Reposted by Cynthia RoseMaya Thee Papaya @mayaskb.bsky.social · 1hThis made me profoundly sad. Wow. 001
Reposted by Cynthia RoseMy Aim Is True @espritaime.blacksky.app · 4hThey just want freedom to use slurs whenever and wherever they want to whoever they want, which they are also free to do if they're willing to stand on it. 011
Reposted by Cynthia RoseMy Aim Is True @espritaime.blacksky.app · 4hI always laugh at "why can't I say it?" Not only can you say it, we are well aware that many of you do say it, especially the ones complaining about it their alleged lack of freedom. 111
Reposted by Cynthia RoseDani Wenner @daniwenner.bsky.social · 6hthis trend is also visible in the declining proportion of women students at CMU: the-tartan.org/2025/10/06/c...the-tartan.orgCMU undergraduate women’s enrollment declines across collegesIn 2025, Carnegie Mellon University welcomed a cohort of 1,804 new undergraduate students at its Pittsburgh campus. Though the university’s overall population has 42.2 percent of students identify as… 032
Reposted by Cynthia RoseDani Wenner @daniwenner.bsky.social · 6h"This year, Carnegie Mellon welcomed 1,865 first-year undergraduate students to its Pittsburgh campus. Only 23 self-identified as Black... Only 99 students identified as Hispanic or Latino" absolutely gutting reporting from the tartan the-tartan.org/2026/09/28/b...the-tartan.orgBlack, Latino enrollment at 11-year lowThis year, Carnegie Mellon welcomed 1,865 first-year undergraduate students to its Pittsburgh campus. Only 23 self-identified as Black. According to this year’s 15-day census… 2145
Reposted by Cynthia RoseThe TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 6h📢 EARLY VOTING BEGINS TODAY, CHICAGO. Spread the word. Here’s a look at what’s on the ballot. thetriibe.com/2026/09/the-...thetriibe.comThe 2026 election is coming. Here’s what Chicago voters need to know • The TRiiBEFrom the Chicago School Board race and local ballot questions to early voting and Vote By Mail, here are the key dates and details Chicago voters should know before Nov. 3. 03722
Reposted by Cynthia RosePost Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 4hAren’t they in an ongoing class action lawsuit lmao they don’t gaf 011
Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 4hBring back liking what you like without trying to make this grand case for why what you like is "right" and what you don't like is "wrong." Or "overrated." 🙄 121
Reposted by Cynthia RosePost Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 4hI hate it when people who are trying to defend why they enjoy musicians who are not powerhouse vocalists and they get anti Black with it. You don’t have to start talking down on the Black legends in soul and gospel music who had big voices to defend why we like baby bird vocalists lmao 054
Reposted by Cynthia RoseInda Lauryn @indalauryn.bsky.social · 4hThis one is sponsored by Audible so check the terms carefully if considering. The Emerging Playwrights Fund (the “Fund”) is calling theatrical visionaries who are ready to push boundaries and captivate audiences through the intimate, limitless world of audio drama. www.audible.com/blog/emergin...audible.comThe Emerging Playwrights FundYour voice, amplified. 001
Reposted by Cynthia RosePop Crave @popcrave.com · 4hRenee Good's family sues the U.S. government over her fatal shooting by an immigration officer in Minneapolis, alleging wrongful death and conspiracy. Her partner Becca Good and brother Brent Ganger filed two lawsuits. 115514
Reposted by Cynthia RoseInda Lauryn @indalauryn.bsky.social · 4hAbout the Cave Canem Fellowship Cave Canem supports the work of Black poets through a suite of core programs, namely an annual retreat consisting of intensive poetry workshops and readings, hosted at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg. cavecanem.submittable.com/submitcavecanem.submittable.comCave Canem Foundation, Inc. Application ManagerThank you for your interest in Cave Canem! 012
Reposted by Cynthia RoseWikipedia Brown @theycallhimbfg.blacksky.app · 4hThey’ll find a new messenger as long as they can have their bigotry and a decent economy. We saw it during Obama and Biden. 012
Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 4hThe ones whose identities are known hide their beliefs behind lies and dog whistles. None of them saying what they *really* want to say. 020
Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 4hWhite american-style fascists always cover their faces and hide their identities. 230
Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 4hLOT of ppl are emboldened now for no other reason than they can get away with it without consequence. That is the ONLY reason. Won't say it with their chest if the suspect there will be the tiniest pushback. 130
Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 4hLol. "I'm allowed to say [slur] now. I am edgy and brave." Lol you always could say those words it's just that now you think you have permission to say them without consequence. 240
Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 4hPpl who are actually not brave but want to be perceived as such. 010
Reposted by Cynthia RoseI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6hThe dissonance between “I’m making brave principled stances” and “everyone has to be nice to me” is always odd to me. Knowing people won’t like your stance is what makes it brave and/or principled. 614727
Reposted by Cynthia Rose✧𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 7hthere is a man outside using a nail gun and going “woo hoo!” every couple of minutes 2023127
Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 4hThere are ppl who want fascism for everybody except themselves. They want to be protected as they watch their "enemies" suffer. They will jump at any opportunity to make this happen. 110
Reposted by Cynthia RoseProf. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 4hFolks, I'm here to tell you that holy wars often end badly. This is no exception. 1118553
Reposted by Cynthia RoseMega Thee Tron @valarmordollars.bsky.social · 4hLately I've been ruminating on accountability and how patriarchy is designed to help men avoid it. Knowing a lot of men feel a sense of powerlessness, but they don't seem to know/want to understand that accountability is actually empowering. Nothing can be improved without it. 164
Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 4hDebating a bullshit argument legitimizes it in a way it doesn't deserve. You don't debate scamming cultists you block them from harming ppl and if you can't you embarrass and mock them so that nobody takes them seriously and they eventually shut up and go away. 022
Reposted by Cynthia RoseFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 5hThe Yuddite/rationalist primary defense mechanism is spurting out a big ink-cloud of thesaurus and number-laden complete nonsense, and then demanding that you waste your time "debating" them over it. The good news is that this trick is easily defeated by simply refusing to play the Debate Me game. 4252471
Reposted by Cynthia RoseNatalie Ash (she/her) @thenatalieash.bsky.social · 5hYou are not required to engage in debate with clowns. Laugh at their dumb shoes and watch them try to get 16 of them into a tiny car. No, sorry, equating tech-bros with clowns is an offensive comparison to the clowns. Treat tech-bros like toddlers who are proud they piss themselves. 0193
Reposted by Cynthia Roserev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5hsure. he has retrofitted a model of artificial intelligence which is mathematically impossible in order to speak about artificial intelligence which actually exists, then used a metaphysics which is so insane that it is virtually impossible to explain to another person to predict doom. 754262
Reposted by Cynthia RoseThe New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 5hBrazil is days away from the first round of its elections, which takes place on October 4th. The race is between centre-left President Lula da Silva and far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is currently in jail for plotting a coup in early 2023. 024
Reposted by Cynthia RoseCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5hExactly this. Always has been a grift, always will be a grift. They're selling you on a Ferrari at a Ferrari price point and the AI stans are yelling THIS IS MAGIC driving around in a Pinto. A nation of rubes and suckers. 312331
Reposted by Cynthia RoseDorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 5hDeSantis administration removes child vaccine exemptions based on 'moral or ethical beliefs' and schedules oral hearing for rule about school vaccine mandates. www.cltampa.com/news/desanti... via @cltampabay.bsky.social @christinesexton.bsky.socialcltampa.comDeSantis administration removes child vaccine exemptions based on 'moral or ethical beliefs'The DeSantis administration is backing off its push to make it easier for parents to opt out of vaccinating their children by eliminating from a proposed 395
Reposted by Cynthia RoseTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5hOkay don’t laugh but I think I know what this is. He cannot move his hips - they’re locked. That causes a cascading effect on knees, tibia & ankles that looks like this - the center body kind of collapses inward. 1214810
Reposted by Cynthia RoseMunah @heathenqueen.blacksky.app · 5hshe may not recognize that it may have happened to her because she is fat. in her mind fat equals undesirable. SA/SH is NOT about DESIRABILITY but i might have put this in my offline diary because Nooooooo! 042
Reposted by Cynthia Roseinternetgeorge.bsky.social @internetgeorge.bsky.social · 21hThe Epstein Files won’t come out because then the US government would have to explain its interest in supporting a rape network of little girls and boys for 25 years. 19473156
Reposted by Cynthia RoseTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5hThis whole thing has been an interesting window into the gop post Trump — when you don’t have a gifted conman to organize the machine, you will see these cracks. The clip economy and digital spin room couldn’t pivot fast enough to account for Schmitt’s failure to deliver content. 232354
Reposted by Cynthia RoseMark Rothko @markrothko.bsky.social · 5hNo. 21 botfrens.com/collections/25/content… 0171
Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 5hThat last sentence. If it's one thing about these ppl it's that they love offering obnoxious "solutions" to things that were never problems then being like:static.klipy.comMic Drop: Man's Pointing GestureAlt: Man in blue hoodie stares into camera and drops a mic. 020
Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 5hBtw when they start with that "you need to be nice to [racists, rapists, bigots] you 'disagree' with" these are the kinds of things they're trying to protect them from. Social shunning, public embarrassment, any kind of consequence. This is what their fear of the dreaded "cancel culture" is about. 02611
Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 5hOur institutions wont protect victims. So guess what WE gotta do? 2226
Reposted by Cynthia RoseMega Thee Tron @valarmordollars.bsky.social · 16hWinston Lee, one of the Cornell 56, tried to hide. 214652
Reposted by Cynthia RoseDan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 5h"Three billionaires gave more than 90 percent of the money raised by Representative Tom Tiffany, the Republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin" Tom Tiffany is the most bought and paid for candidate we've ever seen in Wisconsin. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...nytimes.com3 Billionaires Have Largely Funded Republican Nominee for Wisconsin Governor (Gift Article)Under its current rules, Wisconsin has not had a race in which a small number of donors have made up such a large share of a campaign’s funding. 616096
