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Toby "earth" Baratta

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PhD student in Informatics at the University of California - Irvine, researching governance and moderation in grassroots online communities. I focus on games! interests expand into social comp, volunteer labor, conduct, and youth! she/her ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ“š

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okay so who asked for a scrubs reboot???

they already tried this with that season we don't ever talk about because scrubs only had 8 seasons and that's a fact.

I love Scrubs (top 5 tv show ever), but jesus christ. does it start acknowledging the season-we-don't-talk-about?? or??

26.02.2026 21:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

26.02.2026 18:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 6153 ๐Ÿ” 1247 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 56 ๐Ÿ“Œ 71

@theatlantic.com any chance of ever getting some sort of Digital+ plan, that's between the digital and the premium plan, but just to be able to not have ads? I don't want the physical copies or totes, I just want to not have ads when reading on the app.

26.02.2026 21:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are also SO MANY PEOPLE COUGHING AND SNIFFLING EVERYWHERE in the Indy airport. And with the flu vaccine this year mismatch I absolutely don't want to risk uh, uncontrollable vomiting and such

05.01.2026 11:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Have like eight hours of flying today because going from midwest-ish to tiny airport so connecting (and I'm loyal to Alaska Airlines so hello Seattle!) and NGL have to keep reminding myself eight hours of fogged up glasses are not as bad as the current flu and mystery sickness. Aaaaaaaahh.

05.01.2026 11:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is such a mood

04.01.2026 21:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

okay seriously why do so many people just use their phones on speaker in airports and on planes??

29.12.2025 18:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

all I want for Christmas is more #Umamusume veteran space

Pleaaaase cygames pleaaaase

28.12.2025 23:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The top panel could also read "Overwhelming to do list for the holidays that I want to avoid" (for me).

16.12.2025 21:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"trump just declared war with venezuela via truth social" is a real sentence i just said out loud

17.12.2025 01:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1840 ๐Ÿ” 266 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 49 ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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I would like to report princess kawakami for being too relatable to all students #umamusume

17.12.2025 05:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

30.09.2025 23:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 10731 ๐Ÿ” 3238 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 216 ๐Ÿ“Œ 580

(for other BSG nerds here, I intentionally attribute it to *Commander* Adama - I've seen other places attribute it to Admiral Adama, but that is incorrect for when the statement was made.)

/end super nerd alert

01.10.2025 05:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"There's a reason why you separate military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander Adama, Battlestar Galactica - Water (2004).

Too applicable.

01.10.2025 05:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

30.09.2025 14:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 49614 ๐Ÿ” 15470 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 663 ๐Ÿ“Œ 715

President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising.

Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.

01.10.2025 04:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 4850 ๐Ÿ” 1546 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 120 ๐Ÿ“Œ 78

Watching the Nintendo direct late having had no spoilers all day just resulted in me being wildly disappointed by galaxy being a movie??

And also the movie announcements showing nothing about Rosalina killed me

But I want the Rosalina book omg

13.09.2025 00:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Photo of Uma Musume with Narita Taishin in a bad mood and with a condition 7 days pre-debut race.

Photo of Uma Musume with Narita Taishin in a bad mood and with a condition 7 days pre-debut race.

Good morning to everyone except Narita Taishin

04.09.2025 19:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So, I mostly hide from social media and enjoy that freedom all the time, but figure at some point I should post a catch-up over the year. So, that'll be coming! But so far grad school is great - and also super hard! But I've gotten to read and engage with so much that I care about.

08.06.2025 21:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

05.06.2025 20:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 35272 ๐Ÿ” 8123 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 614 ๐Ÿ“Œ 253

I pray this is a joke or I feel ten thousand years old

I work with too many youngins who might actually not know this ๐Ÿ˜ญ

08.06.2025 20:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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April 2025 Producer Showreel
juna.events

11.04.2025 18:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 18 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The new @xbox.com handheld makes me finally want to upgrade my Xbox One X that I bought back in 2018. It's lasted so long and I love playing on it, but it's finally getting a bit too old with all the X|S games it can't play.

Gotta start saving up now. Who needs food on a grad student budget?

08.06.2025 20:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At Fate's End also looks wonderful!

Persona 4 Revival literally made me so fucking happy. I tried to play golden a while ago but couldn't get into it because it was so old-looking.

Animo, Keeper, and Planet of Lana 2 also look great!

08.06.2025 20:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Warning: ICE is planning 30 days of immigration raids across Los Angeles County. If you or someone you know may be impacted, now is the time to set up a support system, identify a safe place, and stay alert.

08.06.2025 18:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 18536 ๐Ÿ” 7201 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 401 ๐Ÿ“Œ 284

Literally all of the game reveals over the past weekend (and Friday?) have been really fucking great, ngl

08.06.2025 20:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Persona 4 Revival announcement just now had me shout so loudly my neighbors probably heard me, ngl

08.06.2025 20:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

a democratic mayor was abducted by ICE and chuck schumer is posting with the gusto of a guy who didnโ€™t know guac was extra at chipotle

10.05.2025 05:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 3112 ๐Ÿ” 448 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59 ๐Ÿ“Œ 20

Can't break heat records if they defend the national weather service I guess

(It is 94F right now, which the record stands at 95F for this day in history ๐Ÿ˜ญ)

10.05.2025 22:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0