Mr Fengi
@mrfengi.bsky.social
Lefty who sometimes engages in typo ridden sincerity.
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Mr Fengi
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· Jun 30
Quote from Our Mutual Friend. In 1865, two years before Das Kapital, Dickens, in his own way, grasped that the point of finance was to uncouple the accumulation of wealth, land and power by the ruling class from anything of substance in the material world.
The market was too crowded, but of all the remedies, from new or additional locations to a less severe capacity reduction, this is the most inept. And the timing, given. this issue was known all year, makes me suspect it's a panic over "teen takeovers" instead of a thought out solution.
Holy moly - the Mayor's office cut capacity by at least 70%, from 5k to 1.5k people at a time & informed vendors just 12 hours before opening day, vendors call it "an existential threat to the Christkindlmarket" and the Mayor's office hasn't explained the change.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Christkindlmarket vendors ask Chicago to raise new capacity limits after seeing big drop in business
Christkindlmarket organizers are urging city officials to reconsider new last-minute limits placed on capacity for the popular Christmas market, saying their survival depends on the changes they are s...
www.cbsnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The market was too crowded, but of all the remedies, from new or additional locations to a less severe capacity reduction, this is the most inept. And the timing, given. this issue was known all year, makes me suspect it's a panic over "teen takeovers" instead of a thought out solution.
Additional details of how badly the city bungled this last minute extreme capacity change.
Plus I understand there is no system in place for accurate communication of how many people have entered, exited, etc. This must be especially maddening for the German business owners lol
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Additional details of how badly the city bungled this last minute extreme capacity change.
Holy moly - the Mayor's office cut capacity by at least 70%, from 5k to 1.5k people at a time & informed vendors just 12 hours before opening day, vendors call it "an existential threat to the Christkindlmarket" and the Mayor's office hasn't explained the change.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Christkindlmarket vendors ask Chicago to raise new capacity limits after seeing big drop in business
Christkindlmarket organizers are urging city officials to reconsider new last-minute limits placed on capacity for the popular Christmas market, saying their survival depends on the changes they are s...
www.cbsnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Holy moly - the Mayor's office cut capacity by at least 70%, from 5k to 1.5k people at a time & informed vendors just 12 hours before opening day, vendors call it "an existential threat to the Christkindlmarket" and the Mayor's office hasn't explained the change.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Block the account mentioned in this post as it cannot be trusted.
No, WTTW did not host a wine tasting with Samantha Steele on WTTW tonight. But it’s been posted as if it’s real, and the admission that it’s fake is buried in the comments.
But the creation and propagation in itself is extremely damning.
But the creation and propagation in itself is extremely damning.
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Block the account mentioned in this post as it cannot be trusted.
May have a longer critique of the latest disappointing & depressing Chicago Architecture Biennial but here's two signs that captures the vibe. Note that both of these signs are placed in such a way that people looking at the work will not see them.
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
May have a longer critique of the latest disappointing & depressing Chicago Architecture Biennial but here's two signs that captures the vibe. Note that both of these signs are placed in such a way that people looking at the work will not see them.
Chicago's increasingly bland downtown also drives crowds hungry for human interaction & deeper character. Yet despite crowding issues for years, expanding it has occured to no one. Maybe because they'd run out of vendors, but that could be resolved by expanding beyond the german theme.
The Christkindlmarkt thing is so funny top to bottom. America so starved for vibrant public spaces and events that this winter craft fair gets Disneyland-level regional demand, and this is seen as a problem to be solved with cops and security
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Chicago's increasingly bland downtown also drives crowds hungry for human interaction & deeper character. Yet despite crowding issues for years, expanding it has occured to no one. Maybe because they'd run out of vendors, but that could be resolved by expanding beyond the german theme.
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Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
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Thanks for this! A better link, if I may: www.wttw.com/support-inde...
#FundNewsWTTW
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November 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Thanks for this! A better link, if I may: www.wttw.com/support-inde...
Ferguson: "This community, long subject to environmental injustice, deserved access to the truth..if given the choice, I would do it again as city officials must be held to the highest standards of transparency and accountability in serving its most vulnerable of citizens.”
Heck yeah.
Heck yeah.
NEW: The Chicago Board of Ethics fined ex-Inspector General Joe Ferguson $5,000 for violating the city’s ethics law by divulging a confidential report that found officials could have stopped a plume of dust from enveloping Little Village when crews demolished a former power plant. @wttw.bsky.social
Former Inspector General Joe Ferguson Fined $5K for Revealing Botched Little Village Smokestack Implosion Could Have Been Prevented
Inspector General Joseph Ferguson, who paid the $5,000 fine, said that while he was disappointed by the board's decision, he had no regrets about his decision to divulge the confidential report.
news.wttw.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ferguson: "This community, long subject to environmental injustice, deserved access to the truth..if given the choice, I would do it again as city officials must be held to the highest standards of transparency and accountability in serving its most vulnerable of citizens.”
Heck yeah.
Heck yeah.
Fining someone for exposing how the city poisoned the air of a marginalized neighbored feels like a particularly vile iteration of Chicago's usual bullshit.
NEW: The Chicago Board of Ethics fined ex-Inspector General Joe Ferguson $5,000 for violating the city’s ethics law by divulging a confidential report that found officials could have stopped a plume of dust from enveloping Little Village when crews demolished a former power plant. @wttw.bsky.social
Former Inspector General Joe Ferguson Fined $5K for Revealing Botched Little Village Smokestack Implosion Could Have Been Prevented
Inspector General Joseph Ferguson, who paid the $5,000 fine, said that while he was disappointed by the board's decision, he had no regrets about his decision to divulge the confidential report.
news.wttw.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Fining someone for exposing how the city poisoned the air of a marginalized neighbored feels like a particularly vile iteration of Chicago's usual bullshit.
Hope NU enjoyed making this blackmail payment in exchange for me making sure no alum I know ever donates a dime. (Haha I've been too broke to ever do more than donate to WNUR)
BREAKING from New York Times: Northwestern is nearing a $75 million deal with the Trump administration to free up federal funding and close out ongoing antisemitism investigations
The find would be the second largest after Columbia's $200m payment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
The find would be the second largest after Columbia's $200m payment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Hope NU enjoyed making this blackmail payment in exchange for me making sure no alum I know ever donates a dime. (Haha I've been too broke to ever do more than donate to WNUR)
Why does Leland look like Sweethaven from Robert Altman's Popeye?
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Why does Leland look like Sweethaven from Robert Altman's Popeye?
All pro-digital art piracy arguments, even with points I find valid, arise from consumerist gluttony that serves capitalism: feeling entitled to immediate, frictionless gratification from exploited labor with BS excuses for rejecting pro-labor options & methods that still enrich the rentier class
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
All pro-digital art piracy arguments, even with points I find valid, arise from consumerist gluttony that serves capitalism: feeling entitled to immediate, frictionless gratification from exploited labor with BS excuses for rejecting pro-labor options & methods that still enrich the rentier class
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no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me
Stromae
Kid Sister
Slint
Charlie XCX
Mose Allison
Kid Sister
Slint
Charlie XCX
Mose Allison
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Bruce Springsteen (x50+)
The Who (x7)
Steve Earle (x2)
Sleater-Kinney
Bleachers
Bruce Springsteen (x50+)
The Who (x7)
Steve Earle (x2)
Sleater-Kinney
Bleachers
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Bruce Springsteen (x46)
The Rolling Stones (x3)
The Who (x2)
James Taylor (x2)
Tom Petty (x2)
Bruce Springsteen (x46)
The Rolling Stones (x3)
The Who (x2)
James Taylor (x2)
Tom Petty (x2)
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Stromae
Kid Sister
Slint
Charlie XCX
Mose Allison
Kid Sister
Slint
Charlie XCX
Mose Allison
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Someone would have to be in extremely limited circumstances to have read everything available. If you can get online to pirate a book, you can also get online to download the latest scans from Project Gutenberg. Are you looking for something to read or just something to steal?
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Someone would have to be in extremely limited circumstances to have read everything available. If you can get online to pirate a book, you can also get online to download the latest scans from Project Gutenberg. Are you looking for something to read or just something to steal?
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And I mean look, if you're going to pirate a book, there's not really anything I or anyone else can do to stop you from doing that. Whatever. You just can't expect everyone to pat you on the back and tell you what a good leftist you are for doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And I mean look, if you're going to pirate a book, there's not really anything I or anyone else can do to stop you from doing that. Whatever. You just can't expect everyone to pat you on the back and tell you what a good leftist you are for doing it.
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OH was that one post going around asking authors where they make their money trying to prove the point that we're petite bourgeoisie and thus it's morally correct to steal our labour??? is that why it got deleted and why people keep being weird insisting it's great to pirate books?
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
OH was that one post going around asking authors where they make their money trying to prove the point that we're petite bourgeoisie and thus it's morally correct to steal our labour??? is that why it got deleted and why people keep being weird insisting it's great to pirate books?
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Actually "after 2003" means this fuckwit is saying at least 154,000 people were all CIA. In another post the author makes clear they mean all refugees, not some, but all. Ending up echoing MAGA talking points out of shallow self-righteousness.
"All 76,000 refugees from America's war now targeted for camps & deportation were deep state assets anyway." is one hell of a generalization.
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Actually "after 2003" means this fuckwit is saying at least 154,000 people were all CIA. In another post the author makes clear they mean all refugees, not some, but all. Ending up echoing MAGA talking points out of shallow self-righteousness.
"All 76,000 refugees from America's war now targeted for camps & deportation were deep state assets anyway." is one hell of a generalization.
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"All 76,000 refugees from America's war now targeted for camps & deportation were deep state assets anyway." is one hell of a generalization.
This Thanksgiving almost envy people who have a distant relationship with their parents as having to face the big old hole where Mom used to be.
And family didn't even celebrate the holiday, meeting in October or early November when travel & meals were cheaper. But this year it's a reminder.
And family didn't even celebrate the holiday, meeting in October or early November when travel & meals were cheaper. But this year it's a reminder.
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This Thanksgiving almost envy people who have a distant relationship with their parents as having to face the big old hole where Mom used to be.
And family didn't even celebrate the holiday, meeting in October or early November when travel & meals were cheaper. But this year it's a reminder.
And family didn't even celebrate the holiday, meeting in October or early November when travel & meals were cheaper. But this year it's a reminder.
Yes, deeply frustrating that Bouie plays into the racist "cities as warzones" narrative when "person with grievance shoots people" is all of America and, if reports about the alleged shooter are true, the events that led to this person being in DC at all are the 20 year US occupation of Afghanistan
This was a bad thing that happened and probably could have happened anywhere in America. Guns are everywhere and anyone can get them and anyone can shoot anyone anytime anywhere.
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Yes, deeply frustrating that Bouie plays into the racist "cities as warzones" narrative when "person with grievance shoots people" is all of America and, if reports about the alleged shooter are true, the events that led to this person being in DC at all are the 20 year US occupation of Afghanistan
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The emerging liberal narrative that the National Guard were put in harms way by being deployed in DC is not great. This is pretty much buying into the republican narrative that American cities are warzones. I get that people want a politically charged hot take that blames Trump but this ain't it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The emerging liberal narrative that the National Guard were put in harms way by being deployed in DC is not great. This is pretty much buying into the republican narrative that American cities are warzones. I get that people want a politically charged hot take that blames Trump but this ain't it.
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witness! the holiday majesty that is the s. d. ireland holiday cement truck
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
witness! the holiday majesty that is the s. d. ireland holiday cement truck