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@birkhead

Educator, Writer, La Croix Boy. Go #Illini. Abolish ICE. Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/162675485-brandon-birkhead

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12.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 2425 πŸ” 498 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 8
08.03.2026 13:10 πŸ‘ 4845 πŸ” 1260 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 3
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One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

02.03.2026 10:20 πŸ‘ 13568 πŸ” 4302 πŸ’¬ 132 πŸ“Œ 177
a re-elect Jaime Andrade

a re-elect Jaime Andrade

Albany Park, I love you so much

Many of Jaime Andrade’s newest signs have now been amended to make clear who purchased them (Draft Kings, under a newly formed PAC attempting to obscure themselves as the purchaser)

01.03.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 6
A doodle titled β€œyeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a β€œwerk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

A doodle titled β€œyeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a β€œwerk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

Back at it again in the mines

25.02.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 3115 πŸ” 1040 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 20

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

25.02.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 4663 πŸ” 1601 πŸ’¬ 110 πŸ“Œ 42

People were marketed a machine to survive a Mad Max style apocalypse but got a machine killing them in suburban America

23.02.2026 23:10 πŸ‘ 675 πŸ” 186 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 4
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AI is going to make it nearly impossible for anyone to afford a new PC, phone, or gaming console -- all in the name of a future that will never come to pass and a present that will just make a few dudes rich. This is unacceptable

20.02.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 1200 πŸ” 414 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 49

She pulled that mic so quickly

23.02.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations β€œscrewed up” giving students access to so much technology: β€œI genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

21.02.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 2633 πŸ” 1151 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 229

I just made the loudest involuntary sound

21.02.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When I was just starting out, I was taking a cab from one convention party to another with an indie darling who was coming off of a bunch of award wins. In the quiet of that car he told me β€œ[game he made] was my twenties” and I have never really stopped being haunted by that convo

18.02.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 1082 πŸ” 143 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 4
a doodle comic based on an actual dream i had last night
a dark figure stares out at the audience
"last night my dreams were haunted by a strange man"

The figure stands in the middle of the panel, still staring. 
"Everywhere I went, he'd be there waiting for me."

A crude drawing of a man dissolving into fog "It was Guy Ritchie, director of such films as Snatch, Wrath of Man, and Swept Away, appearing as a fog, as a shade. He kept saying he was here to tell me that he was going to take another go at making an Aladdin movie."

A shitty drawing of the genie from Disney's Aladdin with a clearly traced image of Jason Statham's face on the body.
"Still for Disney. They have the money. But this time he'd be doing it 'his way'. This time, the genie would be Jason Statham. Every other actor would be the same though."

a doodle comic based on an actual dream i had last night a dark figure stares out at the audience "last night my dreams were haunted by a strange man" The figure stands in the middle of the panel, still staring. "Everywhere I went, he'd be there waiting for me." A crude drawing of a man dissolving into fog "It was Guy Ritchie, director of such films as Snatch, Wrath of Man, and Swept Away, appearing as a fog, as a shade. He kept saying he was here to tell me that he was going to take another go at making an Aladdin movie." A shitty drawing of the genie from Disney's Aladdin with a clearly traced image of Jason Statham's face on the body. "Still for Disney. They have the money. But this time he'd be doing it 'his way'. This time, the genie would be Jason Statham. Every other actor would be the same though."

dream journal, february 17th, 2026

17.02.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 309 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0
YouTube thumb for Exploring Eora: Pillars of Eternity 1, 2, and Avowed by Noah Caldwell-Gervais

YouTube thumb for Exploring Eora: Pillars of Eternity 1, 2, and Avowed by Noah Caldwell-Gervais

Zoom in on the duration: 5 hours, 5 minutes, 52 seconds

Zoom in on the duration: 5 hours, 5 minutes, 52 seconds

Mahershala Ali in True Detective, old and confused mode

Mahershala Ali in True Detective, old and confused mode

13.02.2026 05:33 πŸ‘ 627 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 2

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

12.02.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 8321 πŸ” 2540 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 149

There are a few students who end up having to rewrite assignments several times until they learn the work needs to be readable.

It’s makes a lot more work on my end to prep but worth it with results.

12.02.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve moved all but final drafts of essays to pen and paper.

Better engagement. Less distraction. Better results.

12.02.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

these are almost as bad as the "galloping ghost" grey uniforms

10.02.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Macbeth: SHIT

09.02.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 10093 πŸ” 2041 πŸ’¬ 137 πŸ“Œ 50

Arsenal are so good at corners that the opponents are now scoring on themselves out of fear

31.01.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

congrats big daddy thump!

30.01.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.

29.01.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 6935 πŸ” 1651 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 38

Wreak havoc on the middle class

28.01.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

KIM KITSURAGI - β€œYou need to get your shit together.”

YOU - β€œBut I don't wanna get my shit together!”

KIM KITSURAGI - β€œThen the world will turn away from you, and leave you behind.”

26.01.2026 23:28 πŸ‘ 219 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 6

When life closes a door, it opens a window. And if the fall is too steep, use the fire exit. Run to the roof -- you always have that airship on the dock. The most important thing is to keep moving. Keep dreaming.

27.01.2026 02:30 πŸ‘ 120 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.

24.01.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 1926 πŸ” 614 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 131

So guns kill people now?

25.01.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
ICE is full of COWARDS. They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS. DEFUND AND PROSECUTE.
ICE is full of COWARDS. They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS. DEFUND AND PROSECUTE. YouTube video by Seth Moulton

holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...

24.01.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 4274 πŸ” 1492 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 362

This is the most important thing to remember about Obama and the Democrats generally. The only times he ever showed up to β€œhelp” it was to stop a labor action and to stop Bernie Sanders.

24.01.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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There is no such thing as other people’s children It is intolerable

"We are out there in every place they are, showing them that every person in this city is one of our own, that there is no such thing as other people’s children, that collectively we are not afraid of staring them in the eye," @erikhane.bsky.social writes from Minneapolis.

24.01.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 1425 πŸ” 417 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 30