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@LankyObserver This is patently false. IQ is nowhere near the top 3 predictors of life outcomes. Hopefully this was tweeted in jest.

IQ is the greatest predictor of life outcomes. Rig the game in your (future) kids' favour and avoid picking low IQ partners. Many know this, few admit it.

@TheBookerPrizes The inimitable Claudia from Moon Tiger. Actually, Penelope Lively herself while we're here.

We're asking you to share which Booker character you’d like to celebrate for International Women’s Day. The Booker team will be choosing their favourite characters from any Booker or International Booker-winning, longlisted or shortlisted novel over the next week. ⬇️

@verynormalgrl @jaboukie

@TheRealPCrack Listen...

Agh nna ke lapile it’s time to get this bag :Thickums

@Kazeem @TheOXGod People asking this question on the same internet he had going nuts... wild.

@VerySmartBros No love for B2K

This was way harder than it should have been.... verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/black-music-gr…

Tired of how we’re expected to market ourselves in & out of academia. Buzz words, elevator pitches, branding. Sometimes big ideas can’t be neatly summed up. Sometimes confusion is productive. Sometimes comprehension takes time. Sometimes it’s not supposed to immediately click.

@SirJoshBennett The Great Fires is such a grief salve

Jack Gilbert

@NifMuhammad She's great on Big Mouth too

I don't watch SNL much (apologies) & I actually don't really know much about Maya Rudolph's career, so late last night while listening to old Minnie Riperton records was the first time I saw this SNL promo shot where Rudolph recreated her mom's album cover & boyyy I got EMOTIONAL

@Optimus_Prime8 @KevOnStage @spiceadams 😭😭😭😭😭😭

@KevOnStage @spiceadams 💀💀💀💀 @freddie_lah

I thought @spiceadams was my friend. I was wrong.

@KatoneRoberts watch the season end with @JayREllis and @YvonneOrji end up together with their clingy spend-Thanksgiving-together-too-soon asses, and that being the reason why Issa don't fool with her no mo.

The crazy thing is Issa wants the polished Lawrence but he bout to lose that job and she’s gonna be stuck with the ole dusty version again #InsecureHBO

@XXL Stevie J and Scott Storch

Which producers do you want to see battle next?

So I'm helping a kid I know with some college applications and I have some thoughts. My friend has a GPA of over 4.0 and a star in track and cross-country. She grew up Black in a white rural town in CA--oh and she's homeless. She's living with a friend's family.

@jaboukie Accra restaurant or Papaye in Harlem. Don't go to no Nigerian spot, Jaboukie.

@iamstillpunch Blonde. Transcendent, timeless, a singular work of art

Having a interesting conversation off line, figured I’d bring it here. Which albums over the last 10years do you feel shifted culture and WHY?

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@hichilon So Bill evangelizing against this should be applauded, not met with cynicism.

@freddie_lah Lol two things can be true. He can have the tailwinds of social capital and privilege...and still work his ass off. Read up on him.

Fyi Bill Gates pulled all-nighters and took zero vacations while running Microsoft. He spends “think” weeks in a cabin by himself ffs. You not finna play us, William

@hichilon Of course two things can be true. The point I'm making is that this doctrine is usually wielded against working class people, and not people like Gates who have clear risk/investment-return matrix set out.

It is election season. The world is busy and rubbish. But it is also Christmas. So take a breather and let me tell you a story about London, trains, love and loss, and how small acts of kindness matter. I'm going to tell you about the voice at Embankment Tube station.