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Toscha
@poemless.bsky.social
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Lover of lovely things, problematic takes, and my rescue dog. Hater of Illinois Nazis.
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"Those" seems like a weird word to include in this?
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing your 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "chicago" (108×), "those" (94×), "live" (83×), "fuck" (75×), "american" (73×), "seem" (67×), "post" (67×), "mean" (64×), "evanston" (60×), "look" (60×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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LMAO! 😭
Gemini: "An interocitor is a fictional electronic component that appeared in older television sets and was located near the flux capacitor, notes a user on Quora."
December 4, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Now Watching:
Finnish film Rare Exports
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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This is so trashy. Lifetime movie meets prestige series. As if the booktok girlies wrote a TV show.
The Beast In Me on Netflix
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Not officially Thanksgiving until I see this:
Snoopy balloon in front of Macy's
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Some tasteful ones. There's more, and you can send them to people: digital.newberry.org/postcard-sen...
"Thanksgiving. May it always bring you joy." "When the ruddy fruit is gathered and the harvest work is done, may your heart have cause for thanks for all the bounty won!"
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Shout out to @pmorse.bsky.social for alerting us to these incredible Thanksgiving postcards from the Newberry:
"May your Thanksgiving never end in dreams like these!" Someone having nightmares about food. "May you have a lively Thanksgiving Day!" Pilgrims chasing and being chased by turkeys.
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Reminds me of this poem:
thevalueofsparrows.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/p...
Endless, hideous hordes are pressing Round us, in the moon’s dull light, Demons whirling, flying, massing, Like November leaves in flight. Crowds of them! Where do they hurry? Why so pitiful their song? Goblin do they haste to bur? Witch to wed they bring along? Clouds are whirling, clouds are swirling; Though invisible, the moon Lights the flying snow while blurring Turbid sky and nigh in one. Swarm on swarm, the demons flying Sweep the sky in endless quest, Till their piteous screams and crying Rend the heart within my breast…
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I was brought up on a side street
Learned how to love before I could eat
I was educated from good stock
When I start lovin' I just can't stop
I'm a soul man
I'm a soul man...
Pope Leo singing into a microphone
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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More neat colonial era art. Both the second drawing and the one with the trees in the previous post were done by enlisted soldiers.
Artwork from Ken Burns' The American Revolution Artwork from Ken Burns' The American Revolution
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. What is this style called? Something about it I really love.
Artwork from Ken Burns' American Revolution Artwork from Ken Burns' American Revolution Artwork from Ken Burns' American Revolution Artwork from Ken Burns' American Revolution
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Here we go!
Opening of Ken Burns' The American Revolution
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The gales of November.
Seagulls on a beach.
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Lake forever, problems for now.
Lake Michigan seen from a beach in Evanston.
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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This evening's dark and stormy night viewing:
Frankenstein on Netflix
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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I'm in my element(s).
Radar showing rain storms and snow showers across the upper midwest.
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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I was functioning on pure adrenaline until I was hit with this Thursday night.
A description of the emotional toll witnessing inhumanity daily takes on us.
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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YES ... HA HA HA ... YES!
Snow in the forecast
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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There are cheap recipes, and there is learning how to turn what you have on hand into a meal, and there is learning how to turn that meal into what you have on hand for the next few days. Enter MFK Fisher's wartime "cookery book and/or disaster survival guide and/or prose poem" How To Cook A Wolf.
MFK Fisher's How To Cook A Wolf.
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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ICE and their helicopter is back in Evanston and Skokie abducting people today.
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I did not get around to watching anything last night, but I am happy with my 2025 Spooky Season viewing. Heavy on the 1970s and folk horror, with a dash of MR James & Stephen King. Can recommend everything on the list, either for the quality or the weirdness.
Lost Hearts 1973 The Treasure of Abbot Thomas 1974 The Ash Tree 1975 Stigma 1977 The Ice House 1978 A View from a Hill 2005 Number 13 2006 The Dead Room 2018 Woman of Stone 2024 The Power of the Witch 1971 Let's Scare Jessica To Death 1971 The Shout 1978 When A Stranger Calls 1979 Salem's Lot 1979 Eyes of Fire 1983
November 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Lake forever, problems for now.
Lake Michigan at a beach in Evanston IL, Halloween 2025.
October 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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There it is.
today, the Rapid Response Network verified the presence of federal agents in Morton Grove, Skokie, and the Evanston area. One landscaper was detained across from Thomas Edison Elementary in Morton Grove. In Skokie, landscapers were detained at Crawford & Golf. Rapid Response teams are investigating reports of an abduction of a worker in Skokie near Devonshire. Additional reports are being investigated in the Morton Grove and Skokie area. DHS helicopters have been spotted above Evanston today and earlier this week. Please be cautious if you are working outside. If you spot any possible ICE activity, or know someone who has been detained, call 1-855-435-7693 For KYR cards visit: bit.ly/ICIRRCards
October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/1og6l25/protecting_pets_from_teargas/
October 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Good morning.
Ice in the Skokie/Evanston area again today.
October 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM