Links!

[flamingsword]

For my Gifted / Intellectual / Creative Black folks, a community: https://www.ourwildminds.com/about from their About page

Why Black Gifted Adults Specifically?

Being a gifted or twice-exceptional member of one or more of these groups can be inherently challenging as it flies in the face of expectations placed on many of these social groups. To exhibit intellectual giftedness as a Black woman, for example, is to elicit confusion, derision, disbelief, amusement, suspicion, pathologization, and even rapt fascination — all of them dehumanizing and disorienting.

I learned of this community from this talk on giftedness here, via the AuDHD Flourishing podcast.

https://www.pocket-lint.com/amazon-kindle-download-feature/ - If you need to use a USB to move stuff on or off your Kindle, do it in the next few days? They are enshittifying the service and dropping that feature.

https://cbsky.app/profile/swizzard.pizza/post/3littag5dl22i - if you need a weird crossover that might make you giggle.

https://www.tumblr.com/toothsalad/775242139675377664/free-bulk-covid-tests please order 300 Covid tests and give them out to poor folks? The US stockpile is getting kinda … possibly shitcanned? But reports vary on whether the regime is caving to public pressure.

https://www.theroot.com/a-list-of-companies-that-continue-to-support-dei-1851755249 Unlike the parent company for the cowards who own Humble Bundle, some places have realized that Diversity Equity and Inclusion are strengths and not dangerous vulnerabilities the way bigots like to listen to their feelings about.

Let’s all give up on the practical world and install hidden book case doors? On second thought, these are like $1k, nevermind.

Hatshepsut’s brother’s tomb was found!

Cut for YouTube link:
The Gorge (2025) is a love story told in Hell, and apparently a really good creepy movie. https://youtu.be/spQcXFySdow?feature=shared

Comments

[minoanmiss]

I love that you called him Hatshepsut's brother. I really should have.

Also I must investigate that group for people who are formerly young gifted and Black. Thank you a lot for it.

[flamingsword]

The dude I heard about it from on the podcast, Sheldon Gay, was right that “gifted” as a term has so much fucking baggage, but like, if it takes one to know one, and I’m considered gifted … then you are too.