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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I wish there was a service where I could pay someone to make my Bluesky work like threads. The whole point is for this platform to be customizable but idk about its out of the box function. I would converse here but I’m always speaking into a void and rarely finding the things I’m interested in.

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

A lot of our friends got in on that 2% interest rate market many moons ago and have payments that literally make me want to throw up when I hear them. I would 100% have a different opinion if we had had the money to buy then!

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Something I will not do anytime soon again is own a home. 1) The payment is way more than rent but idk that we will ever see a return on investment in this housing market. 2) Renting is freedom. We are ready to move out of state but literally cannot until the market drastically changes.

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 03/12/2024

Inside the Kentucky program that aims to teach college students how to hear differing opinions. Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/bridgi...

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This Program Wants to Teach College Students How to Hear Differing Opinions

"I can tell you don’t agree with me."

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

“The Democratic Party is losing the information battle.” - @pbsnews.bsky.social Cannot emphasize this enough. The information you are receiving is NOT what’s getting to the majority of the public. As a Texas democratic voter said in the same story: “I’m not on the same planet as these people.”

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Was maybe buying a book and wasn’t sure about it. Book shop assistant says, -“if you have ADHD, reading this books feels like reading the transcript from your brain.” Idk how she clocked me so quick but I *did* buy the book 😂

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

relatedly: one VERY OBVIOUS and poll-supported avenue for democrats to make in-roads with swing voters is by doing things like attacking money in politics, corruption, citizens united (and, by extension, the supreme court). weird that they seem resistant to it!

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Something that I think people who’ve grown up in highly educated families don’t understand is that only 38% of Americans pay attention to the news all or most of the time. I spent the first 21 years of my life completely unaware of the world around me. I had ZERO news exposure. Zero.

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

I too used natural selection on my garden by accident and all of my survivors are hardy af and come back every year

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

It is kind of funny that the main way Elon is actually like Thomas Edison is that he managed to unfairly ruin the name of Nikola Tesla

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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Insane to pair this headline with a picture of Harrison Ford

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

The amount of times I’ve accidentally opened threads today is so annoying. I feel like tricking people into opening your app through a UI change is a pretty desperate move

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

The most infuriating thing about running a boutique stocking S-3X is how easy it would be to find ADORABLE and chic and cool clothes if I just didn’t care about size inclusion. It is 2023 - why are we making clothes only for sizes S-L is when the average woman is a size 18!!?

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Theee weeks later and I am still thinking about the latest Hunger Games. It’s just good, man. So good

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

My husband, walking into the kitchen where 1A is discussing AI in drive thrus: Kim, people are dying!

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

*except for that one Michael* we start at one and skip over two and then just keep knocking amendments out one by one with those guns

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Rich guy discovers that workers aren’t motivated by making rich people richer.

Panera founder says employees today aren't motivated by the idea of making money for shareholders: 'Nobody cares'
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

"How can we disqualify Donald Trump from ever becoming president again?" was a problem that had a straightforward answer, if the people with the power to do it had just done it while the blood and broken glass were still being swept up

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Would like to understand how creative people in Texas have found ways to thrive here. I find it so exhausting to just *exist* in this place that there’s not a lot room for more creativity. Going on 25 years in the area and still feel this way.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 10/12/2023

If you think homeless people—*homeless people*—have broken the social contract I think you should be set adrift on an ice floe for the good of your village

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

One of the reasons I started my own boutique was to reclaim writing as a sporadic outpouring of feeling and ideas instead of the consistent forced production necessary to monetize your work. I simply do not work that way. I am a feelings-led writer, probably to an extreme.

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

I find that as time passes from my days of being an southern evangelical leader (a decade in 2024 since I left the church), I am more and more open to spirituality in all of its forms. My belief in more than myself grows back as the bitterness subsides more each year.

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Did everyone else know that the PBS Newshour science 🧪 guy is named Miles O’Brien?? Incredible. 🖖🏼

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Some people would be overwhelmed by a 350 point checklist. I am unbelievably motivated

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

What is the best way you get yourself out of a funk? I am living in funky town and not in a fun way

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Also have a Lego flower set that I saved for a very stressful week and it was so satisfying

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

every time

Your package is on its way
Be honest
I am being honest
What does the tracker say?
"Label created"
Thank you

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Same here - there is a big tendency among apologists to treat today’s evangelicalism as some sort of inexplicable mass delusion. But truthfully we’re just seeing the founding ideologies unleashed in their truest form - they just feel anachronistic in the 21st century.

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

In the last couple of decades, austin was remade in the image of the homogenous elite taste. Glitz replaced substance. Now, for the first time in decades, more people are looking to leave Austin than to arrive. Insane prices w/o cultural and civil benefits are finally taking their toll.

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

The nature of crime is so changed by the proliferation of these powerful weapons. Most cops joined for the power/profile of the job, not because they truly care. Facing an AR-15 they’re just as scared and incompetent as the rest of us. Most aren’t morally or physically capable of being heroes.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Ireland is being invaded…by foreign far right social media

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

My puppy and I are in our heated blanket era which means we get up as little as possible

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Ayn Rand was 100% my first high school reading assignment

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

I think one of the hardest things to learn as a disabled person is how to be flexible enough to adapt to your body. If I made a list of to-do’s for the day and couldn’t get to all of them I used to get so upset. Now I have a “feel okay” list and a “don’t feel okay” list that can change in a day.

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Watched the Hunger Games series over the last week and have to say it is actually a better watch as a grown adult than when they first came out

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Watching LOTR with friends and I just… is this a good movie all I can do is make fun of them I have never watched it with the intention of taking it seriously

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

“THERE’S GEORGE SANTOS! HE’S GETTING AWAY!”

Pic of George Santos in press scrum surrounded by cameras and mics with his mouth wide open like he is singing or saying something

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Reminder that what Israel is doing is being driven by a prime minister who has been indicted, who knows that he is ousted the second Israel goes out of crisis mode. He is going scorched earth on an entire population of human beings in part bc he is panicked and out of ideas.

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

I was super disappointed by this - queer people absolutely loved it and the acting was amazing 🌈 but I think marketing failed to capture more eyes bc they catered to original story fans that would never enjoy this show bc it wasn’t made for them.

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Sometimes a watching week is like this and it 100% sucks

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

YES. Honestly I want them to understand that a really well executed three season show is much better than a show you rewrite so that it can live forever. American Gods could have handled the addition of our favorite leprechaun and kept everything else the same

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Truly I have no concrete theory at this point and as someone who has seen basically every tv show I am very impressed. Rare that a mystery is both a) coherent and b) unpredictable

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June Lewins @joonloons.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Do not go gentle into that good night

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Went outside here in Texas for literally two minutes and an ant bit me in between my toes. Shan’t be making that mistake again for many months

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Yes to being valued!! As someone working for myself now I’m way ahead of projections they have for small businesses like mine and I am slowly realizing again that I am really smart. Crazy how not hearing that for long enough will make you forget!

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 01/12/2023

RedGoldSparks remains undefeated

Webcomic by RedGoldSparks (Tumblr/IG) of a cute raccoon. "When you feel like everyone hates you, sleep. When you feel like you hate everyone, eat. When you feel like you hate yourself, shower."

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Madie Riley @madieriley.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Have been watching every season of Fargo and skipped big chunks of Season 3. Found season 4 to be okay. After the masterclasses of season 1 and 2 I think I have hope for Season 5 though? I grew around baseball so I accept a .500 as a best in the biz kind of number

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Sarah Wampler @geekergrl.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Politics is just the word we use for the process by which we collectively chose to organize our society. For better or worse just about everything you do is a political act, your choice is about wether you’re engaging in an intentional informed manner or if you’ve abdicated your agency.

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