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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Stephen "Steve" Winchell @sawinchell.bsky.social · 20h

I would be into all of this even if I wasn’t playing Gene Siskel in the play at the end of the month, but I am also playing Gene Siskel in the play at the end of the month.

Scared Bootecki (but really Jared Rutecki) 🎃 @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 23h

The iconic film critic duo Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert will be honored during a monthlong celebration in November, the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events announced this week.

‘Siskel & Ebert at 50’ Honors the Iconic Film Critic Duo With Chicago Events Throughout November

The event series, hosted by DCASE and the Chicago Film Office, includes a film screening series with post-screening conversations featuring acclaimed guest speakers, along with a live performance, tha...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

If your first thought as a reporter when racing to the scene where an invading fed paramilitary of murderous freaks are blanketing yet another neighborhood in chemical weapons after kidnapping people is to count how many objects are thrown at them, just quit. Just quit

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 18h

In Cat Valhalla they drink from flagons of milk, feast upon endless lasagna, roll around in eternal fields of catnip. The boxes are plentiful, they want for no small spaces. Their yowls are cries of eternal victory

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 19h

This place rips and it’s good to see the Odd Obsession Collection in circulation again 💜

Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 19h

Darn right people still rent physical media to watch movies

Terror Vision at twilight - Chicago Reader

Chicagoans share their movie picks at Terror Vision Records and Video, the late-night pop-up video store next door to the Music Box Theatre.

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 19h

Darn right people still rent physical media to watch movies

Terror Vision at twilight - Chicago Reader

Chicagoans share their movie picks at Terror Vision Records and Video, the late-night pop-up video store next door to the Music Box Theatre.

chicagoreader.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 20h

2021, MSFT claimed a Teams app could read emotional affect & I's like "holy shit this will fuck over so many Black & autistic & otherwise neurodivergent & women & non-binary ppl & ppl w/ chronic pain & … like Everybody at any of those intersections."

This PainChek thing is that, but a doctors' tool

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 19h

Why are you standing by the door
Why are you standing on the floor

(Out of context upsetting thing to say that I just said to my dog)

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Hell Ray-ser @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 1d

Me: What's up?

Freddy Kreuger (distantly): I was gonna shred you to ribbons with my glove knives.

Me: Really? Dang.

Freddy (defeatedly): Yeah.

Me: ...

Freddy (half-heartedly): bitch

Me: Hey, are you okay, man?

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 20h

Juggalos are the ultimate #ally

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 20h

Not the palindrome bot

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 1d

I am so angry all the time

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 1d

Next up on Hot Ones VERSUS 🔥

Politico @politico.com · 1d

Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will debate Wednesday on C-SPAN.

The yet-to-be-scheduled showdown will take place on “Ceasefire,” hosted by our Dasha Burns.

Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries will debate on C-SPAN

The yet-to-be-scheduled showdown will take place on "Ceasefire," hosted by POLITICO's Dasha Burns.

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 1d

“Sorosboros”? Is this anything??

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 1d

It’s fucked up that “ouroboros” isn’t a palindrome

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 1d

This is incredibly accurate

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Dec 27

ME: Hey Stephen King, what’s your book about
STEPHEN KING: There’s this extradimensional spore that takes over a small town
ME: Oh that could be interesting sure
STEPHEN KING: Humans call it Uncle Ding-Dong
ME: They…call it—
STEPHEN KING: Uncle Ding-Dong
ME: Why
STEPHEN KING: idk

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1d

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 2d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 1d

I know, it blows. I’m an on-again/off-again vegetarian (failing only due to personal weakness/laziness/see original post) and try to consume as much plant-based shit as possible. So seeing all the vegan powders be the worst offenders made me scream into a pillow

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re like me and struggle to get adequate nutrition from food because of ((coughing a LOT))depression, this is exhausting. Also, fucked—a reminder that the wellness/supplement industry has no standards. Literally. They have NO STANDARDS

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 1d

TKO *squinting* Ludicrous Trend

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Consumer-facing "A.i." fucking sucks and you're embarrassing yourself if you pass it off for your actual thoughts.

Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 1d

“The humans won hands down when it came to notes, which require actual analysis rather than just distillation. The AI programs were ‘an almost total fail across the board.’”

Nice to know I wouldn’t have been so easily replaced at my old job by an A.I.

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Hollywood Script Readers Fear They Could be Replaced by AI. They Set Up a Test to See Who Gives Better Feedback

Fearing they could be replaced, Hollywood script readers face off against AI programs to see who gives better feedback.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

at this point it would be interesting journalism if someone could locate a Young Republican groupchat that was not full of overt Nazis

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 2d

If anyone was doing this kind of zombie horseshit with my dead dad, I would lose the last of my sanity

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