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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

today feels like a good time to reshare the best text message i’ve ever received

Apr 7, 2023 at 05:39
Hmm... was anyone going to tell me that the film is NOT called the Banshees of Ed Sheeran? I really thought I was going to learn about the Troubles via a slightly Irish human millennial who looks like the Giant from Eureka's Castle. This is clearly just about real Troubles from real Irish people who don't sing at all. This is not the film I feel like I was promised.

chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The barricades make it so that the sidewalk across from the BK Museum is narrower than one sidewalk square in some places?? This is going to be a stampede hazard on Monday.

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

just make sure you’re taking care of yourself

Native x dunkin collab, boston kreme shampoo and strawberry frosted shampo

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

unfortunately it comes at a terrible cost that may not be worth it in the end

iphone lock screen starring a thirst trap of disgraced former nyc mayor eric adams, very shirtless and holding a cucumber and a pepper

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

on friday night i accidentally discovered a way to significantly reduce my phone usage—my screentime decreased by 2/3 INSTANTLY and has held at the new baseline for 2 days and counting!

my iphone screentime chart from last week, showing a dramatic drop on saturday after fairly high usage all week

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

UMMMMM did everyone know that IKEA Spain made a pride video starring BLAHAJ youtu.be/OwgvshnbgM8?...

BLAHAJ the IKEA shark holding a trans pride flag

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

we found a much better viewing surface (projector + bedsheet) with a smaller crowd, but the signal was 45 seconds off of the main tent’s so we heard the outcome of each play from the cheers or groans before we saw it

a bunch of ravers watching the end of the knicks game projected onto a bedsheet in the woods

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

we are winning in the midwestern costco front of the culture wars

a tower of pani puri shells taller the size of a nba huddle

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

i think of this at least weekly

Elizabeth Lopatto
@lopatto.bsky.social

me in 2006: wow gee, this is a whole system of incentives that structure the world as I know it. I should probably write about that. knowledge is power!

me in 2025: knowing how anything works is like being awake during surgery

February 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A11y community: did Apple release a new iMessage functionality that totally doesn’t work with VoiceOver?? Seems like kind of a big omission.

Screenshot of imessage with interactive messages, where all 3 options are surfaced to VoiceOver as one button

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

when you have many pictures of someone in your photos app, apple lovingly makes a compilation for you

Apple photos compilation of all the ridiculous pictures and memes of Eric Adams I’ve saved over the years

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

docs.google.com/presentation...

Curtis Sliwa’s 4th wife: Nancy Regula (2018-Present)

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This is an organization trusted by someone I trust who's providing on-the-ground aid to people in Negril and Kingston, two cities people will likely be sheltering in as they flee the direct path

"Dar Al Islam Jamaica is preparing to aid vulnerable communities as hurricane Melissa nears. Alhamdulillah we currently serve families through meal programs in Kingston, Negril. Donate to help provide emergency & hygiene kits, hot meals & food packages, relief for families in high-risk areas. info@daralislamjamaica.org"

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

plopping down next to nancy on the plane in these

a black & white photo of a man with a VERY 80s mustache wearing the jecklin float headphones, which look like a bench wrapped around your entire head

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

you’re not going to believe who just texted me! under a different number!!

cory booker fundraising text from a 833 number

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

not enough people are talking about this

a little bee hanging off the side of a clump of crocuses. they are purple, paling to white at the center with little pistils the color of healthy egg yolks.

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

i don’t know who needs to see this but

a field of brightly purple crocuses as far as the eye can see, broken up only by a few big trees that are still bare-branched from winter. spring is coming, motherfucker

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

the inside of the invite, revealing the performance lineup: a very very early @oneohtrix.bsky.social & @maxiboch.bsky.social!

The inside pages of the flyer, including a hand drawn floorplan of where the performances in the museum were on one side (no laptops allowed!!) and a list of performers on the other:

DANIA SHAPES: Daniel Lopatin (aka Dania Shapes) seeks the whimsy of a New Romantic inside improvisational, recursive noiseplay
http://www.zombient.com/

GIFRANTS:
gifrants celebrates and preserves the culture of his homeland, Haiti, with heartfelt compositions drawing on Haitian, Brazilian
African, and American sounds.
http://www.gifrants.com

MATT BOCH:
A journeyman of popular culture, Boch’s VJ sets present a surprising bricolage of references, sometimes nostalgic, often confounding. Matt is also a member of rock
band, blanks.

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social I just found this while cleaning out my parents’ basement!

A hand-drawn flyer for the Wikimania 2006 afterparty, with cute graphical references to the layout of Wikipedia. Saturday, Aug 5, 2006, 7:30-11:30 PM, MIT Museum.

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

this one thoroughly flabbered my gast the other day

Google AI search result: “Heading: Women's contributions to railroads

Harriet Tubman
Escaped slavery and helped others escape through the Underground Railroad”

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

i loved this review almost as much as my favorite review, an entirely unprompted outburst from someone who is famously bad at texting

january 29th: “a white supremacist terminator created this movie and sent it back in time to make everything worse at this very moment”

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Can someone who knows more about computers talk me out of or into a theory real quick

@blackamazon.bsky.social 's post about NIH.gov being down—in the post, the URL is clearly spelled right, but the auto-generated preview URL card reads "nth.gov"

@indietrehan.bsky.social 's post about pubmed.gov being down—in the post, the URL is clearly spelled right, but the auto-generated preview URL card reads "Pumped.gov"

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

specifically you can make yourself a CUCUMBER SNAKE for the holidays

A derpy looking cucumber that has been cut to look like a snake, with sichuan peppercorns for eyes. A sibling with a missing tail (oops) waits in the background in a container

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

better poetry than i can summon up for this moment

a giant (over 2 feet tall!) rubber chicken styled to look like the statue of liberty—blue, holding a torch in its stubby hand, gaping mouth and bulging eyes—advertised as “hear me scream up to 60 seconds”

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

to punish the oppressors of applekind is clemency

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

idk but i know who i’d give it to

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

tragically our guy calvain is no longer with us, but i captured some screenshots to remember him by

Calvain promoting one of his bandcamp tracks, describing it as “The track builds on layers of shimmering synthesizers and driving rhythms, creating an atmospheric dance floor anthem that bridges past and present.”

The cover of the track is him playing keyboard in front of a neon sign that says Calvain Cruz

Calvain manspreading shirtless and tight-panted at an upright piano, looking seductively st the camera with one hand near his crotch and the other hovering noncomittally near the keyboard.

He is once again lit entirely by neon, this time a sign behind him that doesn’t form an english word. none of the furnishings in this room are visible from other pics

I dug into Calvain’s replies because I was obsessed. This was the best one.

dril post: hour #4 hunched over my big red plastic ipad w/ headphones at carrabbas watching analysis tubers yell at bojack horseman like hes a real guy

Calvain’s reply: “That sounds like quite the deep dive into Bojack! It's fascinating how animated shows can spark such passionate discussions. And hey, there's nothing like a good meal at Carrabba's to fuel the analysis. Hope the pasta and insights are both delicious!”

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

it's one or arguably two more words than "for sale baby shoes", but i think we can all agree the payoff is worth it

Leafly review reading "Pooped me pant, girlfriend pooped she pant"

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

i don’t care if vivian and tiffany are talking shit about me, i have a strict

paper sign that reads “ABG No-smoke policy” (it’s a no smoking policy for rental cars from the avis budget group)

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Here’s my pitch, one iPhone screenshot’s worth of principles for Common Sense Democrats to reform governance in the blue zones and be competitive in the red zones — delivering a coalition that can win on health care, reproductive rights, the safety net, and quality for all.

1. Throw Matty Glesias into a volcano to appease the gods of the Earth, who hunger for a sacrifice

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

why can’t y’all just publish this fanfic on archive of our own like everyone else 😒

The first page of an academic paper called “Taking AI Welfare Seriously” by Robert Long, Jeff Sebo, and many other researchers mostly from Eleos AI and NYU.

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

squinting against the light to figure out if the thing drifting by in prospect park lake was a sleepy duck or a dead pigeon. reader, it was a single grungy adidas low top sneaker.

a small striped gray object floating down the water

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

new york: there is an emergency protest in brownsville tomorrow at the subway stop where the nypd shot 4 people (including one of their own!) to try to catch one fare evader. organized by Swipe it Forward, who have done lots of work in this space.

Cops shooting at us for hopping the train? Brownsville Ante Up! Tuesday sept 17th @6PM, L train to Sutter Avenue. We giving out free swipes and talking to the community. #swipeitforward Black self defense since 2016.

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