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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 1d

I guess he has to do something to make new deserts to film in.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

George Miller was asked why he's taking part in an AI film festival

"“AI is arguably the most dynamically evolving tool in making [movies] ... AI is here to stay and change things"

He adds that AI will never have that 'human essence'

(via Guardian)

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SnuggleBeast (Alaina) @snugglebeast.bsky.social · 14h

We have been helping a friend and her kid prepare for a Jurassic Park themed Halloween display. I just made us all staff badges.

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DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 1d

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 15h

The squirrels are getting too tame. Off to our right and behind me were at least a dozen more, almost as close.

Photograph of a white shih tzu/poodle mix leashed on a paved walkway in a park. Its gaze is locked on a pair of squirrels approaching from about 8 feet away and maintaining eye contact.

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SnuggleBeast (Alaina) @snugglebeast.bsky.social · 17h

It's fucking insane that we need a ruling on this.

Stephanie Lulay @slulay2.bsky.social · 21h

NEWS: Today, a judge banned federal agents from using riot control weapons against reporters in Chicago.

It comes after 4 of our journalists were tear-gassed and shot w/ pepper-spray bullets and our nonprofit newsroom @blockclubchi.bsky.social and others sued.

This judgement protects us all:

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

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SnuggleBeast (Alaina) @snugglebeast.bsky.social · 17h

I just saw a video of a mom get dragged from her car and kidnapped by the government while in the school pick up line to get her kids.

Let that fucking sink in.

People are being abducted all over the city for simply existing.

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cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 19h

i'm watching in real time across facebook groups, texts from family and updates from SSIP as HSI posts up in my hometown and the areas where i grew up in the southwest suburbs, which have a large immigrant population. people are disappearing off the street and there is legitimately minimal coverage.

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cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 19h

if you're a national outlet zooming in to cover immigration raids in chicago and you're only in broadview or elwood you're doing it wrong, just saying

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 1d

OK, she really said that they arrested “the girlfriend of the founder of ANTIFA”

The girlfriend

of the FOUNDER

of - anti fascism?

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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SnuggleBeast (Alaina) @snugglebeast.bsky.social · 1d

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 3d

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SnuggleBeast (Alaina) @snugglebeast.bsky.social · 2d

She is very sleepy from being up all night cause it was raining. I am also very sleepy from being up all night because she was.

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SnuggleBeast (Alaina) @snugglebeast.bsky.social · 2d

This calendar was wrong in September. I never looked closely enough to figure out why but the days were off.

Today I realized that October is back nsync.

SnuggleBeast (Alaina) @snugglebeast.bsky.social · May 1

Im sure you have all been curious about who was going to grace the cover of the 2003/2025 NSYNC calendar for May.

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 2d

Magic Rocks? They finally got Kreiglite into stores!?

monitor-ep.bsky.social @monitor-ep.bsky.social · 29d

So going through the past #SeaQuestDSV merchandise and I do not recall seeing the Craft House Magic Rocks. I would have loved to have the ships of SeaQuest DSV and the Pirate submarine.

SeaQuest DSV Magic Rocks SeaQuest & Pirate submarine

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2d

Looks more and more like the raid in Chicago was more than just a fascist terror raid but the use of federal violence to help a bank empty a building they held in receivership.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 2d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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GATOR🐊❓🔞 @deino3k.bsky.social · 26d

*after a seaQuest DSV episode about ghosts*

Hi I'm Bob Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

Did you know Hell is real? And you'll go there.

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Kestral @magikestral.bsky.social · 4d

Big shoutouts to @mynameisgrant.bsky.social and @chipcheezum.bsky.social for this podcast (both this iteration and it's JoJo's variant), it really enhanced the Farscape experience

Now I gotta fit Seaquest and The 10th Kingdom into my watch schedule-

Kestral @magikestral.bsky.social · 4d

Bizarre Podcast: Space Puppets

This podcast was the reason for me starting Farscape!

If you want information on any of the episodes of the franchise, or just want to hear Grant lead Chip through this series for the first time, I highly recommend downloading the pod, it was a really fun listen

The podcast icon for Bizarre Podcast Space Puppets: the title is strewn across different objects like a radio, a book, and a television. There is a pair of cartoon eyes at the top right wearing blue and red 3D goggles. The bottom of the screen has the intro to the show: "a radiation wave hit and I got shot through a wormhole. Now I'm lost in some distant part"

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 3d

FRIDAY: CPD denies my FOIA for bodycam footage from 7500 South Shore because footage is only flagged if, among other things, an arrest was made.

SUNDAY: CPD spox acknowledges that they made at least one arrest at 7500 South Shore in an on-the-record statement provided for this story.

Letter on CPD Letterhead in response to FOIA request:

"The Chicago Police Department (CPD) is in receipt of your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 ILCS 140/1, et seq.,
request for the following:
All body-worn camera and in-car camera video associated with the CPD response to 7500 block of S. South Shore Dr
(and/or 2700 block of E. 75th St) the morning of September 30, 2025, during which at least five people were arrested by

federal immigration agents. (For context please see: https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-
immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated)

In regard to your request for Body Worn Camera video, please be advised that any available Body Worn Camera video is
denied pursuant to the Sec 7(1)(a), which exempts from inspection and copying the following: "Information specifically
prohibited from disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations adopted under federal or State law.” See 5
ILCS 140/7(1)(a). Section 10-20(b) of the Law Enforcement Officer-Worn Body Camera Act states that officer-worn body
camera recordings are not subject to disclosure under FOIA, except where a recording has been “flagged” because of
“the filing of a complaint, discharge of a firearm, use of force, arrest or detention, or resulting death or bodily harm,” or
the requester is the subject of the video footage. 50 ILCS 706/10-20(b)(1)-(3). Moreover, where the requester is not a
subject of the video, and the subject has a reasonable expectation of privacy at the time of the recording, disclosure
pursuant to FOIA is only permissible where the subject is either a victim and/or witness, and has consented to disclosure
in writing. 50 ILCS 706/10-20(b)(2). Accordingly, FOIA is not applicable to your request for body-worn camera video."

Email from CPD spokesperson:

"Hello,
The Chicago Police Department responded to the 7500 block of S. South Shore Drive on
September 30, 2025 at approximately 2:00 a.m. after being notified by federal authorities that
they had detained an individual with an active criminal warrant. After responding to the scene
and verifying the active criminal warrant, arresting officers placed a 46-year-old male offender
into custody. This individual has been charged with an Issuance of Warrant. Please refer to the
Cook County Sheriff's Office for additional information related to the warrant.
To be clear, the Chicago Police Department only responded to the scene for criminal
enforcement related to the offender's active criminal warrant. We did not participate in or assist
with any immigration enforcement.
In accordance with the City of Chicago’s Municipal Code, which includes the Welcoming
City Ordinance, the Chicago Police Department does not assist federal immigration authorities
with enforcement action solely based on immigration status.
Additionally, CPD does not document immigration status and does not share such information
with federal authorities.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 4d

ICE is doing a hell of a lot of harm in the Chicago area *right now.* I don’t mean to trivialize the national guard stuff, it absolutely is an irresponsible escalation, but the guard-centric convo around this really does understate what’s going on without any guardsmen.

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SnuggleBeast (Alaina) @snugglebeast.bsky.social · 3d

She is perfect and I just want to be perfect for her.

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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · Jul 26

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · Jul 26

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · Jul 26

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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SnuggleBeast (Alaina) @snugglebeast.bsky.social · 3d

Someone make this happen.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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