Things I Stumbled Across: Week of 02-08-26

This will mark the transition of Things I Stumbled Across into a weekly “round-up” instead of a randomly timed dump-o-the-day series.

As with my initial intent, sometimes there will be a common theme solidifying the links into a cohesive meal.. But don’t always count on it. This week started out very gay.

• yh.co - nyc-based apparel boutique saturated in hot homo sex. I need this trucker hat, their good boy jersey, and a break holes not hearts tank top.
• Surge Studio Music - Spider Taylor was asked to create soundtracks for the gay porn studio Surge Studio. Iconic vintage pre-condom, pre-AIDS, chikka-bow-wow grooves. Spider’s partner made this release possible after Spider’s death.
• Hypebot article signaling a recent rash of corporate automated moderation tools shutting down and outright banning the instagram pages of underground sex-positive, queer, and BDSM/kink/counter-culture centered “dance music collectives.” The gist is that these LLM/AI moderation systems that Meta is operating lack the ability to see the nuances present in posts that are centered on anti-hetero-normative sexual practices. The tools see anything these communities posted as sex-trafficking, which violate Meta’s TOS and ban the entire account without much recourse for appeal. Years of informational, transactional and historical posts are ripped from the living archive that social media had become for these groups. And Meta is doing next to nothing to change their tools’ methods.