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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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If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
January 29, 2026 at 6:46 PM
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
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@ Anyone anywhere making a video game in which you ride a horse: horses can swim. Horses are excellent swimmers. Horses can swim in full tack. Horses can swim with a rider on their back. Any moderately trained horse can easily be commanded to cross a calm river or to swim out into a lake. Thank you.
January 29, 2026 at 6:07 PM
@ Anyone anywhere making a video game in which you ride a horse: horses can swim. Horses are excellent swimmers. Horses can swim in full tack. Horses can swim with a rider on their back. Any moderately trained horse can easily be commanded to cross a calm river or to swim out into a lake. Thank you.
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Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
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The organization carrying out the mass kidnapping and disappearance of children is staffed with sex pests? Imagine my shock.
Here’s How Many ICE and CBP Agents Allegedly Preyed on Children
Apparently the institutions are riddled with accused sex criminals.
newrepublic.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:52 PM
The organization carrying out the mass kidnapping and disappearance of children is staffed with sex pests? Imagine my shock.
@ Anyone anywhere making a video game in which you ride a horse: horses can swim. Horses are excellent swimmers. Horses can swim in full tack. Horses can swim with a rider on their back. Any moderately trained horse can easily be commanded to cross a calm river or to swim out into a lake. Thank you.
January 29, 2026 at 6:07 PM
@ Anyone anywhere making a video game in which you ride a horse: horses can swim. Horses are excellent swimmers. Horses can swim in full tack. Horses can swim with a rider on their back. Any moderately trained horse can easily be commanded to cross a calm river or to swim out into a lake. Thank you.
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every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:13 PM
every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com
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Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
Perry: Abolish ICE? How about DHS altogether.
"We have models for how to structure federal immigration oversight that doesn't rely on an unaccountable masked secret police force running rampant in our streets," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
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A good news story: a year old male mountain lion walking around a San Francisco neighborhood was successful tranquilized and relocated to wilderness, in part because the neighborhood helped out and had the right attitude.
January 28, 2026 at 12:24 AM
A good news story: a year old male mountain lion walking around a San Francisco neighborhood was successful tranquilized and relocated to wilderness, in part because the neighborhood helped out and had the right attitude.
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Saw a reply to this thread saying "what's cool is all these problems are solved by abolishing ICE" and... no, no they are not.
Abolishing ICE doesn't even abolish CBP. But also the massive data/privacy issues Wyden is talking about have implications far beyond even the worst 3-letter agencies.
Abolishing ICE doesn't even abolish CBP. But also the massive data/privacy issues Wyden is talking about have implications far beyond even the worst 3-letter agencies.
For YEARS I've been on the forefront of trying to pass real privacy reforms to stop an agency like Trump's ICE from weaponizing your private data. Now it's happened, but it's not too late to act. If you care about this as much as I do, please let your members of Congress know.
January 28, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Saw a reply to this thread saying "what's cool is all these problems are solved by abolishing ICE" and... no, no they are not.
Abolishing ICE doesn't even abolish CBP. But also the massive data/privacy issues Wyden is talking about have implications far beyond even the worst 3-letter agencies.
Abolishing ICE doesn't even abolish CBP. But also the massive data/privacy issues Wyden is talking about have implications far beyond even the worst 3-letter agencies.
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“Are the arts important?” Humanity practiced them long before they had use for science and will practice them long after math is gone. Is the dawn important? Is dusk?
January 28, 2026 at 2:14 AM
“Are the arts important?” Humanity practiced them long before they had use for science and will practice them long after math is gone. Is the dawn important? Is dusk?
First performance review at new job yesterday and it was basically “10/10 keep doing exactly what you’re doing” which feels pretty great after everything!
January 28, 2026 at 3:54 AM
First performance review at new job yesterday and it was basically “10/10 keep doing exactly what you’re doing” which feels pretty great after everything!
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we’re right about ai too
January 27, 2026 at 2:23 PM
we’re right about ai too
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Hello lovely people. I’m still searching for 2d design work and really appreciate you looking at my portfolio even if you’re not hiring right now.
Hello the internet.
I updated my portfolio recently with some (imo) cool shit with MORE cool shit to come once my most recent show airs
✨ www.rocketgal.com ✨
If you have room for a very small freelancer I would be eternally grateful for the opportunity!
If I dont speak your language I will learn
I updated my portfolio recently with some (imo) cool shit with MORE cool shit to come once my most recent show airs
✨ www.rocketgal.com ✨
If you have room for a very small freelancer I would be eternally grateful for the opportunity!
If I dont speak your language I will learn
January 23, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Hello lovely people. I’m still searching for 2d design work and really appreciate you looking at my portfolio even if you’re not hiring right now.
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Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial:
▪️cottagecore
▪️extremely toxic fandom
▪️aggressive side part
▪️weird childish curses
▪️puritanical, but also
▪️horrifyingly perverted
RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok
▪️cottagecore
▪️extremely toxic fandom
▪️aggressive side part
▪️weird childish curses
▪️puritanical, but also
▪️horrifyingly perverted
RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok
January 28, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial:
▪️cottagecore
▪️extremely toxic fandom
▪️aggressive side part
▪️weird childish curses
▪️puritanical, but also
▪️horrifyingly perverted
RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok
▪️cottagecore
▪️extremely toxic fandom
▪️aggressive side part
▪️weird childish curses
▪️puritanical, but also
▪️horrifyingly perverted
RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok
This is terrifying.
i am SO excited to learn this tbh
When I was a kid, the New England Aquarium had a seal named Hoover who could talk: he could say a few sentences with a thick Boston accent. Because a talking seal has, to my knowledge, never happened before or since, it sounds made up.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_...
January 28, 2026 at 3:46 AM
This is terrifying.
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Swear to tits, if you guys do not stop infantilizing yourselves and fictional characters, this "I'm just a widdle bean, I can't handle complex adult topics in my fiction, sex is naughty, I'm gonna go dissociate and watch Bluey" headassery is unacceptable for grown folks, full-stop.
January 27, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Swear to tits, if you guys do not stop infantilizing yourselves and fictional characters, this "I'm just a widdle bean, I can't handle complex adult topics in my fiction, sex is naughty, I'm gonna go dissociate and watch Bluey" headassery is unacceptable for grown folks, full-stop.
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Learning the difference between being a little uncomfortable and being in actual danger is something you HAVE to learn. Possibly have to start speed running it now if you’re planning on surviving the long term.
January 17, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Learning the difference between being a little uncomfortable and being in actual danger is something you HAVE to learn. Possibly have to start speed running it now if you’re planning on surviving the long term.
As someone in the specific child safety part of tech: Yes. At my previous job, our work seemed to be largely seen as an annoying roadblock to adding more useless widgets or changing the background color on mobile. There are dozens of ways to improve conditions, but many companies just don’t care.
As someone in tech:
It’s possible to make shit safer. A bunch of men in the industry don’t care or don’t think of things they can’t fathom happening to them and usually are the ones in leadership making decisions. It’s infuriating
It’s possible to make shit safer. A bunch of men in the industry don’t care or don’t think of things they can’t fathom happening to them and usually are the ones in leadership making decisions. It’s infuriating
January 18, 2026 at 3:28 AM
As someone in the specific child safety part of tech: Yes. At my previous job, our work seemed to be largely seen as an annoying roadblock to adding more useless widgets or changing the background color on mobile. There are dozens of ways to improve conditions, but many companies just don’t care.
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As screenwriter of the Labubu movie I want to clear up some misconceptions. Yes, technically they do eat human flesh, but only necrotic tissue around wounds. Doctors use them to clean up injuries and promote positive health outcomes. Labubus are humanity’s allies, except for evil Labubus of course
January 17, 2026 at 6:48 PM
As screenwriter of the Labubu movie I want to clear up some misconceptions. Yes, technically they do eat human flesh, but only necrotic tissue around wounds. Doctors use them to clean up injuries and promote positive health outcomes. Labubus are humanity’s allies, except for evil Labubus of course
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If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
January 17, 2026 at 1:33 AM
If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Project “Enjoy LA And All It Has To Offer” progress: went to a cool little witchy popup market in Glendale and then got Cuban with a friend and her husband, had a blast! Everything really does just feel better when you treat yourself to small adventures 💕
January 18, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Project “Enjoy LA And All It Has To Offer” progress: went to a cool little witchy popup market in Glendale and then got Cuban with a friend and her husband, had a blast! Everything really does just feel better when you treat yourself to small adventures 💕