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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 5h

I wish all the Neil Young fans this evening a very singing “aurora borealis” in a high nasal register

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 11h

This Trader Joe’s lamb vindaloo is performing care work on my sinuses.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 18h

Thread. Whew.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 20h

I think voters at large will very likely have trouble remembering details of chuck schumer selling out the aca by nov 2026. also I think in the next three months you're gonna see a lot of unlikely folks stopping by the dsa table at various no kings events

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 19h

did they bond over liking to brand people?

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 1d

Lowkey my fav Assayas. Teen rebellion, Roxy Music, fire.

I just bought his memoir about being a teen circa May ’68, a few years before the era he depicts here.

[UNOFFICIAL] Now Playing on Criterion 24/7 @upnextcriterion.bsky.social · 1d

Now playing (10:45 AM PST):
"Cold Water" (1994)
By Olivier Assayas
Runtime: 96 min.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 1d

haha that’s right!

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 1d

And the Feelies named one of their eighties albums after a novel by Pearl S. Buck!

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 1d

And LMM is *so* close to “LLM.”

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 1d

No Waffle Houses anywhere near the NYC area — he’s gotta go deep into Pennsylvania. Curious what he’d make of the experience!

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 1d

Still a thing, I had to look into their stage specs a couple of months ago.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

When someone has a book:

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 2d

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. Always excited when I see someone is screening it.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 2d

I went to the record fair and all I got was this (not) lousy T-shirt.

I’m pretty drained this weekend and didn’t feel up to spending hours rifling through bins, so I adhered to my plan of just popping in and doing a quick graze.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 4d

The “you in a different era” meme: here I am at left, bridesmaiding out at a family wedding, age is early twenties? Not gonna front, I had it going on.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 4d

or *those* performances, as it were

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 4d

Robyn wrote about that pivotal Winchester performance in his memoir.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 5d

RIP Lt. Frank Columbo, you would have hated Greg Ginn

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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 5d

It's been a James Schuyler day. The Manhattan sublime, from his Payne Whitney poems.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 5d

Revisiting the Homosexuals’ delightful “Astral Glamour” anthology for the first time in eons. Happy to learn that the full set is avail on Bandcamp (free to stream, $7 to download).

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 5d

To me it’s a bit “deliverista app.”

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 5d

Can I cancel the rest of 2025 too? Take a nice nap and paint my toes?

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 6d

I shouted “fuck you you fucking liar” the whole time.

JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 7d

I never want to hear Cuomo’s hectoring asshole voice ever again.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 7d

Resounding exhale. Just resounding.

Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 7d

Savor this moment, friends.

They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.

NYT headline: “MAMDANI'S IMPROBABLE RUN ENDS IN VICTORY”

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