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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A particular congratulations goes out to GenX for witnessing a successful space mission. May this heal the Challenger trauma within.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

My favorite thing today are all of the reveals from everyone who performed as sugar cane grass at the Benito Bowl and seeing the cute and joyful faces surrounded by green grassy strands. Preparing for Halloween this year is gonna be like

media.tenor.com

homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .

ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

“You’re right — and thank you for calling it out.” If humans said this as often as ChatGPT said this we could fix this world once and for all

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I love how everyone on the #Grammys stage is not taking shit and calling it all out. Musicians know how powerful we are, we know we can change everything.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Bad Bunny’s speech was powerful and 🎯— we are going to do this with love. Fight with love, heal with love, fix and repair with love. #grammys

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Li0ness @li0ness.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

there's probably some sort of media with a plot about not leaving the dangerous items around where anyone can pick them up after an evil has been turned back the first time. 🤔

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/01/2026

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The warrior’s job is to make way for the peace-keepers, so they may rise and direct the society into a period of peace.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Is it a mass psychosis or is it quantum entanglement?

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

To everyone who is sharing their music, books and art right now, I’m proud of you. If it feels weird, we want to encourage you. It’s the perfect time to do it. Music, stories, beauty, dance, absurdism, grief and joy are powerful in these moments. You are keeping us connected to our humanity.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Dear America, Remember you have control of the narrative. Take the time to learn about Narrative Warfare. Don’t just document what is happening — stay on the offensive when it comes to the story of who we are and what is going to happen.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Me: I’ve been so unproductive this week. Michael: Dude what are u talking about? Today u meditated, did tai chi, and took an ice bath. This week u wrote a new song, and ur writing a book AND planning a huge music campaign. All while being a good friend & daughter. (If ur hard on yourself too, hi!)

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I wrote a new song. I haven’t composed new music in months! The past few years I composed a storm then spent many months recording those tunes… a few months ago I finished. I have 15 unreleased songs that I’m preparing for release. Those are coming, indeed — but that is not the point today. 1/

An image of Christen’s effects board processor that she uses to make music. A viola bow is also in the shot.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

The pointless urge to call out every caption, essay, substack and carousel written by AI.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

One of the greatest aspects of making music is when a #writer uses my carefully crafted journeys to inspire and guide their books and stories. A writer just told me that my ELPIS album is the soundtrack while he writes his next book. Knowing this connects me to providence and magic, it’s the best.

The album cover for Christen Lien’s album Elpis

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

New focus strategies for the next six weeks: • Pomodoro hourglasses • Turn phone off until 6-7pm • Coordinate all communication via email Goal: Break the habit of mindlessly and habitually picking up my phone.

Two hourglasses for the Pomodoro Technique

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Nothing ever stays the same, and you and I are more adaptable than we believe to be.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It was my birthday yesterday and something special happened.

Christen Lien on a foggy day by the beach, holding a camera.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I’m starting a band called the Devil’s Doorbell. Who wants to join my band? 😈🛎️🎶🤘

Just a foolish old man who doesn’t understand women and their bodies.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

She was never made for the pedestal, nor the leash. Happy International Womens Day 🌎🌍🌏 #women #iwd

Photo of Christen Lien with her eyes closed, holding a viola like a guitar, with a rainbow orb light shining onto her.

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Alan Finch @alfinch.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Now playing. Battle Cry by the brilliant @christenlien.bsky.social

Screenshot of Apple’s Music app playing Battle Cry by Christen Lien.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Happy Cocoon Day! We have a big week ahead.

The caption reads “Sunday you have to cocoon so you can morph into a productive member of society in the coming week”

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” ~ Carl Sagan Happy Valentine’s Day from the vastness and the impermanence! I love your imperfections. And I love the world’s imperfections. Thank you for being a part of my cosmic community. #valentinesday

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning." ~ Plato

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wokeinmichigan @wokefella.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If this sounds eerily familiar, it's because they're using the exact same script today.

Joseph Goebbels on propaganda: There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Good morning to everyone who believes in kindness

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Reclaiming your quality of focus is an act of rebellion. Start with two hours a day. If you can’t do that, set a timer for 33 minutes.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Team Democracy, listen to this. It will help you feel positive and grounded, and we need you positive and grounded. “Don’t Believe Him” from Ezra Klein podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Podcast episode “Don’t Believe Him” by Ezra Klein.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

"The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment." ~ Bruce Lee

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The universe speaks in mysterious ways.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Somewhere in the multiverse there is a world where humans are more concerned with doing what’s right than being right.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Hey Jim- You were the best that @cnn.com had to offer & will be deeply missed! I look forward to the next chapter in your career & I'm not just saying that because of the killer Yoda impression you did when I was on your show.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧 Year of the snake 🐍 We’re on my turf now 🤍 #lunarnewyear #yearofthesnake

A snake ring on a finger, with a background of a beach and a teal overlay on the photo

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It’s time for my first book club, ever ever! We’re reading Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” — I’ve meant to take this book in for years my friend organized a group of us to read and muse about it together as a community. Have you read Parable of the Sower? If so, tell me how it changed you.

Octavia Butler’s book cover for Parable of the Sower

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Petrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her) @petrana.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones"
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 20/01/2025

I’m not sure people quite grasp how much of the crypto world is reacting to the Trump memecoin launches.

Trump dropping his own memecoin means he has the wrong people in his ear re crypto policy.

I’m now getting very concerned about the Trump presidency.

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Something that hasn’t been much discussed - creating a bunch of personal memecoins opens the door to secretive foreign buyers trying to curry influence with our leaders. If you hated hunter biden’s anonymous art sales, you should hate this too.
nic carter

@nic__carter
Basically, we used to have an informal rule that presidents wouldn’t start or run businesses that could pose a conflict of interest. Creating a bunch of memecoins and defi protocols opens the possibility to rampant violations of the emoluments clause. Not to mention the obvious COI given the fact that trump can set crypto policy.

Ryan Selkis (d/acc) 🇺🇸
@twobitidiot
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
:

Please fire whoever recommended going forward with the Melania launch today.

1. They don’t know what they’re doing.
2. They cost you a lot of $ and goodwill.
3. They don’t have your interests in mind.

Brent
@Brentsketit
feel bad for anyone trying to build anything serious rn

president just making a complete mockery of this industry

fighting another biden admin prolly would have been better longterm

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The more you channel David Lynch, the better your algorithm and your ability to perceive reality’s reality will be. You will give less fcks, you’ll meditate more, and explain yourself less. It’s science.

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a man in a suit and sunglasses stands in front of a group of people with the caption keep your eye on the donut

Alt: a man in a suit and sunglasses stands in front of a group of people with the caption keep your eye on the donut

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

For the past two weeks I’ve been waking up every day at 6am so I can greet the sunrise. This is a serious shift because I’ve always been a night owl. My focus and productivity is 📈 and the day starts with serious inspiration. I see your wisdom, early birds.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I’ve been in a liminal space, spending my days writing while helping my community in Los Angeles. Allowing my ideas to bake privately is the medicine at this moment, for me, for now. David Lynch invokes a liminal space too, and so few humans are as comfortable there as he has been. 1/🧵

A blue and red image of David Lynch, the red face is screaming. Photography by Sandro.

A sepia black and white photo of David Lynch smoking a cigarette. Photography by Sandro.

A black and white photography of David Lynch in front of a distressed background. Photography by Sandro.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 16/01/2025

I tried to lead an interesting life in a boring world but noooo the world had to be "spicy" so now I'm trying to live a boring life in a chaotic world.

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Christen Lien @christenlien.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

For your LA community — My friend made this compilation of spreadsheets with all the different resources people have been pulling, categorized and in all one place. Los Angeles Fire Resources: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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