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seeking validation in a cool, disaffected sort of way. 30s. she/her

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seaguardxiv.bsky.social
[Your 23yo mutual]: I stayed up till 5am, I've had 3 energy drinks today, I've ran 5 miles, I am unkillable

[Your 36yo mutual]: You know what. Heating pads are really nice, even when your body isn't in agony. It's just a very comforting feeling as you sit there doing your tasks.
February 17, 2026 at 1:16 AM
pippercorn.bsky.social
working from home today and i’m going for a “full tartan” kind of vibe
February 18, 2026 at 3:56 AM
pippercorn.bsky.social
MOSQUITO inside my HOUSE. BURN IT DOWN
February 18, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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eliasgreig.bsky.social
Spoke to a promising rural high school student today about the prospect of going to University and they were straight up:
'I can't afford it.'
'The fees? Or living out of home?'
'Both.'
It's been a remarkable, bipartisan effort to destroy the pathways people like me took into tertiary study.
February 17, 2026 at 11:37 AM
pippercorn.bsky.social
god sending his toughest battles to his bravest soldiers today (i’m breaking in my blundstones)
February 15, 2026 at 10:26 PM
pippercorn.bsky.social
happy post-valentine’s day to all the posters
February 15, 2026 at 6:53 AM
pippercorn.bsky.social
“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.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.bsky.social
still having a lot of fun in where winds meet
February 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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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.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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fleshatronach.bsky.social
oh ya horse year
#art
drawing of a red horse carved from stone
February 11, 2026 at 9:09 PM
pippercorn.bsky.social
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-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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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.bsky.social
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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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.bsky.social
gecko in bathroom alert 🦎
February 9, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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relationshipcrimes.bsky.social
master yoda your qinggong is crazy
February 8, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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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.bsky.social
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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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
ceaubin.com C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 12d
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.bsky.social
would kill for some salt and vinegar chips right now
February 5, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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.bsky.social
been nonstop watching dongbei travel videos. i need to go to dongbei
February 4, 2026 at 7:58 AM