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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising
@jillianw.bsky.social
"The thirst trap of Andersonville!" - Anne

Love, ferocity, and mathematics.

She/her. Late-blooming 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈, making up for lost time. Scientist, socialist, musician. Yorkshire lass, living the dream in Chicago, with @scarlettaddams.bsky.social 👰👰 10/28/21
Pinned
With love, ferocity, pride, and spite, we will endure.

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Snow commute!

Not the apocalyptic blizzard we were half-expecting, but a decent couple of inches in Andersonville. I'm not in Leeds any more!

Soundtrack: Delphine Nuptials, from the terrific Don Byron & Aruan Ortiz album a couple of years back.
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A one-year-old.

I hope everyone responsible for these atrocities, from the bottom to the top, gets what they deserve. Soon.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
1-year-old, pepper sprayed by federal agent in Cicero: 'My daughter didn't have to go through this'
Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam's Club on Saturday morning. The action appears to violate a judge's restric...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Never EVER trust a Democrat
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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When everyone in the country hates your opponent and everything he is doing, that is when you strike…by doing absolutely everything he requests

That’s how you win
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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The 1919 race riot is one of the most underdiscussed events in Chicago’s history. Great to see this team’s work continuing to make an impact.
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Back in Chicago in time for the first snow of the winter.

Just a few pretty but inconsequential flakes today. Tomorrow, though...
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
He was SUCH a great dog.

💔
It's been a few days and I think I'm ready. Tho I've a cry coming.

Sadly, we had to let the Bowie the Dogg go last week. He had congestive heart failure and his suffering was too painful.

Our vet was compassionate and Bowie slipped away with his head in my lap.

Goodbye Bowie my bestest doggie.
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The assault on basic rights continues.

Don't let repetition dilute the power to shock. Stay outraged.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"The beatings will stop when morale improves."

We're not boycotting these fuckers hard enough.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.

They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.

If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."

🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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It should be legal to slap people playing Christmas music before December.
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I've seen so much Cool Art and Lewds this morning that I could not repost due to lack of AltText. Your Images should be Appreciated and Accessible to the Diversity of Needs on Bsky. ^___^💕
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗸𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽?
There is an option you can enable in the Bluesky settings that will require you to write alt text for any image you upload, that way you never forget! You can find it under Settings > Accessibility.
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Fuck "did Women Ruin the Workplace?"

Let's talk about "did the Workplace ruin women?" 🤬
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangl...
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Status update for my conference presentation next week, under government shutdown and air travel cuts:
a blue dumpster is floating in a flooded area near a sign that says narrows ramp
Alt: a blue dumpster, on fire, floating downstream
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Or possibly crypto.
Just realized that TIME magazine is probably going to do something dumb and name AI as the Person of the Year, isn't it?
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reread Susan Stryker's "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage" last night, for the first time in about 5 years.

An incredible piece, more inspirational to me now than ever.

Live your life in joy, but also in rage. Don't shy away from your rage.
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This reads like a Nuremberg trial testimony, and I hope one day it is.

These monsters won't be able to mask their faces forever.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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THE FIX IS IN
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Then they've done a piss-poor job of it.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I know I've been here less than two years. But it's long enough to learn the three little words of the Chicago girl coming home from her travels.

"Beef, wet, hot"
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Breaking: EHRC Appoints Maya Forstater as Transfinder General
"Ms Forstater explains (§§24-33) that it is practically difficult for transgender individuals
(particularly those whose biological sex is male) to disguise their sex, which as a result
often remains readily perceptible by those around them"
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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THIS IS THE GOOD COPE
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
At the gate, boarding soon.

Despite my fears, survived almost two weeks in the UK with zero terfery.

Good times with family and friends, and some fun explorations. @scarlettaddams.bsky.social will get over her "narrow roads with 60mph speed limits and tractors" trauma eventually.

Back soon!
November 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM