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Cookie Oh

@cookieoh.bsky.social
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Spooky stuff, dark-dry humor, comix, weather/climate, hockey, and informatics. She/her. Elder dork. Midwest city mouse: raised near MKE, made my home in CHI - southsider.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
ICE agents are terrorizing CA farm workers with random stops and abductions. We’re working around the clock helping workers, documenting civil rights violations and sharing know your rights information in the fields. Please donate. act.seiu.org/a/raidsfall2... or www.paypal.com/paypalme/ufw...
A workers' hand holding up a "red card with a UFW eagle" in front of a pomegranate tree with the text overlay: Farmworkers terrified as they’re targeted by ICE. Donate to help fight back.

The red card says: I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution.

I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution unless you have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my name on it that you slide under the door

I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on my 4th Amendment rights.

I choose to exercise my constitutional rights.

cards are available to citizens and noncitizens alike.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16/10/2026
People don’t ask for medical debt. They incur it. Illinoisans like Kayleigh told us about the persistent anxiety it caused and the comfort our relief program provided. She's one of nearly 700,000 Illinoisans whose debt has been erased and whose hope has been restored.
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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 20h
Happy radiator season, to all who celebrate
Drawing of a woman in long, tan, puffy gown, reading a book in the comfiest nook you've ever seen over a radiator, which has its own little curtain. I believe her hairstyle could be characterized as a bouffant.
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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 22h
Lake forever, giant waves-induced rainbow for now
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Cookie Oh @cookieoh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I Spit on Your Grave for Tax Purposes
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Wyrdeone @wyrdeone.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
god stormed off to drown the children and the devil went to meddle leaving death and mother standing nothing left to do but talk forever howl laugh and playful argue knee deep in the fallen fruit of a great big fucking tree #poetry
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026
Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent
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Emmie 🌿 || Commissions Open @emmiewowie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you're cold, They're cold 🧛
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Cookie Oh @cookieoh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
WHAT
A green ceramic hand giving the Live, Long, and Prosper sign from Star Trek.
Absolutely looks like a sex toy.
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ceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026
incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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anikeru.bsky.social @anikeru.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this months print club!
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
uh
snake or worm like fantasy creature is black on top, blue and red in the middle, and yellow on the underside. it is laying on the ground
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's not even funny what kind of loss I will absorb if I have to create an account to do business with you. I will walk away from a winning lottery ticket, I promise you.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 27/09/2026
An acoustic expert has released an immersive “sound map” of the famous trail featuring sound recordings he took along his thru-hike.
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How the new Pacific Crest Trail ‘sound map’ can take you to the trail without leaving home
An acoustic expert has released an immersive “sound map” of the famous trail featuring sound recordings he took along his thru-hike.
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Maple Moose @maplemoose.wtf · 29/09/2026
I am not a "menace to society" That implies that I require a society to become a menace. I don't have that limitation :>
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hugo Henneberg (Austrian, 1863–1918) "Der blaue Weiher (The blue Pond)", 1904. Linoleum Cut on four Plates (blue, purple, black, brown) on Japanese Paper, 29.4 × 29.8 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cyril Cox (b.1958, Canada) Autumn Warmth. 2020. Acrylic on canvas.
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Cookie Oh @cookieoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Legitimately my fave place in the park!
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NOT NOW, MUTANT SUNFLOWER
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Feed me, Seymour: Mutant sunflower pops up in St. Albert community garden
Christina Hardie was "wonderfully surprised" to see so much interest in particularly funky flower that emerged in the community garden at Saint Albert's Historic River Lots and Grain Elevators.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026
guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Welcome, Autumnal Equinox. The King of Autumn greets thee.🍂
My painting of a pumpkin rider on a black horse surrounded by autumn leaves and mushrooms.
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the great lakes implies the existence of the awful, absolute dog shit lakes
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
evanstonnow.com
Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2026
Illinois will not look away and stay silent — we must remain vigilant and prepared. What happened here during Operation Midway Blitz cannot simply disappear from the public record.
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ICE Says It Can't Find Its Own Records Of Teargassing And Arresting Broadview Protesters
ICE's own rules require reports every time an agent uses force. But the agency says it can't find any from its attacks on protesters on Sept. 19, 2025.
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RossyDoesDrawings (commissions open) @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Time of man over. It goblin time now.
a drawing of a goblin who is roaring, with their hands raised
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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Made a little birdhouse and birdsoul.
A ghost bird is perched in front of a birdhouse. Painted with Payne’s grey watercolor and white gouache - not to put too fine a point on it.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Tomorrow,” said Toad, “I can just take life easy.” Toad went back to bed.
Toad settles into bed, ready to take life easy.

From "Tomorrow"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/09/2026
a pretty good way to gauge the conversation is whether people are talking about harm or risk harm is about what's happening now already risk is about what could maybe happen in the future and basically the whole ai cult scene is in agreement that possible risks are more important than current harm
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every new dinosaur thing is like the Tyrannosaurus Rex wore short sleeved dress shirts and worked as a paralegal
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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
a brooklyn bodega cat was stolen on Sep 10. residents promptly built a tip network and organized people to check leads day and night. he was successfully recovered today. democrats have spent billions trying to figure out how to make people care this much about anything. should've tried cats.
White cat with gray-black patches on its head, back, and tail lounging on a small cardboard scratcher shaped like a couch.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
To ppl suggesting Stanford as an "independent Anthropic & OpenAI auditor" “The membrane between academia and industry...is practically nonexistent at Stanford, a school so entangled with tech that it can be hard to tell where the university ends and the businesses begin” nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com
You Are Not a Parrot
And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Swedish poster for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (1935) Directed by William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt - BOTD in 1873
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme
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im nicebat 👼🦇 <— CATSCRATCH FEVER 🌡️ @nicebart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
evergreen
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Me in 2015 vs. me today
Nathan Fielder in Nathan For YouNathan Fielder in You Can See Everything
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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Detail on the Patio Theater, 6000-6012 Irving Park Rd., Chicago. Rudolph Wolff was the architect.
A riot of cream and brown terra cotta covers the facade of the Patio Theater in Chicago. This photo shows one corner of the building. The parapet wall has a brown terra cotta background that is absolutely plastered with decoration, including cherubs, urns, foliage, and flowers, and a large medallion with a couple of fleur de lis on it and topped with a smiling face. Below the parapet is an arcaded cornice supported by fancy brackets. The walls of the building are covered in cream terra cotta tiles with a mottled brown finish punctuated at regular intervals by rosettes. There is a cream, red, and green shield on a blue back ground plopped in the corner. The photo also shows the top of an arched window bordered by urns, rosettes, angry fish, and lots of flowers and leaves.
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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
𝕭𝖔𝖌𝖑𝖊𝖘, 𝕱𝖎𝖓𝖐𝖘 & 𝕭𝖔𝖌𝖌𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖘🍂 The dreadfully commonplace tormentors and persecutors of the American Midwest.
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SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Robert Glasper leads the crowd at Millenium Park in chants of “F*** ICE”
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 05/09/2026
CHARLES RAFFERTY
The Problem with Early Warnings

People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres.
How things happen has always been
unclear. Hurricanes begin
in a place where no one lives.
Agents of the government start
to wear masks. Fascism is
a word my neighbors won't use
yet. They are following
the law, they say, and the sirens
are coming for someone else.
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Lakeshore Drive Slut @shredded-teat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
your reaction to this is the ultimate whimsy litmus test. are you truly committed a life of whimsy or just faking it?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Officers illegally stopped, detained, and arrested a Navy veteran after he lawfully recorded a traffic stop. Then they tracked him for weeks using Flock Safety cameras. reason.com/2026/09/02/w...
reason.com
Wisconsin cops used Flock over 100 times to track a Navy veteran after he lawfully recorded a traffic stop
A lawsuit claims the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office used the cameras in retaliation against the vet for exercising his First Amendment right.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.
The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."
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