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Cory Brown
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FKA @tcb // I help newsrooms build loyal audiences // Past: @ProPublica @AustinMonitor @capgaznews // He/Him
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Repost with an iconic fictional band.
Big Mountain Fudgecake from King of the Hill
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Ugh. I walk by this corner several times a week. Even knowing what is going on there are little ways it gets sadder and more angering every day.
A light pole with flowers and a sign that says “ICE kidnapped Community Members Here on 10/21/25” with information on how to support Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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In my years of city living I’ve seen all variety of empties littering sidewalks and parks and such, but this was a first:
An empty bottle of Rochefort 10 Belgian Ale on a parking meter.
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Spotted out and about in Chicago
A sticker of a red heart with a slightly lighter red 6-pointed Chicago star that says, “ Get fucked, feds. With love, Chicago”
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Spotted out and about in Chicago
A plastic skeleton on a deck posing in front of a black flag that says “FUCK ICE” in white letters
October 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Shoutout to @dansinker.com for making cool shit.
An orange iron on patch that says “TRYING” like a biker gang patch. A white iron on patch that says “Cooper Black” in black in the Cooper Black typeface. A sheet of 5 stickers like the “TRYING” patch in different colors.
October 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Spotted out and about in Chicago.
A teal sticker on a black pole that says “Release the Epstein Files” with little illustrated silver broken hearts as accents.
October 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Well shit let’s go Falcons*

*Except Severna Park
A white SUV with “Falcons will be 1-4 after today” written on the tinted window.
October 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Hell yeah new bike lane on Clark.
A new bike lane between the parked cars and the curb, rather than cars parked along the curb.
September 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Spotted out and about in Chicago.
A red bollard with a sticker on with this handwritten message: “Hi, my name is Fuck Gavin Newsom”
September 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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lol fuck you
Screenshot that says: "During the rebrand, you said you weren’t changing prices. What changed? We wanted to give you stability during our rebrand transition—no one needs two big changes at once. So we didn't raise prices during our rebrand. Now that we're settled into being Kit, it's time to align our pricing with the value we deliver. After 12 years of the same prices and massive platform growth, this reflects what we've built together to help creators continue to thrive and evolve."
September 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Seen out and about in Chicago.
A poster with an image of a woman in a black balaclava holding a tire tool with the text “The government is abducting your neighbours are you going to let them?”
September 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Someone buy Former NBA player P.J. Brown’s suit jacket.

Maybe @defector.com can hang it from the rafters of Guys Arena or turn it into merch

ebay.us/m/ci6TeO
Brown pinstripe suit jacket with 5 buttons. It’s very long. Inside tag reading “Exclusively Tailored for P.J. Brown”
September 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Reskeet with a tweet you still think about.

This one is a long distance dedication to @surlyurbanist.bsky.social
mike mulloy @fakemikemulloy • 2h You don't understand humility until you've watched a dude who lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis drop flat-footed bank shots on you. I must have been about 18 years old, my dad's 40+ pick up game needed an extra guy so I tagged along. The dude I was covering had to be 60 fucking years old. Wearing fucking Converse Weapons, Umbro soccer shorts, and a Looney Tunes t-shirt And he fucking ruined my life. I went home and never wanted to play basketball ever again. His shots were banking off my fucking soul. When your white dad turns 40, the federal government sends him a pair of NBs, a geometry book, a Kevin McHale DVD and the rest is up to him. That 60 y.o. dude was yelling out names of dudes I hadn't even heard of. He yelled out "Bob Pettit" before nailing a baseline jumper I had to go home and get my Basketball Almanac to find out who it was cuz we didn't even have Google back then. I felt so disrespected. I just called my dad to ask for more details about this dude and he said he still plays and is nearly 75 years old. And still very very good Apparently he played at Holy Cross and in the Navy. That man haunts my fucking dreams.
August 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Bought a 1980s Banana Republic photographer vest on eBay. It has a window for credentials.

So I put a David Robinson Skybox card in it.
A Skybox basketball card of David Robinson from ~1990 in the translucent pocket of a khaki photographer vest.
August 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Someone buy this!

ebay.us/m/mipPQP
A canvas newspaper carrier bag with The Chicago Sun in big green letters
July 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Post your Lock Screen.

This is like the 3rd phone I’ve kept this same photo for. I don’t even remember what the last background was.
Little Richard standing with his arms out in a Y. His jumpsuit is made up of white sleeves, a white belt and long tassels that extend from his upper chest to mid-thigh. His bouffant hairdo is taller than his face.
July 26, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Ned Beatty as Otis in Superman (1978). He's wearing a grey suit, straw boater hat and a yellow tie with a knot the size of a grapefruit and a blade that is about 5 inches long, terribly short.
July 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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What in the Merrill Hoge? Did he learn how to tie a tie from 2010s-era NFL pre-game shows?
Eric Adams in a navy suit with a white shirt and reddish-burgundy pattern tie. The knot is too big, so the blade of the tie ends a full 4 inches above his belt buckle where it should.
July 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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JFC I love @404media.co and hate everything all at the same time.

www.404media.co/lebron-james...
404 Media headline that reads: LeBron James' Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him
July 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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You need this Brandeis Hoot sweatshirt

ebay.us/m/57r2El
A maroon long sleeve sweatshirt with white lettering: The Brandeis Hoot. Brandeis University’s Community Newspaper. The O’s in Hoot are made to look like owl eyes.
July 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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I've seen Redditors starting newsletters with more sense than this.
I asked Ouimette if, from AJP’s perspective, the Landing’s proposed pace of scaling up and spending was a strategic mistake. He said no: “The size and complexity of the Greater Houston area’s population and the strength of its philanthropic and business sectors validate both the need for and viability of strong nonprofit local news serving Houstonians.”
July 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Hey man nice font
A package of Peelerz snacks that are the flavor Gummy Banana but the G looks like a C
July 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Sure the Graceland coyote pups are cool but have ever seen the Liquid Death NASCAR hearse?
A black Cadillac hears with the front painted like it was dipped in gold paint. On the side is 66 Liquid Death in white paint. It’s waiting in traffic with a cemetery in the background.
July 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Choosing to believe this painting in the “Malibu Muse: Mrs. Tom Petty Estate Sale” is Lucky & Luanne.
A framed painting of a couple cheek-to cheek. Tom Petty on the left and his widow Dana York on the right.
May 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM