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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 4d

I did not expect Taylor to sing the lyric “it’s kind of making me wet,” but it does seem right that she sings it wrt petty vengeance, her truest love

Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 6d

I forget how good Trilling is and then I read his essay on Mansfield Park. These bars! www.unz.com/Pub/Encounte...

Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 7d

how ur always turning back too late from the grass or the stick or the dog or the light!!!!! 😭😭😭😭

Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 7d

oh no I remembered the existence of the song Finishing the Hat and now I am useless for the afternoon

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 8d

Tombs of Atuannnnnn

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 8d

Sameeeee

Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 8d

girl …

A political violence scholar explains what the furor over Charlie Kirk’s killing is missing

Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 8d

All these think pieces about how the acotar and related are actually revolutionary because they're the "only" fantasy to center women and their desires makes me so angry. Like women don't deserve the ALREADY EXTANT fantasy novels that center them and their desires AND have decent sentences.

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 19d

I talked with a criminology scholar on why focusing on the political leanings of an individual assassin is a red herring www.vox.com/culture/4618...

What studying hundreds of political assassinations has revealed.

How Jimmy Kimmel became Trump’s nemesis

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 19d

I delved into the history of Jimmy Kimmel's feud with Trump, and how the guy from The Man Show became the guy pissing off the president www.vox.com/culture/4619...

The former Man Show host has gone from the least political voice in late night to a victim of the war on woke.

Trump wants to be a cultural tastemaker. The CIA did it first.

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 21d

I spent a couple weeks researching the cold war CIA and came away ready to believe that absolutely anything can be a CIA front www.vox.com/culture/4612...

The CIA spent decades selling American art to European intellectuals.

Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 22d

The New York Times rolls over its Sodoku lineup to the next day too early, every single day

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 28d

Only Connect finally offered a mild critique of Connections in-episode and the nerds are buzzing

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · Sep 8

Whatever else The Paper is, it's a nice reminder of how good The Office crew is at keeping their internal worldbuilding to the pacing of a documentary. Especially after so many years of other mockumentary sitcoms forcing sitcom beats into a talking head format.

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · Sep 7

And after everything, the punchline was basically incomprehensible

Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · Sep 7

otoh, the tweak to the technical format this season is very good and seems to involve a lot less random guessing than usual

Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · Sep 7

my god, the cold open of this season of GBBO is truly unbearably long

I do respect Prue's masterful refusal to commit though

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · Sep 3

genuinely never been more excited to hate watch a movie

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · Sep 2

I demand a movie about this operation

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · Aug 31

You guys are being such dicks about those influencers in the whimsical funhouse. Some things can just be whimsical and charming!

The Tragedy Of “Stomp Clap Hey” | Defector

Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · Aug 30

this essay on stomp-clap-hey is poignant enough to make me feel old defector.com/the-tragedy-...

In 1971, the great rock critic Lester Bangs tried to imagine a time when the music of the recent past would seem alien. Projecting himself into the old age he would never reach, he pictured his future...

defector.com

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · Aug 28

I listened to the Katie Miller podcast so you don't have to www.vox.com/culture/4595...

The weird lie animating the right-wing womanosphere

Former Trump official Katie Miller says there’s no podcast for women like her. What?

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · Aug 26

Kind of charming that very clearly his entire ring buying plan was to buy the biggest diamond he could find, ugliness be damned