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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

No, he absolutely does not, and it’s disappointing that you say this.

Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Yeah, the constitution should have prevented someone who staged an insurrection on the Capitol from becoming president, yet here we are.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is such a stupid take. Democrats need to stand up to Musk’s illegal power grab right now.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Ok dude what are you doing about it?

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Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Very mad that this one was discontinued before I could even try it. I think this scent would cure me.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Anyway, no luck yet, despite having ordered samples from nearly every alternative fragrance house in existence. I'm now having to seek out even more unusual sources. Last night I spent a stupid amount of money to get samples from an Australian brand.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

So depressing how unlike when he was elected last time, people no longer feel embarrassed to support him— even though he has since been found guilty of fraud, liable for sexual assault, and tried to prevent the democratic process.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

After the election, amid disasters wrought by climate change; it feels like I can control nothing in the world except myself.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

They discontinued my signature fragrance, and I've become fixated on finding a replacement. I think it's perhaps a symptom of my mental state going into 2025.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

the only phrase dems need for the next 4 years is “how does this lower egg prices” and i havent seen it once

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I hate how many companies keep forcing AI on their users, coming up with ways to use it that reflect no one’s needs or desires.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Why does someone post this exact thing once a week

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Yeah, that definitely would have brought some balance. No one particularly felt like a seasoned queen. I’ll keep watching, but this episode felt weirdly aggressive and chaotic.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

But have you considered that you could freeze your rice and beans

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Why are people so invested in you baking cookies

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Yeah… we watched Ep 1 and were trying to figure out why the energy felt off, and at some point it clicked that everyone is very young.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I once had a baboon come into my hotel room while I was sitting on the bed watching tv.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

AI is like a life saving vaccine is not a take I expected to see when I logged in on this day

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Maybe off topic but the phrase “big hungry men” is deeply upsetting

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The anticipatory obedience is infuriating. He was voted in because voters believed in an imaginary Trump the businessman who would lower costs, not because his positions or policies are popular. Dems need to fight his every move, and loudly.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Why aren’t we hearing this from every Democrat in office?

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Oof this one really got to me. Hard to even look at the cover.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

If he weren’t wealthy, this would be recognized as the mental health issue it is.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Always ready to celebrate these beasts.

An illustrated chart showing different species that live in the Mississippi River and its tributaries: catfish, a siren, alligator snapping turtle, American eel, soft shell turtle, bowfin, paddlefish, sturgeon, and a giant alligator gar.

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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

this is so perfect youve gotta think it was intentional

One former Cigna executive recalled how the US health insurer used to frequently face threats when claims were denied. “We’d have times when you’d deny proton laser therapy for a kid with seizures and the parent would freak out,” said the former executive.

Another industry executive said: “What’s most disturbing is the ability of people to hide behind their keyboards and lose their humanity.”

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Incredible tour of the Los Angeles Central Library this morning.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

How modernized? Hoping everyone gathers around George Bailey and the tree at the finale and sings Espresso.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Though tbh I’m watching Topaz now and not following it at all. I’ve always been more into his murder thrillers, less into his spy thrillers.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I’m really burning through the Hitchcock movies currently on the Criterion Channel.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

An alternate version we created along the way:

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This year is the Audubon Society’s 125th annual Christmas Bird Count, an event in which naturalists throughout the western hemisphere head out to check on how our birds are doing. I was very honored to be asked to create the artwork to celebrate this very special anniversary. #sciart #kidlitart

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Two of my favorite autumn spreads from my book Wilds of the United States, from Chronicle.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I thought they were quite good. And I’ve found you can swap the gochujang for Oaxacan mole paste for similar effect (I just made some for a Day of the Dead dinner we hosted out in the desert).

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Columbian mammoths, mastodons, and giant lemurs are up there on my list too, though.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I think if I could travel in time to see any extinct animal alive in its natural habitat, it would maybe be the woolly rhinoceros.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Does he see PK at the park with their kids?

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Hey! Would love to join the list. Latino illustrator and sometimes author, with a book about the borderlands coming out in 2026.

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Alexander Vidal @alexandervidal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’m excited about both— just having a moment after this election where I’m struggling to find the same feeling of hope in the fight.

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