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oh yeah Chernobyl tapestry

They're on deadlines and due to the decline of print media, they're not paid much anymore. The articles are written to generate clicks rather than to convey information, though this is the state of mainstream art reporting in general: the narrative of the artist as con artist is so popular that actu...

re: performing arts students what I do see often, since I studied visual arts, is previously published but obscure pieces of art being repurposed in news articles as news. I find this upsetting largely because it's IP theft. One particularly well known incident was the whole momo thing, which took a...

Some of the things I've seen in the news lately were almost certainly rumors started by children published as news, so, could be.

A scalpel is an unsusual weapon, so I'm not sure what wounds would look like from one. It does kind of look like she was attacked by a very small dog, which seems more likely what would have happened if this story is made up. However, dogs also get stolen all the time, since some of them are worth l...

Well what I can say is that I know that many people believe the Pulse shooting was a hoax. That one is particularly haunting for me because I lived in Orlando for several years and almost all of my friends were mutual friends with someone who was killed, and I remember one of them frantically asking...

I think there's deception in the sense of government agencies repeatedly trying to cover up how bad they messed up and pretend it's fine. I've heard rumors that the Bush administration was warned about 9/11 in advance and just blew off the warning thinking it wouldn't really happen, and that's entir...

It is possible that a couple of celebrities are trans that we don't know about-- there have been a couple of trans women in the media who have passed as cis for a long time then recently come out. There are certainly not thousands of them. I've never really heard of any trans men doing the same, but...

Nah I don't think any of those people are trans. It would be kind of sad if they were because it would mean that essentially all trans people with any influence in society have absolutely no solidarity with those who have none, though it's understandable because until recently an out trans person pr...

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