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chezpanique.bsky.social
Alexandra
@chezpanique.bsky.social
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Editor. Writer. Photography-curious. Rabbit hole explorer. Language nerd (🇬🇧 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇷🇴). Talk to me about online subcultures, misinformation and your fav urbex spots Editor @ Untested: https://untested.sonnet.io/ Substack: https://blogtherapy.substack.com/
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this is all I care to know about today's scheduled rapture

#rapture #adblock #rapturetok #indieweb
You can read this as a companion piece to my article for @newpublic.org. There, I go in-depth about what the indie web is & how you can get started, plus some fun and useful links to explore

that piece is here: newpublic.substack.com/p/the-handma...
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Some of us are cutting carbs and doing 5am runs like we’re trying to summon a demon. Have we completely lost the plot? Is the Great Lock-In the end of the line for fitness challenges?

#greatlockin #tiktok #gymspo #lockin2025 #writingcommunity #amwriting #substack #indieweb
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Doomscrolling get you down? The indie web is the way out.

Here you’ll find sites that aren’t built for views or profits, by creators who are embracing what made the world wide web beautiful and exciting in the first place.

@chezpanique.bsky.social has a list of her favorites to get you started.
This just in: smelling like a human being is now an act of rebellion

#dystopia #dystopiannews #resist
My curiosity got me. I read it and was not disappointed.

"When the state is policing your body, ‘genital skincare’ suggests policing it yourself can restore some sense of control."

"...a disgust of body odour has been linked to an increased likelihood to hold rightwing views..."
The big stink: is ‘genital anxiety’ behind the rapid rise of whole-body deodorants?
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honored (hyperventilating, sweating, screaming) for this chat with Alexandra on the topic of indie/small web!! lots of amazing peeps mentioned - take a read
My favorite collab this summer—read on to find out where the cool kids are hanging out online

#indieweb #smallweb #webdev #nostalgia #amwriting #writingcommunity #gamedev
Thanks to Big Tech, the ethos and aesthetics of the mainstream web have become largely impersonal and commercial.

But there’s a renaissance happening on the indie web. Website crafters are going back to HTML and building expressive personal projects.

Let @chezpanique.bsky.social take you on a tour
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I've recently gotten excited about using Leaflet.pub & have fallen down some delightful, old-school web holes via pages there like it's 1999. Back to the basics!
Leaflet
tiny interconnected social documents
Leaflet.pub
My favorite collab this summer—read on to find out where the cool kids are hanging out online

#indieweb #smallweb #webdev #nostalgia #amwriting #writingcommunity #gamedev
Thanks to Big Tech, the ethos and aesthetics of the mainstream web have become largely impersonal and commercial.

But there’s a renaissance happening on the indie web. Website crafters are going back to HTML and building expressive personal projects.

Let @chezpanique.bsky.social take you on a tour
🧶✏️👩🏽‍💻 The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)
The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites
newpublic.substack.com
In fact, if you look up "synergy" in the dictionary you'll find this as an example

#indiedev #indieweb #writingcommunity #amwriting #substack
I made a little animation which seems to fit @chezpanique.bsky.social's article well

blogtherapy.substack.com/p/cultivate-...

#animation
RIP Tom Lehrer, the mathematician-musician who wrote some of the jauntiest, most hummable earworms about mutually assured destruction; who quit in protest when Kissinger got the Nobel Prize in '73; who lived to be 97 and see most of his cursed prophecies come true

#RIP #tomlehrer #musicsky
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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On the off-chance that trying to sustain a train of thought for longer than 10 seconds feels like chasing globs of mercury across an ever-tilting floor. If you wanna beat the constant churn of the algorithm.

blogtherapy.substack.com/p/cultivate-...

#indieweb #substack #writingcommunity #amwriting
Reclaiming your attention span can look different for different people, but here are some suggestions

#digitaldetox #touchgrass #indieweb #indiedev #altweb
“Touch grass.” “Detoxing.” So many ways to say you’re taking a break from social media.

It’s not you, it's the platform.

We’re obsessed with finding alternatives to the engagement-focused, profit-driven status quo. Here are some of our recent favorites to explore, outside of the doom scroll. 👇
wondering what being dogpilled looks like? I eavesdropped on neighbour's kid's bday party—without wanting to, it was outside my window—and learned that we say hi to our dog the way most people talk to babies. with big, sweet voices full of love and awe.

#dogsky #dogsofbluesky #dogpilled
I'm beginning to think I don't understand art (gasp) because here I was last night, watching Jozef van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch jam out dissonantly on two electric guitars for 20 mins of pure noise, their backs to the audience, and all I could do was laugh uncomprehendingly

#artsky #philistine
but also beaver is a fish in the Catholic Church so it's not like they're toooootally opposed to loopholes
no spoilers please, but...in Bunny by Mona Awad, is the Bunnies' Creative Process just, kind of, badly prompted generative AI?

#LitSky #BookBky💙📚 #GenAI #Showerthoughts #amreading
so proud that my article for Portugal Decoded is live! trust me, it gets...personal. I also touch on expat psychology a little and what we can really expect from our adoptive countries

#portugal #expat #introvert #psychsky #usexpat

portugaldecoded.substack.com/p/how-to-soc...
How to socialise as an expat in Portugal: what no one tells you
A guest article by fellow Substacker and Porto resident, Alexandra.
portugaldecoded.substack.com
not Bunny by Mona Awad roasting one of my favourite singer-songwriters of all time aka Joanna Newsom

#booksky #blueskyreads #horrorsky #booklover