Yori

Just a better version of me || Blessed to be a blessing || Saved to Serve || My kindness isnt nice, it is just. #TheNexCrew #LupendBlog #blackpflugerville

[Yori @AnAmazingFeat]

Pray boldly.

[Yori @AnAmazingFeat]

Be Tranquil. Find Hope. Keep Peace

Live limitless.

Fire. Ash. Rebirth.

[Yori @AnAmazingFeat]

@ThrillaRilla369 Ebaums World

[Fried Chicken and Moët @DereckHarmon]

Latasha Harlins🕊️ 🕊️

(Jan 1, 1976 – Mar 16, 1991)

Cyrus Carmack Belton 🕊️🕊️
(Feb 6, 2009 - May 28, 2023)

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled garden of garbage and commerce.

[Torraine Walker @TorraineWalker]

This brother was the last surviving link to the Jazz Age, the Harlem Renaissance, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Dizzy, Coltrane, Ella, Charlie Parker, Monk, all the way up to the Marsalises, Joshua Redman and Christian McBride in the present day.

Rest in Power. 🎼🎶🎷

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

5 laws of the universe that are surprisingly accurate:

1. Murphy’s Law
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

2. Kidlin’s Law
If you can write a problem down clearly, you’re already halfway to solving it.

3. Falkland’s Law
When there’s no need to make a decision, don’t force one.

4. Wilson’s Law
Prioritize learning and knowledge, and money will eventually follow.

5. Gilbert’s Law
It’s your responsibility to find the best way to achieve the result you want.

[Mac n Cheese 🧀 @stealyoredbull]

Life was better when there was a ‘computer room.’ Where you had to physically enter the room to get on the internet and then log off and leave that room and the internet stayed behind. The minute we were able to take it with us in our pockets that’s when society collapsed fully

[❦. @filmsbratz]

— cute young black girls playing hand games & other traditional playground games outside at recess, 1967. 👧🏾ྀིྀིྀིྀིྀི🩷🎀 black girlhood is such a beautiful thing to see & reminiscent of my childhood. they’re too cute! ˚˖𓍢ִ໋❀

[Yori @AnAmazingFeat]

@ick_real Mercrucio

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We live on a planet where trees communicate, octopuses dream, elephants honor their dead, bees dance to find their way, crows remember, ants build, cats heal with their purring, and the forest, after the fire, blooms again.

[Jayarts @therealJayarts]

So apparently you’re my target audience 🥹🎀

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Dasia Taylor, a 17-year-old, created surgical threads that change color upon detecting infections.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project.

She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it.

Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda.

Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly.

She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype.

Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection.

The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table.

Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests.

Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.

[Cedar Posts @CedarPosts]

The mother of missing 16 year old Aysia Banks:

"I am gonna be full transparent and share everything surrounding the disappearance of my daughter , because CMPD is playing it like a runaway case and it’s being taking lightly.

For those wanting answers … here are the answers. I know it’s a lot but I need you all to read and please share.

I am speaking out to bring urgent attention to the disappearance of my daughter, Aysia, and to express my grave concern regarding the current handling of her case.

CMPD is currently classifying this as a runaway; however, the circumstances surrounding her disappearance strongly suggest she is in danger and may have been groomed or manipulated.

HERE ARE THE FACTs:
• Last Seen: Tuesday night ( April 14th -early morning of April 15th)

• I was working a night shift (7 p.m. – 7 a.m.). My 9-year-old son reported that Aysia left with a bag during the night.

• When I arrived home, all of Aysia’s known electronics were left behind. Her phone enters automatic "Downtime" at 11 p.m., restricting her communication to parents only. Her other parent is currently out of the country.

• Because she left her devices behind, I believe she was either using a secondary device I was unaware of to communicate with someone, or arrangements were made prior to 11 p.m.

Aysia is 16 years old and has no history of running away or behavioral issues.
She is a dedicated Honors Student and a member of the National Honors Society.
She values her education and would never willingly miss school or abandon her younger brother in this manner.
And none of her close friends has any answers or any clue about her disappearance.

Between the hours of 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., a 16-year-old girl is extremely vulnerable. Whether she was lured away willingly or forced, she is a minor alone in the middle of the night. I believe she has been targeted and groomed.

Something is wrong.

My daughter is not a "troubled child” she is a child who is missing, and someone else is involved.

I am asking for the community’s help and for law enforcement to treat this with the severity it deserves.

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

I thought it would be nice to see Emmett Till in another light...(pictured on the left) 🕊

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.

Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged.

Here's what happened:

Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it."

And the exact emails are now PUBLIC.

Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem.

The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately."

Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call.

Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price.

Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed.

Same playbook with Hanes:

Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased."

Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins.

But it gets even worse...

Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site.

Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing.

They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS.

The mechanism is simple but terrifying:

If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers.

Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings."

Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products.

Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform.

So turns out, you were never comparison shopping.

You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors.

"Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable."

3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on.

This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat.

And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE.

"Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

[Yori @AnAmazingFeat]

@omgsidewalks Fatigue

[IG: olesoul57.2 ♉️ 5/12 @olesoul57_2]

While programs are being cut, our Black farmers are building:

🌱 A cooperative food system
📦 1 Million fresh food boxes
🚛 Distribution across multiple states
🤝🏾 Direct farmer-to-community connections

This is what resilience looks like.

Visit: https://t.co/eaiMhFLd23 

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IG/bianca.theexplorer

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🇹🇬🚨 URGENT: Togo just declared war on the map.

The foreign minister is going to the UN to demand a world map that actually shows Africa's true size. No more Mercator projection. No more colonial cartography that makes Europe look massive and Africa look tiny.

Africa is bigger than China, India, the US, and most of Europe combined. But on your classroom map, it looks like an afterthought. That is not an accident. That is propaganda.

The West will fight this because the map shapes the mind. Make Africa look small, and people treat it as small. Change the map, and you change the story.

Togo just called out the lie. The Global South is rewriting the map. Finally.

[Yori @AnAmazingFeat]

@JamieWa45182290 @SocialEngland66 Corruption. Deeeeeep rooted capitalistic corruption. We can fight the system while understanding taking it out on the worker does nothing in helping with that fight. If I have $600 for the check, I will make sure i have the 20% tip. It's not "tipping culture", it is a trap.