Ned Raggett

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Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.bsky.social, The Wire, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.bsky.social, Bandcamp, Pitchfork, etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social

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Lmao someone is hanging up these fake 'And Just Like That' film notices. Make sure you read them.

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kilgore trout

We live in a time of geniuses. (They’re just not here.)

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RuPaul's Drag War of All Against All

Meantime on #RuPaulsDragRaceAllStars

Meanwhile on #CanadasDragRaceCanadaVsTheWorld

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Disco Bones

Yeah, definitely.

Meantime on the season finale of #DragRaceFrance

Shared elsewhere by @quartzcity.bsky.social — a good, appropriately detailed and sharply, correctly observed history of Douglas Adams’s later creative life.

» The Later Years of Douglas Adams The Digital Antiquarianwww.filfre.net

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ALL I WANT FOR MY BIRTHDAY IS 100 BACKERS ON KICKSTARTER PLS

Hey it’s @schwindter.bsky.social’s birthday! Wish her well — and chip in to her Kickstarter stretch goal if you can!

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NEW: Judge Seybert denies all of George Santos's motions to dismiss, plus a few other motions just for fun storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NEWS: Teamsters VP-at-Large, John Palmer, who has been extremely critical of current President O’Brien’s overtures towards the GOP, has just announced he’s forming an opposition slate and running for president in the 2026 Teamsters leadership election. “We are better than this.”

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i wrote about sausages, the iliad, the best key and peele sketch of all time, balkan food wars, offal-eating, and the fallow deer reserved for kings: buttondown.email/theswordandt...

Notable Sandwiches #102: Kokoretsi/Kokoreçbuttondown.email Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...

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I think that, much like you would regard the confident proclamations of your local corner barstool creature with some fetid cocktail of suspicion and amusement and immediate severe dismissal, so too should you regard anyone doing dead serious pundit posting on twitter in the year of our lord 2024

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Hey it’s @schwindter.bsky.social’s birthday! Wish her well — and chip in to her Kickstarter stretch goal if you can!

stretch goals mean: JOB CREATION (more crew!), better equipment rentals, better VFX, etc! so y'know you can still make a huge difference with just a few bucks www.kickstarter.com/projects/swp...

Sight Unseen: A horror film about homeownershipwww.kickstarter.com Three siblings inherit their estranged father's house, only to discover that something else still lives there.

A deep read.

Low’s Alan Sparhawk on the death of his wife and bandmate Mimi Parker: ‘If you fall in love, you know this could happen’www.theguardian.com Sparhawk spent four decades with Parker, three of them as the core of alt-rock legends Low, before she died from cancer aged 55. He discusses finding his new, digitally-altered voice amid grief – and ...

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I hope this reminds people of what I have said all along. Trump is beyond beatable whether it’s Joe, Kamala, or someone else. Fucking act like it.

Meanwhile on #DragRaceMéxico

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my god bob newhart’s last joke is his best ever

Conservative pundit Lou Dobbs — infamous for hardline anti-immigrant views and for pushing Obama birther theories — has died at 78, Trump announced

Lou Dobbs Dead At 78, Trump Announceswww.huffpost.com The conservative media personality was 78.

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JFC

A big tell. Miami GOP Rep Salazar at RNC on Trump's mass deportation plans"sometimes that is rhetoric you say while you’re campaigning (and) that may not happen” Um, no. See Stephen MIller and Project 2025 That she's spinning means Dems should lay it all bare www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

Florida Republican: Trump deportation proposal might just be ‘rhetoric’www.tampabay.com Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar is running in one of the state’s swing districts.

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Our own @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social has a Reddit AMA going today about _The West Passage_ and anything else along those lines! Go on, ask him still something…

heeeeeere we gooooo www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Reddit - Dive into anythingwww.reddit.com r/Fantasy is the internet's largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. Fans of fantasy, science fiction, horror, alt history, and more can all find a home with us. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. We ask all users help us create a welcoming environment by reporting posts/comments that do not follow the subreddit rules.

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CNN just shouting out the quiet part. The kicker? Ratings are still down from previous elections. It’s all pundit onanism.

The headline is for _The First Family_ but he also cowrote _The Phynx_, was head writer on _The Paul Lynde Halloween Special_, had Tiny Tim as a witness at his wedding, and has a forthcoming memoir which I will read the fuck out of.

Bob Booker Dies: Writer And Producer For Grammy-Winning ‘The First Family’ Was 92deadline.com Bob Booker spent 75 years in show business before dying at 92.

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If you live in New Jersey and care about these things, I highly recommend telling Governor Murphy you expect him to appoint Andy Kim, the elected D nominee, to replace Menendez in the Senate. www.nj.gov/governor/con...

NEW: Sen Bob MENENDEZ is calling allies and telling them he intends to RESIGN, per NBC News

Office of the Governor | Contact Uswww.nj.gov Contact Us Form

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resharing for all my iphone people who need to turn off notifications from unknown senders, after you filter them into good and hmmm folders

Have you tried toggling this setting? My quick forum search gives me the impression that filtering and turning off notifications are two separate things Settings > Messages > Notifications > [scroll to the bottom to find] Customize Notifications > Allow Notifications > Unknown Senders > Off

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jenni miller

Per the author’s note at the end, she is doing just that right now.

Casey Niccoli on her time involved with — and erasure from the story of — Jane’s Addiction. (Being in LA 88-92 meant I was very lightly ‘there, man.’ And I appreciate this greatly.)

I Was A Creative Force Behind One Of The Biggest Rock Bands Of The '90s. Then I Watched Them Erase Me From Their Story.www.huffpost.com "At that time, the band had broken up, and I was told they would never reunite. But that’s not what happened."

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Mir (I am not American or British)

Best approach for sure! We all need that kind of refocusing when we can.

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la-la-la-lydia

Indeed!

Thought _The Acolyte_ ended very well and would be happy for another season. This piece the other day from a Native writer is highly recommended, BTW.

The Acolyte's Fascinating Parallels Between Jedi Recruitment and Colonialismgizmodo.com The Star Wars streaming series' revelations about how the Jedi first crossed paths with Osha and Mae add another layer to the galaxy far, far away's view of colonialism in the era of the High Republic...

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you can take this or leave it but let me tell you, one of the joys of logging off is the absolute certainty you regain that being logged on at every minute has never produced a single insight more sincere than a horsefly landing on your face demanding to be swat at