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beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 6h

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 6h

Man, I do agree with this 100%.

I'll add that we used to expect civic leaders to set examples and encourage people to be better, to educate us about what's right. Vance and co. just give permission to folks to be their worst selves.

Tiger Elephant Giraffe Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 8h

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 23h

Cleaning out the office, I ran across this charming relic from days gone by.

A shrinkwrapped “Ultradisc™ DVD-R”, with trade dressing that matches Mobile Fidelity’s contemporaneous Ultradisc CD releases, including a “Original Master Recording” banner across the top. Other text includes: “24 Karat Gold”, “The Ultimate Archival Media”, “Data Guard Scratch Resistant Coating”, “Life Span of 100+ Years”, “Superior Reflectivity”.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t really use Google Drive, but I am delighted to disable this setting anyway, and I think everyone else should too.

Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 2d

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone should read this in its entirety — just 1½ pages, explicitly describing terrorism by the government.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: We have yet another Notice of Violation of TRO filed in the Chicago Headline Club (journalists) v. ICE/CBP case, this time for events on Saturday in Irving Park.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

Plaintiffs’ Notice of Violations of the Court’s Temporary Restraining Order

Plaintiffs, Chicago Headline Club et al., through their attorneys, respectfully request that

the Court take notice of the below violations of the Court’s Temporary Restraining Order (Dkt.

66) that occurred on October 25, 2025 in Old Irving Park.

1. On October 25, 2025, masked CBP agents entered the 3700 block of Kildare in Old

Irving Park and ruined what should have been an ordinary Saturday morning. Ex. 86,

Hotchkiss Decl. at ¶ 3. Children in the neighborhood were preparing for a Halloween

parade. Id. at ¶ 2. People were in their pajamas; one woman came outside with her wet

head in a towel. Id. at ¶ 8.

2. Federal agents unleashed violence, tackling at least three people, including one who is

approximately 70 years old. Ex. 87 Kolp Decl. at ¶ 6; Ex. 86, Hotchkiss Decl. at ¶ 11.

Another man was speaking with agents, did not appear to be hurting anyone or

threatening anyone, and they tackled him to the ground and put him in a headlock. Ex.

86, Hotchkiss Decl. at ¶ 7.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

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Laura Serra @laureola.bsky.social · 2d

it was really lovely!

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 2d

I got to spend a couple hours today with the family and friends of the late, great Jim Parkinson at his house in the Oakland hills. These melancholy occasions are always redeemed by the chance to reminisce and reflect on life.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 3d

This has been tucked away in my house and I just unearthed it — a relic from the early desktop publishing days, where a desk set (it’s a magnifying glass and letter opener) to promote fonts for the NeXT computer was just the thing.

An oblong, dark plastic object with a magnifier on one end and a letter opener slid into the other. Printed on it in the middle is “ADOBE TYPE LIBRARY” and “FOR THE NeXT COMPUTER”.

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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 7d

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 3d

I'll never forget seeing it in a huge single-screen theater when it came out. I was 10 years old and it blew my young mind. Still an all-time favorite.

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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 6d

It's clear from today's AP photos that Trump has entirely demolished the East Colonnade—added to the White House by Thomas Jefferson in 1805—and restored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902.

The East Colonnade didn't occupy the footprint of the Trump "ballroom"—its demolition was completely unnecessary.

Diagrams showing the evolution of Thomas Jefferson's low east and west terrace colonnades from 1803 to 1819.
Both the east and west terrace colonnades were set half-underground to be visually subservient to the White House main building, and were inspired by Jefferson's similar design at Monticello.
From: McDonald, Travis, "The East and West Wings of the White House: History in Architecture and Building", White House History, White House Historical Association, No. 29, Summer 2011
Source: https://www.poplarforest.org/wp-content/uploads/white-house-wings-article.pdf

McKim Mead and White
White House, Theodore Roosevelt East Wing expansion and East Terrace Colonnade restoration (1902)
Detroit Photographic Co. (1904)
collection: Library of Congress

View of the now-demolished East Colonnade and Terrace which was first built by Thomas Jefferson in 1805 and restored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 looking towards the East Garden, designed by First Lady Edith Roosevelt, shortly after its completion. The East Garden is now called the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden. (1904)
Collection. Library of Congress
Source: https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/white-house-east-garden-1904

Views of Franklin D. Roosevelt's enlarged East Wing connected to the main body of the White House by the now-demolished East Colonnade and terrace which was first built by Thomas Jefferson in 1805 and restored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902.

Photo credits: Aerial Views of the White House East Wing and colonnade from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) by Jack Boucher (1992) from the North-East (above) and South-East (below).

East Wing from the "East Garden" side in 1952, showing the gallery colonnade glassed in, and FDR's second floor added (Truman Library - Abbie Rowe)

East Colonnade from the now-destroyed Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks (2020)

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 7d

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 8d

My feed is full of “Hey the election is coming up and here’s everything about Prop 50,” and I literally voted a week and a half ago. 💪

(Yes on 50 y’all.)

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Lukács Doncic @weirdalf.bsky.social · 10d

The person that some experts say is the president of the United States has been accused of posting what appears to be a video on what some critics are calling Saturday

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · Sep 26

Can we please just impeach and remove him now?

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 10d

She forgot to add “THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!”

Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 10d

I wanted to watch the Clint Eastwood movie “Blood Work,” and my search, unsurprisingly, worked. But wtf is this other suggestion, “drama movies like blood”?

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 11d

Protesters formed a human banner Saturday morning at S.F.'s Ocean Beach, spelling out “NO KINGS” and “YES ON 50,” encouraging the passage of a measure on the November ballot to redraw California’s congressional districts in response to Texas’ GOP-focused remapping.

📸: Laure Andrillon / AFP

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 11d

Behold Adobe Rad (1993). 😬

An all-caps alphabet in which each letter is a human skateboarder.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 11d

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11d

A bit before the pandemic - truly for no reason at all - I made a whole alphabet out of the signature stick figure I use when I'm drawing cartoons.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 11d

LOL “worse than Adobe”

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 12d

75,000 more blocks in 10 minutes
finally a bluesky debut worse than Jimmy Fallon or Adobe
holy christ lmao

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 15d

Talking to a friend, I just thought of this movie I love, looked up my last review of it, and was astounded to see that I watched it exactly one year ago on October 14, 2024. It’s a sign, eh?

A ★★★½ review of Strange Brew (1983)

I have previously watched and loved this movie, but it’s exactly the kind of movie that one would expect to not age well. I am happy to report that it remains excellent. It is an exceptionally stupid ...

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