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lianzi @dcyiyou.bsky.social · 4h

Comment period ends Oct 20 and the comments so far OVERWHELMINGLY favor adding checkpoints for voter registration. please if you have a moment go in and comment that adding barriers to registration only contributes to voter suppression, and that noncitizens already can’t vote.

Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 21h

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The Election Assistance Commission is considering requiring us to show passports or other proof of citizenship when registering to vote using the federal voter registration form.
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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 9h

just saw a tiktok about a husband supporting his spouse through some health issues and got all in my feelings about wanting to have someone to take care of
and like- okay bitch, so how about you start with *yourself*,

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 13h

sky doesn't top and doesn't particularly see a reason to try but bullying rain's tits isn't topping, it's erotically inconveniencing boys. that's different. he gets so miserable and wiggly

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 13h

that time they had to tell him to chill on a twitter live cause he was getting too excited remembering his costars' dick-grabbing, which he was not in any way party to,

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 13h

if you put jojo vs joong in a shipping their friends contest who's winning (the fans are winning)

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 2d

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1992).

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 19h

‼️ I never liked his incredible music being reduced solely to the “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” video. The Voodoo tour caused him a lot of pain.

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: “D'Angelo felt tortured, Questlove says, by the pressure to give the audience what it wanted. Worried that he didn't look as cut as he did in the video, he'd delay shows to do stomach crunches. He'd often give in, peeling off his shirt, but he resented being reduced to that. Wasn't he an artist? Couldn't the audience hear the power of his music and value him for that? He would explode, Questlove recalls, and throw things. Sometimes he'd have to be coad not to cancel shows altogether.

When I ask D about this, he downplays his suffering. Watching him pull hard on another Newport, I realize that he finds it far easier to confess his addictions than his insecurities about his corporeal self. Self-destructing with a coke spoon—while ill-advised—has a badass edge. Fretting over what Questlove has called "some Kate Moss shit" seems anything but manly. If given the chance, he tells me, he would absolutely shoot the video again. But he does admit to feeling angry during the Voodoo tour.”

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: "’One time I got mad when a female threw money at me onstage, and that made me feel fucked-up, and I threw the money back at her,’ he says. ‘I was like, 'I'm not a stripper.' He was beginning to sense a darkness beckoning. He recalls a particular moment onstage at the North Sea Jazz festival in 2000. The band was in the middle of ‘Devil's Pie,’ his song about the spell fame casts upon the weak—Who am I to justify / All the evil in our eye / When I myself feel the high / From all that I despise—when he felt an ominous presence in the crowd. ‘That night I felt something that was like, whoa,’ he tells me. E-vil.

On the last day of the eight-month tour, Questlove says D'Angelo told him, ‘Yo, man, I cannot wait until this fucking tour is over. I'm going to go in the woods, drink some hooch, grow a beard, and get fat.’ Questlove thought he was joking. I was like, ‘You're a funny guy.’ And then it started to happen. That's how much he wanted to distance himself."

While the tour was a success, both critically and commercially, it left D broken. ‘When I got back home, yeah, it wasn't that easy to just be,’ he says. ‘I think that's the thing that got me in a lot of trouble: me trying to just be Michael, the regular old me from back in the day, and me fighting that whole sex-symbol thing. You know: 'Hey, I ain't D'Angelo today. I'm just plain old Mike, and I just want to hang out with my boys and do what we used to do.' But, damn, those days are fucking gone."

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 16h

writing is all about choices but these are even choicier choices. there is no neutral or universal good way to do it, there's only this writer's goals for this piece and whether their choices convey those goals effectively
and they could want to do very different things than you want to read!!

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 16h

if you've never made a genuine attempt to write a sex scene or translate a piece (even a couple paragraphs) I don't want to hear your opinions on how bad a translation or a sex scene is

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 16h

looking at my friend-exchange doc less than a week out from the deadline like hm. what if I did something completely different than I told anyone I was gonna do that nonetheless reveals who wrote it immediately

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 17h

two thirds of the way through a costco pizza slice

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 17h

some sources are calling it a disgrace to midwestern values that can never be recovered from. more at 11

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 17h

in a fascinating new late-20s development I have now hit an upper limit on the pleasure that can be provided by melted cheese

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 19h

info here: yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 19h

for anyone else thinking oh shit, it's october, when is yuletide starting?
1) noms are over
2) but signups are open and will run through October 24
3) with the deadline at 9 PM *UTC TIME* which is probably not the same in your time zone

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 1d

we need more top shaming in fic. more coming too soon. more nervous boners. more this was supposed to be a threesome but *someone* had too good of a time and now there's no point, what are you even good for, I could've stayed at home with my dildo at least that stays hard until I'm done

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 2d

this nice jewish man has helpfully identified the seven deadly communication minefields of gay relationships (or at least of pre-marriage-equality city gays who don't have kids) and the onlyfriends boys tick every box

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 2d

reading a book from 2007 about failures of communication in gay male relationships and I'm excited to use it to make the blorbos Worse

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 2d

it is also a pleasant departure from routine for tyme to get all these *reactions* from someone while he's coming at them with a needle. mostly by this point they can't exactly run away, or even notice,

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 2d

this is necessary at regular intervals in order to keep him in a relatively even mood, pleasant to be around, and not overly fixated on how he's now the last of an agonizing corrupt legacy
he also gets dick normal style on the regular but he can't *only* get the boyfriend treatment

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a one-man murdertwunk @adspexi.bsky.social · 2d

still on a 4 minutes kick. I don't think great would exactly like getting a fuckton of needles stuck in him but a significant chunk of greattyme's sex life isn't about things great *enjoys* so much as things that get his consciousness hovering about 3 feet above his body and gently thrumming

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Evangeline “I’m Scared” Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 4d

just in general bending my life towards spending as much of my time as possible around freaks and queers and weirdos has been the best thing ever

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⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 2d

This will be the hill I die on, “porn addiction” is not real, that phrase specifically is used as a dog whistle and is backed only by pseudoscience which has been created by right wing fascist organisations with the intention to demonise minorities. It is not real, actual science proves it isn’t.

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