So you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chaıned to other human bodięs for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sun up to sun down as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women rapęd by ruthless sIave owners.
Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil Wąr to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KƘK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hųng on trees...
Fought in World Wąrs as soldiers only to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood...
and in spite of it all, someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here, but you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit?
How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!
It is NOT in our DNA to quit!
The real reason for modern inflation is rich people hoarding and parking more and more of the actual world wealth. Less money in actual circulation means the government having to print more and the poor borrowing more. We have to dig deeper into our futures because our present is held hostage.
A 46-year-old woman accidentally snorted 55 mg of pure LSD because she thought it was cocaine, roughly 550 times the normal recreational dose.
She vomited for 12 hours and remained under the effects of the substance for about 34 hours.
But when she woke up, the chronic foot pain she had suffered for over 20 years, attributed to Lyme disease, was reportedly gone.
She stopped taking morphine for five days and then began microdosing LSD every three days.
Three years later, she had completely quit morphine, with no withdrawal symptoms or relapse reported.
Researchers described it as an extraordinary case of non-fatal high-dose LSD ingestion with long-term pain relief.
I remembered that my first encounter with a transgender person was through our Grade 11 setwork in isiZulu.
The novel ‘Bengithi Lizokuna’ by Prof Nakanjani G. Sibiya.
It opened my eyes to so much.
Being disliked by [almost] the entire house doesn’t always mean you’re a strong character. Sometimes you just might be a horrible person 🤷🏽♀️ #BBMzansiS6
Everyone talks about AI.
Very few know which tools actually matter.
1. ChatGPT – ask anything
2. RecCloud – change voice
3. Krea ai – create logos
4. ElevenLabs – voice cloning
5. Gamma app – design documents
6. Suno ai – make music
7. Runway ml – edit videos
8. Relume - web design
9. Descript – edit audio
10. Tome app – presentations
11. Perplexity ai – research
12. PicWish – edit photos
13. LumaLabs ai – 3D models
14. Pika art – AI videos
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We’re not against having kids, we’re against repeating cycles. We grew up in “perfect dysfunction,” so our tolerance for unhealed, unprepared parenting is low. We understand the weight of raising a human being, and that awareness makes the decision heavier, not easier. Some of us are choosing not to have children because we want to be whole first, or because we don’t want a life defined only by raising children. Choosing not to have kids is just as intentional and difficult as choosing to have them.