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Niko Stratis
@nikostratis.com
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Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · May 23
hell of a time to be promoting a book about being trans, the damage done to the body/spirit in the decades spent fighting it, and how you can’t fight city hall (Big Transgender) but here we are. utpress.utexas.edu/978147733148...
A book called the dad rock that made me a woman by Niko Stratis, on a desk surrounded by a computer, an iPad and a coffee mug amongst other desk things
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liberationwknd.bsky.social
soon:
logo for liberation weekend II : a festival fundraiser for trans liberation & mutual aid. pink triangle behind title and photos archived from gay rights / drag rights / trans rights mvmt
January 12, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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he's ending the war on protein
lowly worm from Richard scareys bussytown driving his apple car
January 12, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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raxkingisdead.bsky.social
your very existence is troubling, enraging, and distracting as hell for some of the shittiest people on earth so no, i’m afraid you may not kill yourself rn
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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thetoadies.bsky.social
We swore we weren’t adding another social media account… but then we read this post from @nikostratis.com , and here we are!
nikostratis.com Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d
"A song like this, built of stories and theories and wild conjecture, means everything to those who hear it day after day." ICYMI, new @pastemagazine.bsky.social column started yesterday, about working in a grocery sore in the 90s, and Toadies "Possum Kingdom"

www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...
The eternal offering of Toadies’ “Possum Kingdom”
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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annkpowers.bsky.social
In this week's NPR Music newsletter I try to make sense of the intense response to Rosalía's LUX and Geese's GETTING KILLED and identify a shift in music fandom that might be happening. I usually don't post web links to it but I'd love you to read this one view.nl.npr.org?qs=6f1f6e7c2...
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January 10, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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there is always a Hell World, and that's why you should already be a subscriber
lukeoneil47.bsky.social Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d
Of course there is a Hell World about this www.welcometohellworld.com/i-was-depres...
I was trying to figure out why the patriotic people in America love dead troops so much but don’t seem to care about the living ones due to we keep trying to send them to get hurt and die in places like Iran (?) and then when they come back we don’t take care of them adequately we look the other way like they’re an ex from a bad breakup we pass by on the street like oh shit. I guess it’s a lot like how they love the unborn. A dead troop and an unborn baby aren’t actual people you have to take care of anymore or yet they’re just an idea you can do whatever you want with and what the fuck are they going to say about it anyway their bones aren’t even moving.
January 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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willhodge.bsky.social
What a truly heavenly read from the fantastic @nikostratis.com! In the summer of ‘94 I was a 14-year-old part-time Kroger bag boy who couldn’t believe I got to hear R.E.M., Green Day, Meat Puppets, STP, and others “at work” (I can still hear the “KRGR Kroger Radio” jingle in my head to this day).
nikostratis.com Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d
"A song like this, built of stories and theories and wild conjecture, means everything to those who hear it day after day." ICYMI, new @pastemagazine.bsky.social column started yesterday, about working in a grocery sore in the 90s, and Toadies "Possum Kingdom"

www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...
The eternal offering of Toadies’ “Possum Kingdom”
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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annkpowers.bsky.social
Great writing about an indelible song
nikostratis.com Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d
"A song like this, built of stories and theories and wild conjecture, means everything to those who hear it day after day." ICYMI, new @pastemagazine.bsky.social column started yesterday, about working in a grocery sore in the 90s, and Toadies "Possum Kingdom"

www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...
The eternal offering of Toadies’ “Possum Kingdom”
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
*posting on twitter* oh ho, I’ve made a wry observation. Better make sure a bunch of pedophiles see it
January 10, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online
ive been excited for this piece for a while, because the original post immediately brought me back to working at a grocery store hearing Smashing Pumpkins "Today" on the muzak speaker and wishing i was hitchhiking to Woodstock 94 instead
nikostratis.com Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d
"A song like this, built of stories and theories and wild conjecture, means everything to those who hear it day after day." ICYMI, new @pastemagazine.bsky.social column started yesterday, about working in a grocery sore in the 90s, and Toadies "Possum Kingdom"

www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...
The eternal offering of Toadies’ “Possum Kingdom”
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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oldtobegin.bsky.social
oh this is going to be the best music column of all time huh
nikostratis.com Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d
"A song like this, built of stories and theories and wild conjecture, means everything to those who hear it day after day." ICYMI, new @pastemagazine.bsky.social column started yesterday, about working in a grocery sore in the 90s, and Toadies "Possum Kingdom"

www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...
The eternal offering of Toadies’ “Possum Kingdom”
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:27 PM
nikostratis.com
"A song like this, built of stories and theories and wild conjecture, means everything to those who hear it day after day." ICYMI, new @pastemagazine.bsky.social column started yesterday, about working in a grocery sore in the 90s, and Toadies "Possum Kingdom"

www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...
The eternal offering of Toadies’ “Possum Kingdom”
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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raxkingisdead.bsky.social
‘dear rax, i don’t have friends because im a fundamentally unlikable person’
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What changes if you don't walk into conversations assuming that everyone's goal is to talk to you as little as possible? You're in your twenties, I assume, just like poor Unworthy of Friendship in the letter linked above; you've amassed what feels like twenty-some years of evidence that you simply are not likable. Presumably, that evidence-amassing approach to relationships has protected you: sometimes people truly don't want to talk to us, and you've made yourself hyper-sensitive to those cues so you can avoid a type of embarrassment that's especially plangent for insecure people like you and me. But the approach has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The problem isn't that you're fundamentally unlikable; it's that you've spent years shlepping around a bindle of anxious resentments, and the burden of it shows on your face. You don't think it does, but it shows when you walk away because a person has failed to receive you with worshipful enthusiasm, and it shows when you leave the party early, and it shows in your absences, too — how people rarely see you attending anything, how they never receive invitations from you.
January 9, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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mjwiegand.bsky.social
I just want to note that this showed that a Pizza Sub at Subway was truly a universal experience when it came to town.
nikostratis.com Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d
Big news for 2026, I'm back to having a column in @pastemagazine.bsky.social! Alt-rock Department is about grocery store radio rock, and my experiences working in a grocery store, in the mid to late 90s. The first one is here, it's about Possum Kingdom.

www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...
The eternal offering of Toadies’ “Possum Kingdom”
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
LOS ANGELES: ICE is prowling Silverlake & the hills
Text from a friend of mine: “[Other friend] was walking her dogs a block from her house in Silverlake and ice rolled up and took two gardeners They are going up in the hills and nabbing people. Warn your neighbors!” “Two unmarked cars and another car with a fake business logo on it. She screamed shame on you and one of the masked demons said, ‘thank you’”
January 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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maris.bsky.social
I’m glad this exists defector.com/rolling-ston...
Rolling Stone Makes The Absurd Claim That Women Are Not Allowed To Sing In Gaza | Defector
This week, Rolling Stone published an article in which writer Marisa Fox interviewed hostages who were held in Gaza after Oct. 7, talking to them about how music helped them. The artists mentioned in ...
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January 9, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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"Slowly, all of these actions became second nature, became reactions, became muscle memory and nothing, and when they did my mind opened to the hum of the world..."

this reminds me so fondly of "whenever you can breathe" by nilson carroll!!

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January 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM
nikostratis.com
Big news for 2026, I'm back to having a column in @pastemagazine.bsky.social! Alt-rock Department is about grocery store radio rock, and my experiences working in a grocery store, in the mid to late 90s. The first one is here, it's about Possum Kingdom.

www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...
The eternal offering of Toadies’ “Possum Kingdom”
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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gladiephilly.bsky.social
New song, video, record announcement, and tour. So proud of how this album came out. Music is the best. You can watch the video and pre order the record here! www.gladie.net
January 7, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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peterbcounter.com
Always here for Ratboys recos!
nikostratis.com Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 3d
Right on time, I made a list of songs for 2025 and wrote a little about it for my newsletter, it's the Dad Rock Top 10. www.anxietyshark.ca/2025-in-dad-...
2025 in Dad Rock
I am perfectly on time with this, which is to say I am late.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Right on time, I made a list of songs for 2025 and wrote a little about it for my newsletter, it's the Dad Rock Top 10. www.anxietyshark.ca/2025-in-dad-...
2025 in Dad Rock
I am perfectly on time with this, which is to say I am late.
www.anxietyshark.ca
January 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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ganserband.bsky.social
our big news? it’s coming tomorrow. something we’ve wanted to do, and you have been asking us to do, for nearly a decade. thank you in advance everyone that helps us spread the word, you all are the best.
ganserband.bsky.social Ganser @ganserband.bsky.social · 19d
Hello everyone,

Passing through to say thank you all for supporting us in 2025. To everyone that’s listened to our new album Animal Hospital and come to see us live. Big news next year 🌍🐇, stay tuned.

X Ganser
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January 8, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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me to myself: "not sure if the time is right for me to expand on that Jackass essay I wrote years ago, maybe Jackass is done"

Jackass:
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 4d
‘Jackass 5’ officially releases in theaters June 26 🍿

(via Variety)
January 8, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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literaryhub.bsky.social
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 AM