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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 1m

If we want progress, we must fund furries. They are one of our strongest and best assets.

It's about time people start appreciating what furries bring to the table, and the best way to do that is money.

Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 1m

Furries correctly pegged Elon as a loser early on. They hacked the Heritage Foundation. They consistently raise a shitload of money at their conventions. Etc.

I've long held the idea that any progressive government would be smart to give them a bunch of NSA money and just see what they do with it.

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 50m

ICE failed in another kidnapping attempt in Albany Park, Illinois when the neighbors stood up and even turned their own tear gas on them.

It was a FOFA moment delivered by patriot citizens.

#AlbanyPark #AbolishICE #Solidarity #NoKings

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kottke.org @kottke.org · Sep 11

Dan Sinker shares some Amazing Art of the Video Game Marquee. “The marquee had to sell the idea of the game, the excitement around the concept and the story because the on-screen graphics alone weren’t going to do it.” [kottke.org]

The Amazing Art of the Video Game Marquee

Dan Sinker recently visited an arcade full of old school vintage arcade games and documented some of the wonderful typography and design of the game cabinet marquees. After a while though, I became captivated not

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 2h

'We're chasing what's left of life': Gazans journey back to destruction

‘We’re chasing what’s left of life’: Gazans journey back to destruction

Gaza residents return to homes destroyed by the Israeli military during the war with Hamas. “I remember my window was there,” said one Gazan, pointing to where his house used to be.

www.latimes.com

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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 2h

Where is @govpritzker.illinois.gov ? Why aren't you helping anyone?1

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 4h

That's so neat!

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 4h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

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

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 5h

How to Make Rope the Old-Fashioned Way

Watch a man named Ozzie make rope using a very simple hand-cranked machine. The real magic happens starting at about the 12-minu

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 5h

the vibe: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 7h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 5h

I thought Caitlin Flanagan and Sally Jenkins were the same person. The Atlantic surely has a "type"

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 7h

Regular reminder that you can support Spanish language churches just by going to services! People are thrilled to have new people, white English speaking citizens can sit by the door and help warn, and we can all give money to churches who are doing mutual aid work themselves!

A photo of a small Lutheran Church with a pride flag in the background. Everyone's faces are blurred.

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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 7h

This seems to be the new tactic the last few days.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 8h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 7h

The update on this lacks any catharsis.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 8h

This is the way

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 8h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 8h

You can just hand feed them baby birds, they wont even stop running

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 8h

Spokesperson for the Gaza Municipality:

Photos: عاصم النبيه Asem Alnabih via X (@AsemAlnabeh)

Good morning from Gaza.

Despite the massive destruction and a severe shortage of heavy machinery, Gaza Municipality has begun clearing and reopening the streets.

Gaza City,
October 2025.

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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 8h

Screenshot of skeet from @notabigjerk

"i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion"

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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 8h

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 9h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 8h

Hard block on anyone retweeting Lashaya Jain in this day in age.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 13h

THE RESIGNATIONS OF PRIME MINISTER LECORNU WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu appointed by Macron for the second time yesterday is already threatening to resign if “conditions are no longer met”. (France Elects)

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 13h

If democrats weren’t also so married to nakedly corrupt insider trading like the stuff done by Pelosi they could run on anti-corruption and win in landslides.

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 1d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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