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Zombified Chawkeye

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He/him. Het, not always the cis-iest. Hard books, dark music, heavy weights, sportsball, MPLS, left politics, cats, nail polish. Dead-in sentient weighted blanket, high shelf reacher/handchiller/footbonerest, spouse for @zanadu.bsky.social

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Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · Aug 15

Nobody gets away with throwing a sandwich in Pam Bondi's Amerikkka!!!

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Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 1h

Weeds, too, apparently.

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Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 1h

Not exactly an #Earworm, or a daily #Challenge, just a thank you to a guy who was the powerhouse of a band.
Thanks, John.

Simply Magic

YouTube video by John Lodge - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 14h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 16h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 14h

#Totentanz2025
#MusicChallenge
Day 13

...the thinking kills the feeling...

Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 14h

#KillerTunes
#MusicChallenge
Day 13: Regan, 'The Exorcist.'

...Leave a message and I'll call you back...

Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 14h

#Howl-A-Ween
#MusicChallenge
13: Bad luck.

...Seven years of bad luck, the good thing is in your past...

Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 14h

#DebutDecadesSingles
#MusicChallenge
Wk 2, Day 6: The 70s.

As big a fan of Ultravox as I am, I had to get their first single. John Foxx was a major influence on what would come after him, and before him (Bowie, Bolan). A reggae backbeat here?

...oh take off your halo, for the all-night inferno...

Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 14h

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 13: A song from the last album I bought.

...that long black train took my baby home...

Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 14h

#BlueZicos
#MusicChallenge
Monday, 10/13: A group of Viking'd up animated characters from the European cartoon movie Asterix & The Vikings (2006).

...our ships await us by the shore...

Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 15h

#ArtistTop15
#MusicChallenge
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...I am a working man...

Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 15h

#80sTop30
#MusicChallenge
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From 1982.
...a yearning for sleep and that blissful escape...

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Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 15h

Book 164 📚 for 2025.
Disclaimer: McEnroe is my favorite athlete of all time, so my eye is somewhat jaundiced when it comes to his writing. For me at least it was a fun read, which is important, amirite? Only quibble: he's not/wasn't middle class. Available everywhere, including your local library.

An image of the front cover of former pro tour tennis player and current tennis announcer John McEnroe's memoir, But Seriously (2017). This picks up where his first memoir, You Can't Be Serious, left off in 2002, so perhaps there'll be at least one more book before the decade ends. The cover is plain white, author's name in black text, title in red italic text, and McEnroe is sitting atop an umpire's chair, which is clever given how many umpires he feuded with during his playing days.

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Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 16h

Tummy already told me this, didn’t need no horoscope to do that for me

Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 19h

Pisces: No matter what your sports watch says, what you just did in front of the computer doesn’t count as exercise.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 23h

There is no way forward for Democrats that does not involve examination, prosecution and restitution of and for the acts committed by this administration in the last 9 months, and that is going to be hard and unpleasant and, sometimes, very politically unpopular.

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Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 21h

In honor of spooky month, share, if you like, a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

'necessary consequential damage liability'

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 22h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 23h

Because she issued the temporary restraining order one day earlier, I missed U.S. District Judge April Perry’s decision against the deployment of the National Guard in Illinois.

Here it is: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Supreme Court will hate it because she does originalism.

storage.courtlistener.com

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Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 22h

Me also but seemed like the person referred to in the headline had a skill issue.

Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 23h

Book 163 📚 for 2025. I am sure that the Nisei experience wasn't as positive in other states, particularly after reading so much about the South, but nice to see many opportunities for growth in my adopted state of last residence. Good read. Available everywhere, including your library. #LocalAngle

An image of the front cover of St Olaf College Asian Studies professor Ka F. Wong's 2025 book Enmity and Empathy: Japanese Americans in Minnesota during World War II. On the cover, which shows several American GIs in dress uniform, two Nisei Americans are displayed in the foreground.

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Gorey $LastName @lifesahaskell.bsky.social · 1d

1. 9/11
2. Katrina
3. PlayStation Hack of 2007
4. Obama
5. 2008 financial crisis

Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 1d

5 national events that defined (somewhat) early childhood:

1. Watergate
2. Nixon impeachment/resignation
3. Gas lines
4. Camp David accords
5. Star Wars and Jaws

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

1. AIDS crisis
2. Challenger
3. Berlin Wall
4. 2 Live Crew 1st Amendment
5. AOL

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Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 1d

Anybody but the Dodgers.
Nothing personal, just want another team to enjoy the success.

Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm. It came up on a playlist on our way to Duluth last month. She had the whole thing down cold.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

The closure of the Iowa State Historical Society archive in Iowa City is a travesty. And part of a now-decades-long campaign of resentment and retaliation by state government against Iowa City and the University of Iowa 🗃️

Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 2d

Marian Wilson Kimber: It’s painful to realize the people in charge of Iowa’s history apparently have no idea how history works. If they did, they'd know there is no way to predict what parts of the collection will be of interest 5, 20, or 100 years from now. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/10/t...

The theft of history

Marian Wilson Kimber: I have wondered if the box of women’s club programs that changed my life will end up in the dumpster.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats on the dub over Oregon!

Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 1d

5 national events that defined (somewhat) early childhood:

1. Watergate
2. Nixon impeachment/resignation
3. Gas lines
4. Camp David accords
5. Star Wars and Jaws

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

1. AIDS crisis
2. Challenger
3. Berlin Wall
4. 2 Live Crew 1st Amendment
5. AOL

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

What 5 events defined your childhood?

1. Nixon
2. Apollo (I remember 13!)
3. The Bicentennial
4. The Energy Crisis
5. The Iran Hostage Crisis