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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s almost like… College Greek orgs are, I dunno… Fucking terrible? The absolute fucking worst? The most powerful organized & accepted elite white supremacist networks in the US? A scourge created by the rich so they can have an excuse for only having rich friends too? Why do they still exist?

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yoooooooooooooooo what’s a girl gotta do around here to become an interdimensional cosmic being? (Asking for a friend)

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Been having a bit shit of a time the last few months, BUT! If you or someone you love is having a rough day/week/month/year/life I cannot recommend Dolly’s incredible, joyous cover of “Peace Train” with LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO from 1996 enough to everyone #dollyparton youtu.be/7Cj5YxsuxrU?...

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Peace Train/Isitimela Sokuthula: Dolly Parton (feat. Ladysmith Black Mambazo)

YouTube video by Dolly Parton HD

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Me when my gorgeous angel baby husband brings me a little treat from the store

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

NOW I AM BECOME DEATH DESTROYER OF APPLES

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

G O D F U C K I N G D A M M I T

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Y’all, this Yorkshire man probably thinks Cholula hot sauce is a bioweapon and can’t pronounce “taco” correctly. My brother in Dolly, the best y’all could come up with over there is a pudding, and it isn’t even *actual* pudding. (See how nicely “y’all” works in both such cases?)

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So mad at myself for taking so long, but I finally started on this 600-pg behemoth catalog of 52 of Dolly’s 60+ albums. I’m listening to each album in order as I read; it’s been good for my soul, plus an interesting chronicle of American history from 1967 to now. I’m only 5 albums in! 😅 #amreading

The cover of “Dolly Parton - All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track” by Simon Benoit, Damien Somville, and Lalie Walker. The cover photo is a beautiful black & white shot of 1970s Dolly in a light long-sleeved rhinestone top, a cascading and expertly styled wig, and big sparkling hoop earrings. She holds a microphone to her mouth, and her other hand appears to be on her hip. She’s looking slightly over her shoulder with a broad smile as she sings. It’s one of the purest encapsulations of Dolly’s essence: glamorous, sassy, and overflowing with unrepentant joy.

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Homo-theory? yum @fruitlewds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

somewhat motivated by everyone’s response to Dolly and Tim Curry passing to remark: if you were moved by them be what moves you. Be kind, generous, make weird fucking art, help people, sing bawdy songs and do drag

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If anyone had the range, lord knows it was Tim Curry: 💄 Sweet Transvestite 🧙 Grand Wizard (😬) 🤡 Interdimensional Embodied Manifestation of Evil & Fear Get you a man who can do all three (plus pirate, butler, hotel concierge, 1930s hustler, Soviet submariner, actual Darkness, sexy pollution, etc)

A photo collage of Tim Curry in some of his most indelible roles: The Sweet Transvestite Dr. Frank-n-furter from 1975’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show; The Grand Wizard (insert retroactive EEK! here) in 1986’s TV movie The Worst Witch (also starring a tiny baby Fairuza Balk); and as Pennywise the Clown in the 1990 TV mini-series of IT, which was so terrifying to me as a child that just the commercials gave me hideous nightmares and basically cemented my coulrophobia for life. A true original, and if you were a kid in the 1980’s and 90’s, he was EVERYWHERE and we fucking LOVED him.

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

No one should be surprised about any of this, but it’s so beautiful to see all these places lit up in beautiful colors in Dolly’s honor. She was a light to so many of us, in cities, in suburbs, in hollers, and I think she would have loved seeing her light shared so beautifully across the land. 💖🦋💎💖

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’M SOBBING. Six MILLION books in 25 years.

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This whole thread is yet again a testament to how a single person can do so much for so many simply by being a good person. Even with her fame & fortune, glitz & glamour, Dolly showed us all over her 60+ year career that kindness & generosity truly know no limits. I miss her so much already.

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I was already fucking over today and now I don’t know what the fuck I’m supposed to with anything without Dolly in the world.

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

COVERGIRL! Put the BASS in your WALK

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The amount of effort some people put in to doing literally zero work despite being employed full time would be inspiring if it didn’t royally fuck up everyone else’s ability to get things even the tiniest things done. (This has been a test of the workplace subskeet system. This is only a test. 🤗)

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I don’t care how good of a writer you are and how interesting/important your work is, I am not subscribing any “new” Substacks! I know they have great built-in social tools, which most working writers desperately need, but are you really THAT desperate to share your work on the Nazi platform?

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Another Flytrap banger today: extremely good analysis of “empowering” pop music by & for women in the age of neoliberal slop by @nicolefroio.bsky.social

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In honor of The Odyssey, give me your top 3 films about trying to get home (NOT including The Odyssey): 1. The Wizard of Oz (1939) 2. Alice in Wonderland (1951) 3. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Finally canceled my 2 remaining paid Substacks, one of which I read regularly & will miss dearly. Babes, you gotta stop w/ the Substacks—that goes double for y’all starting new ones, even w/ everything we know about that garbage-ass platform. It’s giving willfully ignorant boy wizard fandom tbh… 👀

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Now comes the waiting, and thus: THE ANXIETY 😭

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Please send some good vibes my way this morning, beautiful babes. I may be looking at something super exciting but also incredibly challenging coming very soon (hopefully), and I need all the positive energy I can get! 💖💖💖💖💖

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m basic af: just the moon in its current phase, and it’s one of the extremely random minor features I appreciate the most in iOS tbh. Got it as a widget on my watch face too. My work phone is Saturn. 🌖 🪐

A screenshot of my iPhone lock screen: a real-time image of the waning moon. I especially love when it’s the new moon and it’s nearly invisible on the screen—a secret little shadow moon.

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Librarians out here doing god’s work (as they have since time immemorial) 🙏🏻 🙏🏻 🙏🏻

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

First image in your camera roll that makes you laugh out loud.

The West Coaster Choppers argument meme, except it’s about brutalist architecture and for once I actually agree with the old white man!!
Old Man: We need to advocate for the preservation of Brutalist buildings which are under threat!
Young Man: (pointing aggressively) Brutalism is an aggressive architectural style which is not designed for humans!
Old: (yelling, correctly) THE FAILURE OF BRUTALIST BUILDINGS WAS A RESULT OF MISMANAGEMENT, NEGLECT, AND RACIST GOVERNMENT POLICY, NOT THE ARCHITECTURE ITSELF
Young: (throws chair) IT HAS THE
WORD BRUTAL RIGHT THERE IN THE NAME
Old: (remains correct) THE NAME COMES FROM THE FRENCH "BÉTON BRUT" WHICH JUST MEANS RAW CONCRETE (wins argument)

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It is, in fact, your civic duty, sweet babes! Lavish some love on the Libra in your life and it will come back to you one thousand-fold in the form of your favorite snacks, custom playlists, sincere (and undeniably accurate) fashion/skincare/beauty tips, and more!!! 😇 ♎️💖

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Pleased to inform fellow Xennials that music shows/concerts actually start on time now. Saw Stars, Broken Social Scene & Metric on Sat; Stars came out at 7:01 PM—start time on tix was 7:00. Same goes for Spoon w/ The Beths last month; opener started at official show start time. It’s a good thing! 🤘🏻

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Fozzie Bear Marjory the Trash Heap Cookie Monster before they made him start eating vegetables

Photo collage of three Henson Muppets:
Fozzie Bear, the corny but enthusiastic and loyal comedian bear from the original Muppet Show
The all-knowing but sometimes misguided Marjory the Trash Heap from Fraggle Rock
Extreme Sweet Fiend and Binge-Eating Disorder mascot Cookie Monster from Sesame Street

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

THIS THIS THIS PLEASE 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The result of too many margs one January night at a Chi-Chi’s in Lexington KY over here 🍹🍹

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 19/07/2026

real talk

meme of a desperate guy sticking a shotgun in his mouth trying to pull the trigger with his toe captioned 'Western Philosophers' over a photo of The Dude from Big Lebowski chilling in the back of a car drinking a white russian captioned
I can't be worried about that shit. Life goes on, man.

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Omg @judedoyle.bsky.social I finally saw the terrifying Trivago ad with the GIANT EUROPEAN TEETH MAN in the wild (in a commercial break while watching The Hunt for Red October on PlutoTV in a hotel room, which I did not, sadly, book through Trivago 😭)

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

She is a highly trained equine veterinarian & I am a marketing director. She could prob BS her way through my job but I would be scared to do more than pet those horses, let alone stick my arm up inside them to my elbow to turn breech babies around or whatever madness she does. I lose (again lol)!

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Moths are majestic, mysterious creatures, for sure, but I would rather bite my hand off with my own teeth than let one LAND ON ME FOR MORE THAN A SPLIT SECOND NUKE THIS THING FROM SPACE JFC 😖

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I’m a 🌞 Flying Lotus Sun (bday twin!) 🌝 MF DOOM Moon ⬆️ Stevie Nicks & Beck Rising

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Without downloading new pics what is it like being married to you?

Meme with the words “You not even watching the movie” and underneath, in response “Me: Yes I am”
Beneath that is a four-panel square of a brown tabby cat, tucked under a fluffy orange blanket. The first picture shows the cat with its eyes open, then with their eyes narrowed sleepily. The third picture shows the cat laying back, asleep, with its front paws over top of the blanket. The fourth picture shows the cat in what I like to call “assed-out mode,” fully lying on its back, completely assed the hell out. Basically, I fall asleep during movies and/or TV shows fairly regularly, especially if a blanket is involved.

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Fave 1990s horror: 1990: Misery 1991: Silence of the Lambs 1992: Candyman 1993: Cronos 1994: Interview with the Vampire 1995: Species 1996: The Craft, Scream 1997: Event Horizon, Scream 2 1998: Ringu 1999: Audition, The Blair Witch Project (don’t @ me)

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Without downloading new pics, describe your gender with one image.

A Super Mario meme that shows Princess Peach and a purple-hued busty, va-va-voom kind of character with big sexy lips and bedroom eyes and some fucking JEWELRY on. Above Peach are the words “Girls that poop”; above the purple diva are the words “bitches that SHIT”. Poor grammar notwithstanding, guess which one I am?!

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Unsurprisingly, I’m one of surely at least a million Mamdanis on this platform, but apparently I’m way more hopepilled than some? Which, yeah: hope is a discipline, a practice, and an extremely challenging one to keep. I’m glad I still have a little left. The quiz: britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

Screenshot of my results from the viral 2020s Political Compass quiz: I’m 83% woke (duh), 59% Neo-Luddite (thought it would be more than that tbh), 63% Hopepilled (and proud of it), and 83% Davos, which is a terrible name for the globalist/nationalist category because I actively loathe hearing or reading about Davos whenever it happens each year because it’s just more rich assholes bloviating on theoreticals instead of taking action in reality. My closest match is Zohran Mamdani, along with probably at least 75% of Bluesky users who have taken this quiz, and I am not mad about it!

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Name your favorite movie poster.

$The gorgeous, iconic, and deeply unsettling poster by Drew Struzan for John Carpenter’s frozen alien body horror masterpiece, The Thing (1982). A dark silhouette of a figure in a parka with a fur-lined hood stands with wide arms and fingers spread, legs seemingly frozen in a terrified wide stance against a jagged abstract background of dark, cool blues and frosty teal. The background evokes the uncaring menace of an ice cave, ready to shatter and impale any interlocutors who dare enter. Instead of a face, a blinding white light radiates from the furred hood, brilliant beams refracting off the sharp angles, familiar yet unholy. There is awe and wonder in this bright void, but the figure’s posture is stiff with terror, consumed by an uncanny light no human eyes were ever supposed to see. Soft wisps of ephemeral snow encircle the figure’s legs, immediately rooting us in the unlivable tundra that is itself a character in the film, another ruthlessly natural and unsentimental presence with no consideration for organic life on this planet. The tagline at the top of the poster reads “The ultimate in alien terror,” which is frankly one of the worst movie taglines ever written, but it doesn’t detract from the power of the dark, terrified figure overcome by a power it cannot and will never understand. Below the figure, in slightly askew bold all-caps white with a hard drop show, is the title: simply, perfectly and iconically, THE THING.$

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Leigh K. Hoopes @grrleigh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Biscuits Biscuits (French) Bingus Bongus Barfus Barfington The Baby The Beebo Babycat Tinycat Teenty Tinty (long ī) Ma’am Khan Khan-khan Khan Man Kringus Korn Ki’yanh (South Park) Fluff Ole Flerf Fluffington Fluffins Maguffins Flerfins Flerfins McGerkins Maguffin Magoo, Esq. Buddy That Boi

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