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Daniel Howard

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I am an American, Chicago born. I ride a bicycle because Silicon Valley lacks buses. Woke but drowsy. Slava 🇺🇦! WWW: https://dannyman.toldme.com/ Mastodon: https://sfba.social/@dannyman

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Daniel Howard @dannyman.toldme.com · 4d

Wow! ahl.bsky.social wanted to iterate on XKCD, but AI was inadequate to the task, so they did some cool manual processing, shared the image, and now bruces.bsky.social has pushed the rendered line art through Gemini to make it look like falling chunks of marble ... to complain about AI slop. :D

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Daniel Howard @dannyman.toldme.com · 4d

That's a nice picture the AI made for you.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 6d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Daniel Howard @dannyman.toldme.com · 6d

Chickenshit Gestapo

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juridical.bsky.social @juridical.bsky.social · 6d

Same group? Is that a pistol being pointed at the guy in blue?

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Daniel Howard @dannyman.toldme.com · 13d

The Spirit of Chicago

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From the chicago community on Reddit: Chicagoans intervene to save a man from being abducted by masked federal agents

Posted by anon202one - 184 votes and 19 comments

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Daniel Howard @dannyman.toldme.com · 15d

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Nice work, Broadview, Illinois!

From the illinois community on Reddit: You Shall Not Poo Said Chicago: Kristi Noam Forced To Do The Potty Dance After Being Denied Access To A Restroom

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Daniel Howard @dannyman.toldme.com · 17d

2025-08

We follow the Jobs from place to place. We strike camp when we need to. We rely on a web of relationships. We have no dominion.

2025-08

We follow the Jobs from place to place. We strike camp when we need to. We rely on a web of relationships. We have no dominion.

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Daniel Howard @dannyman.toldme.com · Sep 18

For anyone reallocating their monthly media budget: your local PBS/NPR stations have lost ALL of their federal funding and would put your monthly Disney/ABC/Hulu money to really great use.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · Sep 17

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Aug 31

Good ICE: glaciers, Antarctica, cocktails.

Bad ICE: Trump's gestapo; internal combustion engines.

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Daniel Howard @dannyman.toldme.com · Aug 8

Got this from Gemini.

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Daniel Howard @dannyman.toldme.com · Aug 1

2025-07

Fuck those Oligarchs. We have climate change to solve.

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Asher Langton @asherlangton.bsky.social · Jul 25

Silicon Valley is lighting hundreds of billions of dollars on fire to generate this slop.