penultimatetommywiseau
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I just organized some resources for whistles if anyone wants to DIY an event or join forces with my whistle event team.
We could use support with 3D printing whistles! I’ve got files, donation links, and a sign-up sheet. Also a link to the zines if you need it!
linktr.ee/apwhistles
We could use support with 3D printing whistles! I’ve got files, donation links, and a sign-up sheet. Also a link to the zines if you need it!
linktr.ee/apwhistles
Chicago Whistle Links | Linktree
We host weekly whistle events at places like Nighthawk in Albany Park, Beermiscuous in Lakeview, and more coming soon. Please help us print whistles & zines!
linktr.ee
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I just organized some resources for whistles if anyone wants to DIY an event or join forces with my whistle event team.
We could use support with 3D printing whistles! I’ve got files, donation links, and a sign-up sheet. Also a link to the zines if you need it!
linktr.ee/apwhistles
We could use support with 3D printing whistles! I’ve got files, donation links, and a sign-up sheet. Also a link to the zines if you need it!
linktr.ee/apwhistles
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It it insane that the only direct communication I get from any politician higher then my alderman is fundraising appeals. Just complete poisoning of one of the most important modern *ways communication happens*
June 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It it insane that the only direct communication I get from any politician higher then my alderman is fundraising appeals. Just complete poisoning of one of the most important modern *ways communication happens*
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It's not bored it's no purpose. We said buying stuff is the be all and inevitably people found it hollow and instead of doing the normal thing and running off and finding a monastic religion or donating all their riches or even fucking they decided on world destruction
I vaguely understood the climate change stuff, as the profit motive from fossil fuel industries was just so strong. The antivax stuff, I didn’t see coming, and it kind of broke me. We’re just throwing away an unalloyed good because people are bored
June 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
It's not bored it's no purpose. We said buying stuff is the be all and inevitably people found it hollow and instead of doing the normal thing and running off and finding a monastic religion or donating all their riches or even fucking they decided on world destruction
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I think this is the right take. From outside of New York, I know it seems NYC is a hotbed of democratic liberalism. But actual New York politics are almost the reverse: the New York Democratic Party leadership is united mainly by trying to keep the left from power.
Really feel like the NYC mayor’s race shows that there is no such thing as a progressive establishment, and there is, in fact, an anti-progressive establishment that runs all the way from Murdoch to Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton is endorsing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his former HUD secretary, as the Democratic establishment tries to attempt to ensure Zohran Mamdani does not win the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...
June 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I think this is the right take. From outside of New York, I know it seems NYC is a hotbed of democratic liberalism. But actual New York politics are almost the reverse: the New York Democratic Party leadership is united mainly by trying to keep the left from power.
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I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger
June 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger
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Do not buy books from Dark Owl Publishing! The owner and operator is Andrea Dawn, a known white supremacist, who is currently on threads talking about plowing cars into protesters.
June 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Do not buy books from Dark Owl Publishing! The owner and operator is Andrea Dawn, a known white supremacist, who is currently on threads talking about plowing cars into protesters.
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These "hunger games" being played by Israel and the US are so disgusting. The humiliation and terrorizing and murdering of Palestinians via inhumanitarian aid is further evidence of how dehumanized Israel and the US are.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians seeking food in Gaza, health officials say
Dozens more wounded as crowds approached food distribution centres run by Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
These "hunger games" being played by Israel and the US are so disgusting. The humiliation and terrorizing and murdering of Palestinians via inhumanitarian aid is further evidence of how dehumanized Israel and the US are.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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It is hard to grasp but large masses of Americans are both racist/xenophobic AND not racist/xenophobic enough to applaud what Trump is doing. It's goldilocks shit, they want a level of racism/xenophobia calibrated exactly to their personal preferences, and you just can't make that policy. Don't try.
June 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It is hard to grasp but large masses of Americans are both racist/xenophobic AND not racist/xenophobic enough to applaud what Trump is doing. It's goldilocks shit, they want a level of racism/xenophobia calibrated exactly to their personal preferences, and you just can't make that policy. Don't try.
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3 to 5 years of experience for an entry-level job. Rounds of interviews only to get ghosted. Lengthy applications that seem to disappear into the void. For @teenvogue.com's Work in Progress column, I talked to young workers and experts about why finding a job feels so impossible right now:
Why Does Getting a Job Feel Impossible Right Now?
It’s bleak out there.
www.teenvogue.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
3 to 5 years of experience for an entry-level job. Rounds of interviews only to get ghosted. Lengthy applications that seem to disappear into the void. For @teenvogue.com's Work in Progress column, I talked to young workers and experts about why finding a job feels so impossible right now:
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"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."
I Will Pay Any Amount to Not Pay My Taxes
I’ve gotten myself into a bit of a jam. A series of natural disasters is barreling towards my home, and there is a severe shortage of resources and...
buff.ly
January 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."
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Admitting you don't know something is like a superpower. That's how you learn. Most of the problems in the world are caused by people pretending to know things they don't
December 21, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Admitting you don't know something is like a superpower. That's how you learn. Most of the problems in the world are caused by people pretending to know things they don't
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To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for:
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
March 26, 2024 at 2:16 AM
To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for:
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
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This whole thread—all of it—about how rigged this game feels, and how you can do everything right and still have things go wrong that should never go wrong.
Apropos of nothing, thru my spouse‘s job we have “ good” insurance. 5yrs ago, I had knee replacement &they made me jump thru 1 million hoops ofc (& we were out of pocket $$$$ too). 1 month later, they sent me a 5-figure bill for the full amount. They *retroactively* unapproved it & demanded I pay up
December 6, 2024 at 3:53 AM
This whole thread—all of it—about how rigged this game feels, and how you can do everything right and still have things go wrong that should never go wrong.
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Took me a bit but I've found the framing to put into words a way to express to the people fretting about the death of the UHC CEO why we just aren't heeding their admonishment:
The social contract stipulates that all life is sacred, and Brian Thompson violated it.
But it's more than that.
The social contract stipulates that all life is sacred, and Brian Thompson violated it.
But it's more than that.
December 5, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Took me a bit but I've found the framing to put into words a way to express to the people fretting about the death of the UHC CEO why we just aren't heeding their admonishment:
The social contract stipulates that all life is sacred, and Brian Thompson violated it.
But it's more than that.
The social contract stipulates that all life is sacred, and Brian Thompson violated it.
But it's more than that.
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The fact that this is the woman exposed the most powerful man in conservative media as a monstrous sexual predator when he preyed on her is a reminder that, for better or for worse, solidarity and empathy are optional. You can just not have them if you don’t want to.
I just heard Megyn Kelly pose the question "do you think you're being Kavanaugh'ed" to Pete Hegseth and it just feels like a good time to repeat that I believe Christine Blasey Ford, and I believe Anita Hill, and Megyn Kelly is a piece of actual shit.
December 5, 2024 at 2:36 AM
The fact that this is the woman exposed the most powerful man in conservative media as a monstrous sexual predator when he preyed on her is a reminder that, for better or for worse, solidarity and empathy are optional. You can just not have them if you don’t want to.
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Trans bathroom bans are bad for all of us, for MANY reasons. Aside from their obvious discrimination against trans people—what they say, at heart, is “You body, especially what’s in your pants, decides what rights you get.” I hope cis folks, especially my fellow cis women, see the dangers here.
okay, we're starting with this
Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already!
Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting)
Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up
actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already!
Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting)
Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up
actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
November 22, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Trans bathroom bans are bad for all of us, for MANY reasons. Aside from their obvious discrimination against trans people—what they say, at heart, is “You body, especially what’s in your pants, decides what rights you get.” I hope cis folks, especially my fellow cis women, see the dangers here.
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I don’t know why people are annoyed by mutual aid posts and not just sad that we’re in a society that constantly puts people in situations where they have to mutual aid post
July 27, 2024 at 7:43 PM
I don’t know why people are annoyed by mutual aid posts and not just sad that we’re in a society that constantly puts people in situations where they have to mutual aid post
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all we have is each other
do your fucking part
do your fucking part
the social safety net is not meant to catch the people that society deems disposable
July 19, 2024 at 4:24 AM
all we have is each other
do your fucking part
do your fucking part
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okay so currently:
a cybersecurity provider called crowdstrike has knocked out massive swathes of business operations all over the world, from airplanes to hospitals to tech to tv stations, forcing computers into a boot cycle. They rolled out an update at night that was faulty
a cybersecurity provider called crowdstrike has knocked out massive swathes of business operations all over the world, from airplanes to hospitals to tech to tv stations, forcing computers into a boot cycle. They rolled out an update at night that was faulty
July 19, 2024 at 8:01 AM
okay so currently:
a cybersecurity provider called crowdstrike has knocked out massive swathes of business operations all over the world, from airplanes to hospitals to tech to tv stations, forcing computers into a boot cycle. They rolled out an update at night that was faulty
a cybersecurity provider called crowdstrike has knocked out massive swathes of business operations all over the world, from airplanes to hospitals to tech to tv stations, forcing computers into a boot cycle. They rolled out an update at night that was faulty
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social Have you heard of any organized write-in campaign regarding for pres. for the IL primary? I was going to write-in Tlaib, but if their is a push for something like "ceasefire" in NH or "uncommitted" like in MI I'd like to write in for the one w/ most oomph behind it.
February 16, 2024 at 4:34 PM
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social Have you heard of any organized write-in campaign regarding for pres. for the IL primary? I was going to write-in Tlaib, but if their is a push for something like "ceasefire" in NH or "uncommitted" like in MI I'd like to write in for the one w/ most oomph behind it.