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limited wit & the worst lines in Pundom | za’atar & insulin enthusiast | sporadically @singlesjukebox.bsky.social | MTL expat in Toronto with bagel opinions & T1D | crim appellate law | Jew for a Free Palestine | DuJour means seatbelts | 38🏳️‍🌈✡️
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purplechrain.bsky.social
Seriously, multiple people in this article assert that Orthodox Christianity is for people who value normalcy and objective notions of beauty. Is it a surprise that denizens of the right-wing manosphere are interested in their religion placing value on women looking hot for them?
“The Orthodox Church stands as the hope of those who wish to be normal, to be healthy, true and beautiful,” said the Rev. David Winn, the priest at All Saints.” “Mr. Nolan was raised as a Baptist and Ms. Fuentes as a Methodist, the two Protestant traditions that have dominated the religious landscape in the American South for generations. But the couple agreed that too many mainstream Protestant churches offered only shallow theology and “far-left” ideology. Ms. Fuentes’s former church had a female pastor, which she said she didn’t approve of, and she said she once saw a transgender woman, whom she described as a man, in the women’s bathroom there during a Christmas service. “There’s just more validity in a church that can trace its lineage all the way back to the apostles,” Mr. Nolan said. The couple said they were looking forward to raising an Orthodox family, one oriented around duty, truth and “objective beauty standards,” Mr. Nolan said. In their future home, they are planning a prayer area facing east.”
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
still cannot believe they captioned her “[speaking French]”
(the Canadian stream on Crave actually captioned the French so I have no idea why World of Wonder didn’t just use that)
November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
The MySpace bio is metaphorical. She also says she was born the day Freddie Mercury recorded his last song (May 16, 1991) and Britney released Baby One More Time (September 29, 1998) and the day Liza Minnelli was conceived (June 1945!)
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
purplechrain.bsky.social
Or if anyone has the follow-up track from later in 2010 that allegedly sounds like the Pet Shop Boys, that’s fine too.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
Official PR release:

www.prlog.org/10563337-liv...
Livvy Gives Us Something to Talk About With The Release of Her Debut Single, "Jailbait", Livvy Proves That It's Still Possible To Shock. March 7, 2010 - PRLog -- "Offensive", "vapid", "frothy", "bubblegum", "outrageous", "morally bankrupt" and "undeniably infectious"... these are just some of the words that have been used to describe "Jailbait", and the not-yet-legal mind behind it, sixteen year old singer/songwriter, Livvy. "I know that people are going to hear the song once, see my photo and immediately come to the conclusion that I'm a brain-dead blow-up doll like so many pop tarts before me. And that's great, it's fabulous", Livvy says. "No intellect is necessary to listen to my music - It's pop, it's fun, it's danceable. But at it's core, this song is a social commentary... It just happens to be insanely catchy". Though just a teenager, Livvy has had some experience in the world of entertainment. Beginning her career as a child model at the age of five, she quickly moved into acting - ultimately appearing in a succession of commercials, films and television shows. The camera exposure had a profound effect on the young attention-seeker - Livvy became obsessed with Hollywood, MTV, and subsequently, with pop music “I'm in a lifelong love affair with pop. It's a genre that's looked down on, people say 'you're not an artist because you're young and hot, you make catchy music and you wear thigh high socks'... but that's the point. We're all artists on some level, it's just that not everyone has this insatiable need to act as a human mirror and push society's buttons. Luckily, I do have that need." But Livvy is about more than just handcuffs and button-pushing. An accomplished vocalist, she has been speech-level trained, spending years working with the best in the business. A serious actress, studying method and other techniques in a number of conservatories along the East coast. And a talented songwriter, working with skilled producers, honing her craft and even composing and performing the title track for the feature film, "Transition", set to be released later this year. Of her debut single, she says, "'Jailbait' is about the role of the underaged, hyper-sexualized girl in society. That girl who takes half naked photos of herself in the mirror with her camera phone. It's about pornographic ideals infiltrating our collective consciousness - this obsession with youth and beauty. I'm not saying that any of this is wrong, I'm simply stating that it is. This song is me coming to a societal realization." “ Refusing to conform to the "teen queen" norms set by pop stars her age, Livvy is setting herself up for controversy. "I'm not going to throw on a promise ring and sing risk-free pop songs... I would bore myself to death. This is something that I know quite a lot about, something that I've been observing and taking note of. I've seen the phenomenon of widely accepted raunchiness. I was the five year old dancing 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' in my living room, emulating Britney's tarted-up sexuality. And simply put, I am the definition of jailbait." Livvy is clearly not shying away from possible contention, and she is not shy about expressing her plans for her future either, "I don't have small ambitions. I fully intend to be an international pop act - to provoke thought sonically and aesthetically. And above all else, to continue to make great pop music that's fun, sexy and addictive." For the time being, Livvy is continuing to work on her debut album with the Brooklyn-based production team Super Buddha, best known for their work with artists like Deborah Harry, Blondie, Lily Allen, Rufus Wainwright & Scissor Sisters. Livvy says of her debut, "the album is a conceptual expansion on "Jailbait" . It will explore the good and the bad of this all-consuming porniness within the context of a pop confection. And as I said before... it's insanely catchy".
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
Honestly, the Candy Darling & Pamela Anderson & Judy Garland & Cher references along with the standard Jagger / Bowie / Warhol / Michael / Britney ones make the project sound more intriguing than average, which is why it’s so deflating to read the lyrics quoted in that PopJustice post.
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
(better quality MySpace screenshot)
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
I assume Idolator must gotten 100000 PR emails with blurbs like this back in the day.
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
This artist bio is extremely prototypical 2000s “making-manufactured-pop-music-but-sort-of-meta-about-it”.
“Livvy The day that Madonna released "Erotica" The day that Andy Warhol made his first film The day that Freddie Mercury sang his last note The day that Judy Garland conceived Liza Minnelli The day that Britney Spears told you to hit it one more time The day that Cher first met a sequin The day that Candy Darling took her last breath The day that Mick Jagger first strut across a stage The day that Pamela Anderson was introduced to silicone The day that David Bowie sang "Lady Stardust" The day that Michael Jackson first slipped on a white glove ... was the day that Livvy was born Livvy is a sixteen year old singer, songwriter and actress. A former Wilhelmina model, she has appeared in various commercials, films, television programs and print ads since her start in the business at the age of five. Influenced by pop stars, rock stars, rap stars, movie stars and tabloid stars - Livvy is prepared to explode onto the music scene and dominate the pop world. A visual, conceptual artist with an addiction to pop music, Livvy has recently collaborated with international chart-topping producer Roy "Royalty" Hamilton. Her piercing lyrical skills perfectly complimented Hamilton's in-your-face production, ultimately producing a fierce three-song demo. Creating a multi-media character for herself, Livvy has dreamed up "Emockative: the Life of a Pop Object", a short film series shot on the streets of downtown New York City. With her creative partner, visual artist Eliza Brenn, Livvy shows you the life of a loyal disciple of pop culture who has given up conventional life and engulfed herself in a world made of plastic. LIVVY is a pop chorus. LIVVY is a rock ballad. LIVVY is a hip hop beat. LIVVY is the past. LIVVY is the future. LIVVY is now... and she's about to blow your mind. Pop gave me life.”
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
this version of the artist bio is even wilder.
“Livvy The day that Madonna released "Erotica" The day that Andy Warhol made his first film The day that Freddie Mercury sang his last note The day that Judy Garland conceived Liza Minnelli The day that Britney Spears told you to hit it one more time The day that Cher first met a sequin The day that Candy Darling took her last breath The day that Mick Jagger first strut across a stage The day that Pamela Anderson was introduced to silicone The day that David Bowie sang "Lady Stardust" The day that Michael Jackson first slipped on a white glove ... was the day that Livvy was born Livvy is a sixteen year old singer, songwriter and actress. A former Wilhelmina model, she has appeared in various commercials, films, television programs and print ads since her start in the business at the age of five. Influenced by pop stars, rock stars, rap stars, movie stars and tabloid stars - Livvy is prepared to explode onto the music scene and dominate the pop world. A visual, conceptual artist with an addiction to pop music, Livvy has recently collaborated with international chart-topping producer Roy "Royalty" Hamilton. Her piercing lyrical skills perfectly complimented Hamilton's in-your-face production, ultimately producing a fierce three-song demo. Creating a multi-media character for herself, Livvy has dreamed up "Emockative: the Life of a Pop Object", a short film series shot on the streets of downtown New York City. With her creative partner, visual artist Eliza Brenn, Livvy shows you the life of a loyal disciple of pop culture who has given up conventional life and engulfed herself in a world made of plastic. LIVVY is a pop chorus. LIVVY is a rock ballad. LIVVY is a hip hop beat. LIVVY is the past. LIVVY is the future. LIVVY is now... and she's about to blow your mind. Pop gave me life.”
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
PopJustice also quotes these lyrics. So…I’m going to go with “bad”
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
Seriously, though? Call someone out directly for stereotyping ‘ugly’ people as being predisposed to be rapists and pedophiles & they respond “it’s the definition of a stereotype, not for no reason”?

Stereotypes are frequently stereotypes for reasons that have nothing to do with reality!
November 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
purplechrain.bsky.social
glad to see that cisgender Americans who consider themselves to be allies to trans people and gay people have a definition of “fun” that includes joking about how the most degenerate and grotesque thing rich & powerful sexual predators can do is have consensual gay sex with other men
November 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
purplechrain.bsky.social
hey everyone! it turns out that by pointing out that ‘liberals’ find the idea of people they hate having gay sex to be more shocking, grotesque & worthy of mockery than those people being sexual predators, I am making fun illegal!
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
purplechrain.bsky.social
seriously all I am doing is listening to this on loop you all need this in your lives
November 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
if your article begins with the phrase “On Wednesday, I texted Nick Fuentes” it truly does not matter what the rest of that sentence is.
“On Wednesday, I texted Nick Fuentes about being the center of an existential crisis in American conservatism. Fuentes, a white-nationalist influencer, appeared on The Tucker Carlson Show in October, which has enraged a number of prominent figures on the right and set off a spiraling conversation about where to draw the line on whom the party welcomes into its mainstream. “I don’t consider myself to be hateful or prejudiced,” he told me. “Just provocative and maybe tribalistic.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
the LUX CD has epigraphs printed on it from Rabia Basri and Simone Weil.
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
purplechrain.bsky.social
The government’s SCOTUS filing argues that Trump’s determination to deploy the National Guard should not be “subject to courtroom fact-finding” and can “be based on rational speculation unsupported by evidence or empirical data”.
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...
“Here’s what occurred. It has been widely assumed that the group of eight mostly centrist Senate Democrats, who have been looking to broker a hollow deal on Republican terms, were free-lancing. In fact, they were acting with the express approval of Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and were reporting to him daily. At Thursday’s meeting, they told their caucus colleagues that they now had ten votes to re-open the government in exchange for no real Republican concessions. At that, much of the rest of the caucus went ballistic, and some of the supposed ten said that, in fact, they were not willing to vote for any such deal.”
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
purplechrain.bsky.social
oh?
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
I was not emotionally prepared for this much winter this quickly.
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
Last month, New York Young Republicans greeted German AfD politicians by singing them the Nazi version of the German national anthem.
“Late last month, Luna also met in Washington with AfD lawmaker Anna Rathert, the latest AfD member of the German parliament to meet U.S. officials in recent weeks.
After one such visit in early October, Reuters reported, two AfD lawmakers were serenaded at a New York Young Republican Club reception with the taboo first stanza of Germany’s national anthem, a verse associated with Nazi-era nationalism and supremacy.”
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
WaPo is now saying that AfD is a “nationalist, anti-immigration” group “which German authorities have labeled extremist”.

As journalists, you can’t objectively report on far-right extremism? Fucking AfD are just a normal group of nationalists who are being smeared as extremists by Germany? Really?
“The activist, Naomi Seibt, is a social media influencer and supporter of the nationalist, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which German authorities have labeled extremist.”
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
my brain is officially broken now
“Waiting for Tonight (Oooh) when you would be here in my arms” in Zohran campaign text “Waiting for tonight (ooooh) I’ve dreamed of this love for so long” in Zohran campaign text
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
purplechrain.bsky.social
possibly overkill, but Toni’s adlibs are the best part of the song 🤷‍♂️
“Calling on the phone, asking me to come back home, begging me if he could stay, but he wasn’t man enough for me” in Zohran’s campaign sign text.
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM