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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 13h

Haha we have considered this!! Just haven’t … paid for it. 😅

Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 4d

Awww thank you, Stephen! It does feel like an extension of our house, honestly… and not only because we now live there 😅

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 8d

That may be. After I nuked my twitter account, I never have gone back.

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks, Tim! I mostly just lurk and shittalk threads, apparently

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 8d

Everything about it is deplorable! It’s the ultimate anti-pattern for good internet

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 8d

🫠

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 8d

I know people talk about Bluesky as some dogpile hell… but wow, have y’all seen Threads recently? Every single post seems to have a nasty newspaper comment section from 2003 attached to it.

Truly the weirdest and worst form of social media I’ve ever encountered.

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 9d

Warm, soft rain

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 11d

I’m in media of course I do …

*looks directly into camera*

More like …

*the chants of “say it” grow louder*

Midia

*collapses into exhausted heap*

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 11d

move to California 😇

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah, it went gratifyingly quickly. I'll probably do something like it again tho!

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 12d

So excited about this! You know, I've never actually talked on stage or radio with Alice Waters? I can't wait.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 12d

Independent publishing focused on local and regional stories, culture, nature needs your support, Bay Area! Join @heydaybooks.com for our biggest fundraiser of the year on October 19.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Heyday Harvest, our annual gathering & biggest fundraiser of the year, is Sunday October 19th at the Freight in Berkeley. Please join our community of writers, artists, & activists to honor Alice Waters of Chez Panisse & author @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social ! heyday.salsalabs.org/harvest2025r...

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 12d

I had one in my hands again last week and ... I'm still jealous of the strangeness and texture. The writing is its own genre. Where it went is its own issue, but that first thing is really something.

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 13d

Ooooh

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 13d

Child care in this country works for almost no one, care providers and parents alike.

And yet ... you have to figure it out or your family can't survive.

Sara Gaiser @akrazia.bsky.social · 14d

KQED is working on stories about the incredibly high costs of childcare here in the Bay Area, and looking for stories from our audience

www.kqed.org/news/1205712...

Tell Us: How Much Do You Pay for Child Care in the Bay Area? | KQED

We want to hear your story. How do child care costs impact your family, your daily life and your spending decisions?

www.kqed.org

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 14d

Wow, what a gorgeous poem… that feeling of connection across a millenium is intense

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 14d

Dear friends,
As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here:
#everynightapoem

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Reposted by Alexis Madrigal

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 15d

The @oaklandreviewofbooks.org weekly calendar is up! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, September 23 - 28

go out but stay in

www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 15d

every kid should have a typewriter ... I feel like they channel something fun and weird in themselves when presented with these machines (my kid has a strangely oracular voice when using their typewriter)