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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Sometimes I think writing is the art and function of litigating the lived experience, unpacking good v bad morality, defining codes of ethics. Challenging status quo and status itself. What else

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We need a rebranding of "soft skills" cause that labeling is both offensive and diluting to a really necessary skill that quietly keeps work offices in tact - if not from falling into a sterile, psychopatic hell hole. It's as "hard" of a skill as technical ones - just more covert and unseen at times

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Media - or astute media, most well represented by the NYTimes institution and many people under it - has a class issue. it affects its ideologies, culture, and steering of popular conversation. When most ppl have only known financial and class/status comfort, you will inevitably get a

tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This shows media in a scramble as much as these events feel scary and shady. The media industry has taken a hard hit and now we’re witnessing the catastrophic results.

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I wrote about the "tiktokifcation" (I know, I know, pls let us have one more go at this trend phrasing) of autism-affirming language online (I'm autistic) www.bustle.com/life/tiktok-...

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The TikTok-ification Of Autism Language

On TikTok, creators freely use terms associated with autism and neurodivergence: stimming, vocal stims, hyperfixations. As an autistic person, I wondered what to make of it.

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I wrote about the waning momentum of Bluesky, the challenges it faces to stay afloat while not compromising on its ethos, and the limitations of ideological synchronicity (even if they are of ideals I/others are aligned with) www.fastcompany.com/91528304/blu...

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Bluesky set out to fix social media. Now it's running into familiar problems

Early momentum brought in power users and journalists. But slow growth and a loud monoculture are making the platform feel narrower than it intended.

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I feel like if workers have to take standardized personality and competency tests c-suite execs and other managers in charge of workers should take sociopathy tests

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Shout out to brave workers pushing against AI - even when it means compromising their own good standings at the company. I understand having to play ball to stay fed on payroll. So it’s extra brave to compromise it to stay principled.

tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hey psst your overlords need you to keep blaming yourself for why you’re not financially or vocationally where you think you need to be so you keep working harder and taking more personal responsibility (and off the responsibility of your overlords) hope this helps

tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Let’s not participate in the forced fusion of news and betting. It’s strange and completely unnecessary

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Can I say. Among the out of touch hollywood gaggle who compulsively put their own image and likeness and needs first above all else I've been so heartened to hear from big names like Mark Ruffalo and Kristen Stewart about preserving the actual virtues of the arts and film-making and writing

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Kanye and his music used to stoke so much realness and creative inspiration. I can't believe he has single-handedly and systemically sabotaged his artistry, legacy, and his day one fans. College dropout changed so many things internally for people. It's so sad and frustrating.

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Have we verified the sales and numbers surrounding the reports of alix earle’s skincare debut? I ask only because the kardashians have normalized inflating figures to build hype and reputation

Macular Degenerate @cobtometrist.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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I've only known Mr. Nice for two minutes but if anything happens to him I will kill everyone in this tiny city and then myself.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This man is building a whole tiny city for his cats, and honestly I think we should give him a shot at the real thing.

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Sorry y’all I’m not double duty tweeting you will have to find my other bangers on the og cursed platform

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Iran midterms missiles AI surveillance social media surveillance tech oligarchs pedophile oligarchs tariffs rising costs job scarcity decline of intellectualism and focus and reading comprehension mass shootings (still happening!) unsolved homicides (still happening!) what else

tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

perhaps the most tragic thing about looking around the new webscape in our year 2026 is knowing the very habits and cultures started by young internet creatives are now being eroded by shill-slop-flexing-sameness. and early internet adopters are burnt out and fleeing the web

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I think the most dangerous lie women were once sold but we continue to uphold is that if we learned how to control and chisel our bodies that it could lead to ultimate salvation

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

AI will show the flaws of capitalism, even as capitalists are blindly pushing AI. When workers are replaced to continue to pinch margins, there will be not circulated income to rouse the economy. Money hungry efficiency flawed oggresses are helping in the collapse of capitalism

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I love my online friends, forktoasteroven69 and hottiethottiebrokebloke. Excellent theologians, both of them

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I do think britney's "downfall" (mistreatment on a systemic level) - and the way people diminish addison rae, right now, for example - has to do with people hating and exploiting innocence, specifically feminine innocence or sweetness. when it should have been/should be protected

tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

We need a referendum on what “American values” are in this country. That my immigrant parents, and maybe yours, once so believed in. And risked everything to be a part of.

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The fact that our tax dollars are not funding health care supplemental initiatives, or preservation of our parks, or to improve public schools for YOUR CHILDREN. but to ICE and its detention centers that sound like modern torture experiments.

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

What AI can help reporters with (responsibly)- Giving a very general but good top-down summary of a source or subj matter. That should be fact checked. But it helps scour and pull info from across the web, cool Transcribing long interviews. This does save us hours, days even

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

giving Clavicular press and biz opportunities just proves to his real young men followers (many of them in and upholding the alt right pipeline) ALL of their harmful ideals about looksmaxxxing and why they are perennially victimized and they should be entitled to the same - great

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

A cat is the perfect amount of responsibility, companionship, and lols

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

wake me up when the next met gala has to be sponsored by raising canes

tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It sounds like Emerald Fennel either misinterpreted Wuthering Heights, or didnt interpret it at all, and used the name to create some kind of vibe universe of the classic that completely rewrites and/or waters down Bronte’s work. That’s oof, but mostly concerning that it’s

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

As much as it was absolutely a W for the NFL to ask bad bunny to perform, and he took the opp to inject puerto rico culture into it, the NFL ultimately did this to capture global audiences. For max visibility and profits. Just like the players all ultimately work for the white

tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Political / power + symbolism in contemporary pop arts

tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I feel like every artist performing every super bowl halftime should be allowed to take a public swipe at Drake. I feel like it should be the new American tradition

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

the "year of chinese" thing is just a cute off-handed joke we are making online to cope with more brutal realities. i swear if a paige lorenze shows up in a modern qi pao talking about drinking room temperature water i will personally take these privileges away from everyone

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

because everyone wants to blame journalists, especially those who've been freshly laid off, for the crumbling infrastructure of our industry, what about sharing a time you tried to flag up a concern or introduce a new idea — and what kind of reception u were met with

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

the art of the Read (as taken and inspired from/by Black and gay culture) is to so accurately tell you about yourself that you feel inflamed to retort. and be defensive. but you can't. because you've been read so clearly and accurately. it's quite a beautiful art form

tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

you guys do realize there are similar groomers, enablers, and handlers in the influencer and social media world right now that we're just now trying to rectify in traditional entertainment media right

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

jeff bezos still has enough heart and funding for projects that are important for the public, like the Melania film and Sydney Sweeney's many boob-centered enterprises

tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I appreciate the editors offering freelance work opportunities but know with these scales of layoffs it will cause your/their inboxes to be plenty busy and we face another tough congestion economically Peer-to-peer help can only strap us for a lil while longer, the industry needs an overhaul or

For anyone claiming that they have the secret sauce to funding sustainable journalism: ethics and morality has always run counter to profit and business. They can meet in the middle of a hard road, but there is always conflict if you don’t want to collude ethical work

JOURNALISM WAS NEVER GOING TO TURN A HUGE PROFIT MARGIN YOU C-SUITE BOZOS SO TO PUNISH THOSE WHO ARE DOING GOOD JOURNALISM BUT NOT LINING THE POCKET BOOKS IS SO FUCKASS BACKWARDS

it's becoming weird if journalists are NOT tired and depleted with sending "thinking of my colleagues who are laid off today" tweets and thoughts into the ether

AND on top of the absolutely heinous and EVIL politics of the trump administration and his cronies (including everyone implicated in Epstein's charades and abuse) MAGA politics is incredibly LAME as far as cultural cachet. like they don't understand how to affect or align themselves with even an

Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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New from Slate Tech: People are forming support groups to recover from relationships with A.I. chatbots. Some lost jobs, savings, marriages, and their grip on reality along the way. Great story by @tanyachen.bsky.social. Edited by me. slate.com/technology/2...

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It’s Causing People to Lose Jobs, Shatter Relationships, and Drain Their Savings. One Support Group Is Sounding the Alarm.

Victims often lose their grip on reality—but an unexpected recovery movement is taking shape online.

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

for Slate i interview those who are trying to repair after losing their lives and their minds to excessive AI use — and the support groups and clinicians who are trying to help and keep up with the dark and devastating casualties of the fast and unforgiving AI economy slate.com/technology/2...

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It’s Causing People to Lose Jobs, Shatter Relationships, and Drain Their Savings. One Support Group Is Sounding the Alarm.

Victims often lose their grip on reality—but an unexpected recovery movement is taking shape online.

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tanya chen @tanyachen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Do the white immigrants of this country recognize that if their late ancestors also didn’t migrate here they would also not have any of the privileges and rights that they enjoy