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@chava.bsky.social
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Rootless cosmopolitan and @cuny.edu MFA student. I report on the oligarch class at and occasionally go off in 🇲🇽 🇮🇱 🇰🇷 🥯. Past contributions to @columjournreview.bsky.social @thisamericanlife.org @newyorker.com @atlasobscura.com.

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chava @chava.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this is a great roundup by @dwell.bsky.social on pre-approved ADU plans in: Anchorage, Tucson, LA, NYC, Seattle, Portlandia and San Antonio www.dwell.com/article/how-...
dwell.com
A Guide to Preapproved ADU Plans in Your City
Municipalities across the country are introducing off-the-shelf designs meant to streamline building a backyard home. Here’s how to do it where you live.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That was fast.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
every single news outlet is quoting Netanyahu's speculation about the flydubai pilot with, as far as I can tell, zero evidence
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
pretty things + movies are a good combination www.wallpaper.com/architecture...
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The 'Verity' house has a midcentury modern pedigree that's to die for
What could be more tantalising than an erotic thriller starring Josh Hartnett? An architectural rarity, of course!
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
love this headline www.cbsnews.com/news/explori...
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Data center developer tried to "razzle dazzle" while sharing few specifics, Texas county commissioner says
Data center construction is booming, with many more planned for rural America. But there's also growing tension between economic development and community pushback.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this is lovely nyra.nyc/articles/wal...
nyra.nyc
Walk and Talk
Crossing freely in Michael Sorkin’s New York
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
atlas.jazco.dev
Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
also I need an essay on the pronunciation of the "She's so bod, bod, bod" chorus in Ateez's Bad.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
so I watched Hope and I gotta say, Boem-seok and Ho-yeon are the best-dressed bumbling small-town cops I've ever seen
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I helped fact check this:
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
meirl
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
These are cool oliveateliers.com/products/met...
An image of two hand-forged metal chairs with figurative backs in the shape of faces, one male and one female, set on a rocky shore with a blue sea in the background.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
even the poors in kdramas have had folding phones since like 2019
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/09/2026
NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism headline:

> Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down

> Facebook is filled with AI-generated videos of children being beaten, burned, and bludgeoned with heavy objects. Meta doesn't seem to care.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I try not to be disgusted by wealth but this is obscene from: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-t...
screenshot of a paragraph from a WSJ article, highliting: In October, over 600 current and former employees at OpenAI were able to sell their shares for a total of $6.6 billion. Around 75 of them brought home $30 million each.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm using kalshi as a targeted wishing well... is this correct?
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
getting my many first-generation american, michigan-born siblings (who now live in four states + one country) to take this and see if any of us sound like we come from the midwest >>
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
One of the many people lost in Southern Lebanon defector.com/mona-khalil-...
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Mona Khalil, Who Devoted Her Life To Protecting Turtles, Killed By Israeli Airstrike | Defector
For half a century, a house on the coast in southern Lebanon has kept vigil over Al-Mansouri beach and the blue Mediterranean waters beyond. Mona Khalil’s grandfather built the house in the 1970s, aro...
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
somebody needs to archive all these whatsapp groups and signal chats where it's really going down
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
can you break up with a language?
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
a recent conversation with normies reminded me that BL, skinship, time slip, SML syndrome etc. are not actually universal terms
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
we're returning to a world where a sweet, delicious, undeadly apple is truly a delicacy
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
any hood to coasters on blue sky? we fly out tonight!
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
what it's like talking to my Dad: * To justify this דארף מען נישט טאן. That’s אינגאנצן wrong. * דער רבי, פארשטייט זיך didn’t... * he shouldn’t be אראפגעפאלן ביי זיך... * The rebbe’s צוגאנג to this is געווען, to be ממשיך their זיכרון… * That was his general approach צום גאנצן ענין.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is amazing on so many levels! First (extremely unserious) Korean Black Association meeting featuring YouTubers, comedians, influencers etc. all in Korean They're from the US, France, Nigeria, Senegal, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo, South Africa and Korea youtu.be/U_lQ-bU-ixo?...
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[SUB] 조나단을 놀릴 수 있는 유일한 협회ㅣ제 1회 대한흑인협회
YouTube video by 조나단
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I've learned that part of my family is from chelm and only some people will know why that's incredibly funny
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
we are not okay www.wral.com/consumer/5on...
wral.com
Publix frozen berry recall upgraded to FDA’s highest-risk level
This week, the Food and Drug Administration elevated the notice to a Class 1 recall because the produce could cause serious health issues or death. North Carolina was one of the states that sold the b...
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Free speech is great.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
this woman is so brave www.instagram.com/p/Db38N8-J8IN/
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🧿🪬 on Instagram: "One thing I’m not is a liar—fu*k them. He clearly was mad. Imagine pointing a g*n at someone for being called a hoe 🙄😂 ain’t the first time I looked down a barrel. Thank yall for che...
57K likes, 2,673 comments - tinyandstrongthings on August 10, 2026: "One thing I’m not is a liar—fu*k them. He clearly was mad. Imagine pointing a g*n at someone for being called a hoe 🙄😂 ain’t the fi...
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
good for her
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
a green roof over a suburban home becomes a community garden www.dwell.com/article/bank...
dwell.com
The Green Roof of This Australian Home Is Basically a Neighborhood Park
It stretches down to meet the sidewalk at the end of the cul-de-sac, creating a social space for the block.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
אין די אנהויב איז געווען די אמונה, די נארישע אמונה. און דער בטחון, דער פוסעטר בטחון... ugh my heart. this is how Eli Wiesel's untranslated memoir begins: archive.org/details/elie...
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
it's adorable that the main criticism to DSA wins is that they play into the hands of republicans. and yet... did these ppl ever consider that democrats get a choice too? a strategy of "let's not do anything for our voters bc it'll piss off the republicans" is, um, how we got here
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.
Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This Saturday there will be a "collective alter building" event honoring 🧊 victims in Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick.
Flyer image for a "collective alter building" event honoring the "lives stolen by ICE" in Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick, Aug 22, 5-8pm.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"Arguably the main economic policy goal of the US government these days is to maximize volatility." bc then people/firms/economies hang on every word from Trump www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
bloomberg.com
Ice Cream Hedging
Also Truth API, levered Lucid, semiannual earnings, gray market peptides and reinspection fees.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 18/08/2026
As L.A. burned, online gamblers bet on how much the fires would destroy. 'That was fun'
latimes.com
As L.A. burned, online gamblers bet on how much the fires would destroy. 'That was fun'
While Southern California was burning in January 2025, people online were placing money on potential outcomes. Experts say the possibility of making money on disasters can create dangerous incentives.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
a real example of AI harm: this cycling creator exposed an AI account stealing his and other YouTubers' videos. I'm sure it's just the tip of the iceberg. youtu.be/zgWTqIpwFqE?...
youtu.be
AI Copycat YouTube Channel Is Stealing Our Work
YouTube video by CADE Media
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
this recipe for crispy potato, cheese and egg tacos is blowing my mind a little food52.com/recipes/8768...
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
what Musk/Trump taught us is we can do the same thing for good. instead of stealing money from the poor to fund the rich, announce a DUGE wealth tax and use it to fund healthcare, pay teachers, build trains, abolish fossil fuels and legalize immigrants. deal with the lawsuits later.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
excited for "inarray" to become a real word www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuoq...
youtube.com
Are Democrats suddenly in...array?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
why are we hearing only about francesca hong's (very close) loss and not penny flanagan's (handy) win?
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A King County Superior Court judge in Washington state has found that Kalshi’s trick of calling itself a “prediction market” doesn’t make it not gambling under the Washington Gambling Act, and has therefore ordered Kalshi to stop almost all activity within the state. Read more here:
atg.wa.gov
Judge orders Kalshi cease numerous Washington operations | Washington State
A King County Superior Court judge issued a final order requiring KalshiEX (Kalshi) to cease many of its Washington operations after finding that Kalshi likely violated the Washington Gambling Act and...
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Woke went too far is a way of dems blaming the left for Trump 2 by obscuring how we got Trump 1 and what happened to resist and defeat him. This is pure anti-Black anti-movement anti-historical revisionist bullshit designed to sheepdog you into the new progressive wing of Dem politics and treating
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
feeling blue
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chava @chava.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
you can now operate a small business from your kitchen/living room in LA www.archpaper.com/2026/08/gran...
archpaper.com
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