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Corey Alston, an American fifth generation sweetgrass weaver who owns Corey Alston Gullah Sweetgrass Baskets in Ladson, South Carolina, and a basket from his store.
“This art form, characterized by the use of sweetgrass, pine needles, bulrush, and palmetto, has been passed down through generations, with its roots tracing back to West Africa.”
May 27th, 8:48PM
Tuesday was unbearable, Wednesday was orders of magnitude worse.
I had a medical appointment that took most of the day and caused me to be so overstimulated I had a full autistic meltdown...and my landlord texted me 6 times about packing. I do not want to live anymore. However I don't have a plan. I hurt everywhere. The one thing is money and I can't earn it fast enough.
Yesterday a sherriff's vehicle drove by, didn't stop. It's unclear whether purposeful or coincidental but I've been in a panic ever since. I don't have another day in me. I just can't. Resources are a lie, they don't actually exist. I don't need suicide prevention wellness checks. I need money. I just need money. Offering therapy is not helpful for economic inequality and poverty. Homelessness is not a fucking mental illness.
I think I'm done.
I have no idea why I've been so lucky in postponing being evicted. My landlord just wants to be paid. He'll cancel as soon as I pay him. It's all he wants and I don't have the ability to move, no vehicle, can't drive, no place to go..
I Need Help! I don't expect 1 person to be able and fix the situation but every sale gets me closer. I only have $5,000 out of the $15,800. I have to hope because I don't have another option.
Venmo-Kate-Havekost
I only had until midnight and I didn't make it. I have nowhere near enough. I accidentally fell asleep. If I can send the money, I don't think he'll refuse it. Tumblr night owls, I'll discount, I'll 2 for one, if you just help me remain housed.
The anonymous inbox stalker appears to back and once again severing my lifelines. Finding other housing has proved impossible within the time frame. I'm completely terrified.
I have been given until Friday, May 22nd to make a catch up payment! Perhaps I have not completely depleted my luck. I still have to make enough from sales to make the payment. My options are pay $15,500 or be homeless. Be homeless isn't really a viable option, so I have to pay. I'm alone in the world, so my only chance is to rely upon strangers who appreciate my art enough to consider it worthwhile to save me.
I received half of a miracle, in that my landlord agreed to abandon the eviction if I brought rent current. The other half of the miracle hasn't come together. I haven't made enough sales to cover it. I'm scared the antisemitic anon troll is back. I don't anywhere else to go. I don't have family, I don't have close friends. I'm trying to navigate several difficult situations as best as I can, and I'm doing it on my own.
I can't lose my housing. I'd rather be dead than be homeless again.
Hopeful Update: I spoke to my landlord. He agreed to call off the eviction and let me stay if I pay the back rent immediately. If you could help do that I'd be eternally grateful.
IN DESPERATE NEED OF HELP!!! Please I need help now!
THE SHERIFF CAME ON MAY 1ST TO NOTIFY ME My LANDLORD OBTAINED A WRIT OF RESTITUTION. THE SHERIFF COULD BE BACK ANY DAY. I HAVE NOWHERE TO GO, NO ONE WHO WILL HELP. A DECADE OF MY ART IN A LANDFILL. MY SOLE CHANCE IS TO PAY THE OVERDUE RENT AND OFFER SOME CUSHION BY PREPAYING A MONTH OR TWO. HE DOESN'T HATE ME, HE'S JUST TERRIFIED ABOUT PAYING FOR TWO KIDS IN COLLEGE.
I have nowhere else to go. I don't have family. I don't have the kind of friend who'd give me a room or let me stay with them. I don't have time to find a place mid-month. . I've tried to maintain hope, but now at three in the morning I despair. It would seem I have used all my luck, all of my miracles. My hope has withered. The waves are two strong to keep my head above water.
Please Boost, Buy, Donate, Please!!! Help an Autistic Artist remain in a community with necessary support for her.
The process has played out. All the hearings have occurred. I pay or the sheriff moves me out! I don't have another option. There is no other housing available to me.
Nothing is working! I can't raise any money, or make sales.If you are able please, please help me keep my housing.I don't have any other options than to make it work.
Please if you are able, support me and my independent woman owned gallery so I may continue to have a safe place to make my art. Thank you in advance.
Get yourself something really nice (and help an autistic, grieving artist keep my housing.). Commissions available. Help me be okay during this period of enormous precariousness. Thank You!!!
Sales stagnated but I have to make so many sales to pay my landlord and stay HOUSED.
Please help me keep my housing!
Venmo Kate-Havekost.
Ancestral Mood Board
The Tuareg
The Tuareg are a nomadic Berber ethnic group of roughly 4 to 5 million people who inhabit the Sahara Desert, primarily spanning Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya, and Burkina Faso. Known as the "Blue Men of the Sahara" due to their traditional indigo-dyed clothing, they have a rich culture and a long history of desert trade.
I share these things because I want to pull out the thorn out of the back of our people. The thorn that was placed in through slavery.
I want to remind our people that we are more than slaves. That we existed thousands of years before as a pretty cool people. A people who were in sync with the outside world, a people who knew peace, calm, compassion, the unity of a community, and love. But, also, we were an imperfect people in the past.
I would like for us to continue to research and find wholesome inspirations from the peoples of Africa. I would like for us to finally lay to rest our anger and vengeance from our time in slavery, so we may gain the freedom to finally live in peace and unity as a people.
Let us not let our anger and our rage continue to rule our lives.
We, as black people, have been fed that it is Black vs. White. However, I would like to argue that we exist more than Black people. We exist as a complex people with a rich, beautiful history. We have the permission to live peaceful, fulfilling lives.
We have the permission to forgive the wrongs of the past, so we may live in harmony with others.
Once the lenses that America has fed us is dismantled, you'll see the world is a lot more kinder, compassionate, and nicer than you were told.
Go beyond your walls and you'll see it for yourself.
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If you cannot pay for a Bible, I will send you one if I'm able to (currently only shipping in the USA). I only have English Bibles available currently, but I will update the form once I can get them in other languages. Since I get them from thrift stores and similar places, they are all used but in decent condition. My stock is also limited so you may not get one very quickly, but I will do my best to get one to you as soon as possible.
The System
There is the city then the city walls... Then there is everything else.
The system has been made so a select few do not have to work. For that to happen, the work has to be offsetted to someone else.
This works best in the city, where there is an excess of people.
Let's say you're a noble who wants to rule, you would need the time to rule. So you would offset child raising to nannies, cooking to cooks, tailoring to tailors, driving to chauffeurs, planning to assistants, speech writing to ghost writers, the running of the house to maids etc.
If a person were to take full responsibility for the requirements it takes to live a life, they would have no time to rule. They would live the life of a humble small time homesteader.
But if everyone else is busy taking care of you, who takes care of their needs? Who would grow the crops necessary to eat, who would make their clothes, who would take care of their children, make their homes, etc?
Well, as the noble you have three choices.
Give them back the time necessary to do that, (which then leaves you alone to take care of yourself and no time/energy left to rule)
Provide those things for them yourself (again, no time/energy left to rule) or...
Offset it to someone else.
The noble wants to rule so someone else then becomes the farmer for everyone, someone else becomes the child caretaker for the village, someone else becomes the tailor, someone else becomes the chef etc.
Instead of small farms we now plant acres to take care of a city that can no longer can take care of themselves. Schools are used to train the next generation to be the next workers for their system. Fast food chains keep them fed, and varying quality of goods incentivizes people to serve the system.
Those who are willing to do the most evil for the system most directly (to keep it going) or manipulate it to their advantage will benefit the most financially. (military personnel, war profiteers, tech oligarchs, politicians etc.) Those finances translate to better options in the city. If you scratch my back I'll scratch yours.
So, let's say you lived in a city your whole life and you realized you don't want to be a part of this anymore. You want to take care of yourself and your family, so you step out.
Well, you come to realize you were never taught how to actually live. You were only taught how to serve the system.
You don't know how to grow your own food, how to gather your own water, how to feed your flock, how to build your home, how to stay warm in the winter without electricity etc.
In the system you're an adult. Outside of it you're still a child.
And, eventually, you come to realize that it's not as complicated as it's depicted.
Firewood can be burnt to keep you warm, water is freer than you think, farming for a family is much easier than you'd think, and you don't need the system as much as you thought.
The world outside the system is not that scary, in fact it's beautiful. The longer you stay out, the more frivolous it starts to seem. You realize you are more rewarded for being kind and giving outside the city walls, that it's cheaper in the long run, and you're missing out on so much that life has to give.
Turn the TV off, there's a whole world out there.
How to spot a psyop
A PSYOP (Psychological Operation) is a military or political tactic using communication to influence the emotions, motives, reasoning, and behavior of foreign audiences (governments, organizations, or individuals) to support specific objectives, often involving propaganda, misinformation, or strategic messaging via media like leaflets, radio, or social media to gain advantages or sow discord.
Essentially, it's media published by the elite to manipulate people to:
Divide rather than collaborate with each other
And to
React rather than listen to each other
They will feed snippets of the whole story in a very reactionary format to encourage more emotion rather then a well-thought out response.
It is our responsibility to wade through them towards the truth (which is often hidden in hours of research), so we are no longer controlled actively by these means.
Then you come to find out:
White people are not that racist. In fact, they're just as weary of you as you are of them. They too were controlled through psyops. Think of how black people are portrayed through media.
Republicans are not vengeful, hateful, idiots... They're people struggling just like you and me. They are voting for the party that they feel hears them the most. Many of them are the everyday worker.
We need to hear them out so sway them from the Republicans. We need to be more loving and understanding.
Let's understand why the farmer is worried about the price of corn, or why the coal miner is worried about the mine closing.
Let's work together in love.
The news is a disingenuous method to learn about what's happening. Listen to the full interview on your own time, read the bill. You'll come to find out that the issue is much more nuanced than the news will communicate.
But lastly,
Division is false.
Cooperation, love, and understanding is key.
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Sources of psyops
CNN
Fox News
Channel 5 (on YouTube)
God bless, have a nice day!
Division is false.
The Republican voter-base are people just like you. People worried about their next paycheck, people worried about their family's well-being.
The Republican party are people just like you. People worried about their day-to-day, people who have dreams, people who hurt.
All puppeteered in an elaborate circus to continue this charade.
This continues through division, through 'othering', through hate.
We have to sit and listen to each other. We need to listen to our farmers, our steel workers, our coal miners, our oil workers etc. The everyday man.
Rather than shaming them, we have to ask them, honestly and conpassionately
"So, why did vote for the Republican party?"
"They promised that my farm will be fine, so I can continue to feed my family"
"They promised that the steel factories won't close like they did in Detroit, so I won't become homeless."
"They promised for more job opportunities in Appalachia, so I'm no longer forced to be down the coal mines."
Once we listen, we now know what we have to do. We can heal together, work together, and move together into a better future.
We can acknowledge the needs of the majority of America who often go unheard, who go towards the only solution they see for help.
We can finally work with them, with pure intentions, so that they no longer turn toward evil to solve their crises.
Superbowl is a psyop.
They know that we're numerous in numbers. They fear that we will organize and overthrow the system.
A pissed off population becomes an uncontrollable one.
So they control us through fear and, more specifically, by giving us a way to vent our frustrations.
Like the colosseums of Rome.
We vent our feelings of frustration through Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny's performances on a large scale. It's like bursting a pus-filled pimple. The rage of the people are placated for a moment.
Just enough so it won't tip over. Just enough to buy more time so they can continue the horrors they want to accomplish.
And, maybe, they may use these performances as a performance itself, to prop up the next false-hero of the people.
HEK-293 is a popular cell line.
It's almost 2026 and I have some Bible verses for you
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Isaiah 43:18-19 - “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Revelation 21:5 - And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Ephesians 4:22-24 - To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
I like to reflect on Jesus' resurrection.
In that, the more I learn about the evils of this world... The fact they love to defy God, kill His truth tellers, and plan/execute the most vile things possible.
These forces came together to try and kill righteousness from this world. The pagans tried to strike down the clarity through the rough patches, the goodness in the midst of secrecy.
After 3 days, Jesus rose up. A bold message, which says, "No matter what you plan, evil will never overcome righteousness."
Like, "Go ahead and plan what you plan, but it will fail."
The evils of this world are the moderators, but God is ultimately the admin.
This song includes lyrics about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 😌✨
Black Hair-Care 101
Lets start, do your own hair!
If you do your own hair, you will learn what's best for it and thus treat it the best. When others do your hair, they are not as invested in your hair's health as you are (unless they are a loving family member or someone who has a very good heart).
They'll be more focused on outcome and are therefore more likely to damage your hair.
The only ones who will be 100% invested in your hair is God and you.
You also need to shift your focus from looks to health. Don't kill your hair to look beautiful. Take care of your hair as if it is sacred and it will, in time, take care of you by beautifying you.
Love your hair and it will love you back.
Our natural hair is as fine as silk and is meant to adorn us. Treat it as such.
First Step: Proper Detangling
I first use my fingers to delicately loosen my hair because hair will break at the slightest pull. The key to longer hair is to keep the hair already on your head.
I also apply castor oil on my hair during detangling as well as for hair care after shampooing. It doesn't have the best smell, but the slip of that oil is amazing. My hair will just slip through knots even as I style through out the week.
If I encounter a tough knot, I apply a little castor oil on the knot then pull the knot out lightly. The knot will usually just unravel with the pull.
Your hair is like a flower, you have to treat it gently or it will fall apart.
After detangling, I like to treat my scalp before washing it with the body wash below (Tea tree is a mightily anti-fungal). In Trader Joes itself it's about $4.
Scalp health is very important, your hair grows from it!
I then use castile soap to wash my hair. With a little, that soap will go a long way. It will cleanse your hair supremely. I wash it many times until I can no longer feel oil on my hair and scalp. You want to make sure to clean old products off so your hair will have a fresh start for the new week! :)
Then, for my conditioner, I use the product below (the slip with this product is insane). I personally like to detangle before I wash my hair to make it easier to detangle during the conditioner stage.
Shampoo retangles the hair, so I apply a few pumps to my hair as a whole to help with slip. I then separate my hair into sections, then add additional conditioner to each section (a little goes a long way!).
I then use a comb (a wide toothed comb) to realign my hair strands. At this stage, the point is not to detangle, it is to realign your hair. Once it is aligned, it will be easy to separate into sections and style for the week.
Second Step: Use the Proper Comb
Combs styled like the one above have been a life-saver for my hair.
If you put enough slip in your hair (oil is great to add slip!), this comb will glide through your hair. This is because of its wider tooth gaps, which allows for curls to slip through. I learned that with our hair, the point isn't to 100% detangle it. It's more to realign the hair strands into one direction.
Once you get into that mindset, you'll lose much less hair.
Third Step: Put Your Hair Away When You Sleep
After you have adorned your hair with a style for the day, please put it away.
Please tuck your ends in to protect them (they are the oldest thus weakest part of your hair) and do large twists. The larger your twists, the less intertwined your hair will be. This helps to prevent retangling. Meaning, it will more easily detangled and thus cause less damage to your hair.
You don't want to comb your hair during the week.
You want to treat your hair like its fragile silk, not tough rope.
Baby it.
Nowadays, I do a rough version of the hairstyle above for my daytime wear. It's a style that makes my hair much more managable for hair styling.
If I did not twist my hair for the week, I tuck my ends into my roots at night.
So it looks like the image above at night.
In the morning, I unwrap my twists then redo them so it will look neat. If it's not in twists, I use my wide-toothed comb to gently tease the hair out of the night-knots. (Don't detangle, just tease it out. Remember, it doesn't need to be 100% detangled, just aligned)
When its time to wash, I detangle it as I have described in Step Uno. The less you comb your hair, the less hair you lose.
Do this over months and you'll wake up one day with a head full of poofy hair!
Fourth Step: Now that you have an abundance of hair, find elegant hairstyles that are easy and elegant.
Here's your reward for taking care of your hair:
You can now use your hair for beautiful hairstyles!
Don't be afraid to adorn your hair with accessories! Dress your hair with love <3
When styling, you want to treat your hair as gentle as when you detangle. I found that if I tussle and pull at my hair to style it, I will lose hair.
Nowadays, I gently part and maneuver my hair. It feels slower, but tangles are less likely to occur. The harder you tug at your hair, the more likely it will tangle. If you pull gently, it will slip through.
The goal is to hear no snaps/pops as you style. Treat your hair as gently as possible, as if you're arranging flowers in a vase. When you touch a flower's petals, you touch them gently so none will fall.
Same with your hair. Take your time and you'll be finished faster than you thought. If the style doesn't work out, breathe in, then out, then try again.
It takes practice and lots of love :)
Listen if white people can love their hair, we can too. If they can dress their hair with love, we. can. too.
Happy Wash Day everyone!
God is with us! Shalom!
Unity in the Black Community
Jamaica's Aluminum Deposits Are Owned by Foreigners
Example Uno
Example Dos
Andrew Michelmore, CEO of Century Aluminum Company
Example Tres
Example Cuatro
Jamaica, thankfully, still owns some facilities. However, it is a very concerning trend that foreigners tend to own our resources.
The profit from selling our resources would bring in the necessary income we need to invest into our nation's people.
If foreigners have ownership, we only see a fraction of the profits they receive.
We are being robbed.
We are not poor, we are being robbed.
God is with us! Shalom!
Unity in the Black Community
WE. ARE. JUDEA.
1) Tribes in Kenya have traditionally circumcised for generations
The example below is from the Masai people
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FYI: Kenya is south of Egypt and Israel. Meaning they're close-ish to a lot of Biblical narratives.
Circumcision is a significant sign of a covenant with Yahuah.
2) The Meru people (also from Kenya) have an oral historical account that tells of them crossing the Red Sea BY A MAN DIVIDING THE WATER
BY STRIKING IT
WITH A STAFF.
THATS OBVIOUSLY MOSES.
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3) THE EUROPEANS HAVE BEEN BAMBOOZLING US.
UTTERLY BAMBOOZLING US.
They've been hiding this information from us because we would know that Exodus and Joel is VERY applicable to us.
Don't you think it's weird that they never encourage Exodus or Joel readings in popular Christian outlets?
So here we are Yahuah's people... lost, drunk, and afraid... Forgetting our strength and integrity.
It's time we gird our loins.
Like the song below alludes to, we're still slaves (chains clanging to the sound of an army march)
They never freed us, they only gave us the illusion of freedom.
The army for many black men is servitude. They don't tell you the good positions in the army is locked behind bachelor degrees BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
WE'RE MEANT TO BE THE FODDER.
Let's be so for real, how are we ever going to be free in America? In this current system?
We are systematically enslaved.
The education system purposely ensures that this system self-perpetuates. The castle is on our people's shoulders, and they give us the illusion that we are choosing to uphold it
No, we are not. We didn't choose to be sold from our homeland, we didn't choose to be enslaved all around the world, and we did not choose to be the backbone of America.
We were brutally forced to, and we are practically corralled to today.
We are the foot soldiers of America, we are the servants, and we are the cogs.
Cogs blinded to the fact that we don't have to be cogs, neither do our children.
We can lead ourselves as Yahuah's people.
Unity in the Black Community
Introducing: The Griot
A king with his griot (each king had a griot)
Shalom!
Yahuah is with us!
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Ancestry Moodbood
Chic, classy, and elegant ✊🏾✨
1) ??? 2) Mandika woman (The Gambia) 3) Fulani woman (Niger) 4) Sudanese woman 5) & 6) Zulu women (South Africans) 7) Burundi woman (Rwanda)
