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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 22h

Turned on SNL and genuinely thought the Role Model performance was a skit at first.

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assbutt @nasboat.org · 22h

i looked him up and his real name is tucker pillsbury lmao

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🦇planets @radplanets.bsky.social · 22h

what a name omg

screencap from Wikipedia
“Tucker Harrington Pillsbury (born 1997), known professionally as Role Model (stylized in all caps), is an American singer-songwriter and former rapper. After self-releasing his debut”

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Anthony Cougar Miccio @anthonymiccio.bsky.social · 22h

lol looks like he’s not above Hollywood though. But using his Christian name. (Also, Lena Dunham’s Netflix Rom-Com “Good Sex” sounds like Jumbo Shrimp or Awfully Good.)

Mark Ruffalo & Tucker Pillsbury Join Natalie Portman In Lena Dunham's Netflix
Rom-Com 'Good Sex'

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Anthony Cougar Miccio @anthonymiccio.bsky.social · 22h

I googled young Role and it’s ALL “behold my impudence and smooth tattooed chest” out there.

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Anthony Cougar Miccio @anthonymiccio.bsky.social · 22h

There’s no “oh it’s that kid from that show” for Mr Model, all modern Tiger Beat shit siloed away by algorithms, so it’s like if you saw this and were like “huh? Why? Is he somebody’s kid? Did he win a contest? Who benefits?” youtu.be/3GVugJj7BUs?...

LEIF GARRETT I WAS MADE FOR DANCING

YouTube video by omarbbcito

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Anthony Cougar Miccio @anthonymiccio.bsky.social · 22h

I like the idea that, thanks to social media, blankly handsome young men willing to sing ok in tight shirts don’t have to first act on a tv show before they can sing on a tv show. This is like if you saw John Travolta singing “let her in” on bandstand without the excuse of him being a sweathog.

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Anthony Cougar Miccio @anthonymiccio.bsky.social · 22h

You boys can practice in my barn, but promises me one thing…you won’t put your willies in these three holes! youtu.be/cTWhSL0TKq4?...

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JenJen @diflaversham.bsky.social · 7h

Role Model is the artist name for Tucker Pillsbury. He’s from Maine but he dropped out of film school in Pittsburgh in 2017 and started putting out music. His 2017 EP was heard by Mac Miller (hometown is Pittsburgh) who flew him out to LA to work together. He was signed to Interscope in 2018.

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Hellaholla 🇺🇦 @hellaholla.bsky.social · 15h

Anyone angry over last night’s performance by Role Model on SNL needs to be aware his real name is Tucker Pillsbury.

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The Exorsnicks @therealsnicks.bsky.social · 22h

I looked it up, and hie real name is NOT Role Model, it's Tucker Harrington Pillsbury🤨
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ThatBitch @erikak.bsky.social · 4h

I was referring to Role Model and who he brought on SNL as 'Sally', but I couldn't remember his name and came up with Good Riddance
Old lady brain is real 🤣

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a UNDERSCORE k @aunderscorek.bsky.social · 8h

Hey kids? Kids? Who the fuck is "Role Model" and why the fuck did anyone think he deserved an SNL slot?

I can't remember being so actively angry at how bad a performer and their songs are, Jesus. This kid looks like he got a book of cheap tattoos slapped on yesterday and sings flat, Christ.

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John Wickham @johnwickham.bsky.social · 22h

Wasn't sure who Role Model was before this, but somehow I am shocked that a man with this many bad tattoos is a country singer from 2007.

He brought a random Charli XCX as backup dancer for 30 seconds, and it was the highlight of the number.

How this man get to perform on the show's birthday. #SNL

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Dejan Mihajlović @mihajlovicfreiburg.com · 4d

Bier, Fritz-Kola, Piña Colada

Foto von einer Pressekonferenz der Kansas City Chiefs mit Andy Reid, Travis Kelce und Patrick Mahomes. Reid trägt einen grauen Anzug und eine rote Krawatte mit einem Ansteckpin am Revers. Kelce trägt ein kurzärmliges Hemd im Camp-Stil mit Vogelmuster sowie eine Wildlederkappe, und Mahomes trägt ein weißes Hemd mit Kragen, eine rosa karierte zweireihige Weste und eine blassrosa Krawatte.

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violet 👾🖤 long live swemo @myeyesviolet.bsky.social · 2d

taylor for the last week has been like your annoying kid sibling who is always just like "can i have $5? can i have $5?"

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T @jazzycatbowl.bsky.social · 23m

Caitlin Clark hanging out with Taylor makes a lot of sense on why CC won't stand on business

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HERbron James 🐐 @meekayelah.bsky.social · Jan 18

of course caitlin clark is sitting with taylor swift 😂

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Magnus Lehnsherr @i-magnus.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you think there isn’t systemic racism in the #WNBA ask yourself how the league would react if Angel Reese approached a ref once the way Caitlin Clark does regularly.

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 11d

This is the first season I’ve really paid attention to the WNBA and it’s been so fun. But there is just nothing fun about the way she presents herself, on or off the court. When people say she’s the best WNBA player or even one of the best female athletes, they are missing out on so many greats.

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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 11d

It’s just so off-putting. And people who think she’s the GOAT only do so because they’re incurious and actually uninterested in basketball as a sport with its own history and are more interested in it as another site of culture war struggle.

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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 11d

Caitlin Clark really is the WNBA player for our current moment: white and full of personal grievances but otherwise “apolitical” and seemingly uninterested in any kind of solidarity

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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 11d

she better be prepping her own statement or I know something (that has always been plainly obvious to clear-eyed people)

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 8h

I began connecting some dots in a post earlier this year abt the way white Gen X women were talking about Caitlin Clark. There's an expanded analysis to be written, I think, as it pertains to an "anti-woke" lens permeating these formerly liberally-minded women. www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/no-playing...

"Many of the people arguing for less physicality in the W—Brennan, Jenkins, tennis legend Chris Evert—have spent their careers covering or taking part in women's sports (or both). And yet, they’re buying into the oldest sexist trope in the book, a narrative that existed over a century ago as a way to keep women out of sports altogether: That women are too weak to handle physicality in sports.

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ʜᴀᴄᴋᴀʀʏ ʙɪɴx @chaclo.blacksky.app · 1h

Idk where but there’s a joke in here somewhere

A post that says “Caitlin Clark and Taylor Swift?” that Kelce box looks like” with included media of A pan of white rice and raw unseasoned chicken breast. The next post says “ghost in the shell”

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