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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 57m

i am going 2 become the joker

Brady! 🏳️‍⚧️ @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 1h

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”

when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

NYT Magazine headline “‘I'm on Fire': Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive - and Then Some
There is no F.D.A.-approved testosterone product for women. Insurance won't cover it. Many doctors won't prescribe it. It's become a cultural phenomenon.”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3h

They’re doing this because it’s so successful

Reuters @reuters.com · 7h

Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports reut.rs/4opgmAI

Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports

Meta is cutting roughly 600 positions out of the several thousand roles within its Superintelligence Labs artificial intelligence unit, Axios reported on Wednesday.

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mrs columbo @mernyferny.bsky.social · 1h

It is crazy to me that I would likely have to pay big bucks to send my kid to a school where they use chalk, paper and pencils

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 4h

question at the same time. Worksheets that are just word documents, so you can't type on the "lines" without everything reformatting. You're supposed to record yourself reading Spanish in an app that never works properly. PDFs uploaded at resolutions so low they can't be read.

It is demoralizing.

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Molly Fleck @mollyfleck.bsky.social · 2h

Another vintage multi-family building in Lincoln Park prepares for the wrecking ball 😢

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 6h

the menswear guy says he has a backup copy of my myspace profile from when i was 15 and he’s threatening to release it if i don’t do what he says

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 7h

Even the car industry knows that cars are actually terrible at providing fast and reliable transportation, especially in cities, so they have to convince you that just spending time in and around them is worth the expense and effort.

Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 22h

Trapped in traffic and stuck travelling long distances to work because of car-centric planning?

Be grateful, says Mercedes-Benz’s latest advert which aims to persuade us that spending two years of our lives stuck inside a car is somehow actually a good thing.

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Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 19h

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.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Agents chased two workers in this ^ incident. Neighbors tell us one made it on to the roof and hid under a tarp until they left. They say feds had to have either jumped the fence or kicked the gate in for access.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

If you are on ICE watch in the Rogers Park vicinity please have a buddy and exercise extreme caution. ICE has assaulted verifiers today and arrested at least one of our people. If you are vulnerable to ICE in this area, I recommend staying inside if possible.

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mrs columbo @mernyferny.bsky.social · 23h

sometimes unemployment is nice (eating a bunch of nachos and taking a nap on the couch)

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

thank you past me for having executive dysfunction and putting off booking platner on my podcast

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Audrey Wennink @awennink.bsky.social · 1d

Car loans becoming delinquent is rising in all ZIP Codes and for all credit scores. The average cost of a new car is $50,000. We must fund Chicago transit to ensure affordable transportation options are available. This is critical to household financial stability. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...

Lower-Income Americans Are Missing Car Payments

www.nytimes.com

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 1d

"Ruben Torres, 40, has no criminal record apart from minor traffic infractions, according to court records his attorney filed. He’s been his family’s sole provider, working for the same boss for 20 years"

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

A Chicago high schooler had just returned from chemotherapy. Then ICE arrested her father. blockclubchi.co/4njEhR7

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

"the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections the world's most notorious human trafficking pedophile" is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese

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mrs columbo @mernyferny.bsky.social · 1d

I love dogs so much but do not bring your dog into an indoor dining establishment.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

the default position in the media is that conservatives are real americans and anyone who disagrees is out of the mainstream

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2d

some light in all of the darkness.

mount prospect, illinois, is 63% white. the suburb’s median household income is ~$104,000.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/i...

Lisa Porter, who lives a couple of blocks away from Fisher, had to take deep breaths before describing her interactions with agents. She yelled at Border Patrol agents parked near her house to leave for several minutes in the early afternoon, she said, inspired by videos she had seen of Chicago residents who had chased ICE agents out of their neighborhoods.

"Just based on how I feel after this, I cannot imagine — or, I see what people are going through, and it is unspeakable," Porter said. "And I'm a white lady who's sitting in a nice suburb in Chicago."

On social media, local rapid response advocates said they had received reports of federal immigration enforcement activity in Mount Prospect, but by the time they arrived at the scene, the community "had already taken action." Only a few minutes earlier, the advocates said, neighbors and residents had interrupted the operation with honks and whistles until the agents left.

A similar scene of community resistance played out in Rolling Meadows, another suburb just west of Mount Prospect, where videos shared to social media showed federal officials — including agents wearing CBP garb - outside La Michoacana ice cream shop on Algonquin Road.

Against a loud backdrop of car honks, passersby filmed agents driving away in their vehicles. In one video, an agent can be seen pointing a weapon toward bystanders from the back seat of a truck with the window rolled down.

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Ryan @ryansimmons.bsky.social · 2d

Say what you will about the French but they kinda nailed it with the whole “I’m gonna jet work early, hit the patisserie, and bike around chomping baguettes and ripping a cig”

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 2d

When we were in Le Mans I saw like five people walking down the street happy as hell eating demibaguettes, my envy has never been stronger

A Quaint, Spooky Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 2d

if the baguette was not meant to be chomped why is it a chompable configuration

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 3d

The news that the owner of the South Shore raid building knew in advance of the raid, proactively identified non-paying units to federal authorities, and permitted/endorsed the raid fits squarely in the category of information that is essentially expected, but still horrifying.

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Natalie P (is not a vampire) 🦇 @sashette.bsky.social · 3d

It's like the nursery rhyme says:

Oh, the former Duke of York,
He had 12 million quid,
He gave it to victims he "never met,"
For things he "never did."