Shai Tea
@lostchick7.bsky.social
Trash bin nerd queer. Librarian. 28 years old. she/they/ze pronouns. Non-binary woman/femme/void person. Avatar from a picrew by @nakdraws
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I also need to highlight someone else’s contribution to the Magfest museum this year: a slew of Japanese keitai with games on them! These were staples of Japanese gaming pre-smartphone, and it’s rad to see them presented here on their original hardware.
January 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
I also need to highlight someone else’s contribution to the Magfest museum this year: a slew of Japanese keitai with games on them! These were staples of Japanese gaming pre-smartphone, and it’s rad to see them presented here on their original hardware.
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OMG 😭
Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure."
LIFE SAVING!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...
Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure."
LIFE SAVING!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
www.youtube.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
OMG 😭
Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure."
LIFE SAVING!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...
Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure."
LIFE SAVING!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...
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Deep in the forest, a forgotten temple ruin overgrown by moss is the final resting place of an old god.
A stone is heaved aside, sunlight warms ancient flagstones.
An offering is placed on the altar - salt, bread, oil.
A prayer is said: "If you can help, do so. If not, persist."
It is answered.
A stone is heaved aside, sunlight warms ancient flagstones.
An offering is placed on the altar - salt, bread, oil.
A prayer is said: "If you can help, do so. If not, persist."
It is answered.
January 4, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Deep in the forest, a forgotten temple ruin overgrown by moss is the final resting place of an old god.
A stone is heaved aside, sunlight warms ancient flagstones.
An offering is placed on the altar - salt, bread, oil.
A prayer is said: "If you can help, do so. If not, persist."
It is answered.
A stone is heaved aside, sunlight warms ancient flagstones.
An offering is placed on the altar - salt, bread, oil.
A prayer is said: "If you can help, do so. If not, persist."
It is answered.
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A reminder to any canadian (or any) #watercolor artists. Beam Paints is an Indigenous owned company with beautiful plastic-free hues. Their sparkly metallics are to die for
www.beampaints.com
www.beampaints.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
A reminder to any canadian (or any) #watercolor artists. Beam Paints is an Indigenous owned company with beautiful plastic-free hues. Their sparkly metallics are to die for
www.beampaints.com
www.beampaints.com
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If you have a discord for documentation or research, whether for software or whatever, please please put some effort into backing up info somewhere else. So many entire communities efforts will just implode if something happens to discord
Discord has confidentially filed for an IPO, according to Bloomberg.
Details: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Details: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 7, 2026 at 3:00 AM
If you have a discord for documentation or research, whether for software or whatever, please please put some effort into backing up info somewhere else. So many entire communities efforts will just implode if something happens to discord
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As we celebrate the end of 2025, here's some positivity posts and memes from my positivity folder:
December 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
As we celebrate the end of 2025, here's some positivity posts and memes from my positivity folder:
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“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!”
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Hurricane Helene. Not one has been approved.
Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Helene. Not one has been approved.
More than a year after applying for a federal buyout, many North Carolina homeowners have heard almost nothing definitive.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!”
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
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even if you are completely powerless, keeping hope alive is valuable, no matter what. please keep living. please keep caring. please keep believing that we can make things better.
January 4, 2026 at 1:21 AM
even if you are completely powerless, keeping hope alive is valuable, no matter what. please keep living. please keep caring. please keep believing that we can make things better.
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No, guys, it's cool, because the cottagers adopted the Creature and he and Elizabeth moved in with them and they decorated the place for Christmas, the end! #Frankenstein
December 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
No, guys, it's cool, because the cottagers adopted the Creature and he and Elizabeth moved in with them and they decorated the place for Christmas, the end! #Frankenstein
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"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."
En kvinna, utklädd till rosa Power Ranger, hackade datingsida för högerextrema. Hon raderade hela sidan, men först fick hon användarna att bli kära i AI-botar som hon drev och fick på så sätt ut information om dem. Över 8000 högerextrema profiler har nu kartlagts.
cybernews.com/security/inv...
cybernews.com/security/inv...
Investigator breaches white supremacist dating sites, exposes 8,000 users
An investigative journalist infiltrated three white supremacist platforms, including the dating site WhiteDate, exfiltrating over 8,000 user profiles and 100GB of sensitive data.
cybernews.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."
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It's time for Koharu to glock in!🔫 Who's lining up to be her first victim—I mean, target? 👀💘
Get your shot at love by picking up Love Bullet, Vol. 1! 👉 buff.ly/wkxUwWb
Get your shot at love by picking up Love Bullet, Vol. 1! 👉 buff.ly/wkxUwWb
January 3, 2026 at 3:26 PM
It's time for Koharu to glock in!🔫 Who's lining up to be her first victim—I mean, target? 👀💘
Get your shot at love by picking up Love Bullet, Vol. 1! 👉 buff.ly/wkxUwWb
Get your shot at love by picking up Love Bullet, Vol. 1! 👉 buff.ly/wkxUwWb
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forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus
January 3, 2026 at 12:28 PM
forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus
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none of this is legal. none of this is normal. feel free to tell anyone who says otherwise to fuck off.
January 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM
none of this is legal. none of this is normal. feel free to tell anyone who says otherwise to fuck off.
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2025 was a lot of things, but it was also the first year I kept my annual promise to stop obsessively rearranging commas in word documents and actually send my writing into the unforgiving meat grinder of publishing
here’s where you can read everything that got published:
here’s where you can read everything that got published:
January 1, 2026 at 2:42 AM
2025 was a lot of things, but it was also the first year I kept my annual promise to stop obsessively rearranging commas in word documents and actually send my writing into the unforgiving meat grinder of publishing
here’s where you can read everything that got published:
here’s where you can read everything that got published:
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One reason the "do diets work?" debate interests me is because so many things that are terrible for fat people (and others) rests on that foundational belief that fat people could stop being fat if they wanted to.
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January 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One reason the "do diets work?" debate interests me is because so many things that are terrible for fat people (and others) rests on that foundational belief that fat people could stop being fat if they wanted to.
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for everyone else: buy trans literature & art NOW while you can.
there’s a non-zero chance that queer and *especially* trans voices wind up being temporarily silenced at some point over these next 4 years.
support trans people *now* while we can still ask for help & make incredible art in public.
there’s a non-zero chance that queer and *especially* trans voices wind up being temporarily silenced at some point over these next 4 years.
support trans people *now* while we can still ask for help & make incredible art in public.
Basic Issue Cis White Guys like me. Listen up.
No, this isn't an exaggeration in any way. Trans Erasure is going to be part of banning all porn (mentioning LGBTQ+ will be considered porn) and establishing a national firewall (information control).
No, this isn't an exaggeration in any way. Trans Erasure is going to be part of banning all porn (mentioning LGBTQ+ will be considered porn) and establishing a national firewall (information control).
January 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
for everyone else: buy trans literature & art NOW while you can.
there’s a non-zero chance that queer and *especially* trans voices wind up being temporarily silenced at some point over these next 4 years.
support trans people *now* while we can still ask for help & make incredible art in public.
there’s a non-zero chance that queer and *especially* trans voices wind up being temporarily silenced at some point over these next 4 years.
support trans people *now* while we can still ask for help & make incredible art in public.
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if it helps - and it genuinely has for me! - try thinking of everything you do to take care of your heart, mind & body to ensure your own well-being as a tiny way to steal his life force, eat up one of his last days on earth and give it to yourself, because you MUST OUTLIVE HIM to dance on his grave
it’s going to be so much fun when he dies
January 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
if it helps - and it genuinely has for me! - try thinking of everything you do to take care of your heart, mind & body to ensure your own well-being as a tiny way to steal his life force, eat up one of his last days on earth and give it to yourself, because you MUST OUTLIVE HIM to dance on his grave
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I am once again asking you to
– write alt texts identifying people
– write out fascists names properly without funny nicknames
so the people who wants to mute mentions of certain people actually gets the peace and quiet they want
– write alt texts identifying people
– write out fascists names properly without funny nicknames
so the people who wants to mute mentions of certain people actually gets the peace and quiet they want
January 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I am once again asking you to
– write alt texts identifying people
– write out fascists names properly without funny nicknames
so the people who wants to mute mentions of certain people actually gets the peace and quiet they want
– write alt texts identifying people
– write out fascists names properly without funny nicknames
so the people who wants to mute mentions of certain people actually gets the peace and quiet they want
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Maybe it’s because I’m not a newspaper columnist but I genuinely cannot fathom how you can actually think “this guy is a misogynist, racist, and a sexual predator, but he’s right about trans people” without any self-reflection on whether you might be wrong about us
January 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Maybe it’s because I’m not a newspaper columnist but I genuinely cannot fathom how you can actually think “this guy is a misogynist, racist, and a sexual predator, but he’s right about trans people” without any self-reflection on whether you might be wrong about us
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Daily reminder.
January 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Daily reminder.
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It’s okay to be rude to people who want you to die
November 21, 2024 at 6:02 AM
It’s okay to be rude to people who want you to die
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every day that I go to bed having not ordered a pizza, I wake up without a pizza and am sad
January 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
every day that I go to bed having not ordered a pizza, I wake up without a pizza and am sad
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oh my god I've found the motherlode
Adult Swim Bump Music Collection : Adult Swim, Various Artists, MF DOOM, Sourface, MagiCXbeats, NegroSaki, J Dilla, juneblaze, Flying Lotus, Psyche Origami, TOKiMONSTA, Nujabes, Boards of Canada, Five...
A 350+ track collection consisting of music featured in many Adult Swim bumps over the years.Tracks will detail the original artist/song name in brackets at...
archive.org
December 23, 2024 at 2:19 AM
oh my god I've found the motherlode