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[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

An absolute farce. And if you’ve been paying attention, an intervention that would have never come had the goal been scored by Argentina.

[Nihal | نهال @nihalist___]

Egypt don’t expose me to a lifestyle you can’t maintain

[kate wehwalt @mcmansionhell]

At least the peasants staged revolts

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@pagan_hoetry my attempt at a top 20:

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@pagan_hoetry 🫣

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@pagan_hoetry or, actually, that’s ribbon bows

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@pagan_hoetry wow. yes, probably her most skippable song

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why did no one tell me shabaka hutchings performs with *two* harp players?

[William B. Fuckley @opinonhaver]

It is obviously not actually the worst thing about the conflict, but the way that real people in Israel/Palestine dying is regarded as a backdrop for so many American elites as a backdrop for own psychodrama and grudges is so fucking repulsive to me.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Technology and mass market incentives are great at optimizing for visible yet superficial product attributes traditionally seen as outward quality signals -- like the redness, shape and size of a tomato -- at the expense of actual quality and substance -- like taste and nutrition contents.

Appearance over substance. We've done this for countless product categories -- fruits, meat, furniture, clothing. Now generative AI is bringing it to cultural creation at scale.

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nala sinephro’s endlessness AOTY

[Jeremy D. Larson @jeremydlarson]

Underrated (maybe most optimal?) era of music discovery was seeing someone else’s iTunes library on your dorm’s LAN network. Mysterious, local, curated, finite, with the possibility of a meaningful IRL connection

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one of my (f-slur) friends calls the beth gibbons record "menopause madrigals" which is Not Cool but also so fucking funny to me

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i don't know if it's my anxiety, my phone addiction, or my hearing loss that makes me constantly think my phone is buzzing

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@inthefade joanna newsom

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@blossomsbroke @moonbeeaam is the rest of this available to read?

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

Wow, picking a late season Arrested Development Steve Holt lookalike who wants to be the nation’s Chief Uterus Inspector & whose entire rise in politics came from calling his family lazy white trash and taking money from the world’s creepiest gay billionaire…isn’t polling well?

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new cassandra jenkins record is *gorgeous*

and what a closer

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@starakaj it’s not pomegranates?