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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 12h

leftist meme with too much text

anthony bourdain meme with the text "once youve looked at the emissions of the meat industry & how much agricultural output is wasted for that and how this poisons poor communities and destroys ecosystems you'll never stop wanting to beat a delicious onion and lentil mash for piyaji with your bare hands"

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 12h

even if you arent a vegetarian you should be talking about beef and hog farms in the same tone as data centers. not to mention that food chains entirely built around industrial meat production in the us and canada also create food deserts and keep poor communities in malnutrition

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 13h

honestly the beef industry should crash because it is extremely environmentally destructive

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

US beef prices have now reached a record high.

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Thom Cote @thomcote.bsky.social · 12h

We've got a real-time switchboard puzzler! store.steampowered.com/app/3874780/...

Cold Calling Demo on Steam

Operate a telephone switchboard, meet caricatured historical figures, and avert a nuclear war in this alternate history Cold War comedy. Use tactile point-and-click controls to drag wires and install ...

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Thom Cote @thomcote.bsky.social · 12h

My game Cold Calling is up on Next Fest! Would appreciate trying the demo and giving the game a wishlist!
store.steampowered.com/app/3874780/...

Cold Calling Demo on Steam

Operate a telephone switchboard, meet caricatured historical figures, and avert a nuclear war in this alternate history Cold War comedy. Use tactile point-and-click controls to drag wires and install ...

store.steampowered.com

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 17h

1/2 I have never once been to Rosehill Cemetery & found the May Chapel open & empty. Until yesterday.

Short thread with some interior details in the light of day.

Horatio N May Memorial Chapel
Architect: Joseph Lyman Silsbee, 1899

Color photo of the interior of a Gothic chapel, taken from the entrance and facing the front. Dark wooden pews line either side of an aisle covered in a runner with red as the dominant color. Light shines in through stained glass windows, illuminating a partially visible wooden vaulted ceiling.

Color photo looking straight up at a wooden vaulted ceiling. A light fixture hangs from the junction of four sections. On either side of two of these sections can be glimpsed the pointed arches of stained glass windows.

Color photo of a portion of a wall in the chapel. Dark wooden pews stretch to the walls, which are covered in green and tan tile, with a green and tan frieze of Gothic tracery ornamenting the top. Two sets of stained glass windows in yellow, white and red sit on either side of a dark wooden truss; the transom of the window to the far right is open.

Color photo taken from inside the chapel, facing the doors leading outside. Bright sunlight out side obscures some details, but the glorious stained glass transoms above the doors are visible, as is a glimpse of the ornate mosaic ceiling just inside.

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Thom Cote @thomcote.bsky.social · 16h

Lucky!

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Thom Cote @thomcote.bsky.social · 17h

Truly truly love Rogers Park

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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The Eerie Potato @hunsweasel.bsky.social · 1d

Much like with Gene Wolfe's other great contribution to society, Pringles, you may find it difficult to limit yourself to one.

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Thom Cote @thomcote.bsky.social · 1d

Demand ICE be abolished as well. Use your leverage while it exists!

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Thom Cote @thomcote.bsky.social · 2d

Facebook marketplace listing for a homemade Thomas the Tank Engine costume. The face is papier mache and looks wrinkly and terrifying

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 2d

just thinking about how when one of my friends was about to be homeless the Salvation Army basically told him to fuck off because he wasn't in enough trouble to need their help yet. few charities hate the vulnerable more than Salvation Army

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d

Telling the federal court that IL police can handle Broadview was part of the state's legal strategy against national guard being deployed here.

But it's hard to square that as for the good of protestors or Illinoisans as a whole, when IL police are perfectly willing to drag and beat them anyway.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2d

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Steven @stevevance.net · 5d

send a letter via the @abundanthousingil.bsky.social form:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

or email a letter to the committee staff: [email protected] before 8 AM on Tuesday

Tell the Zoning Committee to Support Thousands of New Homes in Uptown and Edgewater

The proposed Broadway upzoning from Montrose to Devon in the 46th, 47th, and 48th Wards is a crucial step forward for Chicago. This proactive plan addresses the urgent need for more housing by moderni...

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 2d

No matter how many hit clips you see from @govpritzker.illinois.gov, the fact remains that the Illinois State Police are actively protecting and aiding ICE in their terrorizing of our communities.

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Thom Cote @thomcote.bsky.social · 2d

Any #modelrailroad people know if Rapido is legit? Other hobby sites have these preorders listed but as far as I can tell literally everything on this site is listed a preorder.

Screenshot of Rapido Trains Inc hobby site with pre-order listings for CTA licensed model trains

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Thom Cote @thomcote.bsky.social · 29d

thom comic. thomic

Comic entitled "Moon".

Panel 1: A scientist says, "Mr. President. I have bad news." The president says "wat".
Panel 2: "We sent 2 men to the dark side of the moon. Neither returned."
Panel 3: The president says "Dam. What could they have found."
Panel 4: 2 astronauts have a rave on the moon. There's a alien DJ and another alien dancing with wiggly arms.

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Thom Cote @thomcote.bsky.social · 27d

thomic #2

Single panel comic with "Coming this Halloween... MONSTER CONDO" in horror movie font. The panel depicts a condo building with faces on each apartment. One apartment has an evil face and is muttering "kill...kill..." while the other apartments side-eye it

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Thom Cote @thomcote.bsky.social · 2d

Facebook marketplace listing for a Seinfeld promotional black and white cookie still sealed in its package. The cookie looks Crusty

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Thom Cote @thomcote.bsky.social · 26d

thomic #3

A three panel comic. The first two panels are identical, depicting some sardines in a half open tin. In the third panel one sardine says "Ok this is actually kinda hot" and another replies "shut the fuck up"

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Ash G. (the G is for Ghost) @kilomonster.art · 4d

I will gladly draw all of the frogs as a symbol for the movement, explicitly to take them back from the fuckers who co opted Pepe for their nazi shit.

A cheery, cute frog looking up and flipping off the camera while saying “fuck off, fascists.”

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Thom Cote @thomcote.bsky.social · 2d

I love Rogers Park

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 2d

keep seeing people be like "i swear concert / movie theater / whatever etiquette has gone out the window since 2020" and, yeah. we had the most basic test of "will you mildly inconvenience yourself to save other people's lives" and we (america at least) failed it. all bets are off now

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Thom Cote @thomcote.bsky.social · 3d

Screenshot of a BBC Archives video on YouTube titled "Milkman of your Dreams." There's an old milkman guy in the thumbnail smiling.

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