@AuthorMsBev

@AuthorMsBev

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Detroiter. Spartan. Writer. NAACP IMAGE AWARD nominee. Lifetime Achievement Award Romance Fiction. Slayer of Words.

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timesofindia.indiatimes.comIn 1856, a photographer captured a man whose identity was forgotten; after selling in 2025 as an unknown sitter, the portrait was traced to New York's first licensed Black lawyer and sold for $230,400A photograph that sold for just $882 at a New York auction last year has fetched $230,400 a year later after experts discovered the identity of the man pictured in it. The 170-year-old image, which ha...
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Thank you - especially for bated breath!

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We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

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Make an old school prof choke. Ask why Kate is described as being the color of a hazelnut in this passage from Taming of the Shrew. "O sland'rous world! Kate like the hazel-twig Is straight and slender, and as brown in hue As hazel-nuts, and sweeter than the kernels" I was such a menace.

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Wow! And the truth shall set you free.

Morgan Johnson@poormojo.bsky.social

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Finding him love is romance writer approved. He had me at Nina Simone.Carry on.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I love my strange little enclave. The chimney inspector came today. He is (a very single & attractive if anyone is looking) greek immigrant man; refused to charge me because flute is fine. He apologized for working on indigenous people day. “Do you know they almost wiped all the people out?!” 😂

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Carved by Native/Black sculptor Edmonia Lewis. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/arch...

timesofindia.indiatimes.comIn 1876, New York artist sculpted Cleopatra's death; 100 years later, the lost artwork was discovered while being used as a horse's gravestoneMany of history's most beloved works still remain lost to time. From books to sculptures and even paintings, all works of art that were adored in their day are now either destroyed or impossible to fi...