Jakebe T. Drake-Lope @jakebe@awoo.space
A digital jackalope living in a black man's body. Pronouns: he/him/his. I love my blackness, and yours.
Joined Sep 2017
RT @TheABPsi@twitter.com
It’s a beautiful day to be Black.
RT @ThePenDrake@twitter.com
While part of me looks at the BLM mural in front of Trump Tower and thinks YEAH EAT IT TRUMP
Part of me thinks this is politicizing the movement in the wrong way. It's not about saving black lives or advocating systemic changes
It's just trying to piss off a bunch of MAGAs
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ThePenDrake/status/1281243676924997633
I really wish we could hold in our hearts that disagreement is a fact of life in any society, and learn how to do it while still holding respect for someone's basic humanity.
Obviously not talking about bigotry, of course. But having perspective would be nice.
RT @FoxDroxDeggy@twitter.com
I am so tired of seeing that poorly edited white supremacist version of this art spread around again. It's fucking awful seeing that message attached to my character
I would like to see this message get more visibility
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FoxDroxDeggy/status/1280578607853629441
RT @serialjackalope@twitter.com
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! Serials will resume this August! I'm taking suggestions for the welcome back serial -- five parts of 2K - 2.5K each, for a total of 10K - 12.5K. What should I write about, friends???
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/serialjackalope/status/1280641969169895426
I feel slightly bad about this, but knowing what I know about Russian misinformation campaigns, I'm *immediately* suspicious of anyone with an identifiably Russian email domain -- even at work. I fully expect they're lying and trying to pull a scam.
I didn't think he would DO it, I swear
RT @ThePenDrake@twitter.com
I was makin taquitos and I asked @jakebe@twitter.com if he wanted any and he said yes, "All of them, if you're willing," and then he just TOOK ALL OF THE TAQUITOS and I hadda sit here with no lunch
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ThePenDrake/status/1280550729116082176
Because I'm an idiot and forgot to link, here it is. XD
Almost there folks! I will start this up again in August if we can get to $100!!
RT @XiranJayZhao@twitter.com
y'all there's legit a god of male love in Chinese myth, Tu'er Shen (the Rabbit God). he got beat to death for thirsting after a handsome official but the underworld guards were like "u know what? ur crime was one of love, go back up and become a patron deity of men who love men."
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1280285570938228737
RT @abowlofserio@twitter.com
Issa-me! Beyoncé! I-a singa the halo! The love-a issa right-a on top-a! https://twitter.com/kwcongressional/status/1279562816324763648
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/abowlofserio/status/1280204622544633859
True story
RT @disco_socialist@twitter.com
it's easy to think of Ayn Rand as a terrible person with an evil philosophy, but if you've ever read her books you'd know she was also a terrible writer.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/disco_socialist/status/1280298828256563201
RT @michaelharriot@twitter.com
This narrative that black people who want an accurate reflection of history are "angry and resentful" leaves us with one logical takeaway:
White people don't want to know history because they can't handle the truth.
A thread.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1279888558581579779
It truly breaks my heart that this was the Presidential address during a pandemic, while millions of Americans are out of work, on stolen Indigenous land, without regard for the safety of the crowd or parched environment.
Our worst selves, right here.
RT @soledadobrien@twitter.com
So many words in this @nytimes@twitter.com headline to describe “racist”
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/1279474677551960065
As a post-script, Puckles was diagnosed with a respiratory infection and given antibiotics, medicine to improve his GI stasis, and hand-feeding food. He is not out of the woods, but he is on the mend. <3
We can have faith in our beliefs, but also knowledge of our own imperfect selves and mistakes. We can own up. We can be better. We can change what we say and what we do because we know better. Both as people, and as a country.
Let's do that now. Together. Happy 4th.
And being humble means we recognize our own flaws and limitations. Even among progressives.
We can't let the fact that we're fighting for a good cause blind us to the ways we can be cruel, or the limits of our own beliefs. We can be wrong. We have been wrong. We will be wrong.
But we have to be willing to face hard truths, make sacrifices, and commit to doing things that might be difficult for us.
Our ideals demand that we look outside ourselves and know we're not the only people in the world.
Being patriotic means being humble, having perspective.
We can reconcile our painful and unjust past, reckon with the systemic barriers it has placed on people of color, disabled Americans, LGBQTIA Americans, and do the hard work required to truly understand how to make a society in which all people are created equal.
A digital jackalope living in a black man's body. Pronouns: he/him/his. I love my blackness, and yours.
Joined Sep 2017
