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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Welp, I guess it’s official: “bougie” has been usurped, stolen, appropriated, reconceived. thanks, NYTimes Connections. We can’t have nothin’

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Define “problematic” then use in a sentence.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

just saw *another* clip of a woman wasting her time talking bout how she’d NEVER EVER date a bisexual guy and I said out loud, as I always do, “ma’am, trust me, you already HAVE dated a bisexual guy!” 🤷🏽‍♂️🤭

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The irony of Bret Stephens, truly one of the most basic-ass prose stylists at the NYTimes opinion page, complaining about DEI, clutching pearls about whether or not the nat’l book prizes are going to good writers (as opposed to colored and queer ones) is hilarious and rich Such a fucking loser lol

“The Literary World’s D.E.I. Checklist” is Bret Stephen’s’ latest bellyaching about all the victimized straight white dude writers not winning all the major awards anymore 🙄

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When you remember your new apartment is around the block from Mamouns so now it’s the third time you been there in eight days 😍

A photo of the awning outside Mamouns, the amazing legendary middle eastern spot in Manhattan

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“We are the Village Green Preservation Society/ God save Donald Duck, vaudeville and variety…”

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Word? Didn’t know anything about him! What’s the book series and pseudonym?

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He was one of the cinematographers I used as evidence to her that that “dirtiness” was very photogenic haha

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This reminds me of the time a student in my 70s film course said she didn’t like watching many of the films because “everyone and everything looks so dirty!”

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mother Toni was always teaching the children. Here she is with words that resonate now more than ever. I miss her so much.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve loved Duran Duran since I was 14 years old but they begin to make so much more sense to me now that I’ve listened to more Roxy Music.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Okay, you know Noah Wyle is a true Dreamgirls (and Broadway) fan because of the song he sang with Sheryl Lee and the names he dropped 😍✊🏾 (And also because he called it a “cast album” and not a soundtrack lol)

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As a true devotee of short kings I’m following this thread closely lol

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“One More Shot” by C-Bank featuring Jenny Burton is now on Spotify and I played three times in a row and it made me very happy.

open.spotify.com

One More Shot

C-Bank, Jenny Burton · One More Shot · Song · 1982

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“I can't tell one from another/ Did I find you, or you find me?”

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There. Is. No. Need. For. A. New. Lonesome Dove. TV. Series.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I love the Beatles but I hate Beatles discourse on social media. Of course, it takes Black folks to make it fun and smart 😂

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I want to always be known as the girl who didn't go to Paris.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My very first live show was Gladys Knight and the Pips at Westbury Music Fair in 1982. The Dazz Band opened for them. It was a great show. So glad I have that memory.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I mean, Jacob Soboroff seems like a nice enough guy, even if he is close friends with Taty Kur, but what made anyone at MSNow think he could carry, alone, a three hour show both days of the weekend? 🤷🏽‍♂️

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When Stanley Crouch passed away it was my first experience with mourning the death of a (well-known) friend who’d done some important work, while also reading on social media the critiques of that person for not somehow being enough. I can only imagine how Gloria Steinem’s friends feel today.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For some reason the predictive text on safari on my iPhone has stopped appearing/working when I type things into the search window Anyone else experience this? How’d you fix it? Or is those new iPhone quirk?

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sam Stein asking Kai Bird if Roy Cohn’s closeted sexuality contributed to his “scoundrel” behavior sounds 🤦🏽‍♀️🙄 Bird: “There were plenty of powerful closeted gay men in the 1950s who did not become Roy Cohn.”

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I love R.E.M., I love R.E.M.-related content, and I love librarians 💜

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Didn’t even think of that. Got sushi there all the time!

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just seeing this. Zola’s on W. Washington is good. Sava on S. State is good. I liked The Ravens Club for casual food, too. any particular kind of food?

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I heard that Penn State is about to ban bonnets and durags.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’m know I’m old school because I don’t understand young queers getting on social media and telling all our business Straight people don’t need to know every damn thing 🤷🏽‍♂️

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Natalie stowed herself in the trunk of an SUV to be close to 47 when the motorcade didn’t have enough room for her? Hope Hicks would NEVER!

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Johnny Marr writing “How Soon is Now” and “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” in the same weekend is just diabolical.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

(what is it up in the air for?/ if it's there for long/ it's over, it's over me…) — “fall on me” r.e.m.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This dude. Legit hitting all the right notes. #AbdulElSayed

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yeah, because of their great moments in the bonus rounds on Match Game

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The only good celebrities are the ones who went on game shows in the 70s & 80s and helped regular folks win money. I will not be elaborating any further. Please respect my privacy.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I may be getting old but I like being around for the future. And now El Sayed got me all up in my Wolverine feels 🫣 Don’t stop believin’ indeed

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I have actor friends who’ve done them. I didn’t say I had an issue with the experience. I understand that hat they are. I said I couldn’t think of anyone I’d personally pay to take a photo with.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today I learned people pay 80 bucks to take a photo with a celebrity at conventions. I been racking my brain since learning that, trying to think if there’s anyone in the world I’d pay to take a photo with. I simply can’t 🤷🏽‍♂️ Is there someone or some amount you’d pay?

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