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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 23h

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

A lot of people do not really seem to know this sort of stuff

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

It is true you can't trust Israel or the US but you should probably be aware the ceasefire doesn't begin until Saturday or Sunday and Israel has a long history of intensifying bombardment until the official starting point of a ceasefire.

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 15h

Extremely extremely relatable context

A white cat with black markings just asking you to rub his tummy so he can bite you

Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 20h

Also we are seeing Oratorio again this week so let's just keep everything kind of chill, universe.

Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 20h

Never has an artist touched my soul, because of her work, because of timing, because of context, like Heather Christian. www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Heather Christian

Creating space to contemplate the sacred and spiritual in structurally complex works of music theater.

www.macfound.org

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 20h

We wound up seeing it on 3/26/2022, a day before I turned 45. And Terce, what a story that was. Our cat had emergency surgery the day we were supposed to see it and I kept saying we could still make it. We didn't. We bought tickets for two weeks later, one day after we said goodbye to our cat.

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 20h

Oh my god, I have loved Heather Christian's work since I first saw Animal Wisdom at the Bushwick Starr in 2017. I saw it the year after two major losses in my life and I just sobbed. We had tickets to see Oratorio for Living Things at Ars Nova on March 27, 2020, my first pandemic birthday.

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Black. Bitch. Purple. Kunt. (aka David) @ncred.bsky.social · 2d

"How does it feel to be locked up unlawfully" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 My kinda carrying on! Keep it up.

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 1d

Cats only matter 85% as much!

Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 1d

I won't ever get over that when something is wrong with one of my cats and I research it (in peer-reviewed pubs), the actual research is like, well, this is what we do for dogs, so we tried it with cats, and it's like 100% effective in dogs but 85% effective in cats, we don't need to figure out why.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is offering the following at the moment:

1. Trust the courts. [not a viable strategy]
2. "Film the cops"
3. Vote in 2026
4. Protest [peacefully]

And he knows this is not sufficient. Everyone does.

He will not address the local cops angle because he might be deposed...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Chicago

Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 1d

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking east from the Skydeck at top of the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millenium Park, Chicago Harbor and Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-08 13:37:18 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 57.09 F | 13.94 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: N at 4.608 mph | 7.41 kph // Humidity: 75%

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 3d

Connect with your people offline. Take the chats to signal but also take your close relationships offline entirely. We need to be connected when they shut this all down.

What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 1d

Dear god, we keep getting these emails with escalating urgency about making sure we get our laptops inventoried and I went up to the floor and couldn't find the room and just wondered around for several minutes until I gave up. Why put up a sign! Oh, I know, your an IT department

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

Straight people think about queer people more than we think about ourselves. It’s fascinating. And boring. And creepy. Y’all don’t even go here!!!

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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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vintagehabibi.bsky.social @vintagehabibi.bsky.social · 3d

vintagehabibi.etsy.com

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 2d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 2d

A fascinating read.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 2d

A life update: this wound up paying off. I'm still applying to several jobs that are hopefully careers, but I've got my survival needs covered by a job at the airport that I'm apparently pretty good at.

And instead of being in an office alone, which was driving me mad, I see 20k people a day.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · Aug 12

There is a line around this building to get to the line entrance to wait to get into this job fair.

At the airport. For airport jobs.

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Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 2d

If you still know anyone who imagines that Pritzker or Johnson will order police under their command to arrest federal agents, you can send them this (1hr12min42sec timestamp). They are explicit that they will not and they view courts as only venue for enforcement.

www.youtube.com/live/vqP4YFV...

LIVE: Illinois' JD Pritzker on Trump's use of National Guard

YouTube video by Reuters

www.youtube.com

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 2d

One time she literally fell down a flight of stairs and I was like, mom, maybe don't live here anymore, and she refused to move and now ICE is making her want to move and I am like, hell yes my elderly mother will no longer live in a death trap but also feelings about what ICE is doing to us.

Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 2d

My 85 year old mom is so anxious about ICE activity in Chicagoland that she is (finally) actively looking to sell her house and move to a retirement community and what is happening.

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