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Niko Stratis
@nikostratis.com
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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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...
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soon:
January 12, 2026 at 1:02 PM
he's ending the war on protein
January 12, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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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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We swore we weren’t adding another social media account… but then we read this post from @nikostratis.com , and here we are!
"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"

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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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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
there is always a Hell World, and that's why you should already be a subscriber
Of course there is a Hell World about this www.welcometohellworld.com/i-was-depres...
January 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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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).
"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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Great writing about an indelible song
"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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*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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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
"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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oh this is going to be the best music column of all time huh
"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
"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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‘dear rax, i don’t have friends because im a fundamentally unlikable person’
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January 9, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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I just want to note that this showed that a Pizza Sub at Subway was truly a universal experience when it came to town.
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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LOS ANGELES: ICE is prowling Silverlake & the hills
January 9, 2026 at 11:00 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
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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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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Always here for Ratboys recos!
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
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 2:19 PM
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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.
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.

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January 8, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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:
‘Jackass 5’ officially releases in theaters June 26 🍿

(via Variety)
January 8, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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“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