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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

Just seeing this now. Please support if you can.

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash: $VickySurge1312

A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 12h

He did it

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 13h

laughing extremely hard at the description of muscle, excellent work

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 13h

occult! occult! occult!

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 13h

Where do you go once you know your Audition from your Kwaidan? Katie Rife dives deep to provide an intermediate course in Japanese horror with twenty strikingly unnerving ﬁlms. boxd.it/2L2

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 16h

There's too much to focus on here in Chicago to be on my "Amazon is even worse than you think" soapbox this week, but here's a sample of the ways that they are profiting off of genocide and occupation, both here and abroad. Kill the cop on your doorstep (your Ring camera).

Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · Jul 10

idk that this ever got shared here, but the last few years we've made some little zines in honor of a certain day named for a number indivisible by other numbers. tbh I did not have the bandwidth to update it this year, but these two remain relevant. Check out our website for citations.

"What Amazon is doing to us. a digital zine from Skunk Cabbage Books."

We all know by now that Amazon is bad for small businesses, especially indie bookstores like us. Amazon's model, on the surface, looks like this - Amazon sells books at the lowest possible prices because they're willing to sell them at a loss to get their consumers into higher margin products like Kindles, Alexa devices, Ring cameras, and Prime accounts. We know Amazon doesn't really need to sell books. We want to dig deeper into why they bother and how Amazon hurts not just small businesses, but our entire communities.

On the surface, Amazon's model looks like selling cheap books at a loss to lure people into higher margin tech, like Kindle, Alexa, Audible, Prime, and Ring. But the higher margin items still aren't the product - you are. The consumer Amazon cares about isn't us, it's the companies that will buy all the data Amazon is collecting about you. Our privacy is the most profitable product.

Amazon relies on our government's disinterest in protecting our privacy and surveillance devices like Ring cameras and Alexa devices to farm your data. The data is the part that's really profitable, especially when Amazon sells it to agencies like law enforcement. On the smaller scale, Amazon has sold data from people's Ring cameras to local police without any notification or permission from the camera owners. On the large scale, Amazon's tech and data models power models that allow governments to enact mass surveillance and policing. Tech contracts make up a huge portion of ICE's budget and Amazon is using their tech and your data to help ICE surveil, track, and deport our neighbors. ICE's surveillance system pays Amazon approximately $600,000 a month to power their tech.

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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 18h

It's scary and impoverished out there for trans folks and I'm going to have to upend my life pretty soon. My wonderful friends and bandmates put this together to help out — if you can help in anyway, with a few bucks or a share, it would make this tgirl's life a lot easier

gofund.me/55321f9d3

Donate to Rent Help For Max, organized by Lila Wolfe

If you’ve spent time in Chicago’s DIY music scene, you probably know Max — a warm, welcoming and fundamen… Lila Wolfe needs your support for Rent Help For Max

gofund.me

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 1d

did you see this is happening soon www.spectacletheater.com/a-monsters-m...

A “MONSTERS” MASH (1988-1990) – Spectacle Theater

www.spectacletheater.com

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 1d

what’s wrong with guy montgomery’s mont-spelling bee?

trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I KNEW

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 1d

gotta get all my fat jokes out leftistly, thanks national guard photo

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 1d

a similar thing happened when i worked at (redacted chain bookstore) but it was butterfinger buzz candy bars and those suckers were a bad time for all of us but they were free so we kept eating them

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

One time when I was really broke and worked at Gawker someone left a bunch of caffeinated drink tablets they got in a promo thing on the table and I took like half a dozen tubes home and was strung out for a week.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 2d

the best actor ever is Michael Moriarty in Larry Cohen movies

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 2d

hammers, friends, etc

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 2d

i guess this is how i catch a ban here

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Joey Weiser @joeyweiser.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you @meikokaji.net for sharing recordings of two of Meiko Kaji’s Beyond Fest appearances on their YouTube channel! She shares cool insights about her life and career, and she sings!!

youtube.com/@fymeikokaji...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW:
(Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122
(Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831
Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336

I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

Illinois State Police are protecting ICE as they move their vehicles out of the Broadview Detention Center. Call Governor Pritzker now to demand that he remove the ISP from Broadview. No state resources to protect kidnappers. Pritzker: Call off the IL state police 312-814-2121

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5d

now they're snatching elected officials

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 5d

is war 2 on digital yet

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 5d

Witness video shows federal agents throwing tear gas canisters in the middle of Armitage Ave today as they appear to be blocked in and heckled by angry neighbors.

This is around the 3500 block of West Armitage.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

A protester tackled and arrested by state police for trying to block an ICE vehicle.

A protester tackled and arrested for trying to block an ICE vehicle.

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t really want to uh exist in this world and the dumbest jokes are my only lifeline left

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 5d

can someone make an edit of the ”autism announcement“ but it says “ah-matized announcement“

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 6d

my mistake, KSU’s virtual picket is RIGHT NOW

bsky.app/profile/kick...

Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 6d

This afternoon we have several speakers at our virtual picket line!

At 2:30 pm (US Eastern) we have @claireforqueens.bsky.social Followed at 3 by Dr. Jennifer Lincoln. The first picket is here kickstarterunited.org/pickets/1

At 5 pm we have Cory Doctorow at kickstarterunited.org/pickets/2

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 6d

i recognize this may seem unconnected but KSU was a huge inspiration for bandcamp united (and in the same local, OPEIU Tech1010!), and speaking ONLY PERSONALLY, a lovely way to remember the work we did would be to support our comrades over there.

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