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Dan Nguyen
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chicago area data journalist/scientist/wrangler, duolingo vietnamese language learner. the best chicago banh mi is at nhu lan on lawrence st
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · Oct 12
Just ate the best pork banh mi in Chicago and may nap away the rest of Saturday afternoon 🫃
Photo of Nhu Lan sandwich shop counter, cramped with plants and Vietnamese decorations Photo of roasted pork sandwich from Nhu Lan
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it is quite likely some of our faves are implicated
Valant Gramarye from Apollo Ace Attorney
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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has society evolved enough to be accepting of the concept of a guy going on a walk with another little guy on a leash, or is it still the Dark Ages
photo of a tabby cat with a leash and harness, very obviously resisting the concept of going on a walk
November 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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he’s gone full mamdonny
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
quite a look for Trump today
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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should i get this or would that just be so asian of me
vintage movie poster for THE CHINESE PROFESSIONALS, featuring: The Kung Fu Beast! The Karate Killer! The Siamese Devils! The Tibetan Tiger Men! The Bloody Kwon-Do Master! The Judo King! The Invincible Yuga Kahn! The Fantastic One-Armed Boxer!
November 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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An archeological find of the century, an original cave drawing from the first humans to live in Chicago, the Homeo Chicagoensis
A cave drawing at Montrose harbor
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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HEARTBREAKING: The Worst Person You Know Just Made An Absolute Funny
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff.

There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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paullicino.bsky.social
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
dancow.bsky.social
Chicago protesters were out there getting beaten, gassed, and literally shot — and you’re praising the SALT TRUCKS the city uses to construct police blockades?? 🤯
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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josie.zone
Me to my fellow Harvard graduate Elise Stefanik:
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
dancow.bsky.social
bamboo — part 2 — is HERE

www.telos.news/p/part-2-she...
Remember the bamboo from Part 1? Well, bamboo is actually a type of grass, and underground, it's all connected in a sprawling network, just like the parts of this story I never wanted to tell. I wish I hadn't been put in this position, that I didn't have to write about any of this, that I didn't have to subject myself or my loved ones to embarrassment and further loss of privacy. But Olivia has reignited a campaign of misinformation about what really happened, and Bobby, who has denied everything, is one of the most consequential policymakers in America.
November 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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moryan.bsky.social
Em, seriously, you're a fucking hero. 💐
lefttheprairie.bsky.social Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve honestly fully lost track, but we’ve got to be somewhere north of 40,000 whistles that have passed through my hands. Around half that went into whistle kits we directly assembled and the rest were given out to other individuals and orgs.
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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tangent: maybe this makes me an asshole/poor networker, but I don’t think it’s commendable to send a supportive DM to someone who’s only an acquaintance, not after you hear they done a Unabomber on your profession
highlighted excerpt: When news broke last September about Olivia Nuzzi's alleged relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., my first instinct-within minutes, actually-was sympathy. I sent her a DM: "You'll get through this." She responded with a heart.
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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unraveledpress.com
NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.

We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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timmarchman.bsky.social
WIRED is hiring for a senior politics reporter who will write our weekly newsletter; detailed job description below. This role will be based in New York or DC and report to me; the salary range is $95,000 - $132,000. condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
WIRED seeks an experienced journalist to cover national politics, particularly the Trump administration’s efforts to remake the federal government and how other power centers—Congress, tech oligarchs, and more—are responding. In this role, you’ll be responsible for breaking news consistently. We’re less interested in horse race drama than we are in the people making consequential decisions, whether in the White House, among local and national Democrats, or Silicon Valley, and the logic guiding their actions. To succeed in this role, you should be deeply sourced at both the top and working levels of government and politics and intimately familiar with the operational mechanics of the federal government; you will ideally also have good sourcing in and understanding of the tech industry. You should have a proven ability to deliver scoops, exclusives, and stories that can’t be found anywhere else. We’re interested in hard news and the ability to put new information into a broader context. A large part of this role is writing a politics-focused newsletter every week; the ideal candidate will understand how to leverage their reporting to attract and retain subscribers, engage audiences, and drive reader loyalty in a competitive news landscape. In addition to breaking news and regular newsletter sends, there are opportunities to work on long-form feature stories and collaborate with reporters across our coverage areas as part of this role as well. You should also be prepared to engage in a wide range of storytelling formats, such as social, podcasts, video series, and live events. This senior writer will report to WIRED’s Director, Politics, Science, and Security, and will be part of a growing and increasingly global newsroom of smart, kind, collaborative, and well-informed colleagues who are always brimming with ideas and eager to help each other out. This role is in-office (4 days/week) and will be based in our New York or Washington, DC offices.
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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say what you want about the actual value of grok/xai, but it does allow elon to produce realistic videos of all the fake horseshit he’s promised to build, thereby increasing shareholder value
screen cap of an elon musk tweet, which includes a ai generated video of his optimus cyborg being a chef
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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clarkishakent.blacksky.app
Re:

The Wicked Press Tour

www.huffpost.com/entry/fatpho...
On the left side of the photo are images of Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Michelle Yoh (top to bottom). On the right side, there are pictures of these same women, but they are now dangerously thin.
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
dancow.bsky.social
kids get what a lotta yall still dont get: ape holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single ape
knoebel.bsky.social Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 3d
43% of US kids want in-game currency this Christmas. 37% want physical games.

www.gamesindustry.biz/nearly-half-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Looking into it 🥴
Musk's Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Pee-Drinking Skills, 'Blowjob Prowess'
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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what’d he say fuck the bears for
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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It’s dangerous to have someone this incompetent working as a news editor
The reporter then went into the version history of the Google document. Earlier that day, Le Coz was working on the document when suddenly several blocks of text were added over the course of four minutes. In that document version was "language resembling an AI chatbot prompt, which was quickly replaced with paragraphs of unexplained text that reflected the prompt-like instructions," wrote the reporter in the document sent to the board. This included "confusing statements and numerous outright fabrications which were not present in my original draft."
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Learning a lot about the dangers of chick brooding

www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/s/0...
r/frugal thread traded my space heater for a chick brooding lamp and am saving 75% on electricity and feeling even warmer (plus my little dog loves it) I am living in an RV where insulation is minimal so | really rely on the "heat the person not the house" principle. Last winter I used a 1,000 watt electric space heater to keep me and my little doggy warm until freezing temperatures hit, but I wanted to see if I could slim down even more on the electric bill without sacrificing any comfort. This whole past week it has been between 40-50f (4.5-10c) so l've been able to give my chick brooding lamp a proper test. I'm actually finding that (on top of being 4x more efficient per hour), it is also better at heating me (and my usually-cold little dog) than the electric space heater was. About 36" below the lamp gets to 85(29.5) degrees, and the indoor air temp gets to about 10 (4.5) degrees warmer than outside if I keep in on for a couple of hours. I think if I ran it all day it could handle another 10 degrees colder no problem. I spent just $21 on the setup: $10 on the 10" Aluminum clamp light with a 300w maximum wattage ceramic base, and $11 on the 250w Red cucumbermelancholy • 17h Be very careful using this. Lots of chicken coops and barns have burned down due to the lamps falling on flammable surfaces. Make sure it's well secure and away from flammable materials. No_Confidence3571 • 16h I am this person. Burned down my entire house brooding ducks. I'm telling you it don't have to completely touch. Not in a million billion years will I ever do this. Op this is a really really bad idea and one that causes way more fires than anything else. I also know someone else this happened to. It's so common everyone knows someone and sometimes multiple people. I'm literally begging you. Not in a self righteous way but I promise it's not worth it
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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"I can help some people"

GO TELL YOUR WHITE SONS... THIS IS YOUR HERO!
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Black Hawk Down still rips
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3d
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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this cat is unnervingly captivated by scenes of seppuku
photo of a cat in a living room watching a scene from SHOGUN
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM