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“There’s always another artist just as talented who can fill this role your cancelled fave does” has always irked me a bit because people’s artistic skills and worldviews are always going to be different from one another independently of their own morals and politics

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I don't know how any of this works @hamburglarshelper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ok well some are serious.

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can only hear the name Ed in Mrs. Bighead’s voice

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

More people have pulled out of Ed Sheeran's opening act than pulled out of Aella

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Days when celebrities get cancelled are great for limiting social media use as I get bored out of my mind reading a thousand variations of the same call-out post, even when I completely agree with it

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Everyone on Instagram is amazingly angry at Ed Sheeran today

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s why that album is named after a large animal, you see 🐘

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If I described someone as being a combination of Eminem and Kanye West you would probably think they sound like a good rapper. But actually, the person has Kanye West's politics and Eminem's race, and it's Adolf Hitler. And the fact you thought they sounded cool shows how normalised fascism is

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I fear she will lose but it’s been a pleasure voting for Missy twice in a week. WBC has great singles and some iconic deep cuts too (“The Union Forever”) but o actually think they got more interesting when they tried to stretch their sound within its limitations instead of stripping it right down

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The dial-up connection noise sounded the way a modern wi-fi password reads

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🎶Dear Ms Alicia Moore Take a walk with me🎶

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The duality of loving ‘80s music but hating pop culture’s obsession with ‘80s nostalgia

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The most splitting-hairs vote I’ve had to do so far but I lean towards the album I can dance to and is French rather than Icelandic

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Ben Says Abolish ICE @justanotherben.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

At least a few leftists will trace their origins to this moment.

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They have decent taste in hot men at least

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Muse are in a really good position to successfully sue Meta for assuming the rights to the name It won’t end the barrage of AI getting into everything but it’d be funny at least

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Voting for the album with a hit single that inspired my favourite music-related sentence in Wikipedia history

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons.

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Really hoping to vote for Missy twice in one week

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Johnny Depp starring in the Milo biopic any day now

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One of my favourite old accounts on RYM is going on their country’s MasterChef show, best of luck Marshall

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“Is Mayonnaise a Poptimism?” - r/ToddInTheShadow

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The worst pop culture analysis ushered in by “woke 1” was everyone morally nitpicking fictional romantic couples with no regard for how conflict fuels tension and release in a story

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The only good Morrissey opinion is when he declared For Your Pleasure a masterpiece

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Warning: contains 2013 VMAs jumpscare

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s a tragedy that Tim Curry was never cast in anything involving Tim Rice, would’ve been one hell of a meal

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Carrick Nisbet @carrickoftheord.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Showing boyfriend the Neverending Story BOYF: When did this come out? ME: The 80s BOYF: What year? ME: *Googling* BOYF: Guess 1984? ME ...Yes! How'd you guess? BOYF: It's the most 80s year

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Woke 1 began with the backlash to “Blurred Lines” and then ended with the backlash to Amber Heard

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

All Saints’ “Never Ever” is the only hit song to use both pronunciations of the letter Z in its lyrics

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Straight boys in high school being extremely homoerotic was the easiest part of fitting in as a teenager

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

To my mind the beginning second-Obama-term liberal discourse is when “woke 1” started but when I read other people’s use of it they’re probably thinking of resistance to the first Trump term specifically, though BLM had been a thing for years by the time he was in office

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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is why ONLY @juderogers.bsky.social is allowed to do the "Hey Joe" joke, so I can do "Hey Jude DON'T MAKE IT BAD!!!!" in response.

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Feel bad for negging this album on here since Orbit’s death, wanna clarify that there is at least 40 minutes of really good music on this album which makes it not as far off from Madonna’s ‘80s albums in quality as I once thought

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m not above dumb hard rock but how did something as brained as Andrew WK get this far in the contest to be paired up with Björk?

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is my first time seeing the name “Upworthy” on my screen since 2015

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Thinking how the Beatles’ most mutually influential American bands (the Byrds + Beach Boys) both encountered far more divisive and/or muted commercial response to their music as it got more avant-garde whereas their fans were passionate enough to follow them into weirder music as they grew up

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The worst common English first name to say in the NZ accent is “Seth”, I sound like an Australian talking about Star Wars when I say it out loud

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I refused to listen to any progressive rock after my brother had a fixation on it when we were teenagers but in 2022 I finally got into early ‘70s Genesis and Yes and saw how fruitful the genre was before it earned a reputation for excessive indulgence

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Dropping the “liberals are everybody I personally find annoying and I pretend is the exact same person” attitude has made it a lot easier to act on my political feelings without being needlessly contentious about them

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My account is almost $500 lighter but I have a ticket to see System of a Down in February Excited but dreading the moment the whole stadium sings along to “Lonely Day” which is one the worst hits by a good band ever released

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Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My inevitable “back in my day” boomer brag will be being old enough to enjoy YouTube before Google purchased it

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