Reposted by KevinJYJuliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Illinois, you’ve got one month left to get to the polls and make your voice heard! Paper voter registration ends today, but you can still register online through October 18th and in-person through Election Day. Head to ildems.com/vote and make your plan to vote on or before November 3rd! 3169
Reposted by KevinJYGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...prospect.orgThe City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American ProspectIn Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation. 192241792
Reposted by KevinJYEdward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026El Palacio - 1946 botfrens.com/collections/173/conten… 0224
Reposted by KevinJYLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026"Roskomnadzor blocked 469 VPN services and started blocking the underlying protocols, every ISP…was required to install state-controlled interception hardware, searching for banned content became a fineable offense, and the state rolled out its own WhatsApp clone, preinstalled on new phones."liberalcurrents.comSocial Media Has Not Brought LiberationSocial media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies. 4269
Reposted by KevinJYArthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Good Evening🌑 Bruce Davidson ~ Central Park #BruceDavidson #Photography #CentralPark 0249
Reposted by KevinJYZé Burnay @zeburnay.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Time for some refreshing Orange Juice: New 4 color Riso print, the first of a series of riso prints to help fund my next book. World shop: zeburnay.bigcartel.com USA Shop: zeburnayusa.bigcartel.com 8535118
KevinJY @kevinjy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Refusing to use a single-occupancy bathroom because I am of the same sex as myself 020
Reposted by KevinJYRural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Isis Theatre Winamac, IN 527331
Reposted by KevinJYPaintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026'Geraniums – Streatham Street', Bloomsbury (2026) by Marie Lenclos marielenclos.com 010717
Reposted by KevinJYSteve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on 4397421239
Reposted by KevinJYBen Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This year legislators introduced a slate of 17 bills intended to close California’s “license to kill” system of loopholes for dangerous driving and repeat offenders. Almost all of them failed: calmatters.org/tag/license-... @calmatters.orgcalmatters.orgLicense to Kill 18638
Reposted by KevinJYTom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Narnia books as Isekai Manga 2235661284
KevinJY @kevinjy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I kinda hate that "load-bearing" is such a pervasive part of Claudish, because I used to use that expression myself. (Not anymore!) 001
KevinJY @kevinjy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Back in 2020 I watched a Zoom performance called Impossible Burlesque that was themed around songs that are difficult to perform burlesque to. The only one I can remember is "Baby Shark" 010
Reposted by KevinJYSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 17/09/2026Goodnight. Night House Lois Dodd 1975 www.alexandregallery.com/exhibitions/... 211918
Reposted by KevinJYChicago 2100 Urbanism @chicago2100.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Housing un-affordability is a choice 172
KevinJY @kevinjy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Abolish Atherton while we're at it! (I haven't lived in the Bay Area for over a decade but I still harbor a deep grudge against Atherton)peninsulaforeveryone.orgAtherton spent ~$145K to delay Caltrain electrification. The rest of us paid $400 million and waited 3 extra yearsThe Town of Atherton's lawsuit against Caltrain electrification is the clearest case study we have of how a tiny, wealthy minority can hijack a regional public project — and stick everyone else with t... 010
KevinJY @kevinjy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I just walked by this building a couple of days ago and it was very striking 040
Reposted by KevinJYForgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"The Angel Child" by Kate Carew, 1902-1905 January 1st, 1905 as seen in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 184
Reposted by KevinJYDeigo @yodiegoyo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Our Hat & Shoe Repair 11316 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago 27418
Reposted by KevinJYAleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.transiticsnews.comI’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids. 9064162556
Reposted by KevinJYLaura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Some of the best trails run along abandoned transportation routes for extractive, exploitative, polluting industries. It's like swords into ploughshares, only for recreation. lastwordonnothing.com/2026/09/11/3...lastwordonnothing.comRail Trails, Towpaths, and Other Great Trails Along Failed Transportation Routes - The Last Word On NothingSome of the best hiking and biking trails run along abandoned railroads, logging roads, and canals. It's like beating swords into ploughshares, only for recreation. 4489
Reposted by KevinJYAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I wrote about Trump’s Wednesday night speech in Dallas. My main takeaway: this is a man who doesn’t want his followers or the country to outlive him. www.liberalcurrents.com/donald-trump...liberalcurrents.comDonald Trump Wants to Bury America With HimHis speech at the GOP's midterm convention came off like a Jim Jones sermon. 41744252
KevinJY @kevinjy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I have sometimes wondered how much of the deleterious effect of LLM chatbots results from being able to interact with them 24/7, and not just just from the content of what they say. Doing a conversation-like activity all the time, at any time, is something that's never been possible before. 110
KevinJY @kevinjy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026asking my therapist for the KILLER INSIGHT about all my failures 0234
Reposted by KevinJYBrendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 08/09/2026not sure about greatest but it’s probably the one I most enjoyed writing 416934
Reposted by KevinJYGeorge Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Morgan's Rod digital painting 123062
Reposted by KevinJYSam King @samcking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I didn’t expect for this to blow up! I want to be fair to the artist! This is a piece by the late Sergio Ragalzi! We don’t know the context of this bug in this church but he did a lot of art with bugs! 215636
Reposted by KevinJYKate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The fabulous 18th century Gothic Folly on the Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire 😀 Built as a sham castle ruin, as a design feature in the landscape, it was later converted into a dwelling and lived in by the gamekeeper. 313824
Reposted by KevinJYAlex @acannon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Many Alexs are saying thissubstack.comIllinois already killed parking mandates. Chicago should finish the job.The hard part is done, don't make it harder 2185
Reposted by KevinJYBill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Back in 1951, Chicago Public Schools had a very rah-rah civics textbook where the very first lesson was the Grid. 1433259
Reposted by KevinJYSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 01/09/2026Goodnight. Mouse, 19th century/Edo Period Shibata Zeshin 柴田是眞 www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... 6478135
Reposted by KevinJYOnce Upon A Time On The Internet @newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com · 01/09/202623 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com 8450262705
Reposted by KevinJYSpaceTessContinuum @eigenvalue.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Some of the discourse on USAID has reminded me of this. 7828152
Reposted by KevinJYJason Perry @volcanopele.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Ontario Lacus is a hydrocarbon lake near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Titan. Measuring 235 kilometers long by 75 kilometers across, Ontario Lacus is slightly smaller than its terrestrial counterpart, Lake Ontario. Lakes on Titan are named after lakes on Earth that are roughly the same size. 717458
KevinJY @kevinjy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I swear the cicadas are louder this year than last year, but maybe it's because I moved from a tenth-floor apartment to a second-floor one 000
Reposted by KevinJYLouise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Amazon is officially shutting down Mechanical Turk next month. It feels like the end of an era. I've written about the platform on and off for close to a decade. We wouldn't have the AI tools we do now if it weren't for the low-paid, largely invisible labor of MTurkers 436998
Reposted by KevinJYEdcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Don't cite the deep magic to me, witch. I straight-up don't remember writing that shit. I don't know how it runs when it calls on a non-existent .txt called deepmmagic. Yeah two Ms I missed it. And yes I know it always crashes to desktop on exit. No I won't help you mod it for "deeper magic" 41003231
Reposted by KevinJYKarl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Lake Ontario this evening. 223434
Reposted by KevinJYrenée 🌊🌈🍀 @gelatobear.bsky.social · 05/06/2025a collection of crabs! 🦀✨ #art #captaincrab 10804352
Reposted by KevinJYrenée 🌊🌈🍀 @gelatobear.bsky.social · 27/08/2026💧 friends in the pool #art 3771222080
KevinJY @kevinjy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026TIL that the actor who plays Eddie on Deadloch used to be married to Ladyhawkeen.wikipedia.orgMadeleine Sami - Wikipedia 000
