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@xayide.blacksky.app
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nerd, parent, public health professional. I post about things and stuff.

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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
Don’t compare yourself to other people. Live your life, set your goals, figure out what you need. It’s easy to be miserable chasing someone else’s life, especially when you don’t know the whole story. And take care of your body, it’s the only one you’ve got.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026
He is one of 3 Democrats that holds statewide elected office in Georgia. 3 total. As one of his constituents, I know he has to make votes I don’t like and we let him know about it. Save your purity tests for a safer seat - Ossoff’s votes overall have been solid.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026
It succeeded. First round of purging the government, laid the foundations for integrated surveillance of everyone in the US, and ended investigations into Musk.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 20/05/2026
I look forward to seeing a bunch of influencers who don’t know anything about GA opining on the election results.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
You need to leave Massachusetts and meet the Republicans that the rest of us live with.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 06/05/2026
Trump’s platform was being rich, famous, and building on the wave of racism in the Republican Party that swelled during Obama admin. There is no progressive Dem with his level of name recognition or resources.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 06/05/2026
It’s not just about the system, it’s about building support. They expect to build a movement when most people don’t know who they are. Local races are there so people know who you are and what you stand for.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 06/05/2026
That’s part of the problem. They aren’t doing the work to build support nationally between primaries but they also want to push the party left every 4 years. That’s why they can’t come up with a message or messengers that resonate outside of a few blue states.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 22/04/2026
“poverty food”? Do you hear yourself?
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 21/04/2026
It reflects that most liberal commentators live in blue states. You can pretend that the right has no agency when you don’t have to live with it. When these kinds of ads aren’t running nonstop on every media platform: youtu.be/-ocp-vmStLE
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 20/04/2026
The Dixiecrats helped design the New Deal and made sure that it excluded black people. You can’t separate the two.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 20/04/2026
People are criticizing Mamdani because Democrats 100 years ago supported Jim Crow laws.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Who is “people”? We’ve been yelling and marching and calling and we are still here. Talk to the Republicans who are marching us into the abyss. Talk to the business leaders who are calculating their profits.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 06/04/2026
I didn‘t know much about Hasan Piker until blue dog Dems and Never Trump Republicans decided to spend two weeks in the middle of an illegal war and a fast moving economic crisis created by a man mentally deteriorating on live TV telling us not to platfom him.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 05/04/2026
That sounds a little too much like nuance.
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Sarah @shoesforall.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Fudd cried and I teared up bc I am a sympathetic crier. Geno takes NO responsibility for his behavior. Shakes his head when asked about the handshake line.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 04/04/2026
His emotions about losing don’t entitle him to treat the opposing coach like that. This isn’t an AAU game, he is being paid millions of dollars to do his job and sportsmanship is part of that job.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 04/04/2026
Even researchers who study right wing authoritarianism don’t view it as a mental illness.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 19/03/2026
If you can. I don’t judge people if they don’t.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/03/2026
Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/


    COMMENT
    02 February 2026

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Stream National Theatre's production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" for free until March 18. Sharon D. Clarke (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Doctor Who) is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) and Hugh Skinner (W1A; Mamma Mia! ). youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8?... So entertaining. #theatre 🎭
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The Importance of Being Earnest | National Theatre
With Sharon D Clarke, Ncuti Gatwa and Hugh Skinner, this joyful and flamboyant reimagining of Oscar Wilde's 'glittering masterpiece' (Telegraph), is a hilarious story of identity, impersonation and ro...
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 11/03/2026
Acting like they are leaders and calling off a boycott where they did not negotiate a single concession.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 05/03/2026
Cuellar’s primary was this week - are you advocating to replace him with a Republican who would vote the same?
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 05/03/2026
He was primaried this year too and won - at this point you have to hold his voters responsible.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 01/03/2026
That’s an insult to Cynthia McKinney.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 27/02/2026
Is butter considered too feminine now?
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 21/02/2026
I know this will probably have asshats in my mentions again, but periodic reminder that everything happening now has a precedent. And that precedent is closer than slavery, internment, boarding schools, Jim Crow...it is the very modern school to prison pipeline. It is the last 40 years of policy.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 19/02/2026
Awareness
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DE Riley @deriley.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
#BlackHistoryMonth George S. Schuyler was a journalist, satirist, author,& social commentator during the #HarlemRenaissance. His novel Black No More, in which a Black man pays to be turned white, is considered Afrofuturism. He helped in the effort to integrate the US military. #booksky #blackbooksky
A black and white photo of George S. Schuyler, a journalist, satirist, author, and social commentator during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was. For example 🧵
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 25/01/2026
Yes they did. A significant percentage of Trump supporters wanted this. And we have to deal with the fact that those people cannot be won over and focus on mobilizing everyone else.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 25/01/2026
No, we need trials, reforms, laws and a couple of Constitutional Amendments to make sure this never happens again.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 22/01/2026
Because the evil doers founded the country, have been leading the country and constantly reinforce that those values weren’t intended for everyone. That foundation has to be unmade before you can redefine anything.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 20/01/2026
Harris’s ground game sucked because Biden, the DNC, and Democratic donors put no money into it going into 2024. She couldn’t manufacture something that didn’t exist.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/01/2026
Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961: “Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.” Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1967: “The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/01/2026
"But I know that Justice is Indivisible. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18/01/2026
The "he's gonna cancel elections after he invokes the insurrection act" conversation—as if there's some natural path from one to the other—is driving me fucking bonkers.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026
And there aren’t billionaires and multimillionaires funding it.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026
This is why the approval ratings for the Democratic Party are in the toilet. This kind of spineless, cowardly response.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 21/12/2025
That and it’s the NPCification of the tech bros. They don’t see the complexity of humanity, just inputs and outputs.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 12/12/2025
Please ask the AI of your choice what the US healthcare system is like for someone who is low income and uninsured. Then ask what it is like for someone who is on employer owned insurance. Since listening to the educated responses here is probably too hurtful for you.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 10/12/2025
You know why
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 03/12/2025
The issue with the cuts isn’t the headcount, it’s how they excised entire segments of government. They are redistributing the headcount and bloating as they see fit.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 01/12/2025
I find it difficult to take your take seriously when your definition of “woke” is based on the strawman that the right made it into and doesn’t factor that part into your analysis.
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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 24/11/2025
The only reason I know how much organizing is happening in certain parts of the country and how effective it’s been is because I know the people who are doing it.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 24/11/2025
I think that’s where the changed media landscape comes in. With reduced local media, overall corporate capture of mainstream national media and the increased reliance on paywalls, it’s not as easily visible. Where it is visible, it treated as location specific or pushed aside for the next story.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 22/11/2025
Senate is slightly more possible - the field is crowded but no dominant person. That said, it will be an expensive race and Kemp already has his pick.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 22/11/2025
Governor makes no sense - it is a crowded field, an expensive race and there is already a Trump favorite as well as a candidate that Trump hates.
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Ivy @xayide.blacksky.app · 22/11/2025
It is definitely a long shot - her district is so red that they used it to gerrymander another district.
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