jhayne
@foxtongue.bsky.social
dilettante, bon vivant. currently based in toronto.
early net adopter, writing/security/art/culture/tech, twice legally dead yet somehow still here.
:: www.foxtongue.com
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:: founding member of www.somanyofus.com
early net adopter, writing/security/art/culture/tech, twice legally dead yet somehow still here.
:: www.foxtongue.com
:: www.instagram.com/foxtongue
:: founding member of www.somanyofus.com
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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In a way, I'd say, for all the triviality of it just being three words, it's one of the most fascist things he's done in its casual assumption of the unchallenged license to debase a human being. It's what Pasolini's SALO is about, stripped of all the graphic excess, stripped down to its core.
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
In a way, I'd say, for all the triviality of it just being three words, it's one of the most fascist things he's done in its casual assumption of the unchallenged license to debase a human being. It's what Pasolini's SALO is about, stripped of all the graphic excess, stripped down to its core.
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It's also interesting to note how this is entirely normal, it's why such as curing cancer is very difficult: that gene you're looking at almost certainly does dozens or hundreds of completely different very essential things, it's load-bearing.
October 17, 2023 at 5:53 AM
It's also interesting to note how this is entirely normal, it's why such as curing cancer is very difficult: that gene you're looking at almost certainly does dozens or hundreds of completely different very essential things, it's load-bearing.
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It's interesting to think that when you get covid, which reactivates the EBV you almost certainly have (90% of all adults in the US have EBV), *that* reactivates a chunk of a 25 million year old retrovirus that's been hanging out in your genes.
October 17, 2023 at 5:52 AM
It's interesting to think that when you get covid, which reactivates the EBV you almost certainly have (90% of all adults in the US have EBV), *that* reactivates a chunk of a 25 million year old retrovirus that's been hanging out in your genes.
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70% of MS diagnoses are in cis women, and a large part of that is because high estrogen makes it easier for ERVW-1 to be expressed by EBV.
October 17, 2023 at 5:52 AM
70% of MS diagnoses are in cis women, and a large part of that is because high estrogen makes it easier for ERVW-1 to be expressed by EBV.
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That little chunk of a retrovirus that infected one of your primate ancestors 25 million years ago, is still in your genome, and when it works normally it helps you give birth.
When it fucks up, it gives you multiple sclerosis
When it fucks up, it gives you multiple sclerosis
October 17, 2023 at 5:51 AM
That little chunk of a retrovirus that infected one of your primate ancestors 25 million years ago, is still in your genome, and when it works normally it helps you give birth.
When it fucks up, it gives you multiple sclerosis
When it fucks up, it gives you multiple sclerosis
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ERVW-1, when expressed at the wrong time in the wrong cells, causes multiple sclerosis.
The Epstein-Barr virus, human herpesvirus 4, turns on ERVW-1. This is how it causes MS.
The Epstein-Barr virus, human herpesvirus 4, turns on ERVW-1. This is how it causes MS.
October 17, 2023 at 5:51 AM
ERVW-1, when expressed at the wrong time in the wrong cells, causes multiple sclerosis.
The Epstein-Barr virus, human herpesvirus 4, turns on ERVW-1. This is how it causes MS.
The Epstein-Barr virus, human herpesvirus 4, turns on ERVW-1. This is how it causes MS.
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That gene is ERVW-1, endogenous retrovirus group W.
Once, 25 million years ago, it helped that retrovirus evade a primate's immune system.
Now you use it so your immune system doesn't kill your embryo.
Once, 25 million years ago, it helped that retrovirus evade a primate's immune system.
Now you use it so your immune system doesn't kill your embryo.
October 17, 2023 at 5:50 AM
That gene is ERVW-1, endogenous retrovirus group W.
Once, 25 million years ago, it helped that retrovirus evade a primate's immune system.
Now you use it so your immune system doesn't kill your embryo.
Once, 25 million years ago, it helped that retrovirus evade a primate's immune system.
Now you use it so your immune system doesn't kill your embryo.
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That retrovirus dumped its genes into chromosome 7. It's still there, in your genome right now.
Almost all of it's been rendered nonsense and doesn't code for anything. But it can still make Syncytin-1 for you
Almost all of it's been rendered nonsense and doesn't code for anything. But it can still make Syncytin-1 for you
October 17, 2023 at 5:50 AM
That retrovirus dumped its genes into chromosome 7. It's still there, in your genome right now.
Almost all of it's been rendered nonsense and doesn't code for anything. But it can still make Syncytin-1 for you
Almost all of it's been rendered nonsense and doesn't code for anything. But it can still make Syncytin-1 for you
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Fun fact: humans and other primates have a protein, Syncytin-1, essential to embryonic development. You can't give birth without it.
Humans can make Syncytin-1 because primates learned it from a retrovirus they got 25 million years ago, which left the gene for it in them.
Humans can make Syncytin-1 because primates learned it from a retrovirus they got 25 million years ago, which left the gene for it in them.
October 17, 2023 at 5:50 AM
Fun fact: humans and other primates have a protein, Syncytin-1, essential to embryonic development. You can't give birth without it.
Humans can make Syncytin-1 because primates learned it from a retrovirus they got 25 million years ago, which left the gene for it in them.
Humans can make Syncytin-1 because primates learned it from a retrovirus they got 25 million years ago, which left the gene for it in them.
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One of the things that kills me about all this is that it’s just, like, maybe ten guys.
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
One of the things that kills me about all this is that it’s just, like, maybe ten guys.
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
OBEY. CONSUME. STAY ASLEEP. DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY.
#halloween #blacklight #watchTV #TheyLive #costuming #horror #halloweekend
#halloween #blacklight #watchTV #TheyLive #costuming #horror #halloweekend
November 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
OBEY. CONSUME. STAY ASLEEP. DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY.
#halloween #blacklight #watchTV #TheyLive #costuming #horror #halloweekend
#halloween #blacklight #watchTV #TheyLive #costuming #horror #halloweekend
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anyone with cash looking to help the cause—and I can't emphasize enough how badly you're needed right now—i'd seriously recommend funding @propertyofthepeople.org.
we desperately need people with a specific set of skills strictly focused on gathering inside knowledge of the admin's plans.
we desperately need people with a specific set of skills strictly focused on gathering inside knowledge of the admin's plans.
October 31, 2025 at 3:36 AM
anyone with cash looking to help the cause—and I can't emphasize enough how badly you're needed right now—i'd seriously recommend funding @propertyofthepeople.org.
we desperately need people with a specific set of skills strictly focused on gathering inside knowledge of the admin's plans.
we desperately need people with a specific set of skills strictly focused on gathering inside knowledge of the admin's plans.
Today's art break.
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Today's art break.
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But it was very clearly _not_ a protest. It doesn’t build power in the way that only antagonistic, confrontational protest can. We were in the Village, alongside folks in ACT UP “Silence = Death” shirts, so I got to explain what *real* protest is, in an American context, and that it has risks.
October 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
But it was very clearly _not_ a protest. It doesn’t build power in the way that only antagonistic, confrontational protest can. We were in the Village, alongside folks in ACT UP “Silence = Death” shirts, so I got to explain what *real* protest is, in an American context, and that it has risks.
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The NK march, by the most positive lens, was a demonstration expanding reach, shifting the Overton window, building confidence for those who are less committed or fluent in the context & issues. More simply, it’s a great on-ramp for normies, and delivers respectability for institutions that need it.
October 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
The NK march, by the most positive lens, was a demonstration expanding reach, shifting the Overton window, building confidence for those who are less committed or fluent in the context & issues. More simply, it’s a great on-ramp for normies, and delivers respectability for institutions that need it.
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Here’s what I said to our teenager and some other young folks who were around at the match: there’s a difference between a demonstration and a protest, and you need both because people are at different places in their engagement with a movement, and there are different kinds of power.
Can I ask, what did the No Kings protest actually accomplish? I mean, in real terms, what have these protests materially changed? I can't help but feel these one off protests are merely a heatsink for energy and anger rather than a path for meaningful change and disruption of the system.
October 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Here’s what I said to our teenager and some other young folks who were around at the match: there’s a difference between a demonstration and a protest, and you need both because people are at different places in their engagement with a movement, and there are different kinds of power.
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a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace
our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning
our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning
October 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace
our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning
our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning
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this is basically portland's version of a haka
Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
October 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
this is basically portland's version of a haka
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> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
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I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵
Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.
Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.
October 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵
Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.
Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.