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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 8h

same

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 9h

there’s a commercial for ed pills called “hims” & i think they’d sell better if they looked like flintstones vitamins

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 9h

one year we had a visiting british poet or scholar — i don’t remember which — & after his first lecture he asked if there were any questions & i raised my hand & asked “what are conkers?”

Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 9h

Hi what

Headline: “nature’s labubu: why are gen z unboxing conkers?”

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 13h

i just finished *greyhound* & was planning on trying to track down a copy of this — what luck

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 13h

protein source of the future … now!

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Michael A. Gonzales @magonzales.bsky.social · 13h

"In the Raw," on the making of D'Angelo's brilliant debut oBrown Sugar, can be read on the Wax Poetics website.
#Dangelo

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 19h

Not sure if he got her back, but the fact that this book ended up with us doesn’t bode well for him.

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 18h

this sounds interesting & i remember the twitter brouhaha so i’m definitely going to try to read it at some point — aside, i find the phrase “red scare girls” already feels evocative of some long ago, like a not-too-popular band that had a few hits for a while

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 18h

I went a little bit long on Chris Kraus's excellent new true crime novel and what it has to do with the Red Scare girls. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

The Maris Review, vol 76

What I read this week The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus There are so many things I want to say about this book. But let's start with this: The Four Spent the Day Together is an excellen...

www.themarisreview.com

populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 18h

in addition to being a frequent fox news & reality tv guest, he — honestly! — used to host a radio show called *cooking with gruel*

populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 19h

tron: uppies

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 19h

leaded gasoline!

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

captain, warp core word up in ten minutes

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

i mean, i saw this video *a lot*!back in the day & i didn’t recall levar burton in it

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

robert palmer might’ve made this work but this guy isn’t robert palmer

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

that’s not very magnum pi of him

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Kassandra Jo Tomaras @raconteuse.bsky.social · 1d

When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning.

Thank you, Miss Major.

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

i’ve always liked ellroy’s line about macdonald — “ross the boss — he only wrote one story but it was a HELL of a story”

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

Babe, come over, we’re wrestling the greasy pigs of our own unreason

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 1d

I still 100% believe Rights of Nature is the future. Change our minds and life ways collectively or take all other life on Earth down with us. ❤️‍🔥

Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · Aug 30

Rights of Nature is the future. It offers ways to reject settler colonial attitudes of profit driven extraction & instead honors the interconnectedness of all life on Earth, & the movement is growing all the time. Here in the Rappahannock watershed its been written into a Tribal constitution. ❤️‍🔥

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

dow mossman’s *the stones of summer* is terrible & it should’ve remained lost

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

after you’ve sung the chorus, you might as will skip it

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

“tramp the dirt down* is the best idea for an elvis costello song & also one of his worst actual songs

David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

sadleir, 1930s?

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

* a line inspired by ballard’s short story “the sound-sweep” — it feels fitting that jim ballard is in some way a godfather of mtv

populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

i heard “and now we meet in an abandoned studio / we hear the playback and it seems so long ago”* biking past a bar last week on the first fallish night & i shivered

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

If this isn't the last video that MTV ever plays, I will be so furious:

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