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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 2h

accidentally sitting under the TV facing everyone at a Survivor watch night help

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 4h

seems like everything I do at work lately is just verschlimmbessurung and it doesn't feel great

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 30/09/2026

autumn is coming, but a small flock of chimney swifts twittered overhead and a lone cicada still sang. it ain't over yet

closeup on a sunflower in full bloom on a street parkway. there's a dark orange ring haloing the center of the yellow flower petals

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Rebecca @rebeccakell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hammers up this Saturday!!! Still time to donate to help me help women move into homeownership! Help build more housing stock in Chicago! This helps everyone as a rising tide raises ALL boats! Can you donate $50

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 28/09/2026

I wish browser dev tools had an option to warn before closing a tab bc I keep accidentally hitting cmd-w to close a file in the sources/debugger pane and it closes the whole ding dang tab

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 28/09/2026

the bakery we got my mom's birthday cake from understood the assignment w/r/t carrot cake: cream cheese frosting. tons of it.

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Harvest Moon rising behind Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Saturday evening in Chicago.

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 28/09/2026

thinking about becoming a watch guy. are there any good watch stores in Chicago?

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

when you see a giant empty parking lot that should be housing

A NYTimes screenshot with faces:

Erica, 40, Republican, Latino, customer service Bad.
Pam, 66, Republican, white, retired Amoral.
Becky, 51, Democrat, white, retail Disgusting.
Robert S., 52, Republican, Latino, human resources Two words: morally corrupt.
Hitesh, 57, Republican, Asian, looking for work

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This week Chicago City Council unanimously passed a resolution honoring Chicago's rapid response networks and other Chicagoans who stepped up to respond to Operation Midway Blitz

WHEREAS, on September 8, 2025, the Trump Administration launched “Operation
Midway Blitz,” unleashing a militarized immigration enforcement campaign across Chicago and
the surrounding region that brought masked and heavily armed federal agents into our
neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, commercial corridors and public spaces; and
WHEREAS, during Operation Midway Blitz, federal agents conducted warrantless
arrests and discriminatory stops, deployed chemical agents in residential neighborhoods,
engaged in dangerous vehicle pursuits, used extreme physical force, and carried out
enforcement operations that spread fear and chaos throughout Chicago; and
WHEREAS, federal agents operated in masks and military-style gear, traveled in
unmarked vehicles, and used tactics that made parents afraid to take their children to school,
seniors afraid to seek medical care, workers afraid to report to their jobs, families afraid to shop
for groceries, and residents afraid to simply walk the streets of the neighborhoods they call
home; and
WHEREAS, in the face of this campaign of fear, Chicagoans refused to surrender their
communities or their values; and
WHEREAS, across communities throughout Chicago, residents built rapid-response
networks to bear witness to the actions of federal agents; and
WHEREAS, Rapid Responders woke before dawn and stayed out late into the night,
lawfully patrolling neighborhood streets, monitoring federal activity, staffing hotlines and
communications networks, verifying reports of immigration agents, documenting enforcement
actions, and recording badge numbers and license plates; and
WHEREAS, in communities across Chicago, residents transformed the simple act of
blowing an orange whistle into a declaration that no Chicagoan would be taken from our streets
without their neighbors bearing witness; and
WHEREAS, Rapid Responders and community members continued this work even as
observers, protesters, journalists and res…

WHEREAS, Chicago's resistance did not end at the boundaries of our City, as the
whistles, rapid-response networks, school escorts, neighborhood patrols and other strategies
developed and strengthened here became a model for communities confronting unlawful
immigration enforcement across the country; and
WHEREAS, Chicago is a city built by immigrants and working people, and our immigrant
neighbors are not outsiders to be feared or political pawns to be exploited, but our coworkers,
classmates, congregants, business owners, caregivers, friends and family members who make
Chicago the city that it is; and
WHEREAS, at a moment when cruelty was intended to produce fear and fear was
intended to produce silence, Chicago's Rapid Responders chose courage, solidarity and action;
and
WHEREAS, Rapid Responders represent the best of Chicago— a city that protects its
communities, stands up to injustice, refuses to be divided by race, birthplace or immigration
status, and understands that our collective safety depends upon our willingness to fight for one
another; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, that we, the Mayor and Members of the City Council of the City of
Chicago, assembled this 23rd day of September, 2026, honor and express our profound
gratitude to Chicago’s Rapid Responders and the thousands of residents, community
organizations, faith institutions, legal advocates, neighborhood businesses and mutual-aid
networks that lawfully protected and supported immigrant communities during Operation
Midway Blitz; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Chicago recognizes the extraordinary
courage of those who put their own safety at risk to bear witness, sound the alarm, document
abuses, accompany their neighbors and ensure that immigrant families knew they were not
alone; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we commit to remembering not only what was done
to Chicago during Operation Midway Blitz, but what Chicagoans did for one another i…

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 27/09/2026

maybe I'll go find the south end of the LFT

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 25/09/2026

thinking about how a lap is a body part you only have sometimes

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maybe I should have led with this photo from the end of the carousel. Don't want anyone to miss it. Punk AF.

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 24/09/2026

one ragged feather: aw someone's molting lots of nice feathers: crime scene

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 24/09/2026

Edgewater Beach Hotel really standing out among the blues

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 22/09/2026

got a recruiting email for position at an evil company at an insultingly low rate. sorry, but this soul won't get sold for anything less than a cool mil/year

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 22/09/2026

my coworker came into the office today

a tortoiseshell tabby cat laying in her cat bed on a desk with her right foreleg outstretched and head leaning over the side, eyes closed. there's a perforated rug pad over the desk for additional padding/nonslip cat walking

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 21/09/2026

three days of cloud cover have rendered me fully incapable of getting out of bed on time. this is gonna be a rough winter

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026

update: if you are in the Chicago area and want a small gray tabby kitten maybe 8-10 weeks old, dm me (don't congratulate me on our new cat, we have four cats already, we are not keeping this one)

a gray tabby kitten in a cat climbing tree

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 20/09/2026

I guess it's time to get the SAD lamp out of the closet

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 19/09/2026

kind of a perfect temperature out tonight

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 16/09/2026

lake forever Chicago missing in action

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 16/09/2026

Wednesday that feels like a Friday but it's not a Friday it's a Wednesday

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 15/09/2026

go home after dentist and do more work? no! bike ride

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 15/09/2026

I gotta admit,, it is looking rather _autumnal_ out there

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 14/09/2026

Spending time on removing the freewheel mechanism from a bike will fixie

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 14/09/2026

tfw everyone is going thru it (some more than others ofc)

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 13/09/2026

cat can nest in a pile of freshly laundered towels as a treat

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 13/09/2026

Rice Truck Story Guy for Illinois State Senate

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 13/09/2026

"I'll definitely remember the name of this plant", they said, confidently throwing away the information tag

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 12/09/2026

as usual, the covid vax kicked my ass. hope to get a good bike ride in tomorrow tho

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ICE killed this man in broad daylight, lied about the events that led up to that shooting, it's been a full year and absolutely crickets coming from both the state and county states attorneys offices. Pathetic

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 12/09/2026

never forget to get vaccinated!!

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 11/09/2026

They should invent a Friday where I'm not exhausted.

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 12/09/2026

gonna eat some pizza, take a Benadryl, get my covid shot, then go home and pass out. that's the plan

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 10/09/2026

the divvy fishers have been here

a bikeshare bike absolutely caked in dirt parked along a cement embankment on a paved trail, apartment buildings in the background beyond

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 10/09/2026

filed under things I didn't come up with but wish I had: "ai;dr" as a response if someone sends you slop

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 10/09/2026

well at least I get to sign off work (soul-destroying) early to bike (life-affirming) to a doctor's appointment I really don't want to go to (dysphoria-inducing)

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

I'm really putting my finger on the scale at book choosing night for this book club, apparently. (Mostly not on purpose!) But do I know anyone in Chicago (or good at going to the post office) who has a copy of Alix E. Harrow's The Everlasting? The library hold queue for that is _long_.

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