la pigeonne
@thebadassonance.bsky.social
Chicagoan. Aspiring toward a future with in-unit laundry.
I block bots.
I block bots.
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
My Jewel does not sell cacao nibs
December 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
My Jewel does not sell cacao nibs
I haye Apple Glass or whatever this new design interface is on my iPhone, please help, how to undo!!
December 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I haye Apple Glass or whatever this new design interface is on my iPhone, please help, how to undo!!
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Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
May 27, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
RIP, White Eagle. This is where the fam always went after funerals and wakes. Excellent mushroom barley soup. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/w...
White Eagle in Niles closes after decades as a hub for Polish community and political powerhouses
White Eagle banquet hall was the social center of Chicago’s Polish community for decades. Now it has served its last pierogi.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
RIP, White Eagle. This is where the fam always went after funerals and wakes. Excellent mushroom barley soup. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/w...
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“Landlords may say ‘smart home’ devices are a tenant convenience. But the reality is, these AI-enabled systems can track patterns of tenant behavior, identify when people are home, and provide landlords with personal information that could be used to push out tenants perceived as too costly.”
ACLU Sues San Francisco Landlords over AI-Powered Surveillance in Tenants' Homes | ACLU of Northern CA
www.aclunc.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“Landlords may say ‘smart home’ devices are a tenant convenience. But the reality is, these AI-enabled systems can track patterns of tenant behavior, identify when people are home, and provide landlords with personal information that could be used to push out tenants perceived as too costly.”
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Wherever you live, this story has significant implications because the trend of defunding libraries, when we should be fortifying these outposts of learning, sharing, and survival, is a national phenomenon. Libraries are models of the kind of infrastructure we must EXPAND to get the world we want.
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Wherever you live, this story has significant implications because the trend of defunding libraries, when we should be fortifying these outposts of learning, sharing, and survival, is a national phenomenon. Libraries are models of the kind of infrastructure we must EXPAND to get the world we want.
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What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood
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This is why it's important to have Arts/Humanities courses AND STEM courses. It all fits together, they compliment each other.
There's no such thing as useless education.
There's no such thing as useless education.
Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This is why it's important to have Arts/Humanities courses AND STEM courses. It all fits together, they compliment each other.
There's no such thing as useless education.
There's no such thing as useless education.
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Santa Fe is linking wages to rental prices — a first in the U.S. — as officials try to slow displacement with soaring housing costs
Santa Fe tackles rental rates with first-in-US minimum wage approach
Santa Fe is the first city in the U.S. to directly link wages to housing affordability, aiming to counter high rents.
apnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Santa Fe is linking wages to rental prices — a first in the U.S. — as officials try to slow displacement with soaring housing costs
JonnyPops in Very Berry Lemonade should be made freely and readily accessible to nauseated people everywhere.
November 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
JonnyPops in Very Berry Lemonade should be made freely and readily accessible to nauseated people everywhere.
Literally not a Midwesterner unless your fam has stored Swedish meatballs in a Cool Whip container.
The family legend is my mom is pretty thrifty, so she doesn’t really buy Tupperware but reuses containers. Always a todo finding lids, you never know what’s really in the freezer. One year we got out the cool whip for Uncle Gordie to have with his pie and it was actually leftover Swedish meatballs.
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Literally not a Midwesterner unless your fam has stored Swedish meatballs in a Cool Whip container.
Rich folks getting fancy-schmancy houses built from scratch should be required to pay everyone living and working in the vicinity for the many months of disturbance.
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Rich folks getting fancy-schmancy houses built from scratch should be required to pay everyone living and working in the vicinity for the many months of disturbance.
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Cis allies can pair up and call the authorities on each other for being trans in a public bathroom, exhaust due process until medical records are subpoenaed, and tire the cops with it until they complain so much about enforcing it that they stop bothering, like they did for non-crime hate incidents.
Anyone can be banned then. I've been mistaken for a man, a trans man and a trans woman before.
It's encumbent on all of us to make this as unworkable as possible.
It's encumbent on all of us to make this as unworkable as possible.
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Cis allies can pair up and call the authorities on each other for being trans in a public bathroom, exhaust due process until medical records are subpoenaed, and tire the cops with it until they complain so much about enforcing it that they stop bothering, like they did for non-crime hate incidents.
NO TO SIDEWALK BOTS: Chicago residents, sign this petition: NoSidewalkBots.org
29 people have reported incidents—robots blocking wheelchair users, forcing people into the street, hitting small dogs. At least one hit someone on Clark.
29 people have reported incidents—robots blocking wheelchair users, forcing people into the street, hitting small dogs. At least one hit someone on Clark.
No Sidewalk Bots
Pause sidewalk robots in Chicago until safety/ADA findings and job impacts are reviewed in a public hearing.
NoSidewalkBots.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
NO TO SIDEWALK BOTS: Chicago residents, sign this petition: NoSidewalkBots.org
29 people have reported incidents—robots blocking wheelchair users, forcing people into the street, hitting small dogs. At least one hit someone on Clark.
29 people have reported incidents—robots blocking wheelchair users, forcing people into the street, hitting small dogs. At least one hit someone on Clark.
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Members of Congress receive up to $79 per day for meals and incidentals when they are on official business in the D.C. area.
SNAP recipients receive $6.31 per day
SNAP recipients receive $6.31 per day
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Members of Congress receive up to $79 per day for meals and incidentals when they are on official business in the D.C. area.
SNAP recipients receive $6.31 per day
SNAP recipients receive $6.31 per day
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I've been reposting everyone replying to this post with their own ACA (and sometimes employer!) price hikes. Feel free to add yours. There is some comfort in knowing you aren't alone and knowing we'll all be voting on this issue in a year.
Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck
Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I've been reposting everyone replying to this post with their own ACA (and sometimes employer!) price hikes. Feel free to add yours. There is some comfort in knowing you aren't alone and knowing we'll all be voting on this issue in a year.
Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck
Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck
As every perma-pedestrian in Chicago knows, the day(s) after a snowfall render our streets an obstacle course, and some property owners don’t make things any easier.
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
As every perma-pedestrian in Chicago knows, the day(s) after a snowfall render our streets an obstacle course, and some property owners don’t make things any easier.
Everyone able to should be donating blood on the regular. Sooner or later you’ll likely need a transfusion.
www.jeffersonhealth.org/your-health/...
www.jeffersonhealth.org/your-health/...
Why Blood Transfusions for People with Cancer Are Necessary | Jefferson Health
Blood donations help support life-saving treatments, such as chemotherapy. A hematologist-oncologist and transfusion medicine specialist explain how you can help.
www.jeffersonhealth.org
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Everyone able to should be donating blood on the regular. Sooner or later you’ll likely need a transfusion.
www.jeffersonhealth.org/your-health/...
www.jeffersonhealth.org/your-health/...
Sign the Petition
Demand The Release of Chicago Teacher Illegally Detained By Ice
www.change.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Why is your State Police helping them then Governor. You appointed their leader and have control over them. Do something.
October 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Why is your State Police helping them then Governor. You appointed their leader and have control over them. Do something.
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Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.
ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.
The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.
The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.
ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.
The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.
The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
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Chicago is a truly great city. The perfect mix of homey and cosmopolitan. We’ve got good home cooking from around the globe, people who don’t just want to be in a city but want to be in their neighborhood in their city, and a vibe that’s both no-nonsense and neighborly. I’d die to defend it.
October 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Chicago is a truly great city. The perfect mix of homey and cosmopolitan. We’ve got good home cooking from around the globe, people who don’t just want to be in a city but want to be in their neighborhood in their city, and a vibe that’s both no-nonsense and neighborly. I’d die to defend it.