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rax ‘levon honkers’ king
@raxkingisdead.bsky.social
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Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · Nov 15
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7h
oh my god
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10h
like the way she talks about palestine on her show isn’t virtue signaling it’s…for toddlers…
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10h
isn’t ms rachel like…for toddlers lol
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11h
and trying to do so will fuck up your life!!
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I. Hernandez @hernando206.bsky.social · 12h
I watched my mother die a little less than a year ago, and in a matter of weeks I will watch my mother-in-law die, and this is entirely correct. Also, once you've experienced something like this once, the anxiety will presently differently the next time.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h
‘dear rax, how can i make sure i’m ready for the day my very sick mother dies?’
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Your question was whether there's a way to prepare for your mother's death, not whether there's a way to worry less about it, and I'll take a stab at answering that question using my experience with my father's as an example. No, you can't prepare for it. It will be like nothing you've felt yet. Maybe you think that if you worry about it really well—if you devote yourself to this anxiety, if you memorize your fear like a prayer—you can defeat it before it defeats you, like Roman's "pre-grieving" on Succession. But it didn't work for him because it doesn't work. Authoritative as it can feel, anxiety is incapable of describing anything it hasn't actually seen, like the death of a parent. All it can do is push us around various ugly landmarks in our minds: awful experiences we've already had, pains we've already processed. Anxiety is the blustering cokehead cousin of self-soothing. It brags about everything it knows to conceal the fact that it doesn't know anything. You can't feel what you haven't felt until, well...until you feel it.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h
thank you!!
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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 12h
W O W that’s good advice.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h
‘dear rax, how can i make sure i’m ready for the day my very sick mother dies?’
www.patreon.com/posts/140925...
Your question was whether there's a way to prepare for your mother's death, not whether there's a way to worry less about it, and I'll take a stab at answering that question using my experience with my father's as an example. No, you can't prepare for it. It will be like nothing you've felt yet. Maybe you think that if you worry about it really well—if you devote yourself to this anxiety, if you memorize your fear like a prayer—you can defeat it before it defeats you, like Roman's "pre-grieving" on Succession. But it didn't work for him because it doesn't work. Authoritative as it can feel, anxiety is incapable of describing anything it hasn't actually seen, like the death of a parent. All it can do is push us around various ugly landmarks in our minds: awful experiences we've already had, pains we've already processed. Anxiety is the blustering cokehead cousin of self-soothing. It brags about everything it knows to conceal the fact that it doesn't know anything. You can't feel what you haven't felt until, well...until you feel it.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h
to read the rest, plus new stuff from me every week, subscribe for as little as $1/month! (suggested amount is $8 — to pledge $1-7, join from a MOBILE BROWSER ONLY, by scrolling past listed tiers to the Join Now button on the bottom of the page) 💋
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h
‘dear rax, how can i make sure i’m ready for the day my very sick mother dies?’
www.patreon.com/posts/140925...
Your question was whether there's a way to prepare for your mother's death, not whether there's a way to worry less about it, and I'll take a stab at answering that question using my experience with my father's as an example. No, you can't prepare for it. It will be like nothing you've felt yet. Maybe you think that if you worry about it really well—if you devote yourself to this anxiety, if you memorize your fear like a prayer—you can defeat it before it defeats you, like Roman's "pre-grieving" on Succession. But it didn't work for him because it doesn't work. Authoritative as it can feel, anxiety is incapable of describing anything it hasn't actually seen, like the death of a parent. All it can do is push us around various ugly landmarks in our minds: awful experiences we've already had, pains we've already processed. Anxiety is the blustering cokehead cousin of self-soothing. It brags about everything it knows to conceal the fact that it doesn't know anything. You can't feel what you haven't felt until, well...until you feel it.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h
but even if your brain can’t figure out a situation, using it to at least try is GOOD FOR YOU! sidestep that part of the process at your own peril
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h
i can’t stop thinking about this and i think it’s because it so easily illustrates the supposed problem LLM boosters want to solve, that being: sometimes things are difficult to do on brainpower alone
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h
oh my god lmao
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h
look no offense to this person specifically but i do think ‘are we still talking about this’ as a response to an essay about something from a couple weeks ago is pretty silly. we should expect thoughtful writing to take time
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h
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When Klein scolds that "we have to live here with each other" he is making a statement about who it is he is getting ready to live with and who he is getting ready to live without, and most gallingly he is ignoring the fact that when it comes to supremacists all of us have been living with them already all along. Nobody is suggesting mass deportation of white supremacists, or the dissolution of straight marriages, or stripping away health care for conservatives. The troops and the cops weren't ever sent down primarily white streets, masked kidnappers aren't terrorizing white churches or corporate courtrooms. These supremacist hatemongers are being criticized, yes, and opposed, yes, and yes the culture of violence they have created sometimes ricochets back on them, but we are living in the country they demanded on having. We are all now experiencing the Republican proposition for humanity. Many of us are demanding they stop pursuing this proposition, and Republicans and other supremacist hatemongers insist this demand represents violence against them. Klein, by drawing the lines where he draws them, is agreeing with Republicans about this.
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leveloneminiboss.bsky.social @leveloneminiboss.bsky.social · 19h
Tracy: no way am I gonna go shuck and jive for Prince Bone Saw!
Liz: wow, you’re really upset about Jamal Khashoggi.
Tracy: who? I’m upset because Mohammed bin Salaman sold me a bad bone saw!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h
before long they are sent home not because jack succeeds at diplomacy, but because the saudi jailers can’t fucking take it anymore
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h
tracy refuses to commit to any of the rules about what comedians can’t say at the festival so they send jenna instead, who is immediately removed from the stage because the first words of her act are ‘my vagina is’
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Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 20h
which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h
god i can hear it
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19h
man this really is an embarrassingly white discourse. regardless i must call em like i see em
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19h
now listen, yall know i love me some bruce springsteen, but you need your head examined if you think he seems cool next to johnny cash!!
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 1d
Ah yes, famously uncool singer Johnny Cash. I am glad noted arbiter of cool the Wall Street Journal is willing to reconsider his case.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19h
me steeling myself to go to the job i prayed to god for
ben affleck miserably contemplating the ocean
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
if i’m trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and i’m struggling with that transition, what i like to do is think about it until i figure out what to do. controversial stuff i know
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
no it isn’t
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
like, you may be throwing napalm all over your own case, but at least you…were epic? i guess?
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