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My only account, don't trust DMs Gaylor, Buffyverse, Whovian word nerd 📚 bird nerd🐦 Pop culture & politics 🎶Music enthusiast🎧 •Another screaming speck of dust 🪐 •Dining on farce 🇺🇸 •Craving humanity 🇵🇸 •I SCREAM INSIDE TO DEAL WITH IT 💥

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · Aug 15

Will this album be the explosion? Or the moment before, the turning of the handle?

Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · Aug 14

Oh.

Ever heard of a backdraft? It's when an enclosed fire eats up all the oxygen in the room, and if you open the door...

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 7m

She's precious!!! 😻

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eno @enoriver1989.bsky.social · 2h

Liz's voice is so beautiful always

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 25m

I thought it was "my Lord never made no one like you before"

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 3h

Cynthia Erivo at the GLAAD awards. Might wanna grab the tissues.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8APcKdC/

An important message from @cynthiaerivo to the folks that are trying to find the courage to exist as their whole and true self from the GLAAD archives: "The real work is making the ground we leave in ...

TikTok video by glaad

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 10h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 5h

a woman in a purple shirt is sitting on a bench with her mouth open

Alt: Taylor Swift sitting on the floor in front of a bench in purple light cackling

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

Trump has explicitly stated that he is terminating federal employees based on political affiliation. Data is currently being collected, but layoff notices have already gone out to employees at the Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy,

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 7h

today, october 11, is national coming out day 🌈

i hope you are able to be true to yourself n others today & every day—and for those who aren’t, there are so many of us working to make tomorrow different, so you can.

don’t die wondering.
you deserve to love n be loved, you lovely queer people you 🫶🏻

The Bi Hashira @thebihashira.bsky.social · 10h

Happy Coming Out Day! 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

Colorful illustration of a person licking open a door and walking out work the words national coming out day October 11th below it

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 10h

You have a choice to make: will you help Trump or will you take steps to prevent the spread of disease? We need systemic change, but we can each start by masking when we share air, using HEPA air filters etc.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 12h

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Rainbow Kitten Surprise - Moody Orange [Official Audio]

YouTube video by Rainbow Kitten Surprise

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 12h

I pledge allegiance to your team
🤝
A cruel fraternity I pledged

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 13h

I don't think you haven't anything to feel sorry about, and I hope your friends feel the same way

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katie 🥣 🩷💜💙 @newyearskatiee.bsky.social · 14h

slay, queen 🇵🇸

instagram story of side by side photos showing aurelia donaldson wearing a mix of red, white, black, and green on the left with the green clothing article edited to be red on the right. a caption underneath says “please don’t use my image if you are going to retouch it @/voguemagazine i chose these colors for a reason” with an emoji of the palestinian flag

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 1d

RKS covers FOB

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Rainbow Kitten Surprise - Sugar, We’re Goin Down (with Medium Build Live from Red Rocks)

YouTube video by Rainbow Kitten Surprise

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 1d

Something wicked this way comes
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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 1d

Lyrically, the themes hit.
Sonically, it's a horde of demons.

Ghoul
Song by Rainbow Kitten Surprise, 2024
Lyrics (part 1)

I know the feeling, cold, I felt it creeping
Beneath my bedpost, I let it closer
If it possess me, will I levitate gently?
Will you find me in violence eyes with ultraviolet?
Who am I?

Am I my brother's keeper?
If I could save another
Who then the your redeemer?
Why should I save my soul if I never get to keep it?
Not getting any warmer but I'm reaching
Back to that feeling
Cold, I felt it creeping
It's something wicked
I brought it with me
If it possess me, will I levitate gently?
Will you find me repulsive
Uncertain of my motives
Who am I?

Ghoul lyrics (part 2)

Am I my brother's keeper?
How could I stand corrected
If Im my only teacher?
Why should I save my soul if I never get to keep it?
Not getting any warmer but I'm reaching
Will I ever even know it
If I become my demons?
Ever even know it
When I become my demons?
Ever even know if I burn good
I burn slow, I burn bright
Who and when and why
You can't be the reason anymore

Ghoul lyrics (part 3)

Burning, burning, please say something
Say you want me, say you love me
Stay one hundred
Burning, burning, please say something
Say you want me, say you love me
Stay one hundred
Love me for me, babe

I know that feeling
Souls I felt it stealing
Right through my curtain
It let it come in
I let it come and possess me in the twilight
Undressed with all my best intentions from my essence
Who am I?

Am I my brother's keeper?
If I should save another
Who then be your redeemer?
How could I save my soul if I never get to keep her?
Who and when and why
You can't be the reason anymore

Ghoul lyrics (part 4)

Bugging, bugging, please say something
Say you want me, say you love me
Stay one hundred
Love me for me, babe
I was a shadow
And one to follow straight to the meadows
Of Sleepy Hollow
I can't even tell you, does it sound familiar?
Tell me, tell me, I'm the realest
Tell me I'm the one for you

Okay, so show me the ropes,
Show the hope, show me the cost
Show me the coast, show me the most
Show me the most, babe
Love you the most
Do what I'm told, do qhat you want
Do what you need
Tell me I'm free, yeah, to be

Will I ever even know it
If I become my demons?
Ever even know it
If I become my demons?
Ever even know if I burn good
I burn slow, I burn bright
Who and when and why
You can't be the reason anymore

Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 1d

Lyrically, the themes hit.
Sonically, it's a horde of demons.

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stolen kisses, pretty lies @fruitballtay.bsky.social · 1d

I'm still here

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 1d

If I could pick a song, it would be Ghoul. It comes up from under.

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Rainbow Kitten Surprise - Ghoul (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Rainbow Kitten Surprise

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 1d

I think the setlist will include much of the new album, the biggest faves (Freefall, First Class, Hide), a few from the last album, hopefully a curveball or two, and finish with "Thanks For Coming"

Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 1d

The new "bones" album only has 10 tracks. I can't even pick my top 3 tracks bc I have different faves based on lyrics, vibes, and parallels.

The last album had 22 tracks. There's A LOT going on there, but it was easier to pick my faves.

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 1d

I felt the same way when I pre-ordered 1989TV on announcement day. I never buy merch - from any artist - but I had to commemorate that summer.

Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 1d

I've been memorizing lyrics from the new album and making all sorts of connections to their other songs...

I could sign a blank check
You would say the bank closed
🪞
I could paint you a million pictures
You would look at not a single one

Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 1d

I am beyond excited for my Rainbow Kitten Surprise show in a few days! I bought star & moon glitter freckles for me and my kids, they're going to wear their wolf ears (woof woof woof, you're barking up my tree babe, wolf wolf wolf I cry!) I asked for the next day off, I am gonna dance my ass off!

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Re🐦📚🎶 @birdsbooksnbops.bsky.social · 1d

As with everything with her, I assume the "grave" in the song is a metaphor.

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