Yo Fave Cousin

Play the vibes you are dealt | Professional Nobody | Nupe 👌🏾| STEM Advocate | #GoCanes🙌🏾 *Views and opinions are my own*

[Yo Fave Cousin @StephunUrkel]

Learning how to “listen to understand” and not “listen to respond” was a life hack that increased my quality of life exponentially

[FOST @GeorgeFoster72]

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[CanesMuse @canesmuse]

Malachi Toney is on @EASPORTSCollege Deluxe cover 🔥👀

The standard edition will be announced soon.

[Ibis Media @IbisMediaCo]

🚨BREAKING🚨
Malachi Toney is a cover athlete for EA College Football 27 Deluxe Edition. He is the second ever Miami Hurricane to appear on the cover of a college football video game. 🙌🔥

Per: @EASPORTSCollege

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 DAMN.

Ruby Bridges said the moment she finally understood what was happening during school integration was when a little white boy told her:

“My mom said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger.”

She was SIX.

And she said hearing that felt like “a huge weight lifted,” because suddenly everything made sense.

Why the classrooms were empty.
Why adults were screaming.
Why U.S. Marshals had to escort her to school.
Not because of anything she did.

Just because of the color of her skin.

A six-year-old child realizing an entire country was angry at her for existing.

[culture @notgwendalupe]

Scary Movie 6 made a Letterboxd account for Brenda (Regina Hall) and these are her reviews LMAO

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

"If you want $3 gas, you're going to have to wait 6 years. We will not get back down to that sub-$70 oil level until 2032"

[Big Brain Business @BigBrainBizness]

Brené Brown, researcher and author, on the contradiction she keeps hearing in rooms full of tech billionaires:

Her work puts her in rooms where the founders and CEOs of major tech platforms talk openly about how they think.

What @BreneBrown hears there unsettles her:

"So I hear someone say, 'Hey, you know, tech billionaire, what should my kids study? I'm worried for my kids… they should study coding, physics,' and then five minutes later, as if that answer didn't happen, someone will say, 'What do you attribute your success to?' I mean deeply when you think about it, and the same person will say, 'My deep reading of philosophy and the stoics.'"

The contradiction is what stops her: the same people crediting philosophy and the liberal arts for their own success are telling other parents their kids should focus on coding and physics.

That gap leads her to a bigger, more uncomfortable question:

"I start to extrapolate from there and wonder if there is a thinking class that's emerging where they're like, 'We're going to read philosophy and we're going to read the liberal arts and we're going to study history, and the rest of you just keep scrolling. Don't worry about the big words. We'll handle all the big words for you.'"

She points to Steve Jobs as an early signal of the same pattern:

"It's like when they asked Steve Jobs, 'Boy, your kids must love the iPad.' Steve Jobs said, 'My kids don't have an iPad.' And then his biographer who spent time with his family said he wasn't kidding. There's no technology. At dinner, they're talking about art and history."

The takeaway is simple but uncomfortable.

The people building these platforms are protecting their own kids from them, and giving them books, ideas, and real conversation instead.

So why are the rest of us being sold something different?

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Bees are responsible for pollinating about one in three bites of the food we eat. They are far more important to humans than any AI tool or data center.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The historic Alfred Street Baptist Church announced it would fund the Black student government whose funding was cut at Mizzou over DEI restrictions

“We take care of our own people,” said Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley.

https://t.co/7iBBZpK63G

[skumm🧊 @skumWgmi]

My kid's school asked me to donate supplies.

Paper. Pencils. Hand sanitizer. Tissues.

I pay property taxes.
My state has a $4 billion surplus.
The federal education budget is $238 billion.

And the teacher is buying pencils out of her own paycheck.

And I'm sending in Ziploc bags.

We fund stadiums for billionaires with public money.

We fund schools with bake sales.

And then blame teachers when test scores drop.

[mayerr @ymmayerr]

Honey Bees make our food, A.I. doesn't. Save the Honey Bees, not data centers

[KeriA @KeriA1776again]

Wow!

[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

Republicans in Congress did WHAT???

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

🚨 Every Republican present in the House Appropriations Committee last night voted to make THEMSELVES eligible to collect from Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. I am not making this up.

I introduced an amendment to stop Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President from collecting a single dollar from Trump’s slush fund unless a court actually orders it.

Every single Republican who cast a vote was AGAINST my amendment, making themselves eligible for settlement funds.

Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President, have no business lining their own pockets by claiming they were victims of government weaponization. Trump set up this fund, now MAGA Republicans in Congress are ensuring they all can collect from it.

That is exactly the kind of self-dealing corruption the American people are sick of.

[Charlotte Alter @CharlotteAlter]

Until about three years ago, every song you've ever loved, every book you've ever devoured, every beautiful speech you've ever heard was written by a human.

It's so sad what they've done to our sense of human capability
https://t.co/sowKDrgdU3

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell. Mayor Mamdani defies the establishment by rolling out a staggering 100,000 universal childcare offers across NYC.

He confirms the city is aggressively expanding early education to toddlers. The administration is actively saving families thousands.

[Pablo Torre Finds Out @pablofindsout]

"Hedge fund money is a plague of locusts. It just swarms over a field, it devours the field, and it moves on to the next field."

Mike Schur and @JPosnanski join @PabloTorre to talk how private equity has come to "burn down the field of dreams"

[104.3 The Score @thescorechicago]

"I've found peace in talking about my wife as opposed to talking about the struggle that she endured for two years."

Michael Smith shared a powerful remembrance of his wife, Sarah, who passed away after a brave battle with glioblastoma.