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Chicagoan. Aspiring toward a future with in-unit laundry. I block bots.
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Tim Onion
10 days ago
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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My Jewel does not sell cacao nibs
10 days ago
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I haye Apple Glass or whatever this new design interface is on my iPhone, please help, how to undo!!
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Screaming Pectoriloquy
over 1 year ago
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
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RIP, White Eagle. This is where the fam always went after funerals and wakes. Excellent mushroom barley soup.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/w...
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White Eagle in Niles closes after decades as a hub for Polish community and political powerhouses
White Eagle banquet hall was the social center of Chicagoās Polish community for decades. Now it has served its last pierogi.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/white-eagle-niles-polish-community-political-scene/
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Hypervisible
17 days ago
āLandlords may say āsmart homeā devices are a tenant convenience. But the reality is, these AI-enabled systems can track patterns of tenant behavior, identify when people are home, and provide landlords with personal information that could be used to push out tenants perceived as too costly.ā
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ACLU Sues San Francisco Landlords over AI-Powered Surveillance in Tenants' Homes | ACLU of Northern CA
https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-sues-san-francisco-landlords-over-ai-powered-surveillance-tenants-homes
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Puff the Magic Hater
21 days ago
Wherever you live, this story has significant implications because the trend of defunding libraries, when we should be fortifying these outposts of learning, sharing, and survival, is a national phenomenon. Libraries are models of the kind of infrastructure we must EXPAND to get the world we want.
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You Canāt Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
āLibraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
https://organizingmythoughts.org/you-cant-fight-fascism-while-defunding-libraries/
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Better Things Are Possible
24 days ago
What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood
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Martin Nutbeem Yes OK It's Christmas
23 days ago
This is why it's important to have Arts/Humanities courses AND STEM courses. It all fits together, they compliment each other. There's no such thing as useless education.
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Phil Lewis
24 days ago
Santa Fe is linking wages to rental prices ā a first in the U.S. ā as officials try to slow displacement with soaring housing costs
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Santa Fe tackles rental rates with first-in-US minimum wage approach
Santa Fe is the first city in the U.S. to directly link wages to housing affordability, aiming to counter high rents.
https://apnews.com/article/santa-fe-living-wage-rent-prices-9215167e87e8e168a487304fcdefd626?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-30-Cost+of+living
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JonnyPops in Very Berry Lemonade should be made freely and readily accessible to nauseated people everywhere.
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Literally not a Midwesterner unless your fam has stored Swedish meatballs in a Cool Whip container.
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Rich folks getting fancy-schmancy houses built from scratch should be required to pay everyone living and working in the vicinity for the many months of disturbance.
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Edith
about 1 month ago
Cis allies can pair up and call the authorities on each other for being trans in a public bathroom, exhaust due process until medical records are subpoenaed, and tire the cops with it until they complain so much about enforcing it that they stop bothering, like they did for non-crime hate incidents.
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NO TO SIDEWALK BOTS: Chicago residents, sign this petition:
NoSidewalkBots.org
29 people have reported incidentsārobots blocking wheelchair users, forcing people into the street, hitting small dogs. At least one hit someone on Clark.
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No Sidewalk Bots
Pause sidewalk robots in Chicago until safety/ADA findings and job impacts are reviewed in a public hearing.
https://NoSidewalkBots.org
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Mia Farrow
about 1 month ago
Members of Congress receive up to $79 per day for meals and incidentals when they are on official business in the D.C. area. SNAP recipients receive $6.31 per day
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Ana Marie Cox
about 1 month ago
I've been reposting everyone replying to this post with their own ACA (and sometimes employer!) price hikes. Feel free to add yours. There is some comfort in knowing you aren't alone and knowing we'll all be voting on this issue in a year. Chuck Schumer should be chucked out.
#chuckchuck
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As every perma-pedestrian in Chicago knows, the day(s) after a snowfall render our streets an obstacle course, and some property owners donāt make things any easier.
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Everyone able to should be donating blood on the regular. Sooner or later youāll likely need a transfusion.
www.jeffersonhealth.org/your-health/...
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Why Blood Transfusions for People with Cancer Are Necessary | Jefferson Health
Blood donations help support life-saving treatments, such as chemotherapy. A hematologist-oncologist and transfusion medicine specialist explain how you can help.
https://www.jeffersonhealth.org/your-health/living-well/why-blood-transfusions-for-people-with-cancer-are-necessary
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Not far from me; please sign:
www.change.org/p/demand-the...
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Sign the Petition
Demand The Release of Chicago Teacher Illegally Detained By Ice
https://www.change.org/p/demand-the-release-of-chicago-teacher-illegally-detained-by-ice
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From the cta community on Reddit: Illinois needs to save transit THIS WEEK
Explore this post and more from the cta community
https://www.reddit.com/r/cta/s/ZaeCkqHz6s
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ICE arrests Chicago man whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer: āHe belongs with herā
Ofelia Torres has spent almost every day of the past month at Lurie Childrenās Hospital, where the 16-year-old Lake View High School student is fighting cancer.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/ice-arrests-chicago-man-teenage-daughter-cancer/
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maraleia
2 months ago
Why is your State Police helping them then Governor. You appointed their leader and have control over them. Do something.
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Governor JB Pritzker
2 months ago
Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents. ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities. The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
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Simply having an Em, midly Christmastime š
2 months ago
Chicago is a truly great city. The perfect mix of homey and cosmopolitan. Weāve got good home cooking from around the globe, people who donāt just want to be in a city but want to be in their neighborhood in their city, and a vibe thatās both no-nonsense and neighborly. Iād die to defend it.
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Bill Kristol
2 months ago
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: āThe ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pope-leo-news-agencies-bulwark-against-lies-manipulation-post-truths/
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Jim Daley
3 months ago
If you see local law enforcement assisting ICE by arresting protesters, establishing perimeters, or otherwise responding to ICE activity, FILE A COMPLAINT and send us video/photos City:
www.chicagocopa.org/complaints/i...
County:
apps.cookcountyil.gov/oiig/
State:
oeig.illinois.gov/complaints/o...
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Brent Toderian
3 months ago
So the business model is dependent on theft.
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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles
3 months ago
There are some very strange things going on at the Library of Congress. Iām doing searches for news articles from the Civil Rights Era. Political cartoons. That sort of thing. They used to be easily found. That stuff is VERY hard to find now. Things are missing, people.
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OlĆŗfįŗ¹Ģmi O. TĆ”Ćwò
3 months ago
important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.
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Robert Reich
3 months ago
BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S. AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers. Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.
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Cannot emphasize enough how in my role as a copyeditor, the style choice to use or not use the serial comma is typically among the least of my concerns.
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Marnie Shure
3 months ago
Not to derail us from every other more urgent matter, but like ...everyone else's cell service is getting way worse and less reliable too, right?
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Quinoa might be healthy for you, but itās a nightmare in the kitchen to clean. I keep finding it everywhere?! I think itās between the floorboards
3 months ago
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Kyle Cheney
3 months ago
JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The it of That (Satire)
3 months ago
Meanwhile in Chicago⦠How many ICE does it take to illegally abduct one little bicycle delivery guy? Weāll never know.
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Chip Mitchell
3 months ago
Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S.
#BorderPatrol
, claims a
@wbez.org
/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown
#Chicago
was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
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Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on āhow they lookā
WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/30/transcript-audio-gregory-bovino-immigrant-arrests-downtown-chicago-chosen-how-they-look
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Micah
3 months ago
there's this assumption by the admin that there is an infinite supply of buff KKK members ready to fill the ranks of the military and ICE and I have bad news for them both about the overall number of KKK members and their general fitness level
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Michael Clemens
3 months ago
Deploying our superb armed forces on American soil, in peacetime, against Americans, is an illegal and unspeakable perversion of our men and women in uniform. Military rule will bring profound and lasting harm to all of us. Conservative and Liberal Americans reject it. We the people reject it.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk šš±
3 months ago
They've lost the 9yos
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Does ACES Editors have a chat forum of any kind anymore? I donāt even know how to get in touch with my work-role counterparts nationwide.
3 months ago
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Karen Yin (The Conscious Style Guide)
3 months ago
Editors, rise up.
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Jennifer Davis
3 months ago
You must understand, it's a moat
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Guided a higher-up against writing in a presentation things like, āAccording to Geminiā¦ā just as we would not go around saying, āAccording to the libraryā¦.ā (Thought the latter would be much more reliable.)
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Micah
3 months ago
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
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Jared Yates Sexton
3 months ago
Iām kind of starting to think that any democratic uprising by the people is going to include a full-on rejection of tech and its makers. Just throwing these machines into a river and holding the designers responsible.
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Chen Chen
3 months ago
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. āLucille Clifton
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