Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

The funny thing about this meeting is that Mamdani didn't back down on a single policy point or anything he's said about Trump.

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Trump drooling over Mamdani in the Oval Office the same day Hakeem Jeffries voted to condemn socialism could not be funnier to me

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Saw a mutual skeet about this yesterday, prompted me to buy the game, spent 6 hours playing through it last night This is such an excellent game, even the tutorials are a ton of fun and incredibly well written. This is absolutely the game I needed rn.

The Trump administration proposed stricter definitions for federally protected waterways this week, potentially removing protections from seasonal wetlands and streams across Illinois and the Midwest under the 1972 Clean Water Act.

Living a very Midwest week: euchre league on Monday, trivia on Tuesday, bowling tonight

hey instead of reading and sharing some book that sucks by a woman in love with an insane corpse who neither deserves nor needs the coverage, why not instead buy and read MY book. due to me being normal simplicitybook.xyz

So the sole human destiny is to keep on killing off nature until the biosphere collapses, and us with it? Sorry, but I believe in another future, in which *both* nature and people thrive. It IS possible.

Roth’s key question: “How do you negotiate with someone who’s willing to destroy what we do well?” applies to *every* institution in Trump’s crosshairs. Every institution who cut a deal failed the test, because *even after Trump is gone* every GOP administration will threaten higher ed.

I don't have "too many tabs open." My tabs are flourishing. Healthy. Bountiful. The ecosystem is thriving.

Beautiful, powerful, important thread

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i haven't noticed the cloudflare outage because i've only been visiting morally pure websites today

one would assume she's a jane Mayer generational talent running these shenanigans but she sleeping with these men and bringing back stuff we already know

When they crash the economy again I'll be wearing a barrel with suspenders but I'll still be doing the Nelson Muntz Ha-Ha at all the wise business guys

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People who need people, are the luckiest people in the world

This is embarrassing but I still played with Barbies at 15 (because I had younger sisters and we didn't have a lot of entertainment options). 15 is still a child. 16 is still a child. 17-20 are becoming adults but shouldn't face this. This is repulsive & disgusting and can't be acceptable.

This man bought the Temu Picture of Dorian Gray

a heinous news cycle in every sense of the word

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

this is why they are all super horny for AI to do it for them

Reinventing the game cube *Sigh*

Harvard grads can call the Harvard Alumni Association and politely let them know they won't donate to the school as long as Summers is working there. Their number is 617-496-0559.

No words. I’m a block from home.

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

Why did Bluesky suspend Sarah Kendzior? What the fuck. I haven't ever seen her be hostile to people here. She's actually quite civil and measured. Fuck this shitty ass app.

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

Dick Durbin wanted his legacy to be killing your mother because she can’t afford cancer treatment.

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

yeah sure i'm cool with a fifty year mortgage i'll just pay it off with my one trillion dollar compensation package, i love reality by the way

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection! This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits: www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...

Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.

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Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.

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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Letting a computer make decisions is letting whoever controls the computer decide the range of acceptable choices. There is no way that the owners of the AI systems will allow them to make decisions which are optimal for the user but against the interests of the owner... 1/

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

The rich have shamed poor people into silence to such an extent that almost no one knows how absolutely crushing it is to be poor in this country.

Just got an alert that ICE is showing up today in Park Slope. I have a feeling that their presence is going to grow quickly in retaliation for Mamdani’s win. Chicagoans have learned a lot. I have to think ppl have put together good resources to post about how to effectively resist them?

Man, this shit is out of hand and someone need tell us why in the fuck we are blowing up fucking boats? This ain't the shit we are fucking supposed to be doing. Someone please explain why in the entire fuck we are just blowing up fucking people? It needs to happen now www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

Portland OR friends, would you consider fostering a dog? The need is urgent. www.multcopets.org/foster