A Self-Respecting Fish
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Fish in a jaunty boater.
To have the optimism of the person who wrote "To re-subscribe, reply START."
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🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩
3 days ago
"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.
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Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless
Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/lost-19th-century-film-by-melies-discovered-at-the-library/
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Parenting protip: You don't need to watch terrible children's movies, just pick some fun-sounding titles, turn them on and leave the house. I've got a few lined up for tonight - "Life is Beautiful," "Kids," "Funny Games" - it's going to be great!
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I mean, it's not rocket science.
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Leader of Columbia Brain Institute Quits Over Friendship With Epstein
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/nyregion/columbia-nobel-winner-epstein-resigns.html
4 days ago
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Sam Altman looks like someone freeze-dried Rod Blagojevich.
4 days ago
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It's not an eclipse, people. If you skip the State of the Union tonight, you'll get another chance to watch the president mother-bird a microphone with hatred, gibberish and lies in like nine, 10 hours.
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Kristian van der Vliet
5 days ago
I sleep in a big bed with my wife.
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erin mccann
5 days ago
My kingdom for a goddamn alt weekly chock full of classifieds and event listings.
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Me in 2020 grabbing a face mask before I go out: "Man, can you imagine anything more depressing to have to carry with you all the time?" Me in 2026 grabbing a whistle: "Oh."
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Every so often I just think fuck Jay Leno. He had a market share any modern show would murder for and he used it to punch down - no, fucking jackhammer down - against Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbit, that coffee lady who sued McDonald's because she couldn't pay her medical bills, etc.
5 days ago
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The LA Times article is paywalled, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say the reason is "the ocean."
5 days ago
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I really thought they would chicken out. Good on ya, Chicago.
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5 days ago
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Still weird that Laurel and the Beatles had an overlap.
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Casey Stegman
9 days ago
The Supreme Court:
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The bear also dines on "More of a comment than a question" people.
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9 days ago
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I mean, I wouldn't be able to resist either. via
@xkcd.com
10 days ago
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There is no reason this should have made me laugh as much as it did, but it did.
www.samandfuzzy.com/3733
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Nunchuk
https://www.samandfuzzy.com/3733
12 days ago
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Bill Amend
12 days ago
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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I used to quote this cartoon when I was doing boat tours, although I misremembered the punchline as "tries to finish the job." I half convinced myself I imagined it.
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14 days ago
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Two options: 1. Abolish ICE is named a winner. 2. They pull a Boaty McBoatface wussout* and quietly cancel next year's contest. *The Brits named the boat the RRS Sir David Attenborough and tried to get away with calling one of the submarine drones Boaty McBoatface but we know better, England!
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Deadline to Vote in Chicago’s Snowplow Naming Contest is Saturday; Will ‘Abolish ICE’ Win After Leading Nominations?
“Abolish ICE” is now one of 25 finalists that Chicagoans can vote for through Saturday, with the top six vote-getters winning the honor of renaming one snowplow in each of Chicago’s six snow districts...
https://news.wttw.com/2026/02/12/deadline-vote-chicago-s-annual-snowplow-naming-contest-saturday-will-abolish-ice-win
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Senator Ed Markey
19 days ago
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
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Raider
18 days ago
Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."
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Teaser for my next freelance story, but also why isn't Donovan bigger? There's a hell of a lot more to his reperoire than Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU35...
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Donovan - Season of the Witch (Official Audio)
YouTube video by DonovanVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU35oCHGhJ0
19 days ago
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I'm going to ride one like I'm car surfing in Teen Wolf.
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19 days ago
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Ah, so that's what the Space Invaders look like from the front.
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19 days ago
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So even Trump didn't watch that Kid Rock thing.
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20 days ago
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Gwen C. Katz
20 days ago
Macbeth: SHIT
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Spent too much of this week joining online arguments about voting guides and endorsements. That was dumb and I regret every moment of it. Every argument about local endorsements boils down to someone saying "Please tell me how to vote but not like that."
22 days ago
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One under-mocked aspect of this is that every town and neighborhood in America has at minimum one local ICE watch Signal chat and these chucklefucks were only able to find 200.
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23 days ago
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The Girl I Guess guide is valuable, important and impressive as hell. Two people put out a 90-page, single-space voter guide out of sheer civic engagement. I agree with like 80% of their picks. The other 20% I just don't vote for without acting like the free, optional guide is somehow bad or wrong.
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Mike Fragassi
23 days ago
The absolute best thing about the "Girl, I Guess" guide is the personal nature of it. It's not just a bullet list of talking points, it's a painfully detailed walk through a person's thought process, messy but open, and fully footnoted! The absolute worst thing about " " " etc etc
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I, a middle-aged man, just about two minutes ago realized painstaking is pains-taking, like "taking pains to do something," not pain-staking, like... "staking pain" I guess?
24 days ago
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Okay, now that he's managed to destroy a great metropolitan newspaper can we finally admit Bezos is Lex Luthor?
24 days ago
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I like that curling was the very first event. They have their priorities in order. Except for, like, supplying power.
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25 days ago
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Chadywak
25 days ago
Someone said Kid Rock is just a trashier name for Epstein Island, and now I can't think of it any other way.
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Fitzgerald's Nighclub in Berwyn saying what we're all thinking.
25 days ago
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Trying my hand at a meme.
26 days ago
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I wonder if we need separate Blueskys for news and "Hey look at this weird fish"-style posts. The leap between American atrocities and casual chitchat is giving me whiplash.
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Captain Awkward
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Stephanie Lulay
26 days ago
"We cannot allow colleagues to be subjected to spurious and unwarranted arrest for committing acts of journalism."
@blockclubchi.bsky.social
is proud to join newsrooms across the country in condemning the arrests of journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon.
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Media Outlets Condemn the Arrests of Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort
https://www.thecity.nyc/media-outlets-condemn-arrests-journalists-don-lemon-georgia-fort-ice/
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Roses are red, The lovelorn are Venus's...
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DISH WITH A COMPOSITE HEAD OF PENISES
The surface of this extraordinary piece of maiolica – a form of tin-glazed earthenware – is skillfully painted with a head composed of interlaced penises, one of them sporting a ring.
https://www.ashmolean.org/dish-composite-head-penises
26 days ago
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He was found not guilty, so they are deporting him. ICE is made of venal, petty and truly broken people. A broken, venal, petty monster is still a monster.
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27 days ago
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Chicago Tribune
27 days ago
Before Herb Kent “The Cool Gent,” Don Cornelius and so many others, there was Jack L. Cooper, who pioneered a Black radio empire in Chicago.
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'The patriarch of Black radio,' Chicago's Jack Cooper, modeled success as host and businessman
Before Herb Kent “The Cool Gent,” Don Cornelius and so many others, there was Jack L. Cooper, who pioneered a Black radio empire in Chicago.
https://trib.al/jIma3l6
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Out of Context Mickey Mouse Comics
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I'm just a poor, anonymous, behatted fish, but whoever wrote this new article for the Vintage Tribune is probably really cool and quite handsome.
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/01/v...
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'The patriarch of Black radio,' Chicago's Jack Cooper, modeled success as host and businessman
Before Herb Kent “The Cool Gent,” Don Cornelius and so many others, there was Jack L. Cooper, who pioneered a Black radio empire in Chicago.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/01/vintage-tribune-black-radio-jack-coooper/
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RIP Catherine O'Hara. SCTV, Beetlejuice, Home Alone, Nightmare Before Christmas, all the Christopher Guest movies, Schitt's Creek - she literally could not go a decade without making at least one comedy classic.
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Beetlejuice - Day-o (Banana Boat Song)
YouTube video by lipebianc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXVHITd1N4&list=RDAQXVHITd1N4&start_radio=1
30 days ago
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I am looking forward to ignoring David Brooks in an entirely different publication.
30 days ago
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My dearest, I write to you with heavy heart. We have suffered huge losses across the theater. There have been multiple whistlings and Bobby was... asked to leave Shoney's! Oh my love, when will it end! The drum circle outside the Minneapolis Hilton makes it hard to hear Top Chef! War truly is hell.
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Ingrid Burrington
about 1 month ago
I didn't know what Stephen Miller's actual job title is and it's vague enough that I have concluded his actual job basically Jafar from Aladdin
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