the last decade has really helped me understand in a more visceral sense what it meant when God hardened the pharoah’s heart

Questlove’s Brilliant New Documentary Takes On One of Music’s Greatest Mysteries The new movie is about so much more than Sly Stone.

The ever eloquent @jackhamilton.bsky.social on the new Sly Stone doc Sly Lives! (@questlove.bsky.social and @jazzbeezy.bsky.social's highly anticipated follow-up to Summer of Soul, out now on Hulu), the burden of Black superstardom and the fascinating concept of "genius."

You're not addicted to tiktoks/reels, you're addicted to the scrolling YouTube video by HGModernism

I watched this video this morning and it really has been instructive for understanding, well, a lot of behavior.

youtu.be/bNOol5OTasw

They’re coming for every last second of your attention.

If you see this post a gif from one of your comfort shows

god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick

This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.

When Democrats are in power, they can't do good, non-genocidal things because politics is complex and also the presidency isn't a magic wand, but when Republicans are in power they can make trans people illegal on Day 1 because politics is complex and also the presidency is now an infinity gauntlet.

Nor am I!

Taking up the central area of the image is the colorful supernova remnant DEM L 190, which is made of intricate tendrils of cosmic material glowing in shades of purple, yellow, orange, and blue. The edges of the image are black and scattered with red and purple-ish stars.

Thousands of bright stars shine against black space, more tightly condensed near the image’s center. The stars glint in shades of white, blue, and red, and diffraction spikes are visible around the foreground stars.

The giant nebula NGC 3603 is a prominent star-forming region in the Carina spiral arm of our galaxy, about 20,000 light-years away. Within its core is nestled a stellar "jewel box" of thousands of sparkling young stars, one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. The cluster is surrounded by purple clouds of interstellar gas and dust — the raw material for new star formation. This bubble provides an unobstructed view of the cluster and reveals stages in the life cycle of stars.

A prominent, eight-pointed star shines in bright white at the center of this image. A clumpy cloud of material surrounds this central star, with more material above and below than on the sides, in some places allowing background stars to peek through. The cloud material is a dark yellow closer to the star, and turns a pinkish purple at its outer edges. Combined together, the central star and its cloud resemble the delicate petals of a cherry blossom. The black background features many smaller white stars scattered throughout.

space fireworks to celebrate the new year 🎆

lol. Clever.

But yea, I wish more of you knew it’s actually “For all intents and purposes”

in 2024 we got a guided meditation album from lil jon, a jazz album from juicy j and a flute album from andre 3000.

A baby girl froze to death overnight in Gaza, in a displacement shelter in Khan Younis, where international agencies had detailed horrific living conditions exacerbated by lack of aid. Born just three weeks ago, Sila is the third baby to die of hypothermia in the past 48 hours, doctors say

a woman is sitting on a couch with her legs crossed and talking on a cell phone . ALT: a woman is sitting on a couch with her legs crossed and talking on a cell phone .

We have so much confusion.

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.

The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.

The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image

also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*

Nikki Giovanni

We’re saddened to hear about the passing of poetry great and Black Arts Movement icon, Nikki Giovanni.

According to NPR, she passed away today, following her third cancer diagnosis.

She was 81 years old.

Rest in power, Nikki Giovanni ✨

I hope I die
warmed
by the life that I tried
to live

–Nikki Giovanni

🙏🏾🕊️✨

The guy monitoring the ceasefire is a former Israeli soldier. Totally neutral (!)

The moment the house band played You Can Never Feel My Pain during his service still wrecks me to this day

how soon y'all think we can expect a save or bookmark button @bsky.app 😃

Right at 40 here.. and yuppp

Like I said when you asked during that post-Verzuz recap; Use Your Heart is the one ⚡💛

For the love of all things holy, please stop training AI.

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
-Plato

Is there just gonna be a bunch of things ppl already posted on Twitter getting regurgitated on here like how they do on Threads, bc I'd like to suggest a setting to preemptively opt out if so

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Why it look like a peeled pineapple and unpeeled pear at the same time

It’s difficult to overstate what a huge deal this is. Perhaps, dare we hope, justice is finally coming for the people of Gaza. A first, historic step.

Go Ahead In the Rain Playlist · dj_tara · 39 items · 74 saves

We finally have a rainy day! I have a playlist for that :) open.spotify.com/playlist/65J...

Call your Senators: No more weapons to Israel. - JVP Call your Senators immediately and tell them to support Senator Sanders' bill to end weapons shipments to Israel and to support a full arms embargo on the Israeli government.

Have you called yet??

When you do: tell them to vote “Yes” on Bernie’s bill to block weapons and to vote “No” on H.R. 9495 which is an assault on free speech.

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