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CINTRA WILSON
@cintra.bsky.social
Writer/performer.
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Looking east near the summit of Parkfield Grade. Hardly a road or building in sight.
November 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Sound hauntingly familiar?
18-year-old street musician who performed anti-war songs is sent to jail for a third time as Kremlin mounts a no-limits crackdown on any signs of dissent or opposition in Russia

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November 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Until we have replicators, we will need wealth redistribution.
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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STAGE FRIGHT
The Art of Not Sucking
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Here is an essay on sucking vs. not sucking — onstage, at your job, anywhere. I’ve sucked before….not sucking is better. Here’s how.

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STAGE FRIGHT
The Art of Not Sucking
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Here's a real blood and guts review I did of Reed Krakoff's eponymous fashion line for the New York Times. It ended up killing him, almost.

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REED KRAKOFF: RICH DILLETANTE
OVERWROUGHT CLOTHING FOR IDIOTS OF THE 1%
open.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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That concept may be considered overly sophisticated for the American context.
October 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Militant Optimism is the only way out of this.

That, and the detached ability to see civilization crumble with some kind of perverse sense of humor.
October 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This guy is my spirit animal, forever and ever
Bumi the 1-year-old rockhopper penguin played during a bubble enrichment activity at the Saint Louis Zoo.

Southern rockhopper penguins, like Bumi, are listed as a vulnerable species by the World Wildlife Fund.
October 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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this would literally fix us
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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This is the frustrating part. Its so easy to outnumber them. Why isn't it being done?
October 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"I would chain myself to a humpback whale, so like Ahab my drowned body could at least give the finger every time the waves pushed my arm up." -- @cintra.bsky.social

A GOTH IN NATURE, by @cintra.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/cintra/p...
A GOTH IN NATURE
More unlikely adventures outside
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October 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
WATCH! As my horizons expand. LISTEN! As I tell the harrowing sea tale. SUBSCRIBE to my Substack.

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A GOTH IN NATURE
More unlikely adventures outside
open.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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September 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Trump has escalated his attack on Portland by deploying more Feds to Portland for the purpose of intimidating and silencing our community, so that we comply in advance with his fascist regime. Don’t acquiesce. Join an org, talk to your neighbors and build solidarity networks to keep each other safe.
September 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Foucault has stopped fucking in the afterlife for ten seconds to notice this and puke his guts out.
Hello, UK Labour. I understand the appeal of getting into bed with seductively deep-pocketed US tech companies, but before you leap, consider this. And Palantir, whose owner promotes discredited theories of racial hierarchies, is even worse.
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
September 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Hello, UK Labour. I understand the appeal of getting into bed with seductively deep-pocketed US tech companies, but before you leap, consider this. And Palantir, whose owner promotes discredited theories of racial hierarchies, is even worse.
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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While you're at it, read Cintra. She is such a good writer.
September 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Merrill Markoe is absolutely brilliant, and if you're not reading her, you should be.
September 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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"Humans can adapt to endure almost anything, but in doing so, they sometimes perpetuate incredible evil. The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."

Hannah Arendt - The Banality of Evil
September 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Here’s a nice older piece about the kind of thing you can’t find in NYC anymore: a solid vintage store with good prices. I investigate. On the Substacks!

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ADOPTING A LOOK, NO BOYS ALLOWED
SHAREEN VINTAGE, NYC
open.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The shocking thing about the benign political voice of Ben & Jerry's being silenced by Unilever is that Unilever isn't even a particularly evil company. It's half Dutch, it's publicly owned. If multinational motherfuckers are censoring themselves in advance for Der Furor, they've given up on us.
September 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Unless he takes his hat off, and lets someone draw orange balls on his bald head
September 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM