Kim Z
@observacious.bsky.social
Writer, dabbler, daydreamer. Halloween queen. Chicago by way of a lot of places. She/her
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Every day the news is sounding more and more like a badly-written Marvel character's evil-genius plan to destroy the world
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Every day the news is sounding more and more like a badly-written Marvel character's evil-genius plan to destroy the world
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🚨 DO NOT ADD YOUR NAME TO ANY LISTS, even those of supposed allies. This is how you put targets on people. Spread the message and warn anyone posting links that ask for personal info.
You can just go to any protest you like. You do not need an invite or your name on any tattletale lists to attend.
You can just go to any protest you like. You do not need an invite or your name on any tattletale lists to attend.
![A screenshot of to body of a Bluesky post on 12 January 2026 which reads:
"I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, "White People Against ICE: solidarity with Minneapolis and how we fight back everywhere" - sign up www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
[The following is the text from the link's sharing image]
SOLIDARITY WITH MINNEAPOLIS WHITE PEOPLE AGAINST ICE AND HOW WE FIGHT BACK EVERYWHERE
White People Against ICE: solidarity with Minneapolis and how we fight back everywhere • Showing Up for Racial Just...
This week, a white woman did what those in power fear the most: she broke rank, rejected t...
www.mobilize.us[/end shared link text]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ekew4wtc2m4ctroumek7kr4l/bafkreifptqo2pnl6hhfwgzr2s2wvvsad2nfa3evjhdmpx2i4xr372qw5sa@jpeg)
January 12, 2026 at 8:25 PM
🚨 DO NOT ADD YOUR NAME TO ANY LISTS, even those of supposed allies. This is how you put targets on people. Spread the message and warn anyone posting links that ask for personal info.
You can just go to any protest you like. You do not need an invite or your name on any tattletale lists to attend.
You can just go to any protest you like. You do not need an invite or your name on any tattletale lists to attend.
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This was 100% going to happen. Were they just crossing their fingers and hoping for the best at Google?
‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests
Google has removed some of its artificial intelligence health summaries after a Guardian investigation found people were being put at risk of harm by false and misleading information.
The company has said its AI Overviews, which use generative AI to provide snapshots of essential information about a topic or question, are “helpful” and “reliable”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:35 PM
This was 100% going to happen. Were they just crossing their fingers and hoping for the best at Google?
Bears? Bears! Unbelievable
January 11, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Bears? Bears! Unbelievable
Definitely on theme!
January 6, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Definitely on theme!
Ooh. I've been meaning to see this anyway.
January 6, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Ooh. I've been meaning to see this anyway.
Is there another movie I can watch to keep up my (inadvertent) women looking up on the poster streak?
January 6, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Is there another movie I can watch to keep up my (inadvertent) women looking up on the poster streak?
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The @chicagotribune.com did back of the envelope math and conservatively found that Operation Midway Blitz cost the taxpayer $59 million. Good reporting from @danvock.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/o...
Cost of Operation Midway Blitz: $59M and counting
A Tribune review of court filings, databases and other public records detailing the scope of the incursion and typical costs shows how much the federal government has spent since September.
www.chicagotribune.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The @chicagotribune.com did back of the envelope math and conservatively found that Operation Midway Blitz cost the taxpayer $59 million. Good reporting from @danvock.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/o...
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reading about a Naked Raygun Thanksgiving show at the Metro where they sliced a raw turkey with a chainsaw, covering the crowd in raw turkey, then found all their cars had been towed
they walked up to Lincoln Towing covered in turkey blood carrying a chainsaw
if you were at this show please lmk
they walked up to Lincoln Towing covered in turkey blood carrying a chainsaw
if you were at this show please lmk
January 2, 2026 at 12:11 PM
reading about a Naked Raygun Thanksgiving show at the Metro where they sliced a raw turkey with a chainsaw, covering the crowd in raw turkey, then found all their cars had been towed
they walked up to Lincoln Towing covered in turkey blood carrying a chainsaw
if you were at this show please lmk
they walked up to Lincoln Towing covered in turkey blood carrying a chainsaw
if you were at this show please lmk
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This is the lowest total since 1965, but you'd never know it from most of the media (kudos to @wgntv.com for pointing out this fact this morning)
Overall crime continued to drop as the number of murders in Chicago decreased from 587 in 2024 to 416 last year, when scores of federal immigration agents flooded the city and President Trump repeatedly highlighted its crime. Mayor Johnson touted the "positive trend" but acknowledged “there’s a lot…
Chicago records fewest killings since 1965, despite Trump's attacks against the city
chicago.suntimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:08 PM
This is the lowest total since 1965, but you'd never know it from most of the media (kudos to @wgntv.com for pointing out this fact this morning)
I also got theatrical, and I am going to interpret it in that way
January 1, 2026 at 4:02 PM
I also got theatrical, and I am going to interpret it in that way
Happy new year to all, and happy birthday to all my data privacy friends! 🎉🎉🎉
January 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Happy new year to all, and happy birthday to all my data privacy friends! 🎉🎉🎉
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Happy New Year's Eve, friends.
Don't forget -- today is the last day to take advantage of the Pub Crawl Limbo Week discount.
See you in 2026!
Don't forget -- today is the last day to take advantage of the Pub Crawl Limbo Week discount.
See you in 2026!
Happy Limbo Week, #writers!
Here is some incentive, we hope, to finish the year strong with a plan in place for next year. Between December 29 and December 31, use the code holidaypubcrawl to take $50 off Pub Crawl registration.
buff.ly/Lu34UA1
Here is some incentive, we hope, to finish the year strong with a plan in place for next year. Between December 29 and December 31, use the code holidaypubcrawl to take $50 off Pub Crawl registration.
buff.ly/Lu34UA1
December 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Happy New Year's Eve, friends.
Don't forget -- today is the last day to take advantage of the Pub Crawl Limbo Week discount.
See you in 2026!
Don't forget -- today is the last day to take advantage of the Pub Crawl Limbo Week discount.
See you in 2026!
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Look what they took from us with the death of magazines. People are apparently buying books of random pictures to glue to their vision boards.
December 31, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Look what they took from us with the death of magazines. People are apparently buying books of random pictures to glue to their vision boards.
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Make "download and use Signal for text messaging" your 2026 resolution
It's been a big year at Signal. Thanks to you, more & more people are speaking privately and freely. Thanks to you, we hit the top of app stores in multiple countries & served as critical global comms infrastructure. It's an honor to build Signal for you, with your support. 🩵
December 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Make "download and use Signal for text messaging" your 2026 resolution
I know a few people with ties to other countries who are going through the citizenship processes to give them options.
December 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I know a few people with ties to other countries who are going through the citizenship processes to give them options.
Favorite Not New First Watches of 2025
Favorite pre-2025 films that I saw for the first time in 2025
boxd.it
December 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I don't expect to watch more movies this year, so my lists of favorites are done. I saw a lot of great new releases this year, so it was hard to limit to just 12 (spoiler: I didn't)
boxd.it/HxK3k
boxd.it/HxK3k
Favorites of 2025 (new releases)
Favorite 2025 films that I watched in 2025
boxd.it
December 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I don't expect to watch more movies this year, so my lists of favorites are done. I saw a lot of great new releases this year, so it was hard to limit to just 12 (spoiler: I didn't)
boxd.it/HxK3k
boxd.it/HxK3k