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VinegarMike

@vinegarmike.bsky.social

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mock me with praise/Chicago/fully krausened naturally carbonated/🏳️‍🌈 Likes: Doctor Who, soaps, Kylie Minogue, karaoke, mysteries, trains, defunding police, being queer, puzzles Dislikes: bringing bad vibes to social media - imagine a better world

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4d

My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.

Only a handful of the millions of people in this vast place are aware that the fate intended for you, Sister Angela, and for George Jackson, and for the numberless prisoners in our concentration camps-for that is what they are—is a fate which is about to engulf them, too. White lives, for the forces which rule in this country, are no more sacred than black ones, as many and many a student is discovering, as the white American corpses in Vietnam prove. If the American people are unable to contend with their elected leaders for the redemption of their own honor and the lives of their own children, we, the blacks, the most rejected of the Western children, can expect very little help at their hands: which, after all, is nothing new. What the Americans do not realize is that a war between brothers, in the same cities, on the same soil, is not a racial war but a civil war. But the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers.

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 11h

it's all been so weird for so long

(it's always been weird I know but jeez the details really hit hard some nights)

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Föndle @fondlepunch.bsky.social · 16h

“What are you going to do with your million dollars, sir?”
“I dunno. Throw it on the pile, I suppose?”

A "Homer at the Bat" redraw!

#thesimpsons #illustration #fanart

🎶Well Mr. Burns had done it,
The power plant had won it,
With Roger Clemens clucking all the while,
Mike Scioscia's tragic illness made us smile,
While Wade Boggs lay unconscious on the barroom tile...
We're talkin' softball...
From Maine to San Diego.
Talkin' softball...
Mattingly and Canseco.
Ken Griffey's grotesquely swollen jaw.
Steve Sax and his run-in with the law.
We're talkin' Homer... Ozzie and the Straw.🎶

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 12h

Also even though I am bad at crosswords, I did show up in the first crowd shot of WBEZ's coverage of the tournament.

(Pic was taken between rounds while there was a non-competitive Midwest trivia puzzle while the judges scored and I'm proud to say I kicked ass)

www.instagram.com/reel/DPmejBW...

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 12h

yup

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 13h

My grandfather died the day before my 16th birthday and we already did not get along by that point but he did teach me some important things: how to shoot guns and arrows, trains and snowmobiles are rad, and Johnny Cash is cool.

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 14h

Hey neighbor

bsky.app/profile/vine...

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 14h

Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 14h

Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 14h

"Uncool guy who seems cool enough because he surrounds himself with the right people" is something I very much respect (glass houses, stones, etc.)

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 14h

Saying Johnny Cash is uncool is like saying Dolly Parton isn't a good person.

In these very divided times, why would you say something that nearly everyone in America thinks is wrong unless you have a weirder kink than I can even imagine?

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks for putting my thoughts into words. He can still be good and talented and even sexy but he's also kind of a dork. (I like him just fine and this is what I like about him.)

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Vulture @vulture.com · 14h

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

www.vulture.com

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SlayBeans (or Stephen) @jaybeans.bsky.social · 15h

Every dance can be about how much transphobes suck, if you believe in yourself

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 1d

The world is not ready for post-Keith Urban Nicole Kidman

Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

Nicole Kidman can’t stop, won’t stop making new projects: She’s had eight come out in the past two years, with six more on the way. ‘Why stop? You’ll have to tie me down, tie me up!’

Nicole Kidman Says You’ll Have to “Tie Me Up” to Stop Her From Working

Nicole Kidman can’t stop, won’t stop making new projects: She’s had eight come out in the past two years, with six more on the way. ‘Why stop? You’ll have to tie me down, tie me up!’

www.vulture.com

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 15h

But I am.

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 15h

I had already picked up my phone just before seeing this response; thanks for saving me the call

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Nicholas Moore Lives In a Failed State @nicktheponderer.bsky.social · 15h

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 15h

Can only repost this rather than add to the thread because this is now the only answer I can have for myself

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 19h

Honey, the new STFU About Chicago pins just dropped. #chicago

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 21h

Perry cites the claims of "slashed tires" and "keyed cars."

"Some of this frankly sounds like a Carrie Underwood song."

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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 10d

Cover of British Rail report "Motorail" from 1977. Illustration shows a train moving through rolling countryside with labeled cars for “Car Park,” “Bedroom,” “Lounge,” “Restaurant,” and “Bar.”

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 1d

Kelly Rowland texting Nelly in Excel is older than ICE.

Kelly Rowland texting Nelly in Excel

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 1d

basically I did a search on her to look up something else and it said "Retired American singer-songwriter and actress" and I was like..."huh?" and then I was like "oh yeah..."

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Layne @laynev.bsky.social · 1d

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 1d

Remember in 1995 when Peter Cetera and Crystal Bernard released a duet together?

(I didn't but then I did and I had to get it out of my head immediately.)

[It's available as a karaoke track so apologies in advance.]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qng...

Peter Cetera - (I Wanna Take) Forever Tonight (Music Video)

YouTube video by ChicagoKid1969

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