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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My favorite thing about Chicago is how much people who live here love this city. And the aggressive friendliness.

Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s funny to see the folks from high school that have become influencers and the complete reinvention of their identity. No, you are not a “struggling Latina.” You went to a private international school, your family is wealthy.

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Acting the Fulemin @actingthefulemin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

there are 70 million people for whom this is the biggest song in the world. they watch comedies called like "Wives of Jim" that have run for nine seasons. they're usually pretty affable in person. in 2024 they severed the fate of humanity because of egg prices

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The term “hyperscaler” grosses me out.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

UK transit nerds are next level.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In an argument with my daughter, after we worked it out, I told her “we are aligned” 😭 wth is corporate America doing to my brain?!?

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Is there a word for that end of summer anxiety? It’s a very weird feeling. The weather and the light is lovely but it feels sad.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Sometimes I fantasize about working at Trader Joe’s. Apparently they pay well and have good benefits, and they treat employees well.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I’m rooting for whomever’s fans boo Trump the loudest in the final. Spain will do a great job. England fans also have nasty chants.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Colombia had a great World Cup. I feel proud of this team.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It’s really sad. But I won’t let that guy live in my mind and erase the good run the team had in the World Cup and the joy I felts seeing the USMNT play well.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Navigating conflict and repair is an essential life skill to build a villlage. It requires sitting with discomfort, hurt and shame and moving past it. We don’t have good ways to learn it and practice it outside of families.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Pulmonauts: breath explorers. I dabble as a pulmonaut and has been super cool to read about others’ practices in James Nestor’s Breath.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Good. It’s too expensive, too dangerous to come. A lesson in FAFO. But I just learned France will train at one of my city’s colleges and I’m so giddy about it.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I go on a walk with a friend on Mother’s Day and I now look forward to this day every year. It feels healing.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A yoga teacher gifted me a comforting thought that I want to pass along to anyone who needs it: We are space, we hold space, we breath into that space within. There’s space in every atom that makes us. Our emotions and thoughts float around space. They are transient. Space is permanent.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I’ve seen now countless times the “architects” come in to do “vision exercises” completely disconnected from the realities of the tech stack or the business. Nothing gets implemented. They write a bunch of docs, give a bunch of presentations, and no one asks them about their “impact.”

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

My tinfoil hat theory is that prediction markets are driving US foreign policy. The casinoification of US politics.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A bunch of literal children died after he manufactured a crisis. Just a reminder. Many mothers and fathers had their lives irrevocably changed so Trump could pat himself on the back. They lost their babies. For Trump.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I went to the record store and my 4yo picked Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, and it’s a great album! I am really enjoying it as a new listener of Black Sabbath

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

In corporate settings, certain forms of speak take off and you hear them everywhere. We are in the season of the passive aggressive “help me understand why you did x”

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

What is going on with the weather?!? I’m stranded in Dallas for two days. Every little experience feels so chaotic.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

We live in the dumbest episode of Black Mirror

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

It's so sad that the internet has become a tool for oppression and exploitation, that reduces people to data inputs for machines that ultimately benefit a few people. How do we refuse that? How do we re-build the people's internet? How do we find each other away from these monetization machines?

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It's so disturbing that incel online culture has become mainstream for teens. There are so many trends like looksmaxxing or misogynist tropes that originated in the sewers of the internet. I don't know how we come back from that.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I'm traveling within the US and I'm taking my US passport just in case. Everything is so disconcerting that i don't know if I'm being paranoid or sensibly prepared.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "This is not a test of your ability, and you won't hurt my feelings with your honest opinion"

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It's so wonderful to be older and feel comfortable being quiet and doing your own thing in social settings like kids' parties. I don't want to visit, and It's okay!

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Darwin Woodka @darwinwoodka.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Now let's free the 3800 other "Liams" in ICE custody. And abolish ICE.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I think about that little bunny everyday.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Any form of accountability has to come with ending concentration camps, releasing imprisoned children and reuniting families.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

There needs to be justice. Investigations into the multiple terror campaigns he commanded in several cities.

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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted

The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Snow day + having the kids home + feeling sick = not fun.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS?!?!?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🚨 ICE is creating a watchlist of anyone and everyone who films them, DHS sources tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making...

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ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them

“We have a nice little database and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

He will back off when faced with resistance and people acting with dignity. He loves the attention and is not a serious person. He only wants the limelight and enrich himself.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

For my fieldwork, i worked with election observers in Colombia and did some myself. We did to do the same here for the midterms. Have people at polling posts documenting any abnormalities, manually going through voting tallies and comparing them with voter rolls.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

With all the news on the identity of the agent who killed Renee Nicole Good, and the heritage of his wife, I keep thinking of Killers of the Flower Moon.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I feel sick to my stomach and being here makes me feel less alone. How can we do life through this horror?!?

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I've noticed that everytime i log on here, i have a new follower. I don't post often, and to be honest, I'm not insightful or funny. What's the deal?!?

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

So what happens on day 2? How will the US "rule" the neighborhood militias and informant networks that have been consolidated over 30 years of chavismo? How will they "rule" the ELN and other guerrillas/cartels that smuggle drugs, weapons and oil through the jungles? This is a disaster.

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Maria @merluza.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I am a content moderator for VR 😅

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

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