djrum dropping it >>>

heroes

reskort if there are years where it’s easier to imagine someone’s voice than the city

an irl princess bubblegum & marceline just crossed the street in front of us (the former had a bag shaped like a donut with a pink furry tail) i love chicago

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.

better to be married to the sea than married to the sky

“Madeline why is all your stuff out on counters” so I remember it exists

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life. Transform a man into a fish and you enable him to roam the cool waters of the Atlantic, free from the burdens of the human world

one time I mentioned anarchism & the gal I had been hitherto pleasantly talking to said: "If you believe in that you're an idiot. We already tried anarchism and we already know it doesn't work." "We did?" "It's called kindergarten, & the teacher just lets the bullies do whatever they want." 1/2

maybe not the best thing to say after removing a quote from a trans woman

This #CollegeRadioDay, stations worldwide are celebrating student radio’s past & future. Discover 9,000+ artifacts—station flyers, playlists & more—in the College Radio Collection, part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications at Internet Archive. 📻 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/h...

Here's a recommendation: If you like music, you should listen to some of it. Hope this helps.

manifesting enough money to hire Bryan away from bluesky

This is good and makes me think that her leaning into personal injury and ressentiment as creative strategy at a time when whiteness as personal injury is driving contemp sexism & the fascist takeover of the US is…bad politics www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Ald. Jessie Fuentes’ office just released a statement she was handcuffed and threatened arrest amid ongoing ICE activity in Humboldt Park. Tear gas was also used on passersby at a Home Depot an at Rico Fresh, her office says. I’m on my way to an emergency press conference now.

Just saw on my alderwoman’s FB that they’re looking for volunteers to help keep an eye out at school dismissal. Shifts start at around 2:30

That red brick building is Funston Elementary. They are gassing kids in their classrooms

People who coax chatbots into sensible answers are basically opening and closing the fridge until it contains something you wanna eat, yes, eventually you get hungrier & eat the stuff in there. But what changed was your cognition. The fridge stayed the same. You changed your mind about the contents.

NO STORY IS LIKE A WHEELED VEHICLE WHOSE CONTACT WITH THE ROAD IS CONTINUOUS. STORIES WALK, LIKE ANIMALS OR MEN.

weeping at how Minnie Bruce Pratt described falling in love with Leslie Feinberg

I too always take a moment to genuflect before Chicago's most powerful local deity

may this be a reminder to us all that we can always Stop Posting. quit while you're behind.

It's Bandcamp Friday today, so why not pre-order this lovely cassette (or download) I have a remix coming out on soon? objectsforever.bandcamp.com/album/flower...

a year and a half later youtu.be/9EbaDYcLL3Q

what is grief but gaylors persisting

hooray! finally!

sigh

dan’s boogie

sally’s 🥲😢

about to hydroplane off the edge of the world

did harmony on that little bit from "bleecker street" by simon & garf

exile

I believe that everyone has an Emily in their head, and most of them are wrong. To me, though, this one rings true.

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

“Both you and the cis people had the same lessons that acting trans is not a thing good people do. There are lots of parallels to religious upbringing: Even when you reject it, it haunts you.” New at PB: @jeannethornton.bsky.social on her new novel A/S/L.

“Kissing is free, therapy is not.”

CRYSTALIS SNK/NINTENDO SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY 2000 (Captured on Gameboy Color)

This is still true and the mods would do well to remember it

It’s so annoying that we all have to just continually point out how rules around/between decorum and violation are applied asymmetrically to vulnerable groups versus the people who are always hassling them, and it’s extra insulting that the people in charge are trying to lol it away.

the thing that @pfrazee.com @jay.bsky.team et al miss is that most users of the site *already* see ToS enforcement as something vaguely vibes-based anyhow. which to people w experience in community moderation is *always* how it goes. they've just convinced themselves of an ironclad set of rules

well this is interesting

I don’t know man lot of people have been capriciously banned or suspended for not violating the ToS, it’s clearly less about that and more about a personal point of pride and not letting your user base win. Kinda hard to read it any other way.

The Chicago Tribune's description of Woody Guthrie, who spoke at a Communist Party event attended by 10,000 people at the Chicago Stadium in September 1944:

aren't you sick of listening to these creeps?

princess of the underworld

There’s matter in these sighs, these profound heaves⁠— You must translate, ’tis fit we understand them.

I’ve got a cool social media update on six degrees of Kevin Bacon called “three degrees of Adolph Hitler.” The challenge: find a social media platform where you’re more than 3 degrees from Adolph Hitler (In this case Hitler -> creator of Nazi content -> Jay P2P hosting Nazi content -> you)

KEY WORDS: MAKES ME NOT WANT TO GO