British Manfriend
@whatthefidd.bsky.social
the same one you know and love // chicago
fiction performance books vox
trash baby @meeklingpress.bsky.social
the unrealest @unrealchi.bsky.social
#CLLAW XXXII champ #SirEltonBrawn
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fiction performance books vox
trash baby @meeklingpress.bsky.social
the unrealest @unrealchi.bsky.social
#CLLAW XXXII champ #SirEltonBrawn
chelseafiddyment.com
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For anyone who's found me recently: habitual tw/tter Lists user after the non-chrono TL so if I don't follow back, don't get your feelings hurt
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ICE just released new detention statistics.
As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Detention Management
www.ice.gov
December 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
ICE just released new detention statistics.
As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
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BEERFINGER getting in on bandcamp first Friday... Along the Winter River is a sludgy post-rock heavy alt metal assortment of dread and nihilistic anguish with an odd optimism... grab a track or two or the whole album! #music
beerfinger.bandcamp.com/album/along-...
beerfinger.bandcamp.com/album/along-...
Along the Winter River, by Beerfinger
14 track album
beerfinger.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
BEERFINGER getting in on bandcamp first Friday... Along the Winter River is a sludgy post-rock heavy alt metal assortment of dread and nihilistic anguish with an odd optimism... grab a track or two or the whole album! #music
beerfinger.bandcamp.com/album/along-...
beerfinger.bandcamp.com/album/along-...
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This @izdaramola.bsky.social essay is great. defector.com/tim-robinson...
Tim Robinson Understands What The Boys Are Going Through | Defector
The male comedians are going through something. I know, I know, but this time I’m not referring to the obvious ones who have lost their minds through some excess of steroid abuse and podcast appearanc...
defector.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This @izdaramola.bsky.social essay is great. defector.com/tim-robinson...
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TOMORROW December 6 is the FREE Comic & Arts Festival at Sulzer Regional Library in Chicago! I will be giving a talk called Tell by Showing: Instructional Comics, and also sitting on a panel discussion about Visual Storytelling.
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
TOMORROW December 6 is the FREE Comic & Arts Festival at Sulzer Regional Library in Chicago! I will be giving a talk called Tell by Showing: Instructional Comics, and also sitting on a panel discussion about Visual Storytelling.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Every Warner Brothers merger in the past has gone super well and I’m sure this Netflix one will be no different!
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Every Warner Brothers merger in the past has gone super well and I’m sure this Netflix one will be no different!
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If Kohler can view the user’s toilet data, as it admits to doing in this email exchange with technologist Simon Fondrie-Teitler, then it’s not—by definition—using end-to-end encryption. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
www.404media.co/kohlers-smar...
Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
www.404media.co/kohlers-smar...
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If Kohler can view the user’s toilet data, as it admits to doing in this email exchange with technologist Simon Fondrie-Teitler, then it’s not—by definition—using end-to-end encryption. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
www.404media.co/kohlers-smar...
Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
www.404media.co/kohlers-smar...
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Attention, horny weirdos! We are publishing @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social's WITNESS MARKS next year and we are very, very excited to finally have a reason to talk about exorcism bondage. All webstore pre-orders come w/ a signed bookplate from the author. Get it here: ghoulish.rip/product/witn...
December 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Attention, horny weirdos! We are publishing @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social's WITNESS MARKS next year and we are very, very excited to finally have a reason to talk about exorcism bondage. All webstore pre-orders come w/ a signed bookplate from the author. Get it here: ghoulish.rip/product/witn...
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sure am tired of calling my insanely wealthy and corrupt representatives to beg them to do something about the government murdering people, only for them to send me a form email with the subtext "i am a coward and i despise you" and then ask for $20
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
sure am tired of calling my insanely wealthy and corrupt representatives to beg them to do something about the government murdering people, only for them to send me a form email with the subtext "i am a coward and i despise you" and then ask for $20
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I'm glad that NU's refusal to *submit its faculty's appeals* of cancelled grants is finally being discussed in public.
What a damn mess. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/12/03/c...
Northwestern NSF grant terminations leave researchers stuck
Although Northwestern struck a deal with the Trump administration to restore federal research funding, National Science Foundation grants terminated in accordance with executive orders remain unchange...
dailynorthwestern.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I'm glad that NU's refusal to *submit its faculty's appeals* of cancelled grants is finally being discussed in public.
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there are more important things in life than money, such as being followed by hot women online
December 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
there are more important things in life than money, such as being followed by hot women online
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the other day i left the door to my unfinished cottage open, and a chickadee must've flown in and got trapped in there. i only realized later in the day, when i walked in and it was sitting on my power cage, absorbing Ambient Strength
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
the other day i left the door to my unfinished cottage open, and a chickadee must've flown in and got trapped in there. i only realized later in the day, when i walked in and it was sitting on my power cage, absorbing Ambient Strength
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Red Lobster never released a commercial with a jingle that went “Shrimply having a wonderful Fishmastime.” That’s why they went bankrupt.
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Red Lobster never released a commercial with a jingle that went “Shrimply having a wonderful Fishmastime.” That’s why they went bankrupt.
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You thought the list was done? Ha, you fool.
- Locally crafted jewelry
- Nature photography
- Hoodies and tees designed by south side artists
- Limited edition LPs from Chicago musicians
…and plenty more
Drop by our space next Saturday to find some gifts for your favorite people (and yourself)!
- Locally crafted jewelry
- Nature photography
- Hoodies and tees designed by south side artists
- Limited edition LPs from Chicago musicians
…and plenty more
Drop by our space next Saturday to find some gifts for your favorite people (and yourself)!
December 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
You thought the list was done? Ha, you fool.
- Locally crafted jewelry
- Nature photography
- Hoodies and tees designed by south side artists
- Limited edition LPs from Chicago musicians
…and plenty more
Drop by our space next Saturday to find some gifts for your favorite people (and yourself)!
- Locally crafted jewelry
- Nature photography
- Hoodies and tees designed by south side artists
- Limited edition LPs from Chicago musicians
…and plenty more
Drop by our space next Saturday to find some gifts for your favorite people (and yourself)!
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one thing that will make you much much smarter is to get to be in a room with @bakerdphd.bsky.social and @mattseybold.bsky.social
they brought the big ideas to inform savvy tactics! and we’re gonna share with our colleagues as far and wide as we can. more soon! most grateful!
they brought the big ideas to inform savvy tactics! and we’re gonna share with our colleagues as far and wide as we can. more soon! most grateful!
tomorrow!
how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!
how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!
December 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
one thing that will make you much much smarter is to get to be in a room with @bakerdphd.bsky.social and @mattseybold.bsky.social
they brought the big ideas to inform savvy tactics! and we’re gonna share with our colleagues as far and wide as we can. more soon! most grateful!
they brought the big ideas to inform savvy tactics! and we’re gonna share with our colleagues as far and wide as we can. more soon! most grateful!
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Next week there will be two events in Chicago with Matteo Guidi who compiled the newest Half Letter Press book: Cooking in Maximum Security. The first event will take place at Walls Turned Sideways, 12/9 from 6-8 PM. Free! wallsturnedsideways.org/event/cookin...
December 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Next week there will be two events in Chicago with Matteo Guidi who compiled the newest Half Letter Press book: Cooking in Maximum Security. The first event will take place at Walls Turned Sideways, 12/9 from 6-8 PM. Free! wallsturnedsideways.org/event/cookin...
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Hey ARB readers! A quick announcement: December is going to be a quieter publishing month for us, but only because we're working on some big changes for next year. More details here:
Upcoming Changes at ARB
Hello readers! I hope you’ve been enjoying the Ancillary Review of Books and A Meal of Thorns; 2025 has been a great year for us! We’ve published a lot of reviews and essays, welcomed cool new writ…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Hey ARB readers! A quick announcement: December is going to be a quieter publishing month for us, but only because we're working on some big changes for next year. More details here:
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Chicago Housing Authority head told HUD “we do not recommend” Mayor Brandon Johnson ally Walter Burnett as CEO. Said they only interviewed him as a courtesy. Dang. Reporting by @aliceyin.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/04/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/04/c...
Chicago Housing Authority head told HUD ‘we do not recommend’ Mayor Brandon Johnson ally as CEO
The Chicago Housing Authority board told HUD this fall that Mayor Brandon Johnson was pressuring the agency to install a close political ally to lead the agency.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Chicago Housing Authority head told HUD “we do not recommend” Mayor Brandon Johnson ally Walter Burnett as CEO. Said they only interviewed him as a courtesy. Dang. Reporting by @aliceyin.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/04/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/04/c...
Thinking fondly of Pick Me Up's old location near the Metro & wandering over after an evening at Smart Bar
This was a fun interview to do. It had me feeling nostalgic for my college days of closing out Berlin Nightclub and then wandering to Clarke's Diner down the street.
Read more about author Erik Piepenburg's history of queer restaurants on @windycitytimes.com.
Read more about author Erik Piepenburg's history of queer restaurants on @windycitytimes.com.
‘Dining Out’ traces a century of queer restaurants—starting in Chicago - Windy City Times
When Erik Piepenburg thinks of the late-night Chicago diners where he came of age, he remembers the chatter, the flirting and the food that always arrived hot. In the ‘90s, Piepenburg lived in Northal...
windycitytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thinking fondly of Pick Me Up's old location near the Metro & wandering over after an evening at Smart Bar
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This was a fun interview to do. It had me feeling nostalgic for my college days of closing out Berlin Nightclub and then wandering to Clarke's Diner down the street.
Read more about author Erik Piepenburg's history of queer restaurants on @windycitytimes.com.
Read more about author Erik Piepenburg's history of queer restaurants on @windycitytimes.com.
‘Dining Out’ traces a century of queer restaurants—starting in Chicago - Windy City Times
When Erik Piepenburg thinks of the late-night Chicago diners where he came of age, he remembers the chatter, the flirting and the food that always arrived hot. In the ‘90s, Piepenburg lived in Northal...
windycitytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This was a fun interview to do. It had me feeling nostalgic for my college days of closing out Berlin Nightclub and then wandering to Clarke's Diner down the street.
Read more about author Erik Piepenburg's history of queer restaurants on @windycitytimes.com.
Read more about author Erik Piepenburg's history of queer restaurants on @windycitytimes.com.
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“Communities are left out of conversations that directly affect their health & survival, generation after generation.”
A newly created heat vulnerability index could direct lifesaving resources to combat extreme heat in Chicago, but the tool is locked behind bureaucracy, reports NaBeela Washington.
A newly created heat vulnerability index could direct lifesaving resources to combat extreme heat in Chicago, but the tool is locked behind bureaucracy, reports NaBeela Washington.
How many are dying from heat in Chicago? The city stopped counting
A heat vulnerability index could direct environmental resources to Chicago's most impacted neighborhoods, but it’s locked behind bureaucracy
prismreports.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“Communities are left out of conversations that directly affect their health & survival, generation after generation.”
A newly created heat vulnerability index could direct lifesaving resources to combat extreme heat in Chicago, but the tool is locked behind bureaucracy, reports NaBeela Washington.
A newly created heat vulnerability index could direct lifesaving resources to combat extreme heat in Chicago, but the tool is locked behind bureaucracy, reports NaBeela Washington.
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sometimes i forget why ryan grim sucks and then i'm reminded
Ryan Grim: I think the posse will find a lot useful there.
Steve Bannon: You’re an intrepid reporter, sir, and a voice of truth. Sometimes people love it and sometimes people love it less, but you’re you’re a warrior.
Grim: No doubt about it.
Bannon: Let's welcome on Raw Egg Nationalist!
Steve Bannon: You’re an intrepid reporter, sir, and a voice of truth. Sometimes people love it and sometimes people love it less, but you’re you’re a warrior.
Grim: No doubt about it.
Bannon: Let's welcome on Raw Egg Nationalist!
December 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
sometimes i forget why ryan grim sucks and then i'm reminded
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Uhhhh so isn't this essentially a blanket ban of journalists and editors from getting an H-1B visa?
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Uhhhh so isn't this essentially a blanket ban of journalists and editors from getting an H-1B visa?
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Oh we have a formalized snitch hotline in the H-1B system now
December 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Oh we have a formalized snitch hotline in the H-1B system now