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The Brutalist but with the Beavers from Hundreds of Beavers

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The Brutalist but with the Beavers from Hundreds of Beavers @chicagoweirdo.bsky.social · Apr 13

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.- FDR

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Friday! It's a great day to take your phone off face/fingerprint lock.

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The Brutalist but with the Beavers from Hundreds of Beavers @chicagoweirdo.bsky.social · 1d

I also did not win the Nobel Peace Prize this year

Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 1d

Some personal news: I did not win the Nobel Peace Prize this year.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 2d

"There just isn't enough time. There's only what we manage to make of it-what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken.
I don't want to get used to any of this. I don't want to lose the part of myself that still startles, still aches, still sounds the alarm. But I also want to keep my body. I want to keep my mind. I want to keep my people. I want to make it through.
So I will find a way to keep burning without burning out. I will find moments to breathe, to soften, to hold what's unbearable without letting it hollow me out. The goal is to feel without coming apart.
And to keep going-until we don't have to live like this anymore." - Kelly Hayes
ORGANIZING MY THOUGHTS

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The Brutalist but with the Beavers from Hundreds of Beavers @chicagoweirdo.bsky.social · 1d

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The Brutalist but with the Beavers from Hundreds of Beavers @chicagoweirdo.bsky.social · 1d

Alcoholic ice cream to go?

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago: Don't sell to DHS.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Noem: "With your authority, we're purchasing more buildings in Chicago to operate out of. We're gonna not back off -- in fact, we're doubling down. We're gonna be in more parts of Chicago in response to the people there. We're looking at facilities we can deploy more law enforcement out of."

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The Brutalist but with the Beavers from Hundreds of Beavers @chicagoweirdo.bsky.social · 2d

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The Brutalist but with the Beavers from Hundreds of Beavers @chicagoweirdo.bsky.social · 2d

This is so so so so good

The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 4d

Let’s talk about AI art.

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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 2d

Mother Teresa was a monster who fetishized poverty. Our culture needs a better touchstone to convey sainthood

Andrew Palmer @andrewp97.bsky.social · 2d

katie porter makes amy klobuchar look like mother theresa

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

But that is precisely the situation right now according to SCOTUS itself. They are constantly deciding major issues via the shadow docket, without any reasoning or final order, to ensure those rulings are *not* legally binding and can be reversed whenever they feel like it. That is illegitimate.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 2d

This is nuts.

But also increasingly common.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d

Video: ICE agents clash with Forest Park cemetery workers attempting to help man in Des Plaines Rive

YouTube video by WGN News

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K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 2d

America 2025:

The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi

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The Brutalist but with the Beavers from Hundreds of Beavers @chicagoweirdo.bsky.social · 2d

I worry that much of this is just the Phil's beating up on a past his prime Kershaw. I mean, it still counts, but they won't see him again.

The Brutalist but with the Beavers from Hundreds of Beavers @chicagoweirdo.bsky.social · 2d

Also in the running, Schuylkill

The Brutalist but with the Beavers from Hundreds of Beavers @chicagoweirdo.bsky.social · 2d

Conshohocken

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Just Call Me Frank @justcallmefrank.bsky.social · 2d

If I had known that you could be a complete dumbass that literally knows nothing and be at the highest level of government...
I feel like my life choices may have been much different.

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AUgetoffmygold @augetoffmygold.bsky.social · 2d

Well I'm sure these close calls and blown opportunities won't come back to haunt the Phillies with multiple bullpen innings to go

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

Feel like in light of ... everything ... right now, probably worth it to re-up this. Constant dooming is counter-productive, and the occasional burst of something uplifting can be essential.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 25d

At a time when everything seems terrible, I was checking in w one of my kids abt what he’s watching on-line, and apparently it’s inspirational edits like this one, which was … actually pretty uplifting at a time when uplift sometimes seems in short supply.

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Captain it’s Wednesday @wednesday.bsky.social · 3d

Captain it's Wednesday

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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The Brutalist but with the Beavers from Hundreds of Beavers @chicagoweirdo.bsky.social · 3d

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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M. Jeffreson @mjeffreson.bsky.social · 3d

Somewhere waaay down the list of "shit im angry at these fascists for" is the general idea of robbing me of the notion that "things were going to keep getting better".

Maybe not fast enough, maybe not evenly, but as sure as water flows downhill, it was going to.

These fucks.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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