Darren

it just gets to a point...

An OBAMA APPOINTED judge just saved NPR and PBS. That means your vote from 2012 is helping stop corruption and protect free speech FOURTEEN years later. This is why you vote

I am a black woman tall as a cypress strong beyond all definition still defying place and time and circumstance assailed impervious indestructible Look on me and be renewed - Mari Evans, I Am A Black Woman, 1970

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people. cnn.it/4rZSiG5

Nobody tells you this. With time, you can hear who talked about you… in how they greet you.

The Color Purple (all versions, starting with the book) >>>

Students at North Carolina A&T State University partnered with the Greensboro chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace to build beds for children in the Triad who do not have one of their own. This is what community looks like. Meeting a real need, restoring dignity, and showing that when people come together, they can make a lasting difference.

Overprotected kids become unprepared adults. Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥 You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts. Hard is the lesson. Watch. Share. Bookmark.

Just finished There is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone which tells stories of the working homeless in Atlanta. Never read a book so devastating. So many families who can’t make ends meet are rendered invisible under capitalism. It won’t end til we win housing as a human right!

It’s been a wild quarter and God held us down through it all frfrfr

the meanest thing you do to yourself is pretend you don’t want the things you want. shrink the desire before anyone can see it. call it unrealistic before someone else does. and then walk around with this low grade starvation you can’t name because you buried the appetite so deep even you forgot where you put it. wanting things is dangerous. I know. it opens you up to disappointment and to looking foolish and to reaching for something that might not reach back. want it anyway. the alternative is a life of pretending you’re full.

Interest media to creators being algo captured, all in same coin. The tiktokification of it all (still forming thoughts on this)

It’s dead ass finna be a FREE 16 day FIFA Fan Festival smack dead in the middle of the city June 12 - July 15 live matches for the World Cup concerts games all that good stuff gone grab dem tickets while ya can 💯 reg.atlantafwc26.com/#/fifa/atl26/e…

Changed my mind up like it’s origami

Get it Tisha!

The book:

Wedding time 🔔🔔🔔

Algo captured is something … gotta sit on that

For the first time, a series of Toni Morrison's Princeton lectures has been compiled into a book. Now, readers can engage with Morrison, not only through the lens of her fiction or essays, but through her role as a teacher. bit.ly/4bXSZeh

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