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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 4h

Saw an Instagram reel about "adding steel guitar to songs that aren't country songs" and then they chose a Dire Straits song??? That's just "Englishmen Wanting to play Country, The Band"

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 9h

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 2d

When I think about the wide reality gap that exist between the left and the right, I think about how last year, on LSU's campus, there was a pro-Palestine protest. Turning Point LSU showed and started chanting "fuck joe biden."

The pro-Palestine camp did the same, much to TP LSU's confusion.

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 2d

I JUST taught Abdurraqib's Springsteen essay; every time I do, this sentence pops at me so hard

"this is an album about coming to terms with the fact that you are going to eventually die, written by someone who seemed to have an understanding of the fact that he was going to live for a long time."

What I understand about The River now that I didn’t before I saw it in New Jersey is that this is an album about coming to terms with the fact that you are going to eventually die, written by someone who seemed to have an understanding of the fact that he was going to live for a long time. It is an album of men and women and families and the grand idea of surviving to enjoy it all. It is often fearless and forward-looking in its talk of both love and loss. There’s a conflict between dreams and reality, of course, but the reality is still always one of survival.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.

We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”

Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo...

Who gets to live a "long" life in America?

open.substack.com

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 1d

You have to knock like your knuckles are scared of the door, like you're scared to make a noise. Then yell MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE WE HAVE A WARRANT wait. Wait. Don't do the yelling and you might be good. Either that or just always knock "shave and a haircut"

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 2d

Who is this idiot

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Tron: SCARY @asterionhex.monster · 3d

*talking to a straight couple* so which one of you is the Bert and which one is the Ernie

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 2d

That bad?

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. I've had the chub rub area of a few cowboy cut wranglers wear out but I think that's just bc I just gained enough weight for that area to actually rub now.

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 3d

Levi's and Wrangler are fighting in my head and Wrangler is winning bc I don't own any Levi's.

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Updog Sinclair @greaterhuff.bsky.social · 3d

The man is living my dream

Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 3d

I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Hotshot Peasant Has Window

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It's Fantastic! - Arcade scans and translations @itsfantasticac.bsky.social · 4d

Angela illustration, for Power Instinct 2.

Gamest Mook Vol. 3 - Power Instinct 2 (Jan. 1, '95), pg. 52

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BLACK BAND SHIRT @blackbandshirt.bsky.social · 3d

BTW I've started saying "imagine if they replaced live NFL games with Madden CPU vs CPU" when the creative AI conversation comes up and it's been a pretty knockout analogy. I really hope this shit is a fad that we can look back on and laugh at and not the dystopian nightmare harbinger it really is.

BLACK BAND SHIRT @blackbandshirt.bsky.social · 5d

Does AI have to replace football players to make the normals care or what

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 4d

I lived by the sword tonight. Don't like what I'm hearing about what they're gonna do to me tomorrow.

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 5d

We did a whole tour last year, flew into Dublin, ferry to Wales, went up to Stratford Upon Avon, took the train up to Newcastle, then a road trip through Scotland. Really cool stuff.

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 6d

Saw it on a plane(lmao) and it is so fucking good.

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 6d

There's multiple menswear blogs written on just his suit in that movie

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 7d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 7d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 8d

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 8d

Common LL Bean W

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 9d

Surplus M65 would be easiest to get probably.

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Alucard by another name. @gracepersephone.bsky.social · 9d

It's so funny that One Line of JRR Tolkien's poem about Aragorn is just fucking everywhere now and I doubt people know it's JRR Tolkien. I see Jeeps with tire covers with "Not All Who Wander Are Lost" on them.

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Shaqsquatch @shaqsquatch.bsky.social · 9d

people on WSJ will write anything. "Johnny Cash didn't have hoes."

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 9d

wtaf are you talking about

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