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alexislloyd.bsky.social
Alexis Lloyd 🏳️‍🌈
@alexislloyd.bsky.social
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Ethical design, weird machines, native Brooklynite. Designing at Google, alum of NY Times, Axios, Medium. She/her
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Let’s fucking GO!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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#nokings #nyc
October 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The scene from Spartacus where they all stand up and say “I am Spartacus” but the people are inflatable frogs
October 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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A movie poster riffing on Errol Morris’s documentary The Fog of War but it’s called The Frog of War and features a person in an inflatable frog costume
October 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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October 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
September 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I’ve been making some digital art for a bit and just experimented with actual paints for the first time in ages
September 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Spotted in Brooklyn. IYKYK #theaterkids
September 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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August 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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August 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Truly the dumbest timeline
Subway ad with the headline: Your single status, now a status symbol. Introducing dating built on bids, not bios. Receive offers from NYC’s elite singles • Discover your true dating market value • Watch your status rise with every bid
August 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Update: I bought the cheese grater. I’m a sucker for things like this. It’s really great though!
August 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Amazing AI slop on my diner placemat
July 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Feeling full of big love for my city and my fellow New Yorkers tonight. This is how we get shit done!
Brad and Zohran shaking hands
June 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
I think that Democrats would do best by advancing a different theory of humanity. I think that where we have seen effective democratic and anti-autocratic leadership emerge around the world, it's always been based in the idea that people are good, they care about one another, they like helping each other, which is actually a fact about human nature. And policies can be based on that.
June 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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www.jphilll.com/p/i-dont-wan...
But, there's a second route. It requires hard work, and won't fulfill our fantasy of sudden and total change. The systems we work and live under can feel abstract, distant, theoretical, and yet they're embodied and deeply entrenched in our lives. Capitalism isn't an abstraction, it lives in the money we pay landlords and the way our boss has immense power over us and the rising cost of groceries. So our second route is carving new grooves, living differently, and creating structures that are real and tangible and exist outside our current systems.
May 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I really appreciate when a portmanteau opportunity is not wasted. (Portmantopportunity?)
Screenshot of Wikipedia page about war elephants explaining that “Elephantry is a term for specific military units using elephant-mounted troops
May 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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A bubble graph showing % of workers commuting by public transit in US cities vs those commuting by car alone. NYC is far and away the biggest, with 50% taking transit and only 30% commuting by car (another 20% walk or bike). A distant second cluster is SF, DC, and Boston, and a third cluster is Seattle, Chicago, and Philly, followed by basically everyone else who mostly drives.
May 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Amazing turnout for #handsoff in NYC, with the streets packed for 20 blocks, from Bryant Park to Madison Square
April 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Living in NYC vs. a business trip to CA this past week
March 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This piece by @annehelen.bsky.social is so astute and heartbreaking. I also really appreciate that it closes with a handful of immediate, practical things you can do to help.
open.substack.com/pub/annehele...
Quote text: And when a civilization is limited to work that produces profit, we don’t just lose the artistry and texture of everyday life. We distance ourselves from the values of care and generosity — and the simple but profound belief that what happens to one of us affects all of us. We become further atomized, cruel, and careless with others, incapable of planning any further than our own lifetimes. We fall out of love with the world.
February 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...
Quote from linked article: Admonitions to obey the law will not stop Trump and will not dissuade his supporters. Trump’s bad ideas must be countered with good ones. His attack on government has to be contrasted with a vision of how the system could work and should work — for the people, not the emperor in the making. This is an extremely difficult type of resistance to muster because it calls for clear thought and inspired vision just when the onslaught of bad ideas, and the anxiety they engender, make it so difficult to think clearly and envision a future.
February 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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www.ask-polly.com/p/reckoning-...
January 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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