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troyal.bsky.social
Cali expatriate, proud tall person, root beer enthusiast, aspiring creative.
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submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Always look to see what the tech bros want for their own kids: small class sizes with human teachers, human tutors with expert content knowledge, cell phone restrictions in classrooms, high per pupil spending, the arts and humanities--and much more they say is too costly for public schools.

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

Everyone draws a picture. And okra-less gumbo and garlic bread with Faygo Redpop.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

One FULLY INTENDED effect of transphobia is to remove Black and other racialized women from the category of "women" and restrict womanhood to cis white conventionally attractive women who can bear children. It's all part of a white supremacist project.

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

Capitalists always willing to pay for war, but never to feed the poor.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

I found a collection of screenshots I had taken of web pages around 97-2002; with their Flash intros and table layouts, and I'm just really wowed that this is where we were. Domain names which are long gone, by pioneers of web design with tools long antiquated. I should post these somewhere.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I wholeheartedly recommend the current Art Institute of Chicago's featured exhibit Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica. Writing thoughts on it on my bloggy-thing. www.artic.edu/exhibitions/...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Two Point Museum is cute, fun, and a great distraction from political bullshit.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

"VotE bLUe nO maTtER WHo"

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Exactly. Trans ppl are considered a “safe“ target, now that nearly 10% of the population identifies as queer, meaning just about everybody knows a gay person and is less vulnerable to propaganda about them. Trans people, on the other hand, are maybe 1 or 2% of the US population.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

"Lethargically"? The "assholes with asshole takes" train is out the station.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

I am vibrating with happy right now.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Group chat with my CPT people LIT right now.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This what happens when you step to Compton.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The way the Chron has embraced far right wreckers and decided to not have a stance on the intentional defunding and disbanding of higher education is a great example of how editorial cowardice enables fascist destruction. It’s really embarrassing for them and I’d be embarrassed to write there.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning to my fellow Comptonite Kendrick, and even though the Grammys are bullshit, you are still the people's champ.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

How do we pickup where we left off? How do we even know where we left off?

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

The funeral is over, the well-wishers gone, the flowers are smelling up my living room. What now? How does one pick up the life they were living after so long being in pause mode?

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

bob hope understood something a lot of people still can't reconcile: apologizing is actually really easy and you can do it as much as you want

submitted 57 days ago • 74 comments

like idk what to tell you. if you watched the republican party attempt a coup and you still believe in legality over morality and decorum over principle and the power of democracy you're a fool and a coward

submitted 65 days ago • 15 comments

when a nazi dies

submitted 65 days ago • 63 comments

In the midst of Chicago budget politics, I heard someone say "years ago, the budget was 11 billion. Now its 17 billion! We cant have that!" Asshole, years ago, I could get good 25 cent wings. They don't exist anymore. You gonna come live wit us in reality, or no?

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Just starting Cyberpunk 2077 and this is a LOT going on. I'm almost afraid of it.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Troll in your comments? There’s a method to their assholery. Block immediately. Don’t help them. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

submitted 107 days ago • 21 comments

Be careful with these block lists, people. Don't be a tool of someone's assholishness/petty.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

The abuser/victim parallels really are astonishing, after you first notice them.

submitted 109 days ago • 8 comments

when slave owners "taught" the bible to black people, they literally cut out all references to the possibility of emancipation

submitted 110 days ago • 6 comments

"Hey y'all this party is fun and we're having a great time and making memories we'll treasure for years to come, but why didn't you invite anyone who fucking hates us all?? Kinda sus"

submitted 111 days ago • 8 comments

EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE HORRIBLE. *puts on old school hip-hop* FUCK IT WE BALL *aggressive head nod*

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

If you're ramping up indie media subscriptions post-election, IMO the most essential newsroom you can fund is Capital B, for actual on-the-ground reporting from and with Black communities. You just won't read stuff like this post-election piece from @aallyahpatrice.bsky.social anywhere else.

submitted 115 days ago • 6 comments

Waited for Ohio State football to be here in Chicago. I know a lot of Ohioans love them, though.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Motherfuck these people, and anyone down with them.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Good lord, I haven't logged on here since June, and this spot is JUMPING.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

I am drooling blood, thanks to dental surgery last week. As you were, Bluesky.

submitted 318 days ago • 0 comments

Exhausting weekend. Something about putting someone in the ground that is somehow more final than the wake.

submitted 325 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to do ALL THE THINGS and throw away ALL THE THINGS and not obsess over ALL THE THINGS.

submitted 343 days ago • 0 comments

All it takes is a couple days of going through your estranged, dementia-affected father's stuff to change your WHOLE OUTLOOK on life.

submitted 343 days ago • 0 comments

Bad eye day.

submitted 345 days ago • 0 comments