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andrea cleary

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PhD researcher in feminist music movements @fahresearch.bsky.social Research assistant @lmrdublin.bsky.social Pop music lecturer @tudublin.bsky.social

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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · May 1

There's too much social media we should get rid of at least two of them

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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 19h

i am aware of the indie-net, just before anyone suggests it. let's all go there it's still doing vaporwave.

andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 19h

whatever juice the internet once had has run dry. meme-SaaS. i am cringing out of my skin. we should all learn to code and get the fuck out of here. it's just ones and zeroes, how hard can it be to build our own internet.

Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: A company that bills itself as meme-SaaS wants to be the go-to platform for culture warriors and gov agencies like DHS. (Its founder has also been calling me the R word over on X dot com. Great people!)

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Meet the Gen-Z Founder Building the Canva of Memes

Getting attention online has never been harder. Jason Levin’s Memelord Technologies has an answer: sell memes-as-a-service.

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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 2d

RIP Alan Turing you would have loved decoding 'Wood' by Taylor Swift.

Cosmopolitan headline: Taylor Swift's new song 'Wood' is her raunchiest yet - decoding the lyrics and their meaning

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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 2d

Gardaí not treating it as an arson attack anymore. Buy a book anyway! Or a tote <3

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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social · 2d

A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 2d

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booksupstairs.ie

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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 2d

A few online orders or in-store book purchases would be a nice way to support Books Upstairs after this horrible attack. Who does this? To an independent book shop?

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2d

‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack

Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday

www.irishtimes.com

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 3d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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SIMONE 🩷 @simonee.bsky.social · 4d

today is Snoopy's 75th anniversary 🥲

Screenshot from Snoopy's wikipedia page showing his first comic appearance in Peanuts on October 4th, 1950

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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 4d

I think Brat was a seismic shift in the culture and Taylor is the first major artist to fail to adapt

andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 5d

Oh this is such a good example, I totally agree

andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 5d

It no longer being dangerous to write negative Taylor Swift reviews is a recession indicator

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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 5d

My process:

Four panels showing a scene from the Simpsons. In the first, Homer holds up a box for a "Barbeque Pit Kit", an outdoor BBQ with bricks, a lid etc. It looks lovely. In the second panel the box is removed to reveal Homer's attempt at building this pit kit in his back yard: all of the components of the kit (grill, bricks, various metal bars etc) are in a pile, rammed into some wet concrete. It looks terrible. In the third panel Homer is standing behind his creation, screaming and holding his head in horror. In the fourth panel, he takes a crowbar to the pile in anger.

andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 5d

Me: writing is my favourite part of research, it's where I feel most confident

The journal article I'm writing: ....

Me: no, not you

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ceej @ceej.online · 6d

actress tilly norwood has been deleted after being found unconscious next to a script containing a mistyped wildcard. she was 0

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More Like Sam Freaky 🥵🔥 @thefirerose.bsky.social · 6d

ITS TIME

andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · Jul 26

I wrote about Dead Man's Bones, Ryan Gosling's deeply weird 2009 horror folk do-wop album for the newsletter (which has had a little makeover) https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/revisiting-dead-mans-bones/

Revisiting Dead Man's Bones

A few things happened this week that made me want to write a newsletter about this topic. The first was when a friend and I were texting about the Barbie film, and how much we loved Ken, and I replied...

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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 6d

Oh it is *sooooo* time

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 6d

This isn’t scary to me at all. A skeleton is the only way I’ve ever seen a dinosaur look.

Dinosaur skeleton decoration with pumpkins on a Brooklyn stoop.

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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 9d

I was at an event on Saturday and someone asked me what my plans were for the weekend. I'm at an event, my friend. This is the plans.

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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 10d

Yes! This drives me insane! "Someone was singing that they want to dance with somebody" STOP IT!

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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 11d

Hahaha oh god I'm sorry 🙈

andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 11d

Sorry for the golf posts but the girls are fighting it's super fun

andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 11d

Imagine falling in love with a man, marrying him, sharing a bank account and only *then* finding out that he goes to the golf and yells "get in the hole" #rydercup

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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 11d

I didn't catch what was shouted then but there was endless abuse hurled yesterday. Glad to see the energy met by the irish lads haha

andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 11d

Olé olé indeed

andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 11d

Not massively into golf but I'm very much here for Shane Lowry sinking one and immediately turning to the crowd of American fans and shouting "Come on! Fuck you!"

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