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M. Ryan
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Former tracker/kerner. Second career as recently minted JD. We’ll see.
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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V: The Original Miniseries (1983) (dir. Kenneth Johnson)
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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You come to me with a bone in your hand
You come to me with your hair curled tight
You come to me with positions
You come to me with excuses
Ducked out in a row
You wear me out
You wear me out
The Pope delivering REM’s Country Feedback
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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You better sit down.
November 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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You so sure about that?
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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and here it is… again… four types of guys online… no exceptions
REM, circa 1986. Mills, Berry, Buck, Stipe. Mills in sunglasses, Berry in tank top, Buck in tux shirt looking off camera, Stipe shirtless in suspenders.
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I want our news papers to cover things in this way, just casual no-experts-needed fact-checking like “combining Islamophobia with inaccuracy.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jones and Diaz voiced their concerns about Mamdani with more grace than Cuomo did throughout an inflammatory campaign, but in some quarters the mood became unsavory. "I feel excited to be moving to Long Beach, because there's no fucking way I'm staying in the city with that piece-of-shit jihadi communist as mayor," a woman called Felice said, combining Islamophobia with inaccuracy. "I already have a real-estate broker. I already got approval for a loan. I already picked out four places I'm gonna go see on Monday." Felice, who was drinking wine, added that the city of New Yorkers had voted for Mamdani because "there's a lot of transplants and young people and foreigners who voted, who bought his bullshit" Unfortunately there wasn't time to hear much more from Felice, who said she is a teacher, because a full-throated chant broke out in front.
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Fantastic undermining headline, from the Guardian.

Also like how it appears they have an entire MTG beat.
Header: Marjorie Taylor Greene Republican US House member tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons
November 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I’m doing my best. Let’s say 75/25 to keeps expectations in check
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Give me what I want and I’ll go away: multiseasonally-appropriate viewing. #stormofthecentury @stephenking.bsky.social @mikeflanaganfilm.com
Creepy looking intense man Man’s head in darkness with glowing red eyes Close up of the silver head of a cane, shaped like a wolf and evilly opening its mouth as if by magic
October 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Ah, youth.
By Jon Pareles Sept. 23, 1994 American Music Club American Music Club, St. Etienne, Grant Lee Buffalo, Soul Coughing; Manhattan Center Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street, (212) 249-8870. The CMJ Music Marathon is in town this weekend, turning most rock clubs into band-crammed showcases that start early and run into the wee hours. The only connection between these four bands is that they record for Warner Brothers and its associated labels. American Music Club (at 10:40 P.M.) is a lodestone for depressives, with Mark Eitzel's bleary, self-lacerating ruminations set in rock that's sometimes crisp and sometimes dreamy and atmospheric. Soul Coughing (8:50) backs M. Doughty's free-associative poetry and an occasional melodic chorus with jazz vamps and sampled noises. Grant Lee Buffalo (9:40), a three-man rock band led by Grant Lee Phillips, gazes at Americana with a literary eye in songs that move from folk-rock to Neil Young stomps to late-Beatles pop, while St. Etienne (11:50) creates a swirling, post-disco reverie. The show is tonight, beginning at 8.
October 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Also, this.
October 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I think the album is magic too
Screen grab from NYT Connections: Third Sister Lovers Magic.
October 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Claws out.

😱 #pleasingterror
'What, like the man in Tess o' the Durbervilles?' Williams put in. 'Yes, I dare say; it's not a book I could ever read myself.’
October 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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😱 #pleasingterror
It was a rather indifferent mezzotint, and an indifferent mezzotint is, perhaps, the worst form of engraving known.
October 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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😐
September 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Hi darth
September 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Just posting some cute dogs for your feed.
Two Tibetan Terriers on a deck, gloriously floofy. One is black with white, and laying down look off at an off screen vista. The other is white with black, and is sitting properly, staring at the camera. Both are perfect and serene.
September 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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@vulture.com please don’t update this caption.
Screen shot of header image from Vulture article on book to film adaptations this fall. A photo of a grimy Leonardo di Caprio screaming into a pay phone, taken from tan upcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film, is captioned as Helen Mirren from Thursday Murder Club.
September 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Well we tried, sort of.
Still from Strange Days the movie. A shirtless Ralph Fiennes with a popsicle in his mouth sizes up an ugly shirt to wear. The voiceover says “by 2025 there will be a second woman president”
August 16, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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My favorite doctor and companion
August 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Although this is a chaotic way to label these things, Apple
August 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Sit down, children, and let
Me explain to you what is was like to be alive in the ‘90s.
Photo of TV screen showing Criterion Channel listings for “Soundtrack Movies”. Shown are Judgment Night, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Trainspotting, and SubUrbia.
August 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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We don’t talk about PG Wodehouse so much these days, but this monologue is the foundation of like 70-80% of pop culture romance, and it’s from 1915.
SOMETHING FRESH "We have known each other so long," said Emerson, "and I have told you so often that I love you, we have come to make almost a joke of it, as though we were playing some game. It just happens that that is our way - to laugh at things; but I am going to say it once again, even though it has come to be a sort of catch phrase. I love you! I'm reconciled to the fact that I am done for, out of the running, and that you are going to marry somebody else; but I am not going to stop loving you. "It isn't a question of whether I should be happier if I forgot you. I can't do it. It's just an impossibility - and that's all there is to it. Whatever I may be to you, you are part of me, and you always will be part of me. I might just as well try to go on living without breathing as living without loving you." He stopped and straightened himself. "That's all! I don't want to spoil a perfectly good Spring afternoon for you by pulling out the tragic stop. I had to say all that; but it's the last time. It shan't occur again. There will be no tragedy when I step into the train to-morrow. Is there any chance that you might come and see me off?" Aline nodded. "You will? That will be splendid!
August 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social You should know that Judgment Night is now airing on the Criterion Channel.
August 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM