Kiera Virgo (she/her)
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Kiera Virgo (she/her)
@WhitleyFBrooks
Under-tall person. Tenacious. Spunky. Agent of Chaos. Loves Christmas, spooky stuff, and big butts. #blacklivesmatter #pettyfeminist #hollyjolly
Atlanta, Georgia Katılım Ocak 2012
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A month after we got married, my mother-in-law came to stay with us for a few days.
I was anxious, expecting her to judge everything I did.
One evening, my husband walked into the kitchen and casually said,
“Isn’t the food ready yet? I’m hungry.”
I had just returned from work, completely drained, but I didn’t say anything and kept going.
My mother-in-law was there, listening to it all, but she didn’t react immediately.
After he left, she gently called me over and said,
“Does he think this is a hotel?”
I felt embarrassed and replied that maybe I wasn’t doing enough.
She looked at me and said something I’ll always remember:
“You’re not his servant—you’re his partner. Being tired shouldn’t fall on just one person.”
Then she stood up and called out to him,
“Come here, habibi… your wife isn’t here to serve you. If you’re hungry, either help her or make something yourself.”
He fell silent—clearly not expecting that from her.
After that day, things began to change. Sometimes he’d get to the kitchen before me,
and if I was running late, he’d say, “Sit down, I’ll handle dinner tonight.”
That’s when it really hit me:
Not every mother enables her son at her daughter-in-law’s expense...
some raise men who know how to be true partners.
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This is such a Jackson, Mississippi sermon 😂😂😂😂.
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@kourtfrazier I just accidentally turned the TV sound to 26. The speed I had when I turned it down literally one notch! 😂
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Looking at you, Atlanta, and how you're finally fixing EVERY SINGLE ROAD AT ONCE
Happy Captain@EODHappyCaptain
Counterpoint: it shouldn’t take a major event to get a city clean.
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George Washington believed that vaccinating his troops against smallpox was the key to winning the Revolutionary War and our independence. A founding father from 250 years ago had a better understanding of science and military readiness than Pete Hegseth.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
Breaking news: The military will no longer require U.S. troops to receive the annual flu vaccine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, rolling back what he described as “overreaching mandates that only weaken our war-fighting capabilities.” wapo.st/4dZY8UL
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I hemorrhaged after I had Lottie. I knew subconsciously that it was a big deal, but I didn't realize it in the moment because hormones and new baby smell. Looks like it's worse than I thought! 🫠
Dr. AK 🇮🇳@docakx
The average adult human body contains ≈ 5 litres of blood. During late pregnancy, blood flow to the uterus increases to 600 mL per minute. If bleeding from the uterus occurs after delivery (postpartum haemorrhage), the body’s entire blood can drain out within 10 minutes. This leaves obstetricians with very little time to intervene and stop the bleeding. They therefore act immediately by inserting a fist into the vagina to compress the uterus and stop the bleeding. Otherwise, the mother may bleed to death within minutes. Although other treatment modalities are available, manual manipulation of the uterus remains one of the fastest life-saving interventions.
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Mya's man from "Case of The Ex" and his ex broke up in 96.
... 30 years ago. 👵🏽
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Craig David - "Said you were queueing for a taxi..."
Me - "... I think he might be British."
Also Craig David - "Took her for a drink on CHEWSDAY!!!"
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great! we should start by refunding every ticket fee for every show attended in the last 5 years
Pop Base@PopBase
A jury has ruled that Live Nation and Ticketmaster held an illegal monopoly in the ticketing market. (nbcnews.com/business/consu…)
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Again… this is what your tithes and offerings should be used for.
Raphouse TV (RHTV)@raphousetv7
Virginia’s Alfred Street Baptist Church donates over $1 Million+ to stop public housing evictions of over 300 struggling families 💯✝️🤲🏾🫡
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Left my water bottle on my desk at work. Now I'm pumping in the wellness room, thirsty AF. WHERE IS MY HUSBAND TO FETCH ME THINGS WHEN I NEED HIM?!?
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🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.
The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.
Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.
If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.
The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.
They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.
The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.
The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.
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Paying bills and watching all my check disappear
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I've been crocheting Pokeballs for my kid. Can 100% confirm that this happens. 😂
Angry Cops@AngryCops
Imagine hearing some kid yell “I choose you” and then feeling the sting of a master ball right to the face.
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This Reddit post from r/employeesOfOracle is the most important thing you’ll read today.
A surviving employee telling coworkers: do not give a single extra hour. Let the deadlines slip.
This is the part of the layoff cycle nobody talks about.
Company loyalty/culture is dead.
Official Layoff@LayoffAI
There is a lot more to the Oracle layoffs than what meets the eye. Trump stood at the White House in January 2025 and said Stargate would create "100,000 American jobs almost immediately." Larry Ellison was standing next to him. This morning, Oracle -- not just a Stargate partner, but the primary builder and physical operator of every Stargate data center -- sent the first of 30,000 of its own workers a termination email at 6 a.m. No manager was looped in. System access was cut on delivery. The email was signed "Oracle Leadership." Here is the part worth sitting with: The 100,000 jobs Trump announced are construction workers. Concrete. Steel. Cooling systems. Temporary site labor across Texas, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Michigan. Real jobs, yes, but they end when the buildings are done. The 30,000 fired today are software engineers, cloud architects, SaaS operators, healthcare IT workers. The people who built the systems those data centers are being built to run. Permanent careers. Gone in a single email before sunrise. Oracle is not struggling. It posted $6.13 billion in profit last quarter. Up 95% year-over-year. It is cutting workers because it owes $248 billion in data center lease commitments that do not appear on its balance sheet. It is cutting workers because it committed to $50 billion in AI infrastructure spending this fiscal year alone. It is cutting workers because the $300 billion OpenAI contract it signed -- the one that made Ellison briefly the richest person on earth -- does not generate revenue until 2027. Bloomberg reported three weeks ago, citing internal Oracle sources, that the cuts targeted "roles the company expects AI to make redundant." The termination email said "broader organizational change." Oracle told 30,000 employees: organizational change. Oracle told Bloomberg: AI. Oracle told investors: the plan is working. Oracle told America: 100,000 jobs. All four are technically true. Oracle's stock was up 5% while the emails were still landing.
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The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening.
UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm.
The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6.
Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it.
The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in.
About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters.
"I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.
Nicholas Fabiano, MD@NTFabiano
Sleeping <6h a night for 2 weeks reduces cognitive performance equal to 2 nights of total sleep deprivation.
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