THEE Petty Diva is @ netskid.bsky.social🇺🇸

Founder/CEO in consulting | Leadership, DEI & org dev 🌱 | Author of "The Joy of Work" 📚 | Culture & justice advocate ✊ | Fashion lover | Labradoodle mom 🐾

[THEE Petty Diva is @ netskid.bsky.social🇺🇸 @NetskiD]

The more you know

[𓆩♡𓆪 GODS FAVORITE 𓆩♡𓆪 @soulaaangel]

OWWWWWW NOW THAT’S HOW YOU CLEAR A BITCH

[THEE Petty Diva is @ netskid.bsky.social🇺🇸 @NetskiD]

@NancyMa16153771 @Suzierizzo1 You are not very smart

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

for the boroughs and Knicks fans around the world 🏆

[THEE Petty Diva is @ netskid.bsky.social🇺🇸 @NetskiD]

This is BS. The men and women who serve with honor are not his little toy soldiers. So disrespectful.

[Jennifer Get In Good Trouble @TheJenniWren]

Trump used the Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon — soldiers who escort fallen heroes and heads of state — to usher UFC fighters past Abraham Lincoln’s statue like they’re celebrities on a red carpet. I am LIVID. And everyone else should be too.

[Covie @covie_93]

So Zelensky desecrated the White House by not wearing a suit but this is ok?????

[THEE Petty Diva is @ netskid.bsky.social🇺🇸 @NetskiD]

@EHall17506 @ChrisDJackson You didn’t respond to the argument. You changed the subject.

The post wasn’t about immigration. It was about people who claimed faith and character were their highest values, then abandoned both when it was politically convenient.

Character either matters, or it doesn’t.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

[THEE Petty Diva is @ netskid.bsky.social🇺🇸 @NetskiD]

@notcapnamerica

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima2]

THAT'S how you clear a bitch

[THEE Petty Diva is @ netskid.bsky.social🇺🇸 @NetskiD]

@hell_line0 I love this for them

[THEE Petty Diva is @ netskid.bsky.social🇺🇸 @NetskiD]

@MissSassbox That’s painful. Their schools should be ashamed.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Donald Trump needs California, and he just can’t get us. So he is turning all his attention to destroying us.
@DemocracyDocket
Watch the entire conversation on PoliticsGirl YouTube, or listen where you get your pods! https://t.co/70AVUMUalk

[THEE Petty Diva is @ netskid.bsky.social🇺🇸 @NetskiD]

I love my state

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Donald Trump needs California, and he just can’t get us. So he is turning all his attention to destroying us.
@DemocracyDocket
Watch the entire conversation on PoliticsGirl YouTube, or listen where you get your pods! https://t.co/70AVUMUalk

[THEE Petty Diva is @ netskid.bsky.social🇺🇸 @NetskiD]

I miss him so much

[Steve “JAFERD,MD” Sample🇺🇸 @Supermansings]

We have lost so much, so quickly.

[MNJ @Mnjsales]

Zero sales so far, but I’m not giving up on this satin-lined scrub hat! A simple share could find my next customer every little bit helps a small business ❤️

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Not all men. So let’s find out who’s on that site and publish their names. Then we’ll know which men.

[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

She was 57 years old.
White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject.
She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments — and then went home.
The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene.
Her name is Mary Beard — Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it.
The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice — anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her.
Most people would have gone quiet.
Mary Beard went further in.
She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation.
And she found it had always been there.
In Homer's Odyssey — one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old — there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men.
She goes.
Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately.
Not as ancient history. As a pattern.
In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise — disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts.
In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches.
Elizabeth I — Queen of England, ruler of a nation — had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country.
The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life.
Mary Beard had found something important.
In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto — short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening.
Her argument was precise and devastating.
The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself — the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like — was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years.
The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like.
She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television — white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it.
The threats continued.
But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them — why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked.
They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them.
The room had been designed without them in mind.
That is not a personal failing.
That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision.
And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice — who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to — spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it.
Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men.
He was wrong then.
He is still wrong now.
And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it.
via The Inspireist

#FeministFriday #HERstory

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Just your weekly reminder that @JoeBiden was a damn good president.

[THEE Petty Diva is @ netskid.bsky.social🇺🇸 @NetskiD]

I don’t see any drag queens

[i Expose Racists & Pedos @SeeRacists]

🚨 UPDATE: 8 people charged in Sex Ring “Underground Bunker” for Paying adults to Rape their Children and Pets — Ages 3-16. Trial delayed as mom pleads guilty and flips on co-defendants

In Bibb County, Alabama, eight suspects ran a sex trafficking ring out of an underground bunker where children as young as 3 were drugged, bound, and raped with adults paying to abuse them.

Animals were also targeted.

Rebecca Brewer and mother of some of the victims, pleaded guilty to sexual torture and nine counts of first-degree kidnapping. As part of the deal she agreed to testify against the other seven defendants.

The trial for the remaining suspects has been delayed while the case expands, including a federal investigation into at least one of them.

These monsters turned their own kids and pets into victims for profit.

How long will it take for every last one of them to face real justice?

[Mikale Olson @realmikolson]

A wise man once said, if you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it.

These European World Cup tourists are experiencing the REAL America for the first time: not New York City or LA, but middle America and all its hospitality. 🇺🇸