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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them)

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36. Chicago. Sociology Master’s Student interested in how Nerd Culture and also Queer Culture works, but also their intersection. Also other stuff. Not angry enough to be a socialist, too 🫳🏾 to be a liberal. Gender is a scam.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · Nov 13

I’ve been thinking about how to best explain myself to y’all who are new to me, and I think I’m going to do a thing from Twitter where I repost 20 books that have had a big influence on me, but without any commentary. So here we go!

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 2h

YouTube being down is really fucking with my productive capacity

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E.J. Fagan @ejfagan.com · 2h

They won’t care, but eliminating Democratic seats from the South is going to make the politics of donor/taker states way worse for them.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 4h

I think I would need to be presented with it and just try it? Conceptually the flavor of tuna salad with the texture of a baked potato sounds not so good. Like I wouldn’t opt to mix tuna salad with potato salad for the same reason.

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 4h

I was with you until I reread and saw you say tuna salad. That’s not sitting right in my spirit at all

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 5h

What I’m choosing to do is to imagine a world where EVERY child is given that same deference. Because this reality is way too much.

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 5h

Not surprised by this story, but still shocked. Can’t imagine that things have gotten much better either.

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Kelly Jelly 🪼 @kellybdevoe.bsky.social · 9h

CHICAGO

ICE at the Jewel on Howard Street in Rogers Park

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 8h

Young Democrats is for 35 and under, so that tracks.

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 8h

Blessed are the haters, who keep us all in check.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 9h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 8h

Ah Jay I’m so sorry!

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 13h

Fun fact I figured out that I was scared of horses as a kid BECAUSE of the horse cops.

Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 1d

beyond parody

"The mounted patrol is an important tool for public safety — one that helps bridge the trust gap between residents, some of whom have a less than generous view of police, and the officers tasked with protecting our city. Kids feel safer around officers on horseback, the presence of the animal offering comfort and evoking calm. This highly visible, less intimidating police presence does exactly what we want law enforcement to do: work in cooperation with the community.

And these horses aren’t just steeds, they’re living memorials bearing the names of officers who’ve died in the line of duty — the entrance to each stall is adorned with a photo and a tribute to the officer. In 2023, a horse was named in honor of Officer Ella French, who was shot and killed while conducting a traffic stop in 2021.

Is Chicago really going to sell off Ella French’s horse?"

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 22h

A fence outside the Broadview ICE facility was taken down late Tuesday night, in accordance with a federal judicial order issued last week.

ICE facility fence in Broadview has been removed, in compliance with federal judge's order

U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt of the Northern District of Illinois had set a deadline for 11:59 p.m. Tuesday for the removal after finding that ICE had placed the fence on city property without...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 22h

lol in the bed before midnight like a proper adult? Look at me go.

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Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 1d

i was not prepared for what it was, not least bc everyone is hitting a wildly different beat here

andré @838carlisle.bsky.social · 1d

i really need you to turn on the volume and hear what they’re dancing to

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

This is some good shit right here

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a recording of the pilot of C-GZPT, a Cirrus SR22, tracing the Jays logo over Nova Scotia

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

I am about to go for the longest walk. Heartbreaking. balleralert.com/profiles/blo...

D’Angelo Dead At 51 After Battle With Pancreatic Cancer

Neo-soul legend D’Angelo has died after a private battle with pancreatic cancer. Read Baller Alert’s exclusive report celebrating his life, music, and impact.

balleralert.com

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media.
www.facebook.com/100000960660...

Screenshot of a Facebook post. Photo is an elderly woman holding a child on her ap on a couch with flood water around them. Both are wearing jackets inside. Text says: This was after our 1st drift.. staying put for awhile. Our 3rd and final drift was terrifying. House moving fast then we started spinning in circles. While we were spinning in circles my oldest daughter was just staring at me while I held onto my younger two. Kipnuk doesn't look like kipnuk anymore, like more than 3/4 of the homes displaced, power poles fallen. It smells like stove oil outside. Contaminated

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 2d

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

Truly a closeted queen for the ages.

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

This is a way that community care can look like

Dr. Bourbonstein Ph. D @drbourbonstein.bsky.social · 1d

I'm here to help!

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

This was a good reminder that I have cheese curds in the house too. No fries, but I think the curds are gonna hit regardless.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

I should probably say, for the sake of a future career as an academic, that I'm not fully anti-Enlightenment (insomuch as someone like Curtis Yarvin, a fool, embodies that) as much as I am starting to invest in what a Left post-Enlightenment philosophy could look like.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 2d

A few messages seen today in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood

A poster on a pole next to a street says:
“ICE YOU ARE NOT INVISIBLE
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
NAZI RATS LEAVE OUR CITY”

A stack of posters featuring a hammer-wielding figure with the stars of the Chicago wrapped around his torso. It says:
“I PREFER MY ICE CRUSHED. END IMMIGRATION ARRESTS, DEFEND OUR SANCTUARY”

A sign in a store window says: “WE DON’T [SERVE is crossed out] FEED ICE OR PIGS! even if you steal this sign”

The words “ICE OUT” are written in chalk on a sidewalk.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

It's racist and enby erasure that I don't have cheese fries right now.

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