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They have turned up the brightness on the pickle.
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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a “Space Force”, if you will
we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
In addition to being a protip, this is also a lifehack.
pro tip: innocent people don't work this hard to keep the files that prove their innocence a secret
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Well, I’m glad the 50 year mortgages will be backed by crypto.
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Going to post up outside the Jewel tomorrow with my clipboard and a piece of paper that just says “Angry Mob” on it for people to sign (they don’t have to use their real name, they can just write a curse).
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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We all deserve so much better than PACER
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I don’t think that RCV mattered that much in the NYC dem mayoral primary. Mamdani was ahead in the first round, and without RCV, Lander would have likely dropped out and endorsed him, resulting in a bigger first round lead.
this is such an important point... it's easy to talk about individual candidates and ignore the structural conditions. clearly RCV mattered a ton in NY. and with our enormous mayoral fields in Chicago it would make a huge difference here.
Brandon Johnson was the "coalition with Liberals and the Teachers Union to prevent Paul Vallas" candidate much more than any other dynamic, and without Ranked Choice Voting, we're going to have our elections driven much more by that type of thing than charismatic leftists.
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The (en/ex/per)durant discussion is one I’m happy to see more people having.
How do you explain what happened to your past self once you transitioned?

Are they dead? Alive within you? Never alive in the first place? Or something else entirely?
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Overton window now extends between Communist Jihadist on the left to Communist Dictatorship on the right. Pretty incredible swing in the last year.
Ted Cruz: "The heart of the Democratic Party today is communist and jihadist and extremist."
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Me on my bike
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Hey, we’ve all been there. Your friends are supporting adult slavery and you just have to show them up somehow.
November 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Mamdani takes office on Jan 1, 2026. Back of the envelope calculations say Eric Adams has time to eat 18 more Leprechauns.
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This may seem extreme, but it’s the only way to prevent quadratic voting.
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Does anyone know if the parking minimum removal that just got passed in IL applies to the no-parking-replaced rule in the Chicago ADU zones?
November 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
My name is Ozymandias, I hope this statue finds you well.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and govern yourself accordingly.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and thank you for your attention to this matter.
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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“My brother in Christ, how did you fail the exam.”
“Hold up, say that first part again”
November 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’m struck by how an organic add like this would be impossible to make in the midwest because each conversation would be 3-4 hours long.
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
An everglute tree stays cheeked up over the whole winter.
To: @faineg.bsky.social
Subject: Ass Tree, the tree with an ass
November 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Captain Croup
“They’re after me Lepry Charms”
Typhoid Tony
“Silly Roibos, sixth is for kids”

There’s certainly a whole postdoc of these for some enterprising individual out there.
Plant immunity in cereals! #PlantSciJobs
Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started.

jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
November 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard
October 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Botanically true.
Vanilla is a fruit, by the way.
November 1, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I appreciate a regional transit logo that is illegal in the United Kingdom.
It's Friday, it's Halloween, we're celebrating, share your NITA sketch logos. I'll start
October 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
It’s a real visceral feeling to hear the whistling out your window first thing in the morning.
October 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Did they get rid of the unrealized capital gains tax on it?
It’s witness slip time! 🚨

Transit funding bill SB2111 has been assigned to committee and we need folks to file witness slips as PROPONENT immediately!

The attached graphic provides guidance for submitting a slip.

mbl.ms/mKgZnW7m-BQ
October 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I think that a series of games like Papers Please, where you are a bureaucrat trying to implement means testing and balancing the tradeoffs would be pretty good for exploring those with people who haven’t thought about it much.
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM