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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1h

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4h

if you want me to extend grace to a schlubby white millennial man with questionable tattoos and a history of incoherent social media posts he better be slugging 40 homers in the bigs every year that's all i have to say

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 4h

I really enjoyed it! I think people's expectations really shade whether or not they liked the book and I went in not knowing literally anything and loved it. All I knew was she's the current indie darling(two of her books are shows/movies), she's Irish, and she was public in her support of Palestine

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 4h

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, I hadn't read any of her stuff prior to this

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 5h

It could happen to you: you read a book to see what the fuss is about and now it's just endlessly reverberating in your brain.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 10h

Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 5h

On one hand it would be nice for Shohei Ohtani to win the World Series. On the other hand, I don't want LA to have anything good happen to any of their sports teams, and it would be funnier to have a Canadian team win.

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Cemetery Rozier 🎃🦇 @velodus.bsky.social · 17h

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a swarm of Ghostly bugs @facefullabugs.bsky.social · 1d

A Little Sip Of Coffee For Scolipede Please? A Little Sip Would Not Hurt Scolipede. Please Put Cup On Snout For A Little Sip For Scolipede Just A Little Taste

Enormous alpha Scolipede in Pokémon za looking down at my player character’s outdoor cafe table in the silent imploring way only very big dogs are able to do, staring down silently, being Very Good about simply not leaning down and grabbing it

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 11h

i will never forgive sam altman. robot fucking was in theory supposed to be cool, cyberpunk, subversive, a question of what it means to be human, young jude law as gigolo joe, and instead he's gone and made it the most ethically, intellectually, emotionally and aesthetically repulsive thing

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 1d

Ancient Egyptians? Ah, yes, the Dwemer of real life.

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Tele-Piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 2d

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I.G.Y. Azalea @steelydad.bsky.social · 1d

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 1d

Since I love Scottish shortbread so much I've just started making my own. It's honestly really easy??? 2 sticks of butter, 1/2 cup of sugar, some salt, and 2 1/2 cups of flour. That's it.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 2d

Dire Straits now, which means it's time to roll out my favourite Phonogram cover I did. I was giggling the whole time.

The cover to Phonogram: Immaterial Girl #5, featuring Kohl and Kid With Knife drawn as if they are in the blocky CG video for Dire Straits' Money for Nothing. On the TV screen behind them, Emily Aster is trapped and screaming.

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 2d

Saw an Instagram reel about "adding steel guitar to songs that aren't country songs" and then they chose a Dire Straits song??? That's just "Englishmen Wanting to play Country, The Band"

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 4d

When I think about the wide reality gap that exist between the left and the right, I think about how last year, on LSU's campus, there was a pro-Palestine protest. Turning Point LSU showed and started chanting "fuck joe biden."

The pro-Palestine camp did the same, much to TP LSU's confusion.

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 4d

I JUST taught Abdurraqib's Springsteen essay; every time I do, this sentence pops at me so hard

"this is an album about coming to terms with the fact that you are going to eventually die, written by someone who seemed to have an understanding of the fact that he was going to live for a long time."

What I understand about The River now that I didn’t before I saw it in New Jersey is that this is an album about coming to terms with the fact that you are going to eventually die, written by someone who seemed to have an understanding of the fact that he was going to live for a long time. It is an album of men and women and families and the grand idea of surviving to enjoy it all. It is often fearless and forward-looking in its talk of both love and loss. There’s a conflict between dreams and reality, of course, but the reality is still always one of survival.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 4d

“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.

We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”

Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo...

Who gets to live a "long" life in America?

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 4d

You have to knock like your knuckles are scared of the door, like you're scared to make a noise. Then yell MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE WE HAVE A WARRANT wait. Wait. Don't do the yelling and you might be good. Either that or just always knock "shave and a haircut"

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 5d

Who is this idiot

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Tron: SCARY @asterionhex.monster · 5d

*talking to a straight couple* so which one of you is the Bert and which one is the Ernie

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 5d

That bad?

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah. I've had the chub rub area of a few cowboy cut wranglers wear out but I think that's just bc I just gained enough weight for that area to actually rub now.

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