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Christy Arvelaiz

@chris-chris92

Madre, amante y estudiante del arte y la reposterÃÂÃÂa. AdemÃÂÃÂ¡s, una eterna aprendiz y con un lado salvaje pero reservado...

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Christy Arvelaiz
@chris-chris92 Sep 2, 2026, 11:21 PM UTC

This Idea of Buying: The Short Story of Juicero

Source There is something deeply American about spending millions of dollars trying to solve a problem that barely exists. Juicero is probably one of the purest examples. Founded by Doug Evans, a Sil…

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Christy Arvelaiz
@chris-chris92 Sep 2, 2026, 8:00 AM UTC

Silverchair Outgrew Grunge, Their Reputation Didn’t

Source Silverchair might be one of the least appreciated sounds to come out of the grunge era. And yes, I know that statement immediately sounds exaggerated, especially when there are so many bands f…

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Christy Arvelaiz
@chris-chris92 Sep 1, 2026, 11:44 PM UTC

¿Es más importante ser bueno o ser percibido como bueno?

¿Qué es más importante: ser bueno o ser percibido como tal? Esta pregunta me angustia más de lo que probablemente debería. Pienso en ella casi a diario, pero no desde un lugar idealista, sino bastant…

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Christy Arvelaiz
@chris-chris92 Sep 1, 2026, 3:18 AM UTC

"Church and State": Undoubtedly Succession's most heartbreaking episode...

I think if you’ve clicked on this post, one of two things is true, and honestly, both are equally possible: you either enjoy truly dark, raw comedy, or you already know and follow the show. So yes, t…

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Christy Arvelaiz
@chris-chris92 Aug 31, 2026, 1:52 PM UTC

Inspirada por Dylan Thomas, vivida por mí [ENSAYO]

En 1951, hubo un poeta británico, que publicó masivamente un poema que, al principio no tuvo demasiado repercusión "Do not go gentle into that good night". Era una descripción, hermosa, detallada y c…

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Christy Arvelaiz
@chris-chris92 Aug 28, 2026, 11:00 PM UTC

Ruins [Made in Venezuela]

I took these photographs in February 2026, but I am writing about them now, in August, because the longer I look at them, the less they seem to belong to a particular place. They could be almost anyw…

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Christy Arvelaiz
@chris-chris92 Aug 27, 2026, 9:54 PM UTC

From Empathy To Justify Anything: The Lindsay Clancy Case

Source There is a point at which empathy stops being a virtue and becomes an intellectual liability. Gad Saad, the Canadian evolutionary psychologist who coined the term “suicidal empathy,” describes…

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Christy Arvelaiz
@chris-chris92 Aug 26, 2026, 2:26 PM UTC

F*ck Off, Cigarettes! Or Five Months After Quitting

A habit is, at its most basic level, the repetition of a behavior until it becomes part of the architecture of our everyday lives. In that sense, addiction can begin almost innocently: something we r…

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Christy Arvelaiz
@chris-chris92 Aug 25, 2026, 4:00 AM UTC

The Beauty of a Perfectly Executed Plan: 'The Killer' by David Fincher

Source If there is one contemporary filmmaker who truly understands the language of color in cinema, it is, without a doubt, David Fincher. There is a particular kind of beauty that only a mind so de…

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Christy Arvelaiz
@chris-chris92 Aug 24, 2026, 1:11 PM UTC

Eleven Has Arrived! Here's My Daughter’s Birthday Celebration

My daughter turned 11 on Monday, August 17. On Saturday the 22nd, we had her birthday party at a club. We rented a place with a pool, out in the countryside, far enough away from the hustle and bustl…

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