Steve in Chicago
@spsnomad.bsky.social
IT Professional. Friend of democracy. If you're not going to heaven, why only miss it by an inch?
Read this thread, thank me later.
My man looks like he set the tanning bed to "terraform"
January 3, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Read this thread, thank me later.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov Can we get something like this in Illinois? I don't see the federal government moving on this any time soon.
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 4:36 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov Can we get something like this in Illinois? I don't see the federal government moving on this any time soon.
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What will poor Eric Adams do for work?
That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!
That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!
September 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
What will poor Eric Adams do for work?
That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!
That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!
Absolutely stupid to change this -- how much time does it take to actually verify the postage and put the postmark on when they get it?
This is a good visual. Looks like in order to ensure we have proof that we mailed something on a specific day, we will have to stand in line at the post office and request a manual post mark.
January 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Absolutely stupid to change this -- how much time does it take to actually verify the postage and put the postmark on when they get it?
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Marked safe from whatever nonsense this is. 🫠
January 1, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Marked safe from whatever nonsense this is. 🫠
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NYDN: Times Square Trashed Under Mamdani’s Leadership
January 1, 2026 at 6:00 AM
NYDN: Times Square Trashed Under Mamdani’s Leadership
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'South Park' alum Toby Morton responds to unnamed lawyers regarding his registering the Trump-Kennedy Center domain names: "Satire is protected speech... I'll proceed accordingly while you go f^ck yourselves."
December 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
'South Park' alum Toby Morton responds to unnamed lawyers regarding his registering the Trump-Kennedy Center domain names: "Satire is protected speech... I'll proceed accordingly while you go f^ck yourselves."
Man, it’s bad enough with Alexa. You’re here to be my on-demand jukebox (a job you suck at) and tell me the weather. Our relationship ends there. I don’t want a “morning routine”, hydration alerts or for you to pipe up every time it rains (I own another more effective device called a window.)
"Would you like some toast? Some nice hot crisp brown buttered toast. No? How about a muffin then? Nothing? You know the last time you had toast. 18 days ago. I mean what's the point in buying a toaster with artificial intelligence if you don't like toast. This is my job. This is cruel, just cruel."
Also, this just in -> the latest bizarre AI fever dream is AI-controlled trivets, staplers, and coffee cups on wheels. So we'll be chased around by inanimate wheeled objects clamoring for our attention.
December 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Man, it’s bad enough with Alexa. You’re here to be my on-demand jukebox (a job you suck at) and tell me the weather. Our relationship ends there. I don’t want a “morning routine”, hydration alerts or for you to pipe up every time it rains (I own another more effective device called a window.)
Canada is not treacherous. Canada is the nice upstairs neighbor who turned us on to Rush, dropped off Nanaimo bars and is doing its best to talk us out of Trump’s worst impulses
The @theatlantic.com claims that Canadians will use "treachery" to make America and its media look "silly".
No, we are a democratic people who hate thugs and their pusillanimous enablers.
Deal with it.
No, we are a democratic people who hate thugs and their pusillanimous enablers.
Deal with it.
December 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Canada is not treacherous. Canada is the nice upstairs neighbor who turned us on to Rush, dropped off Nanaimo bars and is doing its best to talk us out of Trump’s worst impulses
Thoroughly proud of everyone at 60 Minutes for refusing to abandon their journalistic ethics, doing the story and releasing it after CBS tried to kill it, knowing there’s a good chance they would get fired for doing so.
Stephen Miller wants everyone at 60 Minutes who “engaged in this revolt” (aka told the truth) fired
December 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Thoroughly proud of everyone at 60 Minutes for refusing to abandon their journalistic ethics, doing the story and releasing it after CBS tried to kill it, knowing there’s a good chance they would get fired for doing so.
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Whe @theonion.com nails it boy do they nail it
December 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Whe @theonion.com nails it boy do they nail it
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Funny how none of these newly-conservative actors and musicians are ever on the rise. I’m sure that must be a coincidence.
Nicki Minaj’s MAGA turn culminated in a surprise appearance with Erika Kirk at Turning Points USA's AmericaFest today
Nicki Minaj's MAGA Turn Culminates In Appearance With Erika Kirk At Turning Point Festival
It’s not necessarily surprising that rapper Nicki Minaj has been cuddling up to MAGA, but that doesn’t make it any less unsettling. She’s become more and more vocally supportive of the current White H...
stereogum.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Funny how none of these newly-conservative actors and musicians are ever on the rise. I’m sure that must be a coincidence.
Guessing there’s going to be a lot of this, including people getting confidential information just by asking for it.
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Guessing there’s going to be a lot of this, including people getting confidential information just by asking for it.
Throwback to the best Weekend Update skit ever.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP5b...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP5b...
December 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Throwback to the best Weekend Update skit ever.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP5b...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP5b...
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Just ran out into the yard to chase off some Gen Xers drinking out of my hose, but when I went back inside I discovered it had just been a distraction to let Cameron Crowe sneak through the window and fuck my cassette player
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Just ran out into the yard to chase off some Gen Xers drinking out of my hose, but when I went back inside I discovered it had just been a distraction to let Cameron Crowe sneak through the window and fuck my cassette player
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Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!
a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people
ALT: a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!
Spot on.
December 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Spot on.
Just going to point out that I appreciate that a Federal org is using Bluesky (and pretty much every other platform) to get the word out about these recalls to as many people as possible.
Just great to see an agency still doing their work as intended without injecting politics into it.
Just great to see an agency still doing their work as intended without injecting politics into it.
#RECALL: YCXXKJ Baby Bath Seats; The recalled bath seats violate the mandatory standard for infant bath seats because they are unstable and can tip over while in use, posing a risk of serious injury or death due to drowning. Get refund. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...
December 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Just going to point out that I appreciate that a Federal org is using Bluesky (and pretty much every other platform) to get the word out about these recalls to as many people as possible.
Just great to see an agency still doing their work as intended without injecting politics into it.
Just great to see an agency still doing their work as intended without injecting politics into it.
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Honestly wondering why people bought this thing in the first place.
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Honestly wondering why people bought this thing in the first place.
Best jump scare in history.
December 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Best jump scare in history.
Modest proposal: Make ALL the road salt the pet-safe stuff that's pelletized into round balls so everyone's dog doesn't have to navigate a minefield of sharp saline Legos.
December 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Modest proposal: Make ALL the road salt the pet-safe stuff that's pelletized into round balls so everyone's dog doesn't have to navigate a minefield of sharp saline Legos.
It flopped, but the core idea (give me something small and mobile that's electric, rechargeable and faster than walking) has definitely found purchase in scooters and e-bikes and I'm kind of surprised someone hasn't adapted the gyroscope balancing thing onto the smaller form factor of a scooter.
Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.
December 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It flopped, but the core idea (give me something small and mobile that's electric, rechargeable and faster than walking) has definitely found purchase in scooters and e-bikes and I'm kind of surprised someone hasn't adapted the gyroscope balancing thing onto the smaller form factor of a scooter.
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