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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My apartment building has an AI chatbot which primarily serves as an SMS interface for their ticketing system, and sometimes it cracks me up.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

With TSA understaffed, putting ICE in airports seems like a very unsurprising move from the guy who thought that if bleach kills viruses, maybe injecting it would be a good way to treat COVID. But I also can't help wonder if this was someone's plan all along. One more way to militarize the borders.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I haven't seen it yet, but I'm very excited for this!

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

How can Google even consider replacing search with AI search when it can't even accurately report simple facts?

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 07/05/2025

just adding Queer.Archive.Work, our own tiny volunteer-run collective, to the very long list of arts orgs de-funded by the NEA—would have been our first NEA grant, our largest ever, & would have created a new job here in RI. I love who we are & we’ll continue to support each other no matter what <3

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Well, democracy is on its deathbed, and the free press is on the endangered list, so why should we be surprised that the WHCA is unwilling to stand up for the integrity of political journalism's biggest event?

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Recently I happened to catch an episode of NewRadio - such a brilliant show! A more innocent time when we didn't yet know that Phil Hartman would be murdered by his wife, Joe Rogan would become a hugely influential podcaster promoting misinformation, and Andy Dick was an unhinged addict & sex pest.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This evening we saw a hilarious movie called "Grand Theft Hamlet" about 2 actors during lockdown who decide to stage a performance of Hamlet in GTA. The entire thing is filmed in the game. youtu.be/MLpGIHjwhNE?...

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GRAND THEFT HAMLET | UK theatrical trailer | IN CINEMAS FRIDAY 6TH DECEMBER from TULL STORIES

YouTube video by Tull Stories

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Two weeks into 2025 and I'm ready to pass on this one. Let's move on to 2026 and see if that's any better.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Jason took me to see a one-man show called "The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy," based on a short story by Stanislaw Lem. It was created as "quarantine theater," originally performed via streaming (now live). It combines performance and video to create a funny, weird, tight little show. It was fantastic.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Went to MoMA today to see Christian Marclay's The Clock. I saw 80 minutes of it in 2013 (from 1:50-3:10am). Today we watched it for over 4 hours - from about 2:40pm to 7pm, when MoMA closed. If you love film and are in NY before Feb 17, I highly recommend it: www.moma.org/calendar/exh...

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Christian Marclay: The Clock | MoMA

Exhibition. Through Feb 17, 2025. Encapsulating 100 years of moving-image history, Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) is a 24-hour montage composed from thousands of film and television clips depict...

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Netflix recommended a show called "Culinary Class Wars" which sounds bonkers: 100 chefs compete, 80 "unknowns" in team Black Spoon pitted against 20 celebrated/celebrity White Spoon chefs in a "Class War". But, 2 eps in, it's way more congenial than described and also more emotional than I expected!

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Last week I saw two musicals. "Maybe Happy Ending" was nicely put together, but with so many conflicting feelings about AI brewing right now it was hard to avoid seeing it through that lens. Maybe that's somewhat intentional, but it feels like it hits differently than it was meant to.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Going back to my very first skeet, I really should have tagged @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social and @fesshole.bsky.social !!

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

A significant wave of people coming over here right now, so it seems like a good time to do another scan for people I followed in the other place. I'm using Sky Follower Bridge.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Very frustrated today with technology that won't let you quit. Trying to delete an unused Google account and I get to a step where G says it's going to text me a code to verify my identity and the text never arrives (but just a few minutes ago they successfully sent me a text to log in).

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

I was watching Saturday Night Live and a commercial came on for a Hess Police Truck and Cruiser, and I was certain it was a parody ad. The cruiser looks like an armored vehicle. And the voiceover cheerfully announced that it comes with a battering ram! It's NOT a parody. youtu.be/8qMnB3sE2jw?...

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

"This is an accessible station. The alligator is at the center of the platform." Sometimes NYC subway announcements are a little weird.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I don't know. Consider spelling it out, Google.

Screenshot of a notification from Google Messages saying "Auto-delete OTPs after 24 hours?" with options for "No thanks" and "Continue"

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema sent me an email saying "we miss you, it's been a while" and I wonder why they're offering me a free popcorn instead of, you know, changing up what movies they're playing. They're still showing the same movies I saw over a month ago!

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 09/08/2023

Just finished watching the show Shrinking with my sister. It's a very entertaining show about a small group of people, several of whom are professional therapists. They all have terrible boundaries and their lives are way too intertwined. We laughed a lot.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

Reskeet with an iconic fictional band

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Sounds like not even Threads is good at threading.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

The lack of proper threading on here is making Bluesky feel extra chaotic today. But I'm still not going to sign up on Threads.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 05/07/2023

"Florida has passed Bill 1069, which bans the mention of periods before sixth grade in Florida public schools." Oh no! That's not good; I hope someone does something. Anyway back to this library of Menstruation information, open universally to the public archive.org/details/menstruation

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ri @rochellei.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

Posting a link to this beautifully written article by drag king legend Hugo Grrrl because it deserves to be shared widely. “Drag is exactly the social antidote we need right now” www.instagram.com/p/CuTRP2wRfjl

An excerpt from an article by Hugo Grrrl: “We need kids to be all the things that drag stands for: resilient, imaginative, unapologetic, strange, loud, and sparkly - perfect just as they are.”

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 13/06/2023

One way brands could show empathy is by allowing people to opt out of Mother's Day and Father's Day notifications. I've gotten a notification from Amazon every day for several days now telling me about gifts for dads. It's like being punched in the heart every time.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 12/06/2023

I've attended the Tribeca Festival every year since it started, in 2002. We're about halfway through the 2023 fest, so I thought I'd start a thread recapping the films I've seen.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 03/06/2023

It's 3am and there's a lot of bird chirping going on outside. Is this normal?

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 02/06/2023

I have one more episode of Party Down left, and I'm wrestling between really, really wanting to watch it and not wanting it to end!

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 01/06/2023

Join us in-person at @SantaClaraUniv or via livestream today as Joan Donovan, Ph.D. (@BostonJoan; @ShorensteinCtr) discusses #ethics and #misinformation in relation to the #Internet. 4-5 p.m. PDT Thurs., June 1, 2023. RVSP: bit.ly/3n9mT8K.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 26/05/2023

The real reason that BlueSky can't solve all the problems we came to despise on Twitter is that they both live in the same universe.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

My employer @washingtonpost.com is rapidly approaching me in followers. Please tell everyone u know to follow me ASAP so I can maintain the appropriate power dynamic with my bosses.

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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2023

Picked this up on a recent trip to Edinburgh, and it turns out it's the absolute best thing to read when you're having a stressful week and can't fall asleep and need to do something with your brain that's not on a screen.

Book cover: The Very Best of Fesshole: Britain Confesses Anonymously, by Rob Manuel

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