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austin HELL ray

@austinlouisray.bsky.social

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writer and editor who's contributed to How I'd Fix Atlanta, Mailchimp, Defector, Atlas Obscura, Rolling Stone, Welcome to Hell World, Creative Loafing, GQ, Oxford American, Garden & Gun, First We Feast, Paste, etc. http://austinlouisray.com

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · Jun 29

they say you should never meet your heroes, but it was truly an honor to pay my respects

a bearded man in a big dumb hat does a rap squat in respectful tribute to the legendary Boston cop slide

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 39m

tired: group chats

wired: texting your buddy just to say that it’s brisk outside

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1h

pulling out the sweatshirt stash ass morning

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1h

LFGGGGGGGGOOOOOO

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1h

the brand is strong

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1h

great point: just a ton of poop talk in general

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 2h

one thing nobody warns you about parenting is that you have to spend SO MUCH time talking to small humans while you’re pooping

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 10h

super fun, right?

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 12h

if you followed me on the other site, you may remember this bit i used to do. like several essays i've written over the years, the bit eventually turned into sentences and then paragraphs and then an actual 1,000-word piece. i'm so excited to get to hold it in my hands soon.

a big beer at the airport in 2022 with my little masked gamer buddy

a big beer at the airport in 2023 with my very serious podcast-loving pal

a big beer at the airport in 2024 next to a pink owl suitcase

several big beers at the st. louis airport with my brother in 2024

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 13h

👉 www.sarahclawrence.com/newsletter 👀

i had a lot of fun writing this one and i think you’ll have a lot of fun reading it

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 15h

really enjoyed @davidjroth.bsky.social on that “plant trees in whose shade we shall never sit” shit

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Winning Isn’t Everything

It will be clear that I am not offering a self-care tip by the time you finish reading this sentence, but when things started getting dark for me around the beginning of this year I started watching m...

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 17h

hahahahahahahahaha

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 17h

👀

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 23h

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

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IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 20h

i had a salad today that was mostly made up of performative kale

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 20h

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 20h

my new yorker subscription is performative mail

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 23h

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

ok thanks

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

it’s 63 degrees in atlanta georgia but it feels like 57 degrees in atlanta georgia and i’m standing on my porch taking big deep breaths and folks let me tell you it feels great

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

i saw Know Peace Someday at the Masquerade in 1999

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

ok thanks anyway public HELLth guy have a great day

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

it's truly unbelievable how bad it's gotten out there. it's like half of the people on the road have given up on driving.

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

so excited to see y'all in Manchester!

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

the other day our 3yo farted and just goes "haha that was me"

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

i love the idea of biking maybe one day becoming my primary form of transportation. i do not love the idea of dying because some ding dong in a hatchback was staring at TikTok.

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