Ehren Ohkneel
@ehrenohkneel.bsky.social
First I was over there, now I am over here.
Continuing to trend towards eliciting "okay, grandma" responses.
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Continuing to trend towards eliciting "okay, grandma" responses.
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What's a song you like but you can't listen to because it's too played out still? Feed the Tree just came on and I realized it was the first time in like 900 years I didn't skip it.
December 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
What's a song you like but you can't listen to because it's too played out still? Feed the Tree just came on and I realized it was the first time in like 900 years I didn't skip it.
I think about this a lot. Like, why don't they? What would be materially different it they did? What if the parties drafted politicians?
If Shapiro and Newsom are so concerned about Trump supporters they should run as Republicans.
Josh Shapiro believes he is uniquely suited to win over Trump voters—but he’ll need to overcome distrust among some in his own party first, Tim Alberta reports: theatln.tc/mR9AHSG4
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I think about this a lot. Like, why don't they? What would be materially different it they did? What if the parties drafted politicians?
Gavin Newsom should deeply consider shutting the fuck up and going the fuck away.
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Gavin Newsom should deeply consider shutting the fuck up and going the fuck away.
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Newsom is saying “we don’t want to alienate billionaires” like they are normal people with normal values and desires, this guy is trying to say that billionaires deserve to be heard just as much as YOU DO
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Newsom is saying “we don’t want to alienate billionaires” like they are normal people with normal values and desires, this guy is trying to say that billionaires deserve to be heard just as much as YOU DO
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We're all posting the same moon but that's cool because without the moon there there wouldn't be sanderlings scampering up to the waves and then running away from them again. 🥰
December 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
We're all posting the same moon but that's cool because without the moon there there wouldn't be sanderlings scampering up to the waves and then running away from them again. 🥰
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Workers at Caesars Horseshoe Casino in Indiana this week are voting to form a union in the face of aggressive and illegal union busting.
I applaud their courageous effort and strongly support their fight for a union against outrageous corporate greed.
I applaud their courageous effort and strongly support their fight for a union against outrageous corporate greed.
December 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Workers at Caesars Horseshoe Casino in Indiana this week are voting to form a union in the face of aggressive and illegal union busting.
I applaud their courageous effort and strongly support their fight for a union against outrageous corporate greed.
I applaud their courageous effort and strongly support their fight for a union against outrageous corporate greed.
I have a question for y'all: Since tickets to shows more or less exclusively live in an app, do any of you keep any type of memento of that digital image? Do you even really look at it outside of when you open it to get into the show/find your seats, etc?
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I have a question for y'all: Since tickets to shows more or less exclusively live in an app, do any of you keep any type of memento of that digital image? Do you even really look at it outside of when you open it to get into the show/find your seats, etc?
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The 2025 Remastered Big Lizard in My Backyard album plus the alternate take tracks are now available for digital download from our pals at The Giving Groove! thegivinggroove.limitedrun.com/products/871...
The Dead Milkmen
WAV or FLAC/ALAC download of the 2025 remaster of
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December 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The 2025 Remastered Big Lizard in My Backyard album plus the alternate take tracks are now available for digital download from our pals at The Giving Groove! thegivinggroove.limitedrun.com/products/871...
I had no idea this had happened until a remastered version of Understand popped up in my iTunes. Neat!
Naked Raygun Remastered Limited Edition Color Vinyl Reissues Out October 24th - ReadJunk.com
Touch and Go Records has announced remastered vinyl reissues of Naked Raygun’s full catalog, celebrating the Chicago punk legends who helped define the Midwest scene in the ’80s and early ’90s. Known ...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I had no idea this had happened until a remastered version of Understand popped up in my iTunes. Neat!
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Chicago DSA members were out 6AM in 6 degrees this morning to support Starbucks workers at the Armitage/Hoyne store who walked out this morning and are now ON STRIKE! Workers will be picketing until noon today and tentatively 6AM-1PM tomorrow and Saturday if you’re able to stop by and join them.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Chicago DSA members were out 6AM in 6 degrees this morning to support Starbucks workers at the Armitage/Hoyne store who walked out this morning and are now ON STRIKE! Workers will be picketing until noon today and tentatively 6AM-1PM tomorrow and Saturday if you’re able to stop by and join them.
I knew he didn’t know anything about transportation, and that he doesn’t understand science but you’re telling me he doesn’t understand marketing or purchasing trends either? What a package!
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I knew he didn’t know anything about transportation, and that he doesn’t understand science but you’re telling me he doesn’t understand marketing or purchasing trends either? What a package!
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pantone just named landlord white the color of the year 2026, WE NEED TO BUILD HOUSES
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
pantone just named landlord white the color of the year 2026, WE NEED TO BUILD HOUSES
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I'm at the combination
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I'm at the combination
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the hater's council just vetoed this actually.
"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.
"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members
"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.
"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members
Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Review: Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Political journalist Olivia Nuzzi has dazzled the media with scandals, but her prose is less sparkling. Her much-anticipated new memoir is rife with arrogance and thin on sourcing.
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
the hater's council just vetoed this actually.
"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.
"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members
"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.
"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members
Tommy Bartlett's Robot World lookin-ass stadium from the world's cheapest billionaire, 🆗.
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Tommy Bartlett's Robot World lookin-ass stadium from the world's cheapest billionaire, 🆗.
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"“My hope is that the message that the transgender community gets from this is not one of betrayal, but is one of our desire to continue to maintain those friendships and that support,...when that anger subsides the transgender community will know that we stand with them."
Nope, it's betrayal.
Nope, it's betrayal.
“I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"“My hope is that the message that the transgender community gets from this is not one of betrayal, but is one of our desire to continue to maintain those friendships and that support,...when that anger subsides the transgender community will know that we stand with them."
Nope, it's betrayal.
Nope, it's betrayal.
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
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"Ian MacKaye was Italian?"
April 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
"Ian MacKaye was Italian?"
People should be listening to Curtis Mayfield more. That's what I think.
December 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
People should be listening to Curtis Mayfield more. That's what I think.
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I appreciate the reporting AND I want everyone to stop using criminal records as a stand in for whether people should or should not be harassed and deported.
Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record, newly released federal data shows. @joemahr.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social report
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record.
Newly released federal data shows that immigration agents booked in roughly 1,900 immigrants in the first half of Operation Midway Blitz – two-thirds of whom had no known criminal convictions or pe…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I appreciate the reporting AND I want everyone to stop using criminal records as a stand in for whether people should or should not be harassed and deported.
This is exactly what my grandma would do while she was watching Carson, it's exactly what my dad does while he watches Colbert, and it's what one day I will do while watching someone named something like Jaxxson Splookfart on a show called Splookfartin.
December 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is exactly what my grandma would do while she was watching Carson, it's exactly what my dad does while he watches Colbert, and it's what one day I will do while watching someone named something like Jaxxson Splookfart on a show called Splookfartin.
What a bullet the Dodgers dodged when Anthony Rendon didn't sign with them because he's homophobic bigot. The irony that he should have been right at home with several players is almost ungepatchka.
December 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What a bullet the Dodgers dodged when Anthony Rendon didn't sign with them because he's homophobic bigot. The irony that he should have been right at home with several players is almost ungepatchka.
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
I changed my email signature pronouns to we/team.
December 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I changed my email signature pronouns to we/team.