Aileen Lalor
@aileenlalor.bsky.social
Flipboard lifestyle editor, freelance writer, 🇮🇪🇨🇦
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Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.
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"▶️ Flipboard’s Surf app will launch its 1.0 version in 2026 and cross 1 million downloads across iOS and Android by year end, with 100,000+ monthly active users. It will become the most-downloaded dedicated Open Social Web client, surpassing Mastodon’s official app and Graysky." 🤞 🤞 🤞
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions: includes fediverse predctions focuesed on work being done by: @bsky.app @ghost.org @surf.social @wordpress.org @ap.brid.gy @anew.social @leaflet.pub @smokesignal.events @altstore.io
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My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions
I just finished reviewing my 2025 predictions (how do you think I did grading myself?) www.timothychambers.net/2024/12/2…
Now it’s time to make some bets for 2026. I do this not to prove how great my ...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"▶️ Flipboard’s Surf app will launch its 1.0 version in 2026 and cross 1 million downloads across iOS and Android by year end, with 100,000+ monthly active users. It will become the most-downloaded dedicated Open Social Web client, surpassing Mastodon’s official app and Graysky." 🤞 🤞 🤞
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“You can still get them a gift card in time, you piece of shit. You worm” - companies via email today
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“You can still get them a gift card in time, you piece of shit. You worm” - companies via email today
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ICYMI, we launched a new beta last week — and invite some new testers to try it. Made a feed you're proud of? Share it here, using the hashtag #SurfFeeds!
🏄🏻 There's a new Surf release dropping now! We've ironed out some performance issues and polished things up — and we're sending out a whole new wave of invitations. Tell us in the comments what you think, and if you've been patiently waiting for an invite, let us know, and we'll get you in.
two surfers are riding a large wave together
ALT: two surfers are riding a large wave together
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ICYMI, we launched a new beta last week — and invite some new testers to try it. Made a feed you're proud of? Share it here, using the hashtag #SurfFeeds!
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After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?
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“The danger isn’t AI replacing journalists — it’s AI replacing the public-information structures that ground American democracy.” - @erinblogan.bsky.social
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December 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“The danger isn’t AI replacing journalists — it’s AI replacing the public-information structures that ground American democracy.” - @erinblogan.bsky.social
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www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/ai-i...
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What happened when @WSJ let an AI run its snack vending machine? It ordered a live fish, gave away a PlayStation, offered to buy cigarettes, and lost hundreds of dollars. [Gift link]
https://flip.it/nfxPuq
#technology #tech #artificialintelligence #ai
https://flip.it/nfxPuq
#technology #tech #artificialintelligence #ai
December 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
What happened when @WSJ let an AI run its snack vending machine? It ordered a live fish, gave away a PlayStation, offered to buy cigarettes, and lost hundreds of dollars. [Gift link]
https://flip.it/nfxPuq
#technology #tech #artificialintelligence #ai
https://flip.it/nfxPuq
#technology #tech #artificialintelligence #ai
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🏄🏻 There's a new Surf release dropping now! We've ironed out some performance issues and polished things up — and we're sending out a whole new wave of invitations. Tell us in the comments what you think, and if you've been patiently waiting for an invite, let us know, and we'll get you in.
two surfers are riding a large wave together
ALT: two surfers are riding a large wave together
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
🏄🏻 There's a new Surf release dropping now! We've ironed out some performance issues and polished things up — and we're sending out a whole new wave of invitations. Tell us in the comments what you think, and if you've been patiently waiting for an invite, let us know, and we'll get you in.
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Think about this. Did you hear trans panic headlines in the 2000s? No.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
I’m rewatching Mad About You & theres a joke where Ursula the ditzy waitress mistakes a recurring character for a post-op trans woman and immediately talks about how great she looks now, then deadnames her as part of a running joke at Ursula’s expense. In 1995. The great trans scare is manufactured.
December 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Think about this. Did you hear trans panic headlines in the 2000s? No.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
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A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky:
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
December 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky:
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
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@juliorvarela.com: “High-quality reporting must be free and open, supported by collective models that value impact over manufactured growth.”
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December 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
@juliorvarela.com: “High-quality reporting must be free and open, supported by collective models that value impact over manufactured growth.”
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/audi...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/audi...
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Rob and Michele Reiner were killed yesterday in their Los Angeles home. Here's a Flipboard Storyboard paying tribute to them, including stories from @sepinwall.bsky.social, @davidlfear.bsky.social and more.
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Remembering Rob and Michele Reiner
The director, actor and activist and his producer wife died at their Los Angeles home on Dec. 14 in a suspected homicide. Here's a look at their careers and life together, plus tributes. Last year, Re...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Rob and Michele Reiner were killed yesterday in their Los Angeles home. Here's a Flipboard Storyboard paying tribute to them, including stories from @sepinwall.bsky.social, @davidlfear.bsky.social and more.
flipboard.com/@thecultured...
flipboard.com/@thecultured...
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:
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I know multiple women who genuinely, truly believe that their children are more likely to die from a HPV vaccination side effect than they are from the cancers that HPV causes. I have no idea how you even begin to undo that level of mass psychosis in society.
I will never forgive RFK Jr. for what he’s done… never.
The layers of hell he has unleashed in many different areas — not just healthcare — over the past two decades have caused so much damage, it’s overwhelming.
He is one of the greatest villains of the 21st century.
The layers of hell he has unleashed in many different areas — not just healthcare — over the past two decades have caused so much damage, it’s overwhelming.
He is one of the greatest villains of the 21st century.
December 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I know multiple women who genuinely, truly believe that their children are more likely to die from a HPV vaccination side effect than they are from the cancers that HPV causes. I have no idea how you even begin to undo that level of mass psychosis in society.
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"Clair Obscur: Expedition 33," a French indie game made for under $10 million, won the most awards ever at #TheGameAwards. Read more about that in @gamerant.bsky.social's story, and follow all the @expedition33.bsky.social news via @aileenlalor.bsky.social's Surf feed.
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Breakout indie RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was nominated for a whopping 12 awards at TGA 2025, including the coveted GOTY spot, and won most. bit.ly/4q9C7FO
December 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Clair Obscur: Expedition 33," a French indie game made for under $10 million, won the most awards ever at #TheGameAwards. Read more about that in @gamerant.bsky.social's story, and follow all the @expedition33.bsky.social news via @aileenlalor.bsky.social's Surf feed.
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ah yes, everyone remembers that moment after 9/11 where everyone got cancelled and we started the extremely woke war on terror www.piratewires.com/p/heather-co...
December 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
ah yes, everyone remembers that moment after 9/11 where everyone got cancelled and we started the extremely woke war on terror www.piratewires.com/p/heather-co...
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BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight.
Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.
This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.
This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight.
Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.
This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.
This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
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🗳️ More elections today in the U.S. Follow @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org for the latest.
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boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
December 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
🗳️ More elections today in the U.S. Follow @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org for the latest.
boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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@niemanlab.org asked media experts like @parkermolloy.com , @werd.io and @rachelg.bsky.social their predictions for journalism in 2026. Here's what they said about everything from the dangers of AI in newsrooms to the opportunities of editorial partnership.
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Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2026
Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and digital media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. Here’s what they had to say.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
@niemanlab.org asked media experts like @parkermolloy.com , @werd.io and @rachelg.bsky.social their predictions for journalism in 2026. Here's what they said about everything from the dangers of AI in newsrooms to the opportunities of editorial partnership.
www.niemanlab.org/collection/p...
www.niemanlab.org/collection/p...
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It’s Election Day tomorrow!
And it’s a big one because Democrats have a big shot at flipping the mayor’s office in Miami.
And also they’re aiming for an upset flip in the state House in Georgia.
Both on my guide of elections to watch. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
And it’s a big one because Democrats have a big shot at flipping the mayor’s office in Miami.
And also they’re aiming for an upset flip in the state House in Georgia.
Both on my guide of elections to watch. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
December 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
It’s Election Day tomorrow!
And it’s a big one because Democrats have a big shot at flipping the mayor’s office in Miami.
And also they’re aiming for an upset flip in the state House in Georgia.
Both on my guide of elections to watch. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
And it’s a big one because Democrats have a big shot at flipping the mayor’s office in Miami.
And also they’re aiming for an upset flip in the state House in Georgia.
Both on my guide of elections to watch. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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Independent journalists and worker-owned outlets — including @marisakabas.bsky.social's The Handbasket — are doing the best journalism in America right now. Here's her list of some favorites, many of which are also on Flipboard.
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Independent journalists and worker-owned outlets — including @marisakabas.bsky.social's The Handbasket — are doing the best journalism in America right now. Here's her list of some favorites, many of which are also on Flipboard.
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
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What would a media system designed to strengthen democracy look like? @rooseveltinstitute.org's report examines where we are today, and what it would take to build and protect a democratic media system.
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The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute
Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
What would a media system designed to strengthen democracy look like? @rooseveltinstitute.org's report examines where we are today, and what it would take to build and protect a democratic media system.
flip.it/WFaYYi
flip.it/WFaYYi
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Here's a superb seasonal science Storyboard from our friends at @knowablemag.bsky.social, with stories on everything from how snowflakes grow to why being a Grinch is bad for your health.
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Science stories for the holiday season
The holidays can mean meals with friends and family, twinkling lights and gift giving — and they can bring stress, reflection and anticipation of the new year. Whether you need a party conversation st...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Here's a superb seasonal science Storyboard from our friends at @knowablemag.bsky.social, with stories on everything from how snowflakes grow to why being a Grinch is bad for your health.
flipboard.com/@knowablemag...
flipboard.com/@knowablemag...