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  • November 29, 2025

    my super sweet 16th century: lucrecia de leon

    Raise your hand if you’ve ever been a teenage girl. Okay, now raise your hand if you’ve ever been a teenage girl in the sixteenth century. 

    feminism
    feminism, herstory
  • February 24, 2025

    Everybody get more ugly NOW!!!

    Every week it feels like there is something new wrong with me. That my body is flawed in an immutable way, everything to its very essence is malformed, like an apple rotting from the core out.

    feminism, influencers
    beauty, feminism, internet lies, makeup
  • August 21, 2024

    kpop + beauty + orientalism + neoliberalism

    It would be an exaggeration to say the South Korean government is paying to brainwash our kids but there is a lot of money being spent to create and maintain legions of Koreaboos.

    pop culture
    kpop
  • May 7, 2024

    Who killed the internet?

    everything fun about sharing the internet with people has been spoiled, because that is where AI has been deployed

    current affairs
    internet lies
  • February 13, 2024

    Sometimes old men who are ugly are the hottest

    We need justice for busted-but-beautiful-old-men. The guys who would be middle managers at an insurance company if it weren’t for unbridled sexual swag they stow deep inside.

    pop culture
  • January 3, 2024

    She never actually said that – does it matter?

    “I’m 27 years old, I’ve no money and no prospects. I’m already a burden to my parents and I’m frightened.” Wow Jane Austen you are so right. Or are you.

    pop culture
    internet lies, jane austen
  • November 13, 2023

    What color is no makeup? A visual investigation.

    Despite being a victim of cute marketing, I am also a lunatic cheapskate. So, why not combine a shopping addiction with some data science? 

    influencers
    makeup
  • April 14, 2022

    I regret to inform you the neo-nazi eating disorder accelerationist pedocult is now into crypto

    After a couple months of detoxing from my last foray into kaliyuga accelerationism, I paid a visit to the ol’ kaliacc carrd, this time greeted by a 404 error. It looks like the old Discord invite, as well as the kalichan image board, are down. RIP kaliacc? But there is something interesting on an archived…

    influencers
  • February 23, 2022

    Post the body fascist

    “Remember, anorexia spaces have a lot of fetishests and creeps, as well as other jealous girls. Make someone mad? They might just expose you to everyone you know…,”

    influencers
  • October 12, 2021

    Satisfy your soul, buy a new face

    Plastic surgeons are using increasingly cynical messaging to reach new audiences and hawk their wares.

    influencers, pop culture
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