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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 5d

Leaving pumpkins outside to attract soccer-loving deer: youtu.be/cVT4-5sWOqM?...

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YouTube video by Meredith Greenstein

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David Garten @davidgarten.bsky.social · 5d

This is awful and heartbreaking. Fascist, religious extremists are about to take over Mali.

www.ft.com/content/36fa...

Jihadis encircle Mali’s capital as they close in on power

Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists tighten blockade around Bamako as military regime reels

www.ft.com

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 5d

This was the New York Daily News's front page the NEXT day, on Oct. 31, 1975—one day after they'd etched their Oct. 30, 1975 headline into eternity.

Carey Sounds Call:
MASS PROTESTS TO ANSWER FORD
Senate Unit
OKs $4B
City Aid Bill
Sanit Boss
Rips President

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 6d

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

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Robert Shields @rshields37.bsky.social · 7d

Happy 50th to the GOAT of #tabloidheds

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 9d

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 9d

Oh those smiles tell such different stories

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 9d

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

Mar Awa III, in red cassock, smiles as he gives the jersey to Leo, who looks as though he's been given a bomb to hold

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 11d

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text.
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Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 12d

Did they really just show “Rogue” followed by “Rouge”?

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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 12d

If you are in or around Chicago, I have been informed that the "C" has fallen off the sign on the Canal Street Bridge.

Enjoy.

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 16d

Attention railfans: This site includes 3D diagrams of all 20 stations of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn. That is all.

3D diagram of the Wupperfeld station on the Wuppertal Schwebebahn

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 17d

You work here long enough you move past the fear that comes from understanding the frailty of human life and replace it with taking joy in the small things that make life worth living.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 17d

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 18d

Chicago gonna Chicago. #nokings and #noketchup @dansinker.com @dansavage.bsky.social @introvert.net @andshewasdonna.bsky.social someone please get Weiner’s Circle off Xitter and onto Bluesky, FTLOG.

Poster reading “This machine kills fascists,” referencing famed picture of Woody Guthrie with those words on his guitar. Image of a Chicago-style hot dog, with its canonical seven condiments and poppy-seed bun, below the words.

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 19d

He’s not tall but c’mon

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 20d

Remember all the Saturday afternoon obits you had to write for singers and actors long forgotten? And you had to describe their beloved traits and popular highlights? Yeah. Some scoffing Zoomer is going to do that for your heroes someday.

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 20d

And because it’s the U of C, “studying” really does mean studying

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 21d

Now wait a minute — we haven’t even heard these boys sing

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 29d

It happened then too. I’m still haunted by this image from Marc Hermann’s “New York: Then and Now” series of the aftermath of a three-year-old Brooklyn girl run over on her tricycle in 1959:

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Oct 7

I always considered that job security

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · Oct 3

ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.

large vertical pipe labeled “mixed liquor”

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · Sep 30

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Sep 26

Because the smartest financial minds are often very dumb. They want to keep the party going and will grasp for any sign of hope. The best coverage I’ve seen is at Bloomberg — sign up for their newsletters and you’ll see a daily road map of looming disaster.

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Sep 24

Suspicious of the guy wearing a raincoat on a sunny day

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Sep 15

Not every horror is modern! Amazing untold story in the Pittsburgh Union Progress by @stevemellon412.bsky.social about the hundreds of workers, mostly Black, who died building a West Virginia tunnel and were buried in unmarked graves almost a century ago. www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/28/a...

At Hawk’s Nest, hundreds of sickened workers died, then were hidden and forgotten; it wasn’t an accident - Pittsburgh Union Progress

Sam Ward spent the first few minutes of Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1933, trying to suck enough air into his lungs to keep himself alive. Most likely he was lying on a bed in a crudely built shack near a smal...

www.unionprogress.com

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