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Alexandra

@chezpanique.bsky.social
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Editor. Writer. Photography-curious. Rabbit hole explorer. Language nerd (🇬🇧 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇷🇴). Talk to me about online subcultures, misinformation and your fav urbex spots Editor @ Untested: untested.sonnet.io Substack: blogtherapy.substack.com

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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
If this foray into the alt web has piqued your interest in creative writing or digital gardening, I recommend enso.sonnet.io. It’s a stream of consciousness writing app that only flows in one direction: forward. You can’t edit, go back or reread. Just write. #indieweb #indiedev #writingapp
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How to Drift Through the Indie Web Instead of Doomscrolling
There are corners of the internet that still feel alive; you just have to know where to look. A digital dérive with Alex C. from Blog Therapy
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
So proud to share this article I’ve been working on together with the lovely author of Instead Of Doomscrolling. It’s part guide to the indie web, part exploration of the idea of digital dérive, part secret project. Enjoy! #indieweb #altweb #indiedev #substack #amwriting #digitalmedia #techjourno
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How to Drift Through the Indie Web Instead of Doomscrolling
There are corners of the internet that still feel alive; you just have to know where to look. A digital dérive with Alex C. from Blog Therapy
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Owning your online presence is a radical act. Hopefully five years from now it’ll be a lot more common. #indieweb #smolweb #indiedev #dataprivacy #dataautonomy
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The Indie Web in 2030
Data autonomy should be a right, not a luxury.
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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 05/02/2026
What kind of an internet is possible outside of Big Tech’s profit incentives and surveillance? For journalist and editor @chezpanique.bsky.social, it would look a little weirder (cyberpunk computer games, anyone?) and a bit more hand-drawn and creative.
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I did a lil video tour of my favourite indie web haunts with the lovely people at @newpublic.org
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
My article for New_Public gained a bit of a second wind and I’m so happy because a creative, grassroots internet is more important now than ever newpublic.substack.com/p/the-handma... #indieweb #web1 #amwriting #indiedev #techjournalism #media
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🧶✏️👩🏽‍💻 The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)
The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
this is all I care to know about today's scheduled rapture #rapture #adblock #rapturetok #indieweb
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
You can read this as a companion piece to my article for @newpublic.org. There, I go in-depth about what the indie web is & how you can get started, plus some fun and useful links to explore that piece is here: newpublic.substack.com/p/the-handma...
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🧶✏️👩🏽‍💻 The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)
The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Interviewing indie web folk about the web revival, unrotting your brain, and their favourite places to hang out online #indieweb #substack #writingcommunity #brainrot #techwriting
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Guys, There's So Much More To The Internet!
Part one of a series where I interview indie web folk about the web 1.0 revival, unrotting your brain, and their top places to hang out online.
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
a wild dive into how SEO strategies like aggressive backlinking are used to weaponise outdated content for the AI era #aislop #ai #investigativejournalism #writingcommunity brittannica.substack.com/p/the-algori...
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Algorithmic Revival: How a 1990 Article on a Government Landing Page Was Weaponized for the 'Radical Left' Narrative
How outdated government content gets weaponized through backlink manipulation and AI training data
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
tinyurl.com/5acekt2d Some of us are cutting carbs and doing 5am runs like we’re trying to summon a demon. Have we completely lost the plot? Is the Great Lock-In the end of the line for fitness challenges? #greatlockin #tiktok #gymspo #lockin2025 #writingcommunity #amwriting #substack #indieweb
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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 11/09/2025
Doomscrolling get you down? The indie web is the way out. Here you’ll find sites that aren’t built for views or profits, by creators who are embracing what made the world wide web beautiful and exciting in the first place. @chezpanique.bsky.social has a list of her favorites to get you started.
Screenshot of a pink-toned website (anhvn.com) with text overlay reading 'A Tour of the Indie Web.' Below it lists where to start: 'Ava's Space: An excellent explainer guide to the indie web' and 'ANHVN: A beautifully designed site that reads like a noir comic.' The page shows 'New_ Public' brandingGraphic showing alternatives to mainstream social media, listing 'Sublime and Are.na, both kind of like indie Pinterest for ideas.' Below is a view of the Are.na platform showing a 'hypertext club' channel with various content blocks including 'Coral Journalist Bronze' and other hypertext-related posts arranged in a grid layout.Screenshot of eieio.games website by nolan royalty, featuring navigation menu items like 'media & speaking', 'blog & all work', and 'what's my deal'. An overlay highlights 'Some funky, niche sites and spaces' listing: Sonnet, GReg TeChnoLogY, Corru Observer, and EIEIO Games. The background shows someone playing what appears to be Pac-Man.
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This just in: smelling like a human being is now an act of rebellion #dystopia #dystopiannews #resist
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Greg Technology ❪⎷❫ @greg.technology · 08/09/2025
honored (hyperventilating, sweating, screaming) for this chat with Alexandra on the topic of indie/small web!! lots of amazing peeps mentioned - take a read
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
My favorite collab this summer—read on to find out where the cool kids are hanging out online #indieweb #smallweb #webdev #nostalgia #amwriting #writingcommunity #gamedev
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
my friend was 10 years ahead of the curve in 2015 when he took his library copy of Dostoyevsky's War and Peace to the beach, to "pick up chicks" (in his own words) #wapo #amwriting #performativemasculinity
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Column | Social media is obsessed with ‘performative men’ – also known as men
A recent ‘Performative Male Contest’ in Seattle went viral, starting a larger conversation about what it means to be a man.
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
In fact, if you look up "synergy" in the dictionary you'll find this as an example #indiedev #indieweb #writingcommunity #amwriting #substack
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
RIP Tom Lehrer, the mathematician-musician who wrote some of the jauntiest, most hummable earworms about mutually assured destruction; who quit in protest when Kissinger got the Nobel Prize in '73; who lived to be 97 and see most of his cursed prophecies come true #RIP #tomlehrer #musicsky
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Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
On the off-chance that trying to sustain a train of thought for longer than 10 seconds feels like chasing globs of mercury across an ever-tilting floor. If you wanna beat the constant churn of the algorithm. blogtherapy.substack.com/p/cultivate-... #indieweb #substack #writingcommunity #amwriting
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
in today's edition of Untested: making a top-secret font from scratch, the goofy occult teachings of Thelema, and a quiet song about nothing #writingcommunity #amwriting #indiedev #indieauthor #fonts #fontmaking #indieweb
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Reclaiming your attention span can look different for different people, but here are some suggestions #digitaldetox #touchgrass #indieweb #indiedev #altweb
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
wondering what being dogpilled looks like? I eavesdropped on neighbour's kid's bday party—without wanting to, it was outside my window—and learned that we say hi to our dog the way most people talk to babies. with big, sweet voices full of love and awe. #dogsky #dogsofbluesky #dogpilled
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
My friend is building a very cool game and you should absolutely check it out #indiedev #indiegaming #indieweb #devlog #devsky #gamesky
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I'm beginning to think I don't understand art (gasp) because here I was last night, watching Jozef van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch jam out dissonantly on two electric guitars for 20 mins of pure noise, their backs to the audience, and all I could do was laugh uncomprehendingly #artsky #philistine
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
but also beaver is a fish in the Catholic Church so it's not like they're toooootally opposed to loopholes
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
use cases for this gem of a writing app, accumulated over 6 years and a few thousand users coming soon to an Apple AppStore near YOU #indiedev #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersky
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
no spoilers please, but...in Bunny by Mona Awad, is the Bunnies' Creative Process just, kind of, badly prompted generative AI? #LitSky #BookBky💙📚 #GenAI #Showerthoughts #amreading
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
so proud that my article for Portugal Decoded is live! trust me, it gets...personal. I also touch on expat psychology a little and what we can really expect from our adoptive countries #portugal #expat #introvert #psychsky #usexpat portugaldecoded.substack.com/p/how-to-soc...
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How to socialise as an expat in Portugal: what no one tells you
A guest article by fellow Substacker and Porto resident, Alexandra.
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
not Bunny by Mona Awad roasting one of my favourite singer-songwriters of all time aka Joanna Newsom #booksky #blueskyreads #horrorsky #booklover
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
consider Mango #dogsofbluesky #dogpics #pupsky #fruitsky #dogphotos
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Keeping a visual diary will be the summer reset to end all summer resets. The ultimate way to romanticise your life. You’ll feel like an artist every day. You’ll finally fix your busted attention span. blogtherapy.substack.com/p/10-illustr...
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
love them, they make the best fresh hot cups of STFU
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
the rise of #AI #therapy is one more symptom of our current convenience culture—a bandaid at best and at worst a source of active harm unleashed on already vulnerable and under-resourced groups #substack #techsky #chatgpt #psychsky
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Please For The Love Of God Stop Building AI Therapy Chatbots
Therapy is about connection, not convenience.
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
#weirdsky #latenightread all the way from author name (sorry Dick Egg!) to the topic
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I'm getting douche chills. These people are finally saying the quiet part out loud and it can't be ignored anymore
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
daguerrotype me like one of your French girls
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Why are we still pretending that just because an actor is a talented performer they're also knowledgeable about stuff totally out of their wheelhouse, like AI? I thought we were past conflating being famous with being good at everything?
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
for the longest time this man was visibly blasted to high heaven while in office, in public, at events etc and no one in the media said anything...smh
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
but baby I'm a #romantic at heart #girlboss #writersky
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
have these people never seen a horror movie? what is going on in their shiny, rich, little heads? that's how you get WHACKED by the bad guy in the mask but I would LOVE to see a horror movie like this
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Days-Long ‘Dark Retreats’ Are the Newest Spiritual Conquest for Tech Elites
A crypto founder and celebrities like Aaron Rodgers and Tiffany Haddish have tried the pitch-black retreats, described as “meditation on steroids.” Some see terrifying hallucinations.
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Fizzy is the new and improved "write as you speak". It's the tone of voice of my favourite essay writers and one I feel is so specifically #Substack —excitable, expansive, unpunctuated but never incoherent, always in the know #writing #writersky
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On Fizzy Writing
AKA how does she DO that
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
#psychology #mentalhealth #psychscisky #journorequest Therapists of Bluesky, what do y'all think about #AI #therapy chatbots? Are they truly helpful? Good/bad in a moment of crisis? What kind of issues (if any) would you recommend them for? Here to stay or nay? I'm keen to hear your thoughts.
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
ah yes, asking the crystal ball what the crystal ball will likely be able to do in the next five years. highlights include: recommending meth to recovering addicts, summarising docs until it goes off-piste and starts hallucinating and *checks notes* control your sex toys
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
recession indicator? better start buying gold?
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
TOTAL LIES and PROPAGANDA. I actually use my hound to hunt #obviously #vintage #veggiesky #cartoons
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I couldn't stop thinking about how Fervour handles mental illness: as a story characters tell about each other, never disclosing about themselves. This mirrors the dynamics of dysfunctional families (and of the family at its core) where unreliable narrators abound #booksky #bookreview #mentalhealth
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Who Gets To Tell Whose Story?
Mental illness in Toby Lloyd's debut novel, Fervour, plays out like a game of broken telephone.
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
found a solution to my two big problems in life: needing a reliable source of mustard with me at all times, and time-blindness #tech #techsky #cuttingedge #dijon
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Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Having spent 4 years commuting on the London Tube, I 100% agree. Few things more humbling and life-affirming than the morning rush-hour.
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