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Mike

@chicagomike.bsky.social

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🇹🇼 🇺🇦 Send ICE to Ukraine. 1980s, he/him, married A mile wide and an inch deep. Goldenhar syndrome (v.mild, v.lucky), but never met anyone else so lmk.

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 1d

@404media.co , @jasonkoebler.bsky.social do great work tracking public surveillance systems used to track Americans. If you have not seen their reporting, I highly recommend it. I've noticed more and more automated license plate readers every week. So, I wanted to 🔎.

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 40m

⚡️tzzZAP⚡️

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gophergrad צדק צדק תרדף @gophergrad.bsky.social · 1h

Sound on. Watch the whole thing.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 21h

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 1h

Random drop-in sorry - I settled on focusing on the poor behavior it demonstrates and permits. sure, I can call my toaster a stupid piece of shit at home; but, if I was at Arby's yelling at the soda machine, most people would call the cops

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 1h

I think they're building this. It's called Florida. It's taking awhile because of annual hurricanes and crap politics.

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 1h

Other than my brother, probably no one.

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 2h

That's some solid, and gorgeous, work. Thanks for sharing this.

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 2h

have you done this before and tested range in suburbsn/urban envs? I've been super curious. my wife works a mile from me and I think it'd be tough to swing that without hiding nodes over the city haha

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 2h

let us know how it went 🍿

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 2h

For over 3 hours..."Guards conducting legally-mandated well-being checks repeatedly wrote "inmate and cell OK" in the oficial jail logs- even though security video showed him sprawled across the floor in his own waste, unable to stand."

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 3h

Uh oh.

Rubio “signed a letter last August to the Norwegian Nobel Committee supporting her nomination for the prize.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

White House Disapproves of Machado’s Nobel, but Rubio Is a Big Supporter

www.nytimes.com

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 4h

So uhhh did someone fly their drone over Northrop's rocket plant in Utah and upload it to Street View? Imagery is blocked btw haha.
@lowrhoufo.bsky.social may know if this is interesting.
maps.app.goo.gl/CKHpiNE6WDsW...

Yellow trace is the path drawn over the Google Maps Street View layer.

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 5h

Looks perfect. Enjoy it.

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 5h

Just start questioning about how to tell if the drones you see are from antifa or the police and watch the meltdown.

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 13h

A day in the life of ICE Air ethnic cleansing operations.
Friday 10 October 2025
0000-0000 UTC
8pm-8pm EDT
5pm-5pm PDT

* (2) Coast Guard C-27s used for ICE.
globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a2c129,...

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 5h

I think about 10 years ago people started making a fuss about updates that didn't do anything. My suspicion is these companies all roll out garbage ui tweaks just to make it feel like you're always getting something new, even if you complain. People love getting new, free things

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OSINT Intuit @urikikaski.bsky.social · 6h

AFU double-barrel shotgun armed interceptor UAV... Get the target in the crosshairs and pulled the trigger.

#OSINT

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 14h

haha love this world

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 14h

those were some pretty hard brakes. really waited to apply those.

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 14h

Sold. I am definitely at least a level 4 operating on the 5th dimensional plane and this checks out. This is one of the most entertaining things I've ever watched.

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 15h

covid shot, wars, soybeans? something else?

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 15h

Can't make this stuff up.

Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 15h

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 15h

His head is on falcon heavy, too? Dammit.

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 16h

jesus that's alotta tire. better keep that rubber maintained.

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 17h

I mean I get it ha. I remember being new and I'd be checking profiles for people that liked my comments or shared something interesting and then BAM bugs bunny in sexually compromisg situations or WOW that guy wears short-short shorts confidently. just so diferent from where I'm coming from.

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 18h

hope it pops me out deeper into the woods

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