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austin HELL ray

@austinlouisray.bsky.social

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writer and editor who's contributed to How I'd Fix Atlanta, Mailchimp, Defector, Atlas Obscura, Rolling Stone, Welcome to Hell World, Creative Loafing, GQ, Oxford American, Garden & Gun, First We Feast, Paste, etc. http://austinlouisray.com

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · Jun 29

they say you should never meet your heroes, but it was truly an honor to pay my respects

a bearded man in a big dumb hat does a rap squat in respectful tribute to the legendary Boston cop slide

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 3h

it's truly unbelievable how bad it's gotten out there. it's like half of the people on the road have given up on driving.

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 5h

so excited to see y'all in Manchester!

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 5h

the other day our 3yo farted and just goes "haha that was me"

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 5h

i love the idea of biking maybe one day becoming my primary form of transportation. i do not love the idea of dying because some ding dong in a hatchback was staring at TikTok.

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 5h

i just watched a woman completely roll through a stop sign while looking down at her phone in her lap 🙃

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 6h

a friend i've known for maybe 20 years recently texted me and an unknown person at an unusual area code with a joke and the two of us riffed on it for maybe 4-5 messages and the unknown person didn't respond at all what the fuck!!!!

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 7h

oh buddy i’m about to add you to so many group chats

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 8h

a little gillian welch before the sun comes up as a treat

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 19h

A LOTTA DECISIONS TO BE MADE

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 21h

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 21h

ATL: come to this tonight if you can, have a beer with me, and help the community advocate for finally and properly connecting the Trolley Line Trail to the BeltLine!

Park Grounds. Reynoldstown. Tonight. 6pm. Me. You. Everyone we know.

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 22h

oh damn wow an emergency hoodie cellar!

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

TFW i go through a stack of seventeen (17) hoodies and decide to donate two (2) of them

'Cause when you are with me, I'm free
I'm careless, I believe
Above all the others, we'll fly
This brings tears to my eyes

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jun 16

A lot of speculation about how things got so Stupid and Evil and I think one reason is we've collectively been too tolerant of Stupid and Evil for too long

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

good morning

some marigolds blooming in bright red, orange, and yellow. shoutout to fall plants

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

sorry andisheh you already used this joke on a different social media network in the past six months so you're going to have to use a new one here

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

thank you for this misterstampy

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

just coming to y'all live from these crazy streets don grant

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

fuck. he was shirtless again today. six more weeks of summer. :((((

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

your little picture is waving at me because it can see that i’m in a SPACESHIP

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

ok thanks

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

i’m more of a “gender is a societal construct” kinda dad tbpfh

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

sorry mommy

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 1d

y'all gotta stop calling yourselves "girl dads" and "boy moms" and all that it's super weird and it makes me really secondhand embarrassed when i see it so if you can't do it for yourselves then at least do it for me

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 2d

yeah sex is great but you ever had a meeting you were dreading get cancelled at the last minute