Ericka Simone

@ErickaSimone
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Colburn School
Berklee #Music
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Winner: ‘23/‘24 Music Business Association Scholar
Innovators ‘24: Live Nation Music
Owner: @ESPR
Media: Stimulated | RN Distro
Hard truths on navigating American Whiteness, occasional html jokes, STEM, the artistic pillars, violent facetiousness, exceptional music tastes and playlist curation

Header: Nichelle Nichols and Mae Jemison, the first Black Women in space (lol), on the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation

LocationLos Angeles, California
Languages + ThingsBaby HTML, Python | site platform design, DNS, UI/UX

People were posting about Grindr outages in the Dallas area during #CPAC and they weren't lying.

https://www.queerty.com/grindr-servers-in-texas-crash-moments-after-benny-johnson-takes-the-stage-at-cpac-20260330/

Grindr servers in Texas crash moments after Benny Johnson takes the stage at CPAC - Queerty

Oops! They did it again

Queerty
What a fuck of a day/week.
Again, @magreggins being the big brother I always wanted, and grateful for the check ins. But I just don’t know anymore.

Sigh

I mean just

sigh

Like most artists on the internet, we're trapped in a cycle of creating content for free while hoping someone eventually notices we're slowly selling off furniture to buy art supplies.

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I've said it a million times: no one is more thoroughly captured by ideology than the people who don't think they have one.

⚠️ Do not move your account to mastodon.cloud. If you know someone already on mastodon.cloud you might want to suggest they move to a different server.

-Mastodon.cloud's admin hasn't posted since Feb 2023
-There doesn't seem to be any moderation, really awful bigotry is still there months after being reported
-The server software is very outdated and full of unpatched security holes
-Because of all the above, many other servers have defederated mastodon.cloud

#MastodonCloud #FediBlock

I am so tired of literally every human disappointing me on every level.

Europe’s $24T breakup with Visa & Mastercard has begun. ECB’s Lagarde warns almost all EU card/mobile payments still run on non‑European rails, sending spending data outside the EU. Now EPI + EuroPA are launching Wero, a pan‑EU wallet for 130M users to pay cross‑border without US networks. A huge shift for payment sovereignty—and data privacy.

#payments #fintech #eu #wero #datasovereignty

https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/

Europe vs Visa & Mastercard: The $24 Trillion Payments Shift

Europe is building its own payments system and reducing reliance on Visa and Mastercard. Here’s why the $24 trillion shift matters now.

European Business Magazine

Also, someone. Punch John Lithgow in his fucking face. Now. Immediately.

A Perfect Example. You’re all liberal social justice until your favorite is being held accountable. Then you become easily complicit, excuse making, TERFy, racist sociopaths.

There are no allies. Most of you have absolutely no soul, respect for baseline humanity, or virtue for you to signal. You perform niceness to appease your own guilt. Nothing is genuine. Trust no one.

You are on your own.