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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Instagram “people you may know” ruined my day today. Zuckerberg can go to hell.

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Watching Dune and wondering why no one has fabric dye in this universe

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sometimes I have a day where I get really agitated over a small thing and then when I come out of it I get kind of frustrated. Like yes I am a human being and this is normal but I do wish I were more logical and even tempered sometimes 😩

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Every single person who promoted this guy is someone not worth listening to ever again tbh

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Every time I’ve walked outside in this heat wave I’ve been like “oh ok I can handle this” And like I haven’t been too sweaty but at the end of a short walk I feel short of breath and a little lightheaded

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It's honestly unfair that I can only tolerate 1 coffee per day because my home barista skills are top notch.

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Hi hi!!! I am playing Midsommarfest 2026 in Andersonville, Chicago at noon on Sunday June 14, north stage !!! All original tunes!!!! Hope to see people there 😊😊 #midsommarfest #chicago #chicagomusic #singersongwriter #originalmusic #livemusic

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Unfortunately in spite of being off of Facebook for a decade, I am back on so I can decorate my house on Marketplace I guess nobody uses Craigslist anymore ???

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Preparing myself for tomorrow’s Day of Lying. People will lie to you and then call you foolish for believing them. But I say people who believe things they are told are kind and pure of heart and people who lie for fun are foolish. 🙂‍↕️

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It’s true I’m playing Midsommarfest in Andersonville, Chicago. Sunday, June 14 from 12-12:30

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

You know when someone's art is very NPR (derogatory)

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Zoë Takaki @zoetakaki.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

As the parks department destroys people’s belongings, a CPD officer decides to keep an American flag as the only thing saved from the trash truck.

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Out today and I heard 2 women talking shit about their friend. One was being really really loud and the other was whispering. If you’re going to gossip in public, both parties must agree to be equally loud or equally quiet because it’s really annoying to hear just half of the tea!

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The thing I cannot figure out about AI writing is why would I want to read something someone else couldn’t be bothered to write? What does anyone get out of that

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Genuinely I actually think we should put all world leaders in a colosseum and if they want the oil that bad they should be prepared to fight a lion for it

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Every famous person who did the GLP-1 + deep plane facelift combo

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Gorgeous Chicago day And I rode my bike for the first time this year The first warm day and it’s like oh was my whole problem for the last two months just seasonal depression lol

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

People are way too invested in dunk politics online for laughs It accomplishes next to nothing

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Sometimes the internet pile-on culture is something I just can't look away from, as much as I know it's not a good use of my time and energy and is stoked by bots and bad actors. It's like I'm trying to understand the patterns in the hopes that I'll learn something about propaganda and groupthink.

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

There’s a lot of things that piss me off about prompt-generated AI music but one particular thing is pissing me off today and it’s audio quality and file management UGH

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Repainting my entire place, trying to understand why so many homes are millennial gray and reading “gray is calming”. Yeah, sure, let’s paint walls the color of a gloomy overcast day, surely that will calm us all right down into subclinical depression.

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I am repainting my bedroom from light gray to off white and I am about halfway through. Started questioning my choices. Feeling like, is this worth my time or a lateral move? But holding up my art prints has restored my trust in the process. Love how much more vibrant the print looks

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/02/2026

Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.

U.S. Olympic men’s cross-country ski team member Ben Ogden, second from left, speaks at a news conference Thursday, Feb. 5 at the competition venue in Tesero, Italy. From left, Ogden’s teammates are Zak Ketterson, JC Schoonmaker and Zanden McMullen. (Nathaniel Herz for FasterSkier)

Masked members of the U.S. women’s Olympic cross-country ski team pose for a photo Thursday, Feb. 5 after a news conference at their competition venue in Tesero, Italy. From left , Jessie Diggins, Hailey Swirbul, Sammy Smith, Julia Kern, Novie McCabe and Rosie Brennan. (Nathaniel Herz for FasterSkier)

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Steve E. Tricks @refreshingtime.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

friedrich engels on “social murder” in his book condition of the working class (1845)

When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live— forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence— knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which (cont.)

none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains. I have now to prove that society in England daily and hourly commits what the working-men’s organs, with perfect correctness, characterise as social murder, that it has placed the workers under conditions in which they can neither retain health nor live long; that it undermines the vital force of these workers gradually, little by little, and so hurries them to the grave before their time. I have further to prove that society knows how injurious such conditions are to the health and the life of the workers, and yet does nothing to improve these conditions. That it knows the consequences of its deeds; that its act is, therefore, not mere manslaughter, but murder, I shall have proved, when I cite official documents, reports of Parliament and of the Government, in substantiation of my charge.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

in 2026, let's bring back the concept of "selling out" and once again make it contemptible

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Homelessness is a policy choice. Suffering is a policy choice. Everyone deserves a safe place to lay their head, food on their table and healthcare. When basic needs are met health and happiness improve. We could easily provide for everyone… those in power don’t want to.

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Actually finished a song I spent over 2 years writing and it might be some of my best lyrics yet Sometimes you just gotta let stuff marinate I guess

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/01/2026

In response to the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization, California announced that it has joined the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network, the first state to do so.

SACRAMENTO – As President Trump withdraws the United States from the World Health Organization, California is stepping up under Governor Gavin Newsom — becoming the first, and currently the only, state to join WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network (GOARN), strengthening public health preparedness and rapid response coordination. During his recent trip to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Governor Newsom met with WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to discuss collaboration to detect and respond to emerging public health threats.

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I painted my living room and the color is really good but I haven’t hung my art yet or fully tidied up so I can’t post it on the internet But believe me the color is really good

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

i don't understand why so many people are so adamant that what ICE is doing is not the same as law enforcement. i disagree and i think a lot of the arguments ring very hollow, but more to the point: what's behind the desperate need to protect police legitimacy right now?

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Might mess around and do a Karen, but for good

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

The boy holding a bag of haribo confectionary is questioned by a masked IcE agent while three others with weapons stand by

The boy has head bowed, holding his confectionary, as he is taken away.

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Dancing to my own music as I’m working on it is so fun and soooo satisfying like damn that’s a banger who made that oh yeah me

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The photo person at the DMV sabotaged me today by not announcing when she was taking my picture

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Utterly shocking that the country that invaded Iraq for oil and suffered zero consequences internally or externally is doing it again.

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

They should stop writing recipes for food processors. You can usually make the thing without them!!!! People used to make things before they were invented you know!!!!!!!!!! (I have one but I don’t like cleaning them.)

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

If there’s anything I’m never doing again, it’s forming a parasocial attachment to a politician. Some of the way people are posting it’s like noooo please stop you do not know these people! Please stop falling for this stuff again and again 😭

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15/10/2025

Marquette Park this morning, ~45 min ago at 70th and Washtenaw per anon FB post. Through a screen, someone films Border Patrol agents taking a man into a red minivan and driving away. Another angle of this shared to social media shows it happened in front of a daycare.

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The worst part of moving is finally confronting all of your doom objects head on 😭

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/09/2025

Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Someone has just annoyed me into changing my opinion about something :))) I genuinely love when this happens it feels like growth

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The new song I’m working on has a few time signature changes and a section with an ambiguous key 😃 Idk how annoying this will be to play but I really don’t care!!!!

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Every time I open Threads it’s like looking into an alternate universe where nothing of significance has ever happened and the most important thing going on is some niche interpersonal drama or some pop culture “debate” about an episode of S*uth P*rk.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 06/07/2025

I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore.

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Alyssa Bray @abraycadabra.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Forgetting to post on here but I'm playing a show next Wednesday (July 2!) at Uncommon Ground! Come thru!!! www.eventbrite.com/e/alyssa-bra...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/05/2025

Mutual aid organizers are asking for help to buy new tents and to provide rental assistance for those who are now without shelter.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/05/2025

Today, Chicago Park District workers used heavy equipment to evict unhoused people from Gompers Park on the Northwest Side. While residents were given some opportunity to save belongings, all remaining tents and possessions were destroyed this morning.

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