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"Despite everything, it's still you"
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This is a different Chicago vigil than the one we just attended. With hardly any notice, several happened across the city today:
Crowd size has swollen to maybe at or around a hundred or so. They plan to have some speakers for the cameras, then blow their whistles in unison at 8:00.
January 8, 2026 at 1:48 AM
This is a different Chicago vigil than the one we just attended. With hardly any notice, several happened across the city today:
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anyways, this is how it looks here today and all the local news is like 'it's called rime ice actually, not hoarfrost' its v pretty
January 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM
anyways, this is how it looks here today and all the local news is like 'it's called rime ice actually, not hoarfrost' its v pretty
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Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡
January 4, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡
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We took some time to rest and recover from everything the feds threw at our city in 2025. Chicago is ready for whatever is next.
January 2, 2026 at 4:28 AM
We took some time to rest and recover from everything the feds threw at our city in 2025. Chicago is ready for whatever is next.
As I watched the series finale of Strangers Things, I felt gratitude. It gave me a place to reflect and grow and mourn the last 10 years. I am so grateful for how I have changed and the joys that have come into my life. We’ve also lost a lot. Stranger Things grew up with me and brought us together.
January 1, 2026 at 4:29 AM
As I watched the series finale of Strangers Things, I felt gratitude. It gave me a place to reflect and grow and mourn the last 10 years. I am so grateful for how I have changed and the joys that have come into my life. We’ve also lost a lot. Stranger Things grew up with me and brought us together.
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25 Favorite Moments from this past year. Putting the biscuit in the basket. A setting moon over the Chicago Skyline in September. 11 of 25
December 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
25 Favorite Moments from this past year. Putting the biscuit in the basket. A setting moon over the Chicago Skyline in September. 11 of 25
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A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
December 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
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Other things found digging thru old travel art-kit this holiday:
Study for a lichenalope
A fire-eyed lichenalope won't (always) eat fire as per myth.
It's (probably) just judging your campfire, not planning to eat it & leave you cold, lost in the woods.
Still. Best leave it a snack offering, eh.
Study for a lichenalope
A fire-eyed lichenalope won't (always) eat fire as per myth.
It's (probably) just judging your campfire, not planning to eat it & leave you cold, lost in the woods.
Still. Best leave it a snack offering, eh.
December 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Other things found digging thru old travel art-kit this holiday:
Study for a lichenalope
A fire-eyed lichenalope won't (always) eat fire as per myth.
It's (probably) just judging your campfire, not planning to eat it & leave you cold, lost in the woods.
Still. Best leave it a snack offering, eh.
Study for a lichenalope
A fire-eyed lichenalope won't (always) eat fire as per myth.
It's (probably) just judging your campfire, not planning to eat it & leave you cold, lost in the woods.
Still. Best leave it a snack offering, eh.
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New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
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Here is a great run down of the whistle system and how to order them, use them, etc. from someone living it in Chicago, @dansinker.com. Spread it around! dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
December 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Here is a great run down of the whistle system and how to order them, use them, etc. from someone living it in Chicago, @dansinker.com. Spread it around! dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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9. That time my nieces rescued a boxy stag beetle, & while it recovered they gave it a name.
Athena was a good beet. Technically, the species common name is lesser stag beetle. Rude. So we gave it another name.
(Yes. I know lesser meant smaller, don't @ me, cos IDC.)
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
Athena was a good beet. Technically, the species common name is lesser stag beetle. Rude. So we gave it another name.
(Yes. I know lesser meant smaller, don't @ me, cos IDC.)
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
9. That time my nieces rescued a boxy stag beetle, & while it recovered they gave it a name.
Athena was a good beet. Technically, the species common name is lesser stag beetle. Rude. So we gave it another name.
(Yes. I know lesser meant smaller, don't @ me, cos IDC.)
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
Athena was a good beet. Technically, the species common name is lesser stag beetle. Rude. So we gave it another name.
(Yes. I know lesser meant smaller, don't @ me, cos IDC.)
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
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Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
*spoilers for strangers things*
Maybe in another time it would be trite, but not today. Embracing yourself as queer gives you the power to protect your family and friends? That's awesome actually
Maybe in another time it would be trite, but not today. Embracing yourself as queer gives you the power to protect your family and friends? That's awesome actually
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
*spoilers for strangers things*
Maybe in another time it would be trite, but not today. Embracing yourself as queer gives you the power to protect your family and friends? That's awesome actually
Maybe in another time it would be trite, but not today. Embracing yourself as queer gives you the power to protect your family and friends? That's awesome actually
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Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.
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Calls to an immigration agent sighting hotline have dropped to "pre-escalation" levels. blockclubchi.co/3XCTcvp
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Calls to an immigration agent sighting hotline have dropped to "pre-escalation" levels. blockclubchi.co/3XCTcvp
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For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper
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Another video from Charlotte, NC. Property owners scare off federal agents after they question a man putting up Christmas lights.
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Another video from Charlotte, NC. Property owners scare off federal agents after they question a man putting up Christmas lights.
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I very well could have drowned today. Fortunately, Dandy was there to keep me safe. Just knowing she was on lifeguard duty gave me the confidence to shower without drowning.
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I very well could have drowned today. Fortunately, Dandy was there to keep me safe. Just knowing she was on lifeguard duty gave me the confidence to shower without drowning.
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People sometimes ask me for a business card, and I never have a card, but I almost always have some random assortment of science education material on me. So when a man asked me for my card earlier today I dug around in my pockets & handed him a MILF zine, horseshoe crab card, and a squid sticker 🤷🏻♀️
November 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
People sometimes ask me for a business card, and I never have a card, but I almost always have some random assortment of science education material on me. So when a man asked me for my card earlier today I dug around in my pockets & handed him a MILF zine, horseshoe crab card, and a squid sticker 🤷🏻♀️
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Crumpling up a 30 foot long scroll and throwing it in a wastepaper basket
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Crumpling up a 30 foot long scroll and throwing it in a wastepaper basket
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I’d hoped to be a person today but I’m just gonna have to settle for being an idea. Making myself eat a little something, drink some water, breathe… anything else is a bonus.
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I’d hoped to be a person today but I’m just gonna have to settle for being an idea. Making myself eat a little something, drink some water, breathe… anything else is a bonus.
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Day 14 of rat October
October 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Day 14 of rat October
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Agents from ICE, Customs and Border Protection, and Department of Homeland Security have been deployed.
US immigration crackdown, arrests under way in Charlotte, North Carolina
Agents from ICE, Customs and Border Protection, and Department of Homeland Security have been deployed.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Agents from ICE, Customs and Border Protection, and Department of Homeland Security have been deployed.
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"Last year saw a doubling of Americans who were hospitalized or killed by contaminated food outbreaks ... Despite that, the new funding bill blocks federal rules designed to trace sources of outbreaks, and to prevent contamination of produce."
Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
Shutdown Deal Kills Rules to Prevent Food Contamination and Foodborne Illnesses
The gutting of these rules coincides with a huge increase in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
truthout.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"Last year saw a doubling of Americans who were hospitalized or killed by contaminated food outbreaks ... Despite that, the new funding bill blocks federal rules designed to trace sources of outbreaks, and to prevent contamination of produce."