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Riven Solen

@solenriveninsight.bsky.social
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Pittsburgh, Veteran, Engineer, book lover, empath, autistic, learning Mandarin, building things, fixing things, reading more. Wannabe writer. Paying everything forward, always.

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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The amount of AI slop posted on here everyday is insane to me. It’s like facebook is slowly migrating to Bluesky…
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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I think about this a lot.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Not sure if it’s true but the first bit of good news I’ve seen in a while
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
To anyone who thought at any point in their lives that trump was going to do a single god damn thing that wasn’t 100% self serving… 🤷‍♀️ At least zeteo got a few clicks from the “story”
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
According to literally all of American history this couldn’t be more true.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
And there it is, folks. And the media paints it as trump is “making a deal” instead of explaining how he was setup and how everyone saw this coming. It’s not a bargaining chip. China is taking something away in exchange for not further ruining what trump already started. Taiwan is the ransom.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Ver-fucking-batim
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Ok, now do the United States 🙃 a new, better coup would cancel out the current, ongoing coup, right? …right 🥹
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
(Most) of the Christians Ive are literally the dumbest mfers I’ve encountered. Cool, be dumb. IQ isn’t everything. But, you can choose to be empathetic and not a hateful bigot your entire lives. The ppl doing stuff like this are so far from the plot at this point in the game
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
As primary season continues, some Democrats claim the party needs to "move to the center" to win in November. Hogwash. Democrats can't repeat the same failed playbook of the last 50 years. It's time for them to grow a spine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQzG_TrhyrY
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The Failures of “Centrism”
By moving to the so-called “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening ine
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
“When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one’s energy, that one’s modesty, another’s generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we’re practically showered with them.” -MA
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Every action of this admin is 100% an admission of guilt. Projection in the purest sense of the word.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
When do we start saying Soup-MAGA, Grammar-MAGA. MAGA-MAGA instead? These people are what Nazism was borne out of. It’s not new, not a secret, it was never gone. Killing indigenous ppls, Slave trade, Jim Crow—it’s in their bones. Some of us evolved, they never will “Again” can only refer to this
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Pretty soon it’ll be Ukraine withholding aid from the US. Along with our once-allies if they don’t remove him and his sycophants from office. The whole world is being screwed over by him and the enablers around him. The only president with so little backbone to be puppets by Putin & Bibi Strong😂😂😂
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Here’s 30 years of Bibi Netanyahu claiming that Iran is days away from nuclear weapons.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
$5 USD, straight from the pharmacy #taiwan GSK is a multi-national corporation that does plenty of business in the US. $5 here, how much back home??
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Same thing is and needs to happen in the US. While a good portion of us are against this regime and the continued, illegal aggressions across the world, not enough Too many still say “I don’t talk politics” or “they’re all the same” when in reality, there are more of us than “them” if we choose
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
He "wins" negotiations by throwing tantrums the same way a toddler gets an ipad by kicking & screaming in a crowded public place. He "won" debates by lying non-stop and attacking the other person(s). He's never, in his entire life, done anything with tact or nuance. He's the definition of a loser.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is something I wrote in January of 2020 & originally posted on LinkedIn before it was totally useless. It's not perfect, but I wanted to share it again on the off-chance that one person resonates with it. A little about Life through a project management lens open.substack.com/pub/rivensol...
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Keyword here: structural. Not “survival of the fittest” not “Darwinism”. This has nothing to do with ability or who deserves what. We’re forced to play a game on a board we didn’t create, with rules that change every time ppl start to get good at it. This is cruel, inhumane. The US is abhorrent.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
he will go down as the dumbest person to ever be elected to such an important role in human history At least monarch were “born” for them. This man was chosen…
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
People who are good at things don’t have to constantly say how good they are at things.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Nov ‘24 I sold everything in my Robinhood acct. A whopping $7.6k to cash Today, it’s at over $21k All I did was buy emerging markets ETFs and a couple single Asian tech stocks. All I did was bet against trump & his P2025 and I’m over 2.5x in 18 months I’ve added just $50 bi-weekly since.
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AshHope @ashlove7.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
As a Black woman in America, I’m disgusted with SCOTUS’s ruling yesterday weakening the Voting Rights Act! So awful! My ancestors fought and died for myself and many others to have voting rights
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
My first attempt at getting back into writing. Man, do I miss writing essays about things that are important to me 🤓 A little diddy about #affordablehousing with a few examples from #pittsburgh 👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/rivensol...
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The City IS the Amenity
10% "Affordable" Will Never Be Enough
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
All so that Starbucks can squeeze even more out of its customers and employees
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
America Socialize the losses. Socialize the costs. Socialize the investment. Privatize the Profits.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able—be good.” That’s all.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I don't really see any other way forward besides this youtube.com/shorts/tCKmW...
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The blade runners of London
YouTube video by Jake Vs The State
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It works in their favor when you view this as a game, a competition. This is ppl’s lives. Ppl leave a place that isn’t safe today or that they think will further decay. Ppl want a future for their families and peace of mind. Ppl (maga not withstanding) aren’t concerned w winning some arbitrary game
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
As a contractor, if you bring in $400/day in revenue per worker you’re doing very well. As a 1-man show, $400 a day is very good for skilled work. Now, if you earned $100k/day, it would take over 27 yrs to have $1billion. More $ than most make in a year, every stinkin’ day for nearly 3 decades
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I will always wonder how this story didn’t get more publicity when it was published. 60 minutes, late night—all of it. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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Alison the Resister @alisonwhite3.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
We are being fleeced on a massive scale.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Inexcusable for anyone to have been okay with this. Even worse for anyone who still is.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
So sick of the biz names ending in -ly or -ify They’re the grey everything of 2010’s home remodels.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
If we’re being taxed & our “representatives” don’t represent anything that the voters actually want. They don’t respond to communication requests, don’t hold town halls. Doesn’t that count as taxation w/out representation? Corps?! They get all the representation with no taxation. #fuckfetterman
Sticker on laptop with text “Recall Fetterman” handed out for free around city of Pittsburgh
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Alison the Resister @alisonwhite3.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I know this is an uncomfortable topic, but it needs to be a topic until this chart is understood by every single person on the face of the planet.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Is there really no way to make easily verifiable lies illegal? Like I just have this weird, apparently controversial opinion that people in charge of such important things shouldn’t be able to lie with impunity. The president and the top positions of the nation shouldn’t be able to lie willy nilly
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Steve_USA 🧢 @stowsley.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Repost. My response is the same. They're going to have to put limits on numbers of executive orders and pardons too.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Here in the US, we love big ole parking lots. Unfortunately, the big corps own them and they would never allow something like this to pass even though it would help everyone. I can never see Walmart paying for panels.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
King Meidas, but actual shit instead of gold
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Accurate
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I really need to brush up on my knowledge of the French Revolution. Warehouses are turning to ash. The president has no consequences and can pardon whoever he wants. We’re being “ruled” by a mob while the tech industry extracts every last drop of humanity from us.
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philo-07.bsky.social @philo-07.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer,” she wrote. “Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink.”
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Presidential Records Act, gone
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It was a non issue until they used it as a wedge to further divide us by preying on the already gullible evangelical and christian white I mean right
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Thi goes doubly for “gang databases”
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 09/04/2026
Chinese carmaker BYD unveils a recharge as fast as filling up with petrol. And no need to wear gloves. Certainly not coming to a forecourt near you in America because the fossil fuel giants and their puppets in government like making lots and lots of cool money from easily-conned petrolheads.
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I'm reading "Slaughterhouse Five" given our timeline. Page [58] "...in favor of increased bombings, of bombing North Vietnam back into the Stone Age, if it refused to see reason." trmup is using the same playbook created by the war criminals of the Vietnam War. The war went ever so well for all...
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Riven Solen @solenriveninsight.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Kind of sick of seeing moon photos. I’m excited, sure. But, like, why can’t ppl have healthcare instead? Why spend tens of billions killing innocent people? Sure it’s not NASA’s fault, but the US shouldn’t get credit for anything right now
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