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hello we post our Big Important texts that take us ages to write on the /reviews tab but this page is our BLOG where we let loose, forget to spell check, write quick things about whatever we want, and jusss do some old school bloggin baby ✌.ʕʘ‿ʘʔ.✌

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  I read more books this year than i ever have before

  books are sooo good i had forgotten tbh

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  everything we wrote in 2024

  every SINGLE thing

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  we were on the All About Art podcast

  with Alexandra Steinacker 🍋

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  LADS I FANCY #33

  i don't really need to explain this one

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  WOULD YOU LIKE A PRESENT

  hehehe

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  our book is up for a prize maybe!

  Poor Artists has been longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize

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  goblinhood event!

  tickets here yer dirty goblins

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  save Soanes

  @ tower hamlets council

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  gift guide!

  pretending to be a really normal blog for one post

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  some book press, please click on this

  or don't, see if i care

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  book tour shenanigans

  getting film developed is the highlight of my life

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  Good YouTube #7

  i am the best at youtube please enjoy my recommendations

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  how to write good exhibition interpretation

  or how 2 make me happy

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  deleting twitter

  good riddance

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  Good YouTube #6

  i am the best at youtube please enjoy my recommendations

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  some book events!

  we're on tour BabYYYY

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  the book is out omg

  and i had my film camera with me during launch week!

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  Endorsing PACBI

  We’re signing up to PACBI, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

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  Ranking the names in my family tree

  this is what blog posts were made for

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  things ive been enjoying lately

  knitting, linkin park, and art-porn

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  1 month til the book

  i have touched the real thing

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  Good YouTube #5

  i am the best at youtube please enjoy my recommendations

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  Good YouTube #4

  i am the best at youtube please enjoy my recommendations

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  I got a kitten

  a message to susanna clarke

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  I knitted our book cover

  it's pretty good

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  I wrote about Harry Josephine Giles

  Deep Wheel Orcadia & disability

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  praise 4 poor artists

  it's starting

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  i did a reading at the fitzcarraldo summer party

  yes, i did!

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  LADS I FANCY #32

  who else???

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  Good YouTube #3

  i am the best at youtube please enjoy my recommendations

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  The Creatives Grant is BACK ON, BABY

  someone did indeed raise their hand, but tbf we need more hands

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  Newcastle & Turps!

  i love my job!

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  learning spanish muy bien

  la sangre llama

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  The Creatives Grant is on PAUSE

  if you're rich and also nice please raise your hand

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  desert island discs

  important information

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  Good YouTube #2

  i am the best at youtube please enjoy my recommendations AGAIN

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  bbc radio london interview

  with Karim Bitar

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  how to pre-order our book in the US

  WALMART ETC.

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  Good YouTube

  i am the best at youtube please enjoy my recommendations

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  imagine this website is a vending machine

  i am j pushing another lil blog thru to send the last one on its way

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 29th April

  i've been to see lots of exhibitions, honestly loads -- 2 weeks worth of SURPLUS STUFF!

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 22nd April

  holly hendry @ temple station roof garden, the muslim cowboy, st paul's cathedral (& being a tourist)

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 15th April

  tice cin! tom hunter! delicate bonds @ lychee one! sylvanian families (again) and i am quitting smoking!

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  do you want to see my holiday photos

  I have secretly been in France

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  Hardeep Pandhal has a monograph out!

  and Gab wrote a text for it

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 8th April

  show pony, cute, phillida reid group show, the husbands, italo calvino, diy lash lift

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 1st April

  i am now an amateur ceramicist, poor things, homage to catalonia, fidget toys

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 25th March

  new contemps! soufiane ababri! barbican conservatory & drummond street!

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  I've read 12 and a half books this year

  here is what I thought of them

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 18th March

  i don't like slavoj zizek!? london feeds itself launch! maz murray @ focal point! i saw the sun!!!

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  tested some purple film!

  developed more pictures at Take It Easy lab

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 11th March

  DUNE 2! American fiction! daunt books! tiktok bby!!

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  you can now read our Poor Things review in Czech!

  thanks to Nora Třísková and Revue Prostor

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 26th Feb & 4th Mar

  bumper pack! Hackney Musuem, taviani brothers @ BFI, Gary Zhexi Zhang @ ICA, tate reading room!

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  I wrote about games and wolf alice and precious objects

  for my Elephant column Culture at Home

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  I'm a photographer btw

  official photographer

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 19th Feb

  eliza clarke boy parts! i hated this film! (past lives)

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  BTS: London 2039

  post-mortem to puncture the idea of a text as a final perfect thing, and to show you some cool photos!

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  OUR BOOK POOR ARTISTS RELEASES OCTOBER 3RD

  BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTTTTTTTTT

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 12th Feb

  lots of books! bits n bobs!

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  here are some essays about women in fiction

  everyone's got an opinion about Types of Ficitonal Woman!

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 5th Feb

  this blew my mind!!!

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 29th Jan

  so much for consistency, i've got a backlog

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  if you like to knit...

  here are the things I've been making

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  LADS I FANCY #31

  ANOTHER MUSICAL LAD

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  the coolest artists

  according to our readers

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  writers I should read

  according to our readers

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  LADS I FANCY #30

  MUSICAL LAD

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  We filmed a walkthrough for the 2023 John Moores Painting Prize

  zarina shouts TITS

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  CALLING INDEPENDENT CURATORS! Art Fund have a survey for u :)

  How can funders aid and support your career development? They don't know, so you should TELL THEM!

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 8th Jan

  film club is a hit. i'm now a CINEMA ENJOYER!

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  Judging old paintings FOR FUN

  Looking through the catalogue for the 1995 John Moores Painting Prize

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  I'm a different critic now

  so thank god for Photoworks

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 25th December

  WISLW for xmas and also the new year!! a lil mixed bag, PLUS jeremy allen white CK ad jumpscare hehehehe

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  i wrote about art and social media again

  my favourite subject

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  everything I made in 2023

  every SINGLE thing

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 4th December

  Nicole Eisenman @ Whitechapel! Joy Crookes! Snowpeircer! ££££s! was in the background of gb news (embarassing!)

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  how much money I made this year

  im giving the people what they want. statistics and misery

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  i found a good artist video

  Artist by Tracey Moffat and Gary Hillberg

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  i've started a new column for elephant

  it's called CULTURE AT HOME

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  the end of the brb

  just 'back' now

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  this is my favourite song of 2023

  it came out in 2022 but i only found out about it this year so shut up

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 20th November

  the OPERA! KV! STRIKE! PAINTING W MY MUM! 2 lil talks & the tate palestine map!!!

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 30th October

  On Railton Road! artist choir! Godard on Palestine! Sister Corita Kent! the Demon Boyz! (why i hate boxpark)!

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 23rd October

  my mum loves arlene phillips! guernica! litany of victory! wagatha christie! wrexham afc!

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  we judged the oldest painting prize in the UK

  and i made a video about it!

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 16th October

  the Turner Prize! Navratri! Shibari workshops!

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 9th October

  Frieze week! Nandosss! Blue Mist! lots to catch up with!

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  calling my fellow people of the salt

  You have POTS? well, i have something else for you 🧂 🎁

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 2nd October

  secondary culture!

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 21th September

  i'm a hermit! a recluse! i live in a cave!

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  in convo with Alison Rumfitt this autumn

  to talk about brainwyrms ofc 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱

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  i might die hahaha

  no but for real, health update

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 28th Aug

  paris! fashion! hilma!!! ok!?!

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  one liverpool biennial thought

  this should probably be a tweet

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  took some more film photos

  jfc i need an eye test

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 7th Aug

  idk if u heard but i had all 4 of my wisdom teeth taken out

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  tax write off #7

  ongoing series where I write about stuff so that I can write it off hehe haha

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  wrote something for vittles

  salt salt salt salt salt salt salt

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  Published another pamphlet with Rough Trade Books!

  it's an extended BeTTER version of the Chaotic Nightclub Photos review just trust me

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  good post day today!

  i never open my post

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 17th July

  bits n bobs

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  Gathering

  some information

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  how to listen to our podcast

  i got the hook-up

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  tax write off #6

  ongoing series where I write about stuff so that I can write it off hehe haha

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 10th July

  i love my job!

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 3rd July

  none of it is art

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  technical difficulties

  ignore this post

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  i'm ye olde gdlp now

  taking film photos, fuck phones

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  my last few texts have been weird

  small explainer for people who are like wtf gabrielle

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  tax write off #5

  ongoing series where i write about stuff so i can write it off hehe

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  this is good for artists imo

  I love the internet sometimes

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  we were on bbc radio 4

  do you want to listen to it

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  june camera roll

  birthday month! cancer szn!

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 26th June

  summer, sundays, 2for1 BOGOF

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  LADS I FANCY #29

  i have a new scientific theory

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 12th June

  tl;dr i saw EVERYTHING

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  LADS I FANCY #28

  i want to climb him like a tree

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  may camera roll

  we're sooooo back

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 5th June

  buckle in, there's a backlog

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  studio visit ethics

  a handy guide to studio visits

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  tax write off #4

  continuing series where I tie up loose ends

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  april camera roll

  ngl this has been the longest month of my entire adult life

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  learnt to knit didnt i

  it is personal development

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  tax write off #3

  continuing series where I tie up loose ends

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  WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 10th April

  mike nelson @ hayward! peter doig @ courtauld! i wana see the DOG PORTRAITS! but the wallace collection press team are ignoring my emails!

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  weindustria's structurally f-cked report

  have you read it? you should read it.

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  WHAT I SAW THIS WEEK: 3rd April

  i don't wana do my job, i want to have a nice time.

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  TWP crit #8

  landscapes and sculpture! colour and form!

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  LADS I FANCY #27

  the sluttiest thing a man can do is wear tiny little shorts

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  i love trainers!

  idk how this all works, i j love trainers!

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  march camera roll

  i'm having a lovely time!

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  i was on a BAFTA jury

  for the 2023 game awards

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  i read ACOTAR

  and now i have Things to Say

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  WHAT I SAW THIS WEEK: 20th MARCH

  RIP Germain @ the ICA!

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  february camera roll

  these are like the overground, they just arrive when they arrive

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  horses!!! art!!!!

  i made yet another instagram account

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  LADS I FANCY #26

  LONG TIME NO SEE, HOW'VE U BEEN SEXY

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  gdlp in convo with abi palmer

  discussing chronic illness life, cats, and embodied criticism

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  ny resolution check-in

  i am doing it

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  tax write off #2

  continuing series where I tie up loose ends

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  the best of the white pube

  the hits in one place for your convenience

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  long covid awareness day

  are you AWARE of me yet, GOD?

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  tax write off #1

  new series to tie up loose ends

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  TWP crit #7

  rocks and capes and poetry and ice

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  january camera roll

  i keep forgetting but these are so nice to do!

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  critics at large!!!

  live drønen interviewed us for kunstkritikk!

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  i am still listening to a million albums

  specifically, the best 50 albums of 2022 according to NME

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  come to work with me

  I made another vlog!!!! ewwww!!!

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  pure filthy art history

  stuff we couldn't put on instagram lmao

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  god i wanna learn to sew

  CC: my mum

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  LADS I FANCY #25

  i'm interrupting zarina's programming, i hope you understand

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  odds and sods

  feels good to be clean. should have called it odds and suds

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  this made me cry

  new series?

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  finally started elden ring

  and you can watch me if you want

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  I went to the apex legends global series

  I just wanted to see all the boys playing on their computers

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  do you want to watch a video

  I made a .. vlog ew going round shows in liverpool

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  LADS I FANCY #24

  the sluttiest thing a man can do is wear a nice white tshirt.

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  i got an electric sit-stand desk from the government

  work work work work work work

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  new years resolutions (whipping sound)

  gab stop whipping yourself wtf

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  the matcha rankings

  matcha truther in liverpool, aged 28

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  come on a residency with us

  it's time to write baby!!!

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  LADS I FANCY #23

  this makes sense.

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  december camera roll

  i'm not sure what i actually did, but i had a nice time :)

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  NOVEMBER camera roll

  fucking FORGOT TO DO NOVEMBER FFS

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  2023 etc

  i like January's aggressive energy :)

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  getting serious about my BLOOD

  my silly little blood

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  i am OBSESSEDDDDDd

  AHHHHHHHHHHH

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  GOODBYE

  see you in 2023

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  LADS I FANCY #22

  we crowdsourced this one. this is the will of the people.

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  The big secret project we're working on

  it's because we hate instagram

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  2022 round up

  it's satisfying to have everything in one place

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  everything ZM wrote this year

  you know i love a listicle

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  i hit my funny bone

  and got into bed to cry

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  I need your art, and I also need the moon

  please let me make you aware

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  rss test

  ignore

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  JURORS for the JOHN MOORES PAINTING PRIZE 2023

  AHHHHH, WHAT

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  the hermit

  richard dawson's new 41 minute long single

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  my brain has a queue now

  nnneeeexxxxxtttttttt

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  the mine

  the new game by Jay Price

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  LADS I FANCY #21

  i asked gab if this was too far, and she told me it was exactly what she expected. i'm not sure what to make of that.

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  everything GDLP wrote this year

  organised into a little list for my own satisfaction

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  how much we made on the print social campaign

  and how we found it

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  LADS I FANCY #20

  i want to hold his hand

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  october camera roll

  quick, before i forget

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  God of War Ragnarök is out next week!

  hype hype hype, a spoiler-free review

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  rest in peace Ryan Karazija

  love to you and your family

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  a cool text

  it's about touch tours, something i didn't know existed

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  best podcast ep i have listened to in ages

  i cried

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  just stop oil

  idk idk idk

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  ART SCHOOL HORROR STORIES

  You wont believe what this art student did in public

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  POTS awareness day

  please let me make you aware

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  a present for YOU, here you go

  hehehehehe yessss

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  a word to curators

  come outside i wanna speak to you for a minute

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  bella milroy fan club

  im making t-shirts

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  a survey, SORRY

  boring but also potentially very important

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  LADS I FANCY #19

  the material speaks for itself

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  september is over, here's camera roll anyway

  lost all concept of time space and a third, more terrible dimension

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  october irl

  night crawling

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  we wrote about the Unfiltered History Tour

  sometimes instagram is very good actually!

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  i like this podcast

  it is educational in a way that works with my brain

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  love to walk the world at night

  like I'm the only person alive

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  #6 i listened to 50 albums for the 6th time this year!

  specifically, the best 50 albums of 2019 according to NME

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  i like these youtubers but also I'm not sure if I do

  The Weekly Vloggers

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  nice people

  i have to screenshot these things or i forget

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  Our biggest fight ever

  I still think about it all the time :(

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  LADS I FANCY #18

  it's the hyper man set (yeah)

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  The White Pube crit #5

  crit crit crit crit

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  an important bit of information imo! [UPDATED]

  something i wish more people knew about!

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  going nocturnal again I think

  not my decision

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  we're selling merch

  BUT YOU ONLY HAVE SEVEN DAYS TO GET IT, SEVEN DAYS

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  the loopiest paintings italy has to offer

  turns out i like art?? who knew!

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  object permanence

  haha i'm a baby

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  The White Pube crit #4

  crit cross apple sauce

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  sick tax

  who foots the bill (my body)

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  MY TOP 5 FAVOURITE BOOKS OF ALL TIME #1

  The Master & Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

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  here's the rest of august XX

  photodumps are cringe now, pass it on x

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  LADS I FANCY #17

  dads..............

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  the white pube begins!!!

  batman begins!!!!!!

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  i can't look the internet in the eyes

  it is killing me

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  sine missione is a load of shit

  fuck this man and anyone who listens to him

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  resurrecting our youtube channel

  Why not eh

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  sync watch party 05

  i know it's #05 but i'll catch you up

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  things ive done to my hair

  to be continually updated

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  LADS I FANCY #16

  he looks like he smells nice

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  don't do this at home

  but isn't this interesting!

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  how much does it cost to exhibit?

  i'm going to set the art world on fire

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  good exhibition in liverpool

  a collab by Yank Scally and Niloo Sharifi

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  some more summer IRL

  i have been going outside more

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  august pics

  kind of - blogblogblogger

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  how to become invisible

  jake gyllenhaal(?) give taylor her scarf back

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  indigo de souza

  good moody girly music

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  #5 i listened to 50 albums for the 5th time this year!

  specifically, the best 50 albums of 2021 according to NME

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  just listening to this on repeat

  ngl it makes me feel like I am one of my uncles

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  LADS I FANCY #15

  zarina let me pick a lad again, get ready for some actually erotic audio lmao

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  LADS I FANCY #14

  collective action is hot.

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  marc quinn is a shit artist

  and a shit person by the sound of it?

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  summer exhibition guide for lazy oaf

  out now!

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  psycho nymph exile

  i have no idea what just happened but I love it - - - it was one of those

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  i love this poem and i love horses

  i can't stop thinking about it/them

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  pics from July

  who cares if it's cheugy, i'm just a humble blogger

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  LADS I FANCY #13

  send me in.

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  thank you stephanie meyer

  for the greatest films on earth

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  join the white pube discord

  i hate instagram and twitter i'm sorry

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  new favourite band? yes? cool

  just want to go for a drink after work with them

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  i read the most amazing book

  and now i need to be an influencer so i can influence you to read it too

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  LADS I FANCY #12

  it's time.

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  june

  some pictures from IRL

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  the art of neon genesis evangelion

  wtf just happened? I loved it

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  happy birthday i am 28 now

  went to a pottery cafe for my bday

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  I did an upholstery course!!

  I made a footstool but I also made myself happy :p

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  LADS I FANCY #11

  zarina is off work this week so i'm in charge

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  all exhibitions should come with karaoke

  I went to see the new show at OUTPUT gallery by Ciarán Wood!!

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  LADS I FANCY #10

  it's not what you think

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  All My Friends Hate Me

  but i did not hate this film

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  twitch things i want for myself

  if you have ideas about to implement these things, please let me know I'm too tired to crack it

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  LADS I FANCY #9

  he's everyone's anime boyfriend, don't lie

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  #4 i listened to 40 EMO albums

  it was not as fun as I thought it was going to be

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  Going outside again

  writing this on a sleepy morning, out of breath from doing nothing at all

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  The Haven of Aves

  I wrote a game???? for David Blandy???

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  The White Pube crit #3

  love to see a crit boost the confidence of everyone in the (virtual) room

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  Ghost Town: Spirits Rising

  the game by Oma Keeling hosted atm on the white pube!

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  I listened to 50 albums AGAIN

  this time the top 50 albums of all time according to rolling stones

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  The Moon's Down the Drain

  the new game by Tilly P-M currently on the white pube dot com!

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  LADS I FANCY #8

  no, i can't believe it either

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  O Interloper

  the new game by Juniper C currently on the white pube dot com!

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  LADS I FANCY #7

  k-pop daddy

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  moonworld

  the game by jay m hosted atm on the white pube!

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  this is a good website

  welcome 2 deep hell

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  現在Apex Legends沼

  leave me alone I'm in heaven

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  LADS I FANCY #6

  everyone fancies him, come on.

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  more stuff i can't face putting on instagram

  nice pictures i have nowhere to put bc there is a very big worm controlling my brain - ROUND 2

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  TWP crit #2

  rocks and capes and poetry and ice

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  I went to London

  for the first time in 2 years!!!

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  LADS I FANCY #5

  i'm not proud of this, for many reasons'

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  getting better is hard

  take me back to the couch, maybe, i don't want to but ah

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  LADS I FANCY #4

  i mean... obviously?

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  this is what i'd put on instagram, if it wasn't so cheugy

  sincerely nice pictures i have nowhere to put bc there is a very big worm controlling my brain

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  Bridgerton Series 2

  I Will Not Shut Up About Yearning

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  i'm not a critic

  on writing about the unknown until you know too much

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  LADS I FANCY #3

  hear me out... hotness is contextual

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  gonna get cancelled soon

  so here is a note to all the people who will cancel me

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  The LGB Alliance

  an email template written by members of the artistic community to protest LGB Alliance's arts funding

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  we had a TWP crit!

  and it was so energising I want to do 100 more

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  LADS I FANCY #2

  i have some conditions for this one

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  grand theft auto online

  I haven't even played it but I loved this tiny book about its goings-on

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  i love this magic blue game stuff

  I don't know what it is but I love it

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  all of us are dead

  appreciation post for lee eun-saem

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  how to find exhibitions

  to visit!! how we find exhibitions to review

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  orville peck

  i love me a cowboy

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  switch games to start with

  just buy a switch and you don't know what to do with?

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  LADS I FANCY #1

  this is very funny to ME

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  video game poetry

  i just read the 2021 anthology of video game poetry Hit Points

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  i miss the old white pube

  not rly rly rly, i j think these are ~retro~

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  #1 an artwork i love

  in 2013, Ragnar Kjartansson invited The National to play 'Sorrow' live for 6 hours straight

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  do you want to see my old artwork

  i haven't made any art-art since leaving uni in 2016. writing is my art now

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  ideas for a new art world

  our first print publication, so official

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  i'm streaming, badly

  the first time i streamed I was muted the entire time but we're getting there!!

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  beta blocker appreciation post

  my Long Covid was POTS all along

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  #2 i listened to 50 albums again

  i did pitchfork's best 50 albums of 2021 this time. nme was more fun

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  #1 i listened to 50 albums

  specifically, the best 50 albums of 2021 according to NME