Love to see reporting by @marthabayne.bsky.social for the @chicagoreader.com brought to Congress. Youβre welcome, America.
Love to see reporting by @marthabayne.bsky.social for the @chicagoreader.com brought to Congress. Youβre welcome, America.
what you weren't inspired by the auction paddles?
@searchlightnm.bsky.social is hoping to connect with people in New Mexico who have lost their jobs at: the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management.
Reach me at alex@searchlightnm.com. Please RT.
Hey Alex--just hearing about this now and came to find your post. I wonder if the Newberry Library in Chicago might be a good fit, given Outside's Chicago origins. (They have a collection related to the Chicago Reader.)
I would like to see this month's national productivity stats
I don't know if anyone caught it during the Treasury rally today, but. Rep. McIver straight-up said that her Republican colleagues are leaving their phones off the hook because they don't want to hear from their constituents. THAT is what Dems should be preaching from every corner, every day.
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do taxes go to the same address after a coup? asking for friend.
I basically want an Instagram clone, so will hold out if not
I saw! Might try that instead of Skylight when I get a minute. Want to see if it has a way to import my Instagram.
it's not "idealogue"
@washingtonpost.com if only there were a word for guys who attend white nationalist conferences and "have controversial ideas about race"
sharing for friends who may need to think about how to protect their marriages:
I saw elsewhere that Elon posted X will be banning people who criticize Trump et al. Can anyone still watching there confirm? Just as I was thinking maybe we should go back there (or go there, I was never much for Twitter) to reach even a minority of on-the-fence folx.
maybe stop calling it a "DEI purge."
already did!
this is modern journalism. @wired.com "built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains. The tool runs periodic scans, tracking whether sites remain accessible, how their servers respond, and if the domain names still resolve."
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at whatβs happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trumpβs anti-diversity executive order.
he's probably seen a movie
Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no.
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
Reposting because we are the distribution system for independent news.
Two bluesky posts discussing Google removing the ability to disable AI results in search string; one gives a technical code which still has the effect, while the other points out that AI results don't appear if you swear
There are two kinds of person
Cooperative nail grinding with Kronos. If he bumps the dremel, I touch a foot; if he stays, I isolate the nail; if he stays, I bring the dremel close; if he stays, I grind briefly and treat. If he pulls his foot away I also treat, often off the towel to see how fast he comes back to play again.
It feels weird to post work stuff here. But I'm gonna, in part because I'd like to eventually just have one social media place.
Substack comes out in favor of Elon. read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...
racketeering
Nightbitch.
I should just get "can they do that" tattooed on my forehead