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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

day one in mamdani’s new york

a guy wearing a “i ❤️ ny” cap reading the qur’an in one hand and the communist manifesto in the other

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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…

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The NYTimes have just put the mini crossword behind a paywall. I cannot stress enough how stupid this decision is. It's a 1-minute experience I am not paying for a monthly subscription to do it. I am just going to stop doing it. The games app experience has been getting worse and worse tbh

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Ernesto @ernestoeverardo.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Sometimes when my toaster does a particularly good job, I let it toasts whatever it wants.

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

@dancarlin.bsky.social Any chance you could recommend a few of your favourite books on history from your reading over the years? So far I've read 'avengers of the new world' and 'children of ash and elm' after hearing them brought up in shows.

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Clown shoes but they look like Jordan 9s

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Big Lake got you all out here believing in 'the ocean'

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

When you go down to check on your mail box and it's just a couple of guys chilling in there

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

A super mario game but when you get to Bowser's castle it turns out all his pipework is lead-lined and when you price up a quote for him he says it'd be cheaper to just settle workers comp claims for the koopas who get sick

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The way nobody can drive well anymore because of GPS — not just atrophied turn-by-turn navigation, but the way ppl no longer know the layouts of their town or the names of roads or what to do when the map doesn’t match the terrain — that’s what genAI is doing to communication skills and literacy

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Highly recommend this book, Glorious Exploits. It's an incredibly charming read and manages to be both funny and profound without either feeling out of place

Cover of Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Social media algorithms have done an impressively good job of showing my heartbroken self the most depressing heart-wrenching content available. Like walking into a blockbuster with puffy red eyes and the cashier immediately pulling out an already bagged up copy of 'The Notebook' for 50% off

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

The trouble with running is wherever you run to, there you are. At first when I read this I thought it was a clever turn of phrase, but these days I think I understand

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

@squidgerugby.bsky.social hope you are catching the Pro D2 playoffs live on YT right now.

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Always knew December was a lil zesty

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

All I'm saying is 24 hrs ago there were an awful lot of smug people reporting the tush push ban would pass.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 14/05/2025

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.

Reese's International Delight Iced Coffee

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Kids these days are praising the show ANDOR when they should be praising the father, the son, AND/OR the holy spirit

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This is absolutely fucked and this judge is a clown for allowing it

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Anyone else think this is a really weird way for the cardinals to select a new head coach?

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Jfc I know that she means they should be making lots of bold changes and acting quickly... But would it have killed her to make that point a little more clearly so it didn't sound like she wants to start deporting 3 year olds?

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

This is borderline paradox-strategy-player levels of obsession with colouring in maps. Have they tried giving him a copy of CK3 and just letting him live out his fantasies?

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Looking forward to 2036 as Chuck Schumer's skeleton angrily tuts at Trump the second for executing his 15th judge

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

the Steelers, meantime, seem to have decided Shedeur Sanders was too much drama but the ghost of Ayahuasca Rodgers is just fine

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

@jcsalterego.bsky.social must be some sort of mistake, they forgot to include you somehow

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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Looking at incoming vessels to the Port of Los Angeles (America's largest container port): 1.) This week we're still in frontrunning mode (57%+ YoY). 2.) Next week we're basically at normal (-8% YoY). 3.) Two weeks from now we're in The Bad Place (-44% YoY)

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 22/04/2025

The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Get those moneylenders back in that temple

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

More of this! UK govt please take notes.

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Me, regular car driver : hardly ever crashes, never had to get my car repaired F1 "professional" drivers : crash every week, need a whole team of people to fix their car

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Grace @gracekind.net · 19/04/2025

This picture is concerning. The planet is much closer to us than I thought.

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

You have to wonder when Americans will decide to anything at all about their openly corrupt administration.

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

*holding my fist up bully-style to make Colombia flinch* 'you better have my law degree done by lunch!'

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Incredible moment, sporting history Hats off Rory

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Rory and Shane Lowry are going to drink all the beer in Georgia tonight. There will be none left.

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I am taking this as an indicator that markets are f***ed. The FT posting thumbnails of Elmo watching nuclear Armageddon = very bearish

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

i don't think all that stuff with the tariffs is a very good idea

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Where I grew up there was a vast old ruin up on the plateau that overlooked the valley. I spent years wondering about it as it had long since been shuttered and was almost cartoonishly haunted-looking. It only recently occurred to me this might be a TB thing. I looked it up today and, sure enough...

Black and white photograph of a grand sanatorium in the mountains.

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Waiting for the Steelers to sign Rodgers is like watching Tina belcher slowly and predictably crash into the only other car in the parking lot.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...

At the same time, the organization disclosed today in a new blog post, the situation is becoming untenable: AI-driven requests for Wikipedia content are growing exponentially, at significant cost to the foundation, and are not being paid by the companies responsible. Those companies are also serving information from Wikipedia without attribution, greatly reducing the chances that their users will visit Wikipedia and contribute or donate to it.

Moreover, during surges of interest in the site — after the death of a celebrity, for example, or in the wake of a natural disaster — bot traffic to other pages is now so significant that it is causing slower page loading times for human users.

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Big shout-out to the 0-9 year olds generating tax revenue, just goes to show that anyone can hustle

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Nick @bonjour-nick.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Excited for another full season of Zach Wheeler throwing scud missiles so our relief pitcher can come in and allow 13 hits in 2 innings. And if you don't like that, you don't like Phillies baseball

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