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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The good news: I’ve figured out my type. The bad news: My type is the Mayor of Chicago.

Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Good article. Glad to see the section on how the calculus is different for BIPOC folks. Wish they’d interviewed solo parents.

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Just out here speaking my truth, which is that school & camp “spirit days” break the spirits of parents. Lookin at you, camp director who made “water play day” & “pajama day” THE SAME DAY. Xo, Mom of a girl who wanted to wear full-length Liza Minnelli satin pajamas to farm camp in August.

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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · 23/07/2025

✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨ It's kinda perfect. Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day! #happy #dance #dog #cute #joyousjoyness

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Pondering whether this account should devote itself to emo haiku. *** Summertime ennui: Turkey sandwich of despair. Please no more. (But fries.) *** Just haiku & feelings. Reminds me of that Selleck Waterfall Sandwich Tumblr, which featured a different one of each every time & was 💯.

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Peanut butter; cucumbers; fish sauce; chili crunch; noodles; lime; soy; garlic; cilantro; mint; wings. My cravings are all Thai & Chinese right now. Made a riff on Eric Kim’s 5-minute peanut butter noodles today; it’s the perfect umami boom of a WFH workday lunch. #foodsky @nytimes.com

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Free idea: an airport chain called Guilty Bizness Moms that sells only cute tchotchkes with big eyes. #travelsky #bizness

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Public. Pressure. WORKS. Welcome home, Kilmar. 🩷 Via @nytimes.com

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

1/ We need to talk about what the FDA Commissioner just said about #seedoils in baby formula. I've added the video below so you can hear for yourself, but this is not only wrong and potentially harmful for parents trying to make informed decisions.👇

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Reading ZEAL by @mjerkins.bsky.social & about 100 pages in. Such beautiful sentences; such great dialogue. Happy as a cat switching its tail in a pool of sunshine reading it.

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Re-upping my annual request for someone who is not a scaredy-cat like me to help me turn this weird old New England “grill” functional again. Could be fun. Free, high-quality food & tunes & drink involved! (And yes, I’ll cut back the overhang & I know I have a wisteria problem.) 🫠🌸🔥🥩

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

One teenage spring, I took E. Annie Proulx’s THE SHIPPING NEWS down to the Boston docks to really *feel* the Newfoundland she wrote about. It remains a favorite memory of what fiction can do. Friday in PVD, Walt McClements did something similar, playing an accordion & a trumpet *at once.* #musicsky

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On a Painted Ocean, by Walt McClements

7 track album

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

So last night I had my first BUTTER CHICKEN PIZZA from a mini mart called Spice Valley Halal in #PVD & I am a changed person today. 🇮🇳🇮🇹

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Free Mahmoud. This is the correct way to do this headline, @nytimes.com I want my government to stop kidnapping people off our streets. Keep protesting, friends. #freemahmoud

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ACLU of Rhode Island @riaclu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

📣Take action: Contact your state Rep. and Senator by THURSDAY in SUPPORT of H5841 + S519. ➡️ This bill would change RI laws to prevent discrimination in school and workplaces on the basis of hair texture or protective styles. Discrimination based on hair type/style is simply racial discrimination.

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Hairstyle Discrimination (H 5841, S 519)

There have been many reported instances around the country where employees are told their hair is not "professional" enough for the workplace, or a student is sent home for having "distracting" hair,

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Two deep thoughts for today: 1) The new #LittleSimz single Rules. 2) It remains incredible to me that a few months after I moved my kid to Rhody from New York she said, while eating a DUNKN sprinkle donut in the back seat, “Man. You can’t touch Dunkin’ Donuts.” She was THREE. #donutsky #musicsky

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Little Simz - Young (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Little Simz

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Spring unsubtly making moves on fall trying to replace it as my favorite.

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Props to public educators. Only about a month to go, folks. And props to my kid for this knockout Mother’s Day likeness of me! (I have gray eyes, but whatevs, kid! ❤️) #parenting #artsky

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Alexa Gagosz @alexagagosz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

New: In this week’s Innovators column, I wrote about the founder of Shellf Life, a Providence-based startup that turns seafood shells into sustainable building materials and furniture. Here’s how it works: @bostonglobe.com @globeri.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/12/m...

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Thx to the lovely women of #loneglanefarm in #warrenri for the organic herb haul. From top left: holy basil; thyme (from last year); basil; ‘black cherry’ heirloom tomatoes; sage; cilantro that I give about a week to live. Messy, but all mine. #gardening #victorygarden

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Morning, @whitehouse.senate.gov @reed.senate.gov & @amo.house.gov. I’d like to know what you’re doing to get humanitarian relief into #gaza. I support @wck.org & see that aid is being blockaded by the Israeli government. Help Gazans feed their families!! Please RT, fellow #rhodeisland residents.

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I love #rhodeisland. I do. With two exceptions: 1) The “Rhode Island roll” at stop signs. (They’re not a suggestion, folks.) 2) My daughter is six & says “mirrah” for 🪞. Is there, like a Department for Correction of Pronunciation I can call? #rhody #newengland

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

In my heart of hearts, I’m a very frugal cook. (Runs in the family.) Lovely, simple @nytimes.com Bill Telepan recipe for confited beans: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015... Used awesome @ranchogordo.bsky.social “Marcella” heirloom beans, tho! #cooksky #foodsky #beans

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

So my birthday is coming up & I’m hoping my friends skip the gifts… UNLESS someone wants to buy me a Melinda Kirkpatrick contemporary whale painting, because honestly, I’m obsessed. #whales #awhaleofatime #whalompark #artsky

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 30/04/2025

📼PotD: JB Pritzker in NH April 28 [full speech] (29m) You've probably seen clips and heard soundbites, but I'ma just leave this here for y'all. This is what speaking #truthtopower sounds like: youtu.be/zMndfvxVeRo #youtuberecommendations #postoftheday #jbpritzker

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Gov. Pritzker blasts Republicans and ‘do-nothing Democrats' in fiery speech (FULL)

YouTube video by NBC Chicago

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Props to the #newportfolkfest for booking Kenny Loggins and the gd Yeah Yeah Yeahs to play on the *same day.* Way to keep us guessing, you wonderful maniacs. #musicsky

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

In happier news, my 6-yr-old requested Doechii’s “Anxiety” this morning—way to tap into the zeitgeist, kid—so the kids are alright. #musicsky

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Well, this was it. This is the picture that broke me. Do you know how vulnerable a 2-year-old is? I am thinking of my own daughter, and how two was when she looked up at me one day & said, “Oh! I have so much love in my heart!” Everyone involved in this barbarity should be in jail. 💔 @nytimes.com

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Rhody is all Minnie today. youtu.be/g1kDd6yBQZ4?... #musicsky

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

In real #art news, I have a new mixed-media work called “Brand New Hole,” by John-Francis Quiñonez (aka “Q”), whose work I love. Plz tell me where to frame this giant 2’x3’ beastie, #PVD. #artsky

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

New work: Creative: Crystal Bahmaie. Stylist: Laura Rege. Photos: Katrina Frederick. Copy by me & Karen Palmer. . I can’t get over how Beetlejuicy, “Alice in Wonderland” on acid, & Willy Wonka this campaign is. (Down with pastels!) It makes me so happy to work w/ such smart folks. 💕 #mothersday

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Excellent piece by @jamellebouie.net. “Democrats would, in the words of a former administration, lead from behind. They would follow the public’s outrage if and when it materialized.” That’s a hard “no.” RESIST.

nytimes.com

Opinion | One Way to Keep Trump’s Authoritarian Fantasy From Becoming Our Reality (Gift Article)

Trump wants you to think resistance is futile. It is not.

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Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

“Hereeee I go againnnn on mah ownnnn… goin’ down the only road I’ve ever knowwwn!” ‘sup. #whitesnake #karaoke 🎤

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