Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

free ICE watch training tomorrow at the broadside, 6pm, presented by chicago indivisible organizers who just lived through this hell we are about to experience. come get prepared and get a whistle kit!

Since Bovino left it seems every day or every other day I hear of someone abducted by ICE agents. It’s slower, less flashy, but still happening.

Jimmy Cliff, the charismatic reggae pioneer and actor who preached joy, defiance and resilience in such classics as “Many Rivers to Cross,” “You Can Get it If You Really Want” and “Vietnam” and starred in the landmark movie “The Harder They Come,” has died at 81. https://to.pbs.org/4ptgRug

It’s profoundly amazing to me how these writers could get around so much problematic baggage by just including a paragraph that says something like, “of course this has economic, emotional, and physical stakes for mothers…”

really is incredible how often "men are having a problem, let's fix it using someone else's entire life" comes up. does the institute for family studies understand that children are whole complete human beings whose existence cannot be used as a coping mechanism for their fathers' anxieties? (no)

I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next. Will come back to dissect. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

Fucking Saints lol

MOOD (Watching the Saints game)

I am SCREAMING my neighbors are going to complain hahahaha WHAT THE FUCK

That PILE of humanity” 😂😂😂 Send Taysom in!

Ok the flying tackle was hilarious what an effort lmao

Yesterday's music post today.

@chezlin.bsky.social did a thing

People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth

Bill voted to confirm RFK because he was afraid of being primaried by yahoos for going against Trump. So he fell in line. He is getting primaried by yahoos anyway. One of America's most hapless oafs.

This kind of thing wouldn’t happen if we had a mayor who was actually willing to take on aldermanic prerogative. CDOT would be more than happy to ignore this sort of request if they had the necessary political cover. Having a proper South Loop ward would also help.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law. There must be consequences.

since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.

Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

“What once sounded unthinkable is now being said openly: Tehran is not viable; and evacuation orders are imminent. As I wrote before, President Masoud Pezeshkian himself said that it might be necessary to relocate Tehranis in large number.” open.substack.com/pub/peterfra...

When you sacrifice your trans students to the government, they're gonna keep coming back for more

Big demand for whistles in New Orleans and 3D printing is the fastest/cheapest way to produce them right now. If you can help with printing, DM me. There are volunteers already handling pickups, dropoffs, regular printed materials and bundling. We could just use more people printing.

A friend here in New Orleans writes: "Went to grab a quick dinner and the restaurant had a "NO ICE ACCESS" sign was in the door window. They were serving in to go containers. " 1/ #NewOrleans #ICE

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

I’m responsible for NOTHING this Thanksgiving and I love that for me. Going full goblin mode this week.

Please! A bit of precision here would do a lot of good. Sure, using AI instead of machine learning may make the media pay more attention to your study. But do you really want the people reading the stories to believe that your results came from asking ChatGPT? And yes, they will believe that.

Also, tired of freezer jenga? Freeze anything liquidish flat on a baking sheet, then you can file it. Pasta sauce, soups, chili, etc. This is ~10L of pasta sauce.

Oh wait this is actually a good idea

I'm still thinking about this article, & how I, a person who lives in the city of Chicago, never used to go into the basement when I heard tornado sirens, but now I do. Just because something has never happened before doesn't mean it won't. We are in unprecedented times of climate change.

well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.

The angriest I ever saw my grandmother get was the Thanksgiving she agreed to let one of her sisters host the meal. She showed up at 7 am to help cook and the turkey was still frozen

Those motherfuckers are out. Just witnessed a "stop" at Shirley and Gen de Gaulle. My daughter is sobbing. I'm ragey. If you're white and can get in their way, please do. Headed back to WB after dropping kid off. Stay safe. Couldn't find the gd # so I DMd union migrante.

It's that time of year

These people are all so disgusting.

Y’all, she’s resigning but she’s not going away

At a recent gathering of Rogers Park volunteers, we heard from a neighbor who choked up telling us about their dad turning around and going home when he heard whistles up the street. "One of you may have saved his life that day." It all matters, it really does.

The strategy of stacking this press gaggle with idiot right wingers has totally backfired.

Lmaoooo this is astonishing to watch, he obviously is impressed by Mamdani hahahhaa

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

DOH. HUGE NEWS in the tariff wars! (Point Roberts is a tiny sliver of America you can basically only reach from Canada.)

New Orleans people, a friend and I are in the planning stages of a paper mache workshop for beginners; two evenings in early January. More info to come! Feel free to DM me if you want to be notified about it once we've figured out the details.

there’s so much in this opinion it’s natural to focus on the particularly brutal elements that did happen but I keep personally remembering that the feds were authorized to kill Chicagoans if they felt they had to for a safe exit.

If you aren’t willing to publicly embarrass yourself by loving something but being bad at it and doing it anyway, then you should shut up, probably

The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone

people keep saying that SpaceX is not like Elon's other companies but I increasingly question that

The domino meme and the smallest domino is "Craigslist destroys classified ad revenue for local newspapers" and the big domino is, well, everything happening now

I’ve been absolutely thinking Miz Now in my head, like it’s a women’s magazine. Looking through other comments I’m not alone, why did they do this lmao!