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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 11h

anyway it’s important to advocate for + create systemic solutions, also unfortunately everyone in power is craven so while we build the capacity to pressure institutions to revamp their HVACs it’s good to mask up in public spaces. people who can’t get long covid deserve to be in public too.

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 13h

love to see masking discourse when current conditions in the city i live in require both more awareness around surveillance and also probably owning a fucking actual gas mask

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 23h

It’s fine to keep reusable objects in a state of reuse! wtf!

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 1d

did you see they are making a movie about him

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 1d

If we have to have movie franchises, we gotta go back to “core concept, actually letting directors iterate,” like, the amount of weird body stuff GDT crammed into blade 2 is so sick

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 1d

Theres a lot to unpack here for me (colin wilson adaptation, chainsaw man, etc)

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 1d

I was just telling sarah youre doing well because you’re posting so many things that make me deeply upset

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 1d

mmmmmhmmmmmmmm

jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

it is very weird to hear the inflatable costumes and such discussed outside of the long tradition of pranks and theater in activism

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 1d

all of them tbh

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 2d

oh that arc of chainsaw man is rough

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 3d

This is a GoFundMe supporting the tamale lady taken by ICE on 21st Place and Damen in Pilsen yesterday.

“Now she’s being forced to start over in Mexico with nothing — no home, no job, and no access to the medical care she desperately needs.”

Donate to Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE, organized by marilyn perez

We just found out through social media that my aunt — who sells t… marilyn perez needs your support for Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE

www.gofundme.com

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 3d

Here is the schedule for today's 24-Hour Horror Movie Mind Melter happening at secretcinematheque.com.

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 4d

a lady just sucked her brother’s in law’s brain matter off a key she found on the ground in her new house. now she’s being hypnotized. i’m losing my mind.

Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 4d

NOW PLAYING, a very wacky forgotten horror comedy with a whopping 37 current logs on Letterboxd, DEADLOCK (1997)

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine being financially ruined because you loaned Arghoslent gas money and they didn’t pay you back.

The Ham War Rages On @hiddenkitstory.bsky.social · 5d

Filing for bankruptcy because the Nazi bands I fronted money to fucked off without paying me back

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 5d

lol that is why I’m asking

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 5d

No disrespect but it’s just them, yeah? none of the entourage?

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 5d

as always, it’s an incredible time to shut up if you’re not actually putting any skin in the game

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

Just seeing this now. Please support if you can.

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 8d

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash: $VickySurge1312

A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 6d

He did it

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 6d

laughing extremely hard at the description of muscle, excellent work

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 6d

occult! occult! occult!

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 6d

Where do you go once you know your Audition from your Kwaidan? Katie Rife dives deep to provide an intermediate course in Japanese horror with twenty strikingly unnerving ﬁlms. boxd.it/2L2

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6d

Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 6d

There's too much to focus on here in Chicago to be on my "Amazon is even worse than you think" soapbox this week, but here's a sample of the ways that they are profiting off of genocide and occupation, both here and abroad. Kill the cop on your doorstep (your Ring camera).

Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · Jul 10

idk that this ever got shared here, but the last few years we've made some little zines in honor of a certain day named for a number indivisible by other numbers. tbh I did not have the bandwidth to update it this year, but these two remain relevant. Check out our website for citations.

"What Amazon is doing to us. a digital zine from Skunk Cabbage Books."

We all know by now that Amazon is bad for small businesses, especially indie bookstores like us. Amazon's model, on the surface, looks like this - Amazon sells books at the lowest possible prices because they're willing to sell them at a loss to get their consumers into higher margin products like Kindles, Alexa devices, Ring cameras, and Prime accounts. We know Amazon doesn't really need to sell books. We want to dig deeper into why they bother and how Amazon hurts not just small businesses, but our entire communities.

On the surface, Amazon's model looks like selling cheap books at a loss to lure people into higher margin tech, like Kindle, Alexa, Audible, Prime, and Ring. But the higher margin items still aren't the product - you are. The consumer Amazon cares about isn't us, it's the companies that will buy all the data Amazon is collecting about you. Our privacy is the most profitable product.

Amazon relies on our government's disinterest in protecting our privacy and surveillance devices like Ring cameras and Alexa devices to farm your data. The data is the part that's really profitable, especially when Amazon sells it to agencies like law enforcement. On the smaller scale, Amazon has sold data from people's Ring cameras to local police without any notification or permission from the camera owners. On the large scale, Amazon's tech and data models power models that allow governments to enact mass surveillance and policing. Tech contracts make up a huge portion of ICE's budget and Amazon is using their tech and your data to help ICE surveil, track, and deport our neighbors. ICE's surveillance system pays Amazon approximately $600,000 a month to power their tech.

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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 6d

It's scary and impoverished out there for trans folks and I'm going to have to upend my life pretty soon. My wonderful friends and bandmates put this together to help out — if you can help in anyway, with a few bucks or a share, it would make this tgirl's life a lot easier

gofund.me/55321f9d3

Donate to Rent Help For Max, organized by Lila Wolfe

If you’ve spent time in Chicago’s DIY music scene, you probably know Max — a warm, welcoming and fundamen… Lila Wolfe needs your support for Rent Help For Max

gofund.me

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 7d

did you see this is happening soon www.spectacletheater.com/a-monsters-m...

A “MONSTERS” MASH (1988-1990) – Spectacle Theater

www.spectacletheater.com

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