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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 48m

over on insta porochista khakpour has shared the news that one-time new yorker employee & author, alison rose has died. i once thought of trying to build a new yorker collection — books about the magazine & memoirs by people associated with it — i didn’t but rose’s *better than sane* was a favorite

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 5h

pretty much my position on the usefulness of the mass protests, for whatever it’s worth

Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19h

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 19h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 7h

on my way to rob the louvre

the french actress musidora in a black and white scene from the 1915 movie serial les vampires. she’s looking at the viewer while she climbs a stairway dressed in a black catsuit and black mask

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 19h

they’re such beautiful shirts, as daisy said

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 19h

rode in my first tesla this weekend — an uber that couldn’t be avoided unforch — & a) the doors are as annoying as i expected b) the interior hum was also annoying & c) i lived bitch

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

a: look into the eyeball
q: what immediately pre-september 11th album has stayed with you the longest?

populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

we got peace, love, & monkey business

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike.

(via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

tbh, “tradcath weeb” is about as good a description of thomas merton as any

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

claire boothe luce would never

populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

honan does seem like the kind of guy snake would’ve told to fuck off tho

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

bsky.app/profile/twes...

TW @twesq.bsky.social · Nov 22

“Bluesky takes itself too seriously.”

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

peak genx was the pavement cover of the schoolhouse rock song — (i’m sorry, it was all downhill from there, guys)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppYM...

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

it’s captain benjamin sisko sitting at his desk on the ds9 holding his baseball and smiling. through the window behind him you can see the vast expanse of stars. from the episode *starship down*

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

“What success they had I do not know; but I fear that they failed, as Saruman did, though doubtless in different ways”

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

tag yrself, i’m the participant pulling a blanket over their head

Vintage Synthesizer Museum @vintagesynthmuseum.bsky.social · May 22

Want to hear live ambient music being played on over 40 synths and through 14 speakers?
This happens every second Sunday of the month at the Vintage Synthesizer Museum in Los Angeles.
Second Sunday Psychedelic Synthesizer Soundbath
#synthsky #synth #soundbath #synthesizer #meditation #ambientmusic

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

Peaky Blinders meme: No fighting with regime-run accounts. No fucking fighting with regime-run accounts!

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

of all the terrible people alive today, santos is the terrible person who’s most disney villain-coded — i’m sure he puts his finger to the corner of his mouth when he schemes

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

idk why a part of me is lightly rooting for george santos. hes just ... such a scoundrel. a real jackanapes

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

block’em *&* block every account that follows them (if you have the patience)

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

block this shit

Verified Account Tracker @verified.pds.mmatt.net · 1d

✅ @homelandgov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.

populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

no, that was the slut gnomes of false berlin

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 2d

hey i just met you
i’m hunting whales
here’s my story
so call me ishmael

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

Call me Ishmael.

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 2d

it’s occurred to me before how much the mcu is intensely obama-era-coded (optimistic about technology & techbros, heroes & a wise & judicious use of military force)

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 2d

anyone who pushes the mad max button should immediately face the humungus

populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 2d

a perfect beast indeed

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 2d

i was deep into house & microhouse at that time & i probably didn’t give it the chance it deserved — i should give it a re-listen

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 2d

it doesn’t seem possible that was 20 years ago — i think i remember discussing it on mefi at the time

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