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Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social · 8m

The worst things most of them have ever experienced.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11m

You have to understand that for conservatives, Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl is a grave insult, like when they go to the ATM and they have to push a button to pick either English or Spanish

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dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 11m

gnome in a hollowed out pumpkin with a motor on it

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Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social · 11m

So what does that tell you?

Imagining Japanese bombs falling on Hawaii and Josh Green going “Wow, can you believe these guys? This hasn’t happened since the last time we were at war.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18m

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 5h

America Is Drowning In Scam Calls And Texts And Donald Trump Is Making It Worse

Just so you know: it's not normal for your country's voice communications networks to be completely hijacked by scammers and marketers, rendering it almost unusable. That's literally not something people in most…

America Is Drowning In Scam Calls And Texts And Donald Trump Is Making It Worse

Just so you know: it's not normal for your country's voice communications networks to be completely hijacked by scammers and marketers, rendering it almost unusable. That's literally not something people in most serious countries have to deal with. Yet we've largely normalized the fact that Americans are so inundated with unwanted scams and bullshit that they don't answer the phone.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28m

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Machined Surfaces @machinedsurfaces.bsky.social · 2h

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social · 24m

They’re lucky to have me in the 1st place.

Handful of job listings for electricians

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 33m

Americans are being far too complacent about masked government agents in unmarked vehicles grabbing people and taking them to unknown destinations.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 4h

Specifically she was asked if she possesses pictures of Trump with undressed teens and she refused to say no

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5h

so theres a possibility the attorney general has seen evidence the president raped children and now the entire republican party is helping to cover it up?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social · 43m

They got a warning.

Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social · 45m

Balance of shift & 3 days off for clapping back at a fascist coworker who was already violating multiple rules.

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Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social · 43m

Honestly the less time I have to spend there just to keep my health insurance the better.

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Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social · 45m

Balance of shift & 3 days off for clapping back at a fascist coworker who was already violating multiple rules.

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Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social · 47m

I would. Charging at home is so convenient. My dad has a ford transit ev he plugs in from a charger in his garage. Plus if whoever wired it didn’t ground it properly that’s a red flag & something I’d want corrected anyway.

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Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social · 1h

They ought to be able to set you up with something better.

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Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social · 2h

Does your garage have a feeder panel connected back to your main?

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 2h

Abortion providers say Missouri's attorney general is trying to get patient records

Planned Parenthood officials say in court filings that Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of patients who’ve had abortions

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Abortion providers say Missouri's attorney general is trying to get patient records

Planned Parenthood officials say in court filings that Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of patients who’ve had abortions

abcnews.go.com

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👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 3h

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2h

I just… jfc why don't these companies and politicians listen?

👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 3h

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 6h

“Let Republicans have the literal blood of American citizens on their hands—and make that the central issue of the shutdown. Otherwise, enjoy having your health care subsidy debate in the gulags these people would happily send us all to. I hear that poll-tests great.”

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 2h

Siri do any religions say anything about how we should treat the poor and the sick

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 2h

Last year the Secretary of Defense was a black general and now the Secretary of Defense is a washed up National Guard major who the military considered a white supremacist insider threat and said white supremacist is also an alcoholic accused of spousal abuse.

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