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James Allenspach
@manminusone.bsky.social
✶✶Chicago✶✶ born and raised since 1995 (when I was 27). Remind me to come here instead of Threads.

He-him-his, same as Cheese's
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WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE

This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything.

we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.
Despite the ravages of age and an internet steeped in misinformation, your eyes – in this one case – do not deceive you: Website different. It’s taken an immense amount of time and effort, but welcome to Aftermath version 2.0:

aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I solved today’s #Gisnep in 02:16. 🎉
No. 460 | November 10, 2025
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November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I solved today’s #Gisnep in 01:56. 🎉
No. 459 | November 9, 2025
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November 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I solved today’s #Gisnep in 01:52. 🎉
No. 457 | November 7, 2025
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November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Ash when the Alien bursts out of Kane's chest
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A minor comfort to me to see Gene Siskel's desk is almost as messy as mine
November 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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"What pets have you had in the past, and what happened to them? Write at least five hundred words about the traumatic death of your childhood pet."
A Brief Questionnaire Before You Adopt This Rescue Cat
Thank you for your interest in CHICKEN FINGERS, an available cat with Furrever Rescue. Furrever Rescue currently has over a hundred cats that despe...
buff.ly
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Cheney croaked, Zohran won, and sandwich guy is free. All time great week imo.
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
You heard the court: it's legal to throw sandwiches
November 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I solved today’s #Gisnep in 04:27. 🎉
No. 456 | November 6, 2025
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November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
JEAH JEAH
Big news day today so you might have missed @npr.org quietly sliding a Doobie Brothers Tiny Desk under the front door. youtu.be/jrkOQuRYCIQ
The Doobie Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Chicago roller derby name: Vivian Maimer
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I solved today’s #Gisnep in 04:36. 🎉
No. 455 | November 5, 2025
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November 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Haha unless
November 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Cheney Orders Motorcade To Gun It Over Half-Open Drawbridge
Cheney Orders Motorcade To Gun It Over Half-Open Drawbridge
theonion.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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In Memoriam:

Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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hug your war criminals a little tighter today
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Captain Torture
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc

www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out o...
www.404media.co
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
How it started / how it's going
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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After Mamadani wins tomorrow it'd be cool if some of his people made a successor political vehicle to Teen Vogue, for which there's clearly a market.
November 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM