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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe a few sport peppers, as a treat

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 4h

With relish, honestly ☺️

coper kupp country @camorooni.bsky.social · 4h

how do you people do this 162 times a year?

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 8h

Update

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 9h

Unstoppable force for good

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 9h

There are literally goggles that can form a seal around your eyes for use with respirators, full-face gas masks that are rated for better protection, and other options that aren’t swimming goggles jesus

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 13h

No. If you’re getting hit in the face you’re fucked regardless. Fortunately very few ppl are shot in the face. Sadly hoards are gassed. And the gas spreads far beyond sites of acute action bsky.app/profile/thin...

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 9h

There are ballistic goggles that are rated for being hit with projectiles, do NOT wear swim goggles. If it doesn’t pop out your eye, then you’ll lose it when it shatters the plastic.

There is PPE within a number of price ranges that ACTUALLY protect you. Please don’t be an idiot, get the right shit

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 13h

Pro tip to reporters and protesters: always have swim goggles in your pockets or bags. They’re small, $10 and if tear gas is used, slip them on & no matter how much you cough, you’ll still be able to SEE without burning eyes.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 9h

Having a very good time!!

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 11h

My weekend has been extremely gratifying, despite it all

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 11h

tl;dr

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 12h

Today’s a Nu-Metal playlist sort of Sunday, lol

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 12h

Would be rad

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 12h

Woke up this morning and feel the need to say that I was more than a bit harsh responding to this person. I’m usually more cognizant of platform and how shitty text-based social media is at translating tone, etc.

Leaving posts up at their request but def apologized to this user in DMs 4 my bullshit

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Hear me out—what if, and I know this is crazy—it’s still worth discussing how to spot AI slop in an oversaturated information environment and encourage folks to up their own critical media analysis game, instead of smugly turning to a weird doomer cynicism about it

Novel concept, I know

The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 1d

Mel, people don’t even do that on here. There are bots on here that post stolen content and run fake news sites (like All Chronology and others).
Across demographic lines, many people will read/repost what fits their biases without much thought.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 1d

Repost:
Oh, I’m not disagreeing at all. I’m dismayed, but not a doomer. I definitely support critical thinking as a way to beat dis- and misinfo (I share people who point this out). I was just emphasizing that it’s a really big problem that so many people default to not checking their biases.

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Hear me out—what if, and I know this is crazy—it’s still worth discussing how to spot AI slop in an oversaturated information environment and encourage folks to up their own critical media analysis game, instead of smugly turning to a weird doomer cynicism about it

Novel concept, I know

The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 1d

Mel, people don’t even do that on here. There are bots on here that post stolen content and run fake news sites (like All Chronology and others).
Across demographic lines, many people will read/repost what fits their biases without much thought.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, yeah. I would argue that it’s been a pretty big issue for many many years and the best defense is a proactive and productive and approachable process for anyone who wants to use it

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

It’s almost Halloween and I’m terrified thinking of all the skeletons walking around, hiding inside people. And nobody’s doing a damn thing about it!!

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s almost like my posts come from my experience teaching critical media analysis in my college composition courses or some shit and I’m not just whistling into the void for funsies

Sometimes, & i know this is tough to grasp, some people learn shit when you discuss it openly in a semipublic forum

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Hear me out—what if, and I know this is crazy—it’s still worth discussing how to spot AI slop in an oversaturated information environment and encourage folks to up their own critical media analysis game, instead of smugly turning to a weird doomer cynicism about it

Novel concept, I know

The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 1d

Mel, people don’t even do that on here. There are bots on here that post stolen content and run fake news sites (like All Chronology and others).
Across demographic lines, many people will read/repost what fits their biases without much thought.

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

We should regard online content these days with the same sort of critical eye as the articles we read: who made this? Where did it come from? Does the account have a motive for pushing this narrative? Is there obvious and trustworthy sourcing? & yes, the visual stuff that help us decide if its fake

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao alright

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Or, and hear me out, many of them won’t do that

Can we dispense with the cynicism please

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

many great parts to this @davidjroth.bsky.social reflection on One Battle — perhaps the quickest I've ever clicked on a link — but was struck by these lines i think because they get to core of liberal/centrist refusal to admit the severity/stakes of what's happening flaminghydra.com/issue-416/

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Least surprising news update frankly

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Well, practice makes perfect

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Been chatting with a number of folks these last weeks about my life before journalism, how I was swimming in music, visual art, dance, literature. I miss who I was when that was my life

Seems more important than ever to return to it, and maybe even the classroom. So, that's the plan, I think

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