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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 19h

RIP the greatest.

📼 V I D E O 📼 @video199x.bsky.social · 22h

Torn up hearing about the passing of Drew Struzan. He's had such an influence on my art and imagination since I was a kid. No one's ever done it better.

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 21h

Don't blame poptimism for Taylor. The OG poptimists were mostly into Timbaland and Girls Aloud. Kaiju-era Taylor is the result of the take industrial complex recruiting only people who were not really music critics but loved gossiping about celebs and pop culture feminism on Twitter

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Dig Out Your Soul @mystoragebench.bsky.social · 21h

Tbh, I don't get why you'd take a deal on giving a major pop star your song as a startpoint, and then grouse about its massive success ever-after?

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Dig Out Your Soul @mystoragebench.bsky.social · 21h

(This is obviously not a bad thing when reading for pleasure, but a school semester and its deadlines are another matter.)

Dig Out Your Soul @mystoragebench.bsky.social · 21h

If your first exposure to a time and place is through its writing, you're taking on double duty when looking at what's good about the writing and discovering what it's talking about at the same time. I can see that stifling the appreciation of either, for a teen.

trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 22h

So sad that you can’t annotate books or anything (also you don’t need to understand absolutely everything in a story to enjoy or get value from it)

John Scalzi• @scalzi.com • 5h
Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

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open mike eagle @mike-eagle.bsky.social · 22h

rest in peace D'Angelo. god what a loss

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Dig Out Your Soul @mystoragebench.bsky.social · 1d

Porn addiction, and the article that shuts it down, add up to such stupid discourse. Because taking in erotica is a hobby like any other. And by that same attribute, there isn't a hobby that *no-one* out there is mentally ill about doing. I've spoken about this in more detail, but that sums it up.

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 1d

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Hello @theguardian.com - any chance you could remove the banner from my face?

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Dig Out Your Soul @mystoragebench.bsky.social · 1d

They couldn't get the projector working, so after forty minutes we went to the pub.

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SIDE BANGS @sidebangsmusic.com · 1d

I love it when I am doing cool stuff and people say things about my age or my wrinkles or otherwise point out that I am not 23 years old because that confirms that we need more people who aren’t 23 years old doing cool stuff

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Dig Out Your Soul @mystoragebench.bsky.social · 1d

Under the Floor Again is probably my favourite Damned song.

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j-e-l 🎃🎄🦇 @jelbugle.bsky.social · 1d

Square records would fit better in the sleeve and would be easier to store.

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

This is true more often than people think it is, but unfortunately the bad music CAN disprove certain interpretations of the good music. Usually it's trivial stuff like "it disproves that they are a perfect genius" but sometimes it can disprove things like "they aren't a cynical jerk"

Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 1d

Also a good artist’s bad music does not speak ill of their good music by existing

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 1d

Required reading kills the book, more often than not

(I read THE SCARLET LETTER as an adult and of my own free will and loved every word of it. Most people who were assigned it...)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Dig Out Your Soul @mystoragebench.bsky.social · 1d

Next time my brother has a project to launch, the liner notes need a 'no thanks to' section – for every magazine that claims to rep for DIY projects, but didn't even write back to turn down the last album.

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Dig Out Your Soul @mystoragebench.bsky.social · 1d

There's a second one?

Dig Out Your Soul @mystoragebench.bsky.social · 1d

My brother probably wrote this article.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 1d

LGBTQIA+ is rebranding as LGBTQIA MAX

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

MICHAEL IAN
BLACK
MEGHAN
McCAIN
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America.
YOU SEXY BITCH
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A LOVE LETTER TO FREEDOM

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Dig Out Your Soul @mystoragebench.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I tried Jaz Coleman's hot sauce (I assume he was still pushing boundaries in the '90s), and I would have to give it a pretty negative rating.

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Dig Out Your Soul @mystoragebench.bsky.social · 1d

That makes sense. I mean more, if I'm relying on what occurs for the gist, and that's not apparent, I'll try again until I lose interest. I also remember The Satanic Verses as the book that curtailed my personal reading hobby for good (not that I didn't have other things take up my late teens also).

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

there are only three sex positions. maybe four. all the other ones were made up as jokes

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Dig Out Your Soul @mystoragebench.bsky.social · 1d

(and those who were not?)