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A Rogue Monster

@aroguemonster.bsky.social
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Chicago-based cat-loving abolitionist nerd. fund.nnaf.org/ALW26 - Fundraising for Chicago Abortion Fund

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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 59m
My cats do this every night with the wet food.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
gotta respect the hustle of the Fish Creek Camera Spider.
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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cat-shaped vessel from Peru (c. 200–700 CE) #MenWithCats
Cat-shaped vessel from Peru 
(c. 200–700 CE)Cat-shaped vessel from Peru 
(c. 200–700 CE)
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have such a soft spot for home-made mini-golf courses. That charm is so specific.
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Imagine not understanding that it is this graph, but reversed:
History of left-handedness
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
not a human-driven action to be found in that sentence
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the chokehold this game had on me at one point in my life ...
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨"Where's the governor, Kathy Hochul? Where's mayor Mamdani? Where's AOC? Where are the people that are supposed to protect us!?" - Protesters CALL OUT politicians who are allowing ICE to rampage across NYC LIVE NOW ⬇️
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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A lot of people who would have been dead husbands in the 50's have misplaced nostalgia for the days before no-fault divorce.
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I have a skeleton who rides in my backseat that was destined for the trash at work due to lacking a pelvis, legs, and forearms. Her name is Miss Daisy and she gets the best comments.
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There are some 12ft levitating reapers that keep making me wish I had stupid money
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm in this picture. I've realized I need someone body doubling me to get laundry put away. One time Ellie volunteered and hung out on the bed with me while I folded 3 weeks worth of laundry.
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the Mamdani Effect.
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good News, Everyone! from Futurama
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why stop with ALPR. The entire surveillance system is concerning.
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"I don't know what the benefit is" is my entire stance on surveillance.
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
$$$$$$$$
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Street level surveillance and mapping so the robot cops don't need GPS to be able to navigate. This tinfoil hat gets more and more reasonable every day.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks
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Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice @endmoneybond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More than 55 community, faith, policy, and service-providing organizations sent a letter to the Cook County Board of Commissioners calling on them freeze law enforcement spending to protect social services. Learn more & read the letter: endmoneybond.org/55-organizat...
endmoneybond.org
55+ ORGANIZATIONS CALL ON COOK COUNTY TO FREEZE LAW ENFORCEMENT SPENDING TO PROTECT SOCIAL SERVICES - Coalition to End Money Bond
The Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice and more than 55 community, faith, policy, and service-providing organizations sent a letter to the Cook County Board of Commissioners calling on them to prot...
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mostly what I'm saying is that I hate AI for more than just the environmental factor, because there is a theoretical version of AI systems that are "green" It is one of my arguments (Because we should be decreasing our footprint, not accelerating it) but not the only one.
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The environmental impact is something that could be removed from the AI equation. There are ways to reduce the env. footprint, but it's not cheap. I care a lot for the environment, but it isn't the thing I hang my AI Hater hat on, because there is a world with AI that doesn't kill the earth.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Terrazzo forever.
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JGhoulFromNPumpkin @jgfromnp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We needed this rain.
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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"What can this year's enrollment numbers tell us about the state of public education?" is not a good question...If we are meant to believe CPS wants to support every school and every student, why can't any student go to any school and experience a comparable educational environment?"
board-rule.ghost.io
Chicago School Board Prez Candidates on Special Education
Plus, school funding is based on property taxes, not enrollment. So let's stop telling scary stories about declining birth rates.
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The only program I knew about (before reading down and finding out that Tree House does TNR) is Cats in Action, who is apparently on the South Side. catsinaction.org/our-programs/ Our hood seems unserviced!
catsinaction.org
Our Programs - Cats in Action
Cats in Action (CIA) offers counseling and guidance on all topics related to free-roaming cats and Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) at no charge via several channels:
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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We need 1,000 of these in Chicago, 20 in each ward, the lack of public toilets is a complete failure of public policy
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the use of local surveillance tech to justify federal felony charges against martinez and ruiz isn’t especially remarkable on its own. yet many advocates say the case shows how easily private information can pass from one agency to another with seemingly little, if any, oversight or transparency.
chicagoreader.com
Feds tapped local surveillance networks in botched Chicago prosecutions - Chicago Reader
During their failed efforts to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz, federal authorities accessed a network of Chicagoland license plate readers and surveillance cameras.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 27/09/2026
"Wasted" is a generous way of saying that for profit companies made millions off the suffering of our communities through DHS. We have plenty of reasons to dismantle DHS, end detention, abolish ICE, and root out corruption.
cbsnews.com
ICE wasted millions of taxpayer dollars in rapid push to expand detention capacity, government watchdog finds
With an unprecedented budget, ICE spent billions in a rush to expand its detention network, wasting millions in the process, the Government Accountability Office found.
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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 27/09/2026
Current* conditions near Sister Bay, WI:
Western view from the Sister Bay Marina Boathouse overlooking Sister Bay Marina, Sister Bay and Green Bay beyond. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-27 09:36:05 CDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: sisterbay.com/sunset-camera/ // Current Temp in Sister Bay: 58 F | 14 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: N at 0 mph | 0 kph // Humidity: 94%
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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 26/09/2026
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
Southern view from a lakeshore highrise in Edgewater over Osterman Beach and Chicago loop in distance. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-26 09:06:09 CDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: wgntv.com // Current Temp in Chicago: 61 F | 16 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: E at 2 mph | 3 kph // Humidity: 76%
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Brilliant. No notes.
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
16 shots and a coverup Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
do I need more shiny etched talismans from Pam? no. am I gonna probably buy some. Duh
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
PAM! I'm going to need a jewelry box for my collection of your goodies. My weird goth heart can't resist
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 25/09/2026
Soldier protects sleeping child meme. Incoming weapons are labeled "Public accountability", the soldier is labeled "Flock", and the sleeping child is labeled "Deportation machine, surveillance dragnet, militarized policing, mass incarceration"
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But many these same people are mad about Flock. Where is that transition point where tracking your car is bad, but filming everyone who walks by your front door is ok? Where does privacy end? Where is that line? These are the questions we need to be asking ourselves.
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Walking down the street under the watchful eye of Ring and it's competitors, I can tell that a majority of my neighbors have a different view of privacy than I do, and are more than happy to sell our their neighbors to ICE, police, and tech companies for the ability to see when their amazon arrives.
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As surveillance is tied into larger and larger networks owned by war mongers and tech oligarchs, municipalities need to be more intentional with what companies we are getting in business with, and how that data is used, stored, and shared. My preferred answer is the end of surveillance. but...
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Chicago has a surveillance problem. The city has ALPRs, cameras, and more all over the city. It has become normalized in the name of "safety", but what harm does a camera prevent?
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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Proud of my comrades at @33rdwardworking.bsky.social for taking a stance on the encroachment of AI powered surveillance into our public parks. bit.ly/33WFSurveillanceLetter
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Parks Surveillance Letter - 33rd Ward Working Families
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Despite the fact that Pennsylvania has reported four deaths from measles, the CDC has decided to only include one in its tally, which is further proof that those in power have learned that it is difficult to end an outbreak, but is is quite easy to change what counts.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Illinois, she needs to be primaried and this has been true for some time. I know that there are better candidates out there than her.
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Eileen Guo (is on leave for rest of 2026) @eileenguo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Days after we published our story on deaths by border towers, Rep Delia Ramirez announced a plan to terminate CBP's surveillance tower program—and dismantle DHS. Citing our reporting, she said: "The towers that we have paid a billion $ to just don’t work.” www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/23/1...
technologyreview.com
A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program
The proposed bill comes days after an MIT Technology Review investigation revealed that over 1,050 people have died within the advertised range of surveillance towers.
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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 23/09/2026
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
Rotating view from the top of the Shedd Aquarium where Chicago meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-22 20:36:04 CDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: fox32chicago.com // Current Temp in Chicago: 62 F | 17 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: ENE at 13 mph | 20 kph // Humidity: 70%
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