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pippercorn 🍉

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“oh yeah i forgot about that” says small child regarding squashed, rotten pear discovered in school backpack

February 14, 2026 at 2:51 AM

pippercorn 🍉

@pippercorn.bsky.social

hell is trying to get your five year old to do his chinese class homework, forever

February 13, 2026 at 8:59 AM

pippercorn 🍉

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still having a lot of fun in where winds meet

February 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM

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John Delmenico

@thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social

Grace Tame is on a generational ‘judge me by my haters’ run

February 12, 2026 at 9:35 AM

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tshirt

@tshirt.bsky.social

anyway i came back on here to try to invent the ethical vague.

I saw some whitewashed danmei-inspired fiction a while ago. And obviously it bothered me. But what also bothered me was that I didn’t know quite what to do next.

I have mutuals in common with the author. So I was going to ask one of them to privately DM some concerns to the author. But when I sat down to write that message, I realized that I had no clue what I wanted from the interaction.

Did I want an apology to the Chinese people at large? Not really, no. I don’t think that would actually do anything. Did I want them to delete their writing in penance? Again, not really. I’m not trying to punish this person. What I really wanted was someone to have said at the onset of that person’s project: “Hey! Could you think this premise and project through a little more?” I want the harm to never have existed. I want fantasies; I want alternative universes. I want something that very self-evidently did not happen.

So what now? What I’m really asking is a very simple, very commonly asked question: how do we identify and repair harm? Maybe we can try to think through this together.

What was the harm? This is a bit nebulous. The whitewashing upset me, but the reason it’s bad is not because it hurts my feelings, although my earlier writing has attempted to restore this dimension to the conversation. I think the harm is that it is part of a common practice of treating Chinese culture (and other cultures of people of color) as purely aesthetic, apolitical, and disposable. So, how do we fix this?

As a writer, I do believe that critique, like the kind I’m writing right now, is an important part of making this dynamic visible and then rejecting it. If whitewashing is allowed to remain invisible and unremarked upon, this both reinforces and naturalizes it. Ideally, I could break down exactly how whitewashing occurred, why it went unremarked upon, and some strategies for avoiding it.

But critique is charged. To be frank, I don’t trust you, the reader of this post. I don’t trust you to be chill about this. I want to be able to have a conversation about whitewashing that doesn’t result in 1) harassment or 2) a lack of reflection from people doing the harassing. I am not drawing a link between anti-racist critique and harassment. I am alluding to a social dynamic that I’ve written on before in my earlier essay “white eyes and chinese looks,” the last time I tried to write about whitewashed danmei-inspired fiction. The problem isn’t that people care too much about anti-racism; the problem is that people care insufficiently about meaningful anti-racism. Anyway.

So instead of putting this author on blast, I am writing a gentle reminder to us all to consider how whitewashing may manifest, even in our mutuals’ work. I encourage you to say something to them, if you think you know who this is about. You may be right. You may be wrong. But either way, you have started a conversation about whitewashing in a respectful way that is hopefully more productive than anything I can write to a stranger. And to the author of the story I’m talking about, I don’t have any practical ways for you to rework your story. I think it’s pretty inherently predicated on whitewashing, and I would like you to sit with that.

February 11, 2026 at 2:55 AM

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hunter 🪚🥩

@fleshatronach.bsky.social

oh ya horse year
#art

drawing of a red horse carved from stone

February 11, 2026 at 9:09 PM

pippercorn 🍉

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I just told you l've already bought it, Harry, you don't need to sell it to me.

February 11, 2026 at 10:02 PM

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Fahad Ali

@fahad-s-ali.bsky.social

Incredible footage - a new video shows a full minute before an incident where an protest attendee was repeatedly punched by police. Both the Premier and NSW Police have told us not to judge 30 second videos because we don't know what preceeded them. Well...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Fresh video shows police pushing protester before fight broke out

A new video filmed by a bystander and shared with ABC NEWS Verify shows the full minute before two police officers began punching a protester, shedding light on the beginning of the altercation.

www.abc.net.au

February 11, 2026 at 6:57 AM

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krat

@kwholesaler.bsky.social

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

February 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM

pippercorn 🍉

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sickos yes dot jpeg

book cover of “what could possibly go wrong? death and disappearance in tasmania’s national parks, reserves and wild places”

February 11, 2026 at 4:29 AM

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shrimps 💪🍤

@shrimpchipsss.bsky.social

if you don't wake up soon,
#svsss

Shen Qingqiu in his corpse years lying in bed. Binghe sits at the edge of the bed and holds Shen Qingqiu's arm so that it is like Shen Qingqiu is patting him on the head. Binghe's eyes are shut and his hands are grasping

February 10, 2026 at 11:00 PM

pippercorn 🍉

@pippercorn.bsky.social

gecko in bathroom alert 🦎

February 9, 2026 at 11:43 AM

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crimes

@relationshipcrimes.bsky.social

master yoda your qinggong is crazy

February 8, 2026 at 1:23 AM

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Eli Valley

@elivalley.bsky.social

Relatedly, because there are close to zero progressive Jewish media outlets, today's main source of video clips of Jewish events and conferences comes from a Nick Fuentes-allied Nazi, who is amplified every hour by countless “leftists.” Here’s Mehdi Hasan doing that today:

Tweet by Mehdi Hasan amplifying "infolibnews," a Nick Fuentes-allied Nazi scumbag:
https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/2020221353324851259

February 8, 2026 at 12:09 AM

pippercorn 🍉

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about to look like an insane person wrapping a present with duct tape because the 5yo secretly used up all the normal sticky tape

February 7, 2026 at 10:50 PM

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Will Weldon

@oldmanweldon.bsky.social

It's fucking nauseating the way these people pretend like it was a bunch of 16 year old girls just lining up to have sex with this man and not a coordinated effort to pay, blackmail, and/or threaten vulnerable teenagers into being sex trafficked by a man with infinite resources and protections

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 9d

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.

She's 16. It's not like she's four. And we have now really shifted on how we think about that, I think, in a good way. Right. Right. I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls.
But I think that you're not going to find the evidence of a pedophile ring where he is actively trafficking these girls because until Me Too... It's not like a pedophile, right? There are 16-year-old girls around who are vulnerable and can be exploited, but not in this, like,
there is a mastermind who is going on the dark web and selling these girls to you. They're just around, and they're close enough to the age of consent that a lot of people probably felt like it was okay to hit on them.

February 5, 2026 at 9:52 PM

pippercorn 🍉

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would kill for some salt and vinegar chips right now

February 5, 2026 at 11:40 AM

pippercorn 🍉

@pippercorn.bsky.social

amazing how many emails i can write and send at work if i simply use my time to write and send emails

February 5, 2026 at 1:41 AM

pippercorn 🍉

@pippercorn.bsky.social

been nonstop watching dongbei travel videos. i need to go to dongbei

February 4, 2026 at 7:58 AM

pippercorn 🍉

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screencap from oh brother where art thou

February 4, 2026 at 4:19 AM

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shrimps 💪🍤

@shrimpchipsss.bsky.social

bingqiu

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 10d

Sorry for being nosy but I’m in a pretty quiet airport. a woman sat down next to a much older pilot here in the food court and started very obviously flirting with him but he absolutely cannot stop listing off aviation facts to her regardless of whatever question she asks him

February 4, 2026 at 2:17 AM

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bingge meowmeowifier

@kitschlet.bsky.social

hi i really, really needed this event so i created it <3

March Through Your Stash @marchthruyourstash.bsky.social · 10d

Introducing MARCH THROUGH YOUR STASH! This is a challenge for those of us (Libby addicts, bookstore loiterers) who keep buying books but never reading them. Read as many as possible in the month of March!