Lesley Cheng (she/her)

loves music, sports, soccer (USWNT, ACFC, LA Galaxy, LAFC, NWSL), TV shows, photography, Earper, Switches, Halobearers.

Bluesky, Masthead

[UCLA Women's Basketball @UCLAWBB]

𝐔𝐂𝐋𝐀 … Champions Made Here!!! 🐻🏆

#GoBruins

[D. @Lush_Beauty1]

I saw a woman on TikTok say she was a "good girl" her whole life. Did everything the "right" way. Followed the rules. Kept the peace. Put everyone else first. Now she's in her 40s and said all she feels like she has to show for it is grief and a lot of built-up anger. And honestly, as a woman, I felt that deeply. Because nobody really talks about how being the "good girl" often benefits everyone around you except the actual good girl. Everyone else gets the patience, the understanding, the sacrifice. And she's the one left realizing she spent years shrinking herself just to keep everyone else comfortable.

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.

[carlotting @_treacherous_13]

There will never be another Tobin Heath

[Yves ౨ৎ @yvessirae]

nobody in 1975 needed a budget app, a financial coach, and a side hustle to afford a two bedroom apartment. this isn’t a personal finance problem. it’s a wage theft problem.

[Barbell Financial 💪🏻💰 @BarbellFi]

The life of a millennial:

- Graduated into the Great Recession

- Entry level jobs required 3 years experience

- Pensions replaced by the 401k

- Promoted at work meant a 2% raise & 200% more responsibility

- Felt stability in life then a pandemic

- Highest inflation in 50 years deleted pay raises

- Home prices doubled overnight forcing permanent renters

- Childcare costs 1 month of rent

- Juggling aging parents, young kids, burnout from work & the cost to live

- AI causing mass layoffs during peak earning years

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Millennials living through:

- 2 economic recessions
- 9/11
- Iraq & Afghanistan
- a global pandemic
- 8 stock market crashes
- jobs replaced by AI
- Host of The Apprentice possibly starting WW3

We’re tired boss.

[Yves ౨ৎ @yvessirae]

Millennials aren't breaking down at 50 they're burning out at 30. Why? Because Boomers sold a story that no longer works. Millennials were told:
"Go to college. Follow your passion. Success will follow." Instead, they inherited a rigged system.
Student debt has tripled since 2000. Housing prices are up 150% in just two decades. Entry-level jobs now demand 3+ years of experience, while wages barely moved since the 1990s. The result is brutal. Millennials became the most educated generation in history, yet also the most anxious, overworked, and underpaid. One in four has no savings. 62% live paycheck to paycheck. Nearly half say they feel burned out all the time. Gen Z watched this collapse in real time. That's why 70% prioritize mental health over money, and college enrollment is down 15% since 2010. Gen Z isn't lazy. They're adapting to a system that failed the generation before them.

[susa @prinkasusa]

My coworker used to take the long way home every night. Two extra bus stops, more walking, more money, more time. One day I asked her why she didn’t just take the shortcut alley behind our building.
She laughed and said, “Oh, because a guy followed me there once and told me he could ‘do whatever he wanted’ and no one would hear me scream.”
So now, every night, she calls a male friend and pretends she’s on the phone with her “boyfriend.” Sometimes she even laughs loudly and says things like, “Yeah, I’ll see you in five minutes, babe,” even when she’s completely alone.
Not because she wants attention.
Not because she’s dramatic.
Because sounding “taken” and “protected” is safer than sounding like a woman by herself.
Men cannot even begin to understand the calculations women make every day just to get home alive.

[Lesley Cheng (she/her) @lesley_cheng]

I tune into TVB tonight and who graces my screen, Charmaine Sheh, 佘詩曼!

I will never not associate 佘詩曼 with #linglingkwong and #ormkornnaphat‌.

#หลิงออม #LingOrm

[Lesley Cheng (she/her) @lesley_cheng]

@TonteriYoung Happy belated birthday!

[Lesley Cheng (she/her) @lesley_cheng]

*awarded a show

[Lesley Cheng (she/her) @lesley_cheng]

Was it an actual surprise...?

CBS rewarded a show to him, one who sexually harassed Eliza Dushku.

Canceled #NCISHawaii for this. WHAT A WASTE.

[Variety @Variety]

'NCIS: Tony & Ziva' Canceled By Paramount+ After One Season https://t.co/NQbruwBt88

[Forbes @Forbes]

Availability culture took root during the pandemic, when digital tools collapsed distance but also erased pause. What began as connection became compulsion. Today, many leaders confuse being reachable with being effective. They measure leadership in speed of reply rather than quality of thought.
Read more: https://t.co/MFOqwdkMLF

[Lesley Cheng (she/her) @lesley_cheng]

#savewarriornun

[Collider @Collider]

One of the Most Inventive and Underrated Fantasy Shows on Streaming Was Cancelled Way Too Soon https://t.co/qBEY5rF5Yk

[Lesley Cheng (she/her) @lesley_cheng]

@skinofalion @louisecollisny I hope so, I am dragging my feet to watch clips. I am so behind... like weeks behind.

[Lesley Cheng (she/her) @lesley_cheng]

@DawnMillerMusic @_Arlen_ @calm_committee @AliIsBk1 @demimckinney @Amaliajaja @em_leclerc123 @JessLauraSutton @ashleynicwill @kandysemcclure Thank you always to the awesome team @Psycho4Mfs and the cast! It seriously was a wonderful time this morning (PST) where we were able to not think about what's going on in the world. Thank you!

[Lesley Cheng (she/her) @lesley_cheng]

@DawnMillerMusic @calm_committee @AliIsBk1 @Psycho4Mfs @JessLauraSutton @ashleynicwill @kandysemcclure @Amaliajaja @em_leclerc123 @demimckinney Received yesterday, thank you!

[Angel City FC @weareangelcity]

Thank you, Christen 🖤
Angel City Football Club forward Christen Press has officially announced her retirement from professional soccer, concluding one of the most accomplished and influential careers in the modern era of the sport.
Read more: https://t.co/Y0jdVm6qta

[U.S. Women's National Soccer Team @USWNT]

🇺🇸 155 Appearances
🥅 64 Goals
⚽️ 43 Assists
🏆 2x @FIFAWWC Champion
✨ 1 Iconic Career

Christen Press has announced her retirement from professional soccer following the conclusion of @weareangelcity's 2025 season.