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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 4m

This is the first one I've ever seen! Other birders have reported seeing them, but usually when they're flying overhead with a flock of Canada geese.

Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 5m

Wow, that's a neat memento.

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 23m

Cleaning house is a good habit. I find things I forgot I had collected. @sorenspicknall.bsky.social @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social @robertloerzel.bsky.social @adamchicago.bsky.social

An old brown-yellow wooden clothes hanger from a Pullman railroad car. Top/center of hanger says “Pullman.” On arms, left to right, it reads “travel and sleep in/safety and comfort.”

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 50m

Dead Internet Theory is becoming true.

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1h

A study of online content finds that the quantity of AI-generated articles now exceeds the number posted by human authors. But ... they suspect that the AI-generated article are largely unread by humans. boingboing.net/2025/10/15/s...

Study finds most new articles generated by AI

But it's been a close-run thing for about 12 months, according to their sample of 65,000 English-language online items

boingboing.net

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 53m

A greater white-fronted goose was hanging out this morning near Montrose Beach, amid a gaggle of Canada geese.

A greater white-fronted goose stands in grass.

A greater white-fronted goose takes a step and leans down to munch on grass.

A close-up of a greater white-fronted goose's head. It has some muck and vegetation on its beak.

A close-up of a greater white-fronted goose's head as it eats grass.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 58m

ICE took someone at 25th and Hamlin this morning. Masked law enforcement who won’t identify themselves throwing people into trucks and minivans every day all over Chicagoland

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 1h

This galling, terse administration quote about the No Kings protest should enrage any American who believes the government works for us, the people. Unreal. (It's from this story: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...)

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 2h

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social · 1h

In the fancy-shmancy WBEZ green room. I'll be on at 10:40 or so, talking about Open House Chicago. You can call in, too.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

Mike Johnson accuses Democrats of "berating" a Capitol police officer. Wait until he hears what Republicans did to Capitol police officers on Jan. 6, 2021. It was much more than berating.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 2h

Wow, I didn't know he had a grave that was unmarked until now.

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Liz Tamny ❌ 👑 @etamny.bsky.social · 2h

this is Ironton, Ohio

M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 15h

Edward Gorey gets a headstone ! irontontribune.com/2025/10/14/g...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Border Patrol propagandists filming their operation yesterday

📸 @mkaplanphoto.bsky.social

Feds in camo with tear gas launcher, rifle
One agent in olive has what looks like DSLR camera
Nondescript man in black shirt red hat with matching gas mask filming with larger camera

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you, @imleor.bsky.social!!!

chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

From The Chicago Reader:
Two longtime supporters of Chicago's indie scene, Leigh Kelsey and Emily Hilleren, have organized a two-day musical celebration called the Windy Pop Weekender. Cole's Bar hosts the debut festival, which features a dozen acts playing dream pop, power pop, indie rock, shoegaze, and twee pop. Saturday's music begins at 6 PM with Chicago lo-fi fanatics Monogamy and closes five hours later with flowery Michigan trio Idle Ray (led by indie lifer Fred Thomas). Sunday begins with a craft fair at noon, and the show starts at 3 PM
with local guitar wizard Emily Jane Powers.
Ratboys front woman Julia Steiner headlines with a solo set at 6:15 PM, followed by a dance party with CHIRP DJs till 10 PM. Tickets cost $35.35 for a single day or $63.65 for the whole weekend.

WINDY POP WEEKENDER
A CHICAGO INDIE / TWEE POPFEST & OTHER REVELRY
SAT 10/18
IDLE RAY
THE GARMENT DISTRICT
TAMBOURINA
THE FEEDERS
MODERN CULTS
GENTLE BRONTOSAURUS
MONOGAMY
@ COLE'S BAR (21*)
2338 N MILWAUKEE AVE-
SUN 10/19
JULIA STEINER
(of Ratboys)
HUMDRUM
HOLY PINTO
NECTAR
EMILY JANE POWERS
FULL DETAILS ON REVELRY:
WINDYPOPWEEKENDER.COM
$60 WEEKEND PASS & TOTE | $32 SINGLE DAY

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 2h

Call me crazy, but I'm not certain Trump's treasury secretary repeating "No kings means no paychecks!" like a mantra plays the way he thinks it does

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Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social · 2h

Sirens are currently echoing throughout the 48-year-old indie rock fan community.

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 4h

Sugar are back with their first new music and shows in three decades; hear "House Of Dead Memories"

Sugar Return With First New Music & Shows In 31 Years: Hear "House Of Dead Memories"

For the first time in three decades, Sugar are back.

www.stereogum.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

This is a bullshit headline in the New York Times. There’s no “uprising” in Chicago. Rather, Chicagoans are peacefully defending themselves against ICE violence. Use of the term “uprising“ is just what the Trump regime wants to excuse a further fascist crackdown in Chicago.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3h

Why This Nineties High School Punk Band Is Suddenly Bigger Than Ever

Everyone Asked About You broke up and went about their lives.

Nearly three decades later, they're touring the U.S. thanks to some Japanese fans unearthing their old teenage music.

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 3h

Remembering Italo Calvino on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ulf Andersen, 1984

"Architect of scrupulously imagined, apparently fantastic, insidiously plausible words, Calvino occupies a literary space somewhere east of Jorge Luis Borges & west of Vladimir Nabokov."
- Michael Wood

Three-quarter portrait of the author in a three-piece suit

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, Speaker Johnson cares so much about the Capitol police officers

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 3h

Um…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Yesterday, white nationalist paramilitary forces attacked another Chicago neighborhood with chemical weapons. Families and at least one infant were gassed. This morning, they are kidnapping more immigrants both here and in other metros (D.C., L.A. still being terrorized).

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