imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's already been an amazing week for scathing obituaries at the NYT, and it's only Tuesday morning 020
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialPublic Universal Fiend @acgodliman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Toot 04621
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialAutistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Humor is a skill, and one that’s somewhat esoteric. AI reliance is insidious. It starts with using it innocently as a tool, and then your instinct becomes to use it first and you lose the skill to lookup and parse information yourself. I am troubled by how fast this seems to happen. 9/10 131
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture] 201281131
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is how to manage line cutoff for maximum teaser effect. 000
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Brent Eric Anderson used to draw these kinds of guys. They were not the protagonists. 000
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialGilgert Martwel @mkroll.bsky.social · 21/09/2026People in this city love to be afraid of everything and the only way to solve it is some old guy from Jefferson Park to watch your every move. 121
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialBill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026More like Kavanaugh Stomps, now that I think about it. 061
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialtonči zonjić @tozo.today · 17/09/2026thursday plan: eight things (that seems like a reasonable number) 833386
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is the push notification of the year. The only question is whether Thi*l believes he has identified the Antichrist, or believes he is the Antichrist. Remember, Thi*l bought V*nce the Ohio Republican senate primary campaign that guaranteed V*nce a Senate seat from which he could become VP. 010
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don't think this is going to be a banner day for NYT opinion journalism. 000
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Bring back the Oxford comma. 001
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.social[//] Professor Hazard @prof.hazardlabs.com · 12/09/2026The word "lede" is unique in that its only use by anyone is to correct the spelling of someone saying "bury the lead". I've lived four decades on this earth in some real nerd spaces and no one ever uses the word in any other context. It should be given an award for its service to pedants. 141
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 09/09/2026you could make a pretty good start power mapping any given American city or area just getting a list of all the construction companies and seeing who they give money to or get contracts from 13711
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Mmmmmm, gyroscope [YEER-o-scope]...static.klipy.comHomer Simpson's Pistol Whip IdeaAlt: Homer Simpson's Pistol Whip Idea 021
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We never imagined how far that dream would travel, into homes, into hearts, into the way generations imagined what we could still become. In a world that often feels as divided as ever, maybe that's exactly why we need it now: a reminder that unity was always the point. 527137787
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The NYT published a masterfully passive aggressive bullet point list in The Morning today, subtly emphasizing the fascist approach to art: What they like, they steal, and what they dislike or don't understand, they condemn and eliminate. 010
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Ok, Cheerios Protein™ is the protein mania finally, mercifully, jumping the shark, right? 110
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 04/09/2026See horrible breaking story about beloved comics creator, read article, search name on Bluesky, find all mentions 5 hours and older are What Terrific Work and all mentions 45 min and newer are Oh No, Not Him Too. 100
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is what "freedom" meant to Bob Jones III and Jerry Falwell Sr: the right to declare any attempt to counter the legacy & practice of racism to be the only "real" racism, and to destroy or capture federal power as a method of revenge for feds sanctioning their institutions for racist practices. 000
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026Re LRP I cannot emphasize enough how we’re living in the ostensible dream reality of conservatives in the very recent past. Crime is down overall and particularly in cities like Chicago and Baltimore, teen pregnancy is down, drug and alcohol use is down among young people …AND YET 216235
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialKing in yellow (mustard stain) @murielcook.bsky.social · 02/09/2026if you aren't doing the thinking why would I want to hear your thoughts? 161
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 01/09/2026As someone who has been absolutely feasted upon by skeeters this week, I am excited to welcome these swarms of dragonflies inland from their floating nursery on the lake! 000
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialScARRRRGHy Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It's Jack Kirby Day and as I haven't seen this drift past in my feed yet, I'm going to remind you that the guy was stacked and could probably deck every last one of us. 122456
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Knowledge is power. France is bacon. 000
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It's important to remember that all these shock and bigotry grifters hate *one another.* 110
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 26/08/2026When I plan to turn up at a sports event and behave in a perfectly normal sports fan way, I have someone else purchase my ticket so as not to reveal my location in advance to security personnel, and I text a warning to anyone I know in the building. 000
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 24/08/2026One must imagine Blue Sky happy. 020
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I think the CW is running The American President to troll Tr*mp but they are in fact trolling me. 010
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 23/08/2026My proof of life that I was here slightly before Nov 2024 000
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialSusan E. Seager @susanseager.bsky.social · 19/08/2026@apstylebook.com: The term “hallucinate” is an inaccurate, industry-friendly term that should be banned when reporting news about AI fabrications. It has been shown that AI lies and cheats to please its taskmaster. It’s not an accidental, innocent, ha-ha, drug-induced mistake. 02910
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialscary trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 17/08/2026it is exhausting to see the whole ”this will destabilize the Middle East vs No It Won’t” bit applied to you and your friends getting to survive a bike ride. every cyclist i know wants a variety of transportation options to increase safety and reduce traffic and every car or business wants Blood 0274
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialJennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 16/08/2026they get one of ours suspended, we get one of theirs banned. that's the chicago way. 1112
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.social👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/08/2026Yea you see, the problem here is that what historians actually do is construct the ‘well structured large historical dataset’.What you’re saying is that Claude can write an elementary school level paper on like the civil war 341297218
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.social‘Michael Green’ or similar professional alias @peepculture.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This is an excellent response to the ‘documentary’: adhduk.co.uk/wp-content/u...adhduk.co.uk 24111
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026They went after trans people and it worked, they went after physically disabled people and it's working, they're going after people with autism and ADHD now, and everyone else just nods it along. 16914
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Your last saved image is your current mental state. 020
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I didn't expect the first pre- Air Show practice flyover to occur before noon on Monday. 000
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialKieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I keep on imagining folks at the time critiquing "Homer"'s version of the pre-existing story he's nailed down from oral tradition, his choices, and how much it clearly missed the point and doesn't understand it. 1019426
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialdusty cupboards @dustycupboards.bsky.social · 05/08/2026lol this reads like it was written by beezus quimby 41772
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialRebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I think it's a fundamental instinct of so many of the tech leaders, but *particularly* Musk, to try to destroy the livelihoods of people who tell them they're morons. "No more programmers, no more programmers telling me I'm wrong." 1584
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Love to make a jackass of myself by commenting on a four month old thread without noticing the date 010
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialBea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It is wild to see educators who berated me for promoting Wikipedia as a good starting point for research because it was considered unreliable now go around promoting the use of AI for absolutely everything, including writing IEPs. I’m just out of words. 1101
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialJay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"the illegals in hotels are destroying our heritage" firstly, absolutely inhumane to describe people like this. Secondly, England's 7th oldest church wouldn't be clean and tidy and open to the public without them as volunteers. Where were you, Racist John on Facebook? I didn't see you on Sunday. 120110
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Amazing Debbie Downer energy in today's Today in History feature. John Lewis "diezxc d." ::Debbie Downer gif:: 000
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/06/2026My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com 91114275
imaginarychicago.bsky.social @imaginarychicago.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Just reposting this for no particular reason 000
Reposted by @imaginarychicago.bsky.socialIT'S RAINING BEN @bentorkington.bsky.social · 08/07/2026love how guys who had a distant relative in the war think it's some kind of rare achievement, as if most people just sprang into existence in the 1950s with no lineage 0102
