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Alexander Avila

@alexander-avila.bsky.social
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Writer and YouTuber guy youtube.com/@alexander_avila

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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
One year ago today, the world watched Charlie Kirk die. Kirk lives on as the face of our mass Pareidolia. Can social ties survive a world where human life can so quickly lose all meaning? Lowkirk, probably not. But I'll still laugh when I see his face. Even when it's not there. Now on SubStack
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Trans identity is not a medical condition or a frivolous form of identity play. It is an affirmation that, in the face of the trauma of sexual difference, the body must be the site of radical freedom. alexanderavila.substack.com/p/is-there-a...
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Is there a “trans politics”? Not yet.
If trans politics is to be a politics at all, then what we must advocate for is a universal right to change sex.
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
My new piece for The Guardian
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/10/2025
The real goal of 'Make America Healthy Again'? Woo-woo treatments for the rich, shrinking healthcare for the poor | Alexander Avila
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The real goal of 'Make America Healthy Again'? Woo-woo treatments for the rich, shrinking healthcare for the poor | Alexander Avila
A new coterie of advisers around Robert F Kennedy Jr is shaping the US’s already exclusionary health system for the worse, says video essayist Alexander Avila
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Right Wing Wellness Influencers Want You to Die
YouTube video by Alexander Avila
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
You might’ve heard about right wing tech figures like Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin. Or maybe Trump’s destruction of democracy & Project 2025. Maybe radical philosophies like accelarationism. But how does it all come together? What are the links? This video covers it all. youtu.be/olhu9UhFGl4?...
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The Tech Billionare to Fascist Pipeline
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
How Tech Bros Hijacked the Government A feature length treatise on techno fascism and the future. For my favorite platform, BlueSky :)
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
So do people still think I’m a fan of Curtis Yarvin? Because that was pretty funny.
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I would love nothing more than the AI hype bubble popping, the death of big closed proprietary models, and for AI development to fall back in the hands of small transgender Marxist furry open source developers
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
My overall point is made in the video: practically, the *expansion* of copyright in this case would not fix the problem of displacement and consolidate power in the hands of bad actors. I believe training should be considered fair use (with that caveat that outputs CAN be infringement in specific
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
My response to certain factual claims in this post and other general comments I've received about the video: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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Clarifying
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
1. I never claimed the lawsuit was dismissed, I claimed that the *specific* claims I was referencing were dismissed, namely, the ones about derivative works. [1:34:39]. I say “According to copyright law, a derivative work is one which substantially borrows the expression of ideas
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I've spent the last half year investigating the nefarious interests behind the anti-AI Backlash. The results were surprising.
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
AI WARS A 5 HOUR SERIES IN TWO PARTS PART 1 OUT TOMORROW youtu.be/gEsJTqxacFM?...
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AI WARS Trailer - OUT TOMORROW!
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
my bad do you mind if it's a bit longer, i'm still not done though :3
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
BUY THE DIP!
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Do you guys mind if the AI video is 3 hours long
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Come join me for a discussion on identity politics this Sunday.
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Fuck looksmaxxing. I’m looksminning. I want to be as off putting and unapproachable as possible. I want my loved ones to ask me “what happened?!”
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Trump’s war on trans kids: an ex-trans kid’s perspective. youtu.be/HTO81EM-Tuk
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Trump’s war on trans kids: an ex-trans kid’s perspective.
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
About to watch Emilia Pérez for the first time. Anyone have strategies for keeping my will to live in tact?
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The link to our upcoming charity livestream is now live! If you would like to donate to TLC early, you can <3 www.youtube.com/live/iQ1FbkI...
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Who wanna commit logocentrism 2nite 👀
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I am hiring an assistant. Apply here: tinyurl.com/videoessayas...
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Video Essay Assistant
I am looking for an assistant to help with the channel logistically and creatively. I will pay you and teach you what I know about video essays in the process. This role is open to people of varying e...
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Had a really engaging talk with @jessiegender.bsky.social on my podcast Peer Review! It's available NOW at www.patreon.com/c/aretheygay There's also tons of other episodes available with other incredible creators!
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Let men be masculine
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
HRT should be over the counter
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Want to become a video essayist? I can help you! New regular consulting slots are open on my Patreon. I also do single meeting consultations if you just want one session. More information on my website: www.itsall.gay/consulting
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Go
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This Week
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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Stop blaming trans people for the election (and start blaming Republicans)
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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On the Election of a Fascist President
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Just woke up from a dream where El*n M*sk convinced Tr*mp to let him into the government so that he could funnel all government resources into building a way for rich people to escape earth when the climate collapses. Um lol?
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I'm sorry, it's going to get worse. But giving up is not an option. All the little bullshit we fight over doesn't matter anymore. We need each other more than ever before. Stay.
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
girl
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Huh? What was that?
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Kudos to the millennial critics for reviving the pre-19th century gimmick of Capitalizing Random Phrases
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Hate how gay shipping is delegitimized as a form of artistic appreciation. Yeah, I’m enjoying the nuances of the unique dynamics between the characters. Am I not a true fan because I’m less interested in fighting over the Top 10 Most Coolest Lightsaber Battles
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Francis Fukuyama wrote “The End of History?” because HERstory will never end. ✊
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Where my Pee People at? United we stand (or sit!) #uriNATION
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Hey just checking are you guys a figment of my imagination thanks
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Too many guys look ambiguously like Aaron Paul, including Aaron Paul himself, making it difficult for Aaron Paul fans everywhere.
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
*pointing at a bag of Funyuns* Can I take a hit of that?
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Anyone else stupid? Anyone else a filthy, good-for-nothing, unabashed knucklehead? Just a bumbling, tripping, thoughtless fool? A empty-headed, nose-picking, glaze-eyed nitwit midwit? An unapologetically moronic blockhead perpetually out to lunch?
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Where can I find the social science and humanities professors and grad students on here that hate their lives. That was my favorite part of Tw*tter
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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Love
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