Ted Akari ✨

[WOOK! @madeyawook]

I found a Black American Owned Beauty Manufacturing Company that we should all support and lock in with🔥🔥🔥

CMO of mSEED Group, the largest Black, woman-owned contract manufacturing facility in the U.S.

There’s no more excuses‼️

[mia golds 𓂃✰ @themiagolds]

You literally have to be the cool you want to see. All that 'can we bring back' that and all that 'why don't people' this bitch, get in the field!

[Superb Villainy @MajestyRia]

I exclusively shop at a Black owned Beauty Supply store in the Bay Area & Y’all should find one near you, where ever you are bc I promise you, its been an uphill battle keeping that store open due to racial discrimination within the Asian owned beauty industry.

[uses the silent treatment in a street fight @allkemi]

I’ve been “in the middle” in already established friend groups before and my perception is a lot of longstanding friendships didn’t successfully transition from youthful shallowness to emotionally mature, especially if many members come from a closed family/relationship system.

[Ted Akari ✨ @xTedDoesStuff]

I always hear I have a lot of stuff—it’s not until I’m redecorating or moving that I’m reminded how true that is 🫠

[Ted Akari ✨ @xTedDoesStuff]

@TheColtonShow__ Congratulationssss 💃🏽✨

[Madame Black Swan 🕷🦢 @DrIndyEinstein]

we talk about sugar addiction but we really need to have a conversation around stimulation addiction.

so many people are addicted to doomscrolling, getting notifications, consumption, refreshing apps constantly, picking their phone immediately in the morning.

but i don’t think people realize how psychologically damaging this is and how the next few years will start to expose this.

[Chawanna @DrChaeEd]

There’s a parenting struggle I have that I never really talk about (bc I don’t think ppl are honest enough about it).

Kids, boys especially, tend to communicate primarily through hostile humor (jokes that in any other context are demeaning or critical).

[DM (DRAWING ARC) @DequanMidoriya]

So chinese ppl are going to african countries and enacting their sick violent fantasies out on black babies…. Im so fucking angry wtf

[Madame Black Swan 🕷🦢 @DrIndyEinstein]

the one thing about being so far ahead of the curve is that there will be a lot you won’t get your recognition for and you just have to be okay with that

[ICYESTTWAT @FUCCl]

yall can’t be in community with each other fr because yall are judgmental and hypocritical.

combine that with elitism out of insecurity and.. well we’re left with the bullshit we have now.

[K @knicksrevenge]

Might be kinda extra of me but I find it so odd when people rejoice over black people cutting their locs off

[Ted Akari ✨ @xTedDoesStuff]

I’m questioning it, because I’m theorizing that it may be dangerous for the mind.

It took me a few days to shake off the fact, that that week and everything I did was just a dream…I can’t imagine if I experience longer than a week while dreaming 😅

[Ted Akari ✨ @xTedDoesStuff]

Has anyone experienced those dreams where you live out multiple days, weeks, or even months?

At first it was just days, but the last time it happened I lived out like a whole week!

I woke up SHOOK because I was with ppl I know in my waking life…so it didn’t feel like a dream!

[Ted Akari ✨ @xTedDoesStuff]

@MadScientistFF We had a year of bomb threats. It became so normal, by the spring we’d pre-plan for day parties & beach trips. Amongst that, someone hung a noose at our black principles door & signed it from our white VP—so it was a weird year where we had to assume every threat was real 😭

[Your OG 🐩 @LRNROSE]

you see she packed a flat iron

[Ted Akari ✨ @xTedDoesStuff]

@StrawberriCurls Yessssss!!!! Ppl keep saying Im cutting men off before we get anywhere, but these are the yellow flags that help you walk away early 😭

[Ted Akari ✨ @xTedDoesStuff]

Look at Tubi…. It’s a formula lmaoooo.

[geryon @R0SYLNS]

does anybody know if there's like. an actual reason that 90s to 00s media was so black (specifically YA stuff) but now it's like we back to square one? like where are my culture historians i need to know

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Lover girl @lovagrlll]

It’s sad to see fellow black women pile on Paris for this valid take. I am absolutely a woman before I am black, if you actually understood intersectionality, you’d understand why a lot of African women feel this way.