This proposes setting up an extensive network of finks, among other things. It is explicitly anti-1st amendment and I'd like to see a single "free speech" mofo stand against it.

Hey @imleor.bsky.social, don't know if you were around when Akira was this a hip "indie" fashion store with chain aspirations resulting in at least 3 storefronts in Wicker Park, but Small Cheval has a similar vibe if more spread out. The dissonance of small biz wrapping on a corporate-ish mentality.

"Without its ideals, America is a piece of trash!" God DAMN

TIL "skitsnack" is the Swedish word for "bullshit" that's it, that's the post

the adherents of the JB Alberto's Peace Prize are at war with the adherents of the Pequod's Peace Prize. the winner gets the Peace Piece, the largest slice of pizza ever seen in Chicago

Strikeforce: Morituri, a standalone Marvel series from Jim Shooter's New Universe project,is one of the best Marvel Comics titles I've read, great pulp writing with existential elements that deeply resonate with current struggles. Summary of issue one here: classiccomics.org/thread/5616/...

CASABLANCAS by James Cameron

thank you to everyone finding this essay in a brand new magazine - one that is trying to do something different in this time of media consolidation...

The producers of the Blowback podcast must be feeling kind of smug right now. variety.com/2023/digital...

Side note: whatever stage of grief is "letting James Gunn direct your REM cycle provides some relief" is a somewhat okay one.

The marketing for the new NIN project is something else.

My friend, my friend, I was born doing reference work in sin, and born confessing it. This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue’s wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

Dreamt of sitting in Cafe Mustache and John Cena sat down and said, "to give oneself over to love is also to accept the inevitability of loss and death" the paused and said "sorry, that was meant to be more poetic than depressing - wait" then he got up and did a dance with the owner and staff.

wow who was he up against

Put to a banjo, brain rot's deep roots in other surreal leaning slang is evident and makes it seem timeless. youtu.be/LCeQ8n0FiFw?...

RIP Frank Gehry

Suggestion: we need an offline environment for creating, storing and sharing tv, film & music files. To counter the ills of streaming, physical media (DVDs, CDs, tapes) has practical limits & online file sharing involves risks & complexity some may find limiting. But offline media sharing...🤔

Stations need rebuilds & rehabs & long term but nearly half a billion for one is absurd. At some point one scales back or cancels. Particularly when so many neglected basic issues - like replacing broken train tracking monitors - are also long term spending & would reduce the need for rebuilds!

what people really want in a transit system is one really fancy station. and once you've got it you don't even need the other ones really, because why would you want to go somewhere else? you're already at the fancy station

It's infrastucture funding by spectacle over sustainabilty, as leaders only see success in spending big on specific things. Big money for maintenance & operations, increasing existing service, keeping fares low or (god forbid) more & better paid staff or even a new bus line is too abstract & dull.

CTA wasting $444 million on a pointlessly flash rehab of a single station, 150% over initial estimates, far more than any recent station cost, maybe the most ever. And closing one of its busiest stations for 4 years. At nearly 1/2 billion it should take months. chicago.suntimes.com/transportati...

Crumb hitting a repellent level of mean old crank unmitigated by art or self awareness is unsurprising and perhaps inevitable after Aline passed.

188 Challenge: choose cool cover versions of great songs. Only one per day, if not every day, for as long as one can. No explanations. No reviews. youtu.be/WoNc7ee8NkA?...

The plaque marks the Near West Side home where Black Panther leaders Mark Clark and Fred Hampton were killed by police on Dec. 4, 1969.

The majority in the US oppose a war on Venezuela. We’re joining the call to mobilize against the Trump administration's push toward a catastrophic war against Venezuela this Saturday, December 6. (1/2)

Yes PSL is a nexus of cranks & folks who haven't yet given up on the cranks But the amount of social, legal and, at times, physical pressure against anti-war activism means those with the dedication to show up first will include some real cranks & more just labeled cranks by those same pressures.

That's cos "liberal anti-war activism" is an oxymoron. Liberals exist to gatekeep "far" (i.e. anti-capitalist) left positions until deemed safe (for capitalism). It defaults to inaction. This inertia is so intense, some who manage to organize action anyway may a bit much, even by left standards.

"If you ever think about me, and if you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind, if you’re not gonna work for the people." On this day in 1969, Fred Hampton was shot to death by Chicago, Cook County and federal police as he slept in his apartment.

i genuinely didnt know this level of Online existed theyre declaring war on mods

Never smoked, seeing medical fundraisers for people who worked in entertainment or service in the days smokey bars, still feel shame about how blithe my crowd were about subjecting them to the risk despite it being established fact so long ago some of us weren't born yet.

When smoking bans in bars started, got into a flamewar with otherwise left smokers spouting reactionary libertarian BS & Fox News like contortions to avoid address the toxicity of 2nd hand smoke & their disregard for workers subjected to it. I hope some remember & feel ashamed now.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a billionaire toddler stamping his foot on the floor and crying forever

My anti-book piracy stance has an exception. People like this should never see a dime for their drek and sales should be so bad that it may render such future "not good enough for a Livejournal ramble posted without a single reread, but it's part of our inner circle" books unpublishable.

To paraphrase poet and activist Scott Woods: If you ask me if our system is more racist, sexist or classist, my answer is yes.

"Brrrr.. Hang on" [Looks at RealFeel] "oh well then, not so bad" [Removes coat]

This sounds like a Saturday morning cartoon where the children of Rage Against The Machine members have formed their own band, and solve mysteries while they’re on tour.

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Amanda Fortini is the author and, by her high school grad year, is 48 or 49. Rather than address how the Gen X is an absurd label that crams a 15 year age range into one demographic for malicous marketing & political purposes, this dumbass picks a bar fight & drags in the rest of us.

The ghost of William O'Neal has logged on. But seriously, block this person whose trolling centrist politics makes them an attention vampire.

Let’s be real, Bluesky wrapped is just that website that tells you how many accounts are blocking you

187. Challenge: choose cool cover versions of great songs. Only one per day, if not every day, for as long as one can. Usually No explanations. No reviews, but this is a repost of one of my earliest posts with a video that got deleted. Now it's back and still relevant. youtu.be/7GJOGZWhxxk?...

I don't usually tag folks but @leonardpierce.bsky.social - struggling to think of a non-spinoff show besides Blue Bloods that ran so long being no ones first choice ever. Like there are shows like NCIS:LA that erase from memory as you watch it, but they coast off the original.

This got me wondering about the longest running least essential TV drama / comedy. Not just lasting past initial relevance, but despite little impression on the larger culture from the start. It think Blue Bloods may be it - 14 years as top show for using network tv as background on a Friday evening

Sometimes wonder if the * next to "Current" means *in a more quaint era accessible by the time portal.

Was looking at a suburban job & the only able to commute & have a life was keeping my car near a suburban metra stop & taking the train to & from it. Every drive from my home hit so many choke points it meant 12+ hour workdays. Alas, 24 hour parking ended near the stop so that job was impossible.