the posts from Forbes that most often show up in my feed are ones with clickbait titles that are about MASSIVE MICROSOFT PROBLEMS THAT WILL MAKE YOUR COMPUTER EXPLODE IF YOU DON'T FIX IT and then it turns out to 1) be paywalled, and 2) not actually be a problem, there's just a software update

All proceeds from this pattern go to Minnesotans impacted by ICE (have I ever knitted a hat? No! But I started with sweaters, so hopefully I can figure out a hat) www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

My best friend lives in Lewiston. She's a special ed teacher at a school with a relatively high number of immigrant/refugee students. She's already seen changes among the students and their parents, and she is terrified that one of her kids is going to get hurt.

No one from my hometown has the right to say "Chicago politicians are crooks" to me anymore (Also I went to high school with his kids. Nothing about this situation surprises me.) www.bnd.com/news/local/a...

Guess where my best friend lives? 🫠

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

This thing seems like a phone that just does Dumbphone Stuff in various contexts? It's really focused on emails and chat apps. There's a deeply ironic analog/anti-social media trend on TikTok right now, and I could see this appealing to that crowd!

Got honked at twice by the same dude for taking full stops at stop signs I love driving in Chicago it’s so fun and great

They got it to be communist 😂

all i'm saying is that there were better options

This is very weird to me. Disney is notoriously stingy with its copyrights, so handing its characters over to the Plagiarism Machine That Also Makes Porn is...a choice. It seems like they want to use it as a way to get free content out of fans, but I'm not sure they thought this through??

I already finished my reading goal for the year, but I didn’t really like the last book I read, so I’m ending on what will surely be a high note (also this will be 12th @tkingfisher.com book of the year somehow???)

Does anybody know what the audiobook situation is for @tkingfisher.com's newest book "Snake-Eater"? There seem to be a US and UK edition. I can't get the UK edition because I'm in the US, but the US edition seems to be Audible-only, but it doesn't actually say that anywhere on the website.

I looked into the company and am literally crying. They save gay sheep from slaughterhouses. They have a program where you can "adopt" a sheep and they call it Sponsorsheeps. This is the best thing I've ever seen. rainbow-wool.com

I'm only on page 11. This really stuck out to me. They're probably flat-out lying in their reports and are absolutely viewing all protests as riots, but asking ChatGPT to create a report for them probably didn't help!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

If Sinners doesn't win any of its categories I'm going to riot

HeinOnline, a company I genuinely like, released AI-generated article summaries on some of the articles that live in their Law Journal Library. I've now compared two of the summaries to their parent articles. Both were not that good. /1

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help.

NEW — Video footage obtained by The TRiiBE shows federal agents pulling Laugh Factory Night Manager Nate Griffin as he holds on to a scaffold. Bystanders screamed at the agents, saying "Show your face," as they detained Griffin. thetriibe.com/2025/10/laug...

ICE is confirmed to be using tear gas in Lakeview

Not about to blast my entire stress address, but there have been more ICE abduction reports in my neighborhood, including some around the corner from my home. This is the closest they've physically come to me and it's utterly terrifying. (I'm working on campus today at least.) iceout.org/en/

My alderman just posted this, and I got an ICIRR alert about it. Broadway/Belmont is close to my home. They also grabbed people from LaSalle/Stockton, which all of the Lakeview/LP/express buses go through.

When I think of A.I. I think of asbestos. To begin with everyone thought Asbestos was amazing, folk used it in everything. Then they started learning it was dangerous, research was done, they stopped using it, thou for some the damage was already done. Stop using A.I and limit the damage it's doing.

Bost represents my hometown, and this is the least shocking thing he could’ve done

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

(I know that that's not the conclusion of the study, but seriously, what do you expect us to do???????)

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

Hey so the president is saying that he's going to use major cities with Dem mayors (including the one I live in) as training grounds for the military, which is so beyond unsettling and terrifying that I don't really have the words! What the hell is going on!

I've been playing The Sims in some form or another since 2004, but I can't in good conscience give these people/entities my money. It's my comfort game, but I just can't do it. apnews.com/article/ea-e...

There are quite a few posts on the Chicago subreddit with photos and videos. They snatched an entire family. They’re armed and in one of the busiest areas of the city on a Sunday. I want to say that this is unbelievable, but I can’t quite get there anymore.

Idk if there's just too much traffic on the site or what, but Hulu will not let me change my plan right now. It just keeps refreshing the "manage your subscriptions" page.

One of the comments on this article suggests using this tool to weed out "fake" disability claims for depression. I have depression. I also have no poker face and raging RBF. I look upset by default. But if my facial muscles don't move in the way the AI wants, would my depression be discounted?

The complaint in this case is BANANAS. "Trump /is/ a success!!!" 😫 *stomps foot* (Also thank to to the author for including a link to the complaint. A lot of articles don't do that and it makes it harder to find things.)

Reddit is a cesspool *if you let it be.* I stick to my subreddits about cross stitch and The Sims and it's mostly a delightful experience. If you had any inkling of the "deep, dark Internet" at all, you would know this.

it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)

There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces

HE FUCKING TURNED HIMSELF IN.

I just watched a TikTok that sums up my Thoughts about today very well: "What Charlie Kirk deserved was to have to fix the world that he created."

Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is horrific, it's likely to lead to a very dark spiral that will worsen political violence, and it is also a byproduct of a profoundly broken society awash in 400 million guns.

people on the right don’t tend to wait for any information about the motivations of the shooter before blaming the left. But Kirk had enemies on the right too; some of them surely live in Utah. And as with any shooting, the shooter’s motivations may not map onto any coherent politics at all.

I don’t mourn Charlie Kirk much, though I do feel empathy for those who cared for him. But I am grievously concerned for what is going to happen to this country next, because political violence never rests easy on the marginalized.

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

Chicago pharmacies are getting COVID boosters! The CVS portal asked me if I fell under the risk factor list (I do), but it didn't ask me what condition specifically. If you want the vaccine, just check that box. Limiting access to high risk individuals only is absurd.

I've had major depression my entire life. I cannot imagine the damage ChatGPT would've done to me while in my worst depressive episodes, especially as a teenager. A case like this will be incredibly difficult to win, but I applaud the Raines for trying.