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Novelist (RELENTLESS MELT out now from Melville House) // collagist // inveterate notetaker // gracefully aging zinester // to be found in the Greater Boston/Chicago metro region
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dansinker.com
Whistle up Charlotte.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 4h
Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
jpb.bsky.social
New Cattet and Forzani alert!
Reflection in a Dead Diamond | Official Trailer | Shudder
YouTube video by Shudder
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November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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fraying.bsky.social
For everyone talking about how sloppy Epstein's writing is, consider that self-editing your words to make sure they communicate effectively is a gift we give to our readers to make sure we're understood. Rich, powerful narcissists don't do that because they expect everyone else to work for them.
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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ryancordell.org
If a skilled improv actor was given the prompt, “act like the guiltiest motherfucker alive” they could not perform the role better than DJT is right at this moment
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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allisonanne.com
mutual aid needed for Noble, a disabled artist who is recovering & rebuilding stability in their life following some serious health challenges and housing instability in recent years. they’re an amazing artist and community steward — please support them!

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graphic with a smiling portrait of Noble holding flowers and their cute dog against sky blue LINKIR.EE/NOBLELIVERPOOL FUND FOR COMMUNITY STEWVARD Mutual Tial Saves Lives DISABLED ARTIST NEEDS COMMUNITY SUPPORT TO RECOVER & REBUILD VENMO - NOBLEARTES C4SHAPP - NOBLEARTES NOBLEARTES.SPACE
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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designgeekatl.bsky.social
Sarah Grilo, Black Wall, (oil on canvas), 1967 [Maisterravalbuena, Madrid. © The Estate of Sarah Grilo, Madrid]
June 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Jonathan Lethem writes the best review I've read of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, putting his finger squarely on why I didn't accord it masterpiece status
Frantic Realism | Jonathan Lethem
Paul Thomas Anderson fits a generation’s worth of cineplex joys into One Battle After Another, but the revolution refuses to get off the couch.
www.nybooks.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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jpb.bsky.social
Centrist Dems to the progressive wing:
herreidjohn.bsky.social John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 4d
Passive aggressive campaign sign
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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allisonanne.com
one of the artists who we've been working with for the first issue of Queer & Trans Collagists is looking for help with expenses related to top surgery! please help him out if you can ❤️
Donate to Help Charles Get Top Surgery!, organized by Charles Oliver
I'm Charles—a queer transmasc artist, writer, and advocate. My work focuses on the queer … Charles Oliver needs your support for Help Charles Get Top Surgery!
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November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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kahlillkasir.bsky.social
3 days left!!
kahlillkasir.bsky.social Kahlil @kahlillkasir.bsky.social · 8d
There is a week left for the kickstarter for my debut film By Time You See Me There Will Be Nothing Left (link below), we have reached our goal but anything still helps as this is a very low budget film, if you want to get an early screening of this film this is still your chance
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
jpb.bsky.social
full-length claire rousay / m. sage collaboration when clairerousay.bandcamp.com/track/just-f...
just (feat. m sage), by claire rousay
from the album a little death
clairerousay.bandcamp.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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october collage
orange scaffolding provided by a paint chip, supporting a floating field of red lozenges. some browns and earth tones and part of a letterform complete the structure
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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bilbyblober.bsky.social
Blue Prince developer announces 'a plea for help': one of the game's lead playtesters 'has only a few months to find a living kidney donor'

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Blue Prince developer announces 'a plea for help': one of the game's lead playtesters 'has only a few months to find a living kidney donor'
Iggy needs a kidney.
www.pcgamer.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
jpb.bsky.social
Centrist Dems to the progressive wing:
herreidjohn.bsky.social John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 4d
Passive aggressive campaign sign
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
jpb.bsky.social
THE CHAIR COMPANY is, for my money, more successful than FRIENDSHIP because most everyone in its world is unhinged to a greater or lesser degree--it isn't just Robinson freaking out a world full of norms--and this maps onto a "paranoid thriller" template better than you might suspect
slimyswampghost.bsky.social Trevor Henderson 🍉 @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 5d
Loved the first episode of The Chair Company. What if a Tim Robinson I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE character stumbled into an Alan J. Pakula paranoid conspiracy thriller
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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captainacab.airbud.website
hell yeah this is sick
zohran for new york city official campaign signage but it says “graphic design for is my passion” and it looks like total dogshit
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
jpb.bsky.social
mods are asleep, post unholy synth patches
Unholy Max/MSP synth patch. My favorite part is that this was posted as part of a job offer: "Long ago, I hired someone to build me a huge and complex synth patch based on additive synthesis & FM. It begun on Max 4.6 and was finished in 5.07. I have been using it ever since, but it has grown unreliable. I would like to hire someone to make the patch work on Max 7 and integrate the gen∼ object to gain on CPU consumption. Flat rate payment only."
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
jpb.bsky.social
october collage
orange scaffolding provided by a paint chip, supporting a floating field of red lozenges. some browns and earth tones and part of a letterform complete the structure
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
jpb.bsky.social
Set aside a chunk of time and read this thread. I've been interested in Trump's "succession problem" for a while now, and while I don't agree with everything in this thread it certainly does a much better job than I could of mapping the various forces in orbit around that problem
matthiasellis.com matthew ellis @matthiasellis.com · 5d
I've noticed that there isn't much talk here about the current internecine war that is unfolding on the right, spearheaded in large part by Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I know this shit is insane and feels bad. But this is a mistake (1/)
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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allisonanne.com
very glad to have a collaborative @morphicrooms.bsky.social piece (made with @jpb.bsky.social) in the recent issue of @creamcityreview.bsky.social! i received copies in the mail the other day and they’re glorious, lots to enjoy!
CREAM CITY REVIEW sitting on a pillow a hand holding the page open to a black and white collage by morphic rooms (jeremy and allison) black and white abstract collage with eyes and obscures text detail of the collage in purple-tinged light
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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wynkenhimself.bsky.social
I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
State-issued documents aren't just tools to allow identification; they're also tools to enforce hierarchies. In his book "The Passport in America," the historian Craig Robertson argues that the document has served both to affirm and to assign such attributes of identity as class, race and gender. That last category didn't show up on the U.S. passport until 1976, after a panel of experts convened by the State Department noted that the rise of "unisex attire and hairstyles" had made it harder to determine a person's sex. "Gender markers thus were born out of the fear that gender was becoming ungovernable," wrote the immigration attorney Lauren Des Rosiers.
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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eris.anarchogoth.rip
there is no possible way in my mind this isn't about a trans girl.
eris.anarchogoth.rip Samsara Final Girl @eris.anarchogoth.rip · 6d
fuck, i had to check my most listened to track on youtube and I been listening to this for ten years

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You Were Cool by The Mountain Goats
YouTube video by emmablowguns.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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murphtracks.bsky.social
Remember Rev. David Black, the Chicago pastor who was shot in the head with pepper balls? If you haven't heard him speak yet, listen to this.

To ICE: "You can repent"
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
jpb.bsky.social
it's hard not to view AI tools and their marketing as being an additional facet of the Greater Suckerfication. "why do all that pesky cognitive work yourself when you could simply offload it to the Machine" is what you say when you want to scam someone out of their own intelligence
maxread.info Max Read @maxread.info · 6d
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM