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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤

@ourobororoboruo.bsky.social

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✨ Beijing儿 American changeling ✨ Freelance culture writer & editor, semiotician, illustrator. Previously @theemancipator.org senior editor She/her

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · Jul 9

Found a set of cartoons I did from 2021 of “Asian-style Americans,” satirizing those so-called “Asian-style” recipes that qualify their ethnicness with the addition of an “Asian ingredient.”

Rather proud of these.

Person laying mandarin orange slices to eyes in a barhrobe

Bikini-clad woman applying sesame oil to skin

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 3h

Omg how cool!

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 4h

Ooo

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 4h

I want to read a fantasy story where magic very much exists but doesn’t solve any of the major problems faced by the characters.

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 4h

Trusting the process includes watching your infant roll merrily around for 30 minutes until they dozed off on their own

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 5h

While scrolling I came across some rando who said “don’t get me wrong, I hate the press” in the middle of their post like it’s some common sensical thing to feel.

Left me feeling like someone just threw a drink at me for no reason 🥲

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 6h

She’s like, “Say what now? Catch these tiny ineffectual hands!”

Seriously what a cutie

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 8h

Put up this 抱抱 poster while 抱抱ing

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 8h

This now hangs in my doorway to set the vibes for all who enter

Yellow orange poster with image of crying toddler in white tank top and shorts reaching up to be picked up by disembodied hands.

Words: “keep calm and baobao*”

*hug/carry

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 8h

This now hangs in my doorway to set the vibes for all who enter

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 8h

💛💛💛

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 1d

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month at @motherjones.com, I spoke to four disabled federal workers who were laid off about how their old jobs were very accessible—and what the federal government loses out on by having fewer disabled employees. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The human costs of Trump's war on government

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

www.motherjones.com

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 1d

Jump scares galore

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 1d

In case folks forgot, the man is running for mayor.

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a politician making a sensible and honestly pretty mild statement akin to wishing for “world peace” during the Miss America interview section.

The responses are predictably and tiresomely deranged.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

this is very good

— lol, lmao —

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss is now CBS's editor in chief. Just two years ago, her outlet The Free Press was the springboard for an anti-trans "whistleblower" & a ban on care for trans youth in Missouri. The stories have been heavily scrutinized for falsehoods and inconsistencies

www.mediamatters.org/bari-weiss/t...

Timeline: The unfolding saga between The Free Press and a Missouri gender clinic

Update (last updated 9/12/23): This article has been repeatedly updated with additional examples. The Free Press, the Bari Weiss outlet that claims to focus on stories “ignored or misconstrued in the ...

www.mediamatters.org

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 1d

Recipe writers who write “until mushy” for cooking time should be fired into the sun 😭

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 1d

This is the kind of YA that I like, respects a kid’s ability to understand systemic themes, grapple with things like genocide and corruption, not just teenage hormones

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 1d

*Most of her peers

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 1d

Rereading “Fullmetal Alchemist” in my 30s hits so differently.

I appreciate Arakawa’s world building even more this time around, particularly for a fantasy shonen manga. Mist or her peers focus on characters and their powers and keep politics and economics more light touch.

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 1d

It’s giving “warrior ethos”

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 1d

The idea of “making plain” is imo a naive approach to crafting narratives that doesn’t make an effort to understand the audience.

Police brutality got successfully spun into “looting and vandalism” from the getgo because a lot of Americans don’t want to deal with the racism that build this country.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

we showed the brutality of the anti-Black (and anti-ally) violence by police in 2020 (and before) yet we still got Trump for a second term and police violence has only worsened.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 1d

Those people are the worst member of the group project team, always

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 2d

🧐 extremely sus

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

New conspiracies over Trump’s health swirl after CNN text interview

The president famously does not use email and is not known to frequently use text messages

www.independent.co.uk

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