It's Been A While
Getting back into the swing
Soft relaunching this platform with some rapid-fire thoughts I’ve been wanting to share. I want to write more than this, but I need something to get those thoughts churning.
There’s an alt-right pipeline intro for everyone, and mine would be Black women sharing what they’re eating for breakfast. You think it’s just fun and games and a reminder to hit your fiber goals until suddenly you’re concerned that your diet isn’t regulating your hormones and synced to your moon cycle.
Still on the TikTok alt pipeline, digital Blackface looks like those two characters from Get Out who were already body-snatched.
I wish there were a way to screen “Black men who ask me (a writer) my thoughts about AI, knowing they’re bating me” from Hinge and CMB.
While on the topic, I’ve also learned to clarify what kind of anime he watches and his thoughts on “fan service” before saying yes to an in-person date.
Instead of virtue signalling, 🥷🏿 are luxury signalling; same grift, different tax bracket.
Follow-up thought, 🥷🏿 speak like ChatGPT, also known as marketing speak, also known as propaganda. All key terms and SEO, and no active verbs.
I’m now friction-maxxing, except I’ll still keep my noise-canceling headphones on cause no one has time to hear the foolishness on the train. I canceled my Amazon Prime subscription. (Everyone, like this post in applause!)
This is an Alyssia Liu stan account.
My bias will always be Manon.
I don’t think I’m young, and then my gym announces a High School Musical v Cheetagirls themed workount, and I’m the only one that cheers. (There’s only one correct answer to this match up, btw.)
I watched Reality Check. I also listened to the podcast Curse of America’s Next Top Model. Tyra is correct that we wanted that humiliation because Bravo exists. But she set the standard. Also, Shandi didn’t “cheat.” Consent cannot be given under the influence.
In case we got too excited by the fantasy of Heated Rivalry, the Men’s US Olympics Hockey Team reminded us that “locker room” talk about women was foundational to the 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns. We were also reminded that government officials partying and taking personal days may come at the expense of young people being safe from gun violence.
Follow-up thought, I too would choose Flava Flav’s party over the White House.
Follow up to the follow up…I hope 🍊 knocked loose someone’s ancestor’s remains and is haunted nightly by the screams of the enslaved who built the White House.
Every week, I am reminded of a professor who, in 2016, told me to read Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. DuBois to understand modern America.
I have been told not to date men who don’t have books on their bookshelf, so I’ve decided to ignore whether or not I saw a bookshelf on Saturday.
I promise I won’t wait almost a year before the next post.
Ciao