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Editor @thewiremagazine. she/her. @[email protected] on Mastodon. Dexterity 6, Charisma 4, a d20 kiss for luck.
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Thanks for your support!
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Thanks Owen--appreciate the support!
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Thanks Andrew!
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You can order a digital subscription to read it online--the next best thing to the physical magazine, you get it the day it's published, no customs hassle, and you also have access to a searchable archive of every past issue to the very beginning, as long as your sub lasts. Cheaper too.
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it's about power and wanting to be acknowledged by power; no one cares how unavailable a basement incel is
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also that should say precarity in the first post here
(damn you autocorrect) but delusions of precocity/specialness also makes sense
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...novels like acts of service, most of sally rooney, & loads of other "young artsy & broke woman + older, powerful withholding dude with status & ££" stuff lately as the perfect inversion of the young-girl trope, its cardboard foil under image-based capitalism & there are too many novels like this
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I dunno, I read this less as having to do with love, more with the narrator's anxieties about her own status and precocity, the dude was a surface to project all of that onto and the more unavailable he was, the more worthy an object to test herself against--i see the dudes in stories like this...
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Glad to hear from you, and remember that road trip well. I've often wondered what you got up to. Followed, if you want to chat instead of talking in the replies here.
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Ah! I think I know who this is. Ungoogleable spartacus-type name, Lum's kitchen? Hope life has treated you well.
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Good god, yes--who is this, you must be someone I know, that was done under a bunch of silly pen names when I was 15-16? Can't believe anyone even remembers that, wow! I did eventually get to interview thomas dolby, decades later, but the zine was never spoken of. Thanks for reading The Wire.
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also hope you feel less sore soon
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this is not a reply to this actual post, just wanted to say i saw a branch of zeit für brot in angel (first in london??) today and thought of you
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That's not even getting started on the energy/environmental costs...this stuff is dead on the vine, even Nina, which has been shilling similar for half a decade plus now, only has a few thousand users, and most of them also sell on bandcamp etc. It's all toxic, rentierism + energy wasting
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If you're a company making sales dependent on your own volatile, valueless token, that you just happen to scrape fees off of every transaction, in a walled-garden marketplace-- sure, you must be a 'much needed alternative to the current exploitative models'.
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so sorry to hear it, what a wonderful creature. glad you were able to give her a loving home.
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this should be hit 'em of 2025
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door's always open, and I love what flaming hydra is doing so will look for this there!
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Hey jj, DM me if this is something you're interested in writing about for us
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the apple store is the only retail environment that has ever stressed me out so much i was in tears, i'm sorry for anyone who ever has to deal with them
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the alt text on this is not just accurate but inspired 💯
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ah, seveneves. aka racists in space. there are too many of those already.
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regular deliveries/projections of lettuce seem to work well
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bit of a puerile joke but i love this one
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totally misses that music is social, active, about people as much as process--think any improv night at Oto or similar would make his ant-brained head explode
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dude is telling on himself here; speaking as someone with zero musical talent or patience for practice, some of the best times in my life have been playing busted keyboards or a bunch of junk shop toys with other weirdos & freaks, making an ungodly racket (that still sounds better than AI slop)
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yeah totally!--scully especially must have gone to med school at like 15--that takes forever in the US and they're only 30ish when it starts! still somehow more convincing than, say, the lawyers of ally mcbeal.
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also doing this! Up to S3 now (missed it the first time round). Everyone looks great, some episodes are super dated & hard to watch, but it's really fascinating/uncomfortable to see today's paranoid social media/internet conspiracy/'do your research' culture in embryo. how goes it for you?
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internet archive is the gift that truly keeps on giving!
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Looks like the mystery may be solved for this one at least...
www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2020/08/east...
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Anyway, the party scene featured a performance from what appeared to be a genuine but uncredited psych band. We've got websites about film locations, how about a site that identifies any musician or group who turns up in a film, acting or not? Get busy, someone.
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can confirm, it was just shown in london as part of a (quite good!) riot grrrl/queer femme punk season by a late 20s/early 30s curator--while the two leads don't ever kiss, they're totally girlfriends. there was also a pre-show talk content warning about the slurs in the 'your daughter is one' song