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April Richardson

@aprilrichardson.com

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You all know me as Joe the Policeman from the 'What's Goin' Down' episode of "That's My Mama." I'm from Atlanta, then L.A., now Brighton, England. baremins.com tinyurl.com/s87534nn

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April Richardson @aprilrichardson.com · Aug 28

I gotta pin my formerly pinned tweet here because I genuinely think about it a lot; I wrote this down as soon as he said it at the Pulp doc premiere in L.A., and still try to keep it in mind when making anything.

"Self-consciousness is the enemy of creativity." - Jarvis Cocker

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open mike eagle @mike-eagle.bsky.social · 5d

it's @bandcamp Friday. it's a great day to support independent musicians and a great day to pick up one of the remaining copies of Neighborhood Gods Unlimited on vinyl or cassette because streaming services don't care if we LIVE OR DIE

openmikeeagle.bandcamp.com/music

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April Richardson @aprilrichardson.com · 19d

Hell yeah 🤠

April Richardson @aprilrichardson.com · 21d

This is also what I cannot get over. It’s like Mr. Beast getting a state funeral.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21d

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 21d

Remember when Elon Musk made comedy legal again?

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Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social · 22d

If you like R.E.M. I can't stress enough how fun it is to see these guys play the hell out of the IRS era songs and Shannon channels Stipe so well - get on this, it's so fun and you can count on R.E.M. never touring again

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25d

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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S P A R K S @sparksofficial.bsky.social · 27d

THE HAPPY DICTATOR (feat. SPARKS) by #Gorillaz is out now! ⚡️

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April Richardson @aprilrichardson.com · Sep 2

post a meme made by you

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April Richardson @aprilrichardson.com · Sep 1

hey king, when you get a chance can you break us off a verse from Sitting Still?

Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Sep 1

It’s “Team by team reporters, baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped,
Look at that low playing,
fine, then

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · Aug 30

My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

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April Richardson @aprilrichardson.com · Aug 28

It was so fun despite my expression in this screenshot, ha!

April Richardson @aprilrichardson.com · Aug 28

It tells us this every day!!!!!

April Richardson @aprilrichardson.com · Aug 28

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Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social · Aug 28

Big exciting day: the paperback second edition of CUREPEDIA, my book about The Cure
@thecure.com, now fully updated to include Songs Of A Lost World (and related singles, gigs etc), is out NOW!

Available from usual stockists, or order via the
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social website: geni.us/Curepedia

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Tammy Golden @tammygolden.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'M DOING THIS BECAUSE THE CRIME IN D.C. COMICS IS VERY HIGH WHICH IS WHY BATMAN AND SUPERMAN ARE ALWAYS BATTLING CRIMINALS LIKE THE JOKER AND LEX LUTHOR WHO BY THE WAY USED TO BE A MEMBER OF MAR-A-LAGO BUT I DON'T KNOW HIM

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April Richardson @aprilrichardson.com · Aug 7

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

Darren Hanlon - "I Wish That I Was Beautiful For You"

YouTube video by Sawyer Sessions

www.youtube.com

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · Aug 2

william shakespeare: [a bunch of dumb ass crap]
roger miller: roses are red and violets are purple, sugar is sweet and so is maple surple

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April Richardson @aprilrichardson.com · Aug 2

Oh hell yeah! Right after I got my ticket for London I saw they’re playing Brighton too haa

April Richardson @aprilrichardson.com · Aug 2

This happened to me once in my apartment in L.A. and I slept on the couch for a month

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · Jul 28

I am going to make everyone stop being suspicious of me by pardoning the most evil woman alive and coincidentally she will say that I did not commit the same crimes that she did when we were hanging out all the time

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · Jul 29

FOLKS - coming back to Ireland and the UK next month in a strange but amazing way…

R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · Jul 29

From Jason Narducy, Michael Shannon & Friends: “We are excited to play Fables of the Reconstruction where it was recorded (London) and beyond. This is our first tour playing R.E.M. songs outside the U.S. Joining us on bass for UK/IRL shows will be our extremely talented friend, Ted Leo”

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April Richardson @aprilrichardson.com · Jul 23

As a child, I was told by many cartoons & comics that we would have future robots to do the boring-ass chores like dishes & laundry so we could spend that time reading & writing & watching movies & listening to/making music & thinking & pondering INSTEAD. It sucks so much we got the OPPOSITE of that