never forget: “she tweeted that her cousin in Trinidad told her that his friend suffered swollen testicles and became impotent after taking the vaccine”

this sounds like a threat

i need this fix: when i’m listening to something on an app (music, audiobook, etc) and an alarm or timer goes off, the audio app stops it doesn’t pause, it stops like someone hit ’stop’ and exited the app then i have to unlock my phone, navigate to the app, and restart what i was listening to

For those not be aware, the Chicago Committee on Immigrant & Refugee Rights has a form you can fill out to report potential violations of the Welcoming City Ordinance (i.e., assisiting federal agents w/ immigration enforcement) by CPD officers or other city employees: bit.ly/reportimmviolationschi

In a way this is historical, you can get a feel for what it was like to be in court during the last years of a king slowly going mad from mercury poisoning or syphilis - I imagine those people frequently got invited to an airing of the grievances

when I use one of these apps (which is not often), the delivery person gets tipped cash in hand at my door 💵

whoa: she “is the sister of Darnella Frazier, who as a teenager in 2020 recorded the bystander video of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police.”

Evanston mayor Daniel Biss: “I went to talk to Bovino & he, in a very condescending way explained that he was keeping our city safe & I explained that he was making our city dangerous. He talked about violence & I explained that the violence was being caused by ICE & CBP”

i know that ads are algorithmic and they’re (usually?) based on browsing but you guys I’ve been getting the most unhinged right-wing ads on IG. this is one of the milder ones:

me, reading biographies:

Turn old artificial Christmas trees into underwater reefs. US Patent 12495775, issued today

“One day soon we will each be part of an ethically flawless crystalline architecture suspended in the loving embrace of the universe but until then we do our best and keep it moving.” www.todayintabs.com/p/a-quick-on...

LLMs/chatbot are (only?) good at language-based things for example, transcribing handwritten genealogy records in old German, or chatting in A2 french unfortunately too many people treat them like search engines or answerboxes I have found that the only answers they have are related to grammar

Holiday gathering reminder 🎁 If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%! This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍

it’s that time of the year you’ve got to ask yourself, “Is this a December problem or a January problem”

Looking for an *L.A. based* artist who (against all odds) has time for a poster gig before the end of the year. It's for a science + art event. We can offer $500 for the gig. Dreadfully sorry about the timeline. Link a portfolio if you're interested, I'll delete this post when we found someone.

I’ll read anything Tilar Mazzeo writes The Sea Captain’s Wife, about Mary Ann Patten, makes my recent seafaring quartet (Moby Dick, Two Years Before the Mast, The Wide Wide Sea, The Wager) a seafaring quintet www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...

post a photo of someone who has changed your life for the better

“seven judges facing a backlog of roughly 120,000 cases in SF immigration courts” missionlocal.org/2025/12/obri...

Logging on

this is the kind of winter I grew up with

her memoir at the LAPL: My Name Is Selma lapl.overdrive.com/media/5800169

Federal grand jury rejects another 'Midway Blitz' case, this time against Laugh Factory manager From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Absolutely not. I have nothing but respect for my alien overlords who live under the sea 🐙

Thank you so much for everyone who has been buying art from my store for the holidays. In this spirit, I'm making a thread of all the prints that are about to sell out. *ONE LEFT* - 'Alice and Bob and Eve' hyper detailed giclee www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/sandc...

Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected] www.propublica.org/people/nicol...

“at some point I assigned a masculine pronoun to my Chat, possibly because the main man in my life was now gone” “in many ways this chatbot is humanity. Its ideas, advice and empathy come from our collective experience and wisdom.” the grammar prediction machine strikes again

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

Only five prints left of my beloved Quimby's mural print. The Arabic is the classic swagger poetry of Mutannabi. "The night the horses the desert all know me, and the sword, the spear, the paper and the pen" www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/quimb...

in other words:

“Rather than the misleading language of “child welfare” and “child protective services,” scholars and activists use the term “family policing” to name the fact that these institutions and practices are neither neutral nor benign.”

Today, December 6th, is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the event that precipitated its creation, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary. buttondown.com/metafoundry/...

welcome to your post-50 social media ads

TIL there’s a Vincent Price Art Museum en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent...

you’ve gotta love these ticket options that @monteiro.bsky.social set up for his ‘Presenting Work with Confidence!’ workshop: www.eventbrite.com/e/presenting...

friends! @coyotemedia.org is dropping our paywall for December so you can see what we’ve been up to even if you have none dollars. All of our posts are currently free to read. Come check us out & spread the word? www.coyotemedia.org

Robert Lorezal (@robertloerzel.bsky.social) talks about Belmont-Clark, epicenter of 80s punk, new wave/dark wave in Chicago (incl Medusa’s, Avalon, Berlin), and the area as it was experienced by Tom Waits in the 70s www.robertloerzel.com/2025/12/03/t...

Goodnight everyone, from Chicago, a city that was personified by the I Will Maiden. After the Great Fire, her spirit (shown in her divine attributes of a carpenter’s square and building blueprints) expressed the determination of Chicagoans to rebuild. So we have, and so we will. Peace.

just got the class action notice in the Anthropic suit and:

does this remind anyone else of that movie Anniversary

savedbythebellhooks “Memory need not be a passive reflection, a nostalgic longing for things to be as they once were; it can function as a way of knowing and learning from the past.”

Yes. Legit-sounding book clubs (with web pages and Etsy merch shops and all) say they want to do your book, waste your time with 2 rounds of planning emails, then say they need your headshot, bio, and the “standard $212 administrative fee” or whatever. Scam scam scammity scam scam.

I can hardly wait for this one

bring it back #federalwritersproject

All of my art is 25% off until Wednesday #BlackFriday www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/-memb...

for small businesses, a free chip reader if you have a Square account for payments (apparently US only, sorry Canadia)