Dr ShinyGoth
@ghostingdani.bsky.social
A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
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their politics is the only reason the authors even thought to write about them in the first place. it’s the only thing that gives their private lives any downstream significance. so they use politics to justify attention, then scold you as emotionally rigid for refusing to compartmentalize.
From the Editorial Board: You don’t need to share the Vances’ political views to be happy for them.
Editorial: A baby at 1 Observatory Circle
A new life is a reason for hope, a moment that invites optimism about the future. We wish Usha and the Vance family well.
trib.al
January 27, 2026 at 7:32 AM
their politics is the only reason the authors even thought to write about them in the first place. it’s the only thing that gives their private lives any downstream significance. so they use politics to justify attention, then scold you as emotionally rigid for refusing to compartmentalize.
You don't even have to get your blood tested! Just go get an MMR vaccine.
A reminder: Measles causes immune amnesia. Catch it and your body forgets how to make antibodies for everything you were previously immune to, whether through prior infection or vaccination.
Elder millennials, GenX, and above, get your blood titers checked and get vaccinated if you're vulnerable.
Elder millennials, GenX, and above, get your blood titers checked and get vaccinated if you're vulnerable.
The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced.
Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.
Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.
January 27, 2026 at 8:01 AM
You don't even have to get your blood tested! Just go get an MMR vaccine.
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conditions incompatible with life
January 27, 2026 at 7:55 AM
conditions incompatible with life
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Remember videos of people in camps protesting and rioting? Even if Bovino is out, even if somehow Noem and Miller are forced to resign (still a longshot) people are still being brutalized. It's not about a few figureheads. It's about the wider system.
DHS is still disappearing people nationwide and it is not stopping because of fall boy Bovino reportedly being flicked aside. Camps are still being filled for profit.
Again it's good Bovino got pulled back. It's good there might be even a temporary drawdown in Minneapolis. But DHS is surging in Maine. It is grabbing people around Los Angeles. They aren't stopping. Maybe they're scared but they aren't stopping. The American Dirty War continues.
January 27, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Remember videos of people in camps protesting and rioting? Even if Bovino is out, even if somehow Noem and Miller are forced to resign (still a longshot) people are still being brutalized. It's not about a few figureheads. It's about the wider system.
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The cycle of history is once again approaching its lowest and most devastating point: brutalism being in fashion
August 20, 2023 at 3:36 PM
The cycle of history is once again approaching its lowest and most devastating point: brutalism being in fashion
If they wanted to make a trashy Baz Luhrmann-esque Victorian sex fantasy they could have done that without bringing Emily Brontë into it.
Just to be clear: the new Wuthering Heights supposedly doesn’t have anyone playing Lockwood? Are we going to make movies of The Great Gatsby without Nick Carraway? The Ten Commandments without Moses? Are we just going to film a new Hamlet without Hamlet? Is this a game like Garfield without Garfield
January 27, 2026 at 6:52 AM
If they wanted to make a trashy Baz Luhrmann-esque Victorian sex fantasy they could have done that without bringing Emily Brontë into it.
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Just to be clear: the new Wuthering Heights supposedly doesn’t have anyone playing Lockwood? Are we going to make movies of The Great Gatsby without Nick Carraway? The Ten Commandments without Moses? Are we just going to film a new Hamlet without Hamlet? Is this a game like Garfield without Garfield
January 27, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Just to be clear: the new Wuthering Heights supposedly doesn’t have anyone playing Lockwood? Are we going to make movies of The Great Gatsby without Nick Carraway? The Ten Commandments without Moses? Are we just going to film a new Hamlet without Hamlet? Is this a game like Garfield without Garfield
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And they say Bluesky doesn’t have the juice!
January 27, 2026 at 6:42 AM
And they say Bluesky doesn’t have the juice!
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Maybe Starmer should have lessons from the Japanese Ambassador in how to really celebrate Burns Nicht!
Japanese ambassador goes viral with Auld Lang Syne on Burns Night
www.thenational.scot/news/2579736...
Japanese ambassador goes viral with Auld Lang Syne on Burns Night
www.thenational.scot/news/2579736...
Japanese ambassador goes viral with Auld Lang Syne on Burns Night
The Japanese ambassador to the UK has gone viral with a post celebrating Burns Night.
www.thenational.scot
January 26, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Maybe Starmer should have lessons from the Japanese Ambassador in how to really celebrate Burns Nicht!
Japanese ambassador goes viral with Auld Lang Syne on Burns Night
www.thenational.scot/news/2579736...
Japanese ambassador goes viral with Auld Lang Syne on Burns Night
www.thenational.scot/news/2579736...
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ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
January 26, 2026 at 10:14 PM
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
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I CANAE BREATHE!!!
January 27, 2026 at 12:45 AM
I CANAE BREATHE!!!
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more horny books in STEM please
January 27, 2026 at 5:59 AM
more horny books in STEM please
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once again when i tweeted this years ago IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE
January 27, 2026 at 4:06 AM
once again when i tweeted this years ago IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE
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Cans't he, you know....smooth the seam? 🐋
January 27, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Cans't he, you know....smooth the seam? 🐋
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I don’t think students should only read horny books in college, but they should be assigned at least one (1) very horny book at some point when they’re in college.
January 27, 2026 at 3:02 AM
I don’t think students should only read horny books in college, but they should be assigned at least one (1) very horny book at some point when they’re in college.
/I/ think students should only read horny books in college.
I don’t think students should only read horny books in college, but they should be assigned at least one (1) very horny book at some point when they’re in college.
January 27, 2026 at 5:11 AM
/I/ think students should only read horny books in college.
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People seem to have forgotten that the establishment of Homeland Security was highly controversial as it was seen as a danger to democracy. It was feared that it would one day be used AGAINST the American people. And here we are.
Tin soldiers and HOMELAND coming
We’re finally on our own
Tin soldiers and HOMELAND coming
We’re finally on our own
January 26, 2026 at 11:16 PM
People seem to have forgotten that the establishment of Homeland Security was highly controversial as it was seen as a danger to democracy. It was feared that it would one day be used AGAINST the American people. And here we are.
Tin soldiers and HOMELAND coming
We’re finally on our own
Tin soldiers and HOMELAND coming
We’re finally on our own
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"106,636 years of federal work experience were lost across the 10,109 employees with Ph.D.s who departed STEM or health roles 1 January–30 November."
It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.
It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.
The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
www.science.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 AM
"106,636 years of federal work experience were lost across the 10,109 employees with Ph.D.s who departed STEM or health roles 1 January–30 November."
It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.
It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.
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Yooooo, here’s some history for everyone that I personally was a part of
In 2012 when Minnesota was the first state to defeat a constitutional marriage ban, the state recognized we had to act on momentum and gay marriage was legal months later. We can’t let up.
January 27, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Yooooo, here’s some history for everyone that I personally was a part of
"You WILL celebrate the regime or ELSE"
From the Editorial Board: You don’t need to share the Vances’ political views to be happy for them.
Editorial: A baby at 1 Observatory Circle
A new life is a reason for hope, a moment that invites optimism about the future. We wish Usha and the Vance family well.
trib.al
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 AM
"You WILL celebrate the regime or ELSE"
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In case anybody feels the need to think about Harry Potter today:
As art, Harry Potter is neither as good as stans believe it to be nor as fascist as TERFs are.
Post something banal on here that is impossible to say on the other site, I’ll start: I think Taylor Swift is an uneven songwriter
January 26, 2026 at 9:53 PM
In case anybody feels the need to think about Harry Potter today:
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The reason why they're still pressing ahead is not because they have some secret plan, but the pretty classic Umberto Eco fascist-folly - because of their ideology they are "constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy."
January 25, 2026 at 10:51 PM
The reason why they're still pressing ahead is not because they have some secret plan, but the pretty classic Umberto Eco fascist-folly - because of their ideology they are "constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy."
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democrats will now sieze this moment to run surreptitious damage control on behalf of the regime, plead for bipartisanship and moving forward as americans together, unified, and triangulate us into a position that's just to the right of where we were the day before Renee Good was executed
January 27, 2026 at 2:19 AM
democrats will now sieze this moment to run surreptitious damage control on behalf of the regime, plead for bipartisanship and moving forward as americans together, unified, and triangulate us into a position that's just to the right of where we were the day before Renee Good was executed
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"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference"
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
gifting this article because it made me laugh, which is hard to do in this context. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/n...
After Mamdani Nods to ‘Heated Rivalry,’ Library E-Book Downloads Surge
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:28 AM
"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference"
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!