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Ericka Simone

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Header: Nichelle Nichols and Mae Jemison, the first Black Women in space (lol), on the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Location
Los Angeles, California
Languages + Things
Baby HTML, Python | site platform design, DNS, UI/UX
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Jay Hannah @deafferret@flyovercountry.social

zomg, scroll down, I love Julie's "what you love" / "paid to do" diagrams. And who doesn't love a good Venn vs. Euler explainer?
juliepeasley.com/post/9-may-20

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Ericka Simone @ErickaSimone@mastodon.social

Just trying to stay positive. You guys give me good reason. Still hard to do in this type of world though.

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Jana @janamarie@mystical.garden

oooh, this is so cool, you can see the marcescence in the autumn leaves in infrared! Healthy leaves are bright pink, while withering leaves are golden-yellow, as they reflect less IR.

The last photo is an un-edited crop directly from the camera, you can see how most leaves are more blue than pink. The blue channel of that camera captures just IR, while the others capture IR + their respective colour, resulting in more blue -> more IR. #photography #infrared

A photo down a forested path, there's dark grey pavement and trees everywhere. The sky is grey, the foliage of most trees and grass is bright pink. Some tress however have a full golden-yellow coat. Those stand out inbetween the pink trees A photo down a walkway with streetlamps and a traintrack to the left. There's grass and a treeline to the right, shrubbery and trees to the left. Most foliage is bright pink, some of the trees however are more golden-pink. A photo of a hut next to a path. It's backdrop is filled with bright pink trees on dark stems. The foliage is pink, however some of them have a more faded tone, they seem to be withering a crop of an unedited photo it has pale blue, pale pink and mustard green colours. there are leaves, most pale blue, but a few are pale pink

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Andrew "P.B." Graves @graves501@fosstodon.org

@Pixelix Hi guys, would be great if we could report Pixelfed accounts if they're clearly impostor accounts. Like directly in the Pixelix app. Just saw an account with really bad AI photos of Sandra Bullock claiming to be Sandra Bullock 😅 Had to use the Pixelfed web UI to do the report.

#pixelfed #pixelix

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Air Adam @airadam@mastodon.me.uk

Going live now @ twitch.tv/airadam13 !

Vintage Vinyl | All-wax | Soul, funk, jazz, and more! | Live from Manchester 🐝

Turn your volume up and come join us!

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #dj #twitch #twitchStreamer

Twitch AirAdam13 - Live on Twitch Vintage Vinyl | All-wax | Soul, funk, jazz, and more! | Live from Manchester 🐝 | Streaming djs.

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David Cohen @davidbcohen@twit.social

@afewbugs @DamonHD @VOLEwtf Sconehenge is already a thing

Scones on a green cloth in a field. The have been arranged in a circle of stacks with others across the tops so that they look like Stonehenge.

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Muppet GIF of the Day @GIFS_of_Puppets@ohai.social

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org

theconversation.com/friday-ess

I don't think I've seen a more scathing review of the situation in higher education than this. Makes me cringe and say "surely it can't be that bad" even though I consider myself a horrible curmudgeon who sees universities as deeply flawed institutions equivalent to basically a hedge fund that teaches classes for tax reasons. Yet this is someone deep inside current universities, so they'd know more than I would I guess. Yikes!

The Conversation Friday essay: AI is devastating higher education, but the system was already broken AI is a project of the powerful, implemented in the name of an efficiency that has nothing to do with the good, writes Jeff Sparrow.

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Miss Givings @CakesOfPan@mastodon.social
[ still cant believe humans were gifted a planet full of trees, fruits, water, wildlife, sunshine and they invented debt, capitalism, war and Al

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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen@mastodon.social

In the spirit of this comic, I armed myself with COVID and flu antibodies this week.

#comic #cartoon #humor #health #apocalypse #food #survival #science

Real-life prepping Arm yourself with antibodies Covid and flu shots Today I’m stockpiling ammo against biological agents! Employ tactical body protection Clik! Utilize radiation-cloaking technology Splorp! Consume high-grade life fuel for battle readiness No plaque is stopping my hemoglobin Army!

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia@mastodon.online

If You Can Afford to Send Katy Perry to Space — artist unknown in London, UK 🇬🇧

streetartutopia.com/2025/04/20

#StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural

If You Can Afford to Send Katy Perry to Space in London, UK

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Ericka Simone @ErickaSimone@mastodon.social

#KohenWiley was lynched by White police officers. There is no justification. There is no other explanation.

Given Mississippi’s vast history of lynching and genocide of diaspora descendants, it fits right in line. America continues its targeted murders of African American babies. Incredibly disturbing.

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Ericka Simone @ErickaSimone@mastodon.social

New Continent dropped; I’m excited for no reason

From: @thecontinent
mas.to/@thecontinent/117490986

The cover of The Continent, issue 257, dated 24 October 2026, is a night-time photograph of a bus loading passengers. A narrow amber banner across the top reads “African Journalism | 24 October 2026 | Issue 257”. The masthead below it is in large cream serif letters over a dark navy sky. The bus fills the left side of the frame. It is pale cream with a VW badge on the grille, and “Go-Go Shuttles” mas.to The Continent (@thecontinent@mas.to) Attached: 2 images All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 257 of The Continent Four months ago, tens of thousands of Malawians were repatriated as they fled xenophobic violence in South Africa. Now, the buses are heading back. https://bit.ly/TC_257

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The Continent @thecontinent@mas.to

All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 257 of The Continent

Four months ago, tens of thousands of Malawians were repatriated as they fled xenophobic violence in South Africa. Now, the buses are heading back.

bit.ly/TC_257

The cover of The Continent, issue 257, dated 24 October 2026, is a night-time photograph of a bus loading passengers. A narrow amber banner across the top reads “African Journalism | 24 October 2026 | Issue 257”. The masthead below it is in large cream serif letters over a dark navy sky. The bus fills the left side of the frame. It is pale cream with a VW badge on the grille, and “Go-Go Shuttles” branding sits above the bumper. Its warm headlights and amber destination display glow against the dark. The display is partly legible and appears to read “LOAD”. Passengers are visible as dim shapes through the windscreen, and a few papers are tucked behind the glass. On the right, a group of travellers waits at the door, mostly in silhouette. They carry plastic-wrapped suitcases, patterned holdall bags, backpacks and a large bundle wrapped in gold plastic that one person carries on their head. One person wears a bucket hat. Bare tree branches and dark foliage frame the scene, and the road in front is lit warmly by the bus lights. The headline, in cream serif at the bottom, reads “Back to South Africa, despite everything”. The photo credit, “Marco Longari/AFP”, sits beneath it in small capitals.

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Ericka Simone @ErickaSimone@mastodon.social

Something for the #Kingfish nerds. I helped a little. I think I removed the tracker. Please enjoy.

youtu.be/HpqhasC6d6o?is=mDJWGo

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Rascal Daupp @songxisto@icosahedron.website

@ErickaSimone the fun thing is, we have the exact reverse discourse here in France. Rioting is legitimate as long it's against THEIR stupid president and not OUR beautiful country.

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Bob Jamieson @bobjmsn@mastodon.scot

Did you know Royal Mail tracks posties every move and pings their manager if they stop for 5 minutes? Just signed this, worth two seconds 👉

the.organise.network/campaigns

#RoyalMail #WorkerSurveillance

Stop constant monitoring at Royal Mail Add your name:

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Jim Salter @jimsalter@fosstodon.org

somebody please take AI away from anybody and everybody involved in commercial food sales, marketing, and/or distribution

This AI generated menu "photo" of pan fried tiger prawns in lemon garlic butter sauce features baby tiger cubs swimming in chiles and miscellaneous other vegetables.

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Ericka Simone @ErickaSimone@mastodon.social

@chris sounds like you’re having Californian problems. lol.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight" @Lana@beige.party

Sure do enjoy this "fair" system where if the left manages to win an election, the radical right extremists rig the system so they win instead, and if the left somehow overcomes this with sheer numbers, the radical right extremists claim fraud and sue to overturn the election they rigged, and if the left somehow wins the lawsuit, the radical right extremists decertify the election and refuse to seat the elected official, and if the left somehow manages to actually get into office, the radical right extremists smear them every day they're there.

But if the radical right extremists win any single election, they win all elections forever and there's simply nothing anyone can do about that.

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