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rax ‘levon honkers’ king
@raxkingisdead.bsky.social
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Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · Nov 15
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 8h
sing us a song you’re the piano mole
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 8h
did a mole write this
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 8h
thank you!!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 8h
thank you this means a lot coming from you!
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Occupy Wall Street @occupywallstnyc.bsky.social · 13h
The community is fighting back. #abolishICE
‘ICE Kidnapping’ Signs Are Popping Up Around D.C. —And the White House Is Freaking Out
Washington, D.C. residents are posting “ICE ABDUCTED SOMEONE HERE” signs across the city, accusing agents of targeting vulnerable people — a grassroots campaign that’s igniting outrage from the Trump ...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h
1) is joke post
2) am jew
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h
bro that stripper likes you bro. dude she’s really into you bro i swear dude
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 15h
Guess people are talking about thinking "the stripper likes you" so good excuse to share this one by @raxkingisdead.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/the-time-it-...
I’m sure plenty of strippers have never fallen in big, irresponsible, week-long love with a customer, but I’m not one of them. Back when I was a stripper, I made great money playing the role of the most glamorous and adoring woman in the world, and I wanted most of my customers to agree that the exchange ended there, just like most of Ani’s do. But damned if there wasn’t a stubborn, needy little damsel crouching low in my spirit who believed that she might find the prince of her dreams in the VIP room. I wasn’t the only stripper cursed with such a traitorous inner damsel—the dressing room was forever abuzz with fairy tales of the girl who’d gotten swept off her feet, and into a mansion, by a besotted customer. She was always a few tantalizing degrees of separation away. She was a little like the mythical El Dorado of clubs that we always gossiped about, where the customers made it rain hundred dollar bills all day every day in some middle-of-nowhere dive whose name nobody could remember. The fairy tale girl probably existed in some form, but the point is that none of us actually knew her, and what we didn’t know we invented lavishly.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h
trump take commissary
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CNN @cnn.com · 19h
Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.
GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics
Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h
leave dc alone you motherless antisemite
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h
few people realize that the hank williams song Jambalaya actually takes place at a bar mitzvah
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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d
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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
oh my god
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
like the way she talks about palestine on her show isn’t virtue signaling it’s…for toddlers…
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
isn’t ms rachel like…for toddlers lol
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
and trying to do so will fuck up your life!!
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I. Hernandez @hernando206.bsky.social · 1d
I watched my mother die a little less than a year ago, and in a matter of weeks I will watch my mother-in-law die, and this is entirely correct. Also, once you've experienced something like this once, the anxiety will presently differently the next time.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
‘dear rax, how can i make sure i’m ready for the day my very sick mother dies?’
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Your question was whether there's a way to prepare for your mother's death, not whether there's a way to worry less about it, and I'll take a stab at answering that question using my experience with my father's as an example. No, you can't prepare for it. It will be like nothing you've felt yet. Maybe you think that if you worry about it really well—if you devote yourself to this anxiety, if you memorize your fear like a prayer—you can defeat it before it defeats you, like Roman's "pre-grieving" on Succession. But it didn't work for him because it doesn't work. Authoritative as it can feel, anxiety is incapable of describing anything it hasn't actually seen, like the death of a parent. All it can do is push us around various ugly landmarks in our minds: awful experiences we've already had, pains we've already processed. Anxiety is the blustering cokehead cousin of self-soothing. It brags about everything it knows to conceal the fact that it doesn't know anything. You can't feel what you haven't felt until, well...until you feel it.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
thank you!!
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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 1d
W O W that’s good advice.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
‘dear rax, how can i make sure i’m ready for the day my very sick mother dies?’
www.patreon.com/posts/140925...
Your question was whether there's a way to prepare for your mother's death, not whether there's a way to worry less about it, and I'll take a stab at answering that question using my experience with my father's as an example. No, you can't prepare for it. It will be like nothing you've felt yet. Maybe you think that if you worry about it really well—if you devote yourself to this anxiety, if you memorize your fear like a prayer—you can defeat it before it defeats you, like Roman's "pre-grieving" on Succession. But it didn't work for him because it doesn't work. Authoritative as it can feel, anxiety is incapable of describing anything it hasn't actually seen, like the death of a parent. All it can do is push us around various ugly landmarks in our minds: awful experiences we've already had, pains we've already processed. Anxiety is the blustering cokehead cousin of self-soothing. It brags about everything it knows to conceal the fact that it doesn't know anything. You can't feel what you haven't felt until, well...until you feel it.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
to read the rest, plus new stuff from me every week, subscribe for as little as $1/month! (suggested amount is $8 — to pledge $1-7, join from a MOBILE BROWSER ONLY, by scrolling past listed tiers to the Join Now button on the bottom of the page) 💋
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
‘dear rax, how can i make sure i’m ready for the day my very sick mother dies?’
www.patreon.com/posts/140925...
Your question was whether there's a way to prepare for your mother's death, not whether there's a way to worry less about it, and I'll take a stab at answering that question using my experience with my father's as an example. No, you can't prepare for it. It will be like nothing you've felt yet. Maybe you think that if you worry about it really well—if you devote yourself to this anxiety, if you memorize your fear like a prayer—you can defeat it before it defeats you, like Roman's "pre-grieving" on Succession. But it didn't work for him because it doesn't work. Authoritative as it can feel, anxiety is incapable of describing anything it hasn't actually seen, like the death of a parent. All it can do is push us around various ugly landmarks in our minds: awful experiences we've already had, pains we've already processed. Anxiety is the blustering cokehead cousin of self-soothing. It brags about everything it knows to conceal the fact that it doesn't know anything. You can't feel what you haven't felt until, well...until you feel it.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
but even if your brain can’t figure out a situation, using it to at least try is GOOD FOR YOU! sidestep that part of the process at your own peril
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
i can’t stop thinking about this and i think it’s because it so easily illustrates the supposed problem LLM boosters want to solve, that being: sometimes things are difficult to do on brainpower alone
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
oh my god lmao
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
look no offense to this person specifically but i do think ‘are we still talking about this’ as a response to an essay about something from a couple weeks ago is pretty silly. we should expect thoughtful writing to take time
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