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they’ve meltzer 📓📇🤼‍♂️ S. Qiouyi Lu 陸秋逸 @s.qiouyi.lu · 1h
#AEWCollision
have you seen those fucking thighs?
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 1h
we need to put a protection spell around jay white
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 5h
MILP: Man I Love Posting
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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 7h
Eternally grateful for the opportunity to continue doing something so ridiculous.
Screenshot of a list of the 810 songs I played by request this year on the Fenway organ (DM me if you need a text version of the list to be able to read it).
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 6h
avengers: salo
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 6h
"I was surprised at how angry reading this book made me, the way reading about an exploited population making bad deals under scarcity conditions is angering. Hepola takes abysmal treatment by men as the way of the world, to be expected rather than protested. Is mutuality simply off the table?”
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After Getting Sober, She Learns Love Can Be Just as Blinding as Booze (Gift Article)
Sarah Hepola’s new memoir picks up where “Blackout” left off: with the story of three passionate, doomed affairs in her 30s and 40s.
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Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 12h
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is really something and worth your time. For those who don't know, the guy who isn't Jeremy O. Harris is Mark Guiducci, editorial director of Vanity Fair. And having worked on the print side of magazine for decades, I can confirm that "What thay want is the picture" is the cold, brutal truth.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/10/2026
The kicker is *chef's kiss*
“You think we’re getting a little too close to Meta?” [John Georges, co-owner of Georges Media Group, the state’s largest media organization and parent company of the state’s largest newspaper, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate], asked. “I’m not afraid of the sun. You know — Icarus? I’ll get as close to the sun as I can.”
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
idk i think it’s time to start throwing tea into large bodies of water www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this was really great.
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i’m baaaaack -> uncertain.fm
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i thought it was gonna be kemalito
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
w o w w w www w w
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this has been such a beautiful and sad episode. pac was the best 🖤💔 #aewdynamite
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ew gross a starlink ad get away from me elon !!!
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
progressive’s dog park song is education connection song levels of catchy
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
is liberty bibberty the herb of the ‘20s
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i hate that aew has to be so good at tribute episodes #aewdynamite #rippac
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
well. time to celebrate one of the best (and cry). 🖤👑 #aewdynamite
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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
MR. DO! UNIVERSAL CO 1982 ARCADE
Mini-Dino Spawn Point
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
everyone who has been banned from msg's venues by james dolan has the chance to do the funniest thing
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTy5k3mBY/
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What radicalized me??? Well I don't think there's anything radical about demanding men be held accountable #poem #spokenpoetry
TikTok video by Heidi Becker
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
living in a kakigerontocracy really sucks
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sarah macdonald @sarahsmacdonald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
my most enduring belief about tech leaders and tech sycophants is they are so angry about being human, that the textures of humanity are inconvenient and bad, so all of this work is meant to as punishment. it isn’t entirely their fault since our society kneels at the altars of Growth and Wealth
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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think a lot about how if there were half as many stupid, easily impressed people with money, we might not have to loudly dunk on these tech morons as often and let them marinate in the bargain bin of life
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a lapsed catholic poptimist etc... i feel like this is a key that unlocked something deep
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
fuck the fed/eralist society then now forever
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Nightmare Before “Chris”tmas @justokonline.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think the Federalist Society has been one of the most damaging organizations in modern American history.
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shanley @shanley.com · 29/09/2026
Shut down all fraternities. That shit should've BEEN over
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Milwaukee's DrAwkward @hotshotrobot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not the first person to post this match since last night and I won't be the last, but goddamn, this is one of my all-time favorite wrestling matches because of how perfectly it introduced the idea of Orange Cassidy to a national audience who didn't know if this character was supposed to be a joke 🤼
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FULL MATCH: PAC vs Orange Cassidy | AEW Revolution 2020
YouTube video by All Elite Wrestling
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deep_land @myfakeironlung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PAC was like that. The very best make the unreal seem real. You aren’t suspending disbelief, it’s been stolen from you by someone so charismatic, so tough, so poetic, so funny. It’s out the window. The best can do that. I’m glad that he got to share that with us.
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deep_land @myfakeironlung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People have a pretty myopic view of what wrestling is, but I will just say this: The viewers of pro wrestling know that it’s fake. But when a performer can cut to the very heart of someone through a TV screen or in a live audience, it’s one of the most real authentic art forms I’ve ever felt.
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
one of my favorite wrestlers ever. this is fucking devastating,
aew produced memorial graphic for the wrestler pac
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
please
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
man. wrestling is just the best
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
okay back to wrestling. i wonder where andrade got his balayage
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this is not wrestling related but i would just like to publicly state that the amount of people who came out as j*ss* s*ng*l podcast listeners this week was really freaking depressing
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
also pac is the greatest !!!!!!!!
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
impressive quick change by marina
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
chekhov’s keg
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
queen aminata already feels like a big effing deal. i like her more and more each time i see her. (also she makes amazing outfits that dont rely on popular designs!!)
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
man all these a listers in ads is such a recession indicator. drew barrymore???
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🎸🎶🥙🌯
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
just want to take a second and appreciate @dcohen.bsky.social, who passed away three years ago today. the best guy to do pretty much anything with. he was funny and curious and oh my god so freaking smart. i miss him every day.
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
that fed press release calls rumble “a video platform powering human imagination” which is certainly one way to describe pushing fascist nightmare fantasies 24/7
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
well now i’m really worried that the apocalypse is coming sometime within the next few months
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