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Michelle Hughes
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Special abilities: Flying, shooting lasers out of eyes -- you know, "girl power". 🏳️‍⚧️

Former DJ on WCBN-FM, 88.3, https://wcbn.org/.

Former puppeteer at […]

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I'm at a TDoR event and a bunch of people got together for a photo and a cop also took photos of all the trans organizers.

#cdmx #tdor
Cop taking a photo.
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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@ai6yr

Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time, we had toy bears that gave sex advice.

(Comic by Tom Toro, from the New Yorker)
New Yorker comic by Tom Toro. A man in a suit tells stories to three children around a campfire. Their clothes are all tattered. Behind them, the ruins of a large city are barely visible through the smoke. The man says "Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Kittens Game is down???

They've gone too far this time!

#kittensgame
Browser screenshot of KittensGame.com/web. It's down because of Cloudflare!
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Me after getting a furnished apartment with a king-sized bed.
The "You're gonna need a bigger boat" scene from Jaws, but it says "You're gonna need a bigger polycule."
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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This is a misleading store name!

So, sometimes you take your pets to the vet and they need medicine. You might want there to be some kind of pharmacy for animals or, in Spanish, a farmacía para animales. Or, for short: FarmAnimals.

On the sign, they specify […]

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"FarmAnimals" is a store. I took this picture from the other side of the street, so there's cars photobombing the shot. The whole front of the store is open and you can see the rows of pill bottles and a counter with a person standing at it. The sign for the store says "FarmAnimals" and the sign is white. There's a blue heart with a white cutout that looks like the head of a dog. From the bottom of the heart, a line extends, to underline the word "FarmAnimals", and then the line starts going jaggedy to remind you of an EKG chart. Underneath "FarmAnimals", it says "La farmacía de su mascotas".
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I don't know why Mexico City needs a dedicated stink fish utility infrastructure, but I guess it worked for ancient Rome!

#cdmx #mexicocity
Three steel tubes are strapped to a wooden utility pole. Each of them has "Stink Fish" stenciled on it in black, block letters.
November 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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One of these pickup trucks had a proper firehose with it. They hooked it up to a pressurized spigot in the ground or on a building or something. They sprayed the fire out nice and quick. For some reason, the firehose and pressurized water from the pipes was able […]

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A firefighter sprays water out of a firehose. You can only sort of see him because I had an awkward angle. Mostly, you see a red car that just happened to be parked there before the fire. Also, the firefighter is on the other side of the gate that closes off the abandoned lot. Also in the photo: a civil defense worker kneeling in the road. Maybe he's filling another one of those water backpacks? I don't know, I was watching the guy with the hose.
November 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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That building that's on fire is a small abandoned building about the size of a news stand. It's in a gated-off empty lot full of trash. Flammable trash.

A handful of pickup trucks showed up, including police, civil defense, and the fire department.
A white pickup truck, labeled as being from the civil defense department of the borough of Miguel Hidalgo, has parked on the street in front of the fire. A worker is filling a backpack-and-sprayer assembly from a 5 gallon jug. Not sure they're fully equipped for this. A bright red pickup truck from the fire department of the borough of Miguel Hidalgo is driving up the street. It's passing where an ambulance is parked. I don't know if you can really tell that's an ambulance from this photo. You just see the back of a van and it's red and has sirens.
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Back in Ann Arbor, there are a bunch of people who want walkable communities and abundant housing.

The "cars-and-single-family-homes-only" crowd often argues against walkable infrastructure by saying that there's no way that emergency vehicles could use it […]

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A small building is on fire in a gated-off empty lot on a street with cars parked in front of it.
November 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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I don't know how to directly repost stuff from bluesky here, but I liked this, so here's the image and the link.

https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:ax5f4di3regaqqnobsc474s5/post/3lyqagggm7c2e
Drawing. Peppermint Patty, Charli Brown, and Marcie are all grown up. Peppermint Patty has a very queer haircut with a side-shave, and cargo shorts. She's got a sleeve of tattoos and a lesbian labrys tattoo on her neck. She says "You sly dog! I knew there was something I liked about you!" Charli Brown has transitioned! She's a woman now, with long orange hair. She's got a shy-but-proud smile on her face. She's wearing a long yellow dress with a straight line at the waist and the characteristic zig-zag at the knees. Marcie has a speech balloon. Inside, she's got a yellow egg cracking, such that the crack recapitulates the characteristic zig-zag pattern. This is a comic by @alienby.comics.
October 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Gosh, the #fediforum hashtag has gotten a lot more popular in the last two days. I wonder if something is going on to make that happen...
Screenshot: Hashtag fediforum. 29 people in the last 2 days. And there's a graph with unlabelled axes that shows not very many posts in the past growing to a large number of posts now!
October 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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We tried to eat at Los Tacos Michigan, here in Mexico City. I didn't find it very authentic: A real Michigan taco place would have had a vegetarian option!
Los Tacos Michigan is a taco restaurant where you can sit outside on a stool on the sidewalk and eat at the taco bar. Their logo is a drawing of a pig. My wife is waving hi! She's a Black woman wearing a black shirt with a rainbow-colored drawing of a dog wearing a crown and a bowtie.
October 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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The miracle of technology.
Duck Duck Go has a translation box that shows up when you search for "translate". This one is set to translate from English to English (United Kingdom). I demonstrate it by asking it to translate " Elevator". It says "Lift."
October 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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@SRDas

Yes! I stumbled upon it the other day too! I was trying to go to a movie at the theater nearby but I accidentally got there early and I was like "hey, there's a library here, let's kill some time at the library!" Turned out not to be just "a library", but […]

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Photo of Biblioteca Vasconcelos. I'm on the first floor and it goes up about 6 floors, and the books are on individual transparent platforms cantilevered out over the main area.
September 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Hey, look. Keanu Reeves is following me. And it must really be him and not a spammer because it says "official" in his handle! What an honor.
Mastodon screenshot. Keanu Reeves @officialkeanureeves@mastodon.social. Profile photo: Keanu Reeves leaning his head in his hand. Banner photo: "John Wick Chapter 4". Description: "Actor Film Director Producer Musician. WhatsApp number +1 747-319-1298". Joined: Sep 26, 2025 13 posts, 140 following, 0 followers.
September 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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This is from the government's livestream of the Mexican Independence Day celebration on the Zócalo. All I can think is: How are all these people gonna pee???
The Zócalo - the historic town square at the center of Mexico City, just jam-packed full of people. Thousands and thousands of them, I have no idea how many.
September 16, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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People on scifi shows are always digging up alien vessels out of mud pits or garbage dumps and saying "Don't worry, I can fly anything!"

Whenever they say that, I imagine stuff like the cockpit of this 747-200. Now imagine it was made by an alien culture that […]

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The cockpit of a Boeing 747-200. There's a couple of flight yokes in there, but they're buried underneath just a staggering amount of switches, dials, and lights. Just an unimaginable number of them. What on Earth could they possibly all be for??
September 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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AI has destroyed 1% of your resources.

#ai
A log from a videogame. It has an entry for every year between 24,988 (Spring) and 24,994 (Spring), and for each year, it says "AI has destroyed 1% of your resources".
September 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The hottest club in Mexico City is the train!

#transontrains #cdmx #mexicocity
I'm on a crowded train car, standing room only. I'm a white woman wearing a red shirt, blue bandana, and N95 mask.
September 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Hello, I'd like some girls, please. Maybe like two or three. No, I don't need any barbers today, thank you.
Sign for the barber shop: "Bunker 1994: Barber & Girls Shop". It's next to a barber pole. The sign on the wall says they can be contacted on whatsapp at 55 3137 9171.
August 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Hee hee, the guy in this show is a web designer. Check out all the very realistic stuff he has written on his blackboard.

* Python
* CSS
* HTML

Lovingly rendered at symbol!

Cube with a question mark inside it!!

(this show is "Felices los 6")
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felices_los_6
The guy has a fancy ergonomic chair that's really more of a gaming chair. He has a fancy gaming PC with RGB LEDs all over the place. One wall is painted with blackboard paint, and it says those things on it, in chalk: Python, CSS, HTML. Lovingly rendered at sign. Handwritten 3D pie chart with "HTML" written on it. A website that begins "http://python" but is covered up by the monitor when viewed from this angle.
August 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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This Argentinian TV show has them eating chips and guac. Is that where chips and guac comes from??

(my actual theory is that chips culture is a tex-mex thing; the characters in this show are also having ramen noodle soup at this restaurant, which I'm pretty sure doesn't come from Argentina)
A bowl of guacamole with like six triangular corn tortilla chips is set on the bar, next to some glasses of some cocktail.
August 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Firefox offering me a bunch of exciting new AI features.

#firefox #ai #enshittification
August 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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¡Cablebús! ¡Cablebús!

In Mexico City, this is just a normal bus that you can ride with your metro card. It reaches communities that are higher up in altitude and are not well served by trains. Each car can fit like 8 people, but there's a continuous string of […]

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Looking out the window in the direction of travel of the cablecar. We are suspended high above Mexico City. The cables are visible, as well as the exterior of two cablecars: One in front of us, in the same direction of travel, and another coming toward us. The car is blue and has wooden seats. Mountains ahead of us, in the distance. A view from the cablecar looking down at the city. I don't know how to estimate the height. We're much taller than the four-story buildings we're looking down on, but we could still make out the movements of individual people on the sidewalk below. A view of the city, looking from above as we travel on the cablecar. Also visible is an empty cablecar going in the other direction. You can see that the car is mostly glass, to optimize the opportunity for looking down. The metal bits that are not glass are blue. Also visible is the logo of the Cablebús, printed on the side of the other car: A blue square with a C suspended by a cable.
August 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Y'know, they call it lucha libre, but I'm not sure their license is OSI approved.
A lucha libre ring. Two luchadores grapple in the center while their teammates hang on the ropes waiting to be tagged in. One vamps to the audience.
August 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM