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Montana trans mom.
Computers. Singing. Fencing. Etc
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
baroquebobcat.bsky.social
Still shedding glitter from this morning
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
baroquebobcat.bsky.social
Getting ready for my last bout
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
baroquebobcat.bsky.social
This is what I imagine people hear when I nerd out about roller derby, in a sort of Charlie Brown teacher horn noises type way
baroquebobcat.bsky.social Nora. In the big blue sky. Or whatever.🏳️‍⚧️ @baroquebobcat.bsky.social · 1d
Roller derby. roller derby. ROLLER DERBY. rollER derBY!
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
baroquebobcat.bsky.social
Roller derby. roller derby. ROLLER DERBY. rollER derBY!
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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mags.colvett.online
Public art is so important
Photo of a street in Queens on a partly cloudy day. The side of a residential building looks over a construction site, painted with street art in two large square areas. A yellow container collects rubble and other waste. Someone bikes by Closeup of one of the murals: eight or nine butts in various sizes and shades of pink on a pink background. They are cartoony and lusciously proportioned
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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makeitsnow.bsky.social
i think we can justifiably slice this thinner. trans issues are of very low salience to the voters democrats need to win on their right flank, and of very high salience to the voters democrats need to win on their left flank
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d
Spanberger’s GOP foe spent 57% of her ad budget on anti-trans attacks. Spanberger focused on the economy. You see what won. trib.al/fkMmsR4

The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care deeply about the economy, inflation, & prices.
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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katelynburns.com
The question "Why does this say male/female?" means that any trans person now has to explain their entire mental health and medical history to domestic or foreign government officials.

This is de facto differential treatment that no other citizen has to face.
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
I think the ”super radical” takes that Mamdani is a counter revolutionary phenomenon are extremely tired arm chair shit

Also he is gonna be Mayor of NYC so anyone who was expecting him to lead the revolution either works for the NY Post or doesn’t understand the system or both
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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xkcd.com
Repair Video

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Comic. [Person sitting at desk with laptop with machine labeled E-21 making “click click” noises on the floor behind] VOICE FROM LAPTOP: Hey all! Does your E-21 humidifier make an annoying clicking noise? Mine did, but I finally figured out that there’s an easy fix, so I made this video in case anyone else… PERSON AT DESK: Oh my god. Yes. *Yes.* [caption] I know there’s more important work in the world, but I feel like these people deserve, at minimum a statue.
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
Tyranny. Americans being treated like we're conquered territory after losing a war. Intolerable
andrewjweinstein.com Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5d
Heartbreaking: Under Trump's ICE terror, a 2-year-old Chicago girl was tear-gassed while walking with her mom-burning eyes, screams of
'Ouch! Mommy!' This isn't enforcement; it's state-sponsored child abuse.
Chicago residents say kids tear-gassed due to nearby immigration enforcement
A Chicago mother tells NBC News she and her 2-year-old were hit with a chemical agent. Many residents say the city wasn’t a “war zone”— until immigration agents swept through.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Part 1/4 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update where a man and a woman are walking on a beach, and the man asks "do you think it's bad how our attention spans keep falling because everyone is glued to their phone?" The woman than explains that the attention span is actually larger then ever. She suggests that as technology and population grew, attention dropped, until it crossed over past zero into negative attention span, which is the ability to care deeply about what is worthless. She then gives several examples, and the man mentions that maybe that explains the Fermi Paradox - aliens avoiding us because they are all screen detoxing. Part 2/4 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update where a man and a woman are walking on a beach, and the man asks "do you think it's bad how our attention spans keep falling because everyone is glued to their phone?" The woman than explains that the attention span is actually larger then ever. She suggests that as technology and population grew, attention dropped, until it crossed over past zero into negative attention span, which is the ability to care deeply about what is worthless. She then gives several examples, and the man mentions that maybe that explains the Fermi Paradox - aliens avoiding us because they are all screen detoxing. Part 3/4 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update where a man and a woman are walking on a beach, and the man asks "do you think it's bad how our attention spans keep falling because everyone is glued to their phone?" The woman than explains that the attention span is actually larger then ever. She suggests that as technology and population grew, attention dropped, until it crossed over past zero into negative attention span, which is the ability to care deeply about what is worthless. She then gives several examples, and the man mentions that maybe that explains the Fermi Paradox - aliens avoiding us because they are all screen detoxing. Part 4/4 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update where a man and a woman are walking on a beach, and the man asks "do you think it's bad how our attention spans keep falling because everyone is glued to their phone?" The woman than explains that the attention span is actually larger then ever. She suggests that as technology and population grew, attention dropped, until it crossed over past zero into negative attention span, which is the ability to care deeply about what is worthless. She then gives several examples, and the man mentions that maybe that explains the Fermi Paradox - aliens avoiding us because they are all screen detoxing.
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.
jbendery.bsky.social Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 5d
On a call with reporters, DNC chair Ken Martin responds to JD Vance claiming Dems only won big last night because races were in blue states.

"Well that's bullshit. We won in red counties, blue counties, purple counties," Martin says. And it was all "a rejection of Trump."
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Tuesday night, in an off-year election, a majority — yes, a goddamn majority — of eligible American voters agreed with me. These people spent eight months living in a woke-free America and collectively decided, “We don’t want this.” What we DO want is to be left the f—k alone. Contrary to what Ted Cruz might tell you, that’s what woke does. Woke lets you drive around town without the threat of a cop pulling you over to gun you down. Woke lets you be gender fluid without an emergency PTA meeting springing up outside your door. Woke lets you go to college without entering into a modern sharecropping agreement. It lets children read, lets every citizen be able to vote without a fuss, leaves the original recipe for Tylenol intact, and endeavors to keep our air and water clean. Woke, in other words, is good.
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
live view from cuomo hq
a photo from dashcon with a small ball pit in a large convention ballroom
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
baroquebobcat.bsky.social
Mentsuyu is very handy
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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nickkapur.bsky.social
And finally...

"Person scrolling through social media, liking 'mundane halloween' posts"

x.com/MIYAB_wm/sta...
November 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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nickkapur.bsky.social
"Body double for a CG velociraptor in a Jurassic World film"

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November 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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nickkapur.bsky.social
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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docseuss.bsky.social
She's a god tier troll
A woman who is canvassing for Zohran saying she freaked "old people" out because she forgot Wallace Shawn was in clueless
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
baroquebobcat.bsky.social
"Yes or No"
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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othemts.bsky.social
It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
djinnandtonic.bsky.social Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 8d
Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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saintsluggo.bsky.social
“Gender Icon “Weird” Al Yankovic” is not something that ever occurred to me before but is obvious once you do think of it.
alyankovic.bsky.social Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 8d
The results are in: the following entries have all miraculously tied for first place in the contest for Best Halloween Costume of 2025!
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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atomicanalyst.bsky.social
Here’s something really graphic for Halloween:
At top, a black and white chart labeled "Normal Distribution," showing a curved line that starts low at the left, curves up and peaks in the middle, and returns to the same low position on the right. At bottom, a black and white chart labeled "Paranormal Distribution," showing the curved line transformed into a typical ghost (a floating white sheet draped over an upright body) with two dark dots for eyes.
October 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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rincewind.run
“we will rule you forever with an iron fist of suffering” is maybe not the most compelling message any administration has ever had
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM