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alriegler

@alriegler.bsky.social
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Dopamine deficient, neurally unpruned, multi minded, too many words, too many books, too many podcasts, too much data analytics, question everything because I don't know anything.

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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Yes.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
What are we doing?!?!?! 🤣
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I've been having this thought, too. My empathy for people old enough to know better is exhausted - I'm much more interested in reaching younger people and enabling their critical thinking and resilience. The mess that's coming is going to fall on their shoulders.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Wondering ... Elon Musk has grownish children, similar age to the DOGEbros ... why aren't they doing DOGE? Why aren't they helping him run his companies? He clearly thinks people that age are capable given how he's using them to RESTRUCTURE THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT. Maybe I just missed it?
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
It's happening!
Seed starting pots in a pyrex casserole dish, ready for seed planting.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Fermi's Paradox ... I can maybe see why ... juuussstttt thinking on it.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Weekend ritual: 1) Knitting (pic) 2) Listening (Blueprint for Armaggedon I) 3) Thinking (Is the current US administration intentionally creating realignment of allies similar to what happened prior to WWI? As in, do we have our own Kaiser Wilhelm(s)? If true, what does the new alignment look like?)
Tabletop covers with a pile of knitting projects in progress.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Just my little peon opinion: MAGA isn't the only party destroying this country. If it's a constitutional crisis FUCKING ACT LIKE IT. You were elected TO LEAD, and if you aren't willing to stand on business get out of the way for those that will.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Spring 😍!
Sunny spring day with a view down a pier on Lake Michigan with a lighthouse in the distance
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Me: WTAF is wrong with bluesky? Why all the NFL in my TL? Why does everything have get enshittified?!??! 😕 Me: Sees X is down on the first day of NFL free agency, which is a big sportsball thing(?), so they are all posting here instead 🤣🤣🤣 OK, then timeline! Carry on!
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Weekend ritual: 1) Knitting (pic) 2) Listening (DCHH Radical Thoughts) 3) Thinking (How much is the current state of affairs the result of fear? How rational is that fear? What "intellectual contagions" are we experiencing?)
The beginning of a hand knit sock on double pointed needles, the yarn is variegated in jewelry toned colors, this colorway also know as "Unicorn Vomit" [laughing unicorn emoji]
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Truth is I'm a dillentant and don't really know anything. Anyone else seeing connections? I'm not hearing it in my media channels, but recs welcome! Wouldn't be ironic if they caused a depression then scarred GenAlpha comes to power creates an Ameican social democracy? 🤣
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Ya know, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Desparate Times episode was riiiiiggggghhht there. Like, this has been done before ... nothing fucking new under the sun. And it's all so stupid that we are doing it again, barely out of living memory.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Keeping myself sane - RAW writing has always stayed with me, and I find myself coming back to his thinking lately. In particular reality tunnels, hyper sigils and hilaritas ... especially HILARITAS because when you step back ... It. Is. All. Absurd. open.spotify.com/episode/7r4f...
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Chapel Perilous with Gabriel Kennedy and Grant Morrison
Team Human · Episode
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Joyless fucks
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I've gone further down my GenX rabbit hole. Current mood 👇
Screen shot of angry Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1987 movie The Running Man, screaming at the main antagonist Damon Killian (played incredibly by Richard Freaking Dawson) that he would ram his fist "into your stomach and break your goddamn spine!".
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is one of my aboalute favorite Duran Duran songs ... I was a HUGE fan as a teenager in the 1980s. The New Romantics where my jam ... They named the band after the villain in Barbarella. Highly recommend all their albums but in particular Rio and Seven and the Ragged Tiger are 🤌
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
On top of everything being terrible, I was finally cornered into completing my annual "goals assessment and personal review" for work. Of all the meaningless corporate bulls*@&#&×&#^__@<&@. I fucking HATE it ... so I did it while listening 👇 open.spotify.com/track/7pu8Ah...
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Bad Reputation
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I was trying to find a good metaphor. This is the one that works for me 👇
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
There can never be too many: > Accessories to knit > Candles to burn > Quilts to sew > Sneezes to blow > Books to read > Beads to string > Brainfire notes to take > Recipes to try > Dogs to pet I love all of it! ❤️
Table cluttered with crafting projects, books, candles, loose beads, knitting needles, thread, kleenex, a work in progress quilt with a dog sitting next to it looking out a sunny window.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
When I get a day like today off, one that not everyone gets off, it feels like a 'bonus' day ... like I have to spend it the *right* way and get *meaningful* things done ... this results in wasting some amount of time (sometimes the whole day) in an anxiety spiral 👇
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
With all this* going on, I'm thinking about Butlerian jihads and going for some instant gratification knitting.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Reconnecting with the music of my youth ... All I Want by @alanismorissette.bsky.social is an ADHD anthem ... I am *feeling* it today.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I am feeling this whole post and all the comments. I don't work on the socials, but I do work in digital transformation and business analytics, so I'm kinda I the space and the last few years has been ... dispirating. Everything is too many buzzwords, moving to fast and creating nothing of quality.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Pupdate
Close-up of black Labrador retriever with face resting on paws and soulful / melty eyes.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Seriously ... all this fucking news today ... I can't even. I spun out mentally and ended up here: When was the last truly analog year? As in what year do we feel confident enough analog data exists that we can reasonable ascertain some version of the truth at that time?
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I love this for me ❤️
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a man with long hair is standing in a dark room with a quote that says to crush your enemies see them driven before you
Alt: a man with long hair is standing in a dark room with a quote that says to crush your enemies see them driven before you
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
All the colors of winter over Lake Michigan
Winter sunset over Lake Michigan ... black water, heavy gray clouds overhead and a molten orange sunset.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I think is what I was *trying* to express earlier ... just feeling the enshittification of everything and thinking maybe ... nope! I want to be done with this!
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I actually finished a thing! Hand pieced + quilted pillow sham using leftovers from last Christmas' quilt project. I love the feel of handmade 100% cotton. It's so *present* ... I can feel the weight of the hours and attention spent ... it holds a little bit of magic.
Hand quilted, 100% cotton pillow sham in a red and turquoise cross pattern on white background.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Todays rabbit hole of nonsense 👇
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I think it's in the zeitgeist? I've been reincorporating analog into my life ... holding something in hand just hits different.
Recently purchased used books: Neuromancer by William Gibson; An Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler; Seventies by Neal Stephenson; The Medieval Reader by Norman Cantor.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
WIP! I love the feel of cables ... so chunky.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
My crafting stash is absurd. Working through it and feeling accomplished? My need for novelty makes it hard to finish things ... each different color/texture = brainfire > wanting to start something new. But seeing it a pile like this 😍. So. Satisfying.
Pile of completed knitting projects in many colors. Five scarves, a cabled hat in green/blue handspun variegated yarn, a work in progress pink and grey scarf and wool bangles bracelet for felting.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I'm trying something new today, and I'm realizing it's the first time in a very long time where I'm not sure what is going to happen. While I might not know the exact details, I get up every day having a general idea of what will happen. The new thing isn't high stakes, but I'm still a bit terrified
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I'm increasingly coming to believe that SCALE is a root cause of many problems. I have so much brain fire about this!
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This ... all of this.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
If you see this, post a photo of a beach from your camera roll
Summer beach in West Michigan
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Dopamine hits: 1) Yarn color change 2) Repetitive pattern 3) Consistent gauge 4) Tapered, symmetrical shape Makes my brain so freaking happy.
Work in progress knitting of a scarf showing color changes, garter stitch, and bobble edge.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Observation: If I imagine the current America as Rome (parallels and whatnot) and myself as a Roman citizen ... my emotions about (waves hands around generally) dissipate, and I reacquire the mental space to think. Brainfire ⬇️
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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Creating >>> doom scrolling Deep, contented sigh after a couple of weeks being too engaged. I'm sure I'll fall back into the engagement trap again, but for today this feels nice.
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alriegler @alriegler.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If this reality was a novel I would DNF because ... absurdity? The plot is too ridiculous to believe.
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