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Brian Boyer

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Stay-at-home dad in Chicago. News product coach. He/him. Let's work together: brianboyer.net Bean tips: beantips.com

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/09/2026
Social sucks now. What if we just stopped? dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...
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What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 22/09/2026
Current status: music.apple.com/us/album/fan...
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Fantastic Voyage (Deluxe Edition) by Lakeside on Apple Music
Album · 1980 · 11 Songs
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 21/09/2026
architecture is finally good again. I’ve waited my entire career for this
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Who’s making the Free Bonnie Slotnick tshirts bc I urgently need one evgrieve.com/2026/09/line...
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Line tensions boil over: East Village bookseller Bonnie Slotnick arrested outside Harry Styles pop-up on 2nd Street
EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 16/09/2026
Tomato alert! Tried some pickled (lacto-fermented, I think?) tomatoes from Ukraine in this week’s bean soup and wow! They’re awesome!
A jar of pickled tomatoes.A bowl of bean soup.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Today's Timeline, a circle with wedges labeled Butler, Dick, Verhoeven, Adams, Vonnegut, Iannucci. The arrow is pointing to Verhoeven,
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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hot dog stand, Dearborn Street near Randolph Street, Chicago (ca. 1960s) Stephen Deutch, Chicago History Museum
Night time view of illuminated fast food take out restaurant with sign over the door "The Saucee Weenie" and signs advertising Pancho 25 cents and ...nchero 19 cents. A blonde woman in high heels is seen standing at the counter.
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 10/09/2026
This week's @newsproduct.org newsletter, written by @donohoe.dev about the @restofworld.org registration wall, is a damn fine read on data-driven decision making. mailchi.mp/newsproduct/...
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Product Notes: What Rest of World learned in its first 3 months with a registration wall
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 10/09/2026
Love to see it www.latimes.com/food/story/2...
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It's creamy. It's got oomph. The versatile yellow bean from Peru that Mexican and Italian cooks love
Super-affordable and sold in bulk, Peruano beans are what Pizzana’s Danilele Uditi prefers over cannellini beans for his pasta e fagioli. Mexican cookbook author Pati Jinich loves them too
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 03/09/2026
That time of year when the sunrise and my alarm line up for a bit.
Sunrise over Lake Michigan.
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you need further incentive to (re-)read this series, the back/letter pages are excellent and I got to write a short essay on gender schemas which was paired with the narrative of a promising young engineer for issue #6.
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 30/08/2026
It’s a beautiful night and they sound great
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 28/08/2026
Nice to see the old Archeworks ship still sailing.
A squat building among high rises, the corner facing us looks like the prow of a ship, and a line of windows close to the roofline reinforces the effect.
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john j. kim @jkimpictures.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Chicago Water Works oil slick 🟧🟩🟪🟨🟦 #ManholeCoverMonday 📷 2010
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 19/08/2026
Today’s thrift store score.
Today’s Gourmet I and II, cookbooks by Jacque Pepin
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 17/08/2026
Current status:
The record album for Can’t Slow Down by Lionel Richie. Lionel is facing us, sitting backwards on a silver kitchen chair, wearing a light blue shirt, white pants and shoes. He’s in an empty living room with light blue walls and white carpet. The cool colors contrast nicely with his warm skin tone and dark hair. It’s quite a photo, really, which I’m only realizing having taken the time to write a caption.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15/08/2026
Thank you to everyone sharing this story. We can only presume this agent will return to Chicago soon. Quite a lot that had to be left out for brevity's sake, but of note: he has repeatedly called the agents working with him "my guys," definitely indicating he's some kind of team lead.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 13/08/2026
Huh!
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 12/08/2026
I wrote about the Obama Presidential Center for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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The Nostalgic Architecture of the Obama Presidential Center
Where hope even has a gift shop.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
as a journalist who has been writing about surveillance and alprs for years, i’m glad to see concerns about flock have finally broken into the mainstream. but i think many folks are missing the bigger picture: the ways various tech works together to surveil us. chicagoreader.com/news/reader-...
Larger than any one technology are fears about the increasing collection and centralization of private data. The tendency in modern policing toward "data-driven" solutions purports to make law enforcement less violent, cops more efficient, and communities safer. In reality, the explosion of unchecked state surveillance has enabled police at all levels to amass troves of personal information on private citizens. Now, a new wave of tools, including BriefCam, seeks to use AI to make sense of it all. These programs are often administered in secrecy and without oversight, accountability, or evidence that they even work, as President Donald Trump has, in recent years, limited administrative safeguards and invested tens of millions into a surveillance state with reduced privacy rights.
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A digital illustration based on a 1926 photo of actresses Merna Kennedy and Betty Morrissey (couldn't swear which is which). Two cute girls with short kicky hairstyles wearing similar outfits of sleeveless tops, voluminous 20s style shorts and kitten heels. The girl on the left is whispering closely into the others ear as she makes a scandalized face. Everything is cone in non-natural colors with loud patterns and textures. In a big circle over the heads of the two ladies is large script lettering, similarly gaudily colored and textured, that reads 'Maybe it will happen today'.
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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Trib Ed board deciding how to react to young people downtown
Family guy skin color chart meme
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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is a joke, but also not a joke. Everything in this post used to be in or on a Chicago building, but now sits in the City Museum. And I'm not even getting into their Louis Sullivan collection, which is beyond belief.
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Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Illinois should legitimately issue birth certificates for trans people born in states that will not do so "sorry about your old state congratulations you were born in Illinois now"
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 31/07/2026
This approach to a data commons could extend to so many typically shared things. For businesses to easily and authoritatively publish things like open hours or product catalogs, discographies, every kind of -ography... creative appmakers could do so much with all that
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 28/07/2026
I would like to bring more of the fruits of the AT Protocol to the people who don't care about protocols, which is most people. www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-...
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Launching a Cloud Atlas
The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 28/07/2026
<a post in the genre of recognizing the undiagnosed neurodiversity of your aging parents>
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 25/07/2026
I ask bc it seems to me that we're not going to stabilize democracy without pulling our info ecosystem out of its death spiral, which won't happen if the big platforms retain their monopoly control of social connections. But this appears to be the furthest thing from US leftist and liberal concerns.
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 24/07/2026
This. And I’m really hoping they don’t fuck it up
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 24/07/2026
Somebody raise your hand so I don’t have to
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 23/07/2026
Should be working, found some good rocks.
Four rocks, held in a hand. One is grayish fossilized coral, one is finely speckled red and black, one is an orangey granite and the other is a kind of lumpy two-tone brown.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I got a nice write-up from KQED! “Colored drips pour down the sides of his panels, but the surfaces are carved smooth with razor blades. The effect is gauzy, dreamy, even as the images he depicts and the language he deploys evoke violence—state sanctioned and otherwise.” YUM.
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We’ve Been Lookin’ for Art in All the Wrong Places
It’s not easy to visit Mike Monteiro’s anti-capitalist paintings, but not all art-viewing should be easy.
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 21/07/2026
Good news, and I love a FOIA story, but if we lived in New York it’d be on the cool mayor’s Tik Tok
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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
For the hundredth year anniversary of the Aragon I’d recommend listening to this Studs Terkel interview with the son of the man who built it. Wherein they opine on its place in Chicago history when the ballroom was not yet even 40 years old in 1963 studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/and...
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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
CPD Internal Affairs referred Carlos Baker to a program for troubled cops in May 2025. IA never answered an email about the referral; Baker wasn't enrolled. Could have led to duty change or firing. Baker fatally shot his partner (accidental, acc to authorities) couple weeks later. #chicago
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Chicago Police Failed to Place Troubled Cop Under Strict Supervision Before He Fatally Shot Partner
Carlos Baker was referred to a program that subjects officers to intense oversight. But Baker wasn’t enrolled before he shot Officer Krystal Rivera because a supervisor didn’t respond to an email.
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 16/07/2026
One of my favorite pieces at NPR was a short video with a simple, clear thesis: “Climate change is real and caused by humans.” But just before publishing, in a meeting of the top editorial brass, that statement was deemed unacceptable, and the project was spiked. 2016, IIRC. Anyhoo.
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 16/07/2026
The air tastes even worse than the map suggests.
Screenshot of an air quality map. Chicago is on the southern edge of a particularly nasty area.Lake Michigan and a beach, seen from above. The Chicago skyline is usually visible in the distance, but is completely obscured by haze.
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 15/07/2026
I’ve never been a same-breakfast-everyday person, but labaneh might change me.
Labeneh, a thick, white, yogurt-like spread, smeared in an oval on a plate, topped with a lot of olive oil and za’atar, with a handful of olives and a torn pita bread on the side.
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 14/07/2026
Hell yeah 70+ year-old glowing analog street corner data viz restoration
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 14/07/2026
Btw y'all cheeseburger.world might be the coolest new Atproto app 😎
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Cheeseburger Database
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 13/07/2026
Is there really no way to detect if someone is using a screen reader on your website? I feel silly that this is just now occurring to me, but wow. Would love to have some numbers when talking about the importance of accessibility.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/07/2026
I had fun writing this piece for the summer issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social about Moby-Dick, Star Trek, and #scicomm! ‘Viewers are forced to reckon with the possibility, vocalized by Spock, that “only human arrogance would assume [an alien] signal must be meant for mankind.”‘ 🐳🐋🧪
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Planetary Kin - Orion Magazine
Learning from Star Trek’s space whales
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.
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Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 08/07/2026
Fine day for a road trip to #srccon w/ @joe.germuska.com
A selfie of two very attractive middle-aged men in a convertible
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Writing project led me back to the incredible story of the skilled bra-and-girdle seamstresses who put their expertise to work designing and sewing the Apollo spacesuits (and the culture clash with systems engineers). From Nicholas de Monchaux's SPACESUIT. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bra-and-...
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The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA
Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death.
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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 05/07/2026
Fireworks soundtrack alert! WWOZ is playing all P-Funk. Feet don’t fail me now! www.wwoz.org
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WWOZ New Orleans 90.7 FM : New Orleans' Jazz & Heritage Station : Dedicated to Bringing New Orleans Music to the Universe
WWOZ is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station for New Orleans and the surrounding community. Jazz, Blues, Latin, Cajun, Funk and more.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
while i’m glad at least one illinois elected official is actually warning about increased ice activity in chicagoland, giannoulias’s scheme feels more like a political stunt en route to the mayor’s office than an actual plan to stop masked feds from kidnapping our neighbors.
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Amid Increased ICE Activity, Giannoulias Urges Public to Report Illegal License Plate Tampering
YouTube video by Illinois Secretary of State
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