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internet plumber as @nilcoast.com— ex: startups Chicago fan, RPCV, and lapsed urban planner (he/him)
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LinkedIn is pushing me a feel-good story about an email from Anna, so I thought I'd share this. Turned out this was the year Condé didn't give performance bonuses. A year and a half later, she wore shades on Zoom to say she was folding Pitchfork into GQ, leaving it to HR to explain this was a layoff

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Good morning Edgewater.

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Almost forgot to post. Brand new street art in Pilsen just dropped: 18th & Western #Chicago

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

please stop saying andrew cuomo committed italian seppuku after jamming his dick into the pasta machine at rao’s, it’s not funny

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

i was born to make websites, fun websites, silly websites, curious websites, websites that bend, delight, amuse and entertain, websites for people on planet earth and there will be no shareholder value, but the websites will be built, and they will be enjoyed

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

"Do The Right Thing"-level heat

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What I listen to when I have to write a lot: six-plus hours of solos from 50 different bootleg versions of Television's "Marquee Moon," thanks to @tyburr.bsky.social.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Longing for a simpler time

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I believe in Sanctuary cities because I believe as the people with the most we should bear the greatest burden. I’ll be flying this flag until Danilson Velasquez is home.

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Is it supposed to be 90 at 8am? I feel like I’m back in Fort Lauderdale. I might need to set up the kiddy pool.

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Edith’s first day protecting the neighborhood.

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“Bomb.Repeat.Bomb” (Guatemala, 1954)

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Happy #Pride, #Chicago. 🏳️‍🌈💚🖖🏻

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

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We face many novel & difficult questions in our current political age. "Why did the egomaniacal billionaire business techbros who've never done the reading vote for fascism instead of the Black female Democrat?" is not one of them.

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Bluesky and Blacksky are two very different experiences.

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Bon Samedi musicale 🎶🙏 #WakeUpSong #Music Bon courage aux travailleurs ! 🎧 Radiohead - High and Dry www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qFf...

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Oh my god

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this is why they didn't want to let him out. they don't want anyone to be able to report on what they're doing.

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Good night moon, good night @jbeans.bsky.social, good night new home.

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What an incredible photo. On Sunday, astro-photographer Andrew McCarthy captured the moment the International Space Station passed across our sun.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav- Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos* Millennials: no wait The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*

submitted 7 days ago • 64 comments

Happy Friday! A collection of vintage typewriter ribbon tins. www.instagram.com/p/DK113-eNif...

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

There are still moments of joy to be had.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The AI bots don’t even *not* know facts. They operate entirely outside the realm of knowing

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This is the most effective moderation list I’ve used so far.

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I’m old enough to have read these back when they were new, and to buy multiple trade paperback collections of them.

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@thetriibe.com interviewed 3 millennials who moved to Chicago from Milwaukee, Dallas, and Charlotte (and asked them why they chose here) thetriibe.com/2025/06/for-... (Also: welcome to Chicago!)

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It's a revert revert revert revert kind of day.

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