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alex is writing (or supposed to be!)
@alexlopezwrites.bsky.social
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writer, queer person, dartmouth & ncsu alum 📚
voracious reader, lifelong learner, love warrior ✨
you can read my writing below ⬇️
https://alexlopezwrites.substack.com/p/42-paradise-underground-short-fiction
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Matthew Macfadyen was superb in Death by Lightning, a pitch-perfect performance
Matthew Macfadyen in Death by Lightning
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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How it feels:
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Wow!! This makes me love him even more!! What a fascinating life he's led!!! And his mom is a total BADASS. Her film, Queen of Katwe is one of my FAVORITE films!!! And his mom directed the film adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, The Namesake, too!!!!!! WHAT A BADASS, WHOLE FAMILY IS BRILLIANT WOW
Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, to academic Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair. Mamdani immigrated to Cape Town, South Africa when he was five years old and then to the United States when he was seven, settling in New York City. Mamdani graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and received a bachelor's degree with a major in Africana studies from Bowdoin College in Maine in 2014. After working as a housing counselor and musician, Mamdani entered local New York City politics as a campaign manager for Khader El-Yateem and Ross Barkan. He was first elected to the New York State Assembly in 2020, defeating five-term incumbent Aravella Simotas in the Democratic primary. He was reelected without opposition in 2022 and 2024.
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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LFG!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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My wish came true!! 🥰✨
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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all around us are small miracles, softly unfolding
beautiful tree branches, stunning orange leaves
November 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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this world is full of magic
a tree with vibrant orange and green leaves
November 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I hardly ever take photos of myself anymore, because I’ve gained weight and I don’t feel as confident and beautiful as I once did.

Today, while on a walk, I realized how sad that is. That I would stop documenting my life, just because of something as silly as how much fat is on my body.
a gay Boricua 🥰
November 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Always remember 🎃✨
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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The film that had Debbie Reynolds dropping this iconic piece of forever wisdom ✨
November 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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he said run me my treats with QUICKNESS
Oliver the cat 🥰
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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He said “okay okay, But only if I look like I’ve just seen the ghost of my past”
Oliver the cat 🥰
October 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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He said why are you so obsessed with me human? Go type on your computer and let me roam my kingdom
Oliver the cat 🥰
October 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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He said you, a mere peasant, want to photograph ME?! Best I can do is butt
Oliver the cat 🥰
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Things harder than writing my book: trying to get Oliver to stay still long enough to take a picture that isn’t blurry 😆
Orange cat who is the cutest in the world
October 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Also live on his IG: www.instagram.com/zohrankmamdani
October 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Wow! Just saw tonight… this movie was INTENSE. Really enjoyed. Have you seen? Reminds me of the terrific (and terrifying) Annie Jacobsen book last year. I’m also thinking a lot about that ending! I don’t want to give away any spoilers, but I have so many questions about the narrative choices made 🤔
Movie poster for A House of Dynamite. The top half shows a split image: on the left, Rebecca Ferguson appears tense, holding a phone to her ear, while on the right, a soldier in desert camouflage stands in an empty landscape looking into the distance. The bottom half features Idris Elba in close-up, looking down with a serious expression. The title A House of Dynamite appears in large red letters across the center. Below it reads “Directed by Kathryn Bigelow” and “Written by Noah Oppenheim.” Cast names—Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, and Tracy Letts—are displayed at the top in red text. The poster notes “In Select Theaters October 10” and the Netflix logo at the bottom. The overall color tone is gritty and dramatic, evoking a tense political or military thriller.
October 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Really looking forward to reading this. 📚
Officially releases tomorrow! 🥹
Audiobook pre-release page for All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert. The colorful book cover features bold, wavy stripes in red, orange, teal, blue, yellow, and brown, with the title and author’s name in white capital letters. Below the cover is a countdown timer showing 1 day, 13 hours, 24 minutes, and 23 seconds until release. Text notes that the audiobook, narrated by the author, will be released on September 9, 2025. A Boston Globe quote describes it as “a blockbuster: brutally honest, lurid, transcendent, and compelling… Gilbert is undoubtedly a force.”
September 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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What are the best / your fav cozy Halloween movies for fall? 🎃
Halloweentown ✨
September 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Who is playing the PowerBall tomorrow?!
A two-panel meme from the TV show The Office featuring Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell) sitting in his office in a suit and tie. In the first panel, he looks serious with the caption: “No question about it.” In the second panel, he looks slightly more earnest and says: “I am ready to get hurt again.”
September 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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So sad about this!! I wasn’t even the biggest fan of NYT Audio; I much preferred its predecessor, my beloved Audm, which the NYT consumed and cannibalized a few year back.

But over time, as other major players like Curio (also once great!) made strange and unnerving shifts to AI obsession, and as…
Screenshot of a news article titled “EXCLUSIVE: The New York Times Is Shutting Down Its Audio App,” with a subhead about the app shuttering in October as audio/video move to the main News app (dated Sept. 4, 2025). Below the headline is an image of a smartphone showing “The New York Times Audio” with a speaker icon crossed out.
September 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Repost this with four memoirs you absolutely LOVED & would recommend to fellow book lovers! 📚✨
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott Unbowed by Wangari Maathai The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
September 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Repost this with four of your favorite books of all time!! 📚✨
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
September 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Repost this with your favorite book you’ve read so far this year! 📚✨
September 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Hello fellow writers, readers, and book lovers!! 📚✨

I have a question: What is your favorite podcast about writing, reading, books, and/or agents/publishing? 🎙️

Lately I’ve been obsessed with this delightful podcast called Print Run!! 🎧
Print Run Podcast Erik Hane and Laura Zats Print Run is a podcast created and hosted by Laura Zats and Erik Hane. Its aim is simple: to have the conversations surrounding the book and writing industries that too often are glossed over by conventional wisdom, institutional optimism, and false seriousness. We’re book people, and we want to examine the questions that lie at the heart of that life: why do books, specifically, matter? In a digital world, what cultural ground does book publishing still occupy? Whether it’s trends in the queries from writers that hit our inboxes or the social ramifications of an industry that pays so little being based in Manhattan, we’re here for it. Probably to laugh at it and call it names, but here for it nonetheless. Print Run is the happy-hour conversation after a long day at a catalog launch; it’s the bottle of wine you drink most of on a Tuesday when the manuscripts are no good. We’re for writers, for publishers, for anyone who’s opened a book and wanted to know—really know—what goes into getting the damn thing made. Join us. We’ll talk about the worst sex scene we’ve ever read and wonder aloud about how millennials will affect the books of the future. We’ll figure out why Jonathan Franzen wants to replace your child with a penguin and whether or not that penguin will be buying hardcovers when he grows up.
September 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM