@spladayum @Spladayum@qoto.org

In the true spirit of Nihilism, we no longer are going to stick to true nihilism. We will also include absurdism and fatalism and whatever the fuck we feel like doing.

Checkmate, atheists.

Tooted a while back about #WGSebald Vertigo. Now reading his second, The Rings of Saturn. Suddenly I get what he is about. An astonishing work using a long walk around the Suffolk coast as a springboard for wide-ranging discussions on history, literature and the environment. In that regard it is also prescient, lamenting on the #climatecrisis and how it was affecting the Suffolk countryside even when the book was written in the early 90s. Strongly recommended.

Quoi?

"In order to study how Escherichia coli leucyl-tRNA synthetase recognizes tRNALeu and discriminates it from the other two class II tRNAs, tRNASer and tRNATyr, various mutations were introduced into class II tRNA transcripts. The discriminator base A73, but not the anticodon sequence, was found to serve as a critical recognition element of tRNALeu."

Asahara et al, J Mol Biol 1993

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022283683712775

🌈🎨 Michelle Niedziela, PhD and Kathryn Ambroze's latest article in the tks | publisher, event organiser, media agency's Consumer Perspective Column, "Design debunking – Color alone won’t move the needle," is out! In the article, they discuss how color is an integral part of the visual experience, but it is not the end-all answer to communicating how a product will make a consumer feel.
🔖 Read more here: http://ow.ly/LelM50LJTRy
#consumerperception #colorpsychology #neuromarketing

How do you tell a relative to stop saying you know every three words or a sentence but they won’t stop?

@jerpirate Agreed. This is on us white people to fix. I think those of us who are trying to be #AntiRacist or #accomplices or even an #ally should commit to the position that if the instance where we landed doesn’t work for #BlackMastodon or other #BIPOC then it doesn’t work for us either. None of us are free until we’re all free.

@atomicpoet @suekearney #BlackMastodon #Desi #Indigenous #BlackTwitter (has its own instance btw), #NDN, #AfricanAmerican #BlackFedi, #asian #antiracist #BlackDiaspora are a few. It’s easier for me to speak about the Black ones. You kinda have to play around with them til you find people tooting. Also, go through #introduction and #IntroductionPost. Groups have also been made.

@nathanalbert I don't think #blackmastodon is having same experience. Neither are some #indigenous .

BIPOC and POC etc. aren't exactly the same as Black.

(Personally, while I don't sign on to every single thing the self identified group says, I very much identify with and encourage the use of "FBA")

#blacktwitter #blackmastodon

Gift link: https://wapo.st/3gviU3a

In Paris, artist Mickalene Thomas takes on Monet, and art history itself

For “Mickalene Thomas: Avec Monet,” the American artist created works that reflect on the French painter and move Black women into the foreground

Thomas, 51, has built her substantial art-world reputation by focusing on Black women and presenting them not as uniquely heroic or long-suffering, not as tools for cultural propaganda, but as self-affirming, sensual beings.

#BlackMastodon

My lil sis is trying to break into Broadway and she's truly amazing 😍🎭, I need y'all to see this!

1. I know I know, its IG but she's not on here yet
2. She just beat COVID again

So send her some love fam!

This is from a recent performance in Cali, but she dreams of Broadway and has been putting in the work!

#BlackMastodon #BlackTheater #BlackBroadway #ProudBigBro

https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClRqjouvOlw

The work you do isn't just for you but for those you cross that are racist/prejudiced. To this I will add, have those tough conversations that not only take you out of your comfort zone but the other person.

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi
#BlackAcademics #BlackDiaspora #BIPoc #black #blacklivesmatter #blackisbeautiful #diversity #DiversityEquityInclusion #dei #mastodon #racism #antiracist #asian #indigenous #mena #history #native #PursueBlackJoy
#a11y

As I sail into my workday, I gift you all this wonderful article (from the Washington Post) about Mickalene Thomas, an artist of color in the US who has an absolutely sublime, energetic and tactile way of expressing social and physical ecology:

https://wapo.st/3GFELPT

Let me know what you think!

#AmericanArtist #Appreciation #Artist #BIPOC #BlackIsBeautiful #BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon #Brooklyn #Camden #Community #Ecology #FortGreene #MickaleneThomas #NJ #NY #Paris #SocialChange

There is a lot of important conversation going on about the experiences of our #bipoc and #black friends on #Mastodon and in the #Fediverse. Fellow #Ally / #Allies folks, we should be paying attention.
#BlackMastodon
#BlackTwitter
#BlackFediverse
#BlackFedi

This is one of the best curated online ressources I know on black writings / panafricanism. Also a few videos in there. All material is gathered from the public domain, with some translations whenever available.

https://www.sunujournal.com/sunu-studies

"Part library, part digital classroom, SUNU Studies, an educational supplement to SUNU Journal, serves as a means to decentralize + democratize education concerning Pan-African culture, politics, society, economy and art."

#black #BlackMastodon #bipoc #decolonization

If you're a white person on the #Fediverse and you want to help make it less hostile for Black folks:
-search #BlackMastodon or #BlackFedi or #BlackFediverse

-follow some Black folks

-boost their posts

-do this semi-regularly

-listen to Black folks and support them when they complain about #racism they've experienced here or elsewhere, PLEASE do not get defensive about Mastodon. Work through those feelings on your own

Those are my suggestions for a good start.

I put that post behind a CW warning bc I was cursing, NOT because of the link to #racist bird app content.

And I swear if anyone comes in this thread talking about just ignore him, just stop looking at him I will curse u out and block you.
#Fascism and hate proliferates bc people allow hate speech, lies and propaganda to proliferate unchecked.
So miss me w/ yr fragility and tone policing.

Focus on countering #fascist disinfo.

#BlackMastodon #TwitterMigration #ElonMusk #Ferguson #StayWoke

From my old #blog Zuky where I often wrote about #AntiRacism, I thought I'd offer something I wrote in 2015 titled "From Le Code Noir to the New Black Codes" on the long history of justifying violence and punishment against Black people for minor infractions and perceived insubordination:
https://kaichang.typepad.com/zuky/2021/03/from-le-code-noir-to-the-new-black-codes.html

#AntiBlackness #BIPOC #BlackMastodon #Whiteness #EuropeanRacism #AmericanRacism

I keep seeing posts by non-Black people thay say they learned a lot from #BlackTwitter.

Frankly, it gives me shades of #ChappellesShow. Remember how we used to laugh so hard at the skits, but look askance at non-Blacks laughing because the jokes were so personal that they could mean something totally different to even lightly racist ears?

I'm here because I'd like a place to convene, not entertain. So, if you're lurking, say something. We want to learn from you, too.
#BlackMastodon

Elon Musk ridicules Black Twitter staff and antiracism activists | The Independent #BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-twitter-ferguson-protests-obama-b2231181.html