being a person who has been mostly avoiding in person events for a bit and am now easing back in due to sanity reasons, i’m unprepared for the classic Chicago experience of wearing clothes for outdoors + suddenly being in god’s hottest venue/bar. it is nice that i’m not the only person masked tho.

here is felix's gofundme page. there is a 10k retainer for his attorney. he avoided a transfer that meant sure-fire deportation and they're working as hard as they can to keep him here. thanks everybody for your generosity it means a lot to me. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

from the editorial board: pee pee poo poo

outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund

miller high life and reading about neurological differences under the rumble of the el tracks: a moment in this already endless feeling winter

“an estimated 60% of those who have been arrested under Operation Midway Blitz have been removed from the U.S. Plaintiffs assert that many class members are choosing to voluntarily depart to escape the unsafe and unsanitary conditions that they have been subjected to while in ICE detention.”

USE YOUR TURN SIGNAL AHHHHHHH :)

hell yeah

MOTHER FUCKING PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

god it sucks so bad that Roddy is extremely hot now, he used to be such a piece of shit

“I’m just enjoying seeing Wheeler Yuta being destroyed by these two men,” - Danielson fixing to get fairly serious tweets from the wives and girlfriends of various ex-chikara wrestlers

this is actually really something. The NY Times stuff is bonkers.

how does powerhouse hobbs have a functional coccyx

ahahahahaha wrestling fuckin rules

It's been rumored for a bit they would leave mid-November. It's not the weather, just the natural lifespan of a ~225 person operation. Before Border Patrol arrived, ICE was still here. They were smashing cars to pull people out of them, taking people from court and check-in appointments, etc.

if ai can do everything why’d you spend so much money buying asset companies and then gutting them

For my dissertation, I'm looking to interview early-career tech workers about LLMs in the workplace! The interviews for this research study are confidential. If you are interested in being interviewed, or would like to know more, please fill out this form! forms.gle/xGnQthnM7wNZ...

Ah man, RIP Nakadai Tatsuya. One of the greatest of the great in everything from all-time classics by the likes of Kurosawa, Naruse, and Kobayashi to Peter Mak and Tsui Hark’s insane Wicked City adaptation.

help support the condé nast fired four with living expenses ❤️‍🩹 pls boost this far and wide xoxo

charli xcx you have to promise me you’ll never sign to sacred bones, you have to promise that to me right now (if you are confused by this post you should listen to “house” with john cale)

could durbin have picked a worse time to publish this?

It should be illegal to do a high profile remake of a movie without ensuring the original is available for streaming in the highest quality possible.

I don’t know who I made this for. Maybe it’s you.

When you post mean jokes about this, famine won’t see them, but your friends who play accordion in dogshit black metal bands will and won’t you look like the bully then

deeply miss when mma was only crypto fascist and rigged instead of just openly fascist and rigged

Saturday night, Cole's Bar hosts a free night of dungeon synth, and appropriately enough, it's gonna be gray, dark, and rainy. If only chain mail were waterproof! chicagoreader.com/music/concer...

More Milkyway Image coming soon from Chameleon Films: Johnnie To's much demanded A Hero Never Dies and Soi Cheang's paranoid thriller Accident. Both releases have been in the works for a while now with A Hero Never Dies even undergoing a digital restoration. New subtitles by me as well.

if we’re doing shimmer retrospectives I gotta say I firmly believe that promotion would have felt less marginal if every regular at their berwyn shows was a normal human being instead of god’s dumbest and meanest pervert (derogatory)

I've been volunteering with SELAH for a little over a year now. We nearly set a new record for participants at yesterday's program-- including very young children. This is week one without benefits.

sports.yahoo.com/wrestling/ar... Shimmer turns 20 and I talked about their history and influence.

A friend’s uncle was detained by federal agents while working as a landscaper in Chicago. Here is the GoFundMe if you’d like to support the family. He leaves behind a child with autism.

Today, Thursday, November 6th at 3 pm ET, we're going to have RV Dougherty on our public picket line. RV wasn't just one of our original organizers but went on to become a staff organizer at OPEIU! Join us on Zoom kickstarterunited.org/picket/

you did it, @nicklutsko.bsky.social www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I didn't catch this but lmfao this is incredible.

Charli XCX currently on the phone with Alan trying to set up the best possible viral marketing for the Faces of Death movie

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Interesting so many occultists are returning from Occulture Berlin raving about "community". Ftr I pulled out of lecturing this year because I don't support embracing or even platforming Scarlet Imprint's transphobic founders. That's not my community. #occult #occulture #witchsky

Protect RP, a rapid response immigrant support network started in 2017 by a group of Rogers Park neighbors, has compiled a list of GoFundMe’s for families in the neighborhood impacted by ICE / CBP abductions and presence in Chicago:

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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If you have @criterionchannl.bsky.social I HIGHLY recommend you check out the restoration they have of The Black and the Green, about a group of mostly Black social justice activists go to Ireland to learn about the situation in Dublin during the Troubles.

my latest is out today. higher ed right now is a difficult place to be, and Palestine is at the heart of it. some faculty, however, are working hard to create networks of support and solidarity despite the difficult terrain. truthout.org/articles/rep...

need everybody to know that Baby Assassins Everyday is one of the best tv shows of the decade and it feels like it kind of effortlessly reaches that level SOMEHOW the (current) peak in a series that has a movie as good as Nice Days

TCM published an article about @cadenmgardner.bsky.social and I's upcoming program on their website. www.tcm.com/articles/Pro...

our neighbor got abducted the other day and the neighborhood is raising money to help out his wife and kids until he gets free. Any help/shares are appreciated gofund.me/7c2338d40

I’ve long been of the opinion that the heaviest possible riffs generally rely on one or two notes (the obvious standard being “firestorm”) and it’s a shame FSU metalcore group diecast don’t get more recognition for their contribution to this genre of riffs. Example: youtu.be/Is0H5GRArbk

I’m DYING

Feeling very 😑 about relapse releasing a new live record from a Nazi (the specific incarnation of incantation that features craig pillard)