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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What kind of internet exists, once you remove trolling and shit-posting? What is the online public sphere without the permanent threat of misunderstanding? “The result is a version of slop, but of a sort that is paradoxically (for want of a better word) ‘mindful’ in its ambitions.”

willd10.substack.com

What is LinkedIn?

The rise of mindful slop

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm so mad that I now know about this that I have to make others join in the misery. Btw it does not appear that opinions are divided AT ALL. Also, Hyrox is not the same as Hydrox, which is what I thought it said at first. Anyway, please erase this from my brain.

people.com

Hyrox World Champion, 22, Divides Opinion After Soiling Herself in Relentless Pursuit of Victory, Says ‘A Win Is A Win’

Joanna Wietrzyk soiled herself while competing in a Hyrox competition in Beijing, China, on Saturday, Sept. 12, according to multiple reports. Wietrzyk went on to win the race, with event organizers a...

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Come on, shake a leg! Happy birthday, Rita Dove!

Dawn Revisited

By Rita Dove
Imagine you wake up
with a second chance: The blue jay
hawks his pretty wares
and the oak still stands, spreading
glorious shade. If you don't look back,

the future never happens.
How good to rise in sunlight,
in the prodigal smell of biscuits -
eggs and sausage on the grill.
The whole sky is yours

to write on, blown open
to a blank page. Come on,
shake a leg! You'll never know
who's down there, frying those eggs,
if you don't get up and see.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Ant wore glasses: thick-lensed, National Health whoppers. The first night Pirroni saw him without them on, wearing that white nose stripe and dressed in the 19th-century, gold-braided Hussar jacket ... his appeal was obvious. ‘It was like Clark Kent becoming Superman.’”

theguardian.com

‘We met Princess Margaret and she was paralytic!’ My wild life onboard the Adam and the Ants Antmania rollercoaster

With their twangy sound, madcap outfits, lusty yodelling and pirouetting pirate frontman, the band became global superstars almost overnight. But, as their guitarist Marco Pirroni recalls, the thrill ...

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry (1946-2026)

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 25/08/2026

it should have been illegal for dolly parton to die

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026

“Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes decades to develop writing skills, from toddlerhood into adulthood.”

nytimes.com

What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Had to laugh at "Hollywood [is] a members-only community that gathers in reliable spaces, whether the studio lots, the Hotel Bel-Air, Riviera golf course or restaurants like Craig’s." She picked a Hollywood restaurant that actually has an outpost here. Also fyi outsiders: TN is red, Nashville isn't.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ready to move on from The Odyssey? Read Glorious Exploits! Set during the Peloponnesian War, written in a modern-day Irish voice, it earns the googly eyes on the cover but is also studded with gorgeous descriptive prose. A funny, heartbreaking testament to the power of art and humanity in wartime.

“Glorious Exploits,” a novel by Ferdia Lennon

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I will never forget seeing the Cramps perform live -- everything you'd hoped it would be and more. Henry Rollins has been hinting he's been working on something big since he moved to Nashville. Not sure if this is it and/or if there's more to come, but this is super cool.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Garage revivalists have 'projected a certain idealism onto the original bands', but ? and the Mysterians came as close as anyone to that ideal: young and unpolished, the DIY product of a hyper-local music community, yet full of wide-eyed pop ambition."

bbc.com

'A hypnotic effect that fills you with joy': The incredible story of 96 Tears, the US's unlikeliest one-hit wonder

In 1966, a Mexican-American teen band made one of the great smash-hit singles and helped invent garage rock, a genre that has inspired artists for decades.

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Anthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Spaceballs: The Clickbait I spent Comic-Con with the gang from Spaceballs: The New One, shadowing them as they orchestrated the return of Rick Moranis after 30 years. Then ... they lost him. Here's what happened behind-the-scenes at Hall H. 🚀

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Beatgrrrl @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Norman Lewis was the sole Black member of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. He was active alongside William de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.

hyperallergic.com

Filling Out the Story: On the Art of Norman Lewis

Norman Lewis (1909-1979), in the last two decades of his life, fused black struggle with abstract painting.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Bluesky: the home of vindicated but still often annoying opinions

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Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Everyone's writing about Dua Lipa's new library of banned books. I just went. Here's what it's like inside. roncharles.substack.com/p/inside-dua...

roncharles.substack.com

Inside Dua Lipa’s Library of Banned Books

A firsthand look at the new collection beneath one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Ears packed with medicine due to a double ear infection = the first relaxing Fourth of July of Lucy's entire life.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

From the great Ann Magnuson, one of many quotes that feels like it could be prefaced w/ Stefon saying Danceteria is New York's hottest club: "Our Manson musical was called Family! Joey Arias was Manson, I was Squeaky Fromme, and Marc Shaiman played the piano. We had dancers and lots of fake blood."

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 20/06/2026

“Frank O’Hara wrote that he preferred the movies, and Eileen Myles quotes Joe Brainard on his deathbed: ‘Well, one good thing about dying, you don’t have to go to any more poetry readings.’” —Joe Dunthorne on the New York School poets

nybooks.com

When the Rents Were Low | Joe Dunthorne

An oral history of the New York School Poets suggests how its successive cohorts have changed over the years.

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

On this Juneteenth, check out my list of cool TV shows, films and books which capture the holiday, w./work by Ava DuVernay, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Colson Whitehead. Rather than dusty history lessons, these projects offer new ways of thinking on history, race, media, more. loom.ly/Pg5dyyY

open.substack.com

Juneteenth, TV and Me: What to watch and read on America's least understood holiday

My list of cool TV shows, films and books to read for a modern understanding of what Juneteenth symbolizes

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

When flying was glamorous instead of torturous.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“I do believe we have made more mistakes than [the first Homo sapiens] did. We lost the connection they had to this world. They led the way quite nicely and successfully, and we got … distracted. We took another path, which is now leading us to a dead end, maybe.”

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Sure, the way Gus Fring died in Breaking Bad was pretty shocking, but not mentioned here is a much more unexpected killing in Better Call Saul that was so upsetting I almost couldn't finish the series. www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/most-s...

hollywoodreporter.com

23 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History

'Euphoria' is the latest TV series to kill off a major character. Here are some of the biggest small-screen fatalities over the decades.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Indignity Vol. 6, No. 44, MR WRONG: Stephen Colbert Knew Television Is Supposed to Be There for You www.indignity.net/mr-wrong-che...

indignity.net

MR WRONG: Check, thank you!

Indignity Vol. 6, No. 42

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"We do live in a society where the humanities are increasingly dismissed as impractical, and whatever counts as STEM is A Good Thing because practical." Finally tackled Helen DeWitt's "The Last Samurai" and feel a bit speechless, maybe because she used up all the words. What an achievement.

Cover of "The Last Samurai" by Helen DeWitt

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Beautiful story, fascinating history, must read "With cunning and audacity, they used this country’s obsession with skin color to undercut its own rules, proving that race is manufactured and performative, as social scientists have long said."

nytimes.com

A Family Secret No More

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Rosanne Cash: “I’m horrified and disgusted by what happened in the Tennessee legislature yesterday. These Republicans aren’t even pretending they believe in democracy, fair elections, the rule of law, or equal representation. Just cold, hard racism and corruption …” www.threads.com/@rosannecash...

threads.com

Rosanne Cash (@rosannecash) on Threads

I’m horrified and disgusted by what happened in the Tennessee legislature yesterday. These Republicans aren’t even pretending they believe in democracy, fair elections, the rule of law, or equal repre...

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Loved these stories. What a legacy Fantle leaves.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Another great Poetry mag Q&A: Jack White on writing quickly, encounters with Patti Smith, art+commerce, upholstery. "I think we all laid on living room carpets, looking at liner notes, looking for something more from a band or an artist we love. We need to bring that back."

poetryfoundation.org

Making Each One a Little Bit Special

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"n honor of Independent Bookstore Day, this weekend we're offering FREE STANDARD SHIPPING on April 25th and April 26th! Let's keep giving Bezos the middle finger, yeah!? And supporting the local bookstores that help make our communities thrive. 💜"

bookshop.org

Marla Ink Bookshop

Marla Lepore (aka Marla Ink) is a freelance writer in Nashville, Tenn. She writes the Muck Rack Daily newsletter, a digest of media news, longreads, and trending stories, and previously wrote for WNYC...

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"Some people say, 'I just use [AI] to brainstorm ideas.' If you don’t know what to paint or compose or write, you’re in the wrong job. Art is the business of making up stuff — go make up some stuff."

nytimes.com

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

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Jeff Harris @nemalki.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Now Playing: The Murmurs - H.R. Pufnstuf www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1En... Probably one of my favorite covers from the Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits album. RIP Sid Krofft.

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The Murmurs - H.R. Pufnstuf

YouTube video by Fuzzy Legends Archives

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/04/2026

Marian Burros, a renowned food writer, passed away at 92 and left a legacy of cookbooks, food safety advocacy and access to political figures. Her home office was filled with her life's work, including photos with first ladies and a donkey collection.

washingtonpost.com

A legendary food writer’s office treasures paint a portrait of a full life

Countless cookbooks, photos with first ladies and a donkey collection offer insight into prolific cookbook author Marian Burros’s career.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"Photographs have a way of collapsing time, and the ones taken inside the 1980s punk scene do exactly that, pulling you into smoky venues, street corners, and basement shows where a subculture was busy defining itself in real time." rarehistoricalphotos.com/punk-culture...

rarehistoricalphotos.com

What Punk Culture Really Looked Like in Its Prime: Rare Photos from the 1980s - Rare Historical Photos

Rare 1980s photos reveal what punk culture really looked like at its peak, from mohawks and studded leather to the raw attitude that defined a generation.

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