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rax ‘levon honkers’ king

@raxkingisdead.bsky.social
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Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4h
people think that just because a bunch of angry women haven't burned down an ivy league university *yet* then they definitely never will
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4h
wow the whole rest of the year?!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4h
he was challenging them to a rap battle and they clearly choked
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4h
she's a beaut
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5h
oh god you’re one of those
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7h
(walking up to you and slugging you hard across the face) EXCUSE ME. why doesn’t the movie theater sell kettle corn
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7h
i’d forgotten the part of a trump presidency where he compulsively fires his staff or otherwise drives them away and then serves up a buffet of increasingly ludicrous replacements
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7h
🎶 ga-a-a-ba-gool…with, a, fork
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 9h
Come see this show tonight where I will be reading my new piece of music criticism called: You Hipster Dipshits Will Acknowledge the Tender Poetry of They Might Be Giants, Goddammit.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 8h
Huge, incredible, lifechanging news: We have an essay on @weareravenous.com from the one and only @nikostratis.com, about that emo album Wendy's put out www.weareravenous.com/wendys-emo-a...
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Wendy’s Is Trading on Millennial Nostalgia With Emo
Wendy's released an EP, 'Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Parking Lot,' with a slew of emo heavy-hitters. It hopes to cash in on your memories of eating a Frosty after you were dumped.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h
Read every word of this and share it.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 8h
i love when subscription services send me those coy emails like ‘the price of your subscription is changing.’ yeah? it’s changing? in what way? what sort of personal growth will this already expensive subscription undergo?
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 9h
that jacket absolutely constitutes probable cause
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 9h
this is a good bit but my vacuum is a boy.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 9h
my god. he can’t even be bound by the chief authority of this house…
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 9h
someone once told me the way to make my dog stop fearing the vacuum is to scold the vacuum in front of her. so i tried it while she was hiding behind my legs. now she’s afraid of the vacuum AND she thinks it’s badly behaved
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 9h
get a room
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10h
ok NOW i’ve summoned all of boston
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10h
didn’t realize i summoned all of boston with this
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10h
ok settle down there tony wonder
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10h
i didn’t like reading Business Godsmack
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10h
of course. the five genders
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10h
one coffee please. in blue cup
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h
it’s not. no i dunno im just bored
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
what the hell is this music school teaching my kid
"Dumlings And Chopsticks"
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h
laughter fading a little as i realize it’s now stuck in my head
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h
i’m laughing simply uncontrollably at this
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 23h
ALSO TODAY: Ian Williams on the real and unreal, in reality TV, fiction, social media, and elsewhere. "I presume now that everything is intentional and nothing is real, rather than vice versa." flaminghydra.com/all-too-real/
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All Too Real
Remember the rash of gross-out cooking videos from a few years ago? Unhinged recipes, usually featuring white women cheerily throwing chicken stock, ground beef, and nacho cheese sauce in a big vat or...
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 23h
TODAY: @felipedlh.bsky.social on the relationship between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the influencers covering his office. "Informing the public is not what they signed up for. Reporting is complicated, expensive, messy, and opens you up to potential liability." flaminghydra.com/who-will-inf...
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Who Will Influence the Influencers?
Among his many talents, the New York City mayor is a social media savant, with a flair for friendly, informative, approachable communications that pretty much single-handedly led him, in a matter of m...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
im kidding obviously. every election from the local level on up i ignore all options on the ballot and write in 'the immortal science of marxism-leninism'
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
'none of what rax' any of it. fuck you.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
none of this would have happened if we had simply elected Jeb
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ah hell was there a problem with my reasoning. well i'm glad someone was there to point it out!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
that's because novels are for the girlies. men may if they so desire read the instructions for building a piece of ikea furniture. any piece of ikea furniture they like!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
i just keep imagining, like, what if i got the call. 'rax you're hosting SNL get ready to deliver the opening monologue.' i can't imagine i would do well but. i wouldn't do THAT
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
hey man so you know how i had to fire you from my show due to mass outcry about you. and you know how all the conditions that contributed to that mass outcry are much worse now. and you know how all your material is just stuff from the cutting room floor of sam kinison's special. and you know h
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
that said i almost never watch SNL. and apparently lorne michaels really does not want me to!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
like idk people are saying that lorne michaels just has a big ol comedy lech for this guy and i'm sure that's true but. putting this guy, on this show, saying these things, for this live audience and this national audience, is almost identical to the stuff you'd do to sabotage him
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
i think i could guess
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
i'll say they do!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
i have no doubt he sells out venues with his women-are-whores act but that's not because it has broad appeal it's because guys who think that stuff is funny are also big buyers of comedy show tickets
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
shane gillis is so unfunny that putting him on national tv is the same thing as throwing him under the bus lol
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
'more than five years ago' it was five years and six months lol
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
they're gonna write whole exams around this beef in comms classes the way they study My Cousin Vinny in law school
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
no hey that's cool i'll just go fuck myself. i'm only the one who keeps your dish full of food
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
my dog likes to play by herself, she grabs one of her toys and flings it in the air and then pounces on it. if i try to play with her while she's doing this she gives me this pitying look like i'm embarrassing myself. i feel so washed
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
true and also basically all books' popularity is with women lol
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
he was such a sweetie also he could cook like a sonofabitch
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'm going to read about R.E.M. tomorrow and one of these great musicians is going to play a cover of the song I'm reading about. Pretty cool! www.eventbrite.com/e/words-and-...
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Words and Guitar
An all acoustic variety show featuring readings about our favorite tunes, and covers of them from our favorite musicians.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
some of you guys are humorless little pedants but twitter had the exact same humorless little pedant problem it just happened to be spread across a larger user base over a longer time period so it was less noticeable. and yall never brigade me to tell me all jews will burn in hell so. here we are
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