TuneMyMusic is fantastic and lightning fast for transferring your Spotify playlists to wherever you go next. And go we must, loves.

As a trans woman, I love the way my allies treat Harry Potter casting announcements as if those actors died in a plane crash.

I get one brand new article of clothing a year, typically pants, at Christmastime, as a traditional present from my wife. Otherwise, I shop exclusively at the thrift store - with the occasional purchase from an independent business or artist that I like. And I'm fashionable as fuck.

I worry constantly about anonymous reddit posters asking "Gee guys I want to help out but how are we fighting back against ICE today? Exactly where? What orgs should I know about?" and hundreds of comments just...telling them.

This is a direct response to the No Kings protest, without question. Love, a narcissistic abuse survivor

Each era's culture is reflected in their most popular frog.

You don't get the numbers we did on Saturday unless the people with nothing to lose for doing nothing show up. Those are the people we need to turn this around. Progress moves at the pace with which they volunteer for discomfort. Give them due credit for showing up now, and they'll show up again.

A dad walked by with his two girls while I was setting this up. He pointed and said to his daughter: "You know what that is?" She didn't. "It's YOU! You're a gremlin!" I am proud that all the dads in the neighborhood get to make that joke this Halloween.

No Kings-Chicago, IL

They’re mad at anti fascism because they’re fascists They’re mad at anti racism because they’re racists

I've lived in Chicago for 20 years this fall. I've lived in Uptown, Downtown, Chinatown, & more. I've been to fests Pride, Riot, Arts, & Midsommar. I've ridden the Naked Bike Ride. I've biked in a polar vortex. I crowdsurfed in the street when the Sox won the series. I will always love this city.

If your marketing campaign includes a flyer hanging on doors or stuck under windshields across an entire neighborhood, I see your business as I see your flyers: trash.

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end. In the meantime: • Figure out a small way to help someone • Figure out a small way to fight back • Figure out a small place to find joy • Figure out a small way to grow and thrive And do it often.

“The facts do not justify the President’s actions.” The federal courts continue confirming what we all know: there’s no need to deploy military troops in Illinois.

A house up the street has those tombstones with jokey names on their lawn, and one is "Cassidy Spells." So, my life for the foreseeable future is muttering "A-CASSA-DEE SPELLS, MON" under my breath while I try to do other things.

I must occasionally visit Facebook with a dummy account for my job, to access things an organization page can't. Reader, it is an AI swamp of bad faith bigoted bootlicking trolls and bots, triggered by keywords. I left and deleted my data because it was "like that," but woof. It wasn't LIKE THIS.

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..." www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Where is the mainstream campaign educating average and older people about the impact of AI on working artists, the environment, and personal safety? I'm convinced its pervasiveness, even in spaces we're supposed to trust as progressive, is an education issue over a values issue.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Wow, I haven't thought about Bring Her Back at all since I saw it (earlier this week). Not because it was bad, but because of how deeply upsetting it was to me. My brain just yeeting it out of the archives.

The National Guard is ordered to leave Chicago!! Resume the mandatory transgenderizing of the Christians, my Antifa brethren!!

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois." That's it. Thanks again for following.

Perry: "I see no credible evidence there is a danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."

Listen to scientists and not sociopaths in public office. Get your annual COVID vaccine.

Perry says she will call the court back into session between 4:30 pm and 5 pm to rule; she gives DOJ until 4 pm to offer more evidence that anyone has called for national guard troops to protect the Dirksen courthouse.

PERRY NOT SUFFERING FOOLS.

Oh my god he's Bizarro Lincoln. Actively trying to splinter the union. Inarticulate. Insecure. Dishonest. Commemorating himself. Perfect opposites. The only thing they have in common is being fuck ugly.

And when we say "fighting," we don't mean violence. We mean fighting to stop the escalation by federally appointed goons and bullies. Fighting the urge to respond to explicit, violent provocation. Fighting the blatant lies and propaganda spewing from the state agitators.

And she said it as the preamble to a message of hope. Absolute legend.

MORE OF THIS.

It's pretty obvious that ICE's biggest hurdle is that they don't have footage of "cities in chaos" to back their narrative. We have to keep denying them that, no matter how hard they instigate.

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

We did this Tilly Norwood thing already with Aki Ross from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. She was a Maxim Hot 100 model! Matt Dillon took one look at what was supposed to be his character and fled the project because surely these "things" would replace real actors. They did not.

Complete waste to have an AI actress who just looks like a regular human. We already have those. She should have a hand growing out of her face or something

Devastated. It can't be overstated how lucky we are - how lucky this planet is - to have had the astounding Jane Goodall working so hard for us and for the stewardship of nature for 91 years. I can't remember a time when I didn't know her name, or love her. And her legacy will outlive all of us. 💚🐵

I'm autistic. I don't need to be cured. Especially now that I understand it better, I love the way my brain works. I love the way I see the world. Autism is at its most challenging when butting up against the fact that our society is not built to accommodate it. But I'm not broken.

This racist misogyny assembly could have been an email.

I went to two high schools. Both have reunions soon. One is at a suburban country club with a preppy dress code & costs $100 to go. The other is just tailgating the crosstown classic high school football game in the parking lot. I'll probably stay home & play video games. Just like in high school!

Put some Benny Hill music on this.

As someone who has been peacefully protesting at Broadview every Friday for weeks, I cannot in good conscience fail to name these additional risks publicly or advise others to go. ICE is escalating and confrontational protest right now will likely make conditions worse for everyone except ICE. 4/6

RIP Carmella Creeper, gone too soon. You were put under too much pressure to be a brand ambassador out the gate, distracting from the simple fact that caramel apple cereal was a perfect, delicious idea! Frute Brute was iced for 30 years before his comeback. And so my candle for Carmella shall burn.

"Overwhelm is the point, stay strong, don't despair - " You know what?? As a genderqueer autistic person with no generational wealth, I'm gonna have a little despair. As a treat.

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We started failing as a nation when we took the second syllable out of squirrel.

Okay, but this one definitely pissed himself, while sailing along River North with the kayakers and water taxis. Guaranteed they're just here to take cosplay photos in front of Trump Tower.

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️