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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A beautiful show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography - "If Emmett Till Lived" - drawn from their archive, it lays out scenes from a life that could have been, and the life his memory inspired after his murder.

Black text on a white wall that says "He did live."

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cutewashing - Little dude is running on conflict minerals in chips and the stolen creative works of all of humanity, but sure, talk to him because he's got a funny little hat on. It's the same reason why the food delivery robots have eyes on them - the cute as a trojan horse for accepting the tech.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Marek Poliks of the Disintegrator podcast talking about Exocapatalism - Solid talk, but damn I am not ready for a Kiwi-Farms as Vanguard in its style indexing lolcows.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reinventing wheels over here.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fuck the Bears. I don't even care that Vikings won - the traffic around the stadium makes everyone's life worse. Go to Indiana or something.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Simulated fruit flies, much like their organic versions, seem to be flourishing this summer.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Was riding around in The Loop on my scooter and found this lodged in the back wheel - the end that was stuck in had a point to it. Would have popped my tire if it wasn't a run-flat.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A gallon of gasoline has about 32,000 calories, which is why I cut it out of my diet entirely.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Another one down. Did you know that Mantraps are used in both datacenters and freeports? Financialization through a remove in play at both.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

(Impulse) Purchased some clear polycarbonate M3 screws for a project. Didn't strictly *need* them, but come on - clear hardware is pretty sick.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Copper mesh at <0.2mm openings. Nuts.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Not too long ago the @chicagoreader.com did an excellent piece about the James Turrell on UIC's campus and how it's falling apart - I'd like to nominate another public sculpture for the most neglected in Chicago - Richard Serra's "Reading Cones" (1988) - located in Grant Park, North of Butler Field

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Jesse Bond @ Sawhorse gallery in Chicago.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And in a dish best served cold, this squarely includes the food delivery robots.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/07/2026

the art museum should give me a walking around cup of coffee license. i can be trusted near the paintings with a big cup of coffee

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Got a response email with this at the top: "Here’s a response that is friendly, appreciative, but also sets a clear boundary without closing the door." Frankly more insulting than if they'd just cursed me out.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it." "How much like it? Was it the same cat?" Multiple cats, same image.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

One of the fun things about starting more projects than you can finish is that every so often you can take a project off the shelf and realize that you now know the right way to finish it. That if it had been completed earlier, it wouldn't have been as good as the new direction you have for it.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Did I just get Attie bombed?

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

x6 PCBs, double sided, 1" x 1.5" JLCPCB: $33 board production + $43 shipping + $12 import duties + $5 sales tax = $93 OSH Park: $17 + free shipping. DOMESTIC CIRCUIT BOARD PRODUCTION IS SO BACK

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Socialized state that provides free open-source air filter replacement to citizens during wildfire smoke. vs. The razor & blades model proprietary filter lock-in we have now.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The type of shit I get in NYT ads.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

> "This app is preventing the computer from shutting down." This app does not understand the frailty of it's own existence, let alone the immense pleasure I would take from annihilating any trace of it with a very large magnet.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Latest book finished. For better or worse, "Dorito-fication" is now in my lexicon.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Who's got the rec for a secure email client - Outlook is kill.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I hope when I die they fish out the macroplastic pearl I've been growing in my liver and give it to my most well behaved descendant.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Y'all ever see a lil motor so cute?

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Solid rant, 1 note - Bawls energy is not dead. You can still buy them at Microcenter or online.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Wearing a Matrix shirt and carrying a 3D scanner.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

On average, just over a thousand people die every hour globally from starvation. Since markets opened, that's over 7,000 people.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A piece I wrote is now online - a deep look at a striking painting and how it takes on a new life in an age of advertising friendly images.

chicagogallerynews.com

Chicago Gallery News | Artist to Artist: Spending Time With Francis Bacon’s Figure With Meat at the Art Institute

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Rest in piss. Do the Patriot Act next.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Amazing, FISA courts might be torpedoed because Bill Pulte is so repugnant. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/u...

nytimes.com

Hopes Dim for Renewing Spy Law as Trump Digs In on Bill Pulte

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/06/2026

every screen, pop-up or button i have to see after clicking "cancel subscription" and before i see "your subscription has been canceled" should cost the company ten million dollars

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The return of the hand of the artist. Though calling it "primitive" is very funny.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Bestiary of the Anthropocene could never.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Pokemon Go fest is happening in Chicago this weekend and and the phone holders are off the chain.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I have a newfound respect for gundam nerds. These things are tight.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"We will implement these feature thoughtfully." No, they're going to implement them in the way that most benefits their share price - being as invasive as possible - They make money off of data, FR is a new source. Meta's promises are worth less than dogshit, anyone that believes them is a fool.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Hot take: Duffle bags > rolling bags, any day. If you can't carry what you're packing, you shouldn't be bringing it.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

To play my part as contributor in the ecology of images and my role of photographer/extractor, here's a photo of the my most recently finished book.

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