Ericka Simone

Feeling very grateful for the support you all have provided. I feel like I should accommodate. What I want to know is what would you like to have me post about more:

@screwturn in short:

Feeling very grateful for the support you all have provided. I feel like I should accommodate. What I want to know is what would you like to have me post about more:

Me, right before bass guitar class starts:

There once was a man
from Cork, who got limericks
and #haiku confused

the things my gf sends me to show me she loves me...

How am I just finding out about this?!
https://www.bose.com/pressroom/bose-acquires-skullcandy-announcement

The advantages of mobile Linux over AOSP

amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/the-advantages-of-mobile-linux-over-aosp

If our goal is the empowerment and greater freedom of people, mobile Linux appears to be a more feasible route to achieve those goals in the long term than AOSP.

Coming up on 10 years without Auntie Sharon. It hurts more now than when she actually left. I know she’d be proud of me though.

@krejgo you know what…. What *IF* we actually stopped paying taxes?

@atomicpoet also, he died penniless because that was the era where there was little to no protection for mechanical media and artists in general in that era. He technically should be worth billions today. I study this heavy in licensing/publishing.

@atomicpoet oh my Jesus. I’ve never heard of this. And I was just thinking about Joplin and his issues with copyrights. What’s wrong with me? lol

Let’s go down this rabbit hole.

Would Thanos 2/3rds of the globe for just one for day with D’Angelo, Val Kilmer and Sharon Jones.

Just 24/48 hours.

@atomicpoet her, Jessye Norman, and Marian Anderson. The trifecta of Black Opera. Please get into them ASAP.

@atomicpoet her, Jessye Norman, and Marian Anderson. The trifecta of Black Opera. Please get into them ASAP.

#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/10/25/1

Infamous moments in jazz

Aight, done.

“Intercept’s analysis of the rates of domestic abuse reported in Pentagon data found intimate partner violence among married military couples was at least four times higher than the civilian rate”

“the military’s hypermasculine culture and systematic mistreatment of women play a role in the increased risks of intimate partner violence”

Weak carceral* frame yet important

https://theintercept.com/2026/10/26/military-domestic-violence-murder-deaths-women/

*the dangerous men institutions of state violence produce are bullets fired from still-loaded guns

I'm fucked. I processed all my trauma in normal ways instead of ways that make me a good writer now I have nothing. Might as well write a story about a guy eating an apple. Fuuuuuck

Humans build things and care for each other. This is what we evolved to do. It's something we're driven biologically to do, and we feel bad when we don't do it. That bad feeling is every ancestor who survived through mutual aid burying every (not) ancestor who died from competition.

We build commons. Capitalism is a system that maximizes the extraction of value. Looting commons, be it land or water resources managed for generations, or a tradition of information sharing built up over generations, or systems of trust built up over decades, capitalism is a machine that turns shared wealth and shared costs into centralized wealth and externalized costs.

Capitalist markets are basically a genetic algorithm that uses wealth as a fitness function. One of the properties of these algorithms is that they will have side effects. Destroying commons is an unavoidable side effect. Every possible common will be destroyed until we choose a better algorithm on which to base our society.