VinegarMike
@vinegarmike.bsky.social
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mock me with praise/Chicago/fully krausened naturally carbonated/🏳️‍🌈 Likes: Doctor Who, soaps, Kylie Minogue, karaoke, mysteries, trains, defunding police, being queer, puzzles Dislikes: bringing bad vibes to social media - imagine a better world
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milwaukeeavbike.bsky.social
Listen for the loud whistles. Carry them and use them. 3 short blows for sightings, 3 longs blows if you see someone being kidnapped.
Fuck these fucks
royalpratt.bsky.social
ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago
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This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.
A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.
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Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes
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charliejane.bsky.social
Today is National Coming Out Day!

It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week.

This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out.

My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
They Want To Ban Books To Keep Us From Coming Out
Quick housekeeping! I’m doing a flurry of events once again: Tuesday I’ll be in the Koret Auditorium at the SF Public Library talking about banned books for...
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vinegarmike.bsky.social
Getting to watch a Cubs playoff game with my 78 year old dad who has been in poor health this year together in person (even though they lost and we are in Florida when I live much closer to either team): very valuable

Hearing his opinion about this asshole for the first time in person: priceless
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Abner Uribe is the most pynchon character name baseball has seen in recent memory
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griph.bsky.social
He has teenagers so I bet they’re thinking “she WOULD date dad 🙄”
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prisonculture.bsky.social
CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

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Find Me A Therapist
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vinegarmike.bsky.social
Because of all the ongoing Argentina related bullshit, I keep having Buenos Aires from Evita stuck in my head which would not be bad but then I remember why it is stuck in my head and I get mad.
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lyndab08.bsky.social
I don’t believe in the good or bad immigrant framework but thinking of older women in detention is gut wrenching. No one deserves to be in those conditions but it feels so demeaning to think of elders in those places.
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people who think this will not have an effect on employer-provided health care rates and premiums are walking into a buzzsaw
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bainard.bsky.social
The paid-protestor myth is big among conservative honks because none of them can fathom the idea that people would want better things for their communities and neighbors out of the goodness of their hearts.
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My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
Only a handful of the millions of people in this vast place are aware that the fate intended for you, Sister Angela, and for George Jackson, and for the numberless prisoners in our concentration camps-for that is what they are—is a fate which is about to engulf them, too. White lives, for the forces which rule in this country, are no more sacred than black ones, as many and many a student is discovering, as the white American corpses in Vietnam prove. If the American people are unable to contend with their elected leaders for the redemption of their own honor and the lives of their own children, we, the blacks, the most rejected of the Western children, can expect very little help at their hands: which, after all, is nothing new. What the Americans do not realize is that a war between brothers, in the same cities, on the same soil, is not a racial war but a civil war. But the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers.
vinegarmike.bsky.social
it's all been so weird for so long

(it's always been weird I know but jeez the details really hit hard some nights)
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fondlepunch.bsky.social
“What are you going to do with your million dollars, sir?”
“I dunno. Throw it on the pile, I suppose?”

A "Homer at the Bat" redraw!

#thesimpsons #illustration #fanart
🎶Well Mr. Burns had done it,
The power plant had won it,
With Roger Clemens clucking all the while,
Mike Scioscia's tragic illness made us smile,
While Wade Boggs lay unconscious on the barroom tile...
We're talkin' softball...
From Maine to San Diego.
Talkin' softball...
Mattingly and Canseco.
Ken Griffey's grotesquely swollen jaw.
Steve Sax and his run-in with the law.
We're talkin' Homer... Ozzie and the Straw.🎶
vinegarmike.bsky.social
Also even though I am bad at crosswords, I did show up in the first crowd shot of WBEZ's coverage of the tournament.

(Pic was taken between rounds while there was a non-competitive Midwest trivia puzzle while the judges scored and I'm proud to say I kicked ass)

www.instagram.com/reel/DPmejBW...
vinegarmike.bsky.social
My grandfather died the day before my 16th birthday and we already did not get along by that point but he did teach me some important things: how to shoot guns and arrows, trains and snowmobiles are rad, and Johnny Cash is cool.
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Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"
vinegarmike.bsky.social
Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"
vinegarmike.bsky.social
"Uncool guy who seems cool enough because he surrounds himself with the right people" is something I very much respect (glass houses, stones, etc.)
vinegarmike.bsky.social
Saying Johnny Cash is uncool is like saying Dolly Parton isn't a good person.

In these very divided times, why would you say something that nearly everyone in America thinks is wrong unless you have a weirder kink than I can even imagine?
vinegarmike.bsky.social
Thanks for putting my thoughts into words. He can still be good and talented and even sexy but he's also kind of a dork. (I like him just fine and this is what I like about him.)