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May-Li Khoe✨

@mayli.bsky.social

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used to be @mayli in the old place. hello! 👋 maylikhoe.com tin house winter workshop 2025 Interdisciplinary designer writer artist musician dancer inventor. vp of design and former dj. mfa candidate.

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year40yap✨ @jazmineduke.bsky.social · 17h

Big day for people who care about other people

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 13h

link to full speech bsky.app/profile/andy...

Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s a link to the full speech.

#ZohranMamdani #NewYork

May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 14h

“this new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another”

hello yes this 👆

i am tired of people thinking these two things are at odds, they are not

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 19h

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 15h

yeah all the division rhetoric is just a tactic to break up the power of people and hold onto control

we don’t have to fall for it - ppl didn’t fall for it 💜

May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 16h

OMG SAME

May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 21h

(I’m really glad to know I’m not the only one who rabbit holes on things along these lines with free time tbh it’s a kind of brain candy)

My initial read of why they care about these things was admittedly not a generous one

May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 23h

I had this same conversation recently but it was about the office, not my events. Still, the two other women were shocked that I don’t care if people come in showing midriff. I was shocked that they care what anyone wears at all

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 1d

hm what happens when we take out the country names and numbers?

“These lovely [places] living their lives quietly, until one day, […] people show up in your village of 500 out of nowhere and start ******* [the kids and like everyone for that matter]"

oh right sounds like… colonization

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so sorry. And gratitude for all your hard work there

also tbh if there are no Black women at Teen Vogue there is no way it’s going to stay relevant

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 3d

@cabel.panic.com 👀

May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 3d

it would be okay if it was money going to coffee growers, but sadly it is not

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 4d

Please consider these generally unknown details.

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 4d

for all the kpop demon hunter fan action this halloween season i gotta say

i _wish_ it had been this cool to be asian when i was little, my god. what a difference it would have made

May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 4d

I love all the Jinu dads mandated by their daughters

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 6d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d

"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." –

Grace Lee Boggs

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need

Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.

placesjournal.org

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 6d

love! 😍

May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 6d

Damn, I used to call myself Design Auntie on Twitter, but

reading this I am realizing it’s even more _me_ than I could have known

“liminal figure”
“facilitating transgressions”
“maximalist fashion”
“muscular femininity”
“mercurial energies”
“sequins are day wear”

"Aunty' is often employed to describe women of one's parents' generation," Khubachandani writes in the call for submissions. "...She is a liminal figure who might surveil the family's boundaries or perhaps facilitate transgressions….These aunties acquire their moniker not just through age or kinship, but through performance: melodramatic speech, maximalist fashion, searing glances, muscular femininity, and distinct hairstyles. Performance is central to portraying the aunty, but also a valuable method and analytic to keep up with her mercurial energies."

He said that the legacy of psychoanalysis and the Euro-western kinship system has shaped our scholarship to think only of the mother, the father, and the child. "I'm hoping we can start to rethink some of these relationships," Khubchandani said.

life when my mother wouldn't. In the public sphere, aunties are synonymous with fashion, which is read as both good and bad. My drag persona likes to say that aunties taught me that sequins were day wear, and that's something I use in my shows.

May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like I would both be the studier and the studied in this and i am so here for it

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 7d

Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags!

On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags.

#WebDesignHistory

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 7d

Who's hiring for strategic technology roles that support smart, creative people making the world better? I am not asking for myself.

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 7d

😭🫠💀

May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, it’s the lack of stakes / accountability