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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum

@luxalptraum.com

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Journalist, author, podcaster, bon vivant. Literally OCD (F42.2!). She/her לפעמים אני כותבת בעברית כי אני לומדת עברית ורוצה להשתפר. תיקונים מדוברי עברית תמיד מוערכים. היא linktr.ee/lux

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · Oct 13

This is the greatest and best post in the world (tribute)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 8h

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 5h

Managed to sit in something sticky (yet clear) on the subway, which would have fucked up my whole day if a kind woman hadn’t handed me a baby wipe to clean my jeans with

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 15h

There’s a whole dissertation to be written about white people rebranding AAVE as “internet speak”

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 15h

It’s called a vibrator and it will *not* make your company a unicorn

Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 17h

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 15h

This is a very good theory

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 16h

I think there was a lot of unconsidered power dynamics at play

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 16h

I’m not saying Bed Intruder Song is the worst thing this nation has done but it was pretty bad

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 16h

Personally I think we as a society never recovered from letting the Gregory Brothers turn a scared man’s warning about protecting your family members from home invaders into a hit pop song

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 16h

תודה! גוגל עוזר לי אבל אני כן משתפרת!

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 16h

אופס סטרווה כועס עליי. אולי ישמח שלא אוכל להתאמן כל סוף השבוע?

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 16h

Also I could definitely feel drag from the nails tho I don’t think I’m fast enough for it to matter

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 16h

Mostly a result of masochism and OCD-fueled consistency

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 16h

הן שרדו

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 16h

I survived a 90 minute moderate intensity swim with a lot of kick only drills and also my nails did not fall off in the po

Fri, Oct 10
Pool Swim
Backstroke (75yd)
Kickboard (300yd)
Breaststroke (300yd)
Freestyle (1,750yd)
7:01 PM-8:31PM
1 New York
Workout Time
1:29:45
Active Calories
666CAL
Avg. Pace
3'42"
/100yd
Laps
97
Distance
2,425YD
Total Calories
812CAL
Avg. Heart Rate
127BPM
Pool Length

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 18h

IDK, I think cinnamon raisin bagel is gonna lose too many folks no matter what’s on it

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 18h

1000 years jail

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 18h

Oh no we have to excommunicate you

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 18h

While we’re praising your work: saw Waiting for Godot on Weds and loved it! Well done!

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 19h

Poppy seed bagel with scallion cream cheese just like future mayor Zohran Mamdani

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 20h

Yeah I am always happy to have more women in the world

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 20h

TERFs aside I think a lot of women know that being a woman can really suck shit and anyone who wants to be one enough to transition must really be one

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 20h

I saw that one in the theater and was immediately obsessed

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 21h

Excuse me those are Jibbitz™️

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 21h

I think the sign is just a turtle eating a concha (hence "Concha see?") but I don't have any context for why there is a turtle eating a concha specifically.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 21h

But these, to me, are tennis shoes first and sneakers second

The Green M&M in lightweight looking white athletic footwear

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