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Jo Backus - Art
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Hi hi I make whatever I want like paintings or teeth cups or medieval inspired art.
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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
April 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Confession: I don’t know the difference between Fabletics, Athleta, and Lululemon but that might be because I’m not much into fitness
May 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Really don’t love chatgpt advertising all around OSU’s campus! It gives me gently sinister vibes tbh!!
May 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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I'm at the library and I love it. You should go to the library.
May 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The feeling when you’re sick on a day where you’re all caught up on TV and were excited to be productive
May 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Katy Perry weaponizing therapy speak was on everyone's bingo card.
‘A human piñata’: Katy Perry reflects on online abuse following Blue Origin flight and latest tour
Pop singer’s tour has been mocked online and she was criticised for taking commercial spaceflight, but she tells fans ‘please know I am OK’
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I think this Jane Austen phase is worsening my social anxiety
April 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
An audition for The White Lotus: “Now eat this dish of fruit, ~scandalously~”
April 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
“Welcome to the White Lotus, where we serve mostly fruit. And MURDER.”
April 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Actual new Commercial Tire commercial: “Are you a broke-ass clumsy gig worker with busted up tires ‘cause you have to use your crusty old economy car for cash flow?”
April 18, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Aah I need to re-read this book
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I forgot the term “marketing materials” and told someone I was trying to learn more about business imagery
April 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Monster Hunter is like, “find out how long would it take you and your cat to kill a T-Rex with a spork and half a box of pop-its.” #monsterhunter
March 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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February 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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February 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Yeah like, I would *enjoy* that shit. DC types are so stodgy smh
I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
February 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
February 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Last week, Elon Musk's staff illegally breached the U.S. Treasury payment system and gained access to millions of Americans' personal data.

We're calling out Elon Musk to put on his big boy pants and answer some questions from the Oversight Committee.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvv-...
Crockett Calls Out COWARD Musk
YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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from today's post —
go read the whole thing. link is here: bit.ly/4hn398M
January 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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“on Thursday the [National Science Foundation]’s online payment system was still down, throwing lives into uncertainty. An NSF email seen by STAT suggested salaries had been suspended to “ensure only eligible activities” are funded.” www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
RFK Jr either 1. Has a brain worm that ate a portion of his brain or 2. Does not have a brain worm but believes he doe, and I don’t know which is worse
January 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Well, I guess I need to log into Facebook to make sure the Zuck didn’t force follow Trump and Vance for me 🙄
January 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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January 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM