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things I’ve been described as: zinester, vermin, occult researcher, union organizer, and friend. how i would describe myself? annoying.
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big brother and its consequences have been disastrous for the human race, truly a show of dogshit players

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briefly sitting in a place with tvs playing the news and it is really incredible how much they’re downplaying everything right now

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Three friends stuck in a room. A girl climbing a mountain. A story, a game, a siren to the tune of A. Can you see it? Can you see the moon? Play my short (~20min) visual novel "In the Palace of the Birds" for free...now!!

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

do you think when you win a leg of the amazing race and they give you a travelocity vacation that one of the conditions is the travelocity gnome has to stay in the cuck chair in your hotel room

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

there is something moving and beautiful about the seething class resentment and sadness of the early tmbg records eventually leading them to make music for children.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I’m on the bargaining team for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Non-Tenure Track Faculty union. We’ve been bargaining for nearly 19 months—grueling. Now we’re ready to say: we are preparing to possibly strike. We’ve launched our strike fund today app.betterunite.com/aicwufaculty...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

feels like perhaps fall ‘25 might be a synergistic time to release a western blu-ray of house of sayuri (or earlier, i am not picky)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Chicago would be ten thousand more livable if my fellow citizens would just agree to name every viral animal or snow plow ABOLISH ICE

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

SAVE THE DATE for a very special 5th anniversary celebration for our worker cooperative! March 15th we'll be marking 5 years as a worker-owned-and-operated bookstore, and we'd love to party with you. More details tk!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

it is frankly uncouth that i cannot focus on research projects while i’m unemployed bc of the anxiety of “paying for things” and also that I can’t focus on research projects while i’m employed bc of all the energy and time it takes up (and also probably because of the tenor of these times but)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Taking this as an opportunity to plug the document I wrote outlining my & @fullyautomatedluxury.com’s COVID precautions routine: bit.ly/covidroutine

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Haven't been to an Alamo in 7 years because how well known it is they abuse their staff. Fully in support of this strike.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

If today's news has reinvigorated your commitment to community care, we wanted to remind you that you can drop in any time during our normal hours and we will give you free high quality masks courtesy of Chicago Mask Bloc. We have N95s, KN95s, and KF94s in stock right now.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

ILLINOIS: Grassroots group Care Not COVID Chicago & partner orgs announce the Protective Medical Equipment Freedom Act, which guarantees the right to mask for any reason w/o disclosure of medical exemptions or info. Share your story of need & support: bit.ly/maskbill

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

man you really left out all the sex trafficking, that’s fucking wild

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

looking for a life hack to a) let go of bitterness b) get insurance to cover a self performed trepanation, these two things are probably related

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

She is also the head of America First, which is both one of Trump’s biggest PACs and a thinktank that basically parroted Project 2025 and argued passionately for an initiative like DOGE, if you need more than “personal fortune and connections from wrestling” to get angry about this.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

it's never too late to start masking up in public again! in addition to being an important way to be in solidarity, it will also drastically reduce the sickness you experience regularly. (I for one am pretty excited about not having the flu for 5 solid years!)

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

New York City’s one and only unionized pizza shop is closing. Workers have a fundraiser up, please pitch in if you can gofund.me/1e6cbab0

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

action movie bluesky, let’s not repeat the sins of action movie twitter

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Chicagoans take note of upcoming know your rights workshops ⤵️

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

BOOK BIG RIP

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t normally directly ask for shares but since Nour had her account removed by Bluesky could you all boost this one today?

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

realizing that the title the biggest loser refers to the trainers and hosts, that’s so clever. fuck you bob harper, you are terrible tv.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments