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Dammit Bagby

@dammitbagby.bsky.social
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Music (Liz + the Baguettes, The Unswept), art, writing, running, occasional despair

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17h
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
S/o to Terry at Gman Tavern, who, on hearing that my bike tires were a little low, jumped up and grabbed a pump from his car. People like him are why I love Chicago.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Liz + the Baguettes oh wait
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
After the Pinter joke, I’m not surprised that someone on the Ted Lasso team knows commedia masks, but still. What a nice subtle detail.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So many small towns & cities have homeless camps most residents don’t know exist. Unless you’re involved via social services, nonprofit, maybe a church group, you may not not realize how many people are sleeping outdoors. Not in a big city; in yr pretty little town, yr tidy burb.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New for Notebook Thursday: Dolly www.lizandthebaguettes.com/bloguette/no...
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Notebook Thursday: Dolly
I had a different post planned for today. The karaoke science project is embarking upon its Lyrics bracket, and I (predictably) have many thoughts. I also happened to submit the song that became the.....
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
but the nice thing is that you don't have to be rich to do it like you can be the Dolly Parton of wherever you are just by supporting your local library or donating to nonprofits that serve trans kids or putting food in free fridges or wearing a mask when you fly
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gary, Indiana has been without power almost 2 weeks.
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New for Notebook Thursday: Charlie wrote about his excellent new single, “When It Happens” www.lizandthebaguettes.com/bloguette/no...
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Notebook Thursday: When It Happens
Guest contributor: Charlie Crane Charlie is, of course, the lead guitarist (and occasional drummer, vocalist, and book rearranger) for the Baguettes. His other credits include the Dyes, the...
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I am biased bc the chef is a friend, but listen: Chicagoans, get yourselves to Apothecary on Clark and try the chicken-fried oyster mushrooms.
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In an inset frame on a deep purple background is a digital straight lift of a Patrick Nagel painting with all the hallmarks, a 3/4 profile of an alabaster-skinned lady looking back at the viewer. He has a short, shiny black, sexy business lady hairstyle, maroon lipstick, darkly outlined pale colored eyes, a big blue, triangular earring, and she’s wearing a sort of gray jacket over a matching camisole type thing, with a ribbon around her neck of the same gray. The background is flat panels of pale blue, lighter gray, and deeper maroon. Some laser-like lines curved over the design casting shadows. Above and below the inset is very 80s tracked-out sans-serif type saying  [above] ‘MAYBE’ and [below] ‘IT WILL HAPPEN’. And then at the very bottom set against a big, hot-pink brushstroke shape with a drop shadow is the word ‘TODAY’ done in slashy purple brushstroke lines that are casting a darker pink drop shadow onto the previously mentioned pink brushstroke. The 80s man. Nothing like it.
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
men will literally amass millions in venture capital and destroy the habitable environment instead of going to therapy, etc
The “About Us” section of a LinkedIn job post, reading “Familiar Machines & Magic is building the Physical AI platform for human connection, beginning with Familiars—physically embodied AI systems designed to form long-term, emotionally intelligent relationships with people. Our mission is to create artificial life to build a more caring world.”
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A digitally stimulated black and white relief print on a toned paper background. In a generally circular shape is the figure of a man in overalls tattered at the legs wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat swinging a scythe toward a stand of tall grass to the right while behind him the landscape is plowed furrows of hilly farmland under swirling sky. His head breaks above the circular composition and is mostly in silhouette against a blazing sun with wavy rays that fill the top of the frame. The circle shape on the bottom is defined by the scythe blade and on the left behind the blade as if following the swing is lettering reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Reading Main Street (for whatever reason, I have never read much Sinclair Lewis) and was tooling along thinking it was just a tragicomedy of Midwestern manners, and then got to this banger of a speech. There are of course a few bits of dated language, but it’s as relevant now as it was 100 years ago
Excerpt of book: “I believe all of us want the same things—we’re all together, the industrial workers and the women and the Negro race and the Asiatic colonies, and even a few of the Respectables. It’s all the same revolt, in all the classes that have waited and taken advice. I think people want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We’re tired of hearing the politicians and priests and cautious reformers (and the husbands!) coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plan for a Utopia already made, just give us a bit more time and we’ll produce it; trust us; we’re wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years[excerpt continues] they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now—and we’re going to try our hands at it. All we want is—everything for all of us! For every housewife and every longshoreman and every Hindu nationalist and every teacher. We want everything. We shan’t get it. So we shan’t ever be content—“
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
That means TODAY! Do it! It's not that hard and science will love you for it (and the love of science is a glorious thing).
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to em. Walk the path of the Hater and be free.
A digital illustration in very comic book style. At the center is an 80s Punk/Mad Max/Tank Girl-type girl with bright red and yellow rough-cut hair, wearing a red cut up tee, lots of belts and a studded collar and bracelets etc, denim cutoffs over electric blue fishnets, and tall blue combat-type boots. In her hands she has a red chainsaw with a skull decoration on It that she's holding at the ready. There’s a bag slung over her shoulder with the handles of a baseball bat and a machete emerging from the top of it. She is reared back on one foot, having just delivered a tremendous kick to the head of a humanoid robot which is reeling backwards, face half smashed in and turned toward the viewer, arms stretched out, with flames and sparks shooting out of its neck. It's one of those retro-future streamline robot guys that you would maybe see Superman fight in a Fleischer cartoon. Behind on the left you can see from the waist up another such robot which has been dealt with similarly just before. Above and behind all this is jagged red lettering over a jagged yellow outline reading DESTROY next to dimensionalized sans-serif letters reading "A.I." (quotes included) over a 🚫 symbol. Under the reeling robot are some important anti-AI talking points rendered in rough maker-style hand lettering: 'Bad at Everything! Kill the Planet! Brain Atrophy!' I could go on but there's only so much space in one drawing. All of this has been worked up digitally to look like it's a vintage screen printed t-shirt design with cracked and worn plastisol inks. In conclusion, fuck your AI.
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
why has google no respect for the patronage of the Lady Catherine de Bourgh
screenshot of Gemini assuming the famous quote should have been “most seriously diseased”

I send no compliments to Gemini’s mother
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 07/07/2026
Songtradr has fired all the engineers at Bandcamp and while they say they are focusing resources on that beloved platform, we don’t know what is going to happen. I am worried. Now is the time to support member-owned cooperative music distribution platforms like @Subvert.fm
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will.
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Good lord, Google. Who wrote this nonsense? They pivot directly from boldface “inaccurate information” to “for informational purposes only.” 1. We do this one thing badly. 2. That thing is our only job.
Screencap of an email in which Google has just informed iOS users that Gemini will now be thrust upon them, cautioning that it “may produce inaccurate information” and”should be used for informational purposes only”
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I don’t care how noble the cause is, an AI flyer does not help it
AI-generated flyer for a Parkinson’s fundraiser in which multiple words are hallucinated or misspelled (Poundalion, Parainson)
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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hey it’s Make a Terrible Comic day! Be nice to yourself or else #makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2026
Panel 1
In place of Scrooge, Elise calls out to the little muppet mouse and asks, “You there! What day is it?”

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The little muppet replies, “Today? It’s Make a Terrible Comic Day! But don’t be afraid of messing up because it’s in the doing it that you grow. Failure is not the end and you can always try again. Also f*ck AI.”

Panel 3
Elise smiles down from the window and replies, “Hell yeah, muppet from the Christmas Carol.”
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Today’s weird and sad, and I guess it always will be now. Trying to honor Dad’s memory by: fixing something with Superglue making something that involves spatial reasoning and specialty tools reading hanging out with the cat exercising (this should be a run but it depends on the rain)
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 19/06/2026
It’s important on Juneteenth to remain aware that we live in a country driven by various degrees of unjust human exploitation & our economy that we call American capitalism relies on legal loopholes that permit slavery & the threat of homelessness, which can be punished with enslavement, to function
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Just a girl with her emotional support corn
A senior Siberian cat with tabby markings, reclining next to a fresh ear of corn, having successfully yelled at the fridge enough to secure its release
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cta @chicagocta.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We're asking local organizations, artists and performers to help us create more welcoming, inclusive, and safer spaces. Submit your proposal today! transitchicago.com/art/activations
Calling all artists & performersCTA is seeking proposals for temporary public artwork, performances, and community-driven cultural activations at the following stations: 
- 95th Street Red Line 
- Damen Green Line 
- Damen Pink Line 
- Kimball Brown Line Applications are due Wednesday, July 1, 2026 

Visit transitchicago.com/art/activations to learn more and apply. 

Questions? Contact us at activations@transitchicago.com
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Fun tip for catsitting: be sure you have the dates right, or else you may wind up wandering through your friend’s apartment while they’re still home and accidentally scaring the life out of them
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Not all the music news is bad! Today is launch day for Subvert, an artist-owned collective streaming/download platform with a zero-AI policy. Really happy to be part of it.
A tile with an old photo of Liz Bagby playing the guitar in a Chicago studio
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Wishing you could make a thing is not the same as wishing you had the thing you want made. Knowing the difference is the separation between people who use AI and those who won't touch it.
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
She urgently needed my attention but apparently it was just so she could deliver a blessing
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Mimi is snoring and dreaming hard, whiskers twitching into my hand. I think this means I am forgiven for today’s vet visit but I can never move again
Geriatric tabby cat asleep with her face in a woman’s hand
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Tried to find out if tonight’s dinner place has a dress code. Forgot to turn off AI search and so the top result informed me that “many restaurants have dress codes.” Yes, thanks, definitely needed a summary instead of specifics. Useless-ass technology.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20/02/2026
Is the regime trying to build an ICE detention camp near you?
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Proposed ICE Warehouse Locations - Google My Maps
Proposed sites for industrial warehouses to be used as mass detention centers by the US Department of Homeland Security. Descriptions include current status of each site, and any response from local...
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Listo Entertainment @listo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
idk i think in a time when it feels like nothing matters & all is futile it might actually be time to double down and write your stories & make your paintings & sing your songs & do your art. create the things that make us human and share them.
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Comix Action @comixaction.com · 01/02/2026
Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
Graphic by Trung Le Ngyuen featuring a drawing of Liam Ramos with his bunny hat and Spidey backpack and a small smile. Text reads: "Comics 4 Liam / WE're asking artists to draw pictures for Liam Ramos that you think might make this particular boy feel happy and cared for. / Maybe drawings of things he might love; maybe pictures of Liam himself as you think he might like to be seen. / Please post your art with the hashtag #Comics4Liam and a link to comics4liam.com, which lists fundraisers for Liam and others victimized by ICE and links to organizations that support immigrants.A few other guidelines: 1. Please avoid images of Liam in danger or sad. 2. Please avoid images that include violence or would otherwise by inappropriate for a five year old. 3. Please NO "A.i." USE AT ALL. 4. Please DO NOT POST YOUR IMAGE ON X (Twitter). Thank you!
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I cannot fathom what algorithm would lead to Poshmark just casually showing me an ad with a main image of the Völkischer Beobachter. It IS a party look, I’ll give them that. A very specific party.
Ad captioned “From festive party looks to cozy luxury” above an image of a German newspaper celebrating Hitler’s election
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
what the e indeed
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
A little simplistic but I think it covers most contingencies
A simple flow chart

Should I use generative AI
to create something?
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Do you have a brain?

If no > Don't create anything

If yes > Use your brain instead
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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Just now from State Rep Hoan Huyhn, who says CPB stopped his car, pointed a gun at him, and tried to break his car windows
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18/10/2025
ICE continues their terror campaign today as people protest in mass. Border Patrol was seen in Blue Island, and at the O'Hare rideshare lot again. Sightings in southeast side. A truck with a smashed window in Villa Park. Right now, they're hunting people on the southwest side.
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Back early from a neighborhood anti-ICE event: so many people showed up to assemble info packets and whistles that the organizers ran out of supplies. Chicago forever.
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
(Friend sends a very nice “condolences” bouquet) Mimi: Roses! I love roses! (chomp chomp chomp)
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Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This is an unheard-of pay rate for poets, but anyone who takes this job is a scab, full stop.
LinkedIn post for a job offering $100–150 an hour for seasoned poets to train AI on understanding poetic structure, literary nuance, and emotional expression.
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