Anni*

abstract distractable. she/they/Goddess

[Anni* @annifrick]

Memes are my love language.

[Jes Cerdeña, MD, PhD (she/her) @jes_cerdena]

My biggest takeaway from the Titan story is that we absolutely could have coordinated, multinational efforts to ensure no migrant dies crossing the sea and we choose not to.

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

“Stay woke. Keep your eyes open.” - Lead Belly

The Scottsboro Boys, nine Black teens falsely accused of raping two white women in 1931, were sentenced to death. NAACP forced repeated retrials. They were finally freed but never recovered.

The first documented use of the phrase “stay woke” happened in the 1930s when Lead Belly ended his song about the Scottsboro Boys by advising Black folk traveling through Alabama to “stay woke.”

The term “woke" was created by Black people referring to being alert to systemic racial injustices. #BlackHistoryWithLana #Fresh

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

This month in the US, people were shot for ringing the wrong doorbell, getting into the wrong car, using a leaf blower, delivering food to the wrong address, driving into the wrong driveway, and for asking a neighbor to stop shooting so a baby could sleep.

It’s the fucking guns.

[rax ‘levon honkers’ king @RaxKingIsDead]

bitch you do it

[Icona @iconawrites]

Ignore this talk about “beach bodies”. Start preparing now for your *autumn body*, one with a detachable pumpkin head that you can throw at your foes riding on horseback.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Happy indictment day, to those who celebrate.

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

Looking forward to reading interviews a decade from now with people in dying small towns in red states who can’t figure out why the young people moved away and won’t come back.

[nerve haver @nervehaver]

history books never prepared me for how surreal it is to have to continue with the minutiae of daily life no matter how cataclysmic the news gets, how twisted the fabric of society becomes, or how monstrously those around us behave

[Midnight Garter 🏴 @mdnghtgrdnr]

Pittsburgh is like "yeah we have poor air quality, a boil water advisory, a lead pipe problem we can't fix, and are downwind from the largest airborne toxic event in recent history BUT..."

"All those chemicals make for spectacular sunset views! Here have another I.C. Light."

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

2023 is officially the FOURTH calendar year that student debt payments have been paused. If they can be paused that long, they should be canceled.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Before the next election, you might want to find a better way to poll anyone under the age of 30 since they would rather pick up a pinless grenade than a call from an unknown number.

[Chris Potter @CPotterPgh]

Summer Lee -- first Black woman elected to Congress from PA
Arvind Venkat -- first Indian American elected to PA legislature
Latasha Mayes -- first out Black lesbian elected to legislature
Austin Davis -- first Black lieutenant governor

All this happened tonight, driven by WPA.

[Adam @adamgreattweet]

nothing pairs better with my seasonal depression than election anxiety