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Holly Boson

@fireh9lly.bsky.social

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Writer, musician, critic. Honorary Doctorate in Experimental Eminemology from the Pompsomp Hills Hot Take Dept.

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · Dec 2

Holly scratches, ivy burns, pine trees leave used needles all over the house, chestnuts are spiky, poinsettias are toxic, the Christmas cactus isn't even a cactus, yew got Boudicca killed, and don't get me started on mistletoe (parasite, date rape apologist, implicated in the Baldr shooting)

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 29m

Throughout all of history people completely misunderstand the personalities of ubiquitous characters and celebrities because people interpret them based on filtering them through other media they've already seen and can not actually interpret the text as it is. I've heard this called the Kirk Effect

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 14h

tbh it's not really a pronounciation thing but you are definitely a tourist if you giggle at "Clitheroe"

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 14h

Hchwanguril?

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 18h

Also there's no Hall of Meat mode

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 18h

Just learned that the new Skate game justifies characters falling from their boards and getting back up by saying an SV startup called ImpervaTEK has made all skateboarders invincible. It's not even a joke because you can actually go around their branded skate parks

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

About half the songs on Brat are good

Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

Charli: Maybe there's more to life than being a B list celebrity and clubbing and doing drugs and cultivating eating disorders and comparing myself negatively to better pop stars and knowing I'm not going to be capable of greatness. Maybe I could find God or have kids
Charli: Nah

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

I mean the key line in So I is 'you're a hero and I'm human'. Charli really fundamentally knows she's a hack with no connection to God but she can at least appreciate that God exists

Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

The redeeming feature for Charli is that her love of her queer friends is absolutely 100% real even if she can only love them the same way a cat can love gazing at the moon. She's a beautiful grungler

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

A big part of me being as annoyed by Charli as I am is because I want to punch Hoxton posers in the fuckin teeth and I don't like her glamorising it, but I know the majority of her fans are just like 'wow it's cool to smoke cigarettes' and don't understand the cultural context of it

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

I guess the only other specifically Charli line is the thing about her being a chihuahua in a tiny purse which is trying to invoke the campy 2K1 post-Paris style Charli does

Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

FUCK TIM WESTWOOD
FUCK TIM MOLESTWOOD
FUCK HIM AND HIS MOULDY RACIST PENIS
ROT IN PRISON YOU EVIL WIGGER-WITH-A-HARD-R FUCK

Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

I have a full conspiracy theory in my head about how he was put in charge of the BBC's hip-hop programming as a purposeful racist joke

Wozza Bee 🐝 @wozzabee.bsky.social · 1d

In case anyone was wondering how Tim Westwood got away with it for so long…

News report stating: BBC director-general Tim Davie called the claims made against Westwood "appalling" and initially said he'd "seen no evidence of complaints" before later backtracking.
The BBC later confirmed that it had received six complaints about the DJ.

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

i'm having another go at listening to Brat and I'm still not a fan, sorry. Von Dutch is a good PinkPantheress "look I did my dance music homework and know how to sample a cool song you forgot how much you like" pastiche but the Bodyrox record is much better. But I like I Might Say Something Stupid.

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

Hilarious that in the same week Gorillaz put out a long-lost Proof feature on their album, a Bizarre song about raping Justin Bieber goes viral and completely eclipses it. D12 still cursed to cast each other in shadow

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 1d

First Young Tory: “You should be allowed to have sex with your sister”

Second Young Tory: “Babies are grown in looms”

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the wonderful things about Kemi Badenoch tbh, she's way better at knowing how to talk and dress than any of her peers, it's just that everything that she says is horrible drivel

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

Christianity preaches love and charity but it was the authoritarian state religion of Europe so it has an association with domination and Europeanness that makes it popular with Nazis. Doctor Who preaches similar things and at no point was a state religion so there is absolutely no excuse

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

Someone needs to make a data thread of all the Reddit anecdotes about celebrities who are horrible and come up with a league table. Based on my own skimming, the most horrible celebs are Chevy Chase and Nicki Minaj

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 2d

i thought this guy had a funny name so i looked up what he's doing right now. He graduated MIT, went to work for Lockheed Martin, and now is an academic in Maryland...

Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 2d

Pac, Snoop and Em all fall out and start dissing each other within 4 months

Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating alternate universe