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Niko Stratis

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Sober trans broad. Culture writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, words in SPIN, Catapult, Paste and more. Host of Blue Eyes Crying By The Chips. Currently writing a book about Dad Rock. She//Her

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i've got a few left! send me your address and i'll mail you one! (we're going to repress too, but not entirely sure when that'll be ready)

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I am losing my mind, we won a fucking Lambda for this book. My story is about Dom Toretto fusing with his car and absorbing his entire crew one by one.

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im fucking dying at this news, right after i found out we won i went back and read your piece again and was just blown away by how incredible this all is

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Haven’t been here in a minute, almost forgot there’s a site I’m not afraid to post photos on

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we finally have DMs so i guess i'm back in hopes that it gets weird quick

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This is an ad both for and against cargo shorts

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Also, it’s not called a trunk when it’s a truck, I can’t stress that enough.

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When I ran my own construction company I owned a Toyota Tundra and let me tell you, it fit more than one 2x4 in the box

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Deleting all of this because this kind of conversation always leads to something bad.

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Respectfully, there are plenty of masc focused brands, clothing lines, “gender gear” merchants, etc. they are omnipresent.

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Being transphobic and making merch that says Girl Dad is stolen valour

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Mir's avatar Mir @miriam.lol
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Please like and share this post

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you've got a Three Body Problem, I want a ticket to anywhere

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We should embrace tradition and go back to having one Wartime Consigliere per household

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Last year after the “how come we can’t be weird about trans kids anymore” op-ed I opted to stop writing for these guys and it was a hard call at the time that I have never regretted since

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Now that the government is in charge of sports betting, does that free up the mob to do like…high speed railway construction or universal healthcare?

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Can’t believe they’re just going to blow her up in order to kickstart life in a new galaxy

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Do not go gentle into that good night

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This is kind of what I’m talking about though! Immediately it’s “trans women don’t make good pop music”, which is a blanket statement about representation in genre that I’m not interested in.

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Man goes to the doctor. Says he's depressed, he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great chef Bobby Flay is in town tonight. Go and beat him. That should pick you up.' Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I am Bobby Flay’

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I honestly think my almost 20 years working in trades gave me a decent framework for it. Get up, do it every day that you can, be ready to fail and make mistakes. Learn to try and avoid the mistakes that send you to the hospital.

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Video games should be less about a vast open world with limitless potential and more about The Noid helping the mayor save New York City

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Men only want two things: to Bump with a doll, and to bump with a bug

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God the theme to this is burned into my brain despite having not seen it in 30 years. This one and Bump In The Night.

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They should show Love Lies Bleeding at every drive-in in the country, they should build new ones just to screen it there.

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Aftermath is a great site that I read every single day and support with my own dollars and please help them get more so they can continue to grow and so that I can annoy them with pitches about Parasite Eve

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Melissa Gira Grant's avatar Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com
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hot take: It's a trap to have to defend the entire works of Magnus Hirschfeld to refute blatant anti-trans propaganda from the Harry Potter author. She doesn't care about history and no history will help her; she wants to waste your life right now.

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If I was one of the richest women in the world I wouldn’t be posting, you would never hear from me again. All you would know is that supposedly my plane went missing somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle

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All Dwight Yoakam. The kids gotta learn

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I’ll buy TikTok and turn it into a cool diner that’s open 23 hours a day and sells cigarettes to teens

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Took me a good minute to register this Bluesky ad on Twitter

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They should let me write a Marvel Comic that’s just about the guys who are trying to keep their hot dog cart business alive in the midst of all these The Vulture bank heists

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Shared the full text of the Living Wage for Musicians Act on my substack, cause I’m goddam proud of all of us who worked on this, and cause this is now an effort that will take place in public, with your help if you support the idea dadadrummer.substack.com/p/the-living...

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Get outta here water! Come back when you’re hot and you have beans in you

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This is pure propaganda by Big Glass Of Water

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Sorry, but I finally won a round in Balatro and I’m going to log off and feel alive for the first time in weeks

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damn how big was that coat

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Does the transference to the ukulele make it easier?

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I would love to see that weird franchise come back in 2024! Let’s get really into mitochondria again!

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It’s one of the main reasons I still have a vita lying around!

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A fact i didn’t know until last night either!

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Mike W's avatar Mike W @mjwallace42.bsky.social
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This is a good essay about dads, and it also led me down a very dad rabbit hole wherein I discovered that Copperhead Road is one of 12 (!) official state songs of Tennessee.