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Foxy Knitter

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You may be forced to do ugly things, but you can always do them with style. People’s Republic of Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois www.foxyknitter.com

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 7h
I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5h
Sure, Katie Zacharia never passed the bar. But Pete Hegseth has never passed one either.
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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 9h
Lookin good on a grey day.
Chicago's Merchandise Mart aglow with yellow light from the inside and its reflection in the Chicago River.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 8h
how does ohio boy vance keep walking right into the buzzsaw of one of the midwest's most Ancient Tribal Hatreds. dog no one in michigan cares what your OSU ass has to say
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 8h
their whole bullying schtick only works when the response is spluttering and harrumphing and well i never-ing. "why did you think anyone here cares what your doughy buckeye ass thinks" just makes him look like the soft handed hedge fund pallid loser he is
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 8h
this is how you have to treat these guys. with genuine contempt. your genuine contempt makes their smarmy fake contempt look weak and inauthentic. it immediately exposes their game. these guys are just losers who have sworn revenge for every humiliation. humiliate them again
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 13h
every culture eventually invents its own dumpling and its own bluegrass
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16h
The anitdote is similarly obvious: solidarity. Fight together and keep our freedom or fight alone and be enslaved. It's frustrating how many people in power seem to not understand this and say we can just sacrifice part of our coalition in order to save the rest of us. It doesn't work like that!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16h
It's the oldest ruling class play in human history — divide and conquer. Take a look at the group you want to subjugate, split them into two, conquer the weaker half with the help of the stronger half, then split again and again until there's no one left strong enough to fight you
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16h
They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.
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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 16h
Doing a Jeff Foxworthy bit where I say "Folks, you might be evil if... you're worth millions and you laugh at a colleague who was terrified of losing his health insurance."
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 15h
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
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Foxy Knitter @foxyknitter.bsky.social · 21h
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Reading Jane Eyre and shaking my head the entire time, so everyone knows I don't support locking women in attics
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 14/10/2026
All cop settlements should come out of their pension funds. blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/14/c...
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City OKs Largest Settlement In History To Men Who Say They Were Framed By Disgraced Cop
Alderpeople approved a $260 million mass settlement for lawsuits filed by 17 men who allege they were framed for murder by former Chicago police detective Reynaldo Guevara.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
every single thing Trump has done since coming down that escalator has been to help Putin but he just did a few head fakes to throw people off the scent
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Yes, he’s very stupid and very evil, but it’s important to not lose sight of the fact that he’s also very gross.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The problem is not, and has never been, polarization. The problem is right wing radicalism and folks who deny empirical reality. And yes, defeating them politically is the only way out.
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American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
WATCH: Andy Harris has a crash out after his constituents laugh at him for trying to blame higher gas prices on... Democrats. "You are rude!" #MD01
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.
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Trump’s New Press Secretary Supports the Death Penalty for Abortion Patients
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.
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Foxy Knitter @foxyknitter.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 13/10/2026
Ah yes, perhaps the most beloved literary trope of all: the classic McMuffin
A screenshot that reads: Moore throws in a Hitchcock-style McMuffin in the shape of a secret tape recording which will reveal just who has been betraying the gangsters.
The problem is that no-one has a machine on which to play it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
JD Vance running around the country saying he’s fighting health care fraud while his nominee for the senate in TX who he completely supports is partying in Dubai with a guy whole stole over $300 million in health care fraud and gave Paxton $190,000. This is the Republican Party.
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VirginiaM - owlet @virginiam.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Last night I dreamed that I was trying to convince a group to institute "The Rolling Rest" - a worldwide scheme where each adult would eventually come up to receive 2 months paid time off to simply rest.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it
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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
this is not a door guys like him want to open, he just doesn't know it yet
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
There's a universe, like, two doors over where he's just a bitchy old queen living in a gorgeous UES penthouse with a handsome, buff, much younger man, and everybody in his building hates his guts, but I have never heard his name, not once.
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Foxy Knitter @foxyknitter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
<Larry Krasner jumping in front of the mic when a reporter asks the President why they're flinging Vance into the Potomac via trebuchet> "It was my call"
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Larry Krasner needs to be the AG. That guy will bring the stockades back for the crooks in the GOP. He is the opposite of Merrick Garland. And he would happily be the sin eater for the more squeamish members of the administration and party leadership.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
truly, like you think you're mostly unshockable and then ???????
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"Talarico is a mentally ill drug addict" didn't work so they pivoted to "Omar is an illegal immigrant" and it'll be someone else tomorrow because this is all they have to keep filling the news cycle until the election they know they're going to lose, and it's so vile I want to scream
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.
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Foxy Knitter @foxyknitter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Case in point: I just went to Walgreen’s and bought 3 items: generic allergy medicine, a generic supplement, and cetaphil body lotion. It cost $74. 💀 How do people live??!!
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 10/10/2026
the fundraising numbers this could do, it's all we want
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is definitely the name of an English "It Girl" actor who suddenly turns up in everything and when you look into it her father owns Shropshire.
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Foxy Knitter @foxyknitter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Roger Reynolds @rreynoldsjr1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The best advice Ossof could take right now is to never listen to anything David Brooks ever says.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My architecture column today. “To see it from the street, it looks like poetry,” Landmarks commissioner member Suellen Burns said of St. Simeon.
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Orthodox church modeled after 15th century monastery heads toward landmark status
Despite being built in 1969, St. Simeon Mirotočivi Serbian Orthodox Church is a faithful interpretation of an ancient church in central Serbia.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
Remember when he screamed "No puppet! YOU'RE the Puppet!" in that really panicked way that had a bunch of us like "…uhh… kinda seems a weird way to deny that"? Anyway, we all know Russia doesn't have that much diesel to sell, making this sanctions-avoiding money laundering on a global scale, right?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”
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