A moment of quiet gratitude for the people patient enough to get me to where I am today. God be a flower budding from a weedy yard.
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basically, this is your therapist's burner account.
fluent in decency. studying goodness.
Remember now, that stumbling is divine work.
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i highly recommend cooking date meals for solo eating sometimes. i feel paaaampered.
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I was never in favor of praying for the confidence of a mediocre white man. I knew what sort of chaos that would bring.
I thought I did. This run of Twitter management is something else.
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This man said "entreprenigga entreprenigga i did it all on my own" and it's not even the best thing on the album. Mad luv 4 Luv 4 Rent man
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Man that exchange on "curtains" where smino is just talkin with his elder put me in tears.
"This boy, and excuse me for calling you boy —"
"—forever"
"He got that aura about him that he can take people places."
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Might mess around and reengage my relationship with subtext. More intentional, but allowed. Willingly clarified subtext.
No. This tweet is not subtext.
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Reading ancient texts is amazing because you'll come across the most stunning brag bars anywhere.
"There are nine types of abyss. I have show him three. Try bringing him again."
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What has the pandemic done to my fashion sense? I would absolutely rock this fit Bob has on.
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I thought to myself "how is memph bleek? Is he still a millionaire?"
And i guess he must be, cuz if im honest i can't sing your praises if you promised on wax to keep me laced and reneged.
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Been told niggas 25yrs ago HOV DID
This got too far off the meter of the song... I absolutely don't apologize for any of this.
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🎶 I apologize/ me an' my coworkers been busy 🎶
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We’re unionizing! As the workers of ActBlue Technical Services (ATS), we’re forming the ActBlue Tech Workers Union with @code_cwa @CWAunion. Today, we’re requesting voluntary recognition from @ActBlue and ATS management, and look forward to taking a seat at the bargaining table.
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Man, say what you will (especially about the seduction dance), but this man is in an empty club having an amazing time. Commendable and admirable behavior.
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Her : “you better not be out there entertaining them hoes”.
Me :
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People in America believe you shouldn't use soap with cast iron because the lye in soaps would eat the seasoning.
Lye hasn't been in dish soap popularly for something like 50 years.
(This is a tweet about the legacy of racism).
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I don't often think of famous people's hypothetical grudges, but Usher must still be tight that Ginuwine got the chorus on "I Need A Girl pt 2"
How's home nesting? I saw hella cobwebs in my window and made a feather duster by wrapping a paper towel around a chopstick.
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my bad. I was trying to share knowledge, but i just ended up sharing anxiety.
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My first book’s out today! All my gratitude to Claudia Rankine, , , and everyone who helped along the way.
Here I am with my reading copy, which has already gotten some mileage. Gonna love it so hard, the cover falls off.
Want one? graywolfpress.org/books/against-
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Coworker A: appears on camera holding toddler
Me: *disappears for 2 seconds, reappearing with a fox hand-puppet*
Coworker B: Why do you have a fox?
Me: Why does anyone have joy? We don't explain these things.
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What I'm saying is use people's proper pronouns or accept that you're being a poopy head.
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If you insist on telling people what you think about them after they tell you what they think of themselves, it's not gonna go well for you. It makes you a poopy head. We all learned this as kids.
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This belongs in the headline hall-of-fame
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Wild, but my Twitter-after-dark tweet is just draft ideas about wall art that says "read promiscuously"
"I've grown so much and I'm not sure I like the growth. but it's your fault. Some of these people think I'm a pushover and it's your influence. These ____ be tryin me...i don't pop people in their mouths anymore. BECAUSE OF YOU!"
- my partner of the past decade
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true life: my mom texts like one of the homies.
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How into JoJo's Bizarre Adventure are you? Please rank your answer on a scale between "what is that?" and "my opposition to crop tops is entirely about my own body and not social norms."
I wonder life is going for that dear child who did it for the vine back in the day is going. I hope she's great. She brings me joy every day.
This is the plot of Matrix: Resurrections in a single tweet.
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broadcast advertising and the idea prototype for prime time programming came out of a racist minstrel show in the 1920s.
not surprised (never surprised) but I worry I'm less historically curious because it's just racism all the way down.
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You ever catch yourself just *lying* to a group of people. I really did just say on a work social call "I can manage my own fomo." Now the coworkers believe it and I'm responsible for it in the future.
Shambles.
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🚨UNION BUSTING ALERT🚨: We learned this morning that / illegally withheld holiday pay in retaliation for striking. We’re filing an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB to right this wrong immediately.
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I wholly endorse changing up your hair when you're going through something.
I'm in my feelings and fucked around with my facial hair. I giggle delighted every time I peek in a mirror.
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How you gon be superstitious but have your ears closed to what the world's trying to tell you?
If someone articulates a boundary and you find that you've hit it much sooner than you expected, accept that. Communicate it compassionately if you can, and honor the newly-clear boundary.
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If you articulate a boundary and, whether by imprecision or ambiguity, someone misunderstands it, you are not beholden to their interpretation of it.
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(To say fry is a subset of fight is, again, not properly including Black people).
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If research were better at including Black people, we'd know the autonomic stress response is fight, flight, freeze, or fry a muhfucka.
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My mom gave me Think Like A Success, Act Like a Success for Christmas in my twenties and i told her Steve couldn't sit on my shelf with my homies.
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People arguing with Danez about Steve's gender presentation, and I'm over here shook like "nigga, you trying to let Steve in your club?"
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Is Steve Harvey non-binary now? It’s giving Think like a Them, Act like a They twitter.com/Nigerianscamss…
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I don't think there's any better laugh for me than thinking "I wish a nigga would" and then realizing "oh shit, a nigga did."
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