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i'm shoi or star! anthropologist, author, online child safety expert. cis, she/her. batman and robin should always be kissing.
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babe wake up they're achieving whole new levels of things nobody wants
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
babe wake up they're achieving whole new levels of things nobody wants
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The ones who “Quiet Quit” Omelas
December 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The ones who “Quiet Quit” Omelas
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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It’s World AIDS Day, and as the government is pretending it doesn’t exist, I’d like to tell you a story about growing up queer in the 80s/90s when powerful men also liked to pretend AIDS didn’t exist.
It’s about the day I saw the AIDS quilt.
🧵
It’s about the day I saw the AIDS quilt.
🧵
19930918 The AIDS Quilt Comes to Fort Worth
www.rondougherty.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It’s World AIDS Day, and as the government is pretending it doesn’t exist, I’d like to tell you a story about growing up queer in the 80s/90s when powerful men also liked to pretend AIDS didn’t exist.
It’s about the day I saw the AIDS quilt.
🧵
It’s about the day I saw the AIDS quilt.
🧵
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Batman All-Star Drinks (1966-1968): A line of sugary "fruit drinks" to promote the "Batman" TV series. Available in Orange, Fruit Punch, and Lemon flavors, each carton featured character and mask cut-outs. Produced by Homestead Dairies in Massena, NY
December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Batman All-Star Drinks (1966-1968): A line of sugary "fruit drinks" to promote the "Batman" TV series. Available in Orange, Fruit Punch, and Lemon flavors, each carton featured character and mask cut-outs. Produced by Homestead Dairies in Massena, NY
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Oh, that's where I know him from
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Oh, that's where I know him from
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one of my favorite takes on babs, period.
Hey Folks,
As I clean up my office today, I happened across a bit of a flashback to my days on "The Batman" with my pals Jeff Matsuda and Jose Lopez.
I had great fun doing expression drawings for Jeff's take on Batgirl.
Cheers!
As I clean up my office today, I happened across a bit of a flashback to my days on "The Batman" with my pals Jeff Matsuda and Jose Lopez.
I had great fun doing expression drawings for Jeff's take on Batgirl.
Cheers!
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
one of my favorite takes on babs, period.
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män whœ jáçked øff ïn frǒnt ōf wœmęn gĩveñ 100000th cħāńcè tő attempt to prødųce sőmėtħınġ wōrþwħiļe
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
män whœ jáçked øff ïn frǒnt ōf wœmęn gĩveñ 100000th cħāńcè tő attempt to prødųce sőmėtħınġ wōrþwħiļe
Not with tremendous skill, but with tremendous love 💕
November 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Not with tremendous skill, but with tremendous love 💕
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good thread about dudes whose grift is “we’re visionaries!” when they’re really clown-grade hustlers
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
good thread about dudes whose grift is “we’re visionaries!” when they’re really clown-grade hustlers
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If anything Stoppard is a cautionary tale. You can write the most transcendently beautiful stuff and then render it all meaningless in an instant.
November 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If anything Stoppard is a cautionary tale. You can write the most transcendently beautiful stuff and then render it all meaningless in an instant.
Hey my loves: do I know anyone who reads Chinese who‘d be willing to help translate a few things for an indie game studio? They want to talk to interested users/answer some technical questions on Bilibili so Google won’t do. Just let me know!
November 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Hey my loves: do I know anyone who reads Chinese who‘d be willing to help translate a few things for an indie game studio? They want to talk to interested users/answer some technical questions on Bilibili so Google won’t do. Just let me know!
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Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
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statistically a lot of you won’t know about ocellated turkeys, so, here you go
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
statistically a lot of you won’t know about ocellated turkeys, so, here you go
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They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
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one of the grimmest things I’ve ever read, but happily it does contain the phrase “mysterious constellation of brutal practices”
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
one of the grimmest things I’ve ever read, but happily it does contain the phrase “mysterious constellation of brutal practices”
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Addendum to this excellent post:
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Addendum to this excellent post:
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
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A charity I'm fond of is a small local one founded by an elementary school girl called Chelsea's Charity. She puts together art kits to donate to children in need.
www.chelseascharity.org
www.chelseascharity.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
A charity I'm fond of is a small local one founded by an elementary school girl called Chelsea's Charity. She puts together art kits to donate to children in need.
www.chelseascharity.org
www.chelseascharity.org
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“Unc” is a contemporary slang[1] term, an abbreviation of “Unchristian”, used originally to describe the evil clone[2] of Christian Slater[3] created in a freak laboratory accident on the set of True Romance[4]
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“Unc” is a contemporary slang[1] term, an abbreviation of “Unchristian”, used originally to describe the evil clone[2] of Christian Slater[3] created in a freak laboratory accident on the set of True Romance[4]
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ACAB includes Elf on a Shelf and his hideous capitalist spawn.
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
ACAB includes Elf on a Shelf and his hideous capitalist spawn.
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escapism through channeling a medieval manuscript illustrator
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
escapism through channeling a medieval manuscript illustrator