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Patrick Monaghan

@pkmonaghan.bsky.social

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Somehow still here. Chicago, films, MS, music, far too many effects pedals, Antifa Local 242.

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · Apr 26

Please donate whatever you can when you can. Even a tiny amount can make a difference to someone in dire need.

MARKET BOX
is a mutual aid project that sources food from small farms and distributes it for free across the South Side of Chicago

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Market Box

Market Box is a mutual aid project that sources food from small farms and distributes it for free across the South Side of Chicago

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 12h

The moon over Graceland Cemetery

The moon shines in a night sky over a graveyard.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 11h

Yes — the 70mm screenings of "One Battle After Another" at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social run through next Tuesday. The movie will continue there after that, but in a digital version.

Schatzi Page @schatzipage.bsky.social · 11h

The best place to see the best movie of the year. Gotta fit one more viewing in before 70MM leaves

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 10h

RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.

He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 7h

ICE drew their weapons on, assaulted, pepper sprayed, zip-tied, shackled, and detained *white U.S. citizens* at a suburban Chicago cemetery. A cemetery. Sacred ground. They were not read their rights nor we they told what they were being charged with.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 8h

Video: ICE agents clash with Forest Park cemetery workers attempting to help man in Des Plaines Rive

YouTube video by WGN News

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 9h

anybody got a spare Sora invite code?

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Aadam Jacobs Collection @ajcproject.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Yum-Yum Live at Lounge Ax 1996-04-20 https://archive.org/details/ajc00166_yum-yum_1996-04-20

Yum-Yum Live at Lounge Ax 1996-04-20 : Yum-Yum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Yum-YumApril 20th, 1996Lounge AxChicago, ILUSARecording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive.Transfer: Panasonic SV-3700 SPDIF --> Marantz...

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Aadam Jacobs Collection @ajcproject.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Hooker Live at Lounge Ax 1996-04-20 https://archive.org/details/ajc00007_hooker1996-04-20

Hooker Live at Lounge Ax 1996-04-20 : Hooker : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

HookerApril 20, 1996Lounge AxChicago, IllinoisRecording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive.Transfer: Panasonic SV-3700 SPDIF > Marantz...

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 9h

Scientists Just Solved One of the Most Enduring Mysteries of the Easter Island Statues

The "walking moai hypothesis" could end a long-time debate over how ancient engineers moved these iconic statues around Easter Island.

BY GAYOUNG LEE

gizmodo.com/scientists-j...

Scientists Just Solved One of the Most Enduring Mysteries of the Easter Island Statues

The

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Roland Muts @rhcmuts.bsky.social · 12h

"This smuggling operation on the Chicago River has to stop. And to that end two "water taxis" were taken out of service by a Reaper drone."

--soon? :-(

#chicago

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 13h

Main Post Office, Minneapolis

long hallway with a counter in the middle

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 12h

New Issue #8 of the Make Noise synthesis zine (pdf)

makenoise-manuals.com/zines/Make+N...

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 15h

Right field Wrigley Field in Chicago with sun beginning to set in light and shadow

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 23h

It's Great Chicago Fire day. Learn more about the conflagration in this terrific @robertloerzel.bsky.social article published during the Fire's 150th anniversary a few years back.

www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

The Great Chicago Fire, As Told By Those Who Lived Through It

As the city marks the 150th anniversary of the defining event, ROBERT LOERZEL mines the archival record to offer a compelling portrait of what it was like to live through those disastrous days.

www.chicagomag.com

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 22h

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Aadam Jacobs Collection @ajcproject.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Holiday Live at Lounge Ax 1996-11-08 https://archive.org/details/ajc00194_holiday_1996-11-08

Holiday Live at Lounge Ax 1996-11-08 : Holiday : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

HolidayNovember 8th, 1996Lounge AxChicago, ILUSARecording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive.Transfer: Panasonic SV-3700 SPDIF -->...

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Guru Dutt’s Bombay Noir and Anguish Regarding the Emergent Urbanity

Column By:
Damayanti Ghosh, High on Films

www.highonfilms.com/guru-dutt-bo...

Guru Dutt's Bombay Noir and Anguish Regarding the Emergent Urbanity

Guru Dutt’s Bombay noir captures urban angst, lost dreams, and the pain of a city shaping lives in shadows and longing.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Going back to that raid on the South Shore apartment building. It hasn't gotten much focus that the goons reportedly traveled the same way Patriot Front does: in UHauls.

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A Budget truck with about five armed men seen inside. It's dark out and the taillights are lit. The photo is attributed to KT O'Loughin.

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 2d

Spotify and ChatGPT make a deal for “integration” and Universal Music Group praises it - what could possibly go wrong for recording artists?

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry but the fact that this is not everywhere is kind of malpractice

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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Noir Haunted Shack🕸♬🎞🦇 @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 2d

Premiere of Cat People in 1942 at the Rialto Theatre in Manhattan.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2d

Someone should ask what Miller was doing between 2021 and 2025, why David Horowitz recruited him to the foreign policy team of the Trump campaign, why the Democrats never followed through on their 2017 investigation of alleged lies on Miller's SF-86 clearance forms, but no one asks real questions

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 2d

I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

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dailysportscar.com Bot (Unofficial) @dailysportscar-com.bsky.social · 2d

Porsche To Withdraw From Hypercar#WEC

Porsche To Withdraw From Hypercar

Porsche has announced that it will withdraw from the FIA WEC’s Hypercar class at the end of the 2025 season, after months of speculation about the future of the 963 programme amid financial difficulties for the manufacturer. In a release today, the German marque confirmed that while the 963 factory programme in the WEC is

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 2d

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View of the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse from one of the cribs located in Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-07 13:20:01 UTC (about 17 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 58.87 F | 14.93 C // Precip: light rain // Wind: N at 2.997 mph | 4.82 kph // Humidity: 96%

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