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perhaps the biggest argument for impeaching everyone now is to increase the chances that Trump is unable to resist a transfer of power in 2028. democrats seem perhaps intentionally oblivious of this existential threat

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cartoon caricature of corruption and immorality in politics: "noooo don't hold politicians accountable don't do it whatever you do please don't"

inside the citation would be a second citation revealing all 3 subjects are just AI agents created by the author

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it's a street begging to be pedestrianized. it's one way with super slow traffic and not all that much parking along a narrow corridor of lively pedestrian oriented businesses with tons of transit nearby. literally everyone including cars would benefit from this

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if they closed that basically useless stretch of Lincoln Ave to cars year round I bet that part of Apple Fest would be less novel, just saying

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the entire conservative movement in the US is structurally dependent on taking income taxes out of paychecks instead of headcount taxes from businesses. a basic change in the *presentation* of where revenue comes from and suddenly millions aren't mad from seeing a higher number become a lower number

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I love how some VC bros bought a beloved gay club in Boystown and then renamed it "the (name of street it's on)", broadcasting their complete lack of awareness of the culture of the area. Shamelessly covering the club with "open until 4/5 am" signs hoping that the desperate settle for them

RAV4 is the most Subaru coded of Toyotas

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I just don't get why "restorative justice" always seems to mean "keeping the same amount of fame and public platform" for these folks. there's thousands of creators grinding for that spot in YouTube / Nebula culture, this guy isn't unreplaceable

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"it's hard because I like this guy" okay next

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Is Ludlow the perfect local bar? Signs point to yes

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I really am the undefeated world champion of drunk posting

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

hating myself is one thing but when the most beautiful brilliant minds of my generation talk themselves into at least briefly living in this amazing city at least in part because I'm around I feel a distinct honor that nobody can fucking take from me, like I lived my life the right way after all

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it's the (brief) consensus of half a dozen adults that I'm worth moving to Chicago for and nobody can take that honor away from me

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you know I think the right wing stance of "signal how much we hate a widely beloved figure" isn't really making them any more popular

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this kind of post is what the phrase "you couldn't waterboard that information out of me" was invented for

The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026

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I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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Cinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Please god let the AI bubble burst by Christmas I’m so fucking sick of hearing about AI everywhere

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is TikTok any good anymore, I do not wish to browse a reels app but I do kind of wanna post random takes sometimes and TikTok used to be for that, just haven't logged on since The Event

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I hope this is the case, but as doctors get less and less accessible (insurance reasons and the like), "type my symptoms into my phone and see if it says I need to go into debt or not" is gonna be a more common experience - and where predatory figures like RFK could exploit LLM outputs.

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right but he's giving the game away - a single controllable source of True Facts that can be steered to say anything and is treated with higher authority than experts or existing institutions

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

there's some version of the "oh my god he admit it!" meme here in that he just says that capitalism must be forced to not kill us all in literally every industry. just coming out and saying that every single corporation would let products murder millions if not tightly controlled by regulation

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Imagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you. Sounds fucking horrifying.

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College administrators seem more than happy to expel and fire people who are a little bit loud about being anti-genocide; "embarrassing" the institution in the eyes of some apparently pro-genocide (?) donors is somehow more of a cardinal sin to them than raping a peer.

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the belief that the electorate is fixed in size, and that these always-voters look at candidate's opinions like a grocery list and pick the ones closest to their own. the longer this base assumption remains unchallenged, the longer we're stuck in rudderless centrism and electoral politics hell

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the myth of the swing voter, and the myth that third party voters were willing to vote first party if only they were denied the option of a third party, they're two ends of the same brain worm. "Nader voters would have otherwise just voted for nobody" doesn't even seem the slightest bit unintuitive!

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I think this actually is gonna give the grift away to more laypeople than the term AI did, tbh

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/09/2026

there's some speculation that they just fed the texts into an LLM who told them it must be the Atlanta Hawks. lol. lmao. owned.

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what keeps me up at night is these guys have basically never received real pushback and they still lost their minds and shredded the federal government's regulatory capacity when employees started griping too much in the company slack. What if you actually arrested one of them for their crimes

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we need someone to make an app that just provides a list of social media posts from my favorite bars or whatever, but with neither reels nor The Algorithm

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yeah I think my life is probably better off deleting the Instagram app from my phone. nothing I do there is a good idea. I think this means nothing on my phone will show me reels anymore? maybe I'll be able to get bored and put it down again

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we as a society have to stop having those freakishly weird reels or clips where someone's head is physically pinned in one place while everything else moves. it's deeply unnatural and gives this horrid vertigo

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

is Chicago capable of opening and operating a lesbian bar that is not hosting a special event every single night. like a bar where I can just show up and not have to like Have Something Happening at all times

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've had a friend or two find out their identity was being stolen for job apps this way

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you're cutting it way less close than I am, I'm still on the 77 ☠️

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's an overtly kid-marketed pizza place bar like two blocks down the street at Stop Along; they had to destroy my beloved Boiler Room to give y'all that. can y'all go there and leave Lobo for the bitter hipsters like god intended