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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 8h

i did not see that the original post referenced monday. listen. i am very tired

geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 10h

small handful of songs/performances from the era of political crimes of my childhood that i return to for a bit of steel in this new era and this is probably top of the list

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 10h

it's not the only part of the fight but target is going to have trans pride flag shirts on racks again in 2029 and that is part of the fight

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 10h

alright we're giving up on this being a new music thread and letting it be a 2026 pop thread. this is probably my favorite track on lily allen's brutal divorce album you should definitely listen to and when you sit with it i think its most devastating indictment

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Lily Allen - Dallas Major (Visualiser)

YouTube video by Lily Allen

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 10h

i really wish i liked nicole kidman more but i think maybe seeing the video first was a mistake lol, but stateside has been in my workout playlist for like three months. i'll check out the others!

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 10h

honestly really recommend listening to this on your music streaming app of choice without the video, which while great distracts from the absolute climactic third act show tune of it all. might be one of my favorite new to me songs in months

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11h

this is not related to new music but manchild is one of the most enjoyable music videos ever made and i think it's a real shame it didn't get more accolades

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11h

i have encountered what may be the first attempt at an american boy band revival in response to the success of kpop boys. it's passable. as in times past so today, it stitches a second or two of a beautiful woman in every 30 seconds because it is otherwise extremely homosexual

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11h

definitely sounds like a potential bubble bath full album listen lol. i listened to a couple and the others were entirely serviceable sitting on their own and may work better in the album, but i really liked this and choosin' texas on their own

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11h

i don't even know if this qualifies as popular (what does 11 million views on youtube even mean anymore?) but i am a huge sucker for a modern expository show tune as pop song and i love this

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Ashe - Stop The Wedding! (Official Video)

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11h

my darkest gay secret is that i don't think i've ever actually loved a troye sivan song

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12h

haha i had, but not the most recent two (motivation and versailles). and re: lil nas x i haven't! i know of it but i'm always a little nervous when someone's coming back from going through something, both for them and for me because i am prone to a lot of Music Video Feelings

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12h

the new single isn't part of it but i must report that her last album is, i wouldn't say the best of the year, but the one that i responded to the most intensely lol. just an absolute laser-targeted piece for a certain kind of los angeles millennial

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12h

obviously the new carly raes from the last month are perfect, and one explicitly a queer anthem. hilary duff is only just setting out on her path but carly is the actual millennial kylie minogue, been on this path for over a decade now, and doing it just impeccably. listen to emotion sides a and b

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12h

just saw an ad for an olivia rodrigo stupid song-themed limited edition baja blast drink at taco bell

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12h

bud i can't tell if you're drunk or what but you're starting to cross a line, i suggest you log off, this isn't an appropriate way to talk to strangers

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12h

i mean we can joke around but genuinely because a lot of pop music is pop(ular) because it's good and fun to listen to

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12h

my youtube algorithm is failing me now and just recommending things i've watched before so if you have any favorite recent popular singles, ideally but not necessarily with videos, to recommend i'd appreciate it lol

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12h

this is... great? i love this. i really hope the sneering about the popular single doesn't lastingly polarize her career, i want to hear more from her

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Ella Langley - Be Her (Official Video)

YouTube video by EllaLangleyVEVO

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12h

well i know what i'm cuing up next

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12h

the new taylor swift isn't as bad as people are saying but i do think her unstoppable success and access to the best producers in the world has made her already biased eye for lyrical editing worse

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12h

i'm not angry lol, just wanted to clarify that for me this isn't about, like, bias against a genre, i just think the current crop on the radio is individually bad

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 13h

i have finally listened to/watched choosin' texas. it's cute! genuinely like it. i wish it had even more of the country-disco thing it flirts with. i do not understand it topping charts for weeks lol

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 13h

oh to be clear i have always been an all music person, and hugely into pop, just the specific songs i heard in about an hour in the car today were mostly actually bad lol

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 13h

she's up next on my recommended! but i'm not familiar so i'm not sure if it's new lol

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 13h

the new hillary duff single is not... good, exactly. but it is clear that she is taking the kylie minogue path after realizing who her audience is (white homosexuals). and i think this bodes well for the future

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 13h

i frequently listen to top 40 radio in the car on errands to keep abreast of what's out there but tonight i did it on a trip across town and back for drinks and i gotta say......... that shit was Bad. so now i am going to watch music videos with a glass of wine and see if anything is not bad

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

bebe rexha and rita ora are the same person, to me. and that person was made up by the british tabloid press to confuse me

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 13h

Corporations publicly celebrating LGBT+ equality is a good thing and I am glad to see it coming back.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h

do not gaze too long into the mind of the median voter, lest the mind of the median voter gaze also into you

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

no YOU had another glass of wine while getting ready for bed

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

very fucked up that i'm so hot with my chest and collarbones and biceps out but there are really very few occasions upon which it feels appropriate to wear a henley t-shirt

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it very much does not feel like a movie about the uk, it feels like an abstracted scifi future that happens to be occurring in the uk, which is fine! but i can imagine it is annoying if you wrote it to be otherwise lol

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

this is why in this house we respect children of men

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

of course the bbc does some transphobic bullshit just as i'm trying to make the point that it's not really reasonable to get into a "who's more recidivist on progressivism" fight between the us and europe

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026

Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

that it is an inherently big tent makes it easy to define the democratic party however you'd prefer, for better and worse. there certainly are democrats as forward-looking progressives, but there isn't a straight line between the 2004 massachusetts supreme court and the 2029 democratic congress

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

oh i am not even getting into the southern strategy nonsense lol, very weird thing to bring up in the 21st century, no sane adult conflates the democratic party of today with what it was before the civil rights act

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

how do you compare those things? seems impossible. none can be placed as inherently less important, less meaningful to the mantle of "progressivism." less bigoted, maybe. which is not to say un-bigoted. we've seen that. but we are fighting on different ground here than we would be there. it's silly

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

and you dig deeper into it, i mean, yes, obviously, many european center-left parties have pulled back further than democrats writ large on issues like immigration and queer rights, but an actual plan for universal healthcare is not even really on the table for the national democratic party

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

so when you say things like "democrats led the world in local gay marriage legalization," that's true, it's the best of the democratic party, something to be proud of, but you're really cherrypicking here. i don't consider myself very hard on the party but they did that against party leadership

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

you have to get into pretty knotty questions about what all these terms mean — progressive, modern, we'll go ahead and leave "governing" at "european center-left likely to lead a parliamentary coalition" but the proposition of the big tent reminds that our system demands intraparty coalition

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

i think this is always a very silly comparison to try to make, inherently

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

impeachment isn't (exclusively) for legal crimes. even under this illegitimate supreme court: the president's duties cannot be a crime, and yet impeachment is in the constitution. it is for the crime of abuse, of the polity, of the public trust, of the popular sense. we should understand it as broad

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