising you as #TechnoFascist - your community culture is your responsibility. I hope you do at least as well as #RegenFoundation / #RegenLedger although tbh their efforts in culture work have been minimal and years later they continue their habit of asserting their goodness and silencing #Black voices.
https://pospi.spadgos.com/2022/07/04/blockchain-regen-permaculture-and-white-supremacism/
bhaugen
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Trump’s anti #Somali rants are not directed only at that group. All #Black / #African people are seen as suspects, as ungrateful #criminals who are deserving of punishment & scorn. He isn't alone in this thinking.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/we-are-all-somalia
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive
📣 New Podcast! "13 December 1971: Ovambo strike" on @Spreaker #black #history #namibia
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13-december-1971-ovambo-strike--68813166
Trump’s anti #Somali rants are not directed only at that group. All #Black / #African people are seen as suspects, as ungrateful #criminals who are deserving of punishment & scorn. He isn't alone in this thinking.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/we-are-all-somalia
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive
Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought Black Death to Europe
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/volcanoes-black-death
#HackerNews #Volcanic #Eruptions #Black #Death #Europe #History #Science