Play the game
https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/273-moyosaa-of-the-msinche-series-the-heartbeats-game/
some screenshots of results
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/7215-msinche-photos-or-videos-of-being-played/?do=findComment&comment=43884
 

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Title: Around The First Flail
Artist: RIchard Murray
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1165312210the following is part of the poem linked above for The Voice of Valentine Contest entry
Title: The End of the First Flail
On our way home
cover'd in foam
The moon alone see
we whisper lolli
Always eterno couth
the grasp between us booth
The rest the night do blanket
Yes!
 
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ask an author from Serendipity Literary Agency presented by Regina Brooks
Question to Donna Oriowo [ DRINK WATER AND MIND YOUR BUSINESS, will be released on May 13th, 2025 ( https://bookshop.org/p/books/feelin-myself-healing-self-esteem-for-black-women-donna-oriowo/21263397?ean=9781728281513&next=t&affiliate=10902 )]:  who she dedicated her book to and why!
Answer: It is easy to dedicate and not think about it, but i definitely thought about it. So I did a three part dedication.  Part 1 was a quote. I am a girl who loves quotes. I love African proverbs. I feel like they mean something different to each of us. And for me the one that I chose was, don't expect to be healthy when your oppressor is feeding you. And for me the oppressor in this situation depends on who is oppressing you. yes, because I am thinking about the isms in life , colorism, texturism, racism, sexism, et cetera. And, how there are power dynamics there. But when I think of the people who are doing the oppressing. I think yes, of supremacy culture. But not just white supremacy, male supremacy, heterosexist supremacy, et cetera. So really, if you can identify one then this book is for you. Number two , to black women, my first loves, not just because I am a black woman, but because I came from a black woman, because my mother created other black women, and there was an entire village of black women behind me supporting me while I was writing this project, while I was conceptualizing this project and I will be remiss if I didn't say something. And my third dedication, well that one , I want them to read on their own and know that I thought of them. anyway, that is a little about who I dedicated to and why.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/regina-brooks_welcome-to-the-next-installment-of-ask-an-activity-7296181915571609600-nRBw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAC9jwHcBhMdyfurNH2JmdlAPjJgXHivmWR8

 
 

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https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Preto-Liberdade-Wishing-Well-1304264153
 
 
Preto Liberdade Wishing Well
The Wishing Well in Preto Liberdade. You can see the hotel where a couple with a time traveling element had a fateful dinner. The grand Elevador Oshun, curling about the elevation of the island; it is covered in copper. It has graffiti on the side representing Krapa Musuyidee as a coin of cleansing from the ancestors plus the honey blood of Oshun which spells luck. A woman bakes a pie and a man flies a paper airplane. An art work representing the mermaid of the well hangs on a wall. What will the plane write in the sky?
 
for the Wishing Wells challenge in @color-me-club
?coming march 1st
Inspired by the following
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/A-JOURNEY-TO-A-FIRST-TIME-1015930061
related illustration
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/New-Chapter-image-1015927848
Inks Gallery
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/47013691/comic-coloring-pages
If you like my work, I do coloring page commissions
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Single-Coloring-Page-1732448
Literature Gallery
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81311721/my-tales-or-poetry
Stageplay Gallery
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/87407046/the-theater
Jiausiku
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/90812819/jiausiku-2024
Tip Jar, it is always a season to tip
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076
 
NOTES:
About Wishing Wells
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishing_well
Elevador Lacerda created in the 1800s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevador_Lacerda
Bailong Elevator tallest elevator in the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailong_Elevator
Adinkira symbols
https://www.adinkrasymbols.org/#gsc.tab=0
braille
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille
 
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https://www.tumblr.com/richardmurrayhumblr/809821403446722560/alien-queen77s-oc-deimyns-morning-blossom-by  
https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/809821456024371200?source=share
 
Breakout singer from the Babur Tribe and the Regina Rabble Regina Rabble are my OC's On thumb Piano, the Hopping Twins. On Banjo, Ser Slim. In the bowl horn, Loverpuff the seventh.
Scene: A singer from the Babur Tribe is singing the theme song from the old stage hit, Which Sun Is Fun, she was invited to sing by the Regina Rabble who give new female singers a chance to shine. The club is empty as it is very late at night. Saddletear is flying home. But, Wise Alek loves this new girls singing so much he wants to hop over her head. Edubrer, ever the good guy, is staying with Alek to make sure he gets home safe:)
Coloring page- with either or you can place your image.
USE LINK ABOVE
Notes to the Scene Rabble means pack of nonhumans Regina is female form of Rex which menns of a queen The bowl horn uses a special horn which allows the sound, resonating in the bowl in its water to emit through. Loverpuff plays a shakare on the sand. Male rabbits hop over female rabbits head as a sign of mating. If the female rabbit doesn't jump herself it is a sign she accepts.
 
Challenge and referral fake collab comic (draw any character from my blog in your style) from @banzaboiieatskilishi https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/806921846778937344?source=share
I choose this , Babur Tribe, an OC of @banzaboiieatskilishi https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/808176317121118208?source=share
tribeoftheday link
https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler?tab=recent&tagged=tribeoftheday
 
NOTES
to heritages/instruments/characters: video of Babur Tribe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwQkL5ohqYg
"Which Sun Is Fun" the stageplay https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/WHICH-SUN-IS-FUN-1140924741
Edubrer Rabbit https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=edubrer
Phillipe Saddletear https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=saddletear
Wise Alek https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=wise+alek
early banjo https://banjoroots.blogspot.com/2011/05/stedman-creole-bania-look-at-worlds.html
instruments https://slaveryimages.org/database/image-result.php?objectid=273
"Musical Instruments of the African Negroes [of Suriname]." From John Gabriel Stedman's - pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41849012.pdf
white spotted pufferfish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pufferfish_mating_ritual
 
PRIOR CHALLENGES OF Black Artist of Tumblr
Sexy Black Mermaid https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/781817515543298048/draw-this-in-your-style-lmao?source=share
Mermaid + Merman https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/782958066220023808/concurrently-from-aquasonic?source=share
for DTIYS mermaid challenge from @nostalgicmermaaiid https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/779508689140875264?source=share
 
Deimyn's Morning Blossom https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/788516389145182208/alien-queen77s-oc-deimyns-morning-blossom-by?source=share
Alien-queen77's OC Deimyn's Morning Blossom by RichardMurrayHumblr
Deimyn's Morning Blossom Colored page DTIYS Challenge page Coloring page I figured Deimyn wakes up in the early morning in her conquerin
Tumblr
for the DTIYS challenge @alien-queen77 https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/784824878525251584?source=share
 
Goodbye Skype from @richardmurrayhumblr side @outsidethebeautybox https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/782953486245576704/chili-skype-goodbye-chili-is-from?source=share
Goodbye Skype
Chili Skype Goodbye Chili is from @outsidethebeautybox Chili is holding his skype pillow for late night skype sessions and watching his sky
Tumblr
for Goodbye SKype Art Trade from @richardmurrayhumblr https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/778766776139923456/goodbye-skype-art-trade?source=share
 
 
#blackartistoftumblr#banzaboiieatskilishi#richardmurrayhumblr#tumblr#hddeviant#deviantart#richardmurray#rmaalbc#aalbc#kobo#kwl#dtiys#alien-queen77#outsidethebeautybox#nostalgicmermaaiid
 
 
 

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WHO ARE THE BLACK TRIBES?
 
Pioneer has a post
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12557-my-tribe-vs-yo-tribe/
 
MY COMMENT
Posted just now
  
@Pioneer1
 Ending black history month with thoughtfulness:) hope #black327 is very eventful 
 
I have confused you. 
Black Americans is the root, these are all black peoples in the usa, gardless of ancestry, language, religion, this is all about the skin. 
Black Americans in the USA today is composed of two main groups, populaces not tribes. 
Black DOSers- descended of enslaved black folk which also includes those who willingly immigrated into the usa before the 1960s,  like MArcus Garvey for example
+ 
Black modern immigrants - black people who willingly immigrated to the usa when Blacks achieved in the USA complete legal federal recognition which was with the Civil Rights Act of  immigration act of 1964 and who came after the immigration act of 1965.  Yes, black people did freely immigrate into the USA before 1964 or 1965 but before then the federal legal rights of Black people in the usa were simply not in any way even to whites. Now states laws would take time to change but by the end of the jim crow era, 1980, they did. 
Black Modern immigrants tribes are based on the countries they come from: jamaican/panamanian/south african/nigerian/indian/brasilian either their country is majority black and so they come from a tribe in their country of their country has a name for the black minority. 
Black DOSers have three tribes from the creation of the USA  and none are based on geography , all are based on a philosophy toward the usa or the whites in it. 
Black Statians are black people who embrace the USA as their home, gardless of whites activity, gardless of the historic reality, gardless of most black peoples views towards the usa or the whites in it. . James Forten for example. WAs a businessman, fought for the USA, was a prisoner of war, and all of this is while over 90% of black people in the colonies were completely enslaved, and most who got freedom fought against the USA, yet he held firm. Black Statians are not about being in the majority, it is about the usa as their home , gardless of anything else. 
Black Militants - I want to say a caveat, militancy is really about wanting to go to war. But Black Militants are really about trust. Black Militants don't trust/will never trust the usa or whites of the usa and want the earned revenge. Now the earliest black militants fought for the english, whites, not because they trust whites, but because they distrust white statians the most, and want revenge. 
Black Freefolk- I use this term because, what many people don't seem to comprehend is when the USA was founded, over ninety percent of black people were enslaved to whites. What does that mean? That means when the USA was founded over ninety percent of blacks, had no allegiance or caring for the USA or for whites, so they weren't statians, even though many of them them or most their lineage would only know the usa as a home, it had no connection to them. But they weren't militants. Yes, they hated whites but they didn't want revenge, they only wanted away from whites. All they wanted was to be as far away from the colonies or the later USA or white people as possible. In them you find the back to africa movement, which at is heart to trying to get black people as far away from whites or the usa. Their influence is what made in combination side black statians the exoduster movement, which at its heart is an agreement between black statians + black freefolk. Essentially, one group says they embrace the usa, the other group says, they want as far away from the usa or the whites in it. So the middle ground is places as far away from whites in the usa. The problem is, white people historically, don't like black people to be undisturbed by whites wherever we live. whether an urban black region or a black town, whites have a heritage of negative meddling with blacks. Another subtribe for the the black freefolk are those Leaving the USA [which for the record always goes on among black DOSers every year, yes it has never bee n a majority act but people forget whites historically hated black people who spoke of leaving the usa. From most whites perspectives, histoorically, they wanted black people to embrace being enslaved as a positive, for white financial betterment... ]. Another subtribe are black individualism. It makes sense to me. how Black people descended from enslaved people who had nothing to do with the creation of the usa and were descended from people who wanted nothing to do with the usa or the white people in it would see themselves as individuals. Embracing a hard truth that, the usa is nothing to them , but since fate has placed them here, they just live, not because they are comfortable or love whites, but simply because like the ninety percent of our forebears enslaved in the usa when it was founded , they have no where to go or nothing to be apart communally. The slave quarter isn't a communal zone, it is pig pen for humans, so if the usa is merely  a huge pig pen in a black person's mind, they why should they think communally. 

For me, I don't know either of you well enough to be sure of anything . But based on communications in this forum, I think, cynique like yourself are Black Statians, the tribe in the populace of Black DOSers.   Both of you embrace the USA. 
You pioneer seem to have an exoduster mentality. You embrace the usa, part of you loves it. But what you want for its future is black solidarity + safety in the usa, not as indiivduals in a hyper mixed brew but in specific locals. It isn't impossible, to reach what you want. Nothing is easy. 
Cynique it seems, has a James Forten philosophy. She embraces not only the usa but the idea its white enslaving founders suggested , a country of humans, individuals who embrace the idea that each individual should be treated equally. Frederick Douglass/MLK jr/Barrack Obama all live their lives with this idea, started from James Forten's or similars example. Arguably, Black Statians like Cynique are closest to achieving their goal. because Black Statians like her were by default most willing to work with whites, they benefited them in the usa, where whites only started allowing the majority of the black populace equal status, 1980. to be blunt, if you aren't willing to work with whites pre 1980, while you live in the usa, you essentially have nothing. As black DOSers forebears were enslaved so they could provide no fiscal inheritance and as all know, over ninety percent of wealth in the usa is inheritance.  Very few whites are willing to work with blacks who want away. Yes, Back to Africa movements occurred in the usa , but their white financiers were never representing a majority of whites. 
So, For me, both of you are Black Statians. 
 
The key for you to comprehend is Black DOSers relationship to the usa is historically not financial, it is pure philosophy, or vendetta based. This is why Black Modern Immigrants fit in so well with the USA, because their relationship is like all non blacks who aren't indigenous. It is, a financial desire to make money, to be better off. But, Black DOSers didn't originally have that desire, and even in 1865, when the enslavement era ends and jim crow begins. Black DOSers didn't come into the Jim Crow era thinking I want to be apart of the USA. Black Freefolk historically had to be convinced of the merit of the USA which many Black Statians have always had problems with ., ala the similarity of Frederick Douglass/MLK jr/ Barrack Obama who arguably all spent the latter years of their most potent time disliked by most Black DOSErs. Which makes sense, because Black Statians by default, embrace the usa no matter what. So faced with Black people with the same experiences who don't accept it at all, or who need convincing when whites make that nearly impossible, outside of faith based, it becomes a natural divide no bridge can cross. 
 
Citation
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12557-my-tribe-vs-yo-tribe/#findComment-80451
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Citation
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12557-my-tribe-vs-yo-tribe/#findComment-80496
 
osted just now
@frankster 
what you speak is what James Forten/ Frederick Douglass/ MLK jr/Barrck Obama said in more words or more eloquently or in how they lived their life. 
But their lives prove that other humans are not always in concurrence to that standing. and that is my point. I don't speak of tribes because it is the most positive plus effective end, the most effective end for humans is to treat all life on earth with the same love or consideration each human will want to themselves, but that isn't how humanity operates. 
 
@aka Contrarian
yes, i think that in the population of the usa is already brewing a people who will functionalize your way [or at least try to] , the way many other black people in the usa today adhere to, what the raping slaver thomas jefferson wrote, what black people like james forten/frederick douglass/mlk jr lived their entire lives fighting for even when most black people opposed them. what barrack obama tried to uphold even though the needs of the usa in the immediate term warranted another way. 
 

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Opening for the Boone theatre from the Black Movie HAll of Fame 
100 black films list from the Black Movie Hall of Fame
https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/451-the-problem-with-list-black-100-films-from-the-black-movie-hall-of-fame/

 
Boone Theater
https://www.boonetheaterkc.com/
 
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What is your favorite Black theater growing up?
Name names:) if none , say none
 
url
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12561-what-is-your-favorite-black-theater-growing-up/
 
@aka Contrarian reply
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12561-what-is-your-favorite-black-theater-growing-up/#findComment-80460
@Chevdove reply
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12561-what-is-your-favorite-black-theater-growing-up/#findComment-80467
@Pioneer1 reply
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12561-what-is-your-favorite-black-theater-growing-up/#findComment-80475
 
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Citation
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12561-what-is-your-favorite-black-theater-growing-up/#findComment-80499
 
osted just now
Common ground achieved, arguably my most positively responsed post. I am very happy:) 
thank you again @aka Contrarian @Chevdove @Pioneer1
 
beautiful memories from you all:) thank you for sharing. 
 

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Of computers, fiscal quality and nonfinancial revenues....
 
Computers
I saw the following from Ann Michelle Thurmond
 
𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 | 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Last week’s Legal Tech post explored how acceleration exposes structural gaps that were easier to ignore at slower speeds. This week, I want to stay with that thread; because in many organizations, the first visible symptom isn’t failure. It’s workaround behavior. In my experience working across projects where timelines were tight and expectations didn’t slow down, teams didn’t resist governance. They improvised around it. Not out of defiance. Out of necessity. 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄 𝗔𝗜 is often framed as a compliance issue. More often, it’s a design signal. When people discover tools that help them deliver faster, and the sanctioned path can’t keep pace, work flows toward the path of least friction. Deadlines don’t wait for policy updates. Over time, this creates invisible decision-making layers: • Outputs that look consistent • Processes that aren’t • Assumptions that aren’t shared • Risk that isn’t visible Two teams may appear aligned while relying on entirely different inputs or methods. That erodes comparability, traceability, and trust -- quietly at first. Simply lifting restrictions doesn’t solve it. Without standards, sanctioned tools can produce the same fragmentation at scale. The deeper question isn’t: “How do we stop people from using AI?” It’s: “What capability gap are they trying to close that we haven’t designed for yet?” Governance that creates safe, usable pathways tends to reduce shadow behavior far more effectively than prohibition. 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁: If shadow AI disappeared tomorrow, would that mean the problem was solved? Or that innovation pressure had nowhere to go? Comment below with your thoughts. Let’s talk about it. AI After the Applause Decision Velocity, Engineered. hashtag#AIStrategy hashtag#OperatingModel hashtag#Governance hashtag#ShadowAI
Citation
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amthurmond_aistrategy-operatingmodel-governance-activity-7431680492623638528-Z9je?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAC9jwHcBhMdyfurNH2JmdlAPjJgXHivmWR8
My Reply
yeah, exactly, computers are here, no matter the power level, and definitely at the level called AI. So the issue is how to use them. And in the usa i argue, the same model is being used as in the gold/oil rushes. most are spending money on tech they can't afford or will cost them eventually, like land deeds or spikes. The profiteers are the ones providing services and buying and reselling or leasing products. but they are also learning the better practices. it is a hands on approach. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7431680492623638528?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7431680492623638528%2C7431858195385659392%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287431858195385659392%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7431680492623638528%29 Richard, the “rush” analogy really lands. There’s definitely a lot of spending happening before the long-term costs and tradeoffs are clear. What feels different this time is that AI isn’t just a resource; it’s reshaping how the work itself happens. The winners will be the ones experimenting hands-on and staying disciplined about value and sustainability. Appreciate you adding this perspective. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7431680492623638528?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7431680492623638528%2C7431858195385659392%29&replyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7431680492623638528%2C7431864362157379584%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287431858195385659392%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7431680492623638528%29&dashReplyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287431864362157379584%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7431680492623638528%29 exactly, we all can see AI formation while a counter AI formation:) occurring simultaneously because the tools are changing the methodologies in the labor industry which was imbalanced before the modern tools so is growing abstractly https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7431680492623638528?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(activity%3A7431680492623638528%2C7431858195385659392)&replyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(activity%3A7431680492623638528%2C7432139535507136512)&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A(7431858195385659392%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7431680492623638528)&dashReplyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A(7432139535507136512%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7431680492623638528)
 
 
Fiscal Quality
Recently, Netflix dropped the bid for Warner bros and I think Netflix will be the better for it. Focus on original content. Yes, stockholders love the idea of owning intellectual properties that come with fans. But, Warner Bros still has a lot of debt. Remember, AOL owned Warner Bros, then AT&T owned Warner Bros, then AT&T sold warner bros under speculative[ which means by appearance not strict value of assers] market rate with the caveat that Discovery channel absorb all the debt. AT&T got debt off its books and whipped it hands clean of a very large + not profitable firm. Discovery channel for me was always looking to sell. How couldn't selling be the main focus with so much debt. netflix wanted to by a part of Warner BRos/Discovery, not the whole thing, which I imagine would had erased or deleted the amount of debt absorbed. Skydance which is a holding firm will basically put the debt into the global, and in my view inevitably catastrophic, debt market.  And this is absent even knowing if skydance will be approved. I think Netflix plus Disney are the big winners. Disney for having a late comer to its strategy that is spending wildly only growing disney's specualtive value by leaps and bounds. Disney is already ahead of processing itself, Skydance will have a lot to do. Netflix can focus on original content and I argue, make smart deals with creators in Europe or Asia for properties very popular in Europe or Asia. Yes, the too big too fail business model will maintain till the inevitable collapse of the entire market revolving around failing large firms. But it isn't wise to invest in it.
 
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Netflix drops $83 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, paving way for Paramount Skydance deal By Megan Cerullo Updated on: February 27, 2026 / 6:04 PM EST / MoneyWatch Netflix said on Thursday that it will not match Paramount Skydance's latest bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing the way for a massive merger that could shake up the entertainment and media industry. Netflix agreed in December to buy part of Warner Bros. Discovery for $27.75 a share, or $82.7 billion. But Paramount Skydance had made a $30 a share all-cash offer to buy all of the company, and on Tuesday raised its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery to $31 a share, valuing the deal at roughly $110 billion (Paramount Skydance owns CBS News). Earlier on Thursday, Warner Bros. Discovery's board of directors notified Netflix that Paramount's $31 per share offer constituted a "superior proposal" for the company. "The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to regulatory approval," Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said in a statement Thursday. "However, we've always been disciplined, and at the price required to match Paramount Skydance's latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive, so we are declining to match the Paramount Skydance bid." David Ellison, chairman and CEO of Paramount Skydance, said in a statement that joining forces with Warner Bros. Discovery will benefit viewers, investors and other stakeholders. "By bringing together these world-class studios, our complementary streaming platforms and the extraordinary talent behind them, we will create even greater value for audiences, partners and shareholders — and we couldn't be more excited for what's ahead," he said. David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, said in a statement that the company pushed to "secure a transaction that maximizes the value of our iconic assets and our century-old studio while delivering as much certainty as possible for our investors." Sarandos meeting with Trump admin officials Sarandos spoke with several Trump administration officials — but not with President Trump — on Thursday. The Netflix executive had a meeting at the White House with Mr. Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles and, earlier in the day, he met at the Justice Department with Attorney General Pam Bondi, the antitrust division's acting chief, Omeed Assefi, and other senior Justice Department staff, according to sources familiar with the conversations. Justice Department officials told Sarandos they expected to conduct a very comprehensive antitrust investigation into the Netflix-Warner Bros. Discovery deal, sources told CBS News. Warner Bros. Discovery owns streaming and film studios, along with cable channels including CNN, Food Network, HBO, HGTV, TBS, TNT and Turner Classic Movies. The merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery will require approval from federal antitrust enforcers. Paramount Skydance executives have said that combining the companies would benefit consumers and help boost the entertainment industry, which has struggled to recover from the pandemic. Some entertainment industry groups and lawmakers have raised concerns that uniting two major Hollywood studios could undermine competition. For its part, Paramount Skydance executives argued that a union between Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns the streaming platform HBO Max, was likely to raise antitrust objections. In enhancing its offer this week, Paramount Skydance said it would pay a $7 billion termination fee if its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery collapsed over regulatory concerns. Edited by Alain Sherter Jennifer Jacobs and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
 
 
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The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran has been murdered by the USA + Israel governments. In my lifetime I have noticed the USA murder and bully more and more leaders of governments publicly, not the nineteen hundreds secret operation style, more straight. Saddam Hussein, whose sons were murdered before him, cursed the USA before he was hanged. Khaddafi whose daughter was murdered by the USA before him, was dragged by segments of the Libyan people  , fully armed + financed by the United States of America using intermediaries or Statian satraps like Israel if need be. The last Assad survived raising the stakes and is in exile in Russia. Now, the current Ayatollah has been murdered. 
One thing people forget is most human beings have loving ones. Vendetta or revenge is a very dangerous thing, the human imagination is very creative, the seeds planted by the united states of america post jim crow 1980 to today, are very interesting. The one thing most dangerous about said seeds is that they are not financial in nature, which means they will not be able to be bought or paid 
 
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Mardi Gras is 47 days before Easter, since Easter can be from March 22nd to April 25th , Mardi Grad can be from February 3rd to March 9th. 
Mardi Gras is February 25th in the year 2020. I ask you to make a journal of your day in New Orleans during mardi using photos from wherever you like to paruse  
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ba-bedee-debede-doo Bonjou Nouveau Orleans, I have returned. The morning is bright or magical, as I step from the shore into the city. The sound of horns audible even from this distance. I wonder if anyone will remember when I was here last. If anyone will remember what I did. Well, I have to step forward to find out. Just follow the sounds, as they get deeper. ba-bedee-debede-doo-boo-badoboop-ba Some people are celebrating, and I see a krewe coming like a grass from a storm. Suddenly a woman pops out.
She is on a mobile float like a little island, floating between the streets. A lovely glaze from her skin is given no interference from the sunlight, the latter choosing to shine away rather than muddy her complexion with its cloudy difference. I am in new orleans. I wonder if I can get to the old bar, I wonder if it will be there. I awe at the spirit bird going away on her magical island, like all the other men, and as the island turns, I turn back onto the road north, to the Treme, to the storyville, to my old grounds.  
I wonder about the families of my friends and I, what happened from then to now. Could our stories have ended? I see, a family dressed up.  
I Want to ask them their names, one looks familiar, but I see no men. It is ungentlemanly to speak to women unaccompanied. They may take great offense. so, I decide to keep it moving, let’s not get startled.
In my pocket is an old daguerreotype. I take it out and shed a tear.  
Suddenly the beautiful collage of horns is no longer interesting. All I can recall are the chants of yore, when instruments were too expensive, when the priestesses still roamed the noir streets of the city. Gens de magique femme . I am amazed it survived the passage through time but I hope it will not be a memory discontinued.  
It takes hours to get back to my home, ici le tempeste, no longer here, nowhere, I remember when a storm passed through the city. Everyone’s shanty was destroyed but mine, mine remained, mine survived the storm. But that is cause it was a storm itself, shaking uncontrollably absent proper supports, leaking wildly absent a proper roof, a collisions of sounds, made it an orchestra for any who lived in it for any time. It taught me more than any human ever could about sound. I see this small storefront where its porch stood and go to it. The cover over the window has a small gap and i see a woman dancing inside.
An angel, like the one on the floating island before, but this one is in a room of cotton, gently cushioning her every move. Her face… her face look like my fofo,  I love her most of all. I wish the ancestors allowed me to take her too. I need to speak to this woman. I go inside, the woman pays me no mind, entranced in her own routine. I ask her, can she tell me where to find the descendants of Madame Fofo, my fofo. She does a pirouette and stops facing me. She seems startled by my old-style clothes, the first in these future times, but tells me to go to a party at the beach, where her cousin is. She is the best historian she knows.
So, I travel back out and go back from whence I came, back to the waters about my city, back to the waters that can take you anywhere. And, a party existed where I stepped out of. People drinking, partying, listening to music. I recall the description of the cotton angel and look about, even get a free sausage from finely ground meat that is put in between a fluffy bread shaped similar. I imagine to myself, i may never find the historian but then I notice a woman from afar who may be her. I keep walking toward and I am certain she fit the description. I face the potential historian standing next to her friend I assume. The friend, like an Incan princess, notice me first and realize my stare. I approach and the historian turns to me.
I ask the historian her name and it matches what the cotton angel told me. I explain to her I am looking for Madame Fofo, my fofo. The historian looks to me in disbelief, and pulls a letter out of her pocket, telling me she found it in the archives and keep it for inspiration. She tells me, to read it.  
I read the letter and it says: Mon amour, mon corniste, mon Tontton, j'ai fait ce dont tu avais besoin. J'espère que vous trouverez notre avenir sûr. Je veux vous demander, vous dire, beaucoup de choses. Mais, je ne peux même pas savoir si vous lirez ceci. En l'état, je dirai ce que vous devez entendre. Où est ta corne? C'est là que nous nous sommes embrassés pour la première fois. la touche tape sur la perle blanche. La mélodie que nous avons faite ensemble.
I comprehend instantly, hand the letter back to the young lady and go to Bienville street, and to where we kissed for the first time. The lamp is still there and I see at the base the bumpy surface and a white bump exists. Then I tap on the it with my shoe. ba-bedee-debede-doo-boo-badoboop-ba-ba-badoboop-badoboop-bedee-debede-bedee-debede and a latch open. My horn! I play our melody on our horn and I can see it is all worth it, as the world reverse before my eyes, like an old movie, Bienville street is going to the way it was in the past.
Past I do not know, but past looking closer to my own. Now I know it is worth it, now I know I was right to risk this. The priestess said the Cardinal’s spell on our child needed someone to risk their life, where only love can succeed. I trusted in my Fofo and she trusted in me, and I am coming back. Better keep playing my horn. ba-bedee-debede-doo-boo-badoboop-ba-ba-badoboop-badoboop-bedee-debede-bedee-debede and on and on and on, I see her. STOP! It is the evening, and My Fofo run to me, and embrace me. But she isn’t alone, someone is in a carriage next to her. Someone who look a little like us both.  Ancestres!  
“Mon amour, voici notre fils. L'annee est” I kiss my wife. I do not need to know that. We have all the time in the world.
 
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I am walking alone, far from bourbon street. Far from the sound of beads hitting bare breast, drunken stammers acapella through the krewes horns, just a man alone with the moonlight looking down upon me. I see a small shop, too small to have a sign, only the merchandise in the window provide any clue to the innards. Nothing particular I notice: masks/cloaks/old horns with stories to tell. But wait, a small figurine catch my eye. A simple figurine ready for Mardi Gras in an appropriate outfit.
I hear a sound in my ear as I look upon the figurine. But I cannot decipher it. "venez ici": I hear clear while subtely. I shake my head wondering why I am hearing french. "come here": I comprehend but I do not know from who. Again, the voice repeat and I notice my attention to the figurine. She is not moving, she does not seem mechanical, and yet I seem to know the voice is from here. I enter the shop. "Bonjour": is the shopkeeper courtesy. I am surprised he think I know a lick of french. I ask about the figurine in the window. He say, she is very old, made for a gens de colour libre woman. I ask him the price, a gentle fifteen dollars. I accept, and he gathers the figurine and place her in a box with bubble pop for cushion. I leave thinking, I have no wife or daughter and I am getting a cute figurine. Well, at least I can tell people she is old. "trouver ma peinture": I sense from the figurine but I keep on walking. "find my painting!": and I face the unchanged figurine, holding it high above my head, and ask a silly question: "where is your painting?" I wait but no reply. I continue to walk finally satisfied this nocturnal magic is finished with me. "North roman entre Beinville et Iberville" I recall the two streets, I think I know where she mean. I take out my map and recall I passed that location and I begin to walk there. My companion stay muted even as I approach the methodist church at the locale. I look down to the figurine and wonder if this is alright. A light is on, inside. I walk to the door and knock. A cleaning man open the door. "Why aren": he stop speaking and seem in a daze. I wave my hand in his face. No change. I decide to go inside foolishly, not knowing if the magic I did not use will come again if more strangers find a stranger in their church. But I look about the nave or the walls and see no painting. I look behind a column and see her.
Somehow I know the figurine is happy. But then a question occur to me. This painting is you. I thought you were given to a gens de colour libre girl, not that you are a gens de colour libre woman. The painting then wink at me. I look up and she speak. "Bon soir anglo, I... need your help": she speak simply. I ask her, what can I do to help you. "You need to face the woman who did this to me and then face me to her, i can do the rest": she speak surely. I have many doubts. "Whomever did this to you is way beyond me, I am no sorcerer": I say escapingly. "Y do not need to know how to wield the magic, just know I need your actions to aidez moi... and the woman in question is located in La Fourche, you will find here where three tree intertwine": and then the painting became still. I look at the figurine and nothing. I go to the door of the church and the cleaning man is still quiet, so I slip past him and close the door behind me. It can be unwise walking around new orleans or around cajun country at night, even during mardi gras but I figure the figurine will help. I buy a sandwich from a local deli and a pack of cigarettes. I eat while I walk, figurine safely in her box, and I keep walking. By the time I get to La fourche I am smoking cigarettes. A car with a confederate sign, fill to the rim with white men who are looking at me, drive but do not stop. I know I need to make this quick. I go by homes, some literally at the river edge, and look for the three entwined tree. I hear a scream. I see a man violently moving and decide to hide behind a bush. I creep near the window and see a dangerous sight.
I look down at the figurine and wonder if this little magic will not get me killed. "Sud, sud!": I hear in my head. Clearly my wavering got the attention to my master. I leave the scene, and hope I can find this tree before I end up in a horror movie. I walk south and finally I see the tree. But no one else is there. "Speak these words anglo...Je te donne mon cœur, tu me donnes un objectif, personne ne doit le savoir": the figurine speak hurriedly in my soul. I am hesitant but finally I decide, all well what the hell. And, after speaking the words, nothing. "PUT ME AWAY QUICK": the figurine speak, I can hear her ceramic heart beating, the black priestess soul underneath determined. Suddenly, a half of a mask appear on one side of the three twined tree. The eye behind one half of the mask seem to be a fluid blue. I hear a loud sniff. and, a woman appear from behind the tree. A forked tongue hiss whisper from the mask: "You are pretty fonce to be down here, anglo...now what is your goal, if your coeur is not heavy enough, I get the rest of the deal". I reply firmly: "alright ma'am, though I already gave my heart to another, though I cannot comprehend exactly why": and I pull out the figurine quickly, facing the masked woman straight away. A hiss is heard from all angles and I hear the figurine in my head:"Vous devez m'avoir oublié, imbécile. Joséphine vous l'a toujours dit, pour faire attention aux vieux sorts que vous lancez." The masked woman, writhing, spit out in french:"Anacaona, mais je connais le sang de ta famille, tu n'avais pas de descendants, pas de clan pour t'entendre." The figurine spoke again:"Imbecillia, vous avez oublié que le membre du clan peut avoir n'importe quelle distance, et l'esclavage de votre côté de notre famille a profité d'éclats faits dans mon clan il y a longtemps." And, a flash. Something knocked me down but someone not present helped me up. "LEve! anglo, leve!": said a woman, a black woman in the gown from the tree woman. Her hair pure white. She kneeled down and looked at a figurine on the ground.  Suddenly, I realized where is my fifteen-dollar figurine. I hear a giggle from the stranger masked woman:"it is me, the figurine" I am amazed. And then I realize the figurine on the ground is the woman formerly behind the mask. My figurine, pick up her nemesis, and say:"retourne, go back to new orleans, and thank you". My honesty perk up. I did not do anything. She smile and say:"This magic was not really of spells but circumstance, will a descendent of mine find me, me living in a porcelain figurine in a small shop in new orleans, but you found me, pure chance and that was the magic that tipped the scales, no spells, no incantations". I stand up and offer a hand, and I notice her hand has age. "aucun problem anglo, I have been dormir a while": she lift up and give me a hug and continue:" I will be alright, I think I know where I can help myself around here, and I thank you for that". Before I can speak, a sole horn player, standing aside a wall is playing, while the rest of bourbon is empty. It is very late. I think to go back to the three entwined tree, but I am tired, and I need to get rest. For some reason, I need to get rest, and I do. ... Back in New York City, I wonder if I had a dream induced by someone planting something in a drink or spraying me with something. I think on that for weeks. And then I get a postcard.
I turn to the back and I see Anacaona Liber's name attached to that old churches address. Her message is:" Figure I needed a new painting with a new style, I will wait for you to decide about listening to your heart"
I realize, what may have happened but hesitate to confirm and when I turn the postcard back around, the image wink at me.   ART https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/655-black-history-month-mardi-gras-2026/   CELEBRATIONS   Salvador, Bahia, Carnival 2026 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12468-salvadaor-bahia-carnival-2026/

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