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Warner Crocker
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Gadfly. Flying through life as a gadget geek and theatre artist...commenting along the way. Every day I learn something new is a good day. Reblogs offered without endorsement. Comments on the other hand...

Chicago based.

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Rest in peace, good sir. One of the greatest playwrights of my lifetime.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/nov…
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
warnercrocker.bsky.social
Gonna be one of those kinds of days.

(The kind when my wife hits me over the head with a snow shovel.)
#Chicago #Snow #Weather #Today #Photography
A man and a woman stand outside in the snow. The man is in the foreground on the left, smiling at the camera. He has a white beard and is wearing a black knit hat with a colorful logo, a black fleece jacket, and a green overcoat. The woman is behind him and slightly to the right, also smiling at the camera. She has reddish-brown hair and is wearing a red scarf, a blue jacket, and red gloves. She is holding a large black snow shovel. Snow is falling and accumulating on their clothes and the surroundings. In the background, there's a brick building and trees, all covered in snow.
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Chicago is a crazy sports town and this new head coach of The Chicago Bears is rallying the team and a town that needs it.

Chicago Bears Coach Rips His Shirt Off In Hot Dog Challenge After Bears Win
#ChicagoBears #Chicago #NFL #BenJohnson
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November 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Good morning. And snow, it begins. #Photography #Today #Chicago #Snow
A street scene on a snowy day, looking down a tree-lined residential street with cars parked along the curb. The ground, trees, and cars are covered in a light dusting of snow. On the right side of the street, there are two-story brick apartment buildings with some windows showing warm yellow light. On the left, more bare trees are visible. The sky is overcast and grey. In the foreground, there's a snow-covered evergreen bush and a decorative planter with dried grasses. A "for sale" sign is partially visible in the snowy grass on the left.
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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New #DailyBlogroll! Stories from @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @stargrace.bsky.social, @crazykinux.bsky.social, @warnercrocker.bsky.social, @anarchaeopteryx.bsky.social, @sypster.bsky.social, @virtualmoose.bsky.social and more!

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#WurmOnline #WorldOfWarcraft #PokemonTCG
Stargrace uses Wurm Online’s Black Friday sub sale to stock up, chase a Thunder Forge skin, set 2026 goals, and get hyped for the Hermit Island Impalong. Syp slow-rolls Legion Remix in World of Warcraft, grinds through Suramar, admires decade-old visuals, and aims to finish before patch 11.2.7’s housing drops. Juhis digs into Pokémon TCG’s prize check rule, power creep, best-of-one formats, and slow play, arguing for fixes like the Matty’s Map houserule. Bhagpuss plots his 2025 Advent Calendar, ditches AI for public-domain art, and muses on post counts, reader sensitivities, and the grind behind festive blogging. Wilhelm reminisces about true “microtransactions,” Station Cash, and how MMO cash shops like Palia’s and Blizzard’s turned tiny payments into today’s pricey cosmetics. Michael’s Black Friday indie roundup hits Itch.io sales, an anti-sale, queer art bundles, surreal TTRPGs, MS-DOS demos, Moonring DX on Switch, and a moose-versus-cop-car clip. Anarchae reviews JLab Go Pop+ earbuds in the context of trusty Panasonic ErgoFits, Soundcore Q30s, and Bose QC45s, with lots of detail on comfort, price, and phone dongle woes. Warner recounts Bears coach Ben Johnson answering The Wieners Circle’s shirtless challenge, fueling free hot dogs and a surging, all-in Chicago fanbase. Bruce Schneier’s weekly cephalopod interlude features a rare meter-long flying neon squid washing up on a Mediterranean beach. CrazyKinux uses The Creator and today’s chatbots to ponder AGI, human fears, and the sense we’re living in a historical prologue rather than an ending. jwz posts a tiny OpenSSH ßh screenshot and unleashes a comments thread of nerdy jokes about shells, smart quotes, and weird platform behavior. Dave Winer riffs on a Ken Jennings New Yorker podcast, gripes about ChatGPT-style aggregation, plugs his reallysimple demo apps, and slips in some Thanksgiving gratitude.
November 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Institutions that surrender to Trump aren’t buying relief from his extortion. Quite the opposite. They’re telling Trump he can hit them up anytime.
Northwestern Agrees to Deal With Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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smocarski.bsky.social
Wiener's Circle says it best. Right, Chicago?
November 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Wondering if the Trump regime has a fee schedule for pardon bribes or if each individual one requires a separate haggling session.
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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it is going to be a big weekend for Republicans being too busy to read Trump's posts
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
warnercrocker.bsky.social
Chicago is a crazy sports town and this new head coach of The Chicago Bears is rallying the team and a town that needs it.

Chicago Bears Coach Rips His Shirt Off In Hot Dog Challenge After Bears Win
#ChicagoBears #Chicago #NFL #BenJohnson
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November 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Trump says he’ll pardon a former Honduras leader convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes from drug traffickers. A U.S. prosecutor said Juan Orlando Hernández “paved a cocaine superhighway to the U.S.”
More evidence that Trump’s threats against Venezuela have nothing to do with drugs.
Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving drug trafficking sentence in US
Hernández was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
warnercrocker.bsky.social
👀 That's our coach.
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
warnercrocker.bsky.social
🐻⬇️ Gotta hand it to the Chicago Bears today. They took advantage of good team not at their best, which is what winners do. Two runners over 100 yards is almost unheard of. Still playing with so many injuries. Great win! Bear Down! #ChicagoBears #Chicago #NFL
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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With apologies to all of the actual crazy uncles out there, America's crazy uncle president needs to shut the fuck up. #politics
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Apple Features Puppet Forest Critters In Christmas Ad

But the “making of” video is actually a better ad.
#Apple #ACritterCarol #iPhone
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November 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Good morning. Softer Fall feelings this morning. #Photography #Today #Chicago #Fall
A close-up shot captures the delicate, fluffy seed heads of ornamental grass, resembling soft plumes or cotton candy, in the foreground. The individual seeds and feathery bristles are clearly visible, showcasing intricate detail and texture. In the blurred background, the warm hues of autumn foliage emerge, with a tree displaying bright yellow leaves, hinting at the change of seasons.
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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mims.bsky.social
Billionaires Amass War Chests to Fight AI Regulation

* Goal is influence ahead of 2026 midterm elections

* More than 1,000 AI-related bills were introduced by state lawmakers in 2025

* Leading the Future super PAC has $100 million+

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tech...

by @laurajnelson.bsky.social
Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation
Some are battling state AI laws and threatening to punish candidates who oppose rapid deployment of the technology.
www.wsj.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
warnercrocker.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

-bear
-wolf
-bobcat
-feral pig
-turkey
judybott.bsky.social Judy B🦃tt @judybott.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- coyote
- roadrunner
- bison
- bobcat
- Canadian windsurfer
novaisel.bsky.social Emerson @novaisel.bsky.social · 1d
Now we're talking!

- Maned wolf
- Vizcacha
- Squirrel
- Crested caracara
- Opossum
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Newly released bodycam video shows a federal immigration agent in the Chicago area telling ChatGPT to write his "long-format narrative" after an encounter with the public.
Just another way for Trump's violent thugs to avoid accountability. If the report is wrong, blame AI.
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.

And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
publius24.bsky.social John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 1d
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
warnercrocker.bsky.social
Good morning. Softer Fall feelings this morning. #Photography #Today #Chicago #Fall
A close-up shot captures the delicate, fluffy seed heads of ornamental grass, resembling soft plumes or cotton candy, in the foreground. The individual seeds and feathery bristles are clearly visible, showcasing intricate detail and texture. In the blurred background, the warm hues of autumn foliage emerge, with a tree displaying bright yellow leaves, hinting at the change of seasons.
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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shakespeare.lol
How look I
That I should seem to lack humanity
So much as this fact comes to?
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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End of day. #Thanksgiving.
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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My blog post today:

www.everygoddamnday.com/2025/11/home...
Home
The blog of Neil Steinberg
www.everygoddamnday.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I'd say Winter is here.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Denmark sets up ‘night watch’ to monitor Trump after Greenland row
US president’s threat to seize territory prompts intelligence briefings reminiscent of Game of Thrones patrol
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM