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Alex Wilcox Cheek

@arwc.xyz
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Googler. Alum and former faculty in Design, Information Systems, and HCI at Carnegie Mellon. Spent a long stretch in MENA. My feed includes archived tweets dating back to 2009. 🫎

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
we didn't know how good we had it
cable box
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don’t understand why every single democrat isn’t doing what Ossoff is doing
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump looks at a placard that reads "Kennedy Center DEMOLITION" as he lands at Joint Base Andrews tonight (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Trump through the plane window looking at a placardzoom in on placard where text is visible
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yeah this sucks but at least he’s building us a Triumphal Arch.
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Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary, Inc @blindcatrescue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Adopt a Less Adoptable Pet Week! 🐱💙 Seniors, black cats, those with medical needs, and bonded pairs are often overlooked. They deserve love too. Adopt, share, or support your local shelter today! #AdoptALessAdoptablePetWeek
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The shift by the Environmental Protection Agency would complete the administration’s erasure of the most consequential climate policies of Presidents Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Barack Obama."
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What's going on is that they are all terminally-online weirdos speaking to other terminally-online weirdos in a language only understood by terminally-online weirdos. It's like we made the most obscure dysfunctional reddit thread into a presidential administration.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
While hardworking Americans are struggling to pay for food, housing, and healthcare and American service members are putting their lives on the line—this guy is over here building an arch to himself in front of Arlington National Cemetery. Disgraceful.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
imagine someone trying to give u this as change lol
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"We've heard you complaining about how much a gallon of gas costs, and we've responded by making sure you'll need much more of them."
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
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Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
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West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i’m dying. i’m dead
zohran holding a the power broker book up in front of his face. caption reads “but robert moses is another video entirely)
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
He’s going to…bomb the bond market?
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 20/08/2026
It's gotta be this one, right?
Proposed "I voted" sticker from an elementary-school student: A nightmare image of a yellow smiley face that looks menacing rather than smiley above crudely scrawled lettering that says "voting time."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Not a huge military guy but I do think it’s less than good we don’t have any missiles left.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“No one truly appreciates the scope of Trump’s clusterfuck” Evergreen sentence right there
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
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God @thegodshow.com · 11/08/2026
Only Trump.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Local man suggests jailing own boss.
Screenshot of an Aaron Rupar clip of J.D. Vance saying on Fox News: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/07/2026
Anyone claiming that Zohran Mamdani should be banned from 9/11 memorial services is an extreme Islamophobic bigot. There is zero justification in any universe. That man has been nothing but decent and sweet and he has to put up with these racist bastards.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's not a disagreement about politics. Itr's a morality/decency thing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/07/2026
GALLEGO: Would you say as a former auditor you pride yourself on catching waste? DENNIS: Yes G: Let's do a test. Is $600m on a ballroom, half paid by taxpayers, is a good fiscal decision? D: Oh, I'm not going to get involved in what the WH is doing G: As HUD CFO, this is literally the job
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Amazing that this man can perfectly execute both of the Great New York Expressions - Italian AND Jewish
Mamdani going “Eyyy”Mamdani going “nu?”
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Angry Byrd @tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The idiots who need 1.5 trillion to defend our nation, are the greatest threat our nation faces. You idiots don't even ask us before going into a war, & now you're in here begging us for more money to play with. A teenager does shit like this
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
mandatory reading
"SAM NEILL
- If you were to commit a murder, how would you do it?
- It's got to be big! No slipping something into someone's drink, that's just pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a stain on the road. There's probably a couple of people I'd put under a steamroller, but I won't say who they are, otherwise when they see a steamroller coming their way they'll be on full alert. And steamrollers don't go very fast..."
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Tweet from shen the bird (@Shen_the_Bird):

wikipedia: please. please just give me one dollar i'm begging you give me anything

me: [trying to look up the hamburglar's full name] shut the fuck up
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Kentucky Voter on Mitch McConnell: Your retirement is long overdue. Give it up. We don't want you. You're not representing us well, so don't represent us at all.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You could definitely give these people a Trojan Horse and they’d be like “wow a big horse thank you” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...
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New Air Force One Lacks Defensive Countermeasures of Previous Model, Officials Say
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
data visualization is my passion.
fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/07/2026
When you spread lies telling people that vaccines don’t work and climate change isn’t real, they are going to start doubting weather reports too.
It is a chaotic scene on the National Mall, as several hundred people refuse to leave despite an order to evacuate because of severe storms approaching. An officer is sternly repeating the evacuation order over a bullhorn, and the crowd is booing. Many have begun chanting “U.S.A., U.S.A.” One man blamed the situation on “liberals in the weather service,” adding, “I think this is baloney.”
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This crazy shot from NYC last night is not AI. The weather last night was WILD. Shot by Dan Martland, an NYC photojournalist. www.instagram.com/dantvusa?igs...
A photo over lower Manhattan showing a massive lighting strike hitting a building at the same time that a rainbow is over the Statue of Liberty.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I can’t be the only one who’s embarrassed, right?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/06/2026
Wow. What an asshole.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.
A chart showing an immediate spike after the headline hit the front page of Wall Street Bets.
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