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Chicago. Theatre. Active transportation. Cats. I dunno. I’m tired.
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What I want people to know about intelligence is that it is always made better by humility.
To never think you have all the answers. To know when to listen to others. To not expect people to reconfirm what you already know & instead, tell you something different.
We could have had that in America🧵
To never think you have all the answers. To know when to listen to others. To not expect people to reconfirm what you already know & instead, tell you something different.
We could have had that in America🧵
December 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
What I want people to know about intelligence is that it is always made better by humility.
To never think you have all the answers. To know when to listen to others. To not expect people to reconfirm what you already know & instead, tell you something different.
We could have had that in America🧵
To never think you have all the answers. To know when to listen to others. To not expect people to reconfirm what you already know & instead, tell you something different.
We could have had that in America🧵
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The internet COULD have been a place where we become enlightened.
The Age of Information.
Instead, algorithms gave us feedback loops of our opinions. Telling us what we wanted to hear & giving us more confidence in disinformation than ever.
Throwing us into a full-blown crisis of ignorance. 🧵
The Age of Information.
Instead, algorithms gave us feedback loops of our opinions. Telling us what we wanted to hear & giving us more confidence in disinformation than ever.
Throwing us into a full-blown crisis of ignorance. 🧵
December 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The internet COULD have been a place where we become enlightened.
The Age of Information.
Instead, algorithms gave us feedback loops of our opinions. Telling us what we wanted to hear & giving us more confidence in disinformation than ever.
Throwing us into a full-blown crisis of ignorance. 🧵
The Age of Information.
Instead, algorithms gave us feedback loops of our opinions. Telling us what we wanted to hear & giving us more confidence in disinformation than ever.
Throwing us into a full-blown crisis of ignorance. 🧵
Chicagoans: what are non-evil coffee places that have gift cards yo include in teacher/etc gifts?
December 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Chicagoans: what are non-evil coffee places that have gift cards yo include in teacher/etc gifts?
Once again begging @chicagocta.bsky.social to somehow differentiate != elevator at a distant station that’s been out for months from ! = major service disruption, GFL getting to work today on mobile and station comms
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Once again begging @chicagocta.bsky.social to somehow differentiate != elevator at a distant station that’s been out for months from ! = major service disruption, GFL getting to work today on mobile and station comms
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When *checks notes* Franklin The Turtle has to put out a statement condemning your literal war crimes 😅😅
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
When *checks notes* Franklin The Turtle has to put out a statement condemning your literal war crimes 😅😅
I have no idea if I’ve managed to buy five monthly @chicagocta.bsky.social passes this morning or zero, but thanks, Ventra, for the 18 emails about the update that I don’t need….
December 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I have no idea if I’ve managed to buy five monthly @chicagocta.bsky.social passes this morning or zero, but thanks, Ventra, for the 18 emails about the update that I don’t need….
Ugly Xmas sweatshirt time!
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Ugly Xmas sweatshirt time!
This is such a worthwhile listen: how incompetent and undisciplined the ICE agents are, how scared they are of regular people. And her message that everyone can do something: the person with the whistle maybe alerts the person who is able to get in their faces, etc.
This is longer, but a good understanding of how they are operating including the notorious ginger agent.
They were driving unsafely with detained individuals and trying to cause accidents. There's a lot more and context, but completely inappropriate. No paperwork,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R115...
They were driving unsafely with detained individuals and trying to cause accidents. There's a lot more and context, but completely inappropriate. No paperwork,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R115...
Daniel Biss talks with detained ICE protestor Jennifer Moriarty
YouTube video by Daniel Biss
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is such a worthwhile listen: how incompetent and undisciplined the ICE agents are, how scared they are of regular people. And her message that everyone can do something: the person with the whistle maybe alerts the person who is able to get in their faces, etc.
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"As a Christian conservative, it's very important to me that we starve Americans and withhold medicine to maximize the profits of our feudal kings so they can do child rapes on private islands and commit horrific genocides"
This is how they sound to me
This is how they sound to me
November 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"As a Christian conservative, it's very important to me that we starve Americans and withhold medicine to maximize the profits of our feudal kings so they can do child rapes on private islands and commit horrific genocides"
This is how they sound to me
This is how they sound to me
NGL given the oppositional defiant adolescent boy the-cruelty-is-the-point nature of these guys, it worries me they will ramp things up on purpose in response to this.
‘Let children be children': Pritzker asks feds to pause immigration operations for Halloween
'No child should be forced to inhale tear gas or other chemical agents while trick or treating in their own neighborhood,' Pritzker wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security.
'No child should be forced to inhale tear gas or other chemical agents while trick or treating in their own neighborhood,' Pritzker wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security.
'Let children be children': Pritzker asks Homeland Security to pause operations for Halloween
'No child should be forced to inhale tear gas or other chemical agents while trick or treating in their own neighborhood,' Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland S...
www.nbcchicago.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NGL given the oppositional defiant adolescent boy the-cruelty-is-the-point nature of these guys, it worries me they will ramp things up on purpose in response to this.
Dear, sweet Prudential building, that is a carrot, not a pumpkin…
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Dear, sweet Prudential building, that is a carrot, not a pumpkin…
While I totally agree with this statement and I understand what it's getting at.....gotta pop up from Chicago-in-the-last-month and say, "Welllllllllllllll....."
“If someone was walking along the streets spraying poisonous fumes into people’s faces, they’d be arrested and probably locked up. But if you spray those fumes into people’s faces using a car, it’s somehow legal.”
-Tyre Extinguishers rep in @thewaroncars.bsky.social ‘Life After Cars’ book.
-Tyre Extinguishers rep in @thewaroncars.bsky.social ‘Life After Cars’ book.
October 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
While I totally agree with this statement and I understand what it's getting at.....gotta pop up from Chicago-in-the-last-month and say, "Welllllllllllllll....."
The Friendship Dip
The loneliest decades are not what you think they are
annehelen.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Best parade in the city
Between #NoKings and Arts in the Dark, the streets of the Loop were used for their highest purpose today. Protest and arts, arts and protest.
Between #NoKings and Arts in the Dark, the streets of the Loop were used for their highest purpose today. Protest and arts, arts and protest.
Usually, I wait until a little later in the Arts in the Dark parade to get teary-eyed at the beauty of all the art in our community. But starting this year off with the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, knowing what that neighborhood has been through these last few weeks? Immediate waterworks.
October 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Best parade in the city
Between #NoKings and Arts in the Dark, the streets of the Loop were used for their highest purpose today. Protest and arts, arts and protest.
Between #NoKings and Arts in the Dark, the streets of the Loop were used for their highest purpose today. Protest and arts, arts and protest.
Usually, I wait until a little later in the Arts in the Dark parade to get teary-eyed at the beauty of all the art in our community. But starting this year off with the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, knowing what that neighborhood has been through these last few weeks? Immediate waterworks.
October 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Usually, I wait until a little later in the Arts in the Dark parade to get teary-eyed at the beauty of all the art in our community. But starting this year off with the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, knowing what that neighborhood has been through these last few weeks? Immediate waterworks.
Everyone hold up--this is now the most important Chicago-related news story. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
(Because it's bsky, let me clarify /s but also we can all take a doomscrolling break for some fun and frivolous science?)
(Because it's bsky, let me clarify /s but also we can all take a doomscrolling break for some fun and frivolous science?)
The viral 'Chicago Rat Hole' wasn't actually made by a rat, scientists claim
After researching the rodent indent, scientists are over 98% sure it came from a squirrel.
www.yahoo.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Everyone hold up--this is now the most important Chicago-related news story. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
(Because it's bsky, let me clarify /s but also we can all take a doomscrolling break for some fun and frivolous science?)
(Because it's bsky, let me clarify /s but also we can all take a doomscrolling break for some fun and frivolous science?)
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cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
October 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
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Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
October 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
Do not. DO NOT, 2025.
Pray for Dolly
October 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Do not. DO NOT, 2025.
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Goodnight, you old war zone
October 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Goodnight, you old war zone
Looking for examples of cancer disinformation for a case study for my students. Tried Google & got useful articles about reasons for it, but no concrete examples. Googled for what our current head of HHS says causes cancer & got plenty for my project. This is surely fine & good & not a problem! 🙃
October 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Looking for examples of cancer disinformation for a case study for my students. Tried Google & got useful articles about reasons for it, but no concrete examples. Googled for what our current head of HHS says causes cancer & got plenty for my project. This is surely fine & good & not a problem! 🙃
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I can’t get over how crazy this is. They’re so indiscriminate and sloppy that they literally gassed dozens of cops. Nobody is safe.
CPD just relieved feds from this line too. Then a moment later the feds gassed the whole area, including the cops.
October 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I can’t get over how crazy this is. They’re so indiscriminate and sloppy that they literally gassed dozens of cops. Nobody is safe.