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Jarika Tucker
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Wife & Mom 🩷🩵 ◇ storyteller x prose|code|data|film ◇ 92%, resting ◇ Software Engineer ◇ Believes joy IS success.

Micah 6:8

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Jarika Tucker @jarika.blacksky.app · Jan 25
Woke up with a #writing an adult fantasy romcom idea about witches & ghosts & coven leaders who act more like accountability partners for crashout witches. Oh & there's a dead body or three.
Trying not to start working on this right naow! {I'm halfway thru Black mermaid revisions & need to finish}
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August 21, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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England, I have literally never asked you for anything before this. Please 🙏🏾 #FIFAWorldCup
July 14, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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As a soccer girlie, I am gutted. This is a terrible way to leave the #FIFAWorldCup. Like, where was the fight?? What was the point of getting Flo Balogun back if our guys were gonna leave him unsupported and not show up on the ball. We're exhausted, injured, etc. I get it, but I'm so hurt rn. Tough.
July 7, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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Printed my manuscript so I can red-pen edit, and I am fully aware that it's not the real book but...tell that to my tear ducts because I'm on the edge of sobbing 😢 🙏🏾
May 21, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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An death just like George Floyd:

In Dublin, Ireland, Yves Sakila, a Black Irish Congolese man, appears to have been killed by criminal justice system actors who kneeled on his neck moments before he died.

Yves Sakila mattered. Black Lives Matter.

Details:
www.instagram.com/p/DYfk9HWiPx...
Solidarity with the Irish Congolese community. RIP Yves Sakila. LA COMMUNAUTÉ CONGOLAISE EN DEUIL R. I. P YVES-SAKILA C.C.I Congolese Community in Ireland Order • Discipline + Unity C.C.I présente ses sincères condoléances à la famille éplorée et à toute la communauté congolaise. Que son âme repose en paix. Tu resteras à jamais dans nos cœurs. 66 In our hearts forever, never forgotten. C.C.I - Ensemble, restons unis dans la solidarité. Order • Discipline • Unity Vigil Tomorrow (19/05) 12pm, Henry Street. Dinar • IRISH NETWORK AGAINST RACISM INAR Statement on the death of Mr Yves Sakila: Monday 18 May 2026. Dublin. The Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) is very concerned about the news that a man, believed to be Mr Yves Sakila, has died from suspected asphyxiation following his apprehension for an alleged shoplifting incident in Arnotts in Dublin on Friday 15 May. Nobody deserves to die for being suspected of shoplifting. Something clearly went terribly wrong. News of the tragedy is doubly shocking as some newspapers have reported that Mr Sakila is said to have "become unresponsive" after Gardai arrived on the scene. A very disturbing 4m44s video has since emerged which appears to show the man on the ground being subdued by several men, who appear to be security guards and management at Arnotts. One of the men is seen to shift his weight onto his knee to drive it into the neck and head region of the subdued man. The man on the ground is heard shouting in distress as several men are kneeling on his body and the men shout several times for him to "stay down" while holding his neck and pinning his body to the ground with their combined weight. By the end of the 4m44s video we have seen, the man appears motionless. Gardai do not appear to have arrived on the scene at this stage. Shane O'Curry, Director of INAR said "At INAR we are extremely disturbed by the reports of the incident, and we extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Mr Sakila. We are very concerned that this case appears to have the hallmarks of a case of excessive use of force. The death of a black man in such circumstances is extremely worrying, and we urge the authorities to thoroughly investigate all of the circumstances leading to this man's death, in order to ensure minority ethnic community confidence in the criminal justice system."
May 18, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Data center developers have been champing at the bit for more energy. A new power line through Grant County would go through 34 private properties.
WA homeowners, farmers say their land is being stolen for data centers
www.seattletimes.com
May 12, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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To the mothers, grandmothers, bonus mamas, and all the women who love on us, sacrifice for us, and hold everything together—we see you and we thank you. The world keeps turning because of y’all. Happy Mother’s Day 💐
May 10, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Guess who just typed "The End" on my revisions.... mmmeeeeee 👋🏾👋🏾🙌🏽🙌🏽

Gonna edit and probably edit again. Then, send it to my agent and act like I have never met that manuscript for about a month 🙃 🫠
May 8, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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Doing the Lord's work 😌
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Apr 23
then = ➡️

than = ⚖️
April 23, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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Not me saving this because the song is a bop
April 19, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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Happy ‘Sinners’ Day!

One year ago, Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners,’ released in theaters.
April 18, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Them: Oh you're a writer? What are you writing??

Me: Chaos.
April 14, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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I love how much these humans love each other, how much they love their families, love our planet, our moon, our universe.. it’s beautiful to see.. #ArtemisII
The Artemis II team wearing blue suits, standing together
April 12, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts return to Earth, ending a record-breaking trip around the moon with a splashdown in the Pacific.
April 11, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭
April 1, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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*inserts nene saying it’s getting weird*
March 29, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Suddenly and for no apparent reason, I would very much like a hug from a manatee 🤗🤗
adamcsharp.bsky.social Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Mar 25
In Portuguese a manatee is called peixe-boi (or “bull fish”) and in Dutch zeekoe (or “sea cow”). In English a group of manatees is called an aggregate of manatees, though I think a better term would be either a “manateam” or “manytees” (in the same way a group of dugongs should be called a “dugang”)
A manateam of manytees (three chonky little manatees floating in a tank)
March 25, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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This is ssooo good and makes me think even more about what this show is saying about love, humanity, and community ❤️
blackgirlnerds.bsky.social Black Girl Nerds @blackgirlnerds.bsky.social · Mar 9
Enuka Okuma chats with BGN about which theme resonated with her the most among love, hope and community in 'Paradise'. For more go here: blackgirlnerds.com/sterling-k-b...
March 9, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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I'm currently standing in a library, aka the happiest place on earth... I haven't visited this branch in over seven years because I married and moved to a different branch. One of the librarians just saw me and said, "How are you? I haven't seen you."
Libraries are a place to belong 💕💕
#LibraryJoy
March 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Snark while delivering unhappy medical news should be illegal...alas, here we are
March 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Something lovely in a rough day.

baltimorebeat.com/young-baltim...
Young Baltimore writers share their favorite literary spaces in the city
CHARM (Ryan Scott, 8th grader at ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School)  CHARM, the voice of Baltimore, the voice of youth When you’re there, tasks feel complete, like the stars in the night. Work...
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March 1, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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Clarice Phelps is the first Black woman credited with discovering a periodic element, Tennessine (Element 117). She works at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and now mentors the next generation. Black women belong in STEM. When we see ourselves in science, we know we belong there too.
February 22, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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If I wrote an account of my day out as a scene in my novel, my agent would flag it as unrealistic and ask for edits...
And you know what? Same.
I cannot (and will not) make this stuff up 😩😩
February 11, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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What once felt scattered now knows where it belongs.
This chapter is less about proving yourself and more about living in alignment. You are building with intention now.
February 10, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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I am regularly asked what specifically blue states and Congress should do to protect the midterm elections.

Here you go, I list and explain them one by one.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...
It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms
With only nine months before the midterm elections, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress.
www.democracydocket.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:09 PM