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Carley Carden
@carleycarden.bsky.social
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•GA artist •intersectional feminist •learner •quant •hsp
•ilove Iris Murdoch •loud heavy music •prog policy •NBA 🏀
•Virtue ethics in the streets, virtuoso in the Heat (culture)
•All things are connected.
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It’s Thursday drop some song covers

Here’s Dinosaur Jr at Hipnosis 2025 in Mexico City/CDMX this past weekend covering the Cure’s old family favorite, “Just Like Heaven,” for Dia de los Muertos and making a baseball field full of beautiful fans at Estadio Fray Nano and alllllll the ancestors smile.
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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CDMX is an achingly warm, beautiful, and verdant city.
Photo shows a 5-point intersection in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City (Ciudad de México, CDMX) at golden hour lined with verdant growth in container plants on the mosaic grey sidewalks along tree-lined streets with two deep green, spiral-manicured trees pointing towards the jaune-brilliant-tinged, late afternoon skies. A street sign points into the direction of the vista and says, “PATRIOTISMO MINERIA - Circuito Interior Constituyentes.”
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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oh shi boi waddap

almost forgot this fierce CAA-CAAAAWWW 🦅
from Hawks v. Raptors for all my big bird hoops and alliterative name lovers ♥️🔥
State Farm Arena is illuminated by pyrotechnics before tipoff of the Atlanta Hawks 2025-26 NBA season opener at home against the Toronto Raptors. ATL’s #TruetotheA mascot Harry the Hawk is ready for game time and lighting up the Jumbotron with knees bent and fists pumping, flanked by plumes of smoke on either side in celebration of a new season of Hawks hoops.
October 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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You want me to “condemn” WHO?!

“Hasan, Hasan, Hasan,” lmaoooooboi.
Jane Lynch Glee meme, in response to Andrew Cuomo’s RIDICULOUS comments calling for Zoran Mamdani to “condemn” podcaster Hasan Piker in the New York mayoral race, says: “I am going to create a Hasan Piker name-drop that is so toxic, mfs will be gleefully saying ‘Hasan’ willy-nilly, while I consider it a slur.”
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Still weary-Wojak-attached to my circa-1996 10th edition burgundy hardcover Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, and y’all can pry it from my cold, dead hands . . . but not today!
Front cover of burgundy hardcover copy of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition (1996).
October 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Dancing my natural a$$ off at Pride Night here in ATL at the Miami Heat v. Atlanta Hawks preseason matchup at State Farm Arena this eve, ~OBVI~ 🏳️‍🌈🏀😘💅🏼✨
Rainbow colored Pride flags on the Jumbotron and the marquee encircling the interior of State Farm Arena celebrate Pride Night at the Miami Heat v. Atlanta Hawks preseason NBA game tonight, Monday 13 October 2025. #NBA #HeatvHawks #MIAvATL
October 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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🎶 REAL THUGS GET DOWN ON THE FLOOR

Hellooo, Heat Nation, it’s your resident Heat lifer and Hawks homer reporting live from State Farm Arena for Heat v. Hawks with a big ol’ Heat Culture CAA-CAAAWWWW 🦅 and alllllllllllll my beautiful sons. ♥️🔥
Miami Heat play a preseason NBA basketball game v. Atlanta Hawks in ATL at State Farm Arena on Monday 13 October 2025.
October 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Just gonna randomly share a photo of one of my favorite late South American leaders, who was, quite notably, the 40th President of this (highly literate, well-educated, maté-all-the-time-chill🧉) progressive S American country while I (experimentally) lived there for a spell over a decade ago now. ♥️🇺🇾
José Alberto “Pepe” Mujica Cordano[a] (20 May 1935 – 13 May 2025) was a Uruguayan politician, revolutionary, farmer, and hero who served as the iconic, moderately left-wing 40th president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. Widely known and venerated for his fiery, unwavering dedication to both his humble lifestyle and his progressive values, he spoke openly and straightforwardly of his anti-consumerist ideals (and in more-or-less every meaningful way, seemed to embody them as an actual sort of ~ideal~ ideal himself, although I realize I’m no scholar of South American, or even Uruguayan, politics, so yes, please correct me if I’m somehow mistaken, but please be gentle). During José Mujica’s tenure as the President of Uruguay from 2010-2015, he famously turned his longtime, (hella, hella) bonafide progressive values into progressive policy and, finally, national law, as he, for instance, legalized both marijuana and same-sex marriage in a small-ish, but highly literate, educated, engaged, and influential South American country. In this photo, José “Pepe” Mujica is wearing a striped oxford shirt and a cinnamon-colored sueded jacket and looking straight into the camera with a pleasant, even, engaging face and his anatomical left arm bent at the elbow and raised in a fist, as in what I’ve always understood to be the “[Labor//Women’s/Black/People’s] Power” or “Solidarity” sign.
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Pavement kicked off their debut appearance at the historic Longhorn Ballroom for a rad and beautiful capacity crowd in Dallas, TX last night with an old family favorite.

Here’s “Grounded” from Stephen Malkmus, Scott Kannberg, Mark Ibold, Bob Nastanovich, Steve West, and Rebecca Clay Cole, y’all. 🤠✌️
September 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Welp, glad to see I didn’t miss a fucking beat being semi-offline for a couple of days, at least w regard to aux sturm und drang and the, ahem, amphibian meme people.

Here’s a screenshot from Wed night of a convo w my homie in Greece.

Was I perhaps erstwhile TOO online bc I nailed it immediately?
Screenshot of a text thread from this Wednesday night (September 10) to Thursday morning (September 11) between me and my homie who’s currently in Greece, which reads as follows: me (end of truncated text): “ . . . conditions—and unfortunately, that he really, REALLY got off on the especially (psychologically) torturous aspects of these highly orchestrated ordeals.” homie from minutes earlier, sent while I was typing the above truncated, wall-of-text epistle-length reply (attached to reply, which follows): “Going back who was this Charlie Kirk fella? Twitter seem to be divided over it being THE LEFT or Israel” me, in threaded reply (3:28am): “False flag or groypers, imo” homie (3:28am) “What are groypers?” me (3:29am) with double-exclamation point emphasis reaction emoji from my friend: “People (and I'm using that term loosely) even farther to the right than Charlie Kirk was”
September 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Yeah, I ‘member some guys ‘specially, too. 🪓
Graphic reads: “Immaculate Grid x Defector Some Guys I Remember from the 21st Century” 3x3 grid includes headshots and names of the following former or current MLB players: John Smoltz, Gregg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Freddie Freeman, Mariano Rivera, Dansby Swanson, Ronald Acuña Jr., Matt Olson, Ozzie Albies
September 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Fuck me uppppppp, beautiful Venus Williams! 🤩😩
Venus Williams steps onto Louis Armstrong Court at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York in a black and earth toned geometric print fit with matching visor and racquet-shaped case, followed by her doubles partner Leylah Fernandez on Labor Day 2025, for their doubles match in the round of 16 at the 2025 US Open.
September 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Happy first week of the 2025 US Open (and bday week for Bob + me) to all who celebrate!

I regret there’s not a sold-out run of Pavement shows all week in NY again this year; alas, I’m looking forward to seeing y’all + them in TX in September!

Meanwhile, catch us (forever) in the cheap seats. 🎾♥️✌️
Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, and Carley Carden sit on the ground amidst a crowd in the plaza outside Arthur Ashe Stadium at the USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Queens, New York watching the Daniil Medvedev vs. Novak Djokovic match projected on the big screen in the penultimate set of the 2023 US Open men’s tennis finals. We were cheering for Medvedev, obvi.
August 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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S/o to my fellow lovers from RVA, and cash me at the Neil Young show w more of our homies and humans tonight. 😘 ♥️ 🎸✌️
photo snapped from window of a moving car leaving the airport in Richmond, Virginia of trees and a road sign that reads, “WELCOME TO VIRGINIA” boldly with a big red heart beside it and beneath reads, “VIRGINIA IS FOR LOVERS”
August 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Yes, @noahhunter.bsky.social! I got a chance to see Jake + the guys in Jan when my friend Rebecca Cole, who’s been playing w Pavement since 2022, was opening for them.
Was lukewarm ab the album; LOVE them live!

MJ Lenderman and The Wind—Hangover Game—Variety Playhouse—Atlanta, GA—26 January 2025
June 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Whoever did Tim Legler’s contour and bronzer for the WCF postgame chat tonight should immediately be assessed four dozen personal fouls.
Tim Legler speaks to Scott Van Pelt on ESPN SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt wearing very exaggerated contour and bronzer
May 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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YOU CANNOT TELL ME ISAIAH JOE AND AARON WIGGINS AREN’T THE MOST LIKABLE DUDES ON THE OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER.
Isaiah Joe and Aaron Wiggins of the Oklahoma City Thunder, both wearing “SGA MVP” t-shirts, sit behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as he is interviewed by NBA on TNT, celebrating SGA being named as NBA’s 2025 Kia MVP.
May 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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🚨Tune in to the Late Show with Stephen Colbert NOW to catch OG American stalwarts and treasures

🇺🇸✊🏼 Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov ♥️✊🏼🇺🇸 and

🎸🥁 Pavement ♥️🥁🎸🚨
Scott Kannberg and Bob Nastanovich of Pavement sit at Stephen Colbert’s desk on the set of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg of Pavement sit with Stephen Colbert on the set of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert Steve West of Pavement stands outside the Late Show with Stephen Colbert Senator Bernie Sanders sits at Stephen Colbert’s desk on the set of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert
May 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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The average American has three friends.
Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, and Carley Carden sit on the ground amidst a crowd in the plaza outside Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York watching the Daniil Medvedev vs. Novak Djokovic match projected on the big screen in the penultimate set of the 2023 US Open men’s tennis finals.
May 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Aww, Miss Rü Olive Kitteridge does the same eventually, if I don’t immediately wake up and feed her after her gently licking and later, nipping at my nose and face, that is. 🥰

Always a treat with my perfect, precious little “whirling hall of knives” fuzzybuns. 🌱🐈‍⬛♥️
Beautiful black shorthair cat is curled up atop a bed with her front paws outstretched
April 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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I SEE, LOVE, AND RESPECT Y’ALL FELLOW DEVIN VASSELL-HOLDING MFS 🗣️

Hah, just posted this sincere reply to a Spurs beat reporter, like, 30 min ago (and just in time for fantasy hoops playoffs!):
Skeet from Bluesky user Carley Carden (@carleycarden.bsky.social) posted March 4, 2025, at 10:27pm reads: “So thrilled for Devin Vassell (and 6 of my 8 fantasy hoops teams he’s rostered in, too)! He legit looked like a fringe All-Star last year (per this Heat fan who voted for him every day), and though ofc, his usage is up w Victor out, it’s wonderful to see him fully returning to form after injury.”
March 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Premiering my baby son Niko Jović’s black Icon Ed. jersey in public tonight bc I’ve been planning to wear it to this MIA vs. ATL game since I got it in my stocking for Christmas. RIP to his broken hand and his NBA season, and let’s go Heat! ♥️🔥
Woman with long brown hair wearing a Miami Heat Nikola Jović black Icon Edition jersey at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, GA for the Miami Heat vs. Atlanta Hawks #NBA game tonight
February 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Did you happen to pick up this greatest souvenir-shop-find in all of Brussels?!
A smiling man holds a souvenir shop molded roller suitcase emblazoned with a scene from Brussels, Belgium, including the Manneken Pis, a small 17th century bronze statue of a peeing boy that has long been a symbol of Brussels and Belgium.
January 30, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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President Jimmy Carter’s funeral procession in DC right now is a tough watch, but I’ll no doubt be watching the whole thing with love, respect, reverence, grief, and deep, deep gratitude.

May his wisdom, love, and strength continue to bless and inspire us all. ♥️

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President Jimmy Carter’s funeral procession makes its way through the streets of Washington, D.C. this afternoon. Photo courtesy of PBS News live broadcast of the funeral procession on January 7, 2025.
January 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Love the Spurs, and I’m always cheering for Wemby, Vassell, Sochan, and Champagnie. Brilliant, bitchin’ hometown game for #NBA forever-stud Julian Champagnie, too, in the Spurs’ 96-87 win over Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Ctr in NY tonight. 🥂🍾✨

This Victor Wembanyama postgame jersey exchange tho! 🥹♥️
San Antonio Spurs 7’3” sophomore forward-center Victor Wembanyama exchanges jerseys with a young fan, whose head barely reaches the height of Wemby’s thighs, following the Spurs’ 96-87 win over the Brooklyn Nets tonight at Barclays Center in NY.
December 28, 2024 at 3:27 AM