AKH
@carotidartistry.bsky.social
Professional stage manager for theater/music/live events in the outside world. Acting like my teenage self (a.k.a. being a replyguy and obsessing over current events and public policy) on here.
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AKH
@carotidartistry.bsky.social
· Nov 22
An intro, I guess! I've never done one of these because I started being online when everyone on the internet was an axe murderer. Feels polite to have one now, though. The linktree in my profile has all my other social media, with insta being the most active and professionally-oriented.
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I love Chiitan posts because they're always like
"Everybody, let's make the world kinder to transgender people 🏳️⚧️❤️" [video of Chiitan getting blasted out of a giant rocket launcher. you can see the suit getting dismembered in the distance]
"Everybody, let's make the world kinder to transgender people 🏳️⚧️❤️" [video of Chiitan getting blasted out of a giant rocket launcher. you can see the suit getting dismembered in the distance]
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I love Chiitan posts because they're always like
"Everybody, let's make the world kinder to transgender people 🏳️⚧️❤️" [video of Chiitan getting blasted out of a giant rocket launcher. you can see the suit getting dismembered in the distance]
"Everybody, let's make the world kinder to transgender people 🏳️⚧️❤️" [video of Chiitan getting blasted out of a giant rocket launcher. you can see the suit getting dismembered in the distance]
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Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
share.inquirer.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
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Gavin Newsom is a Republican and supporting him for president means you are, too
Culturally normal is a dog whistle.
Gavin Newsom Urges Democrats to Be ‘More Culturally Normal’
YouTube video by The New York Times
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Gavin Newsom is a Republican and supporting him for president means you are, too
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Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
My gender is the NYC subway system on December 8
December 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
My gender is the NYC subway system on December 8
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i fucking love my country of MPLS
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
i fucking love my country of MPLS
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If you were born before the Hepatitis B vaccine was added to the childhood immunization schedule in 1991, get the shot.
It’s a small move towards the community immunity that might save a child’s life.
Get another MMR & TDaP shot as well! (I found out my measles immunity had waned! 😱)
It’s a small move towards the community immunity that might save a child’s life.
Get another MMR & TDaP shot as well! (I found out my measles immunity had waned! 😱)
Today is the start of 2 days of meetings of RFK Jr.'s ACIP, where vaccines skeptics outnumber actual scientists and medial experts. Their target: the Hep B vaccine, which has a ~90-98% (after 3 doses) effectiveness rate in preventing infection for up to 30 yrs.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Doctors warn delaying hepatitis B shot for newborns could revive a deadly threat
As RFK Jr.'s new vaccine panel ponders changing the hepatitis B vaccination schedule, some doctors recall past patients, including children, who died painful deaths before there was a vaccine.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If you were born before the Hepatitis B vaccine was added to the childhood immunization schedule in 1991, get the shot.
It’s a small move towards the community immunity that might save a child’s life.
Get another MMR & TDaP shot as well! (I found out my measles immunity had waned! 😱)
It’s a small move towards the community immunity that might save a child’s life.
Get another MMR & TDaP shot as well! (I found out my measles immunity had waned! 😱)
IT'S BANDCAMP FRIDAY I always get caught off-guard and then am like I have never heard of a single band in my life what is music, but I am BUYING SOME FUCKING MUSIC TODAY (WITH ALL REVENUE GOING DIRECTLY TO THE ARTIST/LABEL)
We're happy to announce that Bandcamp Fridays will be returning in 2026. Check out the full list of dates below and get your wishlists ready for the final #bandcampfriday of 2025 this Friday, December 5th.
Bandcamp Fridays Return in 2026
daily.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
IT'S BANDCAMP FRIDAY I always get caught off-guard and then am like I have never heard of a single band in my life what is music, but I am BUYING SOME FUCKING MUSIC TODAY (WITH ALL REVENUE GOING DIRECTLY TO THE ARTIST/LABEL)
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Wow, somehow I missed the news that Marc Andreesen's investment firm hired the guy who choked a homeless man to death on the subway. Their explanation for doing so is facially absurd, so you have to assume they're just symbolically endorsing vigilante violence.
Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring of Daniel Penny to Its Investors
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Wow, somehow I missed the news that Marc Andreesen's investment firm hired the guy who choked a homeless man to death on the subway. Their explanation for doing so is facially absurd, so you have to assume they're just symbolically endorsing vigilante violence.
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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BREAKING: Charges against indie videojournalist Samuel Seligson DROPPED.
First, judge vacated a terrorism charge for lack of grounds, then today dismissed felony charges, with DA offering ACD (impending dismissal) for misdemeanor criminal mischief.
Comment from lawyer Ron Kuby:
First, judge vacated a terrorism charge for lack of grounds, then today dismissed felony charges, with DA offering ACD (impending dismissal) for misdemeanor criminal mischief.
Comment from lawyer Ron Kuby:
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
BREAKING: Charges against indie videojournalist Samuel Seligson DROPPED.
First, judge vacated a terrorism charge for lack of grounds, then today dismissed felony charges, with DA offering ACD (impending dismissal) for misdemeanor criminal mischief.
Comment from lawyer Ron Kuby:
First, judge vacated a terrorism charge for lack of grounds, then today dismissed felony charges, with DA offering ACD (impending dismissal) for misdemeanor criminal mischief.
Comment from lawyer Ron Kuby:
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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awe inspiring org of sex workers led by Black women in CA doing some incredibly innovative shit for this time:
COYOTE (call off your tired old ethics) was one of the coolest fucking groups i got to learn about when i was doing research for various papers & holy shit what incredibly pioneering work for the field of public health as a whole 🥹
www.britannica.com/topic/COYOTE...
www.britannica.com/topic/COYOTE...
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
awe inspiring org of sex workers led by Black women in CA doing some incredibly innovative shit for this time:
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there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
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“In the early days it was a lonely battle. Studio heads whom Taylor had made lots of money for hung up on her … Some of her friends and advisers told her to stay away from HIV and AIDS because it could end her career.” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“In the early days it was a lonely battle. Studio heads whom Taylor had made lots of money for hung up on her … Some of her friends and advisers told her to stay away from HIV and AIDS because it could end her career.” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
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Taylor’s assistant had told her that a friend of a friend had died from AIDS-related causes and he was alone and there was no money to bury him.
“I don’t care what time it is! Get that money over to the funeral home,” she told her business manager. “Now.”
“I don’t care what time it is! Get that money over to the funeral home,” she told her business manager. “Now.”
“We will not fucking wait until Monday. We will do it right now. Get him on the phone again. I want to talk to him. No mother’s son is going to lay on a cold, hard slab for the weekend when I can do something to stop it.”
“In the early days it was a lonely battle. Studio heads whom Taylor had made lots of money for hung up on her … Some of her friends and advisers told her to stay away from HIV and AIDS because it could end her career.” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
December 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Taylor’s assistant had told her that a friend of a friend had died from AIDS-related causes and he was alone and there was no money to bury him.
“I don’t care what time it is! Get that money over to the funeral home,” she told her business manager. “Now.”
“I don’t care what time it is! Get that money over to the funeral home,” she told her business manager. “Now.”
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gabe woolley, an oklahoma state rep, repeatedly misgenders the TA here and says the OU student that vaguely alluded to the bible in her essay "cited real science"
November 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
gabe woolley, an oklahoma state rep, repeatedly misgenders the TA here and says the OU student that vaguely alluded to the bible in her essay "cited real science"
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I had to leave a beautiful thing that Tim Curry said about Stoppard on the cutting-room floor. To Curry, the payoff of properly honoring the brilliance of Stoppard’s language in performance is the joy of the audience: “You can almost see them reaching up their hands in the air to catch a sentence.”
Artists remember Tom Stoppard. By Jesse Green and Michael Paulson, with one contribution from me. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Glenn Close, Ethan Hawke and Others Mourn Tom Stoppard
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I had to leave a beautiful thing that Tim Curry said about Stoppard on the cutting-room floor. To Curry, the payoff of properly honoring the brilliance of Stoppard’s language in performance is the joy of the audience: “You can almost see them reaching up their hands in the air to catch a sentence.”
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I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
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Time to invoice the telegraph for using my illustration, I guess
A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.
November 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Time to invoice the telegraph for using my illustration, I guess
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
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Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
November 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
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Absolutely riveted by this video of women filmed in the 1970s reminiscing about their young adult life in the 1890s
"I was a feckless girl"
"The mud, everywhere, mud to our knees!"
"Were the ladies on bicycles or horseback?"
youtu.be/pv6V1yHvJyo
"I was a feckless girl"
"The mud, everywhere, mud to our knees!"
"Were the ladies on bicycles or horseback?"
youtu.be/pv6V1yHvJyo
1970: VICTORIAN TEENAGERS reminisce | Yesterday's Witness | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Absolutely riveted by this video of women filmed in the 1970s reminiscing about their young adult life in the 1890s
"I was a feckless girl"
"The mud, everywhere, mud to our knees!"
"Were the ladies on bicycles or horseback?"
youtu.be/pv6V1yHvJyo
"I was a feckless girl"
"The mud, everywhere, mud to our knees!"
"Were the ladies on bicycles or horseback?"
youtu.be/pv6V1yHvJyo