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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Half a century ago, a recovering economist disillusioned with capitalism took up Buddhist practice and composed a magnificent manifesto for prioritizing people over products and creativity over consumption, which it is not too late to heed: www.themarginalian.org/2014/07/07/b...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I am taking down the paywall for this one, as I believe it remains relevant as a reflection on the limits of the authoritarian assault – and the need to push back against the idea that America is inevitably and irresistibly marching towards a Trump dictatorship. This week’s piece:

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The Limits of Violent Authoritarianism

Trump’s authoritarian desires are boundless. But the past year proves that his ability to impose them on America is not.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The Indie head “stomp-clap” debate has broken containment from X into Instagram and Reddit, where Xennials (the micro-gen cultural authority on the 2000s-2010s) can finally see these GenZ hot takes and read them for filth.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The retirement money of public employees is invested in firms run by Thiel, Andreesen, DOGE goons, and others who are trying to destroy the public sector. We can stop doing that. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/financing-...

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Financing Our Own Destruction

Are we taking this fascism thing seriously?

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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Almost twice as many people ride the New York City bus every day as live in Wyoming. The bus should have two senators

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Memories of living off campus with @melissafehrtrade.bsky.social and our friend Brian, flipping through the latest Onion print edition that arrived in our post, reading the funniest man on the street quotes to one another between giggle fits. And now it’s back!!

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

In stark contrast to the murder of the United HealthCare CEO, I might add.

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josh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 14/06/2025

Hard to grasp just how massive turnout was for NO KINGS NYC without seeing it for yourself. This is a video walking the line south along Fifth Avenue between 42nd and 26th Streets at 20x speed.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

As many CA Dems say: Yeah, Gavin Newsom is an asshole, but he’s OUR asshole — unlike most Centrists, he throws his hardest punches at the right. Honestly, should be a bare minimum qualification for Dem leadership today. Watch the California Gov’s address in full:

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Governor Newsom Delivers Major Address to Californians

YouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom

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Alt US Digital Service @altusds.altgov.info · 24/05/2025

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” should terrify anyone who cares about checks and balances. From court-defying powers to political control over regulatory agencies, this isn’t a tax bill—it’s a playbook for authoritarianism. We broke it down: bit.ly/3SlWNvk #WeTheBuilders #NoKings #OBBB #OBUB

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The biz case for a product I’m working on was built with “guesstimate” data copy-pasted straight from ChatGPT. No citations. For data source it’s just: “ChatGPT” We’re so cooked fam. But global corps move so slowly, it’ll be years before we start seeing the results of garbage in -> garbage out.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

North Bedford yuppie gentrification has entered its “Power Wheels parking violations” era #Brooklyn #Williamsburg

Photo of an absolutely minuscule single-seater Mercedes power wheels toy coupe “parallel parked” along the curb of a city street. The front end is encroaching into a pedestrian crosswalk. An orange parking ticket envelope is visibly tucked into the toy car’s windshield-less front dash. Kids these days.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

In today’s neighborhood chatter: Will the Brooklyn Mirage, aiming for the title of NYCs largest nightclub, complete its major renovation in time? This was the scene an hour ago. They still plan to host a sold out show TONIGHT. God be with those ticket holders. www.reddit.com/r/avesNYC/s/...

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From the avesNYC community on Reddit: Mirage update 1:30pm

Explore this post and more from the avesNYC community

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Here’s yet another of Silicon Valley’s billionaire AI Hype Beasts illustrating the Dunning-Kruger effect without a single drop of irony or atom of self-awareness.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

For those who are able to mobilize, find a local May Day event to take part and get involved. www.fiftyfifty.one/events

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Events | 50501 Movement

Find a peaceful protest, march, or rally near you.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

May Day - a commemoration of the struggles and gains of global labor movements. Also used as a distress signal. 🚨 Tomorrow’s May Day call to action is an embodiment of both. ✊

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Signs that NYC spring has finally SPRUNG: 1) my allergies have hit “pour antihistamines into every facial orifice” threat levels 2) conga lines of ants along our sills prompted our annual “Terro Bait Moveable Feast” 3) phalanxes of shoulder-to-shoulder run club casuals choking the waterfronts

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The pace of technological advancement is already many magnitudes faster than humankind’s speed to understand and adapt to change. Absent any political will to enact collective governance standards proportionate to the current threat, we stand at the precipice of a global democratic collapse.

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Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment

Governments, financial influencers, and entertainment insiders are using data center-like facilities full of phones to push narratives fabricated through fake social media engagement.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Adam Rippon’s stream of consciousness podcast is essential listening if you, too, wish that your life came with a sassy gay commentary track in its DVD bonus features. Could listen to him narrate his Sims telenovela for hours.

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Episode 10: The End of the Beginning

Podcast Episode · The Podcast by Adam Rippon · 04/22/2025 · 52m

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Will be migrating my photo feed off Instagram to Pixelfed or Flashes. I’m searching the web with Kagi, and dumped Chrome to try Brave, Arc, and Orion. Left GMail and Google Drive for Proton. Deactivated Twitter/X for Bluesky, and will delete FB. #DataPrivacy #NoMoreKings #Deshittification

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It’s giving Bama Rush Week Remember when Sally Ride shared her anecdote about the number of tampons NASA thought she might need in space, and we all laughed and laughed at the sincere ignorance of it all? Today, that degree of sincere concern would represent a giant leap forward for MAGA-kind.

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The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan

The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Researching open source & privacy-focused platforms to shift my personal use away from Silicon Valley tech monopolies (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta) to companies more aligned w/my values. Kicking myself for not doing this sooner! What I’m finding out there is exciting. Sometimes, it takes a coup.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Spent lunch yesterday on a fruitless quest thru Midtown’s many corp chain pharmacies, scouring yards of locked product cases, trying to re-up on my husband’s preferred, obscure, imported brand of English throat lozenge. Found at our local Brooklyn mom & pop. Real peak mid-aughts hipster shit.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

“Minogue Not Jenner” My favorite tshirt spotted at MSG for Kylie’s #TensionTour

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I’ll take criminal intent for $200 please: A: In NYC, real estate developers, local politicians, and the mob all engage in this organized intimidation tactic to generate profits. Q: What is racketeering? Correct!

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

one of the most important things to learn, if you're out there doing things: you don't get to talk about it. you don't get to brag about it, you don't get to tell your friends, you don't get drinks bought for you in the bar off the story. it's *always* shut the fuck up friday

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Ignore the clickbait title. This wide-ranging conversation about AI is deeply compelling, essential viewing. Nothing else is quite as important to modern civilization as determining what we do (and don’t) want our relationship with technology to be in the future. youtu.be/_jl64f-821o?...

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YUVAL NOAH HARARI: Our AI Future Is WAY WORSE Than You Think | Rich Roll Podcast

YouTube video by Rich Roll

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It’s not even a Leap Year, but based on the prevailing trends, feelin pretty confident that February’s gunning to steal January’s freshly-minted crown of “Longest Month of My Life”

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

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Bryan Boatman @bryanboatman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Direct hit on the Sunset Fire in Hollywood. 🎯 Nice work, @lafd.bsky.social #LAFD c/o @nbcla.bsky.social 👨🏼‍🚒

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Am absolutely gutted for my friends and communities in Los Angeles. These wildfires are absolutely terrifying. I’ve never seen anything like what’s happening right now. Sending strength to all the fire fighters and emergency responders tonight ❤️🙏

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

As if there weren’t enough reasons for me to embrace dry January.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 16/12/2024

I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 11/12/2024

nobody was bothered about trans ppl existing 7 years ago. everything that pisses you off about us is entirely fabricated by news media and politicians. every concern you have about our healthcare being ‘experimental’ is a lie. nothing you think you know is accurate.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Joe Biden was right to pardon his son. Trump pardoned his criminal co-conspirators. He's gonna pardon terrorists. ENTIRELY MISS ME with your dumb arguments about how Democrats must follow rules Republicans ignore. My latest in @thenation.com

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OF COURSE Joe Biden Was Right to Pardon His Son

People need to stop asking Democrats to play by different rules than Republicans, and they need to stop asking Biden to be a worse father than any of us would be in his place.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My Spotify Wrapped just distilled and described my whole-ass personality to me better than a therapist. Okay, corporate data hacking algorithms and LLMs….you win this round

Slide from Spotify’s year-end summary describing my March 2024 listening habits as “Mellow Rock Permanent Wave Britpop”

Slide from Spotify’s year-end summary describing my April 2024 listening habits as “Boujee Strut Rap”

Slide from Spotify’s year-end summary describing my June 2024 listening habits as “Indie Sleaze Roller Skating Pop”

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Husband asked me whether I’d heard about the Hannah Kobayashi missing person case. His one casually-shared news link turned into 2 hrs of social media and local reporter deep-dives, to the point where I could now give a TedX talk Everything about this case is bonkers, and I hope she is found safe

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a man in a blue shirt and tie is smoking a cigarette in front of a wall of papers .

ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is smoking a cigarette in front of a wall of papers .

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Ordered extra fortune cookies with our Chinese delivery the other night. Cracked two open — all shells, no fortune :( An apt metaphor for These Times™️ today (Yes yes, that’s on us for paying for fortune cookies)

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hey fellow Americans — the coming years are gonna be rough. If every new injustice inflames our already frayed, tired nerves, the resistance will burn out. I’m trying to balance global awareness with local action and investment in community. Find what feeds your soul, and take care of one another ❤️

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This advice applies to all endeavors— our imaginations, empathy, and weirdness are what connect us. AI is efficient and effective at “optimizing” to defined targets & patterns. People are capable of far more wondrous creation. Don’t try to be more like machines—you always lose. Invest in humanness.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

And in gratitude melissafehrtrade.bsky.social here is my IRL emotional support fluffball. I have probably cuddled one of his nine lives away in the last month, coping with my agitation at LITERALLY ALL HEADLINE NEWS these days.

Very fluffy black and white tuxedo cat sitting upright on a bed and hard staring into the lens, awaiting his kibble

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Really, I just don’t wanna open this app and get hit with a fire hose of infuriating political info. Like, yes, yes, I am a foot soldier of the resistance….but wherefore art thou, ALF memes? Humor is gonna get us thru some dark times. Gimme your fun account recs, Blue Sky-erati

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Yes!! The “heart in a blender” guy is here! It’s official fam — Twitter is dead For real tho, yay Max Collins! So many of my fave accounts are migrating over! C’mon Leslie Jones, you’re next. Tony X, you too man.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Find myself having to retrain my brain that it’s “safe” to reply, contribute to conversations, and engage strangers here. After years of increasing “enshittification” I’d withdrawn into passive consumption / lurking on X — whereas here feels more like the early days of the bird app.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/07/2024

I recommend taking five to ten minutes to put your US rep, US senators, and state and local elected officials into your phone contacts so you can instantly call them whenever you get mad, which will be every day from now until we die.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A lot of people responsible for poor decisions are on a press tour right now because if they didn’t, people would rightfully be questioning THEIR leadership and they know it. It’s weak even by normal left-punching standards. Zero evidence more Liz Cheney would have won this. The opposite, actually.

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