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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · Mar 10

In the interest of getting yall to talk about something other than optimal political communications strategies, itt I will be posting the songs I actually like from each week’s Weekly Discovery playlist:

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 12h

you all are always complaining about how there's no money in journalism anymore but this guy appears to make a living by tweeting and writing one piece a year about the nobel prize for literature

Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 15h

Me and @markkrotov.bsky.social wrote about Laszlo Krasznahorkai and the Nobel Prize in Literature newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the Prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

newrepublic.com

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 13h

lmfao I can't believe the Treasury is actually just buying pesos this is so fucking stupid

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 16h

girl the forever chemicals

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 17h

a teacher on the other website said he recently subbed for some fourth graders (first group young enough to not have had zoom school that he's taught) and that they're much better

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 18h

put it in a shadowbox and hang it on the wall

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 18h

"but what does it say about society that I thought it was true"

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 19h

personally my favorite part of this discourse was the guy who got offended by calling India a developing country, and got more offended when shown instances of the *Government of India* calling it that

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

adding "child tax credit" to the list of discourse topics that have provoked DM'd threats, alongside French-canadians, fallout new Vegas factions, male height, and Thomas Kincaid