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ruby justice thelot is the smartest person we know. buy his book a cyberarcheology of checkpoints, which is about using the internet to find community in ways that capital does not intend (specifically in the comments section of a youtube video containing the soundtrack of donkey kong country 2), or else.

he hopped on the pod to talk about the positives and negatives of fan culture, the quasi-lacanian nature of the stan-to-idol relationship, which fanbases are the most powerful in their haterdom, the political power of the furry community, how a new roman emperor’s first move was to eliminate all his haters, and the time that ruby was flown out by ysl to just hang out at their fashion show in paris. 

ruby’s so ridiculously good at being on podcasts that at one point trey announced that nersey now belongs to him. 

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