Brian Boyer
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Stay-at-home dad in Chicago. News product coach. He/him. Let's work together: https://brianboyer.net Bean tips: https://beantips.com/
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Make empanadas and elevate your leftovers
If you've got extra (leftover leftovers!), they freeze up great for a quick weeknight meal!
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New bean tip! Get yourself some frozen empanada wrappers and stuff 'em with beans. Your future self will thank you. beantips.com/make-empanad...
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My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Tonight! Get yer butts down to the Chicago Theater for Patti Smith’s second date in town. Last night’s show was unreal.
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Tonight! Get yer butts down to the Chicago Theater for Patti Smith’s second date in town. Last night’s show was unreal.
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Horner Park, Chicago
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Horner Park, Chicago
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Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...
New Chicago Review of Architecture wants younger voices weighing in on the city’s built environment
An offshoot of the New York Review of Architecture, the magazine will feature “erudite, humorous and hyperlocal writing.”
www.chicagotribune.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...
First time I’ve seen the Northern Lights in Chicago. (More colorful on camera than with my eyes)
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
First time I’ve seen the Northern Lights in Chicago. (More colorful on camera than with my eyes)
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Make enough to go around. All Belt cookbooks are on sale for the holidays.
10% off if you buy one, 20% off if you buy two, 30% off if you buy three, 40% off if you buy four, and 50% off if you buy five. www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...
10% off if you buy one, 20% off if you buy two, 30% off if you buy three, 40% off if you buy four, and 50% off if you buy five. www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Make enough to go around. All Belt cookbooks are on sale for the holidays.
10% off if you buy one, 20% off if you buy two, 30% off if you buy three, 40% off if you buy four, and 50% off if you buy five. www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...
10% off if you buy one, 20% off if you buy two, 30% off if you buy three, 40% off if you buy four, and 50% off if you buy five. www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...
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this is pure joy
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
this is pure joy
@elizabethboyer.bsky.social asked me to rank the 90s(-ish) Star Treks last night and to everyone’s surprise Enterprise came in second.
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
@elizabethboyer.bsky.social asked me to rank the 90s(-ish) Star Treks last night and to everyone’s surprise Enterprise came in second.
Great words you don’t usually find on a car website: “in a country where most politicians and taxpayers are unwilling to fund basic, reliable public transit… Enter the Sentra” www.theautopian.com/the-2026-nis...
The 2026 Nissan Sentra Is A Great Value For A Really Decent Car - The Autopian
Perhaps the two biggest challenges in the auto industry today are how to sell electric vehicles profitably and how to offer customers affordable vehicles. With the average transaction price of new veh...
www.theautopian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Great words you don’t usually find on a car website: “in a country where most politicians and taxpayers are unwilling to fund basic, reliable public transit… Enter the Sentra” www.theautopian.com/the-2026-nis...
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...
How Brutalism Became Both a Utopian Dream and a Dystopian Meme
Brutalism, an architectural movement associated with state power and science fiction, is perpetually misunderstood – yet it has left an indelible imprint on popular culture.
www.sothebys.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...
Oooh
Another good one from Georgigregori@instagram
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Oooh
Big moon and a busy night on the ORD flight path
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Big moon and a busy night on the ORD flight path
It must be a huge hassle to sort through, um, millions of packages from abroad, but they're already pretty good at that, and the "disbursement fee" has me wondering if the tariffs are actually making FedEx money in the long run?
Correction! Tariff hassle caught up with me. Paying more to FedEx for processing than I'm paying to the gov't. That makes sense, I'm sure. :/
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It must be a huge hassle to sort through, um, millions of packages from abroad, but they're already pretty good at that, and the "disbursement fee" has me wondering if the tariffs are actually making FedEx money in the long run?
For a brief period of time, we had enough juice to defy the NPR politics team and not publish misleading maps like this one. Was a good run, but hard fought. Every time I see a post like this, I think of those arrogant dopes and how poorly they treated us.
Eventually, they’ll figure out population density. 🤡
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
For a brief period of time, we had enough juice to defy the NPR politics team and not publish misleading maps like this one. Was a good run, but hard fought. Every time I see a post like this, I think of those arrogant dopes and how poorly they treated us.
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The deadline to apply for the CHIRP Associate Board is almost here! Learn more and apply at chirpradio.org/ab
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The deadline to apply for the CHIRP Associate Board is almost here! Learn more and apply at chirpradio.org/ab
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OH FUCK GEDDY LEE IS WEARING AN EFFIN BIRDS SHIRT AT THE WORLD SERIES
November 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
OH FUCK GEDDY LEE IS WEARING AN EFFIN BIRDS SHIRT AT THE WORLD SERIES
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Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn
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I did a non-trivial amount of work on the use of facial recognition in Login.gov while in leadership at GSA, and at Treasury. The short version: it's racist. (And that was for 1-to-1 matching, which is much simpler than 1-to-many.) The error rate on this must be horrifying.
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I did a non-trivial amount of work on the use of facial recognition in Login.gov while in leadership at GSA, and at Treasury. The short version: it's racist. (And that was for 1-to-1 matching, which is much simpler than 1-to-many.) The error rate on this must be horrifying.
Went to architecture church
October 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Went to architecture church
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Best reincarnation of the I Will Maiden ever. @backwardsriver.bsky.social
It’s happening
October 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Best reincarnation of the I Will Maiden ever. @backwardsriver.bsky.social
The first #NPAsummit was truly amazing. So many good nerds meeting for the first time, talking about our challenges, and supporting each other. A few years ago this was just a dream. Thanks @newsproduct.org team for their hard work!
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The first #NPAsummit was truly amazing. So many good nerds meeting for the first time, talking about our challenges, and supporting each other. A few years ago this was just a dream. Thanks @newsproduct.org team for their hard work!
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"How do you expect to win back men...?"
We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.
We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.
October 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"How do you expect to win back men...?"
We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.
We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.
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I know that there are people outside Chicago who are paying attention and seeing these videos but there are no words for how it feels when the videos show everyday places in your neighborhood, places that are part of your routine. The sense of violation is profound.
October 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I know that there are people outside Chicago who are paying attention and seeing these videos but there are no words for how it feels when the videos show everyday places in your neighborhood, places that are part of your routine. The sense of violation is profound.