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Ika Makimaki

Try this fun game.

Imagine you live a hundred years.
That's 36,500 days.
Imagine you get to spend 20,000 dollars a day, every single day.

Yup you're a newborn spending 20 k a day, stay with me.

You'd die a 100 years later and you would have spent 730,000,000. That's 730 million dollars.

You still would not be able to call yourself a billionaire.

Billionaires should not exist.

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Anil Dash

It is still wild that millions of Americans routinely fly alternate defaced flags signaling their support for the extrajudicial execution of their neighbors and everyone acts like it’s normal.

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Oliphant

And here it is, as promised.

"White People Be Like"

writer.oliphant.social/oliphan

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Phillip Winn

What better way to prepare for a week of work than to watch videos from Biography?

Black History Month, from Biography
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRl

There were 17 short videos in this list until I sat down to type up this text and post the list, and suddenly, less than an hour ago, there are 17 short videos and one long one. I guess it’s time for me to learn all about WWE Superstar wrestler Booket T!

Or everybody else. I might save that one for last, but that’s just me.

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Phillip Winn

None dare call it a regression, but I was once able to use /me in iMessage on MacOS and it would handle that as IRC servers do, turning it into a reference to myself in the third person.

/me misses that feature

would become, in italics, centered:

pwinn misses that feature

I’m not afraid of MacOS becoming “too iOS-like,” because I think Apple correctly recognizes the differences between them. But I am sad that when they standardized the code base between the two platforms, MacOS lost /me handling, rather than iOS gaining it.

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Omar Moore

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” -James Baldwin

#JamesBaldwin #BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #BlackJoy

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PixiePancake

Wouldn’t the 15th floor now be the 14th floor? What kind of Jenga witchcraft is this?
#Funny #Humor #LOL #Humour #Puzzle

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Phillip Winn

I miss Saturday morning cartoons. They might still be on, but on-demand video content means nothing is limited any more, so what would reason would a young person have to only watch cartoons on Saturday mornings? The world is better, but things I once valued are lost in the process.

I also miss Sesame Street, but I support that same trend in on-demand video content that I lament on Saturday mornings means I don’t actually have to rely solely on memories. I can, for example:

Celebrate Black History Month with Sesame Street
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8T

There are 73 videos in this list, some of them from 14 years ago! There are some beautiful moments in here, and just letting the playlist roll brings back some memories for an old guy like me.

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The best way to kick of a weekend of music during Black History Month? If you ask me, it’s hard to go wrong with more than 20 hours of African Lo-fi.

The African Lofi Project
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL52

Great all week long, great in the car, or in earbuds, this is just a great bunch of music.

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The Way of Accountability

Akhona #blackwomen #blackhair #locs #blackjoy #blackhistory #blackfuturity #blackmastodon #blackfediverse #blackfriday

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Prof Kemi FG

Always an absolute icon.

#BlackFriday #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon

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The Way of Accountability

save the planet #blackart #blackartist #afroanime #afropunk #aiart #blackjoy #blackhistory #blackfuturity #blackmastodon #blackfediverse #blackfriday

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Sean Gonsalves

You know what’s sad #BlackMastodon - that Joe is a criminally underrated singer/songwriter and artist!

His music is an incredible source of #BlackJoy on #BlackFriday any day of the week and his catalog is deeep. Sounds better live than his smoove vocals on wax

I Wanna Know why he doesn’t get props he deserves when he will blow most contemporary artists out the water any day of the week and twice on Sunday, amirite??

(His sister got pipes 2)

R&B #music

youtu.be/oQFGxAjYW4E

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Sean Gonsalves

@doctorjaymarie But at THE top of my #BlackMastodon list of most underrated artists is my dude fr Oakland Raphael Saadiq fr Tony, Toni, Tone.

I mean… It Never Rains, Lay Your Head On My Pillow, Feels Good, You Should Be Here, Still A Man and many more. One of my under the radar favs he did with T Boz fr TLC is Different Times 🔥🔥

youtu.be/Oiem-vkMCD0

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I’m going to have to double- or triple-up to get through the rest of my compiled links while people are still paying attention during Black History Month! Let’s carry on with another playlist of videos, this time 36 of them:

Black History, from Untold History
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqq

More two-minute videos, this time focusing on people who don’t come up as often, like Ethel Payne and Garrett Morgan, or somewhat better-known figures as Sojourner Truth and DJ Kool Herc.

You could spread these videos out over the weekend and be ready for more come Monday, or squeeze them all into a marathon 72 minutes or so. Either way, enjoy them!

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It’s Friday, Friday, got to get down on Friday, everybody–wait, no. I mean, yes, it’s Friday, but no, there’s no need to put that song back into your head.

Instead, let’s Follow more people! It’s time for a Fresh Flock of Five Fine Folks to Follow on Friday!

@VoiceM Voice M
@AshBeardguy Ashton
@DiasporaDiamond Diaspora Diamond
@BenCisco Ben Cisco
@victoriomilian Victorio Milian

In my head, Ben Cisco is a guy with that name in real life, but he leans into sharing the name with Ben Sisko, the fictional commander of Deep Space Nine in the Star Trek series of that name, and so sets his online persona accordingly. If that’s not the case, I don’t know want to know, because I love it. I hope he even looks a bit like Avery Brooks, but if not, again, I would rather not know.

We’re coming to the end of Black History Month soon, so here are a few more people I’ve been following recently. Even though it breaks the alliteration, I guess they are a Few Fine Folks more.

@Onemeatball One Meat Ball
@Adam_Cadmon1 Adam F. Lawton

Follow them all! The more, the merrier!

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Lost Cabin Press

#blackandandwhitephotography #mural
#photography #monochrome #StreetArt
San Francisco, California

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Cheetahmarie

Ok, so there is much discussion about the alt text on pictures. My mom is legally blind. As she has gotten older her sight is almost gone. She LIVES on the computer and to say she gets excited when special attention is paid for the blind is a great understatement. Please use alt text and describe the pictures you post. Describe it as if you had your eyes closed and the only link to the outside world is what a kind soul took an extra 5 minutes to type. Come on, do it, make someone’s day.#AltText

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Chad Loder

Right-wing extremists committed EVERY ideologically driven mass killing in the U.S. in 2022, with an "unusually high" proportion perpetrated by white supremacists, according to a new report published Thursday. axios.com/2023/02/23/mass-kill

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Black history is American history, and American history is Black history. What better way to educate yourself than with Black American History? In this case, a series of videos from Extra Credits.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhy

17 videos about people like the Harlem Hellfighters and Billie Holiday, and events like Interstate Displacement and the Harlem Renaissance, all very good videos.

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