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Gotye was the Goatse of early 2010s indie radio. Cruising along to a KCRW block of Santigold, Grizzly Bear, Tame Impala…then the xylophone plinks and it’s all over, doesn’t matter how fast you flipped the dial, that’s gonna be in your head all day.

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Myself, I spent the 2010s riding the last gasps of the post-punk garage rock micro-revival that dispersed into a frothy wave of synth-pop dance indietronica

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The Lumineers are to Father John Misty as The Neighborhood are to The National. Come on now.

Online exchange between Father John Misty, high holy man of Xennial Indie Folk Rock and shitposting, and a random Twitter/X user who highlighted a single “Hey” in his lyrics as evidence of his alignment with twee Hey-Ho pop folk. Which Father John sarcastically reshared to his followers, with a single word: “busted”

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

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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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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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Try out Kagi — I made the switch a few months ago. It has a free plan you can test before committing. You can turn off AI features, define search “lenses” like UseNets, PDFs, etc, and further customize the results by prioritizing good sources (like Wikipedia) and deprecating crap sites (like X)

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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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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Lander is well to the left of Walz tho? DSA member in the 80s. Founded the NYC city council progressive bloc in the 2000s. Lander’s differences from Mamdani are mostly stylistic, coming from his POV of holding a city-wide position responsible for addressing budget concerns of all New Yorkers.

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Don’t threaten me with a good time! UGH HOCHUL. Donated to Lander’s mayoral campaign after he brought multiple legal challenges against her unilateral pause of NYC congestion pricing. A progressive mayor and governor? We’d be cooking for sure 👍

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I feel like between Mamdani’s ability to energize the everyday working people and Lander’s ability to policy-wonk and outflank opposition from corporations and Albany, they’d make an unstoppable combo. Just so super excited for NYC today. Ready to run thru walls for Zohran in November!

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Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Brad Lander did but unfortunately ppl slept on him until his ICE arrest. Hoping his “superfriends” team up with Mamdani continues into the mayorship. Lander’s experience would be an asset for enacting the sort of ambitious progressive policies they both believe in tinyurl.com/mvperh97

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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

The moment is now. If those of us who are able to fail to stand up for the people *today* then there will be nobody left to stand for us when democracy falls. Find and join your local No Kings demonstration this Saturday: www.nokings.org

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No Kings

On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

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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 · 10/05/2025

BCG consulting team (probably) banked $5M+ on the vaporware demo alone

Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“Ohio Raccoon” winning the “Florida Man” clickbait crown was not on my 2020s Bingo card…but then again, has a SINGLE THING that’s happened after Jan 1, 2020 been on ANY OF OURS?!

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

For fun, I checked ChatGPT’s market population demographics “calculation” against UN data bases— ChatGPT is off by 50% or more across the board. Amazing work here folks.

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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.

Cindy Lou @cindyloo.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Honest question not trolling: do you prefer politicians who demonstrate uncritical loyalty to party, or who strive to communicate imperfect authenticity to voters? You can’t have both — while the former builds proximity to central power, I’d argue that it’s the latter which leads to real change.

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

Welp folks — they didn’t make it

Screen grab of Brooklyn Mirage’s instagram post in which ownership regrets to inform all ticket holders for tonight’s show of what’s been very fucking obvious to everyone since last week — venue not ready, set cancelled, refunds coming. With 2 hours notice. Tomorrow’s show also TBD. Pure class.

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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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This was me, except with bikes. Could read by age 3, but kept those training wheels on till well into the second grade. In retrospect, a wise choice for a balance-challenged child in the helmet-free Wild West of “late 1900s” suburbia

‘Invisible Women’ spotlights a gaping and dangerous gender data gap

Yup! Reading “Invisible Women” is what opened my eyes to how pervasive, persistent, and damaging that gender data gap is to our general well-being, health options, and treatment outcomes. www.sciencenews.org/article/invi...

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‘Invisible Women’ explains how neglecting to collect or use data on women harms their health and safety.

But isn’t being a very shameFUL ass-licker precisely why Graham performs his “yes daddy” role play with Trump? I mean, Graham’s *closet* has closets that he’s yet to step foot out of.

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

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

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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. ✊

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

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.

I’d love to! I’ll be in London a few days next month on a family vacation with my dad — but I could always find time for a “work” trip as we have an office over there. Would be a fab excuse to see you and reconnect!

Will keep mine crossed for you too! I don’t see why they wouldn’t want to maximize revenue with the paid VOD release before the competition of the summer blockbuster season pushes it off IMAX screens (unless there really isn’t anything compelling in the pipeline across the industry)

However, as it was shot for IMAX, they are wisely already taking preorders if you want to splurge on a high def physical copy! www.rollingstone.com/product-reco...

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

Saw some sources online predict that it’ll arrive on paid streaming around May 20th, as the last several WB films have been made available one month after opening in theaters—but the studio may choose to delay it until after the holiday weekend if it continues to perform well at the box office

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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

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

“How many tubes of lash glue should we pack for space? Will one per femin-naut do? Or should we each bring a spare?” — Katy Perry, probably.