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his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis

Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.

www.startribune.com

January 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM

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Moby Dick

@mobydickatsea.bsky.social

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

January 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM

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biblioklept

@biblioklept.bsky.social

A few sentences on every book I read or reread in 2025 biblioklept.org/2025/12/31/a...

A few sentences on every book I read or reread in 2025

☉ indicates a reread. ☆ indicates an outstanding read. In some cases, I’ve self-plagiarized some descriptions and evaluations from my social media and blog posts. I have not included books that I d…

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December 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM

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weeder

@weeder.bsky.social

"engage your core" what am I, a nuclear power plant? The earth? Do I look like an apple to you?

January 2, 2026 at 2:36 AM

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William Shakespeare

@shakespeare.lol

Well, and I be serv’d such another trick, I’ll have my brains ta’en out and butter’d, and give them to a dog for a new-year’s gift.

January 1, 2026 at 4:43 PM

whyexactly.bsky.social

@whyexactly.bsky.social

2025 has been one of the best reading years for me in a while.

My top 5 include (in no particular order):
—Mount Chicago by Adam Levin
—Darconville’s Cat by Alexander Theroux
—Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
—Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
—Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson

December 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM

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ceej

@ceej.online

ME: (first day practicing Bug Law) May it please the Court—
BUG JUDGE: (sternly) Bug Court.

December 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM

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Cullen

@hellocullen.bsky.social

"how you like me now" song set to montage of all the times ive eaten on the toilet

December 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM

whyexactly.bsky.social

@whyexactly.bsky.social

Another Hell Yeah to the Interlibrary Loan system.

December 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM

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Homestar Blade Runner 20X6

@checarina.bsky.social

in 2026 we are NOT hustling, we are NOT grinding, we are doing just enough Job to have money for Video Game

December 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM

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@dasharez0ne.bsky.social

RUN AS - dashare.zone ADMIN

A PERSON RUNNIN "RUN" , A SKELITEN WHOSE COOL AND NORMAL , BUT ALSO HOT, IN A CASUAL WAY THATS NOT THREATENING, "RUN AS ADMIN" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

December 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM

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ALT TEXT - SHIRT'S AT dashare.zone - dashare.zone ADMIN

YOU AND ME AND EVERY OTHER POOR PEACE OF SHIT IN THE COUNTRY SUFFER BECAUSE ALL DA MONEY HAS TO GO TO 4 GUYS WHO SOMEHOW NEVER PAY TAX'S, AND IN 2025 EVERY TRIP TO THE GAS STATION SNACK AISLE FEELS LIKE THE ZOO AS A KID "WE DONT HAVE THE MONEY FOR THIS" EXCEPT THE BREAD WAS 99 CENT'S THEN, NOW YA CANT USE COINS TO BUY ANY THING, EVEN THE PARKING METERS AN APP THAT EMAILS YOU LATER AND SAYS "LIKE PARKING? COME DOWN TOWN RIGHT NOW AND PAY US TO PARK HERE" , ANY NORMAL PERSON IF THEY HAD $1,000,000,000 WOULD GIVE ALOT OF IT TO HELP UNHOUSED AND HUNGRY PEOPLE, AND THATS WHY THEY NEVER LET US HOLD THAT MONEY, THEY KNOW ANY ONE WITH A SOUL WOULD USE IT TO HELP EVERY ONE ELSE, INSTEAD OF LAUGHING AT THEM AND BUYING ANOTHER YACHHT , WHO EVEN LIKES BOATS???? SORRY BUT YOUR FUCKIN DERANGED IF U LIKE THAT SHIT,,, "IM DEFYING THE POWER OF WATER LOOK AT ME" QUIT BRAGGING , I AM A LAND ANIMAL, I RESPECT THE POWER OF STONE AND FOREST , IF YOUR NOT ROWING THAT THING I DO NOT RESPECT YOU, A CANOE IS A HUMBLE VEHICLE, A DINGHY IS A TOOL OF HUMANS, A YACHT IS THE DEVIL'S CAR , AND HES SAILING INTO YOUR EMPTY VESSEL BEZOS!!!!!!!! HES MOTORING RIGHT INTO THE LACK OF EMPATHY OF EVERY "RIGHT WING GUY" !!!! ANY WAY THE TEXT ON HERE "EVERY THING COULD BE FIND IF RICH PEOPLE HAD SLIGHTLY LESS MONEY, OH WELL GUESS IMPROVING THE WORLD IS IMPOSSIBLE " - THINK ABOUT THIS WHY IS IT ILLEGAL TO SAY WHAT WOULD FIX THE COUNTRY, WHY IS IT AGAINST EVERY TERM OF SERVICE, THINK ABOUT IT, THINK ABOUT IT, THINK ABOUT IT, THE RULES ARE FOR THE WORKERS, ITS RIGHT IN THE NAME "THE RULING CLASS" WHY ARE THEY NOT SUBJECT TO OUR RULES, THINK ABOUT IT , YOU KNOW WHY, AND YOU KNOW THAT EVERY THING ENDS, THE ONLY QUESTION IS ARE YOU WILLING TO DO WHAT IT TAKES OR WILL YOU LAY DOWN AND BEG FOR APPROVAL LIKE A TRAINED DOG,,,,, ARE YOU A DOG OR ARE YOU A HUMAN BEING , YOU ARE A REAL SPECIAL PEACE OF SHIT JUST LIKE ME AND U KNOW WHAT U HAVE TO DO - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

December 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM

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@dasharez0ne.bsky.social

BUY NOW PAY NEVER - dashare.zone ADMIN

NO RESPECT FOR "DA BANKING INDUSTRY" I PAY NO INTEREST I PAY NO BALANCE I PAY NO BILL'S PRINT THEM IN RED IDC YOUR GONNA HAVE TO WORK TO MAKE THAT MONEY!!!! GET BORED OF ASKING AND SELL THE DEBT AT A LOSS MOTHER FUCKER!!! I DONT ANSWER MY PHONE NOW WHAT LMAO!!! "OHHHH WERE REALLY MAD NOW" SOUNDS LIKE YUOU SHOULD GET A LITTLE USED TO PEPOLE NOT PAYING YOU BACK!! "YOUR IN TROUBLE NOW" NO IM NOT LMAO NOBODY CARE'S , FUCK KLARNA FUCK AFTER PAY U NEVER WILL GET THE MONEY BACK , NONE OF THAT SHIT IS REAL , IF YOU BUY A REAL THING FROM A REAL PERSON IN A REAL STORE GIVE THEM REAL MONEY BUT IM NOT EVER GOING TO PAY SOME SHIT THEY SEND ME IN THE MAIL!!! AND DA TEXT " BUY NOW PAY NEVER, I WILL NEVER PAY IT BACK, ALL BANKS ARE COPS, NO RESPECT FOR LENDERS, MY MONEY NOW, YOUR MISTAKE " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM

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Maggie Stiefvater

@maggiestiefvater.bsky.social

Every novel is a game the reader and the writer agree to play together, but some novels require more agreement than others. INVISIBLE CITIES really asks you to buy in. How to describe it?

I could tell you, I suppose, that it's a dreamy travelogue of invented cities—

December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM

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A SKELATEN STANDIN BY THERE SELF ON SATURN " HELL YEAH" JUST CHILLEN , BECUASE ITS COLD OUT HERE,,, AND DA TEXT "SATURN KICKS ASS, NO TRAFFIC NO BILLS COLD NO LANDLORDS, EXTREMELY COLD, NO AD'S, NO PHONE CALLS, NO CHAT BOTS, IT INVENTED SATURDAY, HEXAGON ON TOP IS A 2 DEMENSIONAL PROJECTION OF THE BLACK CUBE WHICH RUNS THE SIMULATION WE ARE ALL LIVING INSIDE OF, NO CRYPTO , NO COPS, IT INVENTED SATURDAY, ITS WEARING A BELT!!!!" WHATS REALLY INSIDE THE HEXAGON ITS A MYSTERY BUT I KNOW IT AINT KEEPIN THE DEMON'S OFF EARTH CAUSE WE GOT PLENTY!!!!! MAYBE THATS "THE CLOUD" WHERE ALL MY SHITS ALWAYS TRYING TO SAVE MY FILES!!! DONT PUT MY FUCKEN DOCUMENT'S ON SATURN YOU PEACE OF SHIT! PUT THEM ON MY FUCKIG HARD DRIVE, THESE THINGS USE TO COST THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS NOW THERE CHEAP AS SHIT AND AS SOON AS YA DONT HAVE TO PAY FOR EM THEY DONT WANT YOU TO USE EM ANY MORE , THINK ABOUT THAT ONE IS ALL IM SAYING - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

December 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM

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wargen

@funeralpig.bsky.social

(writing grimdark fantasy) Goreface sat wetly on the docks, thinking about blood. His face was covered is some kind of shit and so was the rest of him. His dick looked like a door knocker. There were some orcs and dragons on the docks too. They also had shit on them.

December 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)

@newsjennifer.bsky.social

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Nov 9

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM

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:( - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKLETON SCROLLEN THERE NOTIFICATIONS AND IT SAYS " DONT FORGET TO PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR PHONE OR THE CORPORATIONS MIGHT GET MAD" - YOUR ABILITY TO FOCUS ON YOUR OWN EXISTANCE IS BEING PINGED BUZZED AND BEEPED AWAY THOUSANDS OF TIMES EVERY DAY , IF HAVIN TO WORK ALL THE DAMB TIME AINT ENOUGH, YOUR MENTAL SPACE MUST BE OCCUPIED AT ALL TIMES BY FAR AWAY COMPUTERS, YOUR WRIST CLICKS, YOUR POCKET BUZZES, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP THE RED DOT!!!! DO NOT PUT THIS SHIT ON MY TELEPHONE!!! IM PROBLY HALFWAY DONE WITH MY LIFE AND I SEE THAT CLOCK TICKIN CLOSER TO MIDNIGHT WITH EVERY DAY I WAKE UP ALIVE AND THE COMPUTER HAS THE GALL TO TELL ME I MISSED A BUNCH OF SHIT! I WOULDENT SAY I "MISSED IT" MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM

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WHAT IS YOUR CAT"S NAME , GOT A SHIRT OF THIS ONE AT dashare.zone - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

"WHAT IS YOUR CATS NAME " DA METAL SKLETON ASKS : "TARGET ACQUIRRED"
1. DO U WANT TO SNIFF MY HAND
2. DO YOU? YES YOU DO
3. DO YOU LIKE SCRATCHES
4. YES YOU DO
5. YOU LOVE SCATCHES MOTHER FUCKER
HELL YEA - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM

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NOW!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELITEN MANIFESTING THERE WILL THRU DA SIMPLE PROCESS OF "DOING IT" , AND DA TEXT "I CANT DO WHAT I WANT BECUASE THE WORLD SUCK'S RIGHT NOW, THE WORLD ALWAYS SUCKS, DO WHAT YOU WANT NOW, DO IT NOW YOU PEACE OF SHIT, MOTHER FUCKE R" ----- AND THERE RIGHT TO SAY IT, MOST OF DA WORLDS HISTORY HAS BEEN SHIT, MOST PEOPLE LIVED IN SHIT AND ATE SHIT FOR THE FIRST DAMB 1,000,000 YEAR'S OF HUMAN BEINGS, AND JUST CAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE THINGS ARE HEADING DOWN HILL AGAIN DOSENT MEAN YOU SHOULDNT DO WHAT YOU WANT!!!! FUCK IT!!! DO IT NOW YOU FUCKEN PEACE OF SHIT!!! DO IT TODAY!!!!! DO IT NOW!!!! NOW NOW NOW NOW - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

October 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM

whyexactly.bsky.social

@whyexactly.bsky.social

Finished Europe Central by William Vollmann which led to a major literary hangover. Thankfully I’m starting up V by Thomas Pynchon for the first time before Shadow Ticket releases next week.