Rory Barton
@subunderground.bsky.social
Abandoner of Annual Challenges; never appeared in a regular-season game; ORD Terminal 4 aficionado; Mr Barnard room 12a; chieftain of chokanchuckers; The Preeminent James Joyce Scholar in my Household and Probably on my Block
Not sure if it’s a cropping issue or if DHS is joining the war on cars.
truly unhinged and disturbing propaganda from the United States government
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Not sure if it’s a cropping issue or if DHS is joining the war on cars.
…asking [an improv comedy troupe] to help him fill out a use of force report
H/t @anthonymoser.com
H/t @anthonymoser.com
Judge Ellis also found that a top CBP leader's testimony was not credible, in part because he admitted that was relying on unreliable "use of force" reports generated by DHS officers — and in a footnote, says video showed an officer asking ChatGPT to help him fill out a use of force report!
![As for the evidence Defendants marshalled through Parra with respect to CBP’s actions, Parra testified in his deposition that he had only been in the field with CBP a “handful of times, four to five,” during Operation Midway Blitz. Doc. 191-9 at 30:7–10. And he made clear that he based much of his declaration on information he gleaned from use of force reports, with maybe some (unidentified) review of video footage. See, e.g., id. at 81:17–82:16, 85:17–23, 86:15–91:1 (describing that Parra viewed some video footage, but that he could not recall how much or of what events). Given the inconsistencies between the BWC footage and the use of force reports, with the BWC footage undermining what agents put in their reports, the Court cannot rely on Parra’s broad generalizations of protesters’ actions or Defendants’ responses to those actions. [FN 9]
[FN 9] 9 The Court also notes that, in at least one instance, an agent asked ChatGPT to compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images. Axon_Body_4_Video_2025-10-03_0949_D01A2556T at 00:00–00:42. To the extent that agents use ChatGPT to create their use of force reports, this further undermines their credibility and may explain the inaccuracy of these reports when viewed in light of the BWC footage.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreidrgcuxzzkkyozeaimpri73bx75rjcbkhvo5gpkv2lbm4kgpcsk74@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
…asking [an improv comedy troupe] to help him fill out a use of force report
H/t @anthonymoser.com
H/t @anthonymoser.com
Lol skimming the graphic, I thought it was spray chart from a pro corn hole league and was super confused.
Here is an early NASA M2M model for the M7.4 CME. A glancing blow arrival is predicted for 2025-11-07 around 3 UT (Thursday night for North America).
This is already on top of two other glancing blow impacts and a coronal hole set to become geoeffective around the same time.
This is already on top of two other glancing blow impacts and a coronal hole set to become geoeffective around the same time.
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Lol skimming the graphic, I thought it was spray chart from a pro corn hole league and was super confused.
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
Fuck Standard Time, I want metric.
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Fuck Standard Time, I want metric.
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If anyone in the Chicago cargo bike community has a kid who decided to take off their helmet during a ride recently around Belmont/Lincoln/Ashland. Your helmet is right by the Whole Foods bike racks.
October 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If anyone in the Chicago cargo bike community has a kid who decided to take off their helmet during a ride recently around Belmont/Lincoln/Ashland. Your helmet is right by the Whole Foods bike racks.
One of the best lines that came direct from Hell:
"Folks lend a hand in a hell hole."
In heavy rotation in my playlist.
"Folks lend a hand in a hell hole."
In heavy rotation in my playlist.
October 21, 2025 at 3:13 AM
One of the best lines that came direct from Hell:
"Folks lend a hand in a hell hole."
In heavy rotation in my playlist.
"Folks lend a hand in a hell hole."
In heavy rotation in my playlist.
A journalist was arrested in America.
I’m out, I'm sore. I'll have more later, but right now I have to say a couple of things. First, walking out of there to learn about the kindness, support, and quick action from so many of you all has meant the world to me, my wife, and co-founder, Raven. Thank you.
September 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A journalist was arrested in America.
I miss that the Illinois Sec of State website was cyberdriveillinois.com. It redirects, but still...
September 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I miss that the Illinois Sec of State website was cyberdriveillinois.com. It redirects, but still...
Wait is it because of The Man Show?
September 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Wait is it because of The Man Show?
This brought me joy. h/t @petersagal.bsky.social
Bluey episode where the dog family visits a museum filled with 1,000,000 year old extinct human skeletons
September 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This brought me joy. h/t @petersagal.bsky.social
In improv, it's totally fine to stop a scene if you aren't sure what's going on and, in character, ask. Call out the game, essentially. Someone in the press corps needs to do this. "Wait, are you saying that in 2003 someone forged Trump's signature knowing he'd be president 22 years later?"
i cannot believe they are expecting us to play along with this "might not be his signature" farce and that a lot of people actually are, i feel like ive lost my goddam mind
September 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
It's better in a hell hole
You know where you stand in a hell hole
Folks lend a hand in a hell hole
You know where you stand in a hell hole
Folks lend a hand in a hell hole
September 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
It's better in a hell hole
You know where you stand in a hell hole
Folks lend a hand in a hell hole
You know where you stand in a hell hole
Folks lend a hand in a hell hole
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replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
August 30, 2025 at 3:34 AM
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
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none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time
July 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time
In Oak Park, WGN future radar shows we get stormed, AccuWeather shows we get spared.
PLACE YOUR BETS!!
PLACE YOUR BETS!!
July 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
In Oak Park, WGN future radar shows we get stormed, AccuWeather shows we get spared.
PLACE YOUR BETS!!
PLACE YOUR BETS!!
"Oh shit!" I thought. It looked like a hideous infestation on my hop plants... turns out larval ladybugs are just terrifying.
June 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Oh shit!" I thought. It looked like a hideous infestation on my hop plants... turns out larval ladybugs are just terrifying.
“—Bosh! Stephen said rudely. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
June 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“—Bosh! Stephen said rudely. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
Bravo this sign, bravo Melville:
June 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Bravo this sign, bravo Melville:
New email signature just dropped…
It is well to parenthesize here
May 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
New email signature just dropped…
“Why is there an empty jar of medium giardiniera in your fridge?”
“That’s not empty it’s partly full of oil I’m going to cook my eggs in!”
“That’s not empty it’s partly full of oil I’m going to cook my eggs in!”
May 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Why is there an empty jar of medium giardiniera in your fridge?”
“That’s not empty it’s partly full of oil I’m going to cook my eggs in!”
“That’s not empty it’s partly full of oil I’m going to cook my eggs in!”
$5,000
I know what I have
I know what I have
May 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
$5,000
I know what I have
I know what I have
Y’know I always wonder who they ended up casting in the garadsil 9 ad.
April 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Y’know I always wonder who they ended up casting in the garadsil 9 ad.