giant "HOLLYWOOD" style letters on a hillside spelling out TIRED

It’s really hard to tell what’s AI and whats real when a bunch of ICE goons kidnapping a giraffe in a thong for singing is just America in 2025

Show a librarian some love and nominate them for an I Love My Librarian Award! Nominations due 12/15. It's not a great time to be a library worker. Spark joy!

FLAMES OUT OF THE SIDE OF MY FACE there is no forgiveness for these horrors, ever

A teacher in Humboldt Park just shared this with me. Parent volunteers are needed to walk kids and keep them safe. Sharing here. If someone can do alt text for me thank you. My anxiety is at 100 right now and I can’t process this all right now. #Chicago

Siamese cat cleanse #CatsOfFediverse

Disgusting

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

Credit to @msbtterswrth.altgov.info

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

its important to read the actual words these people are getting deported for... will be interesting to see if this is just a test case or if they are going to try to ramp this up

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

Dozens of federal agents raiding an entire apartment building with kids in it just to see what they can find. It’s the most egregious abuse of our basic rights as Americans I've seen in a long time, maybe in my lifetime,” says Chris Hayes.  youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

a White House staffer was just tapping away all kinds of shit talk in the secret secure Signal chat in a place where someone could take *numerous* photographs of his phone screen undetected and walk them over to the Minnesota Star-Tribune

Signalgate 2.0, this time not about plans for attacking Houthis in Yemen, but sending the 82nd Airborne to Portland, Oregon

Setting up for a drop in collage and decoupage workshop at the SF Disability Cultural Center! Drop by any time this afternoon before 4!

Imagine throwing an 80 year old man to the pavement for any reason at all. These fake soldiers love to be cruel www.reddit.com/r/law/s/9zn7...

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

A very white, and famous, and most deadly immortal monster, Don;—but that would be too long a story.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

He’s the devil, I say. The reason why you don’t see his tail, is because he tucks it up out of sight; he carries it coiled away in his pocket, I guess.

Happened upon a sound check by Ellen Fullman at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris on Thursday. Had never heard of a “long stringed instrument” before. Wasn’t able to catch the concert itself but a very cool treat to see her taking it for a dry run in an amazing space. #ambient-music

Holy shit! He was not ok. He needed mental health treatment and care. Why didn’t his family try to get him help? So sorry for the victims and their families. He is exactly why we need sensible gun legislation. 😬💔

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Adorably draped in a fuzzy blanket #CatsOfBluesky

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay

Wow wtf!!

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Brown Pelicans skimming the water looking for fish. Albany Mudflats, San Francisco Bay, Albany, California. #birds #nature #eastcoastkin

Khaaan! would like a word with you in her office #CatsOfBluesky

Oh no! Dear Maru 💔💜😭

Anyway, here’s a picture of my cat Carrot

The journey of poets through the winding labyrinth of language is one of incomparable wonders and stray goats.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

in a similar, but somewhat inverse example, I found myself logging out of work, where I am writing a report on how ineffective software teams can be at sharing context to go to an HOA meeting where I suggested essentially a listserve, jira board, and wiki lol

To spell some shit out unambiguously: fascism requires domestic abuse to propagate itself. Demands it. There is no way to humanely teach your children that might makes right. There is no way to gently love a spouse you think is your genetic intellectual inferior. These are inextricably linked.

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

Fauxmo - not really being afraid of missing out.

The new statue of the Madonna at Santa Teresa di Gallura is an "abstract of Mary's form" 👀