consimption

Low key. Just for my interest

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

Oh, so this is what happened. Argentina has toxic beef that it can't sell. Someone made a call to Trump, offered to cut him in on the action, suddenly 660 million pounds of inedible meat-like substance is about to flood the U.S. market. Just follow the money, it tells the story.

[Black Disability Collective @BlackDisability]

If you or someone you know is black & disabled in Gary, please connect them with us so we can try to help secure whatever supplies they may need

[The People’s Reporter | TikTok @blackbeltbabe @blackbeltbae]

Spent the last few days working on a dynamic map that shows hanging deaths of Black people since 2018. Of all the ones I’ve tracked so far, a vast majority of the circumstances of the hangings are disputed by family.

So much more to go.

[Dr. Heavenly Kimes @Dr_Heavenly]

Nolan Wells 7/4/2026 Mississippi
Tasia Fortune 8/3/2026 Mississippi
Juliana Nzita 5/8/2026 North Carolina
Kohen Wiley 6/14/2026 Mississippi
Rasheem Carter 10/2/2022 Mississippi
Justice Kai James 6/21/26 Georgia
Cedric Tahuye 6/6/2026 North Carolina
Khloe McDonel 7/20/26 Mississippi
Angel Dense Brown missing Mississippi
TJ Davis 8/29/2021 Minnesota
Kendrick Johnson 1/10/2013 Georgia
Justin Davis 8/9/2026 Mississippi
Trey Reed 9/15/2025 Mississippi

[SAREL 🌼 @Sarel_x]

… is this not wild to you????

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima2]

Quite the colonizer history lesson wow

[Nina vs. the World @ninamonei]

What does a class of doctors, lawyers, politicians, professors and business owners mean for Black people when they do not operate in service to Black people and socialize and pipeline their children through institutions that conduct cultural programming to uphold antiblackness?

[El Dom @el_dom]

@LeftSentThis Pepperidge Farms remembers…

[BODEGA PEPTIDES @bigsnugga]

rap game clarence thomas

[Esha K @eshaLegal]

Chopping people's hands off for not collecting enough rubber in Congo.

Being the inspiration for the book "The heart of Darkness"

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Celebrity worship is a strange sickness. It is a cancerous culture in which people kneel before celebrities as though they were gods, and defend them as though they were blood, as though fame had somehow made them family members worthy of fighting over.

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Beyonce and Jay Z are about to have Black folks on unlocking-journeys and it’s going to be a gross display of respectability politics posing as pop cultural tastemakers “doin’ what they do.”

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

EVERYTHING is for sale. EVERYTHING is content. EVERYTHING is monetizable. EVERYTHING is capitalism.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 @andrejgee]

you also have to talk about the cultural voyeurs who use streaming as their daily proximity to Black culture. streaming has usurped hip-hop music in that way

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

In the sweep of history, admittedly not all that long, this is likely the most pathetic and most captured generation of black athletes there’s ever been.

[Matt Brown @maattttbrown]

Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly

[Michael @Socdem_Michael]

He’s doing the meme irl

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

Haiti had the first successful slave revolt and the Whites have never forgiven them for it